Toby Lloyd
@tobylloyd.bsky.social
Policy wonk, spad, consultant, writer, Londoner. Housing, urbanism and transport mainly.
Different measure: I was using mm per year en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of cities by average precipitation - Wikipedia
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June 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Different measure: I was using mm per year en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Or Paris, Rome and Lisbon!
June 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Or Paris, Rome and Lisbon!
Me too. So easily worth it. Genuinely beautiful work.
May 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Me too. So easily worth it. Genuinely beautiful work.
Much though I would love to have written Fervour, I’m afraid that’s a different Toby Lloyd. Congrats on your award!
January 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Much though I would love to have written Fervour, I’m afraid that’s a different Toby Lloyd. Congrats on your award!
In the famous Booth Poverty map studies of London and York one of the defining characteristics of the lowest vicious and semi criminal’ class was that they employed no servants. ie even the very-poor-but-quite-poorest might have done so.
January 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
In the famous Booth Poverty map studies of London and York one of the defining characteristics of the lowest vicious and semi criminal’ class was that they employed no servants. ie even the very-poor-but-quite-poorest might have done so.
I think these ones might actually live in my flat: “two female Yule pranksters who steal melted fat by stuffing it up their noses or putting it in socks.”
December 14, 2024 at 1:05 PM
I think these ones might actually live in my flat: “two female Yule pranksters who steal melted fat by stuffing it up their noses or putting it in socks.”
Combination of parenting and personal body clock means I tend to work 10-2pm then 10-2am…
October 24, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Combination of parenting and personal body clock means I tend to work 10-2pm then 10-2am…
File under 'can't be answered with a quick google search' aka 'complete mystery'.
September 30, 2024 at 9:31 PM
File under 'can't be answered with a quick google search' aka 'complete mystery'.
Don't think so - it's the public corporations line going negative, and I think they were owned by the relevant central government departments. But happy to be corrected.
September 30, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Don't think so - it's the public corporations line going negative, and I think they were owned by the relevant central government departments. But happy to be corrected.
Yes the catch was rather my point: funding is more likely to disappear than fixed rails.
September 9, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Yes the catch was rather my point: funding is more likely to disappear than fixed rails.
The inflexibility of trams is, paradoxically, a bonus: permanent infrastructure has much bigger effects on incentives/decisions than services that could be cut tomorrow. Would you buy a home/business based on the current bus service nearby?
September 9, 2024 at 6:44 AM
The inflexibility of trams is, paradoxically, a bonus: permanent infrastructure has much bigger effects on incentives/decisions than services that could be cut tomorrow. Would you buy a home/business based on the current bus service nearby?
Top fact: a million seconds is about 11 days. A billion seconds is…. 32 years.
September 6, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Top fact: a million seconds is about 11 days. A billion seconds is…. 32 years.
It has recently reached the tipping point of numbers and quality here to be absolutely worth making the switch.
September 6, 2024 at 7:18 AM
It has recently reached the tipping point of numbers and quality here to be absolutely worth making the switch.
Yes, the only real merits are its sheer damn silliness and quirky archaism - plus the pleasingly basic links to intimate bits of human anatomy.
August 19, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Yes, the only real merits are its sheer damn silliness and quirky archaism - plus the pleasingly basic links to intimate bits of human anatomy.