On a walk around #Conwy yesterday, I spotted something I hadn't noticed before. This magnificent #Gothic railway arch, built in 1840, through the #Medieval walls. It even continues the castellated parapet! Zoom in, and you can see where bits were chipped away as trains got bigger! #photograph #photo

These authors reviewed 73 previous studies examining car touchscreens. Conclusion: They're awful "Touchscreens tended to have negative effects on driving performance, visual attention, and secondary task performance compared with voice control and physical controls." doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

That's Dan Simmons dead. Rare to find someone who is such an incredible author with such rich ideas who also holds such banal, cruel thoughts about the world around us.

​New research from @cathywu.bsky.social et al. confirms something I've long suspected: Navigation apps could save their users a lot of time — and tilt travel decisions toward transit and biking — if they showed users how long it takes to find parking.

Reading Crow Road by Iain Banks and fascinated by a world in which the West Highland line reaches Lochgilphead.

Cycling trips surge by 43% as Glasgow's active travel network grows glasgow.gov.uk/article/13887

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

Terrific piece this. Culture has got to a weird point where pictures by Matisse have a nudity filter yet the language of porn is everywhere.

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

It's about time these stories weren't accompanied by an image of someone frolicking in the water or eating an ice cream. It's not going to stop getting hotter, we really ought to fucking grow up and treat this seriously🤦🏻‍♂️

Slowly, ever so slowly, the British public is abandoning the idea that "hot weather = good", proving that the arc of history bends towards progress after all.

DC pizza parlours remain the undefeated peak OSINT source

Gender-affirming care.

this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion

this is just the modern version of all those old ads where clumsiness or difficulty is utterly contrived in order to sell a gadget to fix it. Except we're wasting colossal resources to power this nonsense.

The best thing about pronouncing Aristotle to rhyme with Chipotle is no-one can definitively tell you that it’s actually *wrong*.

Can't stop thinking about the scene on the porch in the most recent episode of The Last of Us.

Out for a cycle along Loch Earn south shore today. Counted over a dozen open fires burning. Astounding levels of stupidity - I don't think it's rained in close to a month! The countryside is tinder dry just now.

Not a rail or plane guy, but I do wonder whether Prestwick (or the Ayrport, as it should really be called) is the answer to the question about lifeline services for the islands. Closer to the west coast, decent connections by rail, likely has the capacity?

Set the "techbros reinvented the bus" timer back to zero

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Remember, cars provide unparalleled freedom!

It's still early days at a national level but proof of concept is so so important and these numbers are really encouraging.

👍 “In countries which continue to invest in everyday cycling, more people travel by bike in towns, cities and rural locations. There’s no reason that the success seen in Amsterdam, Copenhagen — or more recently in Paris — can’t be replicated in Scotland” - @keithirving.bsky.social (Cycling Scotland)

That's 70 celsius.

Really blows the 'historical preservation' folks credibility right out of the sash window doesn't it

Can anyone recommend an outside air quality monitor?

absolutely grim othering going on here

How can we resolve these two statements?

Nanika in Glasgow. Those damn prawn fries and bao buns...

somewhat tongue in cheek here but I saw this and was reminded immediately of @alchap.bsky.social talking about the negative impacts of air travel expansion

Congestion pricing works.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Nestle: wtf I love space now

american society has been at “TV Interstitial from ROBOCOP” for a while but “president does a car commercial on the white house lawn” is really pushin it

the thing about HP is that the source material is really, really thin. I realised while reading it to my kids recently that, if you take the number of students at the UK's only magic school, and extrapolate that out to the wider magical population, the wizarding world is basically a rounding error.

both petty and ineffective, given everyone can access those sites on their personal phones

Early days still but this is hugely encouraging.

Absolutely wild stuff over on /r/diyuk. Can't imagine what the front looks like...

Haven't done this for a while but getting up early and going for a pre-work ride really is the business.

Abrdn's renaming allows me to dredge up inspired reporting from @bryce.lol

“keir this is poland, we just signed them. they spent over 4% of gdp on defense last year. their only flaw is they’re not deterred by mutually assured destruction”

being badly briefed at a meeting is one thing, but people are using gen AI for nutritional advice or mechanical instructions. Potential for bad outcomes is high.

There's a small contingent of people online who get angry when you say this but: Wikipedia is unquestionably the most successful utopian project of the internet age, and its destruction would be a crime against humanity

finance bros really need to think a bit more creatively when dreaming up new development names

Even as someone who considers himself relatively well informed about climate impacts, this is sobering. Would be very interested to see any analysis like this for the UK.