Zoltán Connell, an undergraduate making very Sicilian progress at a BA in Human Geography and Transport Planning at the University of Leeds, and living in Hyde Park.
I have band practice for the next couple of “Manning Mondays,” so I won’t be around to personally troll the Brecht Forum as they continually misgender Breanna Manning. But I CAN troll them on Twitter.
Suzy X: Right as always.
Thanks, Obama. More like this, please.
Everything I wanted to say. I think that’s a really, really important point: Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs. Every religion, the abrahamic ones at least, has its set of rules, and some among them that seem to think those rules apply to everyone, and that they are the judge of that; rather than their god (made up as they might be) having the say at some later date on who did and didn’t get it right.
This is a bloody obvious point to make, but the world is apparently oblivious to there being anything wrong when they try to judge, and worse, legally regulate the actions of, others on the basis of their own rules. Notions of tolerance and acceptance are good things, but they need to be put aside when people are to be called out on doing that.
And I appreciate Obama pointing this out in the context of the religious exerting control over female bodies. Shame about the wars, mind. #uncontrovertialpoint
(Source: autostraddle)
WOAH. Woah awesome Glaswegian women.
How many people realize that Diane from Trainspotting and Margaret Schroeder from Boardwalk Empire are the same person? Blew my mind.
Whoa! I’ve seen her in a bunch of other things too, and never made this connection. Kind of explains why I’m always so drawn to her characters: deep teenage conditioning.
Kelly Macdonald is my lifetime pick for Most Adorable Glaswegian. I particularly love her in Gosford Park, and she’s also a super gutsy reporter in the original State of Play series. My pupils might turn into little hearts when she speaks??
(Source: delusionalminds)
YESSSSSSS. Yes yes yes yes yes.
That is all.
TONIGHT AT THE CHEMIC!
Esper Scout at 9.00
Räuberhöhle at 10.00
Don’t miss it critters!
I’m going early to help construct a puppet theatre. I think a disco nap in the pub may be needed.
Montréal’s Train de l’Est: A seriously ridiculous attempt at commuter rail. »
Skips 49 St at all times
The author of the beautifully named blog Catbus (yes, that is the reference), they that are to be known only as ant6n, quotes a cost of 87,000CAD per passenger for the Train de L’est project to take trains from the Mont-Royal tunnel, the most direct heavy rail route north from downtown Montreal, through East Montreal to Pointe-aux-Trembles, Repentigny and Mascouche. […]
Also recent: Wasting everyone’s time: Market pricing of car parking and equity.
Among advocates of improved transport policy, there’s a general support for the idea of market based pricing of car parks. Right now, in many cities car parking is available at less than free market pricing would dictate, for reasons such as the city deliberately underpricing it, private parking providers being able to use land occupied by car parks for less than market rent, or parking being available on street, where the space could be better used for other purposes. […]
A Leeds bus driver excels at being a Leeds bus driver.
I don’t think I know anyone in Leeds without a story about a bus driver being a dick towards them. It’s like a badge of being properly part of Leeds. Bus drivers are dicks everywhere, but those in Leeds seem to take particular pride in it. The story of today, though, I think surpasses them all.
I was on one of those giant purple articulated buses that run the 4 on Tong Road/South Parkway. The ones that have two doors and operate with conductors. Now, in anywhere else in the world whose buses have multiple doors and proof of payment/conductors, you board at all doors. All buses in Budapest, Paris, Barcelona, every city in Italy I’ve ever been to; some in London and Seattle, trams about everywhere, etc., etc.
