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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just spotted that this from last year is open access now - The Republic of Newtownards. It imagines the good version of a reunified Ireland. It's in An Clogán, a new socialist republican magazine - well worth checking out the whole thing. www.anclogan.ie/the-republic...

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The Republic of Newtownards

A republic is more than identity or law, writes Claire Mitchell, author of The Ghost Limb. Seeking a republic giving real power to people, she finds hope in community initiatives in her hometown of Ne...

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Smozman @smozman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Every time I see Infantino...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Examples of striking Dutch bike-lane and urban biking infrastructure via Modacity Life.

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Smozman @smozman.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

375+ people at Critical Mass Belfast. Let's make the city great for bikes

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

WATCH: Have you heard about the “Carspiracy” that’s brainwashed us into #Motonormativity? Watch this video, and then share and discuss it widely. Addressing it starts with knowing it’s happening. By the Global Cycling Network (who should be on Bluesky) featuring @ianwalker.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

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Carspiracy - You’ll Never See The World The Same Way Again

YouTube video by Global Cycling Network

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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Once you train your brain to notice the constant, deafening roar of car infrastructure, you suddenly realize that gas-powered landscaping equipment is the exact same problem.

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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

My first outing with the @irishtimes.com looking at how the reconvened inquiry into Sperrin Mountains gold-mining proposal looks to decide 17-year battle. It also got a mention in today’s podcast 👇 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Reconvened inquiry into Sperrin Mountains gold-mining plan looks to decide 17-year battle

Dalradian Gold wants to mine minerals worth an estimated €30bn in Co Tyrone area of natural beauty

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Paul Sheppard 🧠 @paulsheppard.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Valentine's Day? Family Day long weekend? Ah, you mean "the Barkley Marathons has started"! #bm100

Photo of Lazarus Lake with text reading:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I want to go on a Fun Run with you

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Three teenagers riding side by side, chatting and sharing gum because protected cycle tracks make this kind of freedom safe, normal and enables social life.

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Boatman Cryptics @boatmancryptics.co.uk · 14/11/2025

It's the Seasonal Reposting Competition! Repost this over the weekend, and on Sunday one lucky person will win a signed copy of one of my books. For you or the #crossword addict in your life: 50 fiendish @theguardian.com #puzzles and all the stories behind them: boatmancryptics.co.uk/crossword-bo...

Boatman - the first 50 reportedly makes a great present or holiday read, exemplified by this image of the book opened to show the story behind the Shipping Forecast puzzle, on display on Brighton beach.

Reviewing Boatman - the first 50, Alan Connor (The Guardian's crossword editor and the brains behind many of BBC2’s quiz programs) says: "This is one to savour. Boatman's puzzles are witty and ingenious. It is an extraordinary pleasure to read how his unique mind works. The first 50 is a book I never knew I needed in my life. Gift it to yourself and to the word-lovers in yours".

Hugh Stephenson (Alan’s predecessor at The Guardian) says: "This is a unique book of crosswords" and Henry Morris: "a Boatman crossword is like a theme park. Each daunting line is a rollercoaster ... He scares you witless. But you can't wait to do it all over again".

Boatman - the second 50 contains another 50 puzzles from The Guardian, with five bonus puzzles previously only available online and including puzzles, solutions and the ideas and stories behind them, exemplified by this image of the book opened to show one of the stories, which is accompanied by a picture of a large cow.

Reviewing Boatman - the second 50, Gyles Brandreth says: "If you want a fiendish crossword, you want the best - which means you want Boatman, because he is the best" and Brian Bilston: "Cracking crosswords - each puzzle a delightful daily workout for the brain and a welcome tonic for the soul".

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (5th October 1977). Jimmy has a plan for when the balloon goes up.

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Smozman @smozman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

This is unsettling. The part of our brain that interprets faces wants to resolve this into a face, but can't, and it burns.

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Smozman @smozman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Didn't foresee this...Cole elbowing Infront of Donald Trump!

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Smozman @smozman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I'm pretty sure all this is happening because I left Twitter...

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Smozman @smozman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Ladybird larvae...how cool

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Smozman @smozman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

And in Belfast we get the huge new Grand Central Station @translinkni.bsky.social and no cycle parking...

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Smozman @smozman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Belfast Community Garden week - great work being done in alleys and back yards. (A bee on the raspberries in Holyland Community Garden)

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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joemillenbach.bsky.social @joemillenbach.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This should be mandatory viewing for everyone right now in order to understand this bullshit time we’re in.

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Earth & Altar @earthandaltarmag.com · 01/04/2025

“In the US, we’re not tempted to approximate “Spanishness,” but whiteness. This is not about skin color, but a way of being that is ritualized through colonial lifeways.” Today’s essay is by Joshua Bocanegra earthandaltarmag.com/posts/seekin...

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SEEKING A HOMELAND: WHY LATINES VOTED FOR TRUMP — Earth and Altar

Speak English in this car! I was shocked to hear those words come from my father’s mouth. This was the man who, while I was growing up, taught me about Brown Pride and Chicano Power, who reminisced ...

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Welsh 20mph limit has cut road deaths and serious injuries and reduced car insurance. ‘There is, perhaps, a lesson here for politicians, although not an easy one: sometimes it can be best to ignore the noisiest voices, and take the evidence-based course.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?

Research suggests the scheme may be more popular than thought, with consultations dominated by a loud minority

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

“I was hungry” and you cut $1 Billion in funding to schools and food banks. “I was sick” and you worked to gut medicaid, depriving me of healthcare. “I was a stranger” and you defined my humanity by legal status. “What ever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.”-Jesus

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Images of Dutch urban biking infrastructure

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler #skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads:
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

“As self-driving companies pour billions of dollars into advancing their technology, it’s impossible to know how safe and energy-efficient their products could eventually become. But the #JevonsParadox… how much more driving will AVs induce — and will those added miles swamp any possible upside?”

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What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future

When you make something easy to use, people want to do it more.

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Smozman @smozman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

@carlamuellerproch.bsky.social Hi Carla, not surprised you are departing from Facebook...it has just become a stream of ads. Hope you are all well. I'm in England baby sitting my 6 year old grand daughter..

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