Tom McEnroe

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Bikes are nice.

Cycling commuter, gardener, photographer, amateur mixologist

Rants about the state of the world, and the UK in particular, by appointment.

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S.A. Smith 😎👍🏼

It so nearly didn't survive

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"Results from 40 different cities across Europe... demonstrated that 30 km/h [18 mph] speed limits have led to significant reductions: 37% of road crash fatalities, 18% in emissions, 2.5dB in noise pollution & 7% in fuel consumption (on average), with very small variations of average traffic speed."

Review of City-Wide 30 km/h Speed Limit Benefits in Europe, May 2024www.nrso.ntua.gr A paper titled “Review of City-Wide 30km/h Speed Limit Benefits in Europe” authored by George Yannis and Eva Michelaraki has been published in Sustainability. This study allows the quantification of t...

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Football won't be coming home, it's gone to live on a farm. No you can't go visit it.

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jasper pilled

The Last Word #cocktail www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/re...

The Last Word Cocktailwww.diffordsguide.com to make a the last word cocktail use gin, chartreuse green, maraschino liqueur, lime juice (freshly squeezed), chilled water and garnish with lime twist (discarded)

Now that's what I call a pudding #pudding

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Steve Haroz

This feed works well bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Paul Tobin

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My sister said the cybertruck looks like a Dustbuster and I’m gunna have to give her that one

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May or not be the best advice, but I seem to remember that I went for strength/health at the beginning. Carrying all the salvaged scrap and surviving long enough to get it back to a settlement seemed key, other perks follow soon enough

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Gracu ✨🌈 Team Stardust 🌌

Congratulations! It's a wonderful feeling baking something edible. Keep at it, practice really does make, if not perfect, then at least better and better. Only change one thing at a time and learn how each tweak turns out

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Brian McRoberts

Reloaded a years old save and have been happily playing from where I left off. I never did finish the Nuka World dlc #Fallout

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Sarah E. Bond

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No, and you can make that decision without implied criticism of others

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#Quote of the day: At rehearsals there have been cultural differences – for example, the LSO understood the word “glock” to mean the percussion instrument the glockenspiel, rather than a gun. www.theguardian.com/music/articl...

Hip-hop band Cypress Hill makes 1996 Simpsons joke come truewww.theguardian.com London Symphony Orchestra to play Black Sunday album at Royal Albert Hall decades after featuring on TV show

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A brief history of self-regulation

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Art, innit?

An enormous Allium Christophii seed head 🌱

A wonderful selection of Hollyhocks 🌱

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Andreas H.

I did this exact thing with a Christmas present last year #Doh

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It took 14 years to destroy Britain. It won’t be repaired in five minutes. It will take years of economic stability to afford the infrastructure repairs needed across a range of public services. While we’re waiting, we need to fight off the right wing. So roll your sleeves up.

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SilverLinings🍁

Yes, it's gorgeous

My Mum's wonderful lavender hedge 🌱

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Rosamundi

Ah, apologies, thought you meant ever...

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Rosamundi

Regularly, and rarely for entirely innocent reasons. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Backdrop at Labour conference sparks fury among people who are mistaking it for a mosquewww.standard.co.uk Labour’s Brighton Pavilion backdrop at their party conference has sparked an outcry among people who mistook it for an image of a mosque.

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Can’t even have a Tory government anymore because of woke

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Richard Littler

And I'm reading your response to that image appearing while I really should be preparing for a meeting in 10 minutes.....

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This is where I have a small, boring bit of advice, from my time managing a customer contact centre for a central government department: write letters to your MP asking them to raise issues with secretaries of state; make the letters unique, not copy-and-paste campaigns; be direct, not cranky.

So how do we stand up and make a government take notice? Writing to your MP? I mean… It’s nice when they reply but it feels ineffectual. Mass mobilisation? Cool story bro, but unlikely. No revolts please, we’re British. How do we become the prick it’s hard to kick against? I’ve no idea. -11

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Anyway, I’ve voted and now I’m off to take a bunch of stuff to the baby bank. That’s like a food bank, but for necessities for infants. We didn’t really have them in this country 14 years ago.