Farewell, Zipcar 👋
01.12.2025 15:30
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Farewell, Zipcar 👋
Via @willdunn.bsky.social in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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“Donwood's initial idea for the album cover was to create enormous topiary phalluses and digitally introduce them into the gardens owned by the National Trust, but Yorke was unconvinced.”
Shot, chaser
Is Brussels sure about this name? The "28th Regime" sounds like something a Bond villain might plot
tech.eu/2025/09/30/w...
Quite the stat
Screen grab from Companies House website.
OnlyFans' parent company's accounts dropping in ~10 days
Read more here, to find out why the number of London taxi drivers in training is so surprisingly high:
economist.com/britain/2025...
Yet for all these challenges, a new generation of drivers is in training: 1,166 are currently studying the Knowledge, the gruelling qualification required to operate in London. That's an increase from the low of 759 students in 2022.
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Another threat to cabbies now looms in the rear-view mirror: taxis that don’t require a driver at all. From next spring the government will allow pilot schemes for autonomous taxis to roam England’s roads without human oversight.
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Tighter environmental standards pushed up the cost of vehicles. Councils blocked favourite cut-throughs and over half of London’s roads now have 20mph speed limits.
Since 2017 the number of black-cab drivers in London has fallen from about 25,000 to barely 16,500.
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🚖 My latest article for @economist.com asks who would want to drive a taxi in London.
The capital's cabbies have had a hard few years. Ride-hailing platforms such as Uber upended the market, with satnav-equipped drivers who no longer needed to memorise routes.
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@digital-frontier.bsky.social is closing: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/d...
Susan Sontag - “On Photography”
(And yes, ironically, I felt compelled to take a photo of this passage)
Radical bookshop closes after less than a year becasue staff are too radical
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Just stumbled on this and I love that it’s a thing
First time I’ve noticed a vacant shop in central London be marketed as an “8,500 sq ft brand presence”
Who wore it better?
I have questions
As a proud Londoner, I just subscribed to @londonermag.bsky.social to support quality local journalism
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Riiight
Ooh. This is intriguing.
Who is responsible when an AI tool incorrectly summarises the news for an app alert?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ah man Gladiator 2
That jumped a whole Colosseum full of sharks
Korea's six hours of martial law reminds me of that time OnlyFans banned sexual content
Here’s a guy who knows how to communicate with Trump’s America
