Wendy Cartwright
@wendyhall2012.bsky.social
Brave RNLI volunteers being attacked for risking their lives to save others at sea is awful. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name?
September 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Brave RNLI volunteers being attacked for risking their lives to save others at sea is awful. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name?
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Happy Pride, London! 🏳️🌈
At my Pride Reception earlier this week, we celebrated love, authenticity and the trailblazers who paved the way for our LGBTQIA+ communities to live openly and proudly today.
At my Pride Reception earlier this week, we celebrated love, authenticity and the trailblazers who paved the way for our LGBTQIA+ communities to live openly and proudly today.
July 4, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Happy Pride, London! 🏳️🌈
At my Pride Reception earlier this week, we celebrated love, authenticity and the trailblazers who paved the way for our LGBTQIA+ communities to live openly and proudly today.
At my Pride Reception earlier this week, we celebrated love, authenticity and the trailblazers who paved the way for our LGBTQIA+ communities to live openly and proudly today.
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A few of the placards seen today as the fash got chased off Buchanan Street.
Never forget: the far right are indeed dangerous and wicked; and they are also weird and pathetic, and we should say so.
Never forget: the far right are indeed dangerous and wicked; and they are also weird and pathetic, and we should say so.
June 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
A few of the placards seen today as the fash got chased off Buchanan Street.
Never forget: the far right are indeed dangerous and wicked; and they are also weird and pathetic, and we should say so.
Never forget: the far right are indeed dangerous and wicked; and they are also weird and pathetic, and we should say so.
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Fascinating age split on this one. Young people are both more likely to use AI and more likely to want it to disappear.
June 8, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Fascinating age split on this one. Young people are both more likely to use AI and more likely to want it to disappear.
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british fan chat
![cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:
[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]
1
TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.
2
TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.
3
TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.
4
TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,
and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.
5
TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re
thinking, lads:
6
TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?
7
TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...
8
TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh…
TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate
9
TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.
By the time they remember,
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.
10
TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...
11
TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.
12
[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidbpfu2ioghspjcg4xitzv655jzjwp5lgxk5hi3ag7sechgh222ze)
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
british fan chat
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I just took part in The National Conversation to share my views on what it's really like living in our area right now. It's a major UK-wide project by researchers at Oxford University, and it only takes a few minutes. You should have your say too! www.national-conversation.ox.ac.uk
May 18, 2026 at 8:26 AM
I just took part in The National Conversation to share my views on what it's really like living in our area right now. It's a major UK-wide project by researchers at Oxford University, and it only takes a few minutes. You should have your say too! www.national-conversation.ox.ac.uk
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One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.
May 16, 2026 at 8:01 AM
One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.
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"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’
The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’
www.thetimes.com
April 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
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Despite the negativity from those seeking to talk down London for political gain, London is thriving, and here’s the proof: we’ve just been awarded the highly prestigious Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize.
March 26, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Despite the negativity from those seeking to talk down London for political gain, London is thriving, and here’s the proof: we’ve just been awarded the highly prestigious Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize.
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Striking chart on the gender skew among AI researchers. In academia, the number of top AI scientists who are women has been growing slowly. In the private sector? Not so much.
(chart from this vg paper from Uni of Chicago bfi.uchicago.edu/working-pape...)
(chart from this vg paper from Uni of Chicago bfi.uchicago.edu/working-pape...)
March 19, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Striking chart on the gender skew among AI researchers. In academia, the number of top AI scientists who are women has been growing slowly. In the private sector? Not so much.
(chart from this vg paper from Uni of Chicago bfi.uchicago.edu/working-pape...)
(chart from this vg paper from Uni of Chicago bfi.uchicago.edu/working-pape...)
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Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
March 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
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In times of increasing division, it’s important that all Londoners know they are valued and welcome in our city.
With the National Lottery Community Fund, we’re creating a new network of community spaces across the capital.
Find your nearest one:
www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...
With the National Lottery Community Fund, we’re creating a new network of community spaces across the capital.
Find your nearest one:
www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...
February 21, 2026 at 5:05 PM
In times of increasing division, it’s important that all Londoners know they are valued and welcome in our city.
With the National Lottery Community Fund, we’re creating a new network of community spaces across the capital.
Find your nearest one:
www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...
With the National Lottery Community Fund, we’re creating a new network of community spaces across the capital.
Find your nearest one:
www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...
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Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
A joyous thread. This is why we are here & not in the other place.
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
December 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A joyous thread. This is why we are here & not in the other place.
A beautiful poem encapsulating the best of London. You are welcome here.
On International Migrants Day, let’s celebrate the generations of migrants who’ve helped make London what it is today - the greatest city in the world.
December 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
A beautiful poem encapsulating the best of London. You are welcome here.
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Once more for the haters...
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Once more for the haters...
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The worst thing about AI? That stupid Samsung ad where the guy adds ‘way too much sugar’ to his pasta sauce | Emma Beddington
The worst thing about AI? That stupid Samsung ad where the guy adds ‘way too much sugar’ to his pasta sauce | Emma Beddington
Only a robot would attempt to turn it into ‘tasty cookies’. A human would just scoop the sugar out again, writes Emma Beddington
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The worst thing about AI? That stupid Samsung ad where the guy adds ‘way too much sugar’ to his pasta sauce | Emma Beddington
