Once the British press gets the classic introspective and depressed backseat car photo of you… it is over.

Facebook memories this morning: proud firefighter who’s just rescued a cat that was stuck between two walls. And the cat

Welcome to the war on cars badgers badgers badgers. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

We're "excessively lax" about holding motorists accountable for their actions because for decades every level of society - including the people who should be keeping us safe - have seen motor harm as inevitable anf outside anyone's control #motonormativity www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

We live in the enshittenment era.

Strait of Hormuz isn't Hormuzing. Still not hormuzing.

Wonder if this will be the in the business case for the Edinburgh tram extension?

"Air pollution acts as a silent accelerator that robs individuals of their healthiest years.” My latest piece for @theguardian.com on research on 396,000 people in the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why was I invited to Beast Studios? youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4

Will they be throwing trans folks under it, or is that too on the nose?

That Ch🍒rry was allowed to stay, and able to leave when it suited her, is the single biggest failing of the SNP in the last decade. They allowed her to fester and foment the bigotry that contaminates politics today. See also Fergus Ewing.

I had forgot that Paul Whitehouse had sold his soul for tainted money and I'm sad again. But fuck anyone that chooses to help JK Rowling make money that funds the eradication of trans people!

How JK Rowling and Larry Ellison are promoting an international anti-LGBTQ+ fascist project disguised as children's entertainment. How every dollar spent on Harry Potter goes towards global exterminationist hate orgs that reflect fascism throughout history www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_dv...

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

#EdTravCyc https://www.facebook.com/groups/613598400508539/permalink/1507030204498683/

Inspired by this video youtu.be/etwt75kYYhk I thought I'd explore some of the statistics around car access and deprivation with some #datavis and analysis. Usefully, the 2021 Census in the UK asked questions around car ownership as well as many aspects of 'deprivation'. So here is 📊 🧵... [1/8]

Another death of a vulnerable traveller on our cities streets. Again drivers n cars are the cause. 😢 ‘Our thoughts are with the man's family at this difficult time’ - but not so much that we will change anything. 😬 Chesser Ave is a car sewer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our Scottish Greens 2026 Manifesto is out! So much great stuff in here, could not be prouder of our party - a beautiful roadmap to a fairer, kinder and greener Scotland greens.scot/Manifesto

It doesn’t take a perfect plan. It takes people willing to try. In their neighborhood. With their kids. On their streets. That’s the #BikeBus.

Went for a walk and a pint and spotted the best example of free will I've ever seen

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New Malcolm in the Middle is just as hilarious as it ever was. I've been laughing so hard my I'm in physical pain.

If the map of deaths on railways looked like this, it'd be treated as a national emergency.

While he's now giving interviews with Pete Buttigieg and the son the President very few people today know how bad the accusations against Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5 actually are www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCSK...

Not the smartest thing to do stupid things while wearing the uniform of your employer. Was just casually abusing me for being on the bike and honestly acting like he was on drugs. Pretty sure @policescotland.bsky.social would still side with him. 🤯

Think I over estimated the size of a hedgehog...

the discussion

Death and taxes and delivery drivers being selfish are the only sure things in life.

Up to 60% of car commutes to, from and within Edinburgh could be replaced by walking, cycling and public transport - based on commute distances and the behaviour of neighbours:

mods are asleep post camera falling out of plane and landing in a pig pen to be licked by a pig

What the actual fuck, they suggest pulling a new route out of someone's magical arse that in reality will most likely require a bridge built and knocking some people's houses down tbh to have any chance of working. Nimbyism will be the death of us. This city is never not going to be a car sewer!

In Edinburgh we are still arguing about the colour of the surfaces on George Street, whether to have trees or not and how many vehicles will still be allowed to travel down it after parking is removed - 10 years after the redesign project began...

Checks windy.com to see where the nuclear fallout will go first...

Unedifying scenes from Scotland, where desperate Scottish Labour is promising to raid the scant active & sustainable travel funding pot to spend on motorists. Sarwar is the *worst* - but Glasgow Labour are also opposing a congestion charge, mainly because SNP support HT @paul0campbell.bsky.social

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.

Tackle the fuel crisis? No, subsidised use!

Great Presidential speeches: 1 - FDR “The only thing we have to fuckin’ fear is fuckin’ fear itself.”

“Exceptional hardship” is granted (for proven habitual road crime offenders) in around 1 in 5 cases—yet the definition of exceptional is “rare and extraordinary”. In the UK, 5 people will die today in a road collision. We should prioritise safe travel, not leniency for repeat offenders.

Happy Ēostre! Prints of this comic (and others) available in my shop - link in bio

Incredible picture: Orion snapped this high-resolution selfie in space with a camera mounted on one of its solar array wings during a routine external inspection of the spacecraft on the second day into the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA

Though SNP says A9 must be dulled for safety (5.4 deaths per year) at a cost, just shy of £4 billion. That's about 14 years worth of the current mental health budget. Suicide kills over 700 a year and on average if you have a mental health condition it will shorten your life by 15 years.

Bah no Scottish Greens candidate is standing in Edinburgh North West 😕 Guess it's SNP in the slim hope they beat Alex loves him self Cole-Hamilton. Though they just did say drill baby drill ☹️

Bikes with a box up front are taking over city streets. Cargo bikes, supercharged by electrification, are replacing car trips and powering deliveries. What comes next depends on infrastructure. Read more: micromobility.io/news/cargo-b...

✊ Transport committee votes for Greenbank to Meadows quiet route permanence (‘Option C’) 🥳 Still to be ratified at TRO Sub-committee in June (dare they try it on?) but a significant win for one of the few measures supporting active travel in South Edinburgh. 🚲💕

BBC ”We can’t say driver instead of car as we don’t know circumstances & can’t apply blame to a driver” Also BBC “Spanish media reported that Guardeno suffered a head injury after losing control of his bicycle when he hit a rock, which led to him colliding with a car” www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cyclin...

I've got a knackered leg at the moment so as a result I'm raging at the car centric built environment a little more than usual. Why are drop kerbs or table junctions just not standard on every residential streets junction?

1799 - "Edinburgh would reek if it wasn't so damn WINDY!"

Spokes slams @anassarwar.bsky.social plan to fill #potholes by butchering #ActiveTravel cash 🙄 Punishing success-> bsky.app/profile/cycl... 🙄 And: potholes are not caused by 🚲! @edi.bike @gobikeglasgow.bsky.social @labourwalkscycles.bsky.social @sarahboyack.bsky.social @marklazarowicz.bsky.social

"...for me at least, driving is a time-consuming and meaningless experience. In fact, the word 'experience' is a stretch – I’ve started to wonder if it is more like the absence of an experience."