Ed
@epentz.bsky.social
Oxford, Scholarly Publishing, SciFi, Pub Quizzes, Liveable streets
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Cowley Road’s cinema, the Ultimate Picture Palace, has launched a fundraising appeal to “secure our long-term tenancy in our historic cinema”. The community-owned cinema has been seeking a longer lease from landlords Oriel College. uppoxford.savoysystems.co.uk/UPPOxford.dl...
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Cowley Road’s cinema, the Ultimate Picture Palace, has launched a fundraising appeal to “secure our long-term tenancy in our historic cinema”. The community-owned cinema has been seeking a longer lease from landlords Oriel College. uppoxford.savoysystems.co.uk/UPPOxford.dl...
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I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
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I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.
October 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.
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ICYMI yesterday, our hacks to beat the congestion charge. You'll never believe number 12!
(Are we doing it right?)
oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
(Are we doing it right?)
oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s congestion charge
Don't want to pay? We got you. Here's the tea on how you can avoid the congestion charge entirely, and still visit all your favourite places in the city centre. Here's the official website, but our ha...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
ICYMI yesterday, our hacks to beat the congestion charge. You'll never believe number 12!
(Are we doing it right?)
oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
(Are we doing it right?)
oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
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X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Conservative Alliance played their usualy game of wasting valuable council time on meaningless leaflet and social media post fodder by presenting a motion to scrap the congestion charge a mere 6 days after it was implemented.
And that’s the end of the meeting, with no time for motions on Abingdon Reservoir, pavement weed clearance, mental health, or community cohesion. Thanks for following along!
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Conservative Alliance played their usualy game of wasting valuable council time on meaningless leaflet and social media post fodder by presenting a motion to scrap the congestion charge a mere 6 days after it was implemented.
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sorry everyone I’m just having a lot of fun with the congestion charge debate because look I live outside the ring road in a village with not great bus service and I personally think the CC is one of the best things to happen to Oxford this year
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
sorry everyone I’m just having a lot of fun with the congestion charge debate because look I live outside the ring road in a village with not great bus service and I personally think the CC is one of the best things to happen to Oxford this year
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A Conservative motion to cancel Oxford’s new Congestion Charge has been rejected by a meeting of Oxfordshire County Council. The Conservative and Labour groups voted to withdraw the charge but were outvoted by the LibDem administration and the Greens. (Our live posts are in the thread below!)
The vote on Oxford’s Congestion Charge is taken and goes broadly along party lines.
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A Conservative motion to cancel Oxford’s new Congestion Charge has been rejected by a meeting of Oxfordshire County Council. The Conservative and Labour groups voted to withdraw the charge but were outvoted by the LibDem administration and the Greens. (Our live posts are in the thread below!)
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'personally I do all my shopping at the big super store outside the ring road, this is why I can with expertise speak to the fact that we need to support independent businesses in our city, by making a point for protecting parking at the superstore at the edge of the city.'
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
'personally I do all my shopping at the big super store outside the ring road, this is why I can with expertise speak to the fact that we need to support independent businesses in our city, by making a point for protecting parking at the superstore at the edge of the city.'
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Bus has to wait FOUR TIMES to keep to the timetable due to lack of congestion after Oxford's Congestion Charge went in. ⬇️
I remember hearing the same thing on here after the NY congestion charge went live.
I remember hearing the same thing on here after the NY congestion charge went live.
It is perhaps indicative of how effectively the congestion charge is working in Oxford City that my bus this morning had to hold at 4 different stops to regularise the service to the timetable. It's night and day from the bus experience of Cowley road prior to introduction.
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Bus has to wait FOUR TIMES to keep to the timetable due to lack of congestion after Oxford's Congestion Charge went in. ⬇️
I remember hearing the same thing on here after the NY congestion charge went live.
I remember hearing the same thing on here after the NY congestion charge went live.
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Iffley Road as you've never seen it at 5pm on a Friday night. Unjammed!
