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The Threat Generation.

A child is on their phone tonight. Right now. The algorithm was specifically designed to find them in that state. They are not the enemy. They are the product.

#bristol #john langley #politics #bristol city council #local government #blog #facebook #twitter #TheAlmightyGob #thealmightygob #TheThreatGeneration #HarmfulAlgorithms #SocialMediaAddiction #OnlineSafety

The Dire Straits of Hormuz.

Not dollars. Or Pounds.

Yuan.

Strait Talking.

How Long Does the Western World Last Without the East?

Iran closed a door twenty miles wide.

Same shelf. No life.

The answer is between six weeks and six months. Nobody in power will tell you which.

#StraitOfHormuz #Iran #IranWar #trump #OilCrisis #china #gulfstates #tehran #middle east #epic fury #geopolitics

The Magic Roundabout: #Bristol's Honest Application for the European Green Capital Award 2028.

The only UK city ever to win it. Barred from entering. Here is what the submission would actually say.

Mined in Yorkshire. Bought from Japan.

Nobody was thinking about where the hops came from.

It just takes Japan to show us how it’s sold.

#blog #politics #twitter #satire #local government #whitby #YorkshirePost #yorkshire #substack

#Bristol - The City of 'Cancel' Culture.

There is a particular kind of stupidity that announces itself as vision.

Bristol City Council is bidding for UK City of Culture 2029. While assembling that bid, it quietly terminated Bristol Nights — the partnership responsible for the Women's Safety Charter, Bristol Rules, Thrive at Night, drug safety and anti-spiking campaigns. Seven hundred nighttime economy staff trained. Two hundred and sixty anti-spiking kits distributed across the city.

Gone. Without a committee vote. Without stakeholder consultation. Carly Heath, Bristol's nighttime economy adviser, found out her role was being made redundant through a funding notification. She posted about it on LinkedIn. Or, as it turned out, LinkedOut.

The council's response? Hand the functions to Public Health. No dedicated nighttime economy mandate. No named budget. No sector relationships built over years of trust. No Carly Heath. Not a new home. A disappearing act dressed as a reassurance.

What followed was not silence. Trinity Community Arts, Bristol Music Industry Network, Paraorchestra, Bristol Students Union, and the Women's Night Safety Charter all responded. Mathieu Grondin, Canada's first nightlife commissioner, described Carly as a global leader whose work inspired cities including Ottawa.

Councillor Tony Dyer called Bristol Nights brilliant and successful. Then confirmed, by omission, that it no longer exists.

Councillor Kye Dudd called it outrageous. He is not wrong.

Bristol wants to be the City of Culture. It just cancelled the people doing the work.

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The advantages of being dead.

The alarm. the breakfast guilt. the pension tab you never close. the vegan nobody remembered. the ashes. auntie maude. the music argument. stayin' alive versus killing me softly. both entirely serious.

nobody mentions the obvious solution.

👉 https://bit.ly/4lvvqwr

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Solid arty: a portrait of #bristol activism on this saturday afternoon. or the lack of it.

quiet bristol morning. sick notes in early. south wales police standing down. organiser doing the shopping. flags packed for the holiday just in case. someone on depop sourcing next season's outrage wear. tattoo artist answers his phone at the wrong moment. solid arty. permanently. by afternoon cabot circus. traffic building. pub landlords preparing for the unhappy hour. the needle did what three years of demonstrations had carefully avoided doing. it told the truth. 👉 https://bit.ly/4cSXdoB