A short list of classic locations for parking where it's actually not part of the adjacent property, so should get bollarded (or maybe tree'd!) by the council: 1. Outside the Prince Of Wales Publ on Horspath Rd/Brasenose Driftway. A bunch of trees would look nice here!

With 6m tonnes of extra carbon emissions this will generate, the Lower Thames Crossing is anything but green, no matter how much spin there is.

5 years ago, the Government consulted on how dangerous pavement parking could be tackled in England. The Government has yet to respond. If pavement parking is a problem in your area – fill out the form and add to the map of danger hotspots across the UK. ‪@livingstreets.bsky.social‬

Look, I’m not a fan of the guy but credit where it’s due: I think boris Johnson is ageing gracefully

“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian” “Jimmy Carr?” “No, she went of her own accord”

Not to mention that the introduction of this in the context of an anti-trans moral panic is genuinely scary and cannot be abstracted out. That context means it is likely that the intorduction of ID cards will be used to faciliate openly queerphohic policies.

I've just read something on the @oxfordclarion.bsky.social about a Liberal Democrat city councillor trying to make it hard to open a new pub. I'm really struggling to work out who I could vote or campaign for at the moment :-(

Is there any better exemplar of the role of apps in enshittifying our society than having the proposed state-mandated ID system as digital-first? Bets on the first people denied medical treatment because the App went down or the 5G was iffy.

Exactly this. The idea that Labour has been afraid to talk about migration is ludicrous. They have been perfectly happy to demonise migrants again and again and again. That Controls on Immigration mug in Zack's post was the breaking point for me. It spoke of a party that had sold out its values.

Big day for me. A box I've been saving for over 3 years was just perfect for something

"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!" If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?

So there's money for a second runway at Gatwick (high emissions) but not for better trains (low emissions). In a climate emergency. Make it make sense!

Schools are particularly bad at this.

I'm tired of hearing that there's a difference between punishments and consequences, because I'm tired of hearing sadists gleefully describe punishments as 'consequences' to make themselves sound more reasonable and less evil. The difference doesn't matter as much as you think it does.

I have today sent the attached open letter to Anneliese Dodds MP

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

While the amish are known to be early to rise, the pmish are late each time and frequently face punishment

”Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the real-world impact of cycle lanes, found businesses on streets with separated bike routes grew on average more quickly than those without.” Remember, bike-lanes mean business. 10 WRONG Myths about Bike-Lanes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Where do we need more cycle parking in #Oxford? Having somewhere to securely leave your bike... whether that's an ebike, a cargo bike or just a 'standard' bike... can be the deciding factor as to whether you can cycle somewhere or not. www.cyclinguk.org/blog/problem...

A big bendy road penis is not supposed to be on the tarmac of the Vuelta a España. And yet, there it is. escapecollective.com/my-god-its-m...

If @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social thinks residents should not have to pay to travel through their community, maybe she should not have defended the raise in bus fare cap?! As always, it’s just drivers that seem to matter.

Tl;dr the flags are provided by Tommy Robinson.

We need leadership on public health and climate grounds to change our collective behaviour, not to curry favour with angry libertarians. As if Labour's recent hostility to migrants and refusal to raise taxes for better public services weren't enough. I despair of the party. 2/2

Plenty of reasons to be disappointed with Labour these days. If you want one more my MP is happy to oblige.

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

I'd love to see Ed Balls tell Starmer that Labour should stand down in any seats where it looks to be a Reform/Tory marginal to get "the slightly better option." Ed - and too many other Labour stalwarts - feel that they're entitled to votes, Greens should stand down but never them. 🙄

Look, the answer is really fucking simple, it's that they actually have no problem with it. It's Occam's Racist.

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

A long time ago (or so it feels now) in a lockdown not very far away, I learned all the words to "It's the end of the world as we know it" so that @slamdunc.bsky.social & I could do this for a Bastard English zoom session: youtu.be/YywNUqbJF5s?...

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

This. All day long. A daily barrage of comment treating refugees as the root of all societal ills has not been countered by the UK Government, and has even been fed by its vacillating over fundamental rights. It's now become mainstream and the genuine problems facing society have been pushed aside.

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

AI is revolutionizing lies and disinformation.

When each had signed up to the free ring trial and then allowed it to roll over onto the monthly subscription to Sauron, it had always been at the back of each's minds to go through the direct debits and cancel off any dark servitudes that they weren't really using, but they never got around to it.

decades spent absorbing and repeating lectures about the childishness of idealism and the clear eyed maturity of voting for the lesser of two evils has been processed into the belief that a candidate who isn't at least a little bit evil or who has any ideals at all is inherently unserious. not great

There’s a strong Labour tradition of “the working class currently do/think this and so it is de facto right”. It’s just like the Oxford traffic debate with Labour councillors fervently defending people’s right to drive through residential streets to save 15 seconds on their journey

Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.

The council got rid of the benches at the foot of Leith walk and the locals have responded appropriately...

100% agree with objecting using cash generated for benefits to drivers from outside of Oxford. But I wonder why @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social defended the Labour's bus fare cap rise by 50% if she is concerned about lower-income part of Oxford. Bus users have already paid the price for congestion.

I just logged in to Reddit for the first time ever so I could give this post an upvote.

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

A bad point and a good one from my MP on the congestion charge. It's no surprise that people used to getting something for free resent paying for it, but wasting the money on bribing people to drive to the edge of the city really is wrong.

Keep thinking about this excerpt from Gödel, Escher, Bach about how it would be stupid to make an LLM-like AI do maths, because it would be slow, inefficient and inaccurate. This was written in 1979. NINETEEN SEVENTY-NINE

School streets in Paris look far better than the version we have in the UK. Roads properly closed with gates and bollards. Properly no cars, where we seem to find a way to exempt enough to ruin it.

It's great to see our MP supporting the concept of 15 minute cities.