Will Sharp
@willsharp.bsky.social
Blue Sky Novice. Here for politics, musings, urbanism, book recommendations, memes and more.
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Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
September 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
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Do you ever watch the news and feel like screaming?
Well now YOU can turn that existential rage into vocal support for your local antifascist football club!
We have: loud shouting, dodgy dancing, friendly folk and excellent refreshment 🙂
Next match is 3pm tomorrow - see you then! 🗣️
Well now YOU can turn that existential rage into vocal support for your local antifascist football club!
We have: loud shouting, dodgy dancing, friendly folk and excellent refreshment 🙂
Next match is 3pm tomorrow - see you then! 🗣️
February 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Do you ever watch the news and feel like screaming?
Well now YOU can turn that existential rage into vocal support for your local antifascist football club!
We have: loud shouting, dodgy dancing, friendly folk and excellent refreshment 🙂
Next match is 3pm tomorrow - see you then! 🗣️
Well now YOU can turn that existential rage into vocal support for your local antifascist football club!
We have: loud shouting, dodgy dancing, friendly folk and excellent refreshment 🙂
Next match is 3pm tomorrow - see you then! 🗣️
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Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft takes the clearest picture of Venus ever made
January 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft takes the clearest picture of Venus ever made
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What are your thoughts on the 6th console generation?
January 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
What are your thoughts on the 6th console generation?
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at…
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
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⚽️ Next match ⚽️
Two top sides meet on Saturday as Clapton CFC Men's First Team host Bridon Ropes.
📍 Old Spotted Dog Ground | E7 9NP
🚇 Forest Gate, Wanstead Park + 4 more nearby
🎟️ £5 | pay what you want concessions | free U13s
📕 Printed programme
🍻 Bar | food
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2024/12/03/c...
Two top sides meet on Saturday as Clapton CFC Men's First Team host Bridon Ropes.
📍 Old Spotted Dog Ground | E7 9NP
🚇 Forest Gate, Wanstead Park + 4 more nearby
🎟️ £5 | pay what you want concessions | free U13s
📕 Printed programme
🍻 Bar | food
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2024/12/03/c...
December 3, 2024 at 5:12 PM
⚽️ Next match ⚽️
Two top sides meet on Saturday as Clapton CFC Men's First Team host Bridon Ropes.
📍 Old Spotted Dog Ground | E7 9NP
🚇 Forest Gate, Wanstead Park + 4 more nearby
🎟️ £5 | pay what you want concessions | free U13s
📕 Printed programme
🍻 Bar | food
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2024/12/03/c...
Two top sides meet on Saturday as Clapton CFC Men's First Team host Bridon Ropes.
📍 Old Spotted Dog Ground | E7 9NP
🚇 Forest Gate, Wanstead Park + 4 more nearby
🎟️ £5 | pay what you want concessions | free U13s
📕 Printed programme
🍻 Bar | food
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2024/12/03/c...
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"The main thing TfL has done with its new names is to highlight the contribution to London’s life made by people who are not the Queen of England. Anyone who sees this as virtue signalling may, in fact, be signalling rather more about themselves."
In defence of the London Overground rebrand
At the unveiling ceremony for the newly named lines, I found more than expensive virtue signalling.
www.newstatesman.com
December 1, 2024 at 8:15 PM
"The main thing TfL has done with its new names is to highlight the contribution to London’s life made by people who are not the Queen of England. Anyone who sees this as virtue signalling may, in fact, be signalling rather more about themselves."
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Kneecap 1 - Kemi 0
Irish language rap group Kneecap has won a discrimination case over the British govt's refusal to award them an arts grant
Kneecap win case over 'unlawful' UK govt funding block
Irish language rap group Kneecap has won its discrimination case against former Conservative minister Kemi Badenoch.
www.rte.ie
November 29, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Kneecap 1 - Kemi 0
Sad that I knew all these things, yet it still blows my mind that we keep contributing to this. Time for more global action on plastics?
We need to talk about plastic: five everyday items choking the planet 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We need to talk about plastic: five everyday items choking the planet 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardiandocumentaries
Latest US news, world news, sports, business, opinion, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Sad that I knew all these things, yet it still blows my mind that we keep contributing to this. Time for more global action on plastics?
We need to talk about plastic: five everyday items choking the planet 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We need to talk about plastic: five everyday items choking the planet 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
All the weekend’s movie viewings sorted.
