It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.

I have a new op-ed in the Financial Times asking why, exactly, Europe wants robotaxis. Because I can’t figure it out. 🧵

I have to point to our recent work where most of the people we spoke to favoured car-reduction policies, but thought they were unusual for doing so. This is one reason why consultations, as currently enacted, won't work to gauge support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse" - wow, the wording in this isn't pulling its punches

It’s always alarming when politicians haven’t a clue how tech works and why the ‘simple’ solution isn’t going to work :(

This is utterly irresponsible, from the MP for Bristol NW. Of course companies should be planning for US tariffs under the current international situation. Darren Jones himself should be preparing himself for possible defeat by @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social at the next election.

"With Donald Trump, the mask is off" @zackpolanski.bsky.social talks to Sky about how the UK should respond to the United States' threats against Greenland.

The goal here is to do whatever it takes to force the MAGAs to back down before we get to a point of "the USA launches an imperialist war against the European Union." Achieving this may require temporarily inconveniencing us Americans. sorry!! tough shit!

To those who are claiming that it'd be too cruel and extreme for the EU to cut off American tourist visas now (or to otherwise sanction or inconvenience us Americans in any way).... You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

Reminded via a post by @timnitgebru.bsky.social that the Nobel prizes regularly give it out to horrible people because yea they did give it to an Ethiopian president that then committed atrocities

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When Trump says "one way or another we're going to have Greenland" - we should sit up and listen. Time for British leaders to stop burying their heads in the sand. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Chair of EHRC seeking a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss not only ‘mutual priorities’ but also ‘ways to work together going forward’! 🤔 Utterly inappropriate from a supposedly neutral Chair of the EHRC. Interested to see what will @commonswec.parliament.uk have to say?

Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.

This was so predictable. AI can only provide productivity gains in the case of well bounded applications. Even then, you need to be careful not to go outside those bounds.

I am disappointed that they have taken the tour through the Lake District without going over Hardknott and Wrynose Passes. www.visitcumbria.com/wc/hardknott...

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

We are now in a very unfortunate world where if the BBC, which already has low levels of trust in the trans community, makes a (let's be charitable) mistake in its reporting it would rather dig in and misinform than correct the mistake. We will report the matter to Ofcom and also take legal advice.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

"If you don't allow parking on the pavement, parked cars will have to block the road!" is just shifting the externalities of the fundamental problem - that there are too many cars - onto pedestrians, and particularly onto disabled pedestrians. If there's not space to pass, there's not space to park.

🚨 NEW | Starmer set to lose seat to Greens 🟢 GRN: 32% (+22) 🔴 LAB: 26% (-23) ➡️ REF: 18% (+12) 🔵 CON: 7% (=) 🟠 LD: 5% (=) 🟥 YRP: 2% (-17)* MRP estimate via @ElectCalculus, 1-8 Dec

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

1967: 'Three thousand publicans marched against the breath tests' for drink driving 2026: 'Pubs blast new drink-drive limit' - front page of motonormative local rag @theoxfordmail.bsky.social today If your pub needs drink drivers to survive, your pub needs to close NOW.

As things stand with pavement parking, we could end up with a postcode lottery of standards that is confusing for everyone. www.transportxtra.com/publications...

In news which should be shocking to absolutely no-one with an ounce of commonsense or humanity, providing gender affirming care to trans young people reduces risks of harm. Preventing trans young people accessing treatment has never been about "protecting children" www.advocate.com/health/trans...

In the USA they shoot their own citizens with impunity.

A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march

If you choose to drive your space-inefficient private vehicle into an already crowded city with a road system designed before the advent of cars, when excellent public transport is available, you forfeit your right to complain about gridlock, traffic, and congestion.

Good reminder that AI companies have been playing whack-a-mole against AI generated misinformation and prejudicial bias for a decade

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Best of 2025 : Blueprint

Dr Horton describes the Cass Review as an "exemplar in policy-based evidence-making"🔥🔥🔥

Participants in Dr Horton's study contrasted abuse under GIDS and the new Children and Young People’s Gender Service with the affirmative approach of WellBN GP practice, which provided real space for exploration and reflection. WellBN is now under NHS investigation for providing this care.

Participants in Dr Horton's study described an invasive, abusive approach in NHS England's child/adolescent gender clinics (new and old), with some naming these as conversion practices.

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

🚨 EXPOSED 🚨 Reform UK caught red-handed — AGAIN. A “polling company” pushing a poll claiming Reform is the most trusted on the economy and naming Zia as Chancellor turns out to be a brand-new company registered at the EXACT same address as Reform UK.

Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed. But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people. 1/8🧵

Unfortunately, the text that has been on my mind a lot the past year (and which is, even more unfortunately, very likely to be relevant in the *coming* year) is “How Complex Systems Fail”. how.complexsystems.fail

@bristolgreenparty.bsky.social @ianwalker.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DTKc3c_...

Perhaps Trump could do us all a favour and kidnap Starmer and Streeting, leaving Lucy Powell as PM.

Since Labour came to power the poorest have got poorer while the most affluent have seen their discretionary incomes rise by 10.3 per cent. The old establishment parties exist to do one thing: protect wealth and power. Only the Green Party would cut bills and tax billionaires.

58% of those who would cast their ballot in a second referendum said they would support the UK rejoining the EU. With public support for repairing our relationship with Europe so clear, now is the moment to campaign for change.

This finding of "hidden" public support for green policies strongly echoes our work on pluralistic ignorance when it comes to non-car travel: most people support non-car travel more than car travel, but at the same time they believe this is a minority view

The Free Speech Union commissioned a "security" report on us, so we tested their security. Turns out - it sucks. We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign. www.transbashback.com/fsu.html xoxo BASH BACK

The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!

Cannot recommend watching David Attenborough's latest - 'Wild London' - enough, particularly in this moment in time. A genuine reminder of what good we can achieve, and the fact that we're not the centre of the universe. Baby foxes in the first five minutes, just FYI.

You'd think that someone who is "the main breadwinner and carer for your family and within the family members have life-limiting conditions" would do all they could to avoid "speeding in April 2023, running a red light in February 2025 and driving without due care and attention in April 2025."