Laurence Braithwaite
@laurencepb.bsky.social
Communications professional, road safety campaigner and a seeker of truth and justice. No pasaran!
Pinned
It is astounding that we've let our pavements turn into roads.
There is literally nowhere to go now with police currently powerless to enforce without legislation in place.
This is also a major public health issue as a lot of people either don't go out or drive everywhere.
#PavementsR4People
There is literally nowhere to go now with police currently powerless to enforce without legislation in place.
This is also a major public health issue as a lot of people either don't go out or drive everywhere.
#PavementsR4People
7 days to @kneecapceol.bsky.social live...
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
7 days to @kneecapceol.bsky.social live...
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
Beautiful news to see in the latest 'We Are Parable' newsletter that one of the two co-founders Anthony Andrews was elected deputy chair of the BAFTA film committee in September 👏👏🏼👏🏿 www.weareparable.com/about
About us — We Are Parable
Creating cinematic moments, supporting filmmakers and championing new voices in film since 2013.
www.weareparable.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Beautiful news to see in the latest 'We Are Parable' newsletter that one of the two co-founders Anthony Andrews was elected deputy chair of the BAFTA film committee in September 👏👏🏼👏🏿 www.weareparable.com/about
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
🧵The difference in how cooperative societies and 'free market' companies operate couldn't be more marked than the way that Central and Midcounties are conducting their potential merger to firm a new larger cooperative.
The whole process is being carried out with a level of transparency
The whole process is being carried out with a level of transparency
November 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🧵The difference in how cooperative societies and 'free market' companies operate couldn't be more marked than the way that Central and Midcounties are conducting their potential merger to firm a new larger cooperative.
The whole process is being carried out with a level of transparency
The whole process is being carried out with a level of transparency
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Great to have @unitetheunion.bsky.social campaigning so strongly on toilet availability.
It is a matter of public health and human dignity and also an issue of safety - if people are distracted by needing a toilet when driving a bus, that’s a risk that can be designed out by providing toilets.
It is a matter of public health and human dignity and also an issue of safety - if people are distracted by needing a toilet when driving a bus, that’s a risk that can be designed out by providing toilets.
🚽 Research by @unitetheunion.bsky.social has found over half of UK bus routes have no toilets available for drivers.
These findings show a complete failure when it comes to providing decent toilet facilities for bus drivers. 1/2 ⤵️
These findings show a complete failure when it comes to providing decent toilet facilities for bus drivers. 1/2 ⤵️
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Great to have @unitetheunion.bsky.social campaigning so strongly on toilet availability.
It is a matter of public health and human dignity and also an issue of safety - if people are distracted by needing a toilet when driving a bus, that’s a risk that can be designed out by providing toilets.
It is a matter of public health and human dignity and also an issue of safety - if people are distracted by needing a toilet when driving a bus, that’s a risk that can be designed out by providing toilets.
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Utterly shameful
"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
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"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser - BBC News
Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum has brought the hoard which includes a 2,000-year-old horse brooch.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Utterly shameful
"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...
"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...
Pimping my content from X following extensive flooding in Birmingham over the last 24 hours.
Always got to admire the skill of this milkman & customer during severe flooding near Cartland Road in Birmingham 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Always got to admire the skill of this milkman & customer during severe flooding near Cartland Road in Birmingham 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Pimping my content from X following extensive flooding in Birmingham over the last 24 hours.
Always got to admire the skill of this milkman & customer during severe flooding near Cartland Road in Birmingham 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Always got to admire the skill of this milkman & customer during severe flooding near Cartland Road in Birmingham 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Planet of the Apes set, California, 1967 by Dennis Stock. When eating in the canteen the extras subconsciously segregated themselves, with the orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas all sitting in groups and not mixing. Like a mirror of society.
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Planet of the Apes set, California, 1967 by Dennis Stock. When eating in the canteen the extras subconsciously segregated themselves, with the orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas all sitting in groups and not mixing. Like a mirror of society.
"He's always denied any wrongdoing"
You just know who I'm talking about.
You just know who I'm talking about.
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"He's always denied any wrongdoing"
You just know who I'm talking about.
You just know who I'm talking about.
God, if anyone phones me now & the number isn't in my address book, I automatically treat the caller as a fraudster.