Freedom of mobility is restored, after decades of waiting.
Freedom of mobility is restored, after decades of waiting.
October 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Iffley Road as you've never seen it at 5pm on a Friday night. Unjammed!
Freedom of mobility is restored, after decades of waiting.
Freedom of mobility is restored, after decades of waiting.
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Obsessed with the St. Clements' Telraam, which seems to be showing, and I know you'll all be shocked by this, that so far the Oxford Congestion Charge is doing exactly what it is intended to and what all other CCs have done - reducing private car congestion so the buses can speed up. Stay tuned!
October 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Obsessed with the St. Clements' Telraam, which seems to be showing, and I know you'll all be shocked by this, that so far the Oxford Congestion Charge is doing exactly what it is intended to and what all other CCs have done - reducing private car congestion so the buses can speed up. Stay tuned!
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Investment in #sustainable #transport #infrastructure is what colleagues and I at the city county and in parliament have been calling for and supporting. So good news about funding to reopen the Cowley Branch line #railway station @laylamoran.bsky.social @ollyglover.bsky.social
Lib Dems deliver for Oxfordshire!
After years of work, funding has been secured to reopen the Cowley Branch Line - greener travel, connecting communities, real progress for Oxfordshire.
After years of work, funding has been secured to reopen the Cowley Branch Line - greener travel, connecting communities, real progress for Oxfordshire.
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Investment in #sustainable #transport #infrastructure is what colleagues and I at the city county and in parliament have been calling for and supporting. So good news about funding to reopen the Cowley Branch line #railway station @laylamoran.bsky.social @ollyglover.bsky.social
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Launching the new Participation Reports, already available at crossref.org/members/prep. Read about what's new and why more transparency on #openmetadata is important for movements like @barcelonadori.bsky.social, not to mention insights for members themselves doi.org/10.64000/8d5... #Crossref2025
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Launching the new Participation Reports, already available at crossref.org/members/prep. Read about what's new and why more transparency on #openmetadata is important for movements like @barcelonadori.bsky.social, not to mention insights for members themselves doi.org/10.64000/8d5... #Crossref2025
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Day 2 of our Annual Meeting (it's the 26th meeting in our 25th year!) and Ed Pentz discusses the scale of Crossref today #Crossref2025
October 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Day 2 of our Annual Meeting (it's the 26th meeting in our 25th year!) and Ed Pentz discusses the scale of Crossref today #Crossref2025
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Integrated transport is so important. Driving to the city centre train station to get a train is not part of that idea. We need a bus hub/bus station at the train station. We do NOT need a multi storey car park. If anything, give us a multi storey bike parking garage! More bike parking is needed.
Rail station car parking: it seems that either Network Rail, or the regulator, has rules against reducing private car parking spaces at rail stations. In Oxford, we have a half-empty car park on prime real estate. We'd like to use it for other things. See below campaign. (1/2)
archive.ph/RKXqW
archive.ph/RKXqW
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Integrated transport is so important. Driving to the city centre train station to get a train is not part of that idea. We need a bus hub/bus station at the train station. We do NOT need a multi storey car park. If anything, give us a multi storey bike parking garage! More bike parking is needed.
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Cost of Privatization,
Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping.
Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers.
Public ownership is the only way out.
Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping.
Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers.
Public ownership is the only way out.
Thames Water wants permission to pollute Britain's rivers until 2040. No, seriously
Thames Water – Britain's largest water utility – has asked the industry regulator to exempt it from some pollution requirements.
www.bigissue.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Cost of Privatization,
Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping.
Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers.
Public ownership is the only way out.
Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping.
Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers.
Public ownership is the only way out.
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Reference to the new version of POSI, with four additional principles, based on real-life experiences of 20+ open infrastructure organisations that have adopted them. #Crossref2025
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Reference to the new version of POSI, with four additional principles, based on real-life experiences of 20+ open infrastructure organisations that have adopted them. #Crossref2025
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@epentz.bsky.social opens our anniversary Annual Meeting #Crossref2025 with a reminder of our original founding purpose stated in our Certificate of Incorporation back in the year 2000.
