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I hope you publish your full name and address online when communicating with public services, DBurx

There are plenty of intermediate steps between full anonymity and full disclosure: initials only, for instance, or first part of postcode only.

None of this is hard, but @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social has chosen a weird hill to die on.

Sure, but in the UK it's possible to opt out of the 'open register', and @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social should provide an explicit option for opting out when leaving a comment on a planning application.

The troll is also ignoring the point - publishing your name and address online puts you at risk from *anyone*, not just planning applicants!

When I vote, I don't expect my name and address to be published.

When I write to my councillor, I don't expect my name and address to be published.

When I write to the local newspaper, I expect them to publish my name, but I don't expect my full street address to the published.

I'm not engaging with you further until you publish your full name and address.

I'm not engaging with you further until you publish your full name and address.

I'm not engaging with you further until you publish your full name and address.

I'm not engaging with you further until you publish your full name and address.

I'm not engaging with you further until you publish your full name and address.

So a landlord should be able to see that their tenant next door has objected?

So a university department should be able to see that their employee has objected?

I’m sure they’ll sort it out amicably over a coffee.

I suspect the actual problem - based on my experience of the public interface - is that the planning software is shit.

I agree that an objection carries more weight from a neighbour.

I strongly disagree that that requires publishing home addresses in full online.

Glad to see this. Last year I got 100 people to object to a bizarre plan to put adverts on a dangerous roundabout. Most of them were astonished that this meant the council publishing their full names and addresses online.

‘Public’ doesn’t have to mean the council put your home address on the Internet.

You’ve just made a public comment, Keith, even though I don’t know where you live.

‘Public’ doesn’t have to mean the council put your home address on the Internet.

You’ve just made a public comment, DBurx, even though I don’t know where you live.

Not such a long journey from Oxford - an hour by train - and quite unexpected!

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

I just want to make it 100% clear that as a historian of the nuclear age, I find this genuinely fascinating and exciting. There shouldn't be any smirking or dismissiveness about these sources - they are valuable, interesting, and deserve to be taken seriously.

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

I read encyclopaedias as a child and now I’m a librarian.

That is, I was and still am fascinated by books as books and collections of facts and how they’re organised.

That will be Labour’s fault for not introducing a fair voting system.

That will be Labour’s fault for not introducing a fair voting system.

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My workplace canteen has made changes along these lines 👍

Campaigners seek listed status for historic trig points that mapped Britain Pillars at Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, and Thorny Gale, Cumbria, bookended the project that modernised mapping Heritage campaigners are bidding for listing status for two concrete pillars hailed as “modest obelisks of modernity in the countryside”. These functional 120cm (4ft) stone or concrete “trig points” formed part of a 6,500-strong network of surveying posts that were vital for the development of modern mapping. Continue reading...

Campaigners seek listed status for historic trig points that mapped Britain

Residents not ratrunners 💪

Cake with 5 candles next to a planter

Residents in East Oxford gathered yesterday to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the installation of the Cowley LTNs.
Installed during lockdown to facilitate active travel as a response to concerns over reduction of public transport use during the pandemic, the schemes started in March 2021.

He worked on this stuff for *decades* and learned to read old forms of Japanese in order to find out when historic cherry bloom festivals in Kyoto had taken place. He died after an illness in August last year, four months after making his last record of peak cherry blossom flowering (4 April 2025).