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Anna Plyushteva

@plyushteva.bsky.social
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Migrant, geographer, public transport enthusiast. Research and teaching on urban mobilities, economies, and inequalities. Very sceptical of AI in HE. Titular Associate Professor at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social and @tsuoxford.bsky.social She/her

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Gaurav and I are looking forward to your abstracts on the geographies of dignity:
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wrote something about HS2 at Euston. It's a rant, pretending to be a theoretical piece about infrastructural reversibility rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
This commentary discusses the idea of reversibility in relation to large infrastructure projects, using the example of the Euston train station redevelopment in London, UK. I suggest that there shoul....
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Are you attending the RGS Annual Conference in London in September? Consider submitting an abstract to the session Negotiating Dignity: Rethinking Justice in Geographical Research organised by Gaurav Mittal and myself Details of all CfPs here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Deadline 20 February
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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A moment many years in the making – it's time to check proofs of my forthcoming book, Power Plants, due out in June with @manchesterup.bsky.social! Somehow, this has snuck on to the AAG's Winter 2025 books list – which looks great (www.aag.org/new-books-fo...). Preorder by end of Jan for 40% off 🌿🌲🌳
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Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford @tsuoxford.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
New TSU Seminar Series for 2026! Dr Abdal Hamid al Masri (Homs University) kicks off with a talk that examines challenges of transport, mobility, and traffic in and around Homs, a central Syrian city in the post-war and reconstruction era. 25th Feb - 12pm online only us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Heading to @bertsbooks.bsky.social this afternoon to treat a young reader to a new book of their choice. Spoiler, it's going to be another Grimwood!
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Come work with me on a new DUT-funded project on young carers and urban mobility! 2-year postdoc at @tsuoxford.bsky.social : my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
CfP special issue on "Decolonising Research in Transport Geography", in JTG. Please help us spread the word! Deadline 30 Sep 2026 More info www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Guest editors: Qiyang Liu, Peking Zihao An, U. Leeds Rafael H. M. Pereira, Ipea Zahara Batool, Leeds Tim Schwanen, Oxford
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Please sign @asthmaandlung.org.uk's petition calling for stronger #AirPollution limits in the UK. The UK's legal levels for NO2 are four times higher than the safe level recommended by the World Health Organization. If the EU can come into line with interim @who.int levels, surely the UK can?
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Adopt Ambitious Air Quality Standards into UK Law
🫁 Support our call for urgent clean air action Toxic air isn’t just an environmental issue — it’s a health emergency. It contributes to lung cancer, worsens asthma and COPD, and harms children’s…
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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The Orwell Society Prize for Dystopian Fiction 2026 is now open for submissions from people studying at a UK university: orwellsociety.com/charitable-a... If you work in UK HE, please publicize widely! I’ve been a judge since the prize’s inception; it’s such a privilege to read the submissions.
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Dystopian Fiction Prize
The Orwell Society organises an annual short story competition for current students (both BA and MA) at British universities. We look for dystopian narratives of 3,000 words, following the dedicated t...
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Who would you plan urban mobility for? Historically, cities have prioritised white collar commuters As part of a new DUT-backed project, we suggest that starting with young carers and their (im)mobilities can inform inclusive transport planning. We set out the case here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives... Fantastic article on AI and why it will let you down. Passage below is my favourite.
LLMs follow a “Kepler-esque” approach: they can successfully predict the next position in a planet’s orbit, but fail to find the underlying explanation of Newton’s Law of Gravity (see here). Instead, they resort to fitting made-up rules, that allow them to successfully predict the planet’s next orbital position, but these models fail to find the force vector at the heart of Newton’s insight. The MIT-Harvard paper is explained in this video. LLMs cannot and do not infer physical laws from their training data. Remarkably, they cannot even identify the relevant information from the internet. Instead, they make it up.
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Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford @tsuoxford.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Join us for our seminar series ‘Mobility and Urbanisation in Palestine.’ Starting Wed 29 Oct, 3pm online Dr Zahraa Zawawi, An-Najah National University in Nablus, will discuss ‘Sustainable Urban Planning for Urban Expansion/ Development in the West Bank, Palestine’ Register: tinyurl.com/3n8kxn6s
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Sustainable Urban Planning for Urban Expansion/ Development in the West Bank, Palestine
3pm, 29 October 2025. Online only.Dr Zahraa Zawawi (An Najah National University).
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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
📢 Applications are now open for the Joint BME Small Grants scheme, supporting research, events & activities by BME historians or on BME histories. 💸 Grants up to £1000. ⏰Deadline: 27 Nov 2025. #history #apply #funding #opportunity socialhistory.org.uk/funding/bme-...
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Joint BME Small Grants
The Social History Society administers a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities undertaken by BME historians or focused on the histories of BME people The scheme was launched …
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
