World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds

Ireland's media regulator has launched an investigation into X It has good reasons to suspect X is not meeting its legal obligations to run a legally compliant complaints system in Ireland. It is not giving users who report unlawful content the chance to appeal www.cnam.ie/coimisiun-na...

Gave the brand new Voi bikes a go on the way into town this morning. Really neat and very glad to see a citywide hire bike scheme continuing. Pricing structure seems a bit on the steep side, so hope there's scope for that to be looked at. First 15 mins freebie was very welcome.

Amazing how often we say 'too many visitors' when what we mainly mean is 'too many cars' news.stv.tv/north/dunkel...

The new family vehicles of Paris. I think that if a Parisian cycling activist came out of ten years of hibernation and went into the street, what would seem most unbelievable to them would be seeing all these bikes with childrens on the back ;)

Looks like the new Voi bikes have started to appear in Glasgow 👀

Leidseplein, Amsterdam in 1972 and today

I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.

This is excellent - the new masterplan for Laurieston, which sits on the south side of the River Clyde directly facing Glasgow city centre. Currently underpopulated with lots of big gap sites, this would really transform the area. Importantly, building more density around Bridge St subway station.

Strong "Arthur Dent trying to get a cup of tea from the Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser" vibes

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

Two houses on the same street, both with drives. Yet just one of them reduces flood risk, retards heatwaves, and lights up the neighbourhood with welcoming greenery. We’ve lost millions of front gardens to overpaving in recent decades. We need to reverse that trend urgently.

Also! Stopped by Deanston Bakery round the corner and neat to see they have somewhere right outside for customers to park a bike. Small things like this make a difference.

A really nice way to start the week, joining Shawlands Bike Bus on its 4th anniversary, as it weaved through southside of Glasgow to the happy sound of bike bells and chattering kids! 🚲🔔🚲🔔🚲

Relentless www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sad to hear that Freddie the cat, AKA the Mayor of Shawlands, has gone over the rainbow bridge at the grand old age of 20. A kenspeckle figure around Skirving St, he'd bless the chosen few by selecting their car bonnet or roof for an afternoon snooze. #Glasgow

One of my favourites, that I saw for myself last year: Neuer Markt in central Vienna. One of Vienna's main civic/market squares, choked by vehicles & turned into a grim 20th century car park. Transformed back into a space for people in the last few years. Before (📷 2017) 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗 After (📷 2024) 🚶‍♂️🚲🌳🌲🌱

A #Bikebus attracts families that normally drive to #school. Today 60 kids in Edinburgh cycled to school in the 6 bike buses that ran across #edinburgh. That's 40 less cars polluting the city. It's an easy, safe, healthy and fun way to reducing congestion Let's roll it out to all school

Absolutely adore this song. One of my biggest regrets is never seeing Rab live in his own right (except for his appearances at Roddy Hart's various all star Celtic Connections gigs over the years, where he was always a class act).

Every night.

There have been recent examples of reporting that confuses safe and legal e-bikes with illegally modified bikes - with images of electric motorbikes even being captioned misleadingly as "e-bikes". Our recent blog explains the distinctions and the importance of getting the language on e-bikes right.

Dutch elections: first exit poll shows heavy losses for Wilders' right-far-right coalition. From 88 out of 150 seats two years ago to just 52 now. End of an experiment, fortunately.

When you drive, everyone else is in your way. On public transport, everyone else - even if they are annoying - is a fellow passenger and there is nothing you can do to get where you're going faster but being a problem can mean you and everyone else get there a lot slower. It rewards cooperation.

Elon Musk continues to try to socialise civil war, political & inter-ethnic violence in Britain. He combines an argument that violence is inevitable with his call at the Tommy Robinson rally for pre-emptive violence, on grounds of an existential threat & the inevitability of violence

This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

I can’t help feeling irritated that this article ends with safety tips for cyclists and pedestrians, not accountability for drivers or infrastructure. @tomflood.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is the final 'poll of polls' before the Dutch elections. Three parties at the same level, and two more not much smaller. Given the high percentage of late deciders and voters in doubt, the outcome is still very much uncertain. 🧵

Before (2020) / After (2025) the pedestrianization and greening of Rue Damesme, Paris 13. When the change is this radical, the former position of the Street View car ends up right in the new greenery ! Here I didn’t walk into it, I could take a photo from the edge :)

Not saying this is a weekly occurrence, but this seems to be happening with a fair bit of regularity. I'm reminded of words by road safety campaigner Rebecca Morris: "If this were planes or trains, they'd grind to a halt. In no other area of our lives, would we ever tolerate this level of harm."

🚲🩺 For the last two years, Kirsty - an NHS health visitor in Glasgow - has cycled to work and to appointments in the community. "I've found cycling is much quicker than driving... it gives you the headspace you need and time to reflect and think about how best I can support the families."

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Mirror-image blonde and red sandstone tenements on Afton Street on the Southside of Glasgow. Red sandstone replaced blonde sandstone as the preferred building material in the city around 1890. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenemwnt #glasgowtenements

Getting carried away, but playing around with other ways of visualising this after a look on Google Maps. 🌳🚶‍♀️ Streetscape changes on Carrer de Girona, Barcelona. Before (2012, right) and after the city's #superblock programme (2024, left).

Been messing around with GIF maker. 👇 Before and after of Carrer de Girona, Barcelona. Showing the changes brought in as part of the city's #Superblock programme to green and dramatically traffic-calm streets across the city centre.

It's autumn, so time to listen to Gene Clark. I don't make the rules.

Like clockwork

X is not only completely out of control, it is also increasingly dangerous.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Please, please, please, stop installing and using wood burners. Your wish to have a wee, nice cosy fire puts lives at risk. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

👏 "We know these things work - if you give people safe, attractive routes people who might not have done start thinking about cycling and you see the numbers going up." Loved reading this positive piece in Dundee's @thecourier.co.uk, airing why safer streets for walking & cycling are so important.

(if anyone would like to maybe start some sort of campaigning or pressure group of and on behalf of immigrants with ILR and settled status in Britain then I would be interested in helping, or indeed trying to get it off the ground myself, email in bio, etc)

Quite apart from everything else (as in, literally expelling people who've built their entire lives here over many years) this would also permanently exile British citizens currently living abroad who would be unable to ever bring a spouse/children back to the UK. 1/

📰 STV News coverage of recent all-mode traffic surveys, showing continued, substantial growth in people travelling by bike, where Scotland is building new, high quality cycling infrastructure. 🚲📈 Including more bikes than cars in morning rush hour, recorded for the first time on one Glasgow route.

When Bikes Outnumber Cars: What Scotland’s Cycling Surge Can Teach North America, with @cyclingscotland.bsky.social. momentummag.com/when-bikes-o...

Not good enough. When policies are proposed which threaten people’s security and future on this country journalists need to do their homework properly and hold those proposing them to account.

If you read this thread, you'll see how abysmally this was questioned.

We have sleepwalked into mainstreaming policies of mass deportations numbering hundreds of thousands (potentially millions) of legally settled people. Swathes of politicians, political editors, columnists etc either don't realise it, downplay it and/or believe it's not enough.

We often forget how far we have come: ➡️ Today almost 50% of EU electricity generation is from renewable energy sources. ➡️ It is not long ago that fossil fuels dominated the EU's electricity mix. This year their share is approaching 1/4 of EU electricity generation. Source: @ember-energy.org

Looking at this pic of Argyle St again, weirdly, I'm picking up a very Friedrichstrasse vibe from it. Something I've never noticed before. The buildings, the porticos (not enough, we need more!), the station canopy in the distance.