Many lay-bys around Oxfordshire will continue to offer a similar service with no appointments.

Money that could have been spent subsidising public transport will instead be spent encouraging people of Oxfordshire to drive as far as the Ring Road.

Oxfordshire to continue encouraging driving over public transport.

Even when the consultation shows broad support for a nation-wide pavement parking ban … Starmer‘s ministry just can’t or won’t do it. Governing and politics are about making and implementing decisions. You can’t opt-out of politics in a futile hope of avoiding having to make decisions.

Labour government continues to be utterly spineless when it comes to the car lobby.

Cycle paths not gritted. Emphasis from schools on punctuality not safety, predictable injuries. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2574749...

Just spotted a supermarket scam I haven't noticed before: prices when you place your order may not actually reflect prices charged www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2011/10...

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

This argument is absurd. Why is the UK government conflating presence on X with free speech? By this logic, the government is affronting free speech by not being active on any number of other websites. Can we read into the lack of government Reddit activity that they don't support free speech?

That's my sort of mayor ... #SafeStreetsNow @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org @richardparkerwm.bsky.social @safestreetsnow.bsky.social

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

Message from school today: "With winter weather continuing, icy roads and pavements are likely. However, all students are still expected to arrive at school on time. Delays caused by traffic, walking more slowly, or icy conditions are not accepted as valid reasons for lateness. "

Accidentally searched in a browser without disabling the "AI overview". Google says: "The Swan School in Oxford has a longer school day (9:15 AM - 4:45 PM)". True once, but not for several years. The school website is correct. Remember when search engines helped you find the correct web page?

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

“Survey after survey has shown that business owners overestimate how many customers drive to their stores vs walking or biking. In a 2012 Los Angeles study, more than half of the store owners on the bike-laned part of the boulevard thought most of their customers drove. The actual number was 15%.”

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

great news, everyone! turning a 5 into a 6 because you forgot the year is one of the easiest ones to fudge! turning a 6 into a 7 won't be so simple

This is your annual reminder that New Year's Resolutions DO NOT LEGALLY COME INTO EFFECT until January 6th.

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

so much of the bike infrastructure debate is shaped by the presupposition that people who drive cars need their cars, whereas people who ride bikes don’t really need them

"Please give this seat to a disabled person" would you like me to butter their walking stick too??

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

This is exactly right: privatisation is the process by which governments give public assets to private corporations. That’s all it does.

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

My colleague @juliacushion.bsky.social made a “sunlight optimism” spreadsheet, my colleague @zarino.co.uk said there should be a postcode lookup version, I have the day off, the kid has gone swimming, and so, I present: The Sunlight Optimism Calculator: dracos.co.uk/made/sunligh...

I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”

funny. your name isn't listed here joe.

£2.5 billion capital funding is a drop in the ocean for a scheme that would pay for itself in no time through increased economic activity driven by improved labour mobility. This is a bad decision made for the wrong reasons by weak people who don’t deserve the power they wield.

so I guess our local schools are using Duolingo to supplement language learning; the kids have to log so many minutes a day on the app, but it doesn’t show the teachers which language and so one of the teens just told me she’s level 22 in American English, I’m dying

Three protests converged in Oxford today, separated by a cordon of 10 police on bicycles and police van.

I spend an awful lot of time thinking about this moment in the history of King Crimson and it's transformative implications for our understanding of authorship. There's a straight line from here to me seeing my audience as co-creators of my work.

It's astonishing how a technology called artificial intelligence has revealed the actual stupidity of so many people. This tweet hasn't been bettered

I heard there was a secret meat With paprika, and spicy heat But you don't really care for sausage Nduja ...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.

Please create a password Me: P... YOUR PASSWORD IS TOO SHORT

I know it's not a valid postcode, it's just the letter S, give me a fucking chance you impatient prick!

“Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love. See you out somewhere in the cosmos.” This is the posthumous message left by Gil Gerard. The actor who played Buck Rogers in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) has just passed away at the age of 82.

Hard to think of *any* issue in my life on which the public have been so uniformly opposed to the govt's agenda. The unanimity exceeds any anti-war movement, even. What could the govt even propose that would less popular? Excited to see Starmer try!!

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

This is THE BEST thing on the internet today

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

It is so sad to see new exclusionary policies from Girlguiding, where trans girls had been so included before. The Woodcraft Folk is a brilliant, inclusive, non-segregated alternative for young people seeking fun, adventure and community! woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...

My daughter left her Spotify account logged in on our TV while she did her DofE expedition back in April, so I did what any self-respecting dad would do. Payoff finally came today.

When you're very optimistic about all your relationships that's Pollyannary

Off to London for the day, catching the 07:50 from Bournville. The fare for this journey is £197 return, madness. So I shall pay… £61.70! • Bournville ↔ Rugby : £15 anytime day return • Rugby ↔ Milton Keynes : £21.40 anytime day return • Milton Keynes ↔ London : £25.30 off-peak day return

"We need regulation of e-bikes!!!" people scream as SUVs and trucks get larger and deadlier and people speed and drive distracted with impunity. I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.

I have recently received a PhD application that refers to multiple articles by me that I did not write. I really do struggle to comprehend how you click send without checking that the articles attributed to the proposed supervisor are ones that they actually wrote...