Cllr Sam Easterby-Smith

Reassuringly, my work computer blocks @manchestereveningnews.co.uk because it considers it to be malware. And frankly, it is.

Damn fine pie.

So little is being done about 38,000 hectares of woodland being destroyed by invasive Rhododendron Ponticum and Cherry Laurel (that for some reason are both still legal to sell in the U.K.?!) that the BBC noticed our event and came along to shine a light on the process. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Picked up some casework: a tree that nobody knows who is responsible for… (I’m betting it’s really the council)

In planning committee on Thursday, we said NO to this tower next to the Marble Arch. I didn’t get a quote this time, but I spoke about how the original plan for this spot was as a public square, and that seems to have been forgotten. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

It’s worse than this. He’s asking you to collect the rotting food waste from the big bins behind a Michelin starred restaurant and plate it up as though it’s a fresh dish ready for consumption.

Govt: It’s ok, we can do one bad thing because we are probably not going to do the other bad thing. Ever feel you’re being gaslit? #jackdaw #rosebank

Back by popular demand! My Brutalist Christmas cards are all available here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas #brutalism #concreteChristmas

The magic money tree that no one wants to feed and water 👇

The question asked here is what we gain from passing this motion. It was a difficult motion It is first worth making clear what we lose.

@jessamyp.bsky.social helloooooo! 👋

This video is excellent and sums it up for me. I still have hope that @zackpolanski.bsky.social *can* clearly make this argument to members. But it needs to be made clearly and unapologetically.

Yes yes yes. So much yes.

Me reading your posts

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

I very much endorse and align with this statement. 💚

I absolutely take the same line as Caroline on this amendment.

Clean the air (filter)

Loving the sunshiney Green Party Conference vibes in Brighton.

And now I must sleep, for I shall be on the early train to Brighton tomorrow. 💚

It’s very much down to us Greens on the council in Manchester for pushing this up the agenda and highlighting the alternative that Manchester trusts have developed. Also, British tech workers stand to hugely benefit from a drive toward digital sovereignty. And I’m so here for it. Sunlit uplands!

Trying to work out how I seem to know every note of Vaughan Williams’ “The Wasps” (orchestral suite) - like perhaps I had it on a cassette? Or did I see it performed? It clearly went in deep at some point… Movement iv is a bit blah, but the rest is cracking.

I spotted a young person who was riding home with a flat tyre… I offered them some air (or directions to a nearby bike shop), and mercifully the air held and they got home. Little things.

@joshih.bsky.social are you sending anyone to MCC planning ctte today? Expect both items to be interesting 😘

Is there any kind of tracking of air quality /pollution at Manchester Victoria platforms 4 5 6? It's always chokingly awful in the covered area. Cc @samsterby.com

Good news! I made the case for banning adverts for high-carbon products back in 2020. It was important then and it’s even more crucial now. Huge respect to @adfreecities.bsky.social for their years of campaigning, and to my @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social council colleagues for making it happen 👏

I'm all in favour of cars in principle but idiot drivers who park like this give the rest a bad reputation. It only needs a molecule of common sense* *pavement parking is normalised & socially acceptable, despite the fact that it's virtually impossible to get past. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Click every box that contains Lancaster (Forton) Services so we know you are human.

I have had zero reasons to use the DLR for many years, but I absolutely love that they have done this.

This is how the school run should be.

If you don't know about the Battle of Cable Street, and other times we stood up to British fascists, you can learn about that now, before it's too fucking late. History is not boring and it's definitely not irrelevant.