Me: [arrives at computer every morning, clicks to tab in which e-mail was open when I left] Microsoft Outlook:

Is it world bike day today? Here's a long proposed cycle route. Absolutely strangled to death in consultation. Note how the only real changes are the removal of protected cycle lanes.

Happy #worldbicycleday It doesn't matter what you rode, or where or how you ride. All that matters is that you ride.

Got this portable air con unit for cheap a year ago. It's still a big chunk of money, but on a day like today, our bedroom would be unbearable. And now it's the coolest room in the house. Worth every penny.

A proper hot bank holiday Monday. I wonder how drivers are planning their journeys, knowing full well that there will be zero available parking spaces....???

Started up with this stuff again last night. Local politics is very weird. Very proud to co-lead our plucky bunch of Green councillors on Wirral for another year ✅

Went to Mallorca, again, hired a bike, again, rode 7 days, again. The peace and quiet and calm. 56 days I've ridden here since 2015. Scatter my ashes here.

Impressed by the number of bikes and bike lanes in Bristol. The city could have said, look, we are made entirely of hills, biking is madness, maybe we could have a funicular or something. Instead they said no, we are strong, we can do it, we will have the finest quads in all the kingdom 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴

You know, I think it was exactly at this point that I felt a race to the bottom was only ever going to end in a complete shit show. Strivers Vs shirkers is just me against my neighbour.

Cycled into town on a narrow shared path that runs through a playground filled with toddlers and loosd dogs. But presumably if I hit somebody that'll be down to my recklessness rather than the choices of a council that decided to marginalise healthy travel while giving motorists a dual carriageway

seems like a great technology to build literally everything on

Doomed from day 1. Just too wacky, too poorly explained and in 2026, too easily the victim of gobshite YouTube 'influencers'... Half hearted will fall at the first hurdle.

NEW: More than 18,000 vehicles are being used in the UK without proper records of where their owners live, it has emerged, part of what Labour MP Sarah Coombes has called an increasing problem of “ghost owners” who cannot be held accountable for their driving. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

Transportation historian Peter Norton doesn't buy into the robotaxi hullabaloo: "What robot cars are promising is the next generation of car dependency." In @bloomberg.com, my lengthy conversation with @norton.bsky.social

Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly! 1/🧵

Apr 10th 2017 - The Nexus 6 replicant named Leon Kowalski was incepted. 📽️📅 Blade Runner (1982)

this is not the 3rd place we were hoping for.

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire. One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

"20 yrs ago the world took a year to add 1 gigawatt of solar. Now it takes just half a day. Solar costs have fallen by around 90% over past decade, & as costs fall, installations accelerate. Nowhere is this clearer than in China 🇨🇳. It now accounts for well over half of global solar installations"

On my ride yesterday. I can suspect what they *thought* the purpose of this bollard was, but it actually makes it surprisingly difficult to pass by bike, and impossible for any other modified bike.

Liverpool.. brand new road redevelopment.. painted murder strip bike lanes... We will never learn.

Timmy Mallet sums up Liverpool City Regions idea of best in class cycling infrastructure!

The drawings are now online. The long forgotten Childwall to town cycle scheme. I hope they've got the stomach for this fight. There's plenty of good here, starting with permanent modal filters.

I can't see any detailed drawings of what this scheme proposes, so I've no idea how to judge any worth....

"The cycling industry has changed significantly in recent years": Major Merseyside bike shop Formby Cycles to close after three decades in business road.cc/news/cycling...

Second Sunday of riding through the Birkenhead tunnel. Why cyclists are restricted through here for half the year is nearly as ridiculous as there not being a dedicated cycle lane.

A day of doing very, very little. Absolutely glorious.

Wow! Change is possible. Hope will triumph. What a win for the green party.

It's easy, if you try.

Happy valentine's day to my first true love and best friend. You are perfect in every way. ♥️🖤

A thin and feeble document telling us something we all already know. In 2040 there'll be no useful cycle network. Random stretches (if they are ever built), but on almost any ride, you'll be mixing with heavy traffic for some of it. Most of it probably. Pretty depressing to be honest.

Wednesday....

It's so disappointing to see the Echo egging this on. What's clearly poorly implemented roadworks used for prime Nimbyism. For one, why is nobody calling out that almost all of the houses 'affected' by the lane have off-road parking for *multiple* cars. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

There is no 'foreseeable future'. It will never restart. This scheme is dead and buried. Spineless.

"The night before, Ebeling and other Morton Thiokol engineers tried to convince NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, that launching in cold weather could be disastrous." www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g...

The king stays the king. Deep and fiery!!

Almost a physical scar, that shows to this day, on everyone who watched it.

Building a bike lane in Liverpool? LOL....

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

LOL... Did someone try to make bus travel more appealing? Sheesh. Killed that quick.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Tour de France in Liverpool! Honestly. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cyclin...

Canal tow paths are not good damn active travel routes. Jesus wept. Go and look at the state of them. Go on! Then tell me you'd ride them... After dark...

Nobody will remember or care that you rode a bike in grim weather. There's no prizes for riding in icy conditions. But if you absolutely must ride... Done a few winters with these. Worth 100x the cost.

Did you have snow overnight/today? #UKSnow I’m researching public attitudes towards clearing Snow and Ice in the UK. Are you over the age of 18 and live in the UK? If so, you can take part in my research by clicking this link (details inside) app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/liverpool/...

No words can adequately explain. Yes, that actually looks like the shared use path sign is fairly new. The old ones are buried under 100,000 tonnes of sand.

Picked up an atlas off the shelf at the in-laws. 1980... 45 years ago and it had climate change front and centre.

Survive the apocalypse with walkable and bikeable cities.