We also need to have a more honest conversation about how driving, no matter how useful to the person doing it, imposes harms onto other people. Until we try to reduce those harms as much as possible, it’s not clear how we’re going to take the steps needed to create a safer, healthier country 8/10

This 👇

Completely agree with this. In my small niche (water), Labour are making a decent fist of fixing things the Tories failed to do in 15 years. There are doubtless others, but only people deep in the niche know

"The US is also the only World Cup host to ban Fifa members from attending. The landscape it has dished up is barren and divisive, a depressingly angry version of football uniting the world." The World Cup kicks off tonight. What a shame that Trump and his politics have defaced the beautiful game.

Somali referee Artan barred from entering US. I know there is no official union for FIFA referees but is it too much to ask they all get together and refuse to referee a single match before Omar Artan is let into the US to do his job? Makes a mockery of FIFA’s ‘say no to racism’ campaign.

"...cow food consumes more water than all the cities, factories and data centers in the basin combined. It accounts for nearly a third of the river’s total water use, according to a 2024 study in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. And about 20% of the alfalfa grown is shipped overseas"

Four decades of satellite observations reveal that mangrove forests globally have recently shifted from net loss to net gain, with reduced degradation and continued regrowth and expansion, suggesting early signs of conservation success. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4vMGzx9

Bicycles Deliver the Freedom that Auto Ads Promise

This is excellent www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

On a bike-train-bike safari Exeter to Wareham today. South West Trains are so luxurious compared with GWR ones. Huge windows, air con, sufficient carriages. Hot, noisy and crowded though it was, it was also rather lovely seeing people enjoy a day out on the Westbury to Weymouth (GWR) train.

On a bike-train-bike safari Exeter to Wareham today. South West Trains are so luxurious compared with GWR ones. Huge windows, air con, sufficient carriages. Hot, noisy and crowded though it was, it was also rather lovely seeing people enjoy a day out on the Westbury to Weymouth (GWR) train.

A Summer Sunday Social June 7th - find us from 2pm at the Turf or 1.30pm at Piazza Terracina for a companionable cycle down (not a 'led' ride as such). As always, bring a friend or make one there. Why not share what you think needs fixing and we can chew over ways to get change? fb.me/e/8G9zc9C9m

What an intriguing new story of the past. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“If I can bicycle, I bicycle.” Sir David Attenborough. Happy 100th birthday to a legend. He has never passed a driving test and doesn’t own a car.

In #Exeter the Greens are up 3 while REFUK just traded in a Tory. Labour did OK. #LoveExeter (Image credit: @exeterobserver.org here: exeterobserver.org/2026/05/07/e...

Part of a discussion with @igmansfield.bsky.social on why history teaching should *not* aim to inculcate "pride" (or, indeed, "shame"). And why citizenship is better served by recognising complexity and moral ambivalence, even in people and societies we might admire. bsky.app/profile/robe...

The FBI arrested scientist David Morens today, prosecuting the Trump administration's batshit conspiracy theories about COVID-19. www.science.org/content/arti...

Great thread, diving into the data on how wealthier people drive more (except London) and how we're not helping the poorest if we assume they drive

TFW you've got a council candidate on your doorstep and can't think what to say? We've got you. Things you could talk to Exeter City Council candidates about include: 🚗20mph for Exeter 🚸Safe School streets 🚲Bike parking and bike hangars

Don't put bird feeders out full stop. Garden wilder instead.

The first new Artemis II photographs of The Moon:

We're fighting to stop a filter being removed from one of Exeter's key strategic cycle routes, the E9 at Dryden Road. Removing the filter would allow nearly 4,000 cars a day back onto the route, with just paint for protection. Our Chair James explains the issues in these short videos👇🎥.

Someone needs to explain this to Kylie and Eve [for reference bsky.app/profile/gerr... ]

Political parties should be banned from banning journalists.

I like this framing. A necessity...or a habit?

As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder. Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow. Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

🧵There’s a very obvious problem with withdrawing support from asylum seekers: what happens next? Let’s consider some non mutually exclusive possibilities…

Ha ha

“They turn humans into this hyperefficient terrestrial locomotor because they make being on land more like swimming.” The most efficient traveller is you on a bike. #UrbanTruth Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

Reform: There's too much state interference. Also Reform: We will force you to marry, stop you getting divorced, make you have babies, dictate your religious beliefs, control your sexuality, penalise you if you are disabled and deport you if you don't look right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n... 37% approval rating.

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

They’re named after a magical stone used by the bad guys in Lord of the Rings to spy on people (@samfr.bsky.social explains) and refer to their staff as hobbits. You really don't have to read much Tolkien for this to ring alarm bells if you work there. #palantir

We need one of these everywhere...Deflag www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/deflag?utm...

Being on X enables Musk and Musk enables the far right. There is no longer any excuse to be there and people need to leave.

This is Exeter. A city of diversity not division.

One of the things I love about #Exeter is the little bits of art-not-quite-art, yet not quite graffiti, murals, alleys lined with plants and gentle acts of resistance. Does this happen in your town? Add your own if you like! A small gallery:

The CSAM is repellent. But X has been refusing to take action against vile racism for months. Where was MPs' outrage at that?

I'm enjoying the oil industry's response to Venezuela. Perhaps we will leave it in the ground after all...because economics

Time to get off X @steveracemp.bsky.social

BLACK ICE WARNING! We've had email re black ice, & falls on Rifford Rd path & etc Take care, get angry, campaign for more walking/cycling paths to be treated. Councils say aim = 50% journeys🚶🚲🧑‍🦽 Shouldn't the routes be treated? www.devon.gov.uk/news/highway... goo.gl/maps/p5J9oQh...

These are unsettling times.

Lots of fieldfares at Hexworthy today (but none in this picture afaik)

Maybe this is cope. But when I met two of Devon's Reform councillors recently, they were keen to highlight a motion they had put before council: to speed up diagnosis of kids with ADHD. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I promise you, this how we will get bike lanes.

We have calculated that Devon has missed out on about £8.8M in funding for safer walking, cycling and wheeling in the latest national gradings and funding deals for local authorities published recently by Active Travel England. 🧵

New report from Exeter Cycling Campaign just out: options for Dryden Road.

From (a) Magna Carta, apparently. Well ahead of the game

Protected cycle lanes, floating bus stops, and low-traffic areas all help people like Susie to get around We should call them “mobility lanes” and build them everywhere, at pace