It's a bit s**t isn't it.
It's a bit s**t isn't it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
God, if anyone phones me now & the number isn't in my address book, I automatically treat the caller as a fraudster.
It's a bit s**t isn't it.
It's a bit s**t isn't it.
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We cannot understand the emboldening of racists/fascists on the ground without centring the role of the discourse of mainstream elite
This Labour government, anything right of it and any media that does not cover them as enablers are responsible for this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This Labour government, anything right of it and any media that does not cover them as enablers are responsible for this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
We cannot understand the emboldening of racists/fascists on the ground without centring the role of the discourse of mainstream elite
This Labour government, anything right of it and any media that does not cover them as enablers are responsible for this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This Labour government, anything right of it and any media that does not cover them as enablers are responsible for this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Wow, another new term courtesy of AI: 'Backpropagation algorithm' - an algorithm used in artificial intelligence & machine learning to train artificial neural networks through error correction.
Just listening to the 'godfather of AI' Geoffrey Holinton on 'Inside Science' 🤯
Just listening to the 'godfather of AI' Geoffrey Holinton on 'Inside Science' 🤯
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Wow, another new term courtesy of AI: 'Backpropagation algorithm' - an algorithm used in artificial intelligence & machine learning to train artificial neural networks through error correction.
Just listening to the 'godfather of AI' Geoffrey Holinton on 'Inside Science' 🤯
Just listening to the 'godfather of AI' Geoffrey Holinton on 'Inside Science' 🤯
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#20s30s
Note the absence of kitsch, maudlin plastic tat, and fascists trying to co-opt the memory of war (for now).
Note the absence of kitsch, maudlin plastic tat, and fascists trying to co-opt the memory of war (for now).
The 11am silence on Armistice Day, London, 11th November 1925.
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
#20s30s
Note the absence of kitsch, maudlin plastic tat, and fascists trying to co-opt the memory of war (for now).
Note the absence of kitsch, maudlin plastic tat, and fascists trying to co-opt the memory of war (for now).
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Be careful what you wish for Reform voters, this is what will happen if Farage gets into Downing Street.
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Be careful what you wish for Reform voters, this is what will happen if Farage gets into Downing Street.
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I was included in the @cyclinguk.bsky.social 2017 list of 100 women in cycling and am dismayed to see their transphobia.
The Supreme Court ruling may have enabled organisations to be transphobic but it does not mandate that.
Cycling UK can and should be as inclusive as they say they wish to be.
The Supreme Court ruling may have enabled organisations to be transphobic but it does not mandate that.
Cycling UK can and should be as inclusive as they say they wish to be.
Cycling UK say the decision was made following legal advice but that the rule change "doesn't alter our commitment to transgender and non-binary people" road.cc/content/news...
Several winners of Cycling UK 100 Women in Cycling prize decline award due to exclusion of transwomen
Cycling UK say the decision was made following legal advice but that the rule change "doesn't alter our commitment to transgender and non-binary people"
road.cc
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I was included in the @cyclinguk.bsky.social 2017 list of 100 women in cycling and am dismayed to see their transphobia.
The Supreme Court ruling may have enabled organisations to be transphobic but it does not mandate that.
Cycling UK can and should be as inclusive as they say they wish to be.
The Supreme Court ruling may have enabled organisations to be transphobic but it does not mandate that.
Cycling UK can and should be as inclusive as they say they wish to be.
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We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
We can’t afford to do what every other country did years ago for our railways, but people need to drive their kids to school in a tank
Simply the best film/director on the planet right now.
No ifs no buts.
A lot of synergy with the situation in Gaza right now.
If a Zionist Israel exists, Hamas must exist.
No ifs no buts.
A lot of synergy with the situation in Gaza right now.
If a Zionist Israel exists, Hamas must exist.
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Simply the best film/director on the planet right now.
No ifs no buts.
A lot of synergy with the situation in Gaza right now.
If a Zionist Israel exists, Hamas must exist.
No ifs no buts.
A lot of synergy with the situation in Gaza right now.
If a Zionist Israel exists, Hamas must exist.
🧵Just left Birmingham city centre by train.
Policed to the hilt - a huge operation costing many 100s of thousands.
All because the team of a genocidal state are playing Aston Villa.