So we want more people to have the skills to engage critically with the ambiguous stuff circulating in a post-truth online world? Turns out, those History of Art degrees were not such a bad idea after all. en.ara.cat/culture/the-...
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The viral statue attributed to Jaume Plensa and located in Barcelona that doesn't actually exist
A fake AI-generated image sparks thousands of reactions: How to stop the lie?
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This has been my favourite episode of the Antisocial Economics podcast so far - but they are all excellent.
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Looking forward to the annual conference of the @rgsibg.bsky.social and rediscovering Birmingham after too many years of only being there long enough to transfer between trains.
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Using DuckDuckGo for web searches is great - not missing the ads, not missing the (frequently inaccurate) AI summaries.
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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The consultants who worked on Warwick have done a few others it seems (but not "Beyonder"!): mammoth.tv/education/
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Mammoth Education – Global Brand Consultancy for Education
Brand Thinking for Education Marketing. UK's leading brand consultants for universities, trusted to deliver large-scale transformation programmes that redefine institutional identity and reputation.
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IPPR North @ipprnorth.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🚨 Today we publish State of the North 2025 🚨 The North gets just half as much arts and culture funding per person as London. We reveal the impact this & other regional divides have on young people, and what must change 👇 www.ippr.org/articles/the...
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Ash Sarkar's book 'Minority Rule' is brilliant - incisive, funny, depressing, but also strangely empowering account of the last few years in UK politics www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minority-...
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Minority Rule
**A Guardian Book of the Summer 2025**** The instant top 5 Sunday Times bestseller from political commentator Ash Sarkar **'One of the boldest and most exciting…
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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
New drawing: Hire bike Notes on this cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...
Cartoon showing street scene with lots of cars, some of which are on or blocking pavements. One bike is also parked on a pavement. A couple are saying ‘Look - someone’s left a hire bike on the pavement’.
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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer @tricyclemayor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Great to see outputs from the NİHR LTNs in London project starting to be published. Huge public health benefits of LTNs. 'Across the LTNs as a whole, the authors said, an estimated 613 injuries were prevented, including 100 deaths or serious injuries' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
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School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Are we leaving parts of the country behind in the EV transition? Labib Azzouz & Hannah Budnitz @tsuoxford.bsky.social explore the uneven rollout of electric vehicle charging points across the UK.
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Where I am with AI
I have discussed AI use with many colleagues and friends. Some of them work in research, teaching, and administration in higher education; others have generously shared experiences from other sectors. I am now fully convinced that the costs of using AI as part of my work – to myself; to the environment; to the precariously employed people who maintain these systems ‘behind the scenes,’ and face harm as a result – far outweigh the benefits. 
As a result, I have decided to make a pledge not to use AI in my professional work. I am sharing this pledge firstly, for accountability; and secondly, because I hope to amplify the minority of voices who remind us that this is not the unstoppable march of history and progress; just one type of technology that we can buy into, or not. My own view is that AI use is not universally beneficial, necessary, or inevitable. 
Maybe the costs and benefits will shift later on. But for now, I am going to keep AI out of my research, teaching, and outreach work; I will not use it to make slides, to get a quick summary of others’ work, to write up my own, or to reply to emails. There are practical limits to this choice: averting my eyes when my default search engine puts AI-generated results in front of me may be a step too far. But wherever opting out is a feasible option, I will opt out.
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Devastated to learn that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope are at risk of redundancy. Lovely people and a brilliant team that has transformed the lives of so many students. If you know them please do reach out - things are very tough right now.
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Union vows to fight cuts at Liverpool Hope
Liverpool Hope University intends to axe 39 staff before the end of the year, announced the University and College Union (UCU) today
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Job vacancy: Research Associate in Road Safety Inequalities (24 months; full-time; based @tsuoxford.bsky.social ) Come and work with Xiao Li @xiaoli-transport.bsky.social (PI) and myself on a new project on road safety and children with SEND my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford @tsuoxford.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
On Walk to Work Day, @valenmontoya.bsky.social highlights an example of commuting that isn't so straightforward. #walktoworkday @oxfordgeography.bsky.social www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/good-on...
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"The good ones cross over the bridge, and the bad ones go underneath."
On Walk to Work Day, Valentina Montoya Robledo highlights the story of women who cross the Colombia-Venezuela border every day to work.
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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 01/04/2025
Interested in making government more effective? Applications for our 2025–26 research internship programme, starting in September 2025, are now open. Closing date: Tuesday 29 April, 11:00 ⏰ Find out more: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...
A job advert for research internships 2025-26 at the IfG.

Six one-year, full-time internships starting in September 2025.