From Airplane! to The Naked Gun, Jim Abrahams was a pioneer of spoof comedy
From Airplane! to The Naked Gun, Jim Abrahams was a pioneer of spoof comedy
The writer and director, who died this week, helped to define what big screen spoofs would look like in the decades after
* Jim Abrahams, co-creator of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, dies aged 80
Very few people can honestly claim to have changed the…
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:43 PM
All the weekend’s movie viewings sorted.
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It’s a bonanza today in Newham with the experimental West Ham Park LTN going live! General traffic will no longer be able to use these residential streets as a shortcut—and Romford Road, to the north, is being improved too. We love to see it 🌳 🚸🌲 🚲 @rokhsanafiaz.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 3:05 PM
It’s a bonanza today in Newham with the experimental West Ham Park LTN going live! General traffic will no longer be able to use these residential streets as a shortcut—and Romford Road, to the north, is being improved too. We love to see it 🌳 🚸🌲 🚲 @rokhsanafiaz.bsky.social
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My article in @thetimes.com this morning: “My dog’s anxiety was crippling — until we tried puppy prozac”
www.thetimes.com/article/6635...
www.thetimes.com/article/6635...
November 25, 2024 at 7:39 AM
My article in @thetimes.com this morning: “My dog’s anxiety was crippling — until we tried puppy prozac”
www.thetimes.com/article/6635...
www.thetimes.com/article/6635...
Always amazed by how much wildlife we have in #newham. Our plant pots now contain heaps of winter nuts, burrowed away to sustain these guys, who’ve become regular kitchen window visitors. Love it
November 23, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Always amazed by how much wildlife we have in #newham. Our plant pots now contain heaps of winter nuts, burrowed away to sustain these guys, who’ve become regular kitchen window visitors. Love it
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#RecipeOfTheDay is the richly rewarding Chocolate Meringue Truffle Cake! If you’re wondering why you can’t see the meringue, it’s because it plays an unfamiliar role here, forming this luscious cake’s base www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...
Chocolate Meringue Truffle Cake
This is a favourite from a time, far in the distant past, when I went in for dinner parties! My late sister Thomasina brought it into my life about 40 years ago, and I still love it. Don't worry abou...
www.nigella.com
November 15, 2024 at 12:04 PM
#RecipeOfTheDay is the richly rewarding Chocolate Meringue Truffle Cake! If you’re wondering why you can’t see the meringue, it’s because it plays an unfamiliar role here, forming this luscious cake’s base www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...
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Went to the Massive Attack low carbon gig last night, and the one striking difference was how much less background noise there was with no diesel generators.
It sounds mad, but it made quite a difference - there’s a lot of the time at festivals with no music, and it’s nicer when it’s quiet
It sounds mad, but it made quite a difference - there’s a lot of the time at festivals with no music, and it’s nicer when it’s quiet
August 26, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Went to the Massive Attack low carbon gig last night, and the one striking difference was how much less background noise there was with no diesel generators.
It sounds mad, but it made quite a difference - there’s a lot of the time at festivals with no music, and it’s nicer when it’s quiet
It sounds mad, but it made quite a difference - there’s a lot of the time at festivals with no music, and it’s nicer when it’s quiet
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Machines for recycling bottles
Recycling bottles and jars could be so much easier if we adopted the system of recycling machines such as they have in Germany.
Recycling bottles and jars could be so much easier if we adopted the system of recycling machines such as they have in Germany.
Machines for recycling bottles
Recycling bottles and jars could be so much easier if we adopted the system of recycling machines such as they have in Germany.
kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
August 25, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Machines for recycling bottles
Recycling bottles and jars could be so much easier if we adopted the system of recycling machines such as they have in Germany.
Recycling bottles and jars could be so much easier if we adopted the system of recycling machines such as they have in Germany.
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You know I’ve been watching nothing but space documentaries for about a month, so I wanted to share these photos from astrophotographer Darya Kawa Mirza. Shot over five days. Image size? 708 gigabytes. More than 80,000 images stacked. Awesome.
August 23, 2024 at 1:19 PM
You know I’ve been watching nothing but space documentaries for about a month, so I wanted to share these photos from astrophotographer Darya Kawa Mirza. Shot over five days. Image size? 708 gigabytes. More than 80,000 images stacked. Awesome.
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Remember: Bluesky is not Xitter!
