Rob Skedgell
@rskedgell.bsky.social
OpenStreetMap contributor, runner, vegan 🏳️🌈
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Standing offer: if you maintain the LLPG at a UK council and think the address records are Authority Owned Data rather than Supplied Data (iykyk), email me at owen.boswarva@gmail.com. I will try to unlock the address data legally using FOI + RPSI regs, and forget your name.
#opendata #openaddresses
#opendata #openaddresses
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Standing offer: if you maintain the LLPG at a UK council and think the address records are Authority Owned Data rather than Supplied Data (iykyk), email me at owen.boswarva@gmail.com. I will try to unlock the address data legally using FOI + RPSI regs, and forget your name.
#opendata #openaddresses
#opendata #openaddresses
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Letter from ONS's new Permanent Secretary setting out swingeing cuts to statistical programmes www.ons.gov.uk/news/stateme... (UK)
ONS pledges "quality over quantity" with key statistics prioritised www.ons.gov.uk/news/news/on...
#opendata #datapolicy
ONS pledges "quality over quantity" with key statistics prioritised www.ons.gov.uk/news/news/on...
#opendata #datapolicy
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Letter from ONS's new Permanent Secretary setting out swingeing cuts to statistical programmes www.ons.gov.uk/news/stateme... (UK)
ONS pledges "quality over quantity" with key statistics prioritised www.ons.gov.uk/news/news/on...
#opendata #datapolicy
ONS pledges "quality over quantity" with key statistics prioritised www.ons.gov.uk/news/news/on...
#opendata #datapolicy
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Palantir, who Keir Starmer went to show his support for in Washington DC? Palantir, who Wes Streeting wants to hold your confidential healthcare data? That Palantir? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Global firms ‘profiting from genocide’ in Gaza, says UN rapporteur
Report by Francesca Albanese singles out companies such as Palantir and calls for prosecutions
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Palantir, who Keir Starmer went to show his support for in Washington DC? Palantir, who Wes Streeting wants to hold your confidential healthcare data? That Palantir? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Proscribe the Spectator
July 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Proscribe the Spectator
![Image with traces of running routes in white on green circles, generated by the Veloviewer app. Text reads: "June 2025 274.8km 24:29:46 [ascent] 1,833m".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:23vysfxd7t7rdmxugmfti2ze/bafkreiatk5xlfkedpcsxkpgg6jyendshg47d5sdna3cv72nncha7623reu@jpeg)
July 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
First swim of the season at Eden Dock, Canary Wharf. 13.9°C is quite "refreshing" for June, but it's surrounded by tall buildings and always a few degrees cooler than West Reservoir or Royal Victoria Dock.
June 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
First swim of the season at Eden Dock, Canary Wharf. 13.9°C is quite "refreshing" for June, but it's surrounded by tall buildings and always a few degrees cooler than West Reservoir or Royal Victoria Dock.
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Here is the guidance from @transactualuk.bsky.social @scottishtrans.bsky.social and #Mermaids on the EHRC Code of Practice consultation.
Overview: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
Guidance: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
**Please excuse temporary typos!** We're on it 😅
Here is the guidance from @transactualuk.bsky.social @scottishtrans.bsky.social and #Mermaids on the EHRC Code of Practice consultation.
Overview: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
Guidance: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
**Please excuse temporary typos!** We're on it 😅
June 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🏳️⚧️🚨🏳️⚧️Please share!
Here is the guidance from @transactualuk.bsky.social @scottishtrans.bsky.social and #Mermaids on the EHRC Code of Practice consultation.
Overview: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
Guidance: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
**Please excuse temporary typos!** We're on it 😅
Here is the guidance from @transactualuk.bsky.social @scottishtrans.bsky.social and #Mermaids on the EHRC Code of Practice consultation.
Overview: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
Guidance: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
**Please excuse temporary typos!** We're on it 😅
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This guidance is harrowing. Telling police to use menstrual tracking apps to investigate women for illegal abortion reads like something you get out of Texas, not the UK. There's only one way to protect women - #SupportNC1 to change abortion law.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
observer.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This guidance is harrowing. Telling police to use menstrual tracking apps to investigate women for illegal abortion reads like something you get out of Texas, not the UK. There's only one way to protect women - #SupportNC1 to change abortion law.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Slightly chilly at Stevenage parkrun this morning with Hertfordshire Vegan Runners.
January 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Slightly chilly at Stevenage parkrun this morning with Hertfordshire Vegan Runners.
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These comments by Streeting are disgraceful. The safety of a senior female politician has been put at risk; let alone that she's been grotesquely defamed.
January 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
These comments by Streeting are disgraceful. The safety of a senior female politician has been put at risk; let alone that she's been grotesquely defamed.
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A petition to fund Covid vaccines. Anyone’s life could be ruined by Long Covid and free vaccines make economic sense petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Fund Covid booster vaccines for all, with priority for Long Covid sufferers
Long Covid can ruin lives and cause financial hardship so we believe the Government must try to prevent new Covid infections. We want free Covid booster vaccines for all and Long Covid sufferers shoul...
petition.parliament.uk
December 21, 2024 at 1:52 PM
A petition to fund Covid vaccines. Anyone’s life could be ruined by Long Covid and free vaccines make economic sense petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Wes Streetings decision is dangerous enough alone but when you add context of the spiralling state of our mental health services - it is cruel, callous and unnecessary.
Medical practitioners should be making these decisions with the patient - not politicians pushing austerity.
Medical practitioners should be making these decisions with the patient - not politicians pushing austerity.
December 12, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Wes Streetings decision is dangerous enough alone but when you add context of the spiralling state of our mental health services - it is cruel, callous and unnecessary.
Medical practitioners should be making these decisions with the patient - not politicians pushing austerity.
Medical practitioners should be making these decisions with the patient - not politicians pushing austerity.
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Family includes everyone! ❤️
November 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Family includes everyone! ❤️
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Giving my petition to decriminalise abortion in the U.K. another push
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70....
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70....
Petition: Decriminalise Abortion
I am calling on the UK government to remove abortion from criminal law so that no pregnant person can be criminalised for procuring their own abortion.
petition.parliament.uk
November 17, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Giving my petition to decriminalise abortion in the U.K. another push
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70....
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70....
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Here’s a good one to multi block some wrong ‘uns… this is how it works
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November 14, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Here’s a good one to multi block some wrong ‘uns… this is how it works
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3 Select “Block” the entire list in one click
Boommmm
Bluesky is trying to keep this place tidy with healthy debate
Let’s help them to do it
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Let’s help them to do it
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Btw re: trans sports. If we offered a permanent ban on trans women in sports in exchange for no further attacks on trans rights in other areas, not a single GC activist ir conservative lawmaker would accept the deal.
Because it's not really about sports. And thats why it's pointless to concede.
Because it's not really about sports. And thats why it's pointless to concede.
November 12, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Btw re: trans sports. If we offered a permanent ban on trans women in sports in exchange for no further attacks on trans rights in other areas, not a single GC activist ir conservative lawmaker would accept the deal.
Because it's not really about sports. And thats why it's pointless to concede.
Because it's not really about sports. And thats why it's pointless to concede.