Salary: £30,000

Deadline: Tuesday 2 April, 11:00
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Cllr Rob Wilson 🔶 @robwilson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Walk down a footpath on residential street, and it’s always the slabs on nearest the kerb that are more cracked and broken…
A footpath made of slabs. The slabs nearest the houses are mostly unbroken. The slabs near the road are mostly cracked.
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I loved contributing to this book review forum on Romit Chowdhury's wonderful 'City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport' You can read my review alongside those of some outstanding scholars in the latest issue of Urban Geography - www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4...
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Agreed; wonderful paper!
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I was curious: How do people judge if they make financially literate decisions in daily life? I found that financial literacy (a very fuzzy & problematic concept) is something we try to make sense of as part of our relationships with significant others. More here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Worrying the right amount: Intimate relationships and the emotional work of pursuing financial literacy together
This paper explores how expectations of financial literacy are negotiated within intimate relationships. Institutional normative discourses of managing money and finance well urge individuals to cu...
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Did you know that @ccriadoperez.bsky.social is giving this year's @tsuoxford.bsky.social Annual Lecture on 5 March? It's on 'Women, travel, and data bias' and you can attend in person in Oxford, or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-trav...
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Women, travel and data bias
TSU Annual Lecture 2025, Caroline Criado Perez
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The 'Get Swindon Moving' forum coordinated by @swindoncouncil.bsky.social submitted written evidence to the recent 'Buses Connecting Communities' inquiry. This has been published alongside another 113 responses; have a browse here, it's fascinating I promise: committees.parliament.uk/work/8619/bu...
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Buses connecting communities - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
Written evidence submission publications for Buses connecting communities.
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Have you signed up yet? The wonderful Prof Rachel Aldred is giving a webinar as part of the @tsuoxford.bsky.social 2025 seminar series. She will discuss unequal mobilities and active travel, and you can register here: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/event/unequa...
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Andrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Thanks for sharing The proposed plans include a 20% cut to Geography and Planning academic staff (10-15 FTE) We are all a bit shell-shocked But we will organise and strategise as a School tomorrow
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Antoine Paccoud @douccap.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
New job alert! 2-year post-doc on the history of property inequalities (renewable up to 4 years) at LISER, Luxembourg. HIST_PROP, funded by @csllux.bsky.social, will analyse land and property ownership data in Luxembourg (1824-1938). Happy to answer questions! jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...
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Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in the history of property inequalities - Ref: 25-01
Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in the history of property inequalities - Ref: 25-01
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Catch up with this inspiring talk by Daniel Agbiboa (Harvard), part of the @tsuoxford.bsky.social seminar series; A perspective on urban popular transport which is both poetic and political:
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
To be clear, Sustainable Aviation Fuels are not (yet) “changing carbon emissions from flying”.
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Rachel Reeves indicates support for third runway at Heathrow
Chancellor says runway would mean fewer planes circling London, and points to moves towards sustainable flying
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Two pre-doc research assistant posts at the TSU @tsuoxford.bsky.social ! Come and work with us: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/jobs.html
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The entire 2025 programme of the Transport Studies Unit @tsuoxford.bsky.social public seminars is online, and you will not want to miss them: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/events/ht25_...
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TSU Seminar Series 2025
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Shiv Yücel @sgyucel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🌆 ☀️ New pre-print online! “Everyday adaptation to summer heatwaves: A global perspective” with Yuan Liang, Donggen Wang, and @timschwanen.bsky.social. 🧵Thread below: 1/4 Full link to pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer @tricyclemayor.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Call for papers for our Special Issue on 'Disability and Cycling' in Active Travel Studies activetravelstudies.org 200 word abstracts for proposed submissions due 31/01/2025 More info in thread & on google docs: shorturl.at/XAzGZ @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk @active-ata.bsky.social 1/
Man wearing a shirt and trousers and a helmet and sunglasses is cycling a black trike across a walking, wheeling and cycling bridge
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I am 6 months too late, but catching up with this excellent episode of the Urban Political Podcast, post-socialist infrastructures and some of the best qualified people to talk about them: Wladimir Sgibnev and Tauri Tuvikene, with a brilliant intro by Leah Bonvin
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A very interesting development in our region: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New Swindon to Taunton rail firm seeks investment
Go-op begins crowdfunding in a bid to become the first
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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
2 fully-funded PhD studentships are available here at Bristol as part of Naomi Millner's European Research Council project PEATSENSE: Diverse Knowledges and Sensing Practices in Peatlands for Inclusive Climate Futures Closing date for applications: 1st April 2025 www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
On 23 January, join us @tsuoxford.bsky.social for a webinar with Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard University: 'Transport Aliveness and Social Imagination in an African Megacity' Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-...
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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Before I start posting here about unaffordable trains, inaccessible buses, and lax speed limits, I think we all need a cat picture.
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