While day centres for people with learning disabilities are closed & sold off.
While homeless people start to
Policed to the hilt - a huge operation costing many 100s of thousands.
All because the team of a genocidal state are playing Aston Villa.
While day centres for people with learning disabilities are closed & sold off.
While homeless people start to
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🧵Just left Birmingham city centre by train.
Policed to the hilt - a huge operation costing many 100s of thousands.
All because the team of a genocidal state are playing Aston Villa.
While day centres for people with learning disabilities are closed & sold off.
While homeless people start to
Policed to the hilt - a huge operation costing many 100s of thousands.
All because the team of a genocidal state are playing Aston Villa.
While day centres for people with learning disabilities are closed & sold off.
While homeless people start to
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🟥 RED CARD 4 ISRAEL 🟥
Birmingham TUC calls all Workers and Trade Unionists across the UK to stand against Apartheid, with a sports boycott of Israel
THURS 6 NOV 6PM
Aston Pavillion
Trinity Rd
B6 6JD
Birmingham TUC calls all Workers and Trade Unionists across the UK to stand against Apartheid, with a sports boycott of Israel
THURS 6 NOV 6PM
Aston Pavillion
Trinity Rd
B6 6JD
November 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
🟥 RED CARD 4 ISRAEL 🟥
Birmingham TUC calls all Workers and Trade Unionists across the UK to stand against Apartheid, with a sports boycott of Israel
THURS 6 NOV 6PM
Aston Pavillion
Trinity Rd
B6 6JD
Birmingham TUC calls all Workers and Trade Unionists across the UK to stand against Apartheid, with a sports boycott of Israel
THURS 6 NOV 6PM
Aston Pavillion
Trinity Rd
B6 6JD
There's a lot of good news today 🎉🎉🎉
Hopefully, this is the last time we willl have to vote as a result of this anti-union legislation that the tories put in place in 1992.
Hopefully, this is the last time we willl have to vote as a result of this anti-union legislation that the tories put in place in 1992.
PCS Members Vote Yes to Retain Union Political Fund
90.6% of members vote to ensure PCS remains a political campaigning union.
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
90.6% of members vote to ensure PCS remains a political campaigning union.
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
There's a lot of good news today 🎉🎉🎉
Hopefully, this is the last time we willl have to vote as a result of this anti-union legislation that the tories put in place in 1992.
Hopefully, this is the last time we willl have to vote as a result of this anti-union legislation that the tories put in place in 1992.
Please share far & wide youtu.be/5QhGpTK5rlg
Meet The DODGY Flag Sh*ggers Behind Raise The Colours
YouTube video by Political CUSTARD
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November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Please share far & wide youtu.be/5QhGpTK5rlg
Ever since he released 'Earthquake' in 2012 I've rated Labrinth.
This is beautiful news that he's crafted the soundtrack for the 2025 John Lewis Christmas advert.
Where love lives
Labrinth
youtu.be/NnKNuk9tPUE
#Music
This is beautiful news that he's crafted the soundtrack for the 2025 John Lewis Christmas advert.
Where love lives
Labrinth
youtu.be/NnKNuk9tPUE
#Music
Labrinth - Where Love Lives (featured on the John Lewis Christmas advert 2025 - Official Audio)
YouTube video by LabrinthVEVO
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ever since he released 'Earthquake' in 2012 I've rated Labrinth.
This is beautiful news that he's crafted the soundtrack for the 2025 John Lewis Christmas advert.
Where love lives
Labrinth
youtu.be/NnKNuk9tPUE
#Music
This is beautiful news that he's crafted the soundtrack for the 2025 John Lewis Christmas advert.
Where love lives
Labrinth
youtu.be/NnKNuk9tPUE
#Music
Jason Manford delivered food for Iceland during the pandemic and now he's speaking up for children with disabilities.
The best of us 👏🏿👏🏼👏 www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
The best of us 👏🏿👏🏼👏 www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Jason Manford hits out at 'entitled' villagers in wealthy Golden Triangle
The comedian says he was 'speaking up for children who have nothing'
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Jason Manford delivered food for Iceland during the pandemic and now he's speaking up for children with disabilities.
The best of us 👏🏿👏🏼👏 www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
The best of us 👏🏿👏🏼👏 www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...