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Drive slower.

Get a load of this. 😆

Convenient low cost storage for private vehicles is a huge part of their competitive advantage as a mode of transportation. No wonder people fight so hard to maintain it. Otherwise they may have to face the reality that cars don't work well in cities without a ton of public subsidy.

Whilst anyone still using Spotify is indulging in their annual data harvesting, a reminder that it's BANDCAMP FRIDAY and musicians will get more from any mp3/CD/vinyl/TShirt/Hat/Beer opener/Badge you buy than any streaming

This article frames the subject's "fear" of driving on motorways as something irrational that needs to be overcome The elephant in the room is actually that the standard of driving on our motorways is pretty appalling and her dislike of it is actually rational. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

60-odd years old and still sounding amazing. RIP Steve Crocker

What a discography this guy leaves behind. Particularly love this bit about the recording of Otis Blue - smashed out a remarkable album in a day, despite the band fecking off for a few hours to play a gig 😂

If you have to do interviews like that with SUV owners than you really should also ask them: statistically, you are much more likely to kill someone else, particularly a child, through your choice of vehicle. Do you believe this is a morally acceptable choice to make?

While this BBC article on ever-bigger SUVs is perfectly good, it's absurd the way there has to be quotes from people who insist they could not get around without a vehicle the size of a Sherman tank. It's just bollocks. I'm one of three kids and we were all ferried around in a Vauxhall Astra estate.

Can’t hear Feel My Sunshine by Len without this coming into my head 😂

My spirit animal

“There’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles.” Would the author say the same about building bike lanes? Installing automatic traffic cameras? Requiring Intelligent Speed Assist? All of those are proven to save lives — and at a fraction of AVs' cost.

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The irony here is that rail replacement bus services disprove the existence of god

This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving

I heard there was a secret verse That David used to make AI worse But you don't really want to pub that, do ya

🎵Facists getting egged By concerned citizens I just can't get an œuf I just can't get an œuf 🎵

Take note...

This is the most alarming story. Fuck me.

The Isaac Hayes version of Walk On Bye

Looking for a decent monitor for working at home Must have USB-C charging, preferably curved screen, 32-34" ish. Hopefully £300-400-ish price range Any reccomendations?

#Pray4Gethin 🤦🏻‍♂️

Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society: Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.

Living Wage Foundation: “We use a public consultation method…asks groups to identify what people need to be able to afford as a minimum. This is fed into a calculation of what someone needs to earn as a full-time salary…then converted to an hourly rate.” www.livingwage.org.uk/what-real-li...

This seems like a small thing but it'll be a huge improvement for people walking If you're on foot, you already have priority to cross at side roads, but most people driving either don't know this or just ignore it A visible, cheap to install reminder on every side road will make it much clearer

I think AI might have been a bit... overhyped. It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.

This whole thread is spot on but especially this bit from the article. Needs saying repeatedly and loudly

In Goodwin Curve news, @willhaycardiff.bsky.social's latest newsletter notes how the immediate aftermath of the Welsh 20 mph speed limits saw a petition raise 400,000 signatures. Today, a second petition has just 2387 signatures

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion. This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

In an environment where pretty much every tax rise has been touted, to let this one go begging.... again.... is an absolute mind boggler. Such a bad decision on so many policy fronts.

Build people safe ways to get around by bike and they will use them in large numbers

Very selfish off this bridge to keep draining the public purse by enticing poor defenceless lorries to crash into it 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You sexy Maris Piper

And now I'm over my John Peel moment, I'm enjoying their debut eponymous album in all its glory. It's still a stunning sounding record, even before you consider that most of the band were late teens / early 20s when they wrote it. Dreaming Of You is still one of my favourite ever songs.

TFW you forget you've left the turntable on 45rpm and you make The Coral sound like The Chipmunks 🤦🏻‍♂️

People will say it's the lack of enforcement, and that's a factor, but we also have technology to limit phone use while driving and our automakers and leaders refuse to implement it. It's a choice to allow distracted driving. And all the deaths and injuries that result are because of that choice.

"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance." No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer

This.

I’d forgotten just how good the last Mary Wallopers album is. If you don’t have a massive grin on your face listening to it you’re dead in side 😂 They’re playing a 5 night residency at the Barrowlands before Xmas which I’d love to go to. Reckon it would be the best kind of carnage

Here's to a constructive international men's day for everyone except all the "but what about men's day" dudes who only care about this day on March 8th each year.

There is absolutely nothing to beat sport commentators totally losing their shit when their team - impartiality can do one - do something outrageous. Glorious.

So much for the expected tight game for Cymru tonight 😂

Maybe don’t put it at the top of every search result then?

Quite an impressive data visualisation on where refugees settled in the UK since 1989 came from. Part of the House of Commons Library briefing note on asylum policy. Link: researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN...

I feel at this point that we need the self-driving car in the same way that we need the self-shitting bed.

Cancel the entire UK road building budget for at least 5 years and spend it all on implementing decent public transport, implementing people friendly neighbourhoods & high quality walking and cycling routes. The difference would be transformative in people's lives