Flic
@flisty.bsky.social
Editor/publisher in Cambs. She/her. Still trying to master tone while speed typing with thumbs.
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So,as a little thought-experiment, tell me something about the United Kingdom that works well and is actually quite impressive. I am not trying to sound like some boosterish politician. I just genuinely believe that making people believe that all is lost is a convenient pretext for shady characters.
June 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
So,as a little thought-experiment, tell me something about the United Kingdom that works well and is actually quite impressive. I am not trying to sound like some boosterish politician. I just genuinely believe that making people believe that all is lost is a convenient pretext for shady characters.
More consideration needed for this in the UK too. We need way more street trees and to bring back awnings on high streets.
The Bentway asks: How can the city learn to embrace shade? My piece www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...
The Bentway’s summer exhibition explores the role of shade in a warming world
Several installations in the Sun/Shade display consider how Toronto can offer refuge from intensifying sun
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
More consideration needed for this in the UK too. We need way more street trees and to bring back awnings on high streets.
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At this point there is no argument to be made in defense of what's going on here. None. Where these people all thrice removed cousins of hamas agents? Is that the yarn they're gonna spin?
The depths of depravity a political regime can enact under guise of state defense is truly unfathomable.
The depths of depravity a political regime can enact under guise of state defense is truly unfathomable.
Israel has killed more Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours than the combined death toll of the Israel-Iran conflict
This impunity, enabled by global moral failure, will echo through history www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
This impunity, enabled by global moral failure, will echo through history www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
Israel kills 59 Palestinians in Gaza, many while trying to get aid
Thirteen starving Palestinians killed while trying to get food near the Netzarim Corridor and in Rafah’s al-Mawasi area.
www.aljazeera.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
At this point there is no argument to be made in defense of what's going on here. None. Where these people all thrice removed cousins of hamas agents? Is that the yarn they're gonna spin?
The depths of depravity a political regime can enact under guise of state defense is truly unfathomable.
The depths of depravity a political regime can enact under guise of state defense is truly unfathomable.
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Greatest writer in the English language, curious how he had no themes
June 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Greatest writer in the English language, curious how he had no themes
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We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK government pledges further £590m for delayed Lower Thames Crossing
Rachel Reeves calls Britain’s biggest road-building project a ‘turning point for our national infrastructure’
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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I think we need to start asking what's the cost or consequences of not doing something rather than 'can we afford to do it'.
June 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I think we need to start asking what's the cost or consequences of not doing something rather than 'can we afford to do it'.
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The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it.
Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants.
Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.
Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants.
Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.
June 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it.
Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants.
Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.
Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants.
Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.
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👇 genuinely don’t understand why people are unable to comprehend “don’t get AI to do something for you if you can’t understand whether it has produced the wrong answer”.
this seems like an incredible way to get yourself into huge amounts of trouble with several tax and immigration departments simultaneously
June 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
👇 genuinely don’t understand why people are unable to comprehend “don’t get AI to do something for you if you can’t understand whether it has produced the wrong answer”.
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If there any humans left in two hundred years they're going to think we were all the stupidest humans ever to have lived.
June 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If there any humans left in two hundred years they're going to think we were all the stupidest humans ever to have lived.
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#Journorequest - can I have all and any accounts of employees being banned from riding their e-bikes to work and reasons given, plus buildings/employers (you can be anon, if you prefer).
June 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#Journorequest - can I have all and any accounts of employees being banned from riding their e-bikes to work and reasons given, plus buildings/employers (you can be anon, if you prefer).
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🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars.
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June 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars.
As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social
As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social
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Very useful map indeed - didn't realise some of these villages had a bus service.
The conversation about reform of bus services in England would benefit from maps that reveal the inefficiencies of the current service. So we drew one. humantransit.org/2025/06/bus-...
Bus Service in England: The Need for Clearer Maps — Human Transit
It’s a time of rapid change for urban bus services in England.[1] Since Margaret Thatcher’s privatization reforms of 1985, these services have been subsidized but not really controlled by government....
humantransit.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Very useful map indeed - didn't realise some of these villages had a bus service.
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This is just downright pathetic
June 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is just downright pathetic
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To dominate AI, Sam Altman knew OpenAI needed to scale faster than anyone else — regardless of the social and environmental costs.
This week @karenhao.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss Altman’s AI empire and why it must be dismantled.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/280_...
This week @karenhao.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss Altman’s AI empire and why it must be dismantled.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/280_...
June 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
To dominate AI, Sam Altman knew OpenAI needed to scale faster than anyone else — regardless of the social and environmental costs.
This week @karenhao.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss Altman’s AI empire and why it must be dismantled.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/280_...
This week @karenhao.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss Altman’s AI empire and why it must be dismantled.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/280_...
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Georg Spöttle, who has been influencing Hungarian public opinion for years now, turned out to be a foreign agent for Russia & his handler is Colonel Oleg Smirnov of the GRU.
2015-2019.kormany.hu/en
2015-2019.kormany.hu/en
June 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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As my 18 year old daughter says wearily of the tech bros, They're just trying to build god.
Sam Altman posted this essay in the last hour. I’m someone who believes AI is a genuinely transformative technology – at least the biggest since the internet.
But I read this and it just comes across as either delusional or a bizarre, fantastical sales pitch. I can’t work out which is worse.
But I read this and it just comes across as either delusional or a bizarre, fantastical sales pitch. I can’t work out which is worse.
The Gentle Singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.
Robots...
blog.samaltman.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
As my 18 year old daughter says wearily of the tech bros, They're just trying to build god.
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
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This is how.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
June 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is how.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
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The UK government should long ago have exited X. The platform is not interested in appropriate moderation. It is a hotbed for extremism. This was clear nearly a year ago during the riots.
There are a good number of X accounts celebrating, encouraging and inciting violence in Nothern Ireland.
The platform, the regulators & the government are too casual about the weak response to the incitement of violence in every flashpoint situation
The platform, the regulators & the government are too casual about the weak response to the incitement of violence in every flashpoint situation
June 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The UK government should long ago have exited X. The platform is not interested in appropriate moderation. It is a hotbed for extremism. This was clear nearly a year ago during the riots.
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Finally!
Nearly a quarter of new UK homes now have heat pumps—big progress since we highlighted the fossil fuel problem with Ben Webster at openDemocracy in 2022.
Next step: fully implement the Future Homes Standard and end fossil fuels in new builds.
Nearly a quarter of new UK homes now have heat pumps—big progress since we highlighted the fossil fuel problem with Ben Webster at openDemocracy in 2022.
Next step: fully implement the Future Homes Standard and end fossil fuels in new builds.
June 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Finally!
Nearly a quarter of new UK homes now have heat pumps—big progress since we highlighted the fossil fuel problem with Ben Webster at openDemocracy in 2022.
Next step: fully implement the Future Homes Standard and end fossil fuels in new builds.
Nearly a quarter of new UK homes now have heat pumps—big progress since we highlighted the fossil fuel problem with Ben Webster at openDemocracy in 2022.
Next step: fully implement the Future Homes Standard and end fossil fuels in new builds.
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No wonder the Treasury had some doubts about her spending plans if that’s what she’s been funding
June 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
No wonder the Treasury had some doubts about her spending plans if that’s what she’s been funding