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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/10/2025
‘Once a fortnight would save people hundreds’: how to make your bike last longer, according to experts
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‘Once a fortnight would save people hundreds’: how to make your bike last longer, according to experts
From avoiding overtightened bolts to giving it a good clean, here are the easy and affordable habits mechanics swear by
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/08/2025
‘Why would you take away a parking place?’: the city where anyone can build an urban oasis
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‘Why would you take away a parking place?’: the city where anyone can build an urban oasis
Grätzloasen – low-cost, urban ‘parklets’ built by volunteers – are on the rise in Vienna as sceptics are being won over by the splash of welcome greenery and boost to community spirits
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/08/2025
Being in nature is great for your brain. Scientists are trying to understand exactly why.
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Why Being in Nature Boosts Your Attention
Being in nature is great for your brain. Experts are trying to figure out why.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/08/2025
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe kicks off today. Here are some picks to watch for from the more than 3,000 shows in the arts extravaganza, including comedy, dance, theater and some gloriously weird spectacles.
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Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025: What to Watch
Some picks from the more than 3,000 shows in the Scottish arts extravaganza, including comedy, dance, theater and some gloriously weird spectacles.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/05/2025
Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time
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Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time
Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage Switching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help consumers control and improve their online media diet, according to a professor turned “digital nutritionist”. These two measures, otherwise known as greyscaling and algorithmic resistance, are among a number of recommendations from Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, an associate professor at University College London and a leading expert in digital literacy. Continue reading...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income … Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital … an ample theater, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafes, and so forth. Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford… We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life? …
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Our A-Z resource of 1,000 women artists features a fraction of the women artists on Art UK. Use our Curations tool to showcase your favourite #WomenArtists! Here's S: Sainsbury to Syers 👉 buff.ly/LphR6MS 👩‍🎨 Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829–1862) 📸 @nationaltrust.bsky.social
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An A-Z of 1,000 women artists represented on Art UK: Sainsbury to Syers | Art UK
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/02/2025
Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
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Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately * Analysis: Who is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts? * Interviews: Nine working-class creatives on class in the arts – and how they made…
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Lauren Laverne @laurenlaverne.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This weekend’s #DesertIslandDiscs castaway is the wonderful Nick Cave. Eight tracks, a book, a luxury and an incredible life story. Join us on Sunday morning on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 23/01/2025
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️
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Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
For all new BlueSky joiners - here is a starter pack i did a couple of months ago and have just updated! For anyone interested in UK current affairs and political commentary go.bsky.app/QbLkQQK
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Side consequence of hourly Musk barrages & reporting of them will be furthering public exhaustion with politics as drama. After Brexit ref, Brexit deadlock, covid, partygate, mini budget, cost of living - people really are desperate for a politics that is 'seen more than heard'
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 06/01/2025
If you’re finding this winter tough, you’re not alone. The NHS is offering talking therapies to support your mental health. Take the first step—visit their site to learn more and get connected to help.
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NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression
How to access free psychological therapies (talking therapies) like cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), counselling and guided self-help on the NHS.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Incredibly proud of this. The story of the BBC from its birth to the present day. It's the story of serious-minded humane people doing serious-minded humane things.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Next time you have an idea that seems too crazy, just remember that John Woo once walked into an office and said "I wanna make a movie where Nick Cage plays John Travolta playing Nick Cage, and John Travolta plays Nick Cage playing John Travolta," and someone wrote him a check for 80 million dollars
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 30/11/2024
Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
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Music Venue Trust @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
We've made a start here: go.bsky.app/52hrAd3 Must be many many more venues here surely?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/11/2024
Trick of the light: the enduring appeal of René Magritte’s big tease
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Trick of the light: the enduring appeal of René Magritte’s big tease
The record $121m sale of his most famous painting last week sealed the Belgian surrealist’s place in art’s hall of fame. What does it mean for his legacy? René Magritte painted brain-teasers – an air force of uniformed bureaucrats raining down on to a…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Starter pack of non-massive accounts that you should really be following, because they will teach you things and/or make you laugh go.bsky.app/UStkBW1
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🎃🎃 Hel-LOU-ween 🎃🎃 @louiseankers.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Major news outlets starter pack go.bsky.app/JcoUYL7
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/11/2024
I’m used to outsiders mangling Belfast's history. So Say Nothing was a breath of fresh air | Rachel Connolly
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I’m used to outsiders mangling Belfast's history. So Say Nothing was a breath of fresh air | Rachel Connolly
The adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book isn’t flawless – but it doesn’t airbrush the complex, messy story of the Troubles I will admit that when I heard there was to be a TV adaptation of Say Nothing, based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s book of the…
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Charles Ubaghs @charlesubaghs.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A starter pack of starter packs for UK media & politics. UK Journos New, Podcasts go.bsky.app/VB1hZZk UK MPs go.bsky.app/LrPkHJJ FT Journalists go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD BBC journalists go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD Channel 4 News Journalists go.bsky.app/6HZ1mvW Prospect journalists go.bsky.app/Vk8j7vP
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Leila Brillson @leilza.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Onion acquiring Infowars happened because BlueSky made a joke to @bencollins.bsky.social, and @bencollins.bsky.social working to acquire The Onion happened because he made a joke on BlueSky. Basically, joke about your dreams on BlueSky, it's a wish factory.
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