I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I dunno, it seems kind of obvious that, given you can get to a place, being able to walk around is more conducive to shopping. I mean, shopping malls were generally not built like giant drive-thrus.

Louise Taylor, Professor of Education and Student Experience at Oxford Brookes University, has published a guide on how schools and universities can take a more inclusive approach to education during Ramadan. 👇 www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

If it succeeds at its purpose (destroying labor), we all lose. If it fails at its purpose, we also all lose from bubble collapse. I love our tech oligarchs

Autonomous kids not autonomous cars.

Hackney people - we need your help! Organised groups are trying to undermine safer streets in Hackney & some Cllrs are getting cold feet. Please join Low Traffic Hackney here & follow our accounts to build support for real change. www.lowtraffichackney.org/join-us.html

More autonomous driving in #BBC reports: "a worker was hit by a car that ignored the closure". Absurd description! Can #BBC distinguish at all between a car and a driver? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Do we want a technology that normalizes and amplifies deception? That transforms privacy into a commodity? A society where a techno-oligarch can interfere, as one of them did yesterday, in the…phones of millions of citizens to tell them lies? The answer must be a clear no, and we will not give in.”

At just 1.3C of global heating in recent years, extreme weather is already taking lives and destroying livelihoods across the globe. At 3-4C, “the economy and society will cease to function as we know it”, scientists said last week, but a hothouse Earth would be even more fiery.

This is really important to understand. Wetter winters are coming because every 1C temp rise produces 7% more atmospheric moisture.... Meadows all around Oxford are extensively flooded yet again.

Republican Rep. Luna: “According to the files we saw, Ghislaine Maxwell was engaged in trafficking and rape of young women. Potentially children. I don’t think she deserves any special treatment. She’s a monster.” (From @acyn.bsky.social )

Cyclists and pedestrians, including children, are routinely put directly in harm's way by dangerous street design that prioritizes car-owner convenience. And yet the police very rarely even admit this, let alone call for infrastructural interventions that would enable safety.

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

And formally provably so because to drive you need theory of mind. You can indeed show with maths the limits of maths since it's a formal engineered system with knowable limits, see Gödel etc. We created trains which ban humans from tracks so the system can be safely automated, not so for roads. 1/n

Beautiful urban infill housing on a tight and complex site, in Porto. All rooms benefit from a balcony, either to the street, or to an inner courtyard. By DepA Architects

'Everything going to plan' as bridge replacement on schedule for completion #Oxon #Oxfordshire 🔗: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/...

What football teams are playing at the Bad Bunny/Green Day concert?

While the protest was underway, Thames Valley Police issued several tickets to offenders – including one motorist who, when seeing the children wave their signs at him while he was parking on double yellows, mounted the pavement and drove towards them.

This email between Epstein and JD Vance’s tech oligarch benefactor Peter Thiel where they plan to “collapse” society to create investment opportunities for themselves seems… not great (They also met with the UN ambassador to Russia together)

As a scholar of Soviet espionage, may I say: Duh.

According to officers' reports, over a year, traffic volumes went down 46% inside the LTN and down 9% on boundary roads, while cycling was up 18% and walking up 36%, with recorded air quality improvements too.

And this is the whole debate in a nutshell. The idea that one person’s entitlement to the shortest possible car route in every direction is more important than the quality of life of the whole neighbourhood, and even the ability of kids to safely walk to school.

Missoula, Montana has just: - Eliminated single family zoning - Eliminated parking requirements citywide - Allows 100-125' of height in many of its mixed-use zones with no limits on density or FAR Why is Missoula so much more progressive than Los Angeles?

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):

I do think it’s quite funny that the Gorton & Denton by-election campaign mangers for @greenparty.org.uk have released the doorknocking data. This is usually kept v confidential. Anyway, it seems like a great campaign so far - go team!

Here in the UK it is cold and wet but there is at least the positive that the days are getting longer quite rapidly now. At 51 degrees north where I live we will gain an extra 24 minutes of daylight this week as this #dataviz shows.

Governments have been warned about climate change for 70 years. They’re still suppressing the worst news.

A Paris cybercrime unit has raided the French offices of Elon Musk's X www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/b...

Oh my God Americans, it is so obvious that Epstein was information peddling and influencing for Russia. This is not new news, this came out years ago. But now the files allow everyone to see the influence peddling in real time. All of them are compromised. All these wealthy, powerful men and women.

President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

175 billion for ICE and detention centers in the GOP's billionaire bill. This is what they're doing with the money. Building concentration camps. And it's not going to be used for immigrants only. migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...

...and at the crossing you'll have to wait an age for the lights to change. You are, as a pedestrian, of no value in our road traffic calculus. Sorry, but thats just how our traffic engineers and local politicians across the UK think of pedestrians - beggars at the motorists table (5)

This is important. Wherever you are in the world, contact your elected representative and tell them you don’t want your government using Palantir. It is the most evil company in the world. www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

847 people have been infected with measles in South Carolina over the past months, the vast majority unvaccinated children. It marks the largest measles outbreak since the U.S. declared the disease eliminated in 2000. The U.S. is now on the verge of losing that status. www.bbc.com/news/article...

My absolute favourite response to my gentle Nextdoor post about how LTNs can make roads safer for everyone. 🤯

Am I reading this right? 1. Developer claims new homes not viable without government help. 2. Gov. says fine here's £10m with some minor strings attached. 3. Developer suddenly discovers they didn't need that money after all, whoops!

I wonder how many by-election leaflets will be graced by this quote from someone who is now a prominent Reform member?

🚨BREAKING: Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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NORWAY SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND'S HOLDINGS IN U.S. TREASURIES AMOUNT TO 9.4% OF FUND'S TOTAL INVESTMENTS AT DECEMBER 31 VS 9.2% AT JUNE 30, FUND DATA SHOWS

NORWAY SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND'S U.S. ASSETS WORTH $1.12 TRILLION AT DECEMBER 31 VS $1.04 TRILLION AT JUNE 30

SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

India and the EU have clinched a landmark free trade deal after nearly 20 years of talks, slashing tariffs on almost all goods and creating a 2 billion-strong market, as both sides hedge against uncertain US trade ties under President Trump. #india #eu #IndiaEUDeal #GlobalTrade

Road wear is known to vary with the fourth power of weight of vehicles. Could we could use a charge for heavy vehicles entering Oxford to fund repairs for the damage they cause?

Hi everyone - it seems there’s been a targeted campaign against this plan for protected cycle lanes on Bayswater Road. If you look back through the consultation it had 400 negative responses in 24 hours 😨 Londoners on bikes, we’d love to hear from you in this. Please take a moment … 1/2

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)... • about 540,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,100,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,650,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,120,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

It’s here, isn’t it. 🚨Mass evacuations in Victoria, Australia as the state set to break its temperature record. 🚨’Temperatures that used to be seen just once in a generation’. 🚨Expected to see 30C/86F at midnight, 24C/75.2F at 4am, a stunning 49C/120.2F in the afternoon #heat #climatecrisis