Nick Duffy

London pedicabs to be banned from charging rip-off fares and blaring music New rules will also mean rickshaw riders will need to pay for a licence and ensure their pedicabs are road legal.

Rare good news (albeit dependent on actual consistent enforcement of the new rules) news.sky.com/story/london...

Hiii, I’m okay, hope the book stuff is going well!! 💖

Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

Well this is lovely www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

commercial social tools have been heavily pushing AI auto-repost features, and a lot of them are unsurprisingly not very good

I welcomed the numbness once they brought out the big chisel thing, tbh! Hope you have lots of ice cream.

if nothing else, I enjoyed them pretending to be filming somewhere warm while clearly freezing to death on the British coastline, in the finest traditions of Doctor Who

tbh… has Josh O’Connor ever actually starred in a bad film? His project hit rate is wild

don’t know what it says that it was my play of the year in January and it still is in December

Bluesky flagging this statue as nudity

jfc

My favourite part of this study is the ethics panel banning Batman’s mask over fears it could cause distress to passengers

Hunger Games on Stage promoting critic reviews including the Observer pull quote : “An arena of spectacle”

The Observer headline: “The Hunger Games on stage is all spectacle, no soul”

a classic of the form

Can’t say I expected to end up in the background of the News at Ten tonight, and yet

I will never get past the headteacher (you know the one) talking about punishing kids for “not making eye contact” - and knowing all too well who that rule is targeting.

Robert Peston in a Google AI ad running in the other place.

not to start journalism ethics discourse, but on what planet is it okay for a senior political editor to be fronting a Google AI ad campaign…?

happy balloon day! 🎈

humble additions

albeit you can see why they assumed that wouldn’t be a dealbreaker for Disney

So sorry to hear, Ben.

I hope you know how incredible your work is.

Mary Whitehouse lived long enough to see Queer as Folk

YouTube video by The Masked Singer The Reveal: Dick Van Dyke Is the Gnome | Season 9 Ep. 1 | The Masked Singer

delighted to inform you he was dancing on the Masked Singer dressed as a giant gnome not that long ago youtu.be/vz8qbw8dTkg?...

This map, mostly a county map, shows the percentage of mostly kindergarten-age children who are vaccinated with the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. A look at the map shows vaccination rates are lowest in New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Atop the map is the text "NBC News collected vaccination data from each state, analyzed it, and found 3 out of 4 counties and jurisdictions have reported declines in vaccination rates since 2019."

A huge, monthslong data investigation from @NBCNews.com into childhood vaccination rates finds immunizations declining significantly. I was part of the dozens of journalists working on this story, which will be part of tonight’s NBC Nightly News broadcast. www.nbcnews.com/specials/vac...

that sub is also full of new parents realising they can deliberately earn less to get under the childcare voucher threshold and come out on top, which feels… unintended as a policy outcome

I’ve noticed my speech issues tend to come back when I’m tired, angry or stressed. It’s usually a sign I need a break… but also it’s happening more often recently, after a long period of being less of an issue.

but yes, for all the big talk of access to cycling as a social good, they’ve done a great job of concentrating good public infrastructure in areas where it’s £2k+ pcm to rent, and letting unregulated dockless bikes mop up the rest.

(laughs) what’s a lime bike

(tbf the east London bit still remains v concentrated in the Olympic park 13 years on, it always rankled me how many outer east areas had cycle superhighways but no cycles to hire! - but now I live in a south London borough with neither)

🚨 Kenrex, which remains the best play I’ve seen so far this year, is getting a bigger run from December.

Crypto kidnapping: How armed gangs are hunting the internet's high rollers Kidnapping and extortion are a growing concern in the crypto world, with cases rising alongside the price of bitcoin.

Crypto kidnapping are on the rise, and are only projected to get worse as the price of cryptocurrencies increases

We talked to victims of crypto kidnappings to hear their stories

www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...

(also: feel like the fact every reply here is raving about him in entirely different projects says a lot, tbh)