Simon Kendler

Hello dear Simon

any support or donation you can offer in these difficult times would mean a lot 🙏❤️

Paris before and after street transformation

New urban forest planted in front of Paris City Hall

A Paris “School Street” where cars are removed and people space/tree planting are added

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

From Christian Concern and Sex Matters to the LGB Alliance, UK anti-Trans+ groups share ideological and strategic links with US organisations like ADF and the Heritage Foundation

What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

@simonzev.bsky.social
Our lives are written now not in notebooks but in rubble, in hunger, in exile. We were children who dreamed of professions, of futures. Today we are only survivors of a war that never ends, praying not to be forgotten. please help me save my family from this war 🙏🏻💔

An apt metaphor for the #Flotilla

Israel have used piracy to defend their #GazaGenocide

It’s unacceptable, it must be called out & they must release those they’ve kidnapped. Their treatment of them is abhorrent and an affront to international law

#Gaza #Palestine 🇵🇸

British woman on Gaza flotilla captured by Israel calls on UK government to intervene Ewa Jasiewicz, a British-Polish activist and journalist, was on board the 2010 Gaza aid flotilla in which nine activists were killed. After being captured while sailing to Gaza for a second time, she ...

My friend, the activist Ewa Jasiewicz was onboard the Gaza Peace Flotilla and is now in Israeli detention, we're asking the UK government to use its influence to guarantee her safe return.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

A constituent's son, part of the flotilla, has been detained by the Israeli navy.

I have written to the Foreign Secretary to ask how the Govt is supporting those detained, who bravely risked everything to oppose the collective punishment of Gazans and this illegal blockade.

A senseless, disgusting & unfathomable incident.

Forza ✊

Israeli forces stopped 14 boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza, flotilla organizers said, but 23 boats are continuing to sail towards the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave, according to the flotilla's tracking system reut.rs/487C9bv

London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.

Oh look, a policy worked…

NO2 has reduced to the legal limit for the 1st time ever, something that wasn’t seen as feasible as little as 6 years ago.

bbc.in/4o4ymAx

#ULEZ #Pollution #CleanerAir

Happy birthday to trains!

Who would’ve thought, 200 years on, that this fine contraption could help me run an errand, on a dual-electric mode sleek urban train that goes underground & overground.

Here’s to the next 200, we’re gonna need more trains… 🎂2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🛤️ 🚂 #Railway200

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We’ve sent a letter to the Foreign Office, Yvette Cooper & MPs' Will Stone and Tonia Antoniazzi to act now to protect British nationals/their constituents on the Gaza flotilla

@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social @willstonemp.bsky.social @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social

We wish…

This was preceded by a slightly late running #GBRf 4M24 London Gateway to East Midlands Gateway service

#RailFreight #FreightIsGreat #WCML

So that’s what’s at the end of the rainbow… 🌈 🚆 🛤️

@lner.co.uk doing the heavy lifting shifting thousands of people today on all sorts of journeys, including ours to family in Durham. Good smooth journey, uneventful, just how it should be #TrainTravel #BankHoliday

A huge thank you to all who worked so hard to make this happen. I know my team have been very involved in making this happen so well done to all. ❤️ 🛤️

It’s hard to sum up how good it was. Sorry I can’t be there today but this event has been amazing. Yes the range of trains/events was amazing but the best bit for me was the people, all brought together & great to see some familiar faces! Thanks to #DCRail for hosting us!

A very nice day using #VolunteerLeave to host guests onto the #Railway200 #InspirationTrain also featuring some lovely #GBRailfreight locomotives, @clanline35028.bsky.social & a whole bit about careers including on being a #FreightManager

#Rail200 #FreightIsGreat

In short they will be the most powerful locomotive on the network (on electric) and have that combined with a punchy bi-mode capability that with clever traction technology can bridge gaps between wired sections bringing cleaner, greener & faster capability for rail freight.

A bonus clip of 001 moving under its own power on a mini demonstration.

The potential of these locos is immense!

A brilliant afternoon thanks to #GBRailfreight with the launch of the Class 99, a very exciting prospect for the future rail and freight

#RailFreight #GBRf #Class99

Israeli settlers kidnap, attack Palestinian-American brothers in West Bank village <article data-history-node-id="423342" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-kidnap-attack-palestinian-american-brothers-west-bank" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-kidnap-attack-palestinian-american-brothers-west-bank" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli settlers kidnap, attack Palestinian-American brothers in West Bank village</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli settlers kidnapped and tortured two Palestinian-American brothers from the village of Burqa near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa official Palestinian news agency reports.</p> <p>Ghassan and Imad Jaber were visiting relatives in al-Mughayyir village&nbsp;when the Israeli settlers started assaulting&nbsp;them, al-Mughayyir mayor Sayel Canaan told Arabic media. The brothers were later released and evacuated to a nearby hospital for&nbsp;medical treatment.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Palestinian-American Ghassan Jaber and his brother Imad were kidnapped by Israeli settlers in the village of Burqa and brutally tortured before being released and rushed to the hospital.<br> <br> In this photo, Ghassan lies on a stretcher, holding his American passport in his hand. <a href="https://t.co/Wgb4DRdYDL">pic.twitter.com/Wgb4DRdYDL</a></p> — Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) <a href="https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1929316908282646619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>

Israeli settlers kidnap, attack Palestinian-American brothers in West Bank village - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-kidnap-attack-palestinian-american-brothers-west-bank

Dozens of Palestinians killed en route to aid hub, health authorities claim Israel refutes the claims, which come amid broader criticism of aid distribution efforts backed by Israel and the U.S.

At least 31 people were killed and more than 150 injured today when civilians traveling to an aid distribution center in Gaza were fired upon, according to media reports citing local health authorities and witnesses.

Wrong, wrong and wrong again. That’s the last time you misrepresent my views. Bye.

I never argued for full market efficiency (you wanted an example of misrepresentation - well here’s one). Do it again and you’re blocked.

Well yes affordable means absolutely nothing. However, it’s the principle of profits over people which seeps into council policy, estate clearance, leaving everything to mercy of the market etc. which means fighting for every inch

Just posted a thread with all my thoughts. 80k is from action on empty homes estimates. Would happily read the article though & again, empty homes is a side point anyway (as per thread).