China moving forward in leaps and bounds.

I accept that there are legitimate use cases for AI but a lot of use is unnecessary & our systems force people into use by making it hard to avoid even though both use & the infrastructure it relies on is harmful to both people & the environment. Sorry, did I say AI? I meant cars. (AI sucks too.)

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

Pride is first and foremost a protest, and with Reform councils trying to stifle Pride across the region, it's more important than ever to show up and be unapologetically ourselves.

A waist of time and space

If you enjoy listening to @somafm.com consider whether you can afford to chip in with a regular payment. I think they're completely worth it, personally.

FPTP is like The One Ring of politics in the UK. They know they need to destroy it, but once it's in their hands they think "Why shouldn't we keep it? We can use it for good!" and then everything goes dead-Boromir-shaped

"Did you name that Cumbrian food festival?" "Yes boss, real sexy just like you asked."

Had a scoot out to see the new barriers to inactive travel that @northumbrianwater.bsky.social have installed. It's like the 1990s again. It actually makes the crossing more dangerous as it introduces conflict between people on foot and awheel and distracts from them checking the road. Appalling.

The North East Combined Authority has produced a survey where it wants to hear from women and girls about how safe you feel while travelling in the region. You can share your views on the link below. www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/DDWYJI/?fb...

Meanwhile, on Wikipedia: "If you have a history of AI use, we will expunge everything you have added since ChatGPT went live, because nuking you from orbit is the only way to be sure" (paraphrased) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Anyone who has had a pregnancy terminated needs to watch this. #abortion vm.tiktok.com/ZNRsYAHDU/

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

lindaronald.bandcamp.com/track/wolves This is what happens if your local council is taken over by Reform UK.

This is an absolutely horrific "road safety" ad from the 1980s in the UK. Our approach has not changed much since then. If our roads are designed such that one "false move" can get a child killed by a driver, then maybe we should re-think our infrastructure? Source: playingout.net/files/resear...

My favourite correction:

In case anyone thinks this is any kind of exaggeration, here's every candidate but one in Birmingham saying to the father of a child killed while walking on the sidewalk of a dangerously designed road that they're sorry for his loss, but not as sorry as they'd be if car owners had to slow down.

And now, a cyclist killed on this stretch of road, two drivers arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving. Five years ago, the council planned - and had funding for - a safe cycle path along this road. They dragged their feet, the Tories riled up opposition, and the council gave up. I'm so angry.

North Tyneside councillors rejected proposals to install a bike lane on Preston Road because doing so would have required either narrowing the main carriageway or impinging on the grass verges. They should be held responsible for this man's death, along with the drivers. They will not be.

It's been more than six months since the Raspberry Pi 500+ was released, and I still can't find a carry case for it. Vilros makes one, but they only ship within the USA, and that's a far away place. Has anybody found one for sale in, or available to, the UK? #raspberrypi

I followed @rosiemund.bsky.social and no kidding, there are now easily twice as many posts on my Following feed.

"Just do it yourself if it matters to you." Some people can't; that's the whole point. "Use Google Lens." On every image you come across? With no way of checking if it's accurate or relevant? "It's described in the post." Is that obvious if you can't see the image? Can you know that's not a joke?

Petitioning Nexus to do a party cruise on the Motherfuckin' Pride of the Tyne for Pride. 🏳️‍🌈 (I know it's not very "Stonewall was a riot" of me but I'm not going on record to suggest we be gay do piracy outside of Minecraft. Also a queer party cruise on the Tyne sounds fun.)

They launched a ferry called Bryan. BRYAN FERRY.

Elaine thinks it's ok for your children to die, because she thinks that "30mph feels really slow". Elaine is a sociopath.

Solar panels don’t damage the countryside you just don’t like the way they look. Skylarks. Linnets. Yellowhammers. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...

For my first decade as a #Linux user I hopped around between distributions, as many do. Almost twenty years ago, though, I settled on #Ubuntu Linux. It's all right. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS releases today. ubuntu.com

In Newcastle on street parking costs the council £9,260,871.63 per year. If on street parking is 'free' that would still be a cost that needs to be covered. It's roughly the same as a 6% rise in council tax, on top of existing rises. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

#ElectoralReform can happen in the UK. Here's a petition. The All Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections is already the biggest such group in Parliament, and I want them to know that there's support on the outside, too. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

This new bridge in downtown Helsinki is already my favorite spot in town. You can have phone conversations, and hear people talking and kids laughing as they pass by. The silence is astonishing, despite being so close to city centre. Because there are no cars. #Kruunuvuorensilta

Thoughtful video. #urbanism

the reality of road safety campaigns @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

I got onto the train to go into Paris after flying into CDG and on the train was a very fancy poodle, a couple kissing and drinking champagne out of flutes, a guy playing the accordion and finally a guy in a striped shirt carrying a baguette. It felt like a prank.

Emergency

Private firms got £12bn NHS contracts. Private equity, offshore tax haven firms big winners. Donations to Ministers pay dividends. £1.6bn profit in 2 yrs. Enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses Health service “taken for a ride”. Say NO to privatisation. Must expand NHS capacity

My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award

Morning Bluesky.

Skoda, you know, the car guys, have developed a bicycle bell with a sound that gets through noise-cancelling headphones. They're sharing the technology for free, rather than using it for profit. I love that. @ibike.ie @irishcycle.com youtube.com/shorts/Hwn3g...

Imagine if we had more walkable spaces and park benches under trees instead of this

"The use of the cycle lane for emergency vehicles has been assessed and is proving beneficial in reaching people when they need us the most." 👀😎

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Seems like a big ask to get all the cars in the world into this one car park but the sign says "Strictly no parking outside these premises" ("Strictly") and I say we give it a go.

In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.

Sick of Spotify? Linda Ronald is on Bandcamp. She's a singer-songwriter and also my daughter.

Alternative advice: If you can cycle to work / schools / shops but don’t, start looking at what routes would feel safest. If you don’t have a bike, look at buying one, maybe via the Cycle to Work scheme. news.sky.com/story/politi...

This is such a cute way to reopen a much needed station.❤️🐶🚝❤️

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

Joyless council doesn't provide spaces for kids to gather and play on their bikes. And then threatens them with criminal damage charges when they improvise. What are kids supposed to do and where? road.cc/news/backlas...

Our annual blog on traffic crash injury in #Newcastle. In 2025 there were 3 fatalities, 114 serious injuries and 414 slight injuries on Newcastle’s roads, an average of 10 people injured every week. This is too high - we need action to create a Safe Pedestrian And Cycling Environment in Newcastle.