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
@epentz.bsky.social opens our anniversary Annual Meeting #Crossref2025 with a reminder of our original founding purpose stated in our Certificate of Incorporation back in the year 2000.
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15,195 complaints about home wood-burning pollution were made in England in the last year
- result: 24 fines issued by councils, no prosecutions
#airpollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- result: 24 fines issued by councils, no prosecutions
#airpollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
No prosecutions made after 15,195 wood-burning complaints in a year in England
Campaigners say figures reveal a lack of enforcement with just 24 fines issued by councils for rule violations
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
15,195 complaints about home wood-burning pollution were made in England in the last year
- result: 24 fines issued by councils, no prosecutions
#airpollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- result: 24 fines issued by councils, no prosecutions
#airpollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The redesign tender, which we reported in September, is to be awarded in a week’s time. Brenda Boardman from Oxon4Buses said “This bus hub is 'owed' to us by Network Rail in return for all the ongoing disruption over the Botley Road bridge - they have more than one bridge to repair!”
October 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The redesign tender, which we reported in September, is to be awarded in a week’s time. Brenda Boardman from Oxon4Buses said “This bus hub is 'owed' to us by Network Rail in return for all the ongoing disruption over the Botley Road bridge - they have more than one bridge to repair!”
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Bus campaigners say that Oxford station needs a bus interchange – not a multi-storey car park. Oxon4Buses has launched a petition calling for Network Rail to ensure any redevelopment includes “a bus hub, physically and visually linked to the rail station”. www.change.org/p/sign-for-a...
October 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Bus campaigners say that Oxford station needs a bus interchange – not a multi-storey car park. Oxon4Buses has launched a petition calling for Network Rail to ensure any redevelopment includes “a bus hub, physically and visually linked to the rail station”. www.change.org/p/sign-for-a...
Sign petition for a bus hub in Oxford - are you fed up with the chaos at Oxford rail station and Botley Road?
Network Rail has further plans to redesign the area – this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance that must not be squandered. c.org/cLwdkv676D
Network Rail has further plans to redesign the area – this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance that must not be squandered. c.org/cLwdkv676D
Sign for a bus hub in Oxford
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
October 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sign petition for a bus hub in Oxford - are you fed up with the chaos at Oxford rail station and Botley Road?
Network Rail has further plans to redesign the area – this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance that must not be squandered. c.org/cLwdkv676D
Network Rail has further plans to redesign the area – this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance that must not be squandered. c.org/cLwdkv676D
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Amazing what you can do when you show some bottle and introduce a tough policy which reaps a dividend later (rather than folding under the slightest pressure, like Oxford East's MP)
Park & Ride bus journeys will be free when Oxford’s congestion charge comes into effect on 29 October. Holders of P&R parking tickets will be entitled to catch any Stagecoach or Oxford Bus Co service from the sites, not just the P&R-branded ones. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/free-park-an...
Free park and ride bus travel with temporary congestion charge
Oxfordshire County Council is providing free park and ride bus journeys in Oxford for an initial period of three months from 29 October, when the city’s temporary congestion charge scheme starts. The ...
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk
October 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Amazing what you can do when you show some bottle and introduce a tough policy which reaps a dividend later (rather than folding under the slightest pressure, like Oxford East's MP)
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Oxford Bus Co has announced more frequent bus services from November to coincide with the congestion charge coming into effect. The improvements mean Blackbird Leys and Cowley will have services to the city centre every 10 minutes, while Iffley Road gets a new night bus.
October 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Oxford Bus Co has announced more frequent bus services from November to coincide with the congestion charge coming into effect. The improvements mean Blackbird Leys and Cowley will have services to the city centre every 10 minutes, while Iffley Road gets a new night bus.