The goal is to build something better
One key thing to do is "block and don’t interact"
Don’t quote post dumb posts
Don’t reply to bad actors, trolls, reply guys, and extremists
Just block them
Life is too short to be wasted on idiocy and toxicity
The goal is to build something better
One key thing to do is "block and don’t interact"
Don’t quote post dumb posts
Don’t reply to bad actors, trolls, reply guys, and extremists
Just block them
Life is too short to be wasted on idiocy and toxicity
August 19, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Remember: Bluesky is not Xitter!
The goal is to build something better
One key thing to do is "block and don’t interact"
Don’t quote post dumb posts
Don’t reply to bad actors, trolls, reply guys, and extremists
Just block them
Life is too short to be wasted on idiocy and toxicity
The goal is to build something better
One key thing to do is "block and don’t interact"
Don’t quote post dumb posts
Don’t reply to bad actors, trolls, reply guys, and extremists
Just block them
Life is too short to be wasted on idiocy and toxicity
Totally struggling to get through the ‘Intermediate’ plateau, so I’m definitely giving these tips a go. Sharing if others have any thoughts?
nation.cymru/feature/lear...
nation.cymru/feature/lear...
Learning a language? Four ways to smash through the dreaded ‘intermediate plateau’
Jill Boggs, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Swansea University How can I improve my English? This was a question frequently posed by my students in South Korea. My initial advice was straightf...
nation.cymru
August 18, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Totally struggling to get through the ‘Intermediate’ plateau, so I’m definitely giving these tips a go. Sharing if others have any thoughts?
nation.cymru/feature/lear...
nation.cymru/feature/lear...
Thanks @rostaylor.bsky.social for this incredibly interesting listen and insight into our history. Recommend subscribing to this podcast too.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
Jam Tomorrow: This way out: Decriminalising homosexuality on Apple Podcasts
Show Jam Tomorrow, Ep This way out: Decriminalising homosexuality - 15 Apr 2024
podcasts.apple.com
August 18, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Thanks @rostaylor.bsky.social for this incredibly interesting listen and insight into our history. Recommend subscribing to this podcast too.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
This raises good points but until the alternative routes are competitive on price, the airport is a more attractive option for most.
More than half of the journeys taken from London City Airport last year can be reached in six hours or less by train www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
London City airport: 54% of journeys take under six hours by train, data shows
Exclusive: Most popular routes can be reached quickly by train, as government mulls expansion proposal
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2024 at 1:08 PM
This raises good points but until the alternative routes are competitive on price, the airport is a more attractive option for most.
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Excellent report on why the UK needs more trams by Britain Remade, whose head of policy @samdumitriu.bsky.social has just joined: www.britainremade.co.uk/backontrack
How to Build New Trams in the UK and Get Britain Moving
www.britainremade.co.uk
August 16, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Excellent report on why the UK needs more trams by Britain Remade, whose head of policy @samdumitriu.bsky.social has just joined: www.britainremade.co.uk/backontrack
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Did you know there were more cinemas open in the UK in 2023 than in 2018? Or that in 2018, they sold more tickets than in any year since 1970? I wrote about the surprisingly good health, in the circumstances, of movie-going. thecritic.co.uk/the-cinemati...
The cinematic future is bright | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
For Hugh Grant, it was another example of how the internet is destroying all we hold dear. “Fulham Road cinema closing after 94 years,” he wrote on Twitter.
thecritic.co.uk
August 15, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Did you know there were more cinemas open in the UK in 2023 than in 2018? Or that in 2018, they sold more tickets than in any year since 1970? I wrote about the surprisingly good health, in the circumstances, of movie-going. thecritic.co.uk/the-cinemati...
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Reminder tonight (and tomorrow night) there is a super conjunction of Jupiter and Mars. Will be quite a sight in binoculars or a telescope. Some of Jupiter's Galilean moons will be visible too. Look east from 1.30am. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography
August 13, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Reminder tonight (and tomorrow night) there is a super conjunction of Jupiter and Mars. Will be quite a sight in binoculars or a telescope. Some of Jupiter's Galilean moons will be visible too. Look east from 1.30am. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography
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Northern lights illuminate skies as far south as Cornwall. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Northern lights UK: Stunning display right across the country
After a strong geomagnetic storm, the aurora borealis was captured as far south as Cornwall.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Northern lights illuminate skies as far south as Cornwall. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...