A belated Valentine poem- ❤️ Roses are red, Violets are blue, See photo please drivers, That’s why I’m not riding 🚲 in the door zone for you. ❤️

The new batch of Epstein files make me retch. They reveal the rot of abuse & corruption at the highest levels of government, finance & tech. As Rebecca Solnit observes, it feels like: “rapists all the way down, and enablers all the way up.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Disabled people still don’t have marriage equality. If we fall in love and want to marry, we can’t. Why? Because our benefits are ripped away. We become dependent on our spouse. This increases the odds of becoming trapped in an abusive relationship you can’t afford to leave.

It's been three weeks since the storm. Shovel out these cars, tow them, and turn the space into bike parking, public seating, on-street garbage containerization, bioswales... anything other than car storage would serve more people than this.

Happy Valentines Day

Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle #RisingTide #Australia www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Cycling behaviour in 17 countries across 6 continents: high levels of gender inequality, suggesting that the path towards higher cycling levels must involve addressing gender inequalities in cycling." How should I adress this without getting men eyerolling? www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

NEW: We've revamped our idling flyer with updated facts and statistics. Over 50,000 of these have been sent out since we first launched this nearly 5 years ago! You can join the party by downloading or ordering some for free below. #AirPollution #Idling

We just had Dr. Lawrence Frank on the podcast and we talked about how we completely underestimate health benefits and impacts in road projects. link.theoverheadwire.com/cqpen This will get litigated but we need a big pendulum swing the other direction to actually save people health and money.

The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.

Huge numbers out in Naarm/Melbourne right now for the second time this week to say the war criminal Isaac Herzog isn't welcome in our city! ✊🇵🇸

I don’t think I posted this one last night. This is when the horses were moving and you can hear the lady next to me also filming with her concerns for public safety. We were kettled.

Claims of neutrality are an admission of bias in and of themselves No research is undertaken in a neutral space as funding, hierarchies, job perpectives, privileges, power and hegemony all come into play when deciding what will be research and how

This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.

Capital gains tax discount to cost Australia $250bn over next decade with retirees and high-income earners to benefit most

ICYMI: “In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike-lanes aren’t fit for office.”— @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, pollution, city noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, and not nearly enough space in cities.

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

We know AI/LLM often encodes gender bias arising from its training dataset- in this case, academic presentations. So when it comes up with counter-bias results like this, you KNOW the effect must have been very strong indeed. Highly recommend reading the whole thread for further detail. #equity ✊️

Just Vancouver things...

We asked more than 500 women about how the cost of living crisis has affected them. Our findings should be a wakeup call to policymakers, with women reporting they’re struggling to afford basic essentials, food, rent, medication and doctor appointments. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

You can have beautiful, quiet, safe, unpolluted, walkable, prosperous, climate resilient, community oriented cities or you can have hardscaped to death cities with free parking everywhere. Not both.

It's unsettling how traffic violence is reported in the US. If the driver was going this street's speed limit of 25mph, there's a 90% chance this woman would be alive. But that's unmentioned. The driver was "cooperative." There will be no follow up. There will be no convictions. A life is lost.

“Industry lobby group Coal Australia donated more than $5 million to third-party campaigns that attacked Labor, the teals, and Greens under the guise of grassroots groups.” www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The question isn't how we save ourselves from Reform. It's how we save ourselves from Labour.

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

Research shows that biking is very, very healthy for people 65+. Findings after reviewing 28 prior studies: "Cycling in later life links to improved mobility [and] balance." "Older cyclists often report psychosocial health, life satisfaction, and well-being improvements." doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Mayor Mamdani must end the scourge of parking placard abuse, which has drowned New York City in illegally parked cars for more than a decade.

Post a sign from your country that tells a story about how they treat their roads.

This is cute but clearly a single family home. If you live where other ppl can hear your dog and you don’t know how much noise they are making when you aren’t there, it’s a problem. Be proactive! Ask your neighbours if your dog is a problem when you aren’t there.

The jokey comments online of “can’t park there mate” aren’t actually funny. These drivers are dangerous and violent and these accidents devastate lives.

Wildfire smoke over Newcastle right now….pretty strong smell.

Person: would be great if it was safe for kids to walk/bike/roll to school. World: Why do you hate cars so much?

“As richer and older Australians enjoy the lion’s share of generous tax concessions for landlords, the number of households on public housing waitlists has climbed to about 190,000, up from 169,000 in 2024, and 141,000 in 2018.”

In today’s news, man on internet having a tantrum because I refuse to do social media homework assignments. 🤷🏻. Honey there’s a small device in your hand where you can look stuff up without me doing it for you.

I wish my local council understood this.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Biophysics Physical Chemistry Psychology Biostatistics Bioethics

Half of Chinatown's streets are on the High Injury Network, including Webster. It is just a matter of time before someone is killed Drivers use these wide multi-land roads to speed, and a painted bike lane is not sufficient protection from cars traveling this fast www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...

10 minute cycle to beach this morning. Two drivers endangering our safety and making evasive action necessary as cyclists with their irresponsible, illegal behaviour- both involving pulling into or turning into a lane we were in. On a clear sunny day with light traffic. This crap has got to stop.

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"We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled." That's from a group of more than a dozen prominent climate scientists. Probably nothing.

Complaining about the comedic depiction of Indigenous kids in jail, but doing nothing about the fact of Indigenous kids being massively over incarcerated? That's the Australian way.

Seems like a good time to ask parents to not drive their kids to school if there’s an alternative. 25-40% of morning traffic is now the school run. And to advocate for safe separated infrastructure to allow active transport to school for kids.

Well this is gutting. 😭 What an icon. What a career.

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

It's two years today since enforcement began against pavement parking in Edinburgh. We urge others to follow their lead, so everyone in Scotland can enjoy safer streets. https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/14348/positives-of-pavement-parking-ban-in-edinburgh-praised-two-years-on

A Europe dependent on fossil fuels.

if a Palestinian had a photo of them out there signing a bomb they wouldn’t be allowed in the country and news corp would be dragging them and their family every day for three weeks

Curious to see what role car bloat may have played in the recent Waymo crash (with a child, near a Santa Monica elementary school)

Why should you care about #Diesel? There are millions of diesel cars on our roads emitting suspiciously high levels of #AirPollution. The excess emissions produced over the last 15 years have caused an estimated 30,000 cases of asthma in children and 800,000 days of sick leave in the UK. More 👇 .

There’s debate over hindrance with the grunting and I can’t believe it but it seems like the rule hasn’t been reviewed with the players before? #australianopen