h2g2bob

25 years of TfL
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Peter Keeling

Following an innocuous link in a Full Fact article unexpectedly dropped me into the BBC politics website, 1997. Seems to have been created solely to cover that year, and then kept in it's final state ever since.

Fascinating stuff, and kudos to the Beeb for keeping (most of) it online. There are GIFs, though not as many as I would have preferred.

bbc.co.uk/news/special/politic

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abadidea

Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe

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Joe Mitchell

"Projections suggest that ongoing deep funding cuts—combined with the potential dismantling of [USAID] — could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4·5 million deaths among children younger than 5 years." thelancet.com/journals/lancet/ #globalhealth

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I'm nervous about Southend being combined with Rochford and Castle Point - will those rural councils understand our urban needs? It risks a change in character and priorities.

We already share the same bus and train transport network. We need nearby councils working with us to grow the city, as we have no fields to build on.

Our neighbours often build car-focused housing and send us the traffic. Will they embrace city life? Will they force us to build roads? Risks and opportunities

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Changes to local government in proposed: squish together the 14 district councils (who handle planning applications, bins, etc) into 5 new councils of about 300k population each. Then abolish Essex council (adult social care, roads, etc) and give the powers to the new councils.

It generally makes sense. Local plans (town planning) get done on a larger area. And no normal people understood who does what in the 2-level (Essex and District) councils anyway.

yoursay.southend.gov.uk/yoursa

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London's water works diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/202

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Tim Bray

Apparently only us old folks know about stackoverflow.com/questions/17

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OggCamp

OggCamp, the unconference for open source and free culture enthusiasts returns in 2026.
🗓️ Save the date and join us, once again, at The Manchester Conference Centre on April 25th and 26th.
👀 Keep an eye out for the Call for Papers and ticket announcements soon! 🎟️
#Oggcamp #OggCamp2026 #OpenSource #TechConference #Manchester

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Jim Killock

Right at the last minute the government have added a power to demand your password to any online account, on the say so of a senior police officer, in the #crimeandpolicingbill #cpbill

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TidBITS

How Average Are You?
tidbits.com/2025/06/16/how-ave

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Meredith Whittaker

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

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