The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one

Parliament Street, Dublin was full of traffic until recently. Change is possible!

There’s an essay here on the role of good design/typography in successful campaigns!

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

Saying that it's "too hard" to get on the Irish president ballot when an independent woman got the entire Irish left to back her, got the biggest vote ever and beat two historically dominant parties is not just wrong - it is breathtakingly offensive and outrageously dishonest. #Aras25 #Speirgorm

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

"Tá focail inár dteanga féin againn le cur síos ar na cosáin ársa seo – abraimis amach iad."

Thanksgiving Cycling Escapes: Slow Down, Reflect, and Ride with Purpose. momentummag.com/thanksgiving...

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet. Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile? My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Royal Canal Greenway, Dublin. Final city centre sections opened yesterday

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc. Via @theconversation.bsky.social

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Bike investment vs. car investment.

The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.

A short (but useful) section of the royal canal greenway opened this week at Charleville Mall, Dublin 1. It also has tools and a water station. #royalcanalgreenway

Ever-rising car bonnets are a clear threat to adults too- a higher likelihood of life changing damage to internal organs rather than a broken leg.

How to Embrace Slow Biking and Love it. momentummag.com/how-to-cycle...

Air pollution kills about 20 times as many as people each year as “war, murder and terrorism combined.” Read @dwallacewells.bsky.social’s compelling case for why “clean air and clean water and human health should be restored to the centre of the environmental crusade.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I love when drivers complain about giving cyclists a safe passing distance by saying it puts them into oncoming traffic. Have they considered waiting until there is no oncoming traffic?

The Irish Road haulage Association "A family in a car driving in heavy fog on the motorway at 120km/h could come across this tractor and have very little time to react." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Results suggest that traditional gender norms, particularly those linking masculinity with red meat consumption and car use, play a significant role in shaping individual carbon footprints www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“If everyone had emitted like the bottom 50 percent of the global population, the world would have seen minimal additional warming since 1990.” from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org

1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵

The judge concluded that the prison term was not a “substantial departure from the appropriate sentence” road.cc/313915 #cycling

Surprising amount of creased menswear at the Met Gala. #metgala

“Nearly 2000 children under 5 are dying every day from air pollution, which has become the 2nd biggest health risk factor for young children around the world.” “More than 8 million deaths of children & adults were caused by air pollution in 2021.” @TheGuardian.com

If there are Seven Cycling Wonders of the World, then Beijing’s elevated bike expressway deserves to be near the top of that list: a six-metre wide, 5.4-km long piece of show-stopping infrastructure that is quickly become an important form of transportation and recreation for 12,000 users each day.🧵

The only thing that will make motorists slow down is fear of scraping their vehicle. Fear of injuring or killing someone doesn't have the same effect.

Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.

So the richest country in the world is punishing some of the poorest rather than sharing their own wealth more fairly.

The USA came into being because of tariffs and its hegemony is ending because of tariffs.

Probably the only time this thing will go off-road.

Why electric cars are useful but not the main solution to climate change, notwithstanding what vehicle makers and many politicians might have you believe. theconversation.com/cycling-is-t...

"The right to access every building in a city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city."

Always a thrill to see Dublin’s Bachelors Walk given over to pedestrians one morning a year #láfhéilepádraig

we just need stupider leftists. I'm dead serious. charismatic guys with the stamina to record 100 instagram reels a week in the front seat of their car saying stuff like "trump made summers too hot" and "the fries at wendy's taste better ever since they went woke"

Cycling routes on Google maps can be very inaccurate. In Dublin, the section between the wooden bridge and causeway to Bull Island is still missing despite opening in May 2017. Then all the footpaths in St. Anne's Park are incorrectly identified as cycling routes!

Royal Canal Greenway at Croke Park nearing completion.

Russian missiles keep relentlessly falling on Ukraine, bringing more death and more destruction. Once again, Putin shows he has no interest in peace. We must step up our military support – otherwise, even more Ukrainian civilians will pay the highest price.

"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*." —Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale.

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

Might is right or Human rights. Pick your side.

A new 2-way cycle lane on Burgh Quay, Dublin opened today.

Brilliant exhibition at the RHA: BogSkin, a major exhibition examining the relationship of art to the boglands over the past 50 years rhagallery.ie/events/exhib...

Interesting comment by the judge who said that the vehicle was "not really a car but a pick up truck". "People who drive these vehicles in urban areas where there are a lot of houses have an increased burden (of care). It is not the same as driving a car." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Drivers, maybe you need to change your perspective and realise that you are not the only road users and rein in your sense of entitlement to drive at speed on our community roads to the detriment of the lives of local residents. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...