I've had enough of listening. Time for action on low traffic. My letter in the Oxford Times today

Motonormativity in the media. The normally righteous @404media.co here cheer a system to help people avoid fines for their illegal parking - because, of course, law-breaking doesn't count if it involves a car www.404media.co/find-my-park...

In case anyone doesn't realise just how big (and heavy) an electric car battery can be

Great to meet a legend of the movement and one of my favorite podcast guests!

Very exciting to have the chance to meet @brooklynspoke.bsky.social in person at last

Oh yet another runway. Great. Anyone got a link to those data showing how flying to and from the UK is mostly recreational these days?

Premium Newsletter: There is no real market for renting out AI GPUs, and the majority of revenue comes from two companies - Microsoft and NVIDIA - the latter of which rents its own GPUs back from Neoclouds like CoreWeave so they can raise debt...to buy more GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/is-there-any...

YAY! IT’S PREMIERE DAY: Please tune in today, Fri, Sept 19, at 2 pm EST / 8 pm CET for a discussion with Dr. Catherine Elliot, an American living in Winterthur, Switzerland, just outside of Zürich, about strategies for overcoming motonormativity. HT to @modacitylife.com 🙏 youtu.be/Ae60RVx412o

BILLY ELLIOT 2 (2028) -Da, I wanna be an offshore welder -No son o' mine is gonna weld! Look, lad, just study finite element modelling. It's not fancy, but it's an honest life -It's over, da. Keir Thatcher's closin' all t'unis -You'll feel different once your first grant-- -THERE ARE NO GRANTS!

Not quite this, but we have a friend who's a fashion illustrator and she did a brilliant drawing of our wedding

Looks like hydrogen isn't going to blow up after all "From Hype to Shutdown: Europe’s Hydrogen Refueling Network Shrinks" - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/09/17/f...

2 stories of offices, above 11 stories of parking, as seen from a train.

This would be funny if it weren't for the thought of all the many academics' time this will waste

Who was it who made that joke about why is British Telecom like a Pelican? It can shove its massive bill up its arse. In unrelated news, I'm stuck on an online chat trying to get British Telecom to stop charging me for an account I closed weeks ago...

Pavement parking impacts everyone. This is why we want to see measures that address it so children don’t have to weave between cars and people with visual impairments, who use wheelchairs, or who push prams have freedom to use the pavement.

“Ten years after Dieselgate, carmakers are again trying to pass off their vehicles as cleaner than they actually are — but this time they want lawmakers to make the practice legal" cleantechnica.com/2025/09/16/o...

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[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

Undertaxing large and dangerous cars, such as so-called SUVs, exposes the public to harm and loses the Government around £2 billion in tax, says transport consultant @transportenvironment.org www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

We’re excited to announce the official launch of the 5th Edition of the the Guide to Inclusive Cycling! Dame Sarah Storey & Phil Jones will join us to explore why inclusive cycling matters, who the guide is for, and how we can make infrastructure more accessible. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Irish media reporting on road collisions too often dehumanises victims and hides driver responsibility. Cyclists and pedestrians are people first — the language we use matters. Read our full statement below.

"We’ve got to the point where the burden of ill health caused by #AirPollution is so huge, I’m asking myself: ‘What will it take to make the public demand more action?’." Well said @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social. Such a powerful read about the rise of #LungCancer in non-smoking, healthy young women.

Nice at the beach today #gower

Gen X bait in this charity shop

"I cycled to school when I was a kid, and we didn't need fancy cycle lanes." Yeah, but there's three times more traffic than there was in 1973.. Twice as many cars as there was in 1982.. ..36% more traffic on urban minor roads than there was in 1994.. ..and cars were *way* smaller, and lighter.

