Eric Lesley

Eric Lesley

@ericlesley2.bsky.social

Trainee Transport planner. Edinburgh via Liverpool. Goodison Whitesox. All views my own. Same handle on twitter.

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6 Telraam sensors now installed in Jussy (Geneva, Switzerland) 🇨🇭 They continuously count pedestrians, cyclists, cars and heavy vehicles. Installed by our partner DÉFI TECHNIQUE SA with custom power solutions per site. Thanks Philippe, Alain & Jussy! #trafficcounting #activemobility #smartcity

David moyes only ambition is to further enrich himself and his family. Should never have been allowed back through the door.

Christopher Beesley@cbeesleyecho.bsky.social

David Moyes makes his Everton ambition clear after £170million changes expose glaring Arsenal gap www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Leaks from Putin's office have revealed an extensive influence operation targeting JD Vance, which achieved everything it set out to achieve. Read all about how JD Vance and others fell for a lie about Volodymyr Zelensky concocted by agents of Russia's Presidential Administration. And how the Vice

theins.pressPutin’s “Doppelgängers”: The Insider gets inside the operations of the Kremlin's foreign disinformation networkWestern journalists call them "Doppelgänger," but the team of Russian propagandists spreading fake content under the banner of legitimate foreign news outlets…

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Between 2021 and 2025, around 2 million cyclists passed the floating bus stops on Leith Street, Edinburgh, and around 5 million bus passengers boarded or alighted here. No injuries have been recorded. Over the same period, drivers injured around 600 Edinburgh pedestrians, killing 16.

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Free weekend update is out. This was the week when the USA-Russia alliance was made formal, to even the most ardent skeptics. And its reality was signed in Ukrainian blood. Hopefully now Ukraine, and Europe, will understand what they must do. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

phillipspobrien.substack.comWeekend Update #207: The US-Russia Alliance Is Signed--In Ukrainian BloodUkraine Seems To Get It This Time; Ukraine Keeps Steadily Progressing In The Land War

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Davey Moyes is a dinosaur, not even a good one like a Tyrannosaurus Rex or velociraptor. A shit vegan one like Diplodocus.

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When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it

Why can't we just turn off the internet, and prosecute these people for treason?

Savchenko Volodymyr@savchenkoua.bsky.social

🇫🇷❗️🇺🇦 Marine Le Pen promises to stop financial aid to Ukraine within six months if she becomes French president, — FT 📍She opposes Ukraine's accession to the EU and is skeptical of sanctions against Russia. 📍Le Pen says that France can no longer afford financial aid to Ukraine.

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Since his first trip to Moscow in 1987, Trump “has loudly repeated Russian propaganda … Upon returning from that trip, he took out full-page ads in three newspapers, attacking American alliances ... For nearly 40 yers, he has been saying much the same thing.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

theatlantic.comTrump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal ClearThe president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

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What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

I really enjoyed Leuven when i was there

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett@modacitylife.com

In 2016, Leuven made a bold decision: instead of trying to accommodate ever-increasing car traffic, it would change the rules of the road entirely. A decade later, the Dutch-inspired traffic circulation plan has drastically improved the city’s accessibility, liveability and quality of public space.🧵

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What's happening here? Maybe something changed part way through 2023 on urban/residential 30mph roads! I wonder if it could be that from Sep 17th 2023 95% of roads with a 30mph limit were changed to 20mph. #20splenty making your place an even better, safer, quieter, fairer place to be!

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Replying to @ozkaterji.bsky.social

Russian's don't care about Ukrainian lives, that much is clear, but the people who only use Ukrainian suffering as a rhetorical device care just as little about what Russia is doing to this country.

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Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.

My dad's pension is more than my salary. My pension will be worth a lot less than my salary.

Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social

I would be very careful with this factoid because it is very dependent on generous defined benefit schemes which future generations of pensioners, beginning with late GenX to early millennials, will not have

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In February 1972, 20 students from Glasgow School of Art greeted Gordon Campbell, the Scottish Secretary of State, as he opened the Charing Cross section of the M8. They waved banners that are as relevant now as they were then as Campbell passed beneath in the Lord Provost's car. 📷 Newqsquest

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Replying to @maks23.bsky.social

concentration camps, the theft of children, forced conscription into the army, police terror, expropriation and a few other things. And we will defend our freedom.

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🤬💔 Four dead: Russian FPV drone hits car in Sumy region! Among the dead are a 58-year-old man, his 56-year-old wife, a 45-year-old man and a 76-year-old woman.

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The people advocating for Ukraine to surrender its territory to Russia today are the same people that told Ukraine to surrender Crimea to Russia yesterday and the same people who will tell Ukraine to surrender Odesa tomorrow.