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@djbthirteen
LDN, open to all 🏳️🌈/🩷💜💙/🚬 🏳️⚧️ ally/🖤🩶🤍💜 ally 🚰/🌇/YIMBY he/him 👍🚲🚇/👎🚗
Tell this man's story of exclusion and expulsion from a healthcare system he's mandated to fund. He told you to do it. 6/6
This guy could see the women on the ward instinctively recognise the violation of basic social norms. This isn't him refusing treatment without the dignity of being recognised for who he is. This is a trans person actually making a sacrifice to protect women's dignity and sense of safety. 3/🧵
The NHS tried to put a man on a women's ward. He refused, for the sake of the five women on the ward, and got shunted into a waiting room. During the hours he was in the waiting room, he needed medical monitoring, which he was denied. 1/🧵
This week, at least one person is going to collapse of heat stroke whilst walking around central London, who wouldn't have been ill if London's streets were habitually tree covered. The right of that person to get around London trumps street parking for zone one residents. 2/2
If we didn't have an expectation that car owners are entitled to free or highly subsidised storage of their cars outside of their zone one homes, then almost every street in central London would have space for beds for trees, two lanes of motor traffic, and two cycle lanes. 1/2
The construction process for building HS2 is great to watch. This new line will free up capacity on the existing mainlines, faster journeys for those who choose to take it, and created thousands of jobs. We should be building it longer, faster and cheaper, and building more high speed railway.
"Rich democracy with a strong defense industry? Who is a rich democracy with a strong defense industry? I am Guy Incognito.".
I don't think the UK needs capacity to detain tens of thousands of deportees. But, if they're going to be built, 'put them all in the lefty urban council areas' isn't quite the epic pwn teh libz that Zia Yusuf thinks it is.
"Following a thirty-minute meeting with Sir Graham Brady earlier this morning, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be making a statement on Iranian State TV.".
Not sure how I feel about this. Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know.
Not every struggle for social justice is the same, but man, they rhyme pretty hard sometimes.
Outside of London and the south-east, the UK has a huge number of unelectrified railway miles. These lines are often underutilised, and carry an order of magnitude more passengers if utilised well. (Maybe one day I'll write a thread on that, but today is not that day). 2/🧵
Trump: We need just the most fantastic fork handles to use to fight antifa and the left AOC: I say 'no' to this outrageous demand! Four candles to light the way to the future! Dem leadership:
Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard mode: No villains
London faces this cycle. We break it by investing in new TfL projects and working to make cars a less viable choice for those who don't need them.
This is a fantastic and very intuitive way to talk about the housing shortage. I look forwards to seeing London YIMBY groups adopting this framework.
When it comes to 'is this a nice building to walk passed?', you simply cannot beat Victorian design: varied facade's by floor, symmetry, red bricks that look good in all British weather, and contrast with wrought iron.
In the Victorian era, we invented Mansions blocks, a magnificent and low-carbon way to live. For those who need enclosed outdoor space, rediscovering mid-century courtyard blocks (follow @urbancourtyard.bsky.social) is the way forwards to live comfortably low carbon. 2/🧵
characters most susceptible to the One Ring who would be destroyed and twisted beyond recognition the most quickly