Horizon 2020 website: Yes, that's your password. But you need to change it. *Changes password* I don't recognise this password *But I literally just copied and pasted it* I don't recognise this password *Resets password* You can't reset your password again for another 24 hours

Professor Ian Walker was inspirational at yesterday's conference at London's beautiful Guildhall. His allotted time was way too short - could have listened to him all day. 🙏🏻 #motonormativity @ianwalker.bsky.social

What can this be about, I wonder.

My colleague at @swanseauni.bsky.social has PhD funding available. List of topics below. This is a great opportunity for somebody wanting a supportive path into a research career www.linkedin.com/posts/edwin-...

Can we build 1.5 million homes without blowing the UK’s carbon budget? If we keep doing things the same way, the answer is no. Libby Peake, senior fellow, explores how we can change course in our latest blog. 🔗

My brilliant business idea: an app where you press a button whenever you eat beetroot. Then, for the next 24 hours, when your phone's GPS detects you're approaching a toilet you get an alert saying "PROBABLY DON'T PANIC RIGHT NOW"

Lovely flying visit to London's Walking, Wheeling and Cycling conference at the Guildhall today. Trief to argue that despite being very popular with populists, car dependency is the total opposite of a populist policy - but motonormativity means people don't see this

🧵 BOOK REVIEW: 'The Box' by Marc Levinson is all about shipping containers.🚢 No joke; it's the most interesting book about logistics that I have ever read. Its tagline is: 'How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger'. Here are ten takeaways from The Box: 1/n

AFAIK, UK govt expenditure on HE has always been comparatively low, and what is remarkable is how amazingly strong and effective our HE sector is. Imagine the turbo-charging of R&D if we got up to OECD average levels. And yet, even with a national Mission of economic growth...

I care about the environment as much as anyone, but at the same time it's unrealistic to expect people to live without a helicopter in this day and age. Of course, I'd use the ferry if there was a regular service to the remote locale that I've inexplicably cut myself off in

It's been five years since the government opened a consultation on how to tackle pavement parking - and we are STILL waiting for the results. Let us know if pavement parking is an issue in your area 📍 act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/176767/...

The International Monetary Fund found that global subsidies for fossil fuels amounted to $7 trillion, equivalent to 7.1% of all economic activity, in the year 2022. Subsidies have continued growing, even as all countries are making commitments to reduce climate pollution. activv.net/2025/08/20/s...

An absolute banger for @sellingamirror.bsky.social #FacebookNews

Imagine going in a shop and seeing a sandwich labeled "£1.99 or £4.50 depending what time it is. You'll be punished as a thief if you pay the wrong amount but we won't tell you what time the prices change". That's the UK rail system that is

Very much looking forward to reading this.... "In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share our new research on UK climate politics 🚨 We found Members of Parliament (MPs) use the language of climate "pragmatism" to avoid rapid change. It risks becoming a new discourse of delay. More detail below and in 🧵 1/ theconversation.com/politicians-...

With apologies for the "Ian is bored on a train" tweet, why does every shirt I own have a button for even narrower wrists? I'm already pretty slim for my height. Who's my height but with notably skinnier wrists? The Grim Reaper is the only one that comes to mind

"Traveling without a ticket is THEFT!" wails a poster on this EMR train. Whereas operating a deliberately obscure and overcomplicated ticket system that encourages people to overpay is...fine?

"UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost" www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

This guy made the world's smallest ridable bike. It fits into a pocket but, as it doesn't fold, would technically be forbidden on UK trains without a reservation. Can someone PLEASE get thrown off a train with this to highlight the weaknesses of the train-bike system? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqyw...

Minister for the Future of Roads Lillian Greenwood says that UK government announcement on pavement parking ban will be "very soon" in Westminster Hall debate (from 17:36:41): parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

I just noticed that somebody round here has a phone WiFi hotspot called "What is a hotspot not?". I had a good giggle before remembering that this is my phone and that was the first name that came into my head when I got it

The mere fact that a small trial detected 1000s of ghost plates simply underlines the fact that roads policing is effectively non-existent.

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