Do any of my fellow urbanists know why we sometimes end up with these zigzag bike lanes; what's the logic here? Surely the rain gardens could have been located on the same side of the bike lane as the parking? www.linkedin.com/posts/rainto...

In a rare sign that some of us give a fuck about our fellow humans and the planet, more men than women voted for the Greens at the Scottish election. I find that interesting and heartening. It counters the media's often desperate claim that masses of men are flocking to the far right. Nope. Wrong.

All our human rights are intertwined. And the *Equality and Human Rights Commission*, unequivocally captured by bigots, seems determined to undermine them all.

The Green queer stuck in a rental trap in Glasgow is more "left behind" than a xenophobic homeowner in Hartlepool, and this is a hill I've been dying on since the demographic of Brexiters became apparent.

Glasgow and Edinburgh are two of the hilliest, wettest, darkest cities in the UK and beyond. And yet...

Today the Supreme Court, found in favour of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to, once again, allow for removal of rights and undermine protection for marginalised and vulnerable people, in this case disabled individuals. This is part of a wider erosion of human rights in the UK. 1/

The motion is already at 37 signatures (which is pretty high for an EDM!) You can check if your MP has signed it here: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... If they haven’t, email them and ask them to!

Further evidence the net zero economy is one of the few parts of the economy that is booming. Truly insane that now is the time politicians start attacking one of the only sources of growth for UK businesses. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530440...

Still light at 10pm. Love Glasgow. Love June.

Dunno who sticker-bombed this sign but they're right.

Before: 🚗🚙🚙🚗🚙🚗 After: Cooling shade, stormwater mitigation, habitat for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, increased air quality, enhanced mental and physical health

Where are we drawing the line here? I'd argue Welsh folks could straightforwardly claim "indigenous British ancestry" but English people have a much weaker claim. Do we need to warn the good folks of Saxony about Restore's remigration plans?

The rise in energy bills is painful, but is there a hint that the government's clean power 2030 plan is starting to work? Normally when gas prices spike, electricity prices follow. But electricity prices haven't risen nearly as much. Is this a sign of decoupling? www.nesta.org.uk/blog/july-en...

25 bathtubs of kerosene per hour. Each contributing to the record heat we're having today—a record which itself will be broken soon, I'm sure... To refer back to a previous post, I saw no mention of aviation's impacts in the recent news about HS2's "failure". It's a solution, at least domestically.

Images have power. How would you think about the heatwave if this image was of elderly people in a stuffy care home, roofers or builders sweating at work, or a hospital ward with nurses helping patients sip water?

Today will be the hottest day in May in the UK in our temperature records, with highs of 35 degrees Celsius expected📈 The current May record is 32.8 °C. Records are usually only broken by tenths of a degree - making this heatwave unprecedented for the time of year 🌡️

Pretty light in my neighbourhood tonight.

Don't worry everyone, you can legally be trans on a hovercraft! Really heartened to see transport queers accommodated in the EHRC's ridiculous draft guidance. 🥰

⚖️ This guidance is going to be a Section 28 moment for this Labour government, defining their legacy on LGBTQ+ rights. Treating trans people like this puts the UK outside the international human rights norm, and the right thing for the government to do here would be to urgently legislate.

My recommendation: perplex your local genital police with these cute little badges. www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

I’ve said this before but, do you know why the new EHRC guidance doesn’t make any sense? it’s because when you try to write clear laws or guidelines based on bigotry, they don’t make sense. they can’t. because they’re not coming from a place of reason, they’re coming from fear and hate

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

So the EHRC guidance has been updated from "Fuck trans people's rights" to "I'm terribly sorry but fuck trans people's rights", and it remains glaringly obvious that the government's response to the Supreme Court judgement should have been to fix the law rather than cower in fear of bigots.

A residual downside of having to battle for years to get ADHD medication is I always feel disbelieved by NHS clinicians now. I'm rational enough but I now struggle to accept they've got my best interests at heart. I can't see a culture within the NHS that seeks to deal with this kind of trust issue.

What we love to see: plant delivering plants.

Our dependence on aviation fuel, and consequent pandering to Russia, has become horribly apparent in the same week that HS2 has been value-engineered yet again. This includes a reduction of the trains' speed, which in turn will reduce the shift of passengers from air to rail. Spreadsheet stupidity.

“Reasons for things going wrong [include] successive government commissioned reviews, changing objectives and political priorities” - BBC News “Anyway, here’s another change to the specification and the political priorities” - the Labour Government

Aside from the obvious socio-economic implications of freezing fuel duty—putting money into the pockets of those who can afford a car—we should be doing everything we can to curb demand for oil right now, if only to ease cost of living pressures for *everyone*.

This is bad economic policy, because it will cost the government billions in lost tax income.. ..bad progressive policy, because the richest 10% of households will benefit three times as much from the freeze as the poorest 10%.. ..and terrible climate policy: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-fue...

Little hike to a waterfall you can walk behind. It's cool that we live on a planet with liquid water.

I love the idea of nations coming together, "united by music". But that spirit of unity is fundamentally undermined when one of those nations is an apartheid state. So I'll be boycotting Eurovision tonight. Until it rediscovers its founding purpose as a project of peace, I shan't be tuning in.

Budapest has over 4000 internal courtyards, Marchand Meffre documented many of them. marchandmeffre.com/budapest

Brilliant news that the city's taken this view in the consultation 👏 A really important step towards a proper examination of the (many) options around the M8 city centre corridor, rather than speeding ahead with like-for-like replacement. @replacethem8.bsky.social

My long running theory that buying a car is one of the most radicalising things someone can do hits another datapoint

What do electric buses do at night? They help balance the grid. First Bus in Glasgow: "By flexing when buses are charged, the depots can increase demand at times when there is excess renewable energy on the system, particularly wind power in Scotland, and reduce demand during peak periods. [1/2]

someone described this image as “a daughter looking at her mother” and now I wanna cry

The latest Scottish parliamentary election delivered a significant majority in support of LGBTQ+ rights and a ban on conversion practices. Now it is time to deliver, no more delays. The Scottish people have spoken. They have backed inclusion and rejected the politics of hate.

A bunch of extremely beautiful pictures of wind farms in China - all photographs by Weimin Chu e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

I scanned this for traces of principled policy but none were detected. There's the ever-present emphasis on "delivery"—but delivery of *what*? Polanski and Farage are out-communicating Starmer partly because they have conviction; an actual vision to communicate. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In the same election the ranks of MSPs who voted against GRR were turfed out of office - among their replacements were two new trans MSPs. The politics of hate took a kicking today. The politics of trans liberation brought two of their own into the seats of power in Scotland! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A clear win for bike lanes btw. SNP and Greens have been building them, Labour said they'd get rid of the active travel budget.

Joanna Cherry suggesting that Angus Robertson’s downfall was identity politics when he was beaten by LORNA SLATER OF THE GREENS is very funny.

And that's why I feel at home in Glasgow.

Two years into the 'ruthlessly focussed on winning' Starmer project and they still haven't brought back preferential voting for the mayoral contests.

A second Green has hit the Scottish Parliament. Good. After the SNP's recent turn away from socially progressive politics, and queer liberation in particular, I'm glad to see this stonking swing against them.

In Wigan, Reform got 46% of the vote. That gave them 96% of the seats that were up for election. First Past the Post is not fit for purpose.

Reform not really living up to the hype in Scotland. Its leader came *third* and the party's on track to win approximately zero constituencies. Oh well.

Earth eclipses the Sun as seen by Artemis II on Orion. Satellites showing off as usual...