Alex

A bus and the caption 'Free bus travel to coincide with congestion charge' (from BBC website)

"Give us options" they said...
Free bus travel and a host of extra services are coming to Oxford, thanks to clearer roads of the Temporary Congestion Charge
www.oxfordbus.co.uk/free-bus-tra...

LGBTIQA+ Greens Logo, with a statement below that reads: Our Green Party colleagues who have worked with Chris Northwood in various capacities have nothing but good things to say about her. So we are very glad to hear that the Liberal Democrats acknowledged her with their Patsy Calton Award. We are disgusted by the Express article attacking Chris and the Liberal Democrats. The news media are once again choosing to attack a woman for winning an award, due to her being trans. Painting a target on her back to further their culture war on our community. We are happy to see that the Liberal Democrats are standing by Chris and their decision to give her this award. We want to see all political parties refuse to bow down to the hate campaigns attacking individual trans people and our community. We stand in solidarity with Chris Northwood and urge everyone to do the same. Your LGBTIQA+ Greens committee Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

A brief statement in solidarity with Liberal Democrat councillor Chris Northwood @chrisn.xyz

Lucifer statues just can't not be sexy. I don't make the rules (sculptors make the rules)

:-D. And now I've found www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/cornmarket/w... etc and looks like that's my next few hours lost to reading 😅

I read your Cheng Yu Tung thread with appreciation on the (other) blue hell site, so fair enough if the answer is just "that, many times over, over a long time"!

A view from StreetView of the upper storeys of the buildings on the west side of Cornmarket, from the north end. From the distance, there's the Clarendon centre, an older fancy looking building, a rectangly concrete thing (said without judgement), something in brick, and then various rendered buildings that look 20th C but are probably actually older behind the render? idk, I am not a buildings expert!

I've always been fascinated by how high streets evolve (including Cornmarket here). Like if you look up above the store fronts there are always so many eras and styles smushed up against each other. I assume older ones are regularly replaced over the decades, or maybe it's also some filling in gaps?

So he is, oops! Apologies @calummillerld.bsky.social for missing you, and thank you for your support! ❤️

@calummillerld.bsky.social Would you sign this too? 🙏🏻

The flip side is also that by focusing on net migration, the UK counts its own brain drain of young talent *as a positive* in its own numbers. It's like the economic version of a death cult

It's in my Kobo wishlist (was trying not to buy All The Books at once) but is apparently now unavailable 😭. Do you know what's happened to it or where I can buy an ePub?

Leadership elections results New Leader Zack Polanski Photo of Zack Polanski REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Oh shush

Google search showing Tim Allan as a trustee of Sex Matters: X Sex Matters https://sex-matters.org Tim Allan Tim Allan's career has spanned working as a senior advisor in 10 Downing Street for Tony Blair, running corporate communications for BSkyB and founding a ... Sex Matters https://sex-matters.org Sex Matters appoints new trustees 20 Sept 2024 - Sex Matters appointed Tim Allan, Kate Owen, Anya Palmer and Claire Weir as new trustees, joining existing board members Naomi Cunningham,... About our new trustees Tim Allan Kate Owen

The new Executive Director of Communications at Number 10 has been appointed by Starmer, and it is Tim Allan who was a trustee for Sex Matters until today.

Labour are embedding transphobia into every facet of their operations and British political life in general.

Making booking a vaccine more inclusive - NHS England Digital As we developed the COVID-19 vaccination national booking service in 2020, we became aware that a question that asked users for their gender might be a barrier for some people wanting to book a vaccin...

PDS no longer requires gender when searching without an NHS number for people anyway, following some trans-inclusive service design for COVID vaccination booking. The question just doesn't need to be asked. digital.nhs.uk/blog/design-...

They've replied to Elias to say that trans women are welcome to have bra fittings at their stores, so hopefully they'll say the same if/when they reply to you! 🤞

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And bsky.app/profile/manc... too :-)

lol, this quiz is hilarious. (I only scored 16/21, which is why I finally gave up running my own mail server because I couldn't take it anymore.)

Tiktokers knew in advance how to subvert censorship. The younger ones had made up a new language that was often juvenile and sometimes offensive just to get around TikTok’s algorithm. An algorithm that censored content that was controversial. bsky.app/profile/rowa...

Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Israel is storing recordings of Palestinians daily phone calls - millions of them - that they analyse to plan airstrikes / kill people - in Irish data centres

Sweet Jesus

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Today's work-related internet search: "aws glue hive metastore" 😶

I guess this is that fabled Big Data™?

Promotional poster for Bodleian Book Hospital at Blackwell Hall in The Weston Library, featuring a Richard Scarry pop-up book and a repair checklist on a 'operating table'. In the top right a logo that reads 'BBH' in the style of the NHS logo and on the left a round sticker that says 'Repaired at the Book Hospital'.

Collage of images from our last Book Hospital event showing Bodleian staff, children and parents engaging in reading and crafting activities. Includes one of our talented conservators reading to a group, another pretending to repair a book with medical gauze, and a young child attending a craft session making colourful paper projects. A round sticker overlaying the images reads 'Book Doctor In Training'.

A document titled "Book Hospital Check Up Sheet" including fields for 'Trainee Book Doctor's Age', today's date, and questions about the condition of a book, with checkboxes for types of damage and a space for drawing the book's damage.

Bodleian Book Hospital. 22 August, 11.00–15.00.

Bring flapless lift-the-flaps & scribbled on bedtime stories to the Bodleian Book Hospital where our Conservation Team will fix 'well-loved' favourites and show little ones how to care for treasured tomes.

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/summer...

This is what the in whole or in part bit of the genocide convention is about.

It's not just about the destruction of human life, and not just about the victims, it's also about the tangible and intangible legacy of humanity into the future. We all lost something when that seed bank was destroyed.

NHS England » Specialised commissioning patient and public voice (PPV) partner roles NHS England » Specialised commissioning patient and public voice (PPV) partner roles

If you're a parent/carer of a young trans person, please, please do consider applying.

Full details to apply are here:
www.england.nhs.uk/get-involved...

Details of the research programme here: www.england.nhs.uk/commissionin...

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The combination of my girlfriend buying a label printer, us just having watched Murderbot, and me repeatedly checking my phone means that my phone is now labelled "The perimeter"

A photo of a narrow street with a contraflow cycle lane partly obstructed by a traffic cone and two red signs. One sign says "Cyclists dismount and use footway", the other says "Footway ahead closed". No further advice on how to disapparate is provided.

I'll see your signs & raise you this masterpiece:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/19/live-israel-kills-more-than-50-in-gaza-as-un-warns-of-catastrophic

Meanwhile, and this is truly beyond belief, the solution to famine in Gaza is RIGHT THERE.

Which is what makes this starvation a deliberate and genocidal act.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Can attest! Not only do you get a pot, but also half an hour of squeaky solo pass the parcel.