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

A Decade-Long Study Shows Cycling Helps Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives. momentummag.com/a-decade-lon...

Cycle paths and safer streets that enable more people to walk, cycle and wheel are helping to tackle illegally high air pollution in Exeter, a new report shows.

Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.

I follow this account for professional reasons, partly for...we have a River Eau?!

Here's James talking about the importance of this filter:

Also excellent and thoughtful

Well worth your time. And I completely agree with the conclusion. If the Supreme Court can manage its own appointments without political interference, so too can the BBC.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Always good to understand what other UK cities are doing to combat congestion and pollution and build a thriving city. Can we learn from Oxford*? *similarities: large travel to work area, university city, population size, near motorway. differences: medieval centre, complete ring road.

@exetercouncil.bsky.social take note.

Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here