No room for your car? Just leave it on the road, on the pavement, on a verge - anywhere really.

This article from a UK Councillor on how he is engaging with school children about road safety around their schools makes for a valuable and practical engagement guide: bsky.app/profile/tyne... @tynetom.bsky.social

This is GORGEOUS.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

Remember, we’ll never get a good sense of what people will do under safe conditions, by watching what some are willing to do under unsafe conditions. Building smart mobility is about supporting the choices we need more people to make, by providing smart, safe, enjoyable infrastructure for them.

the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

CAN YOU IMAGINE CALLING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED FOR A TWEET?!?!

I don't believe in mob violence nor government censorship of speech but it's very hard not to notice that the government that are imprisoning pensioners for opposing genocide with writing on cardboard are worried that people might not be free enough to call for acts of violence against trans women.

Are we about to find out what will make people leave substack? [ ] Hanging out with Nazis [ ] Lower revenue due to Apple tax Take a guess.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

"CROWDS wave flags" according to the Daily Mail caption of this picture

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

So many of these pics are in front of land that has been absolutely razed by farming activities

Oh found this on facebook. Had to share.

Whenever "the jobs of the future" come up and people have nothing to say about climate change I kind of tune out

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Online Safety Act: "a little inconvenience is a small price to protect our children" Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.

It's all third spaces, baby. Used to go bowling, used to cover Skynyrd in the garage, used to have a car club. Now we've got Theo Von on in the F-350 on the way home from your 11-hour workday.

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

Our recommendations: close the substitution loophole and see delivery companies take responsibility; end sales of 'fake e-bikes'; and help police seize them. Create a safe kitemark for legitimate products to restore confidence and reverse bans; and a scrappage scheme. End the off-road-legal loophole

Almost nearly but not quite off topic.

If you take heroin your GP will help you with blood tests. But if you follow international healthcare protocols and take eg puberty blockers NHS England has told your GP not to help you monitor hormone levels with blood tests. Gender affirming care is, apparently, worse than heroin.

Long been a pet peeve of mine when sports pundits talk over replays with little graphics drawn over the top seemingly at random, but the Wimbledon ones really take it to a new level of meaninglessness. Footprints behind the players and a trail on the ball like I can’t follow 3 objects by myself??

Fen Diagram A cartoon for the mathematically-minded lovers of flatlands, a particular Venn diagram in itself. www.worldofmoose.com/products/fen...

There are some TRULY idiotic "I hate net-zero" takes on yday's OBR report, which set out long-term risks to govt finances It's right there in the report, but to repeat, OBR makes it crystal clear that climate action will be far less costly than inaction www.carbonbrief.org/...

Lambeth’s kerbside strategy is one of my favourite transport policies of the last few years. They aim for 25% of the kerbside to be used for climate resilience - either reducing emissions or addressing impacts of extreme weather. Their 1st progress report describes what this looks like in practice.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

UTA dropped Bob Vylan but represents Chris Brown just so you know where the line of acceptability is

Remember as you are watching your friends and colleagues get unceremoniously laid off today that last year Microsoft posted a 17% increase in profits in 2024 to $171 BILLION dollars. They do not now or ever need to lay off a single person.

corporations on july 1

It's insane how much more popular NYC's congestion pricing got when it was implemented and people started actually seeing it work

A reminder of why Cambridge's biggest transport policy failure in living memory is just that

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

A study of six years of longitudinal data across 14,011 blocks in 28 U.S. cities shows - again! - if you build protected bike infrastructure people will ride bikes.

Don't threaten us with a good time

Every office bathroom should by law have a little shelf outside to leave your coffee mug on while you pee I will not be taking questions

Nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

literally Palantir

“Fixing climate change is too expensive.” Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing. Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

@hazelweakly.me on the latest O11ycast episode: “you probably only need one 9, it just needs to be in the right place.” That one’s going to be rattling around my head for a while 👌