The normalisation of forced car ownership has so many consequences. A revealing and helpful thread by @cargobikeben.bsky.social on thinking through a job offer with an active commute, health and well-being lens.

"seize the means of computation"

A week since the last rainfall and the towpath still looks like this. It’s unjust that key walking and cycling routes like these rely on charitable donations and volunteers to maintain them. They need proper investment. @heidialexander.bsky.social @mayoroflondon.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk

When we consider greenhouse gas emissions FROM cars, we need to include GHG emissions FOR cars. The transportation sector includes transporting oil, gasoline, diesel, cars, car parts, asphalt and concrete for more lanes. Think of how many fuel trucks are on the road to supply every U.S. gas station.

I've always found the BBC's lack of EU coverage suspect. Rewriting headlines and rearranging articles to change focus doesn't help. Both versions archived here: archive.ph/https://www....

Tales from the Haverstock Hill cycle lane - one of the the uphill bus stop bypasses is complete. Also an interesting metal gully - presumably to take water down the hill. @camdencyclists.bsky.social @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

Swedemason is back! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRuz...

The bollards of 1976 Islington, the obvious Tory at the end running out of steam is a nice treat. @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRzF...

Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO, warned yesterday that Europe faces war with Russia. Yesterday, wind produced 60% of British electricity. Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce makes us more secure. That’s why our enemies fund anti-renewables propaganda.

Who could have imagined that this would be the inevitable consequence of a national spate of unauthorised, illegal working-at-height? www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition

I'm glad I saw a few bits of the USA back when they only took your photo and finger prints. I wouldn't go there under the current regime and wouldn't go to any country with these entry requirements.

Fascinating, a news story like this would never get a positive reaction from UK media. And you'll notice the Youtube comments are positive too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuSM...

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

The unelected, Tory majority House of Lords are using their power to water down the Employment Rights Bill. Labour must prioritise the delivery of the legislation and protect workers against unfair dismissal and zero hour contracts.

The Lower Thames Crossing is a drain on the economy www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/2568067...

I'd pay good money just to see her argument for these biscuits being "biologically male"

Good afternoon to nearly everyone (footage from this morning, I just forgot to post it)

I've seen worse things done to bikes, I'm glad he moved those magnets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxs3...

Digging the hole deeper...

Let's hope they keep the riverside path and maybe even upgrade it, the main road through there is a car sewer. This could connect Becton to North Woolwich with safe walking and cycling routes. @londoncycling.bsky.social @carolinerussell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Bike immobilisation tips. I still prefer my chain will tangle and f'you up method. This looks too likely to deploy by accident. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvE2...

When the Pope catches you on a short-haul flight that could have been a 2-hour train ride.

This is quite disturbing, not one of those people tried standing or sitting on it like a cat on a Roomba.

The U.K’s guilty men want you to forget that the 2008 bankers’ crisis, 14 years of austerity, Brexit, and Covid failures are the cause of our woes. Instead, they want you to think renewable energy, which costs your household 47p a day, is the problem. They think you’re idiots.

Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion. This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

When can you declare an emergency over? The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak

Reeves looks set to keep the "emergency" fuel duty cut. That's £3bn a year not being spent to improve public transport. Funny too the one thing planned in London she backs (though not funding) is the worst in the capital - the Thamesmead DLR extension which hinders more new homes than it helps

Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.

Motonormativity www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... About as bad as it gets. People driving into deers resulting in their own deaths is framed as 'deers killing people'. @ianwalker.bsky.social

As Labour proposes limiting the protection of the ECHR, we must remember what it was set up to do; protect us all from abuses of power by our govts. Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next? bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...

Saw this earlier. The Newham Greenway will be closed by Thames Water for 3 years. There's no mention of who is closing it or for how long on the signs. The proposed detour is going to kill people and the council is silent.

Wow, the reason many US states have a drinking age of 21 is highways funding. www.congress.gov/bill/98th-co...

Mil Veces un Instante (A thousand times an Instant) on the Fourth Plinth is a collective portrait of the trans community. Made up of plaster casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people. #TransgenderAwarenessWeek www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

Failed to provide concrete evidence. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Meet 26 yr old Leicester man and neo-Nazi, Matthew Gravill, ex Buckingham Palace warden guiding visitors around state room whilst also acting as an underground organiser of an International fascist group Who does the security vetting news.stv.tv/world/reveal...

When the right complain about left-wing bias at the BBC, they mean there are occasions (though rare) when Nigel Farage isn't given a soft interview and Tommy Robinson isn't being treated like a visionary political leader.

Never pick the quiet exit at Stratford platform 11, it only goes to busier platforms, and in the other direction, the busy exit you avoided.

Saw this, laughed and closed the tab.

It was not London's dream, it was Ernest Marples dream, he was also the minister behind the Beeching Report who eventually fled to Monaco to dodge paying taxes. It's a shame the Ringways project got as far as it did, destroying parts of Epping forest and the Roding valley.

Pleased to be quoted in this - we must pushback on these narratives that scapegoating us for successive governments' policy failures. The enemy is not the wheelchair user or migrant next door, but those legislating to make all our lives harder. www.thenational.scot/news/2558529...

I can't help feeling that if Gordon Brown had confirmed that woman was a bigot none of this would be happening.

"Some absolutely outstanding work by activists to sneak these wraparounds onto copies of the Daily Mail in shops." via Ian Almond

The gov should all get out of X ( as everyone else tbh), the fact that Starmer is still there is incomprehensible.

What is driving digital sovereignty? AI, increasing prices, the U.S. CLOUD Act (2018) which allows U.S. law enforcement to compel U.S. tech companies to provide requested data stored on their servers, regardless of the data's physical location, oh and Trump. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

Something is amiss with the lift contractor appointed by RBG *seven*years ago.There’s been no accountability, no recognition of this crucial transport link where no others exist for active travel east of Tower Bridge. Please sign the petition www.change.org/p/transfer-g...

...the amount of public space occupied by private cars.

WTAF? Some enforcement and some filtering please Camden. HT @cycleoptic.bsky.social

Here we go... it was only a matter of time, as the far-right gets ever more vocal without check