The most wonderful time of the year. Beer52 advent calendar has arrived

10% of Meta's gross revenue comes from ads for fraudulent goods and scams, and; the company knows it, and; they decided not to do anything about it, because; the fines for facilitating this life-destroying fraud are far less than the expected revenue from helping to destroy its users' lives

Actually, looking at this again I'm not clear how the whole headtube/bars/fork arrangement works on a Lime bike. Anyone?

I thought we were done with this victim blaming bullshit, at the very least in London from reasonably progressive boroughs, but here's Hackney telling pedestrians to dress like a construction worker to walk to the shops rather than making the environment safer.

I hope no one was riding this when the fork steerer failed.

I mean, I think every car should have a mandatory black box tracker that should absolutely be used as evidence in collisions, speeding, other crime. If people want to do crime they could take a bus. Or a cab. Or walk or cycle.

That it’s still necessary to do more research on this is absurd but those fighting against safe space haven’t died off yet. #obviousoutcomebackedbyevidence

This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire. www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...

Dubious 'e-bike' product listings from Argos and Very found without illegal for road use disclaimers. + I have again found evidence that eBay is still selling products flagged by the Office for Product Safety and Standards as a fire risk. www.cyclingelectric.com/news/illegal...

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

the assumptions made about the target audience by making the first two items "OnlyFans' and 'child support' are kind of incredible

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

There are things i love about where i live but being able to use St Thomas’s hospital is an odd upside to otherwise traumatic times. Catching views like this from a window. 🤯

Loads of interesting views on Tolkien down this and associated threads. But this PTerry quote on its impact on other fantasy lit. (Like all of them) is perfect.

I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not My column www.ft.com/content/f086...

This scheme looks to be properly high quality, although I'm still dubious that 'uncontrolled crossings' have any place in a modern scheme. If theres a desire line should be ped priority Awaiting usual incoming from charlatans who think one of these features is unacceptable but the others are fine

I really don't know what could be clearer evidence of Musk's intentions to fully shift from facilitating networks of actual human interaction to providing a one-way brainwashing service for fascism.

Important context from @sustainabletall.bsky.social. There is no point in talking about embodied emissions in concrete towers without considering the counterfactual, holistically.

Pedestrianise soho www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-pav...

Think one of the key things why adverts are such a thing with them is that people in ads are usually enjoying themselves and having a nice life; seeing non-white people be happy is something that drives your typical racist absolutely mad

Collins is on TREMENDOUS form atm.

MK was designed on a 1km grid for US-style car use. Even the Pedway network was an afterthought, and only designed after the car grid went in.

MK’s Redways were originally called Pedways. Only after they were built was the name changed. They were for pedestrians, not cyclists. And that’s why they’re not great for cyclists.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

I wrote my dissertation on Heart of Darkness and it still floors me this time around. It feels like the twentieth century awakening, like a box of horrors opening. “Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.”

Decades of incomplete and part built cycle routes across Clapham Common TfL's no longer recognise LCN era routes, even where they're signed and safe. A bizarre approach. But they mark C5 across the common, when it's never been built @safecycleldn.bsky.social as ever is the reliable source

So a lot of my complaints here seem to have been addressed - looks like the work was incomplete as both C66 and Tulse Hill LTN now have signs at pretty much every decision point. @lambethcyclists.bsky.social @lambethlivingst.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social

Let me fix this for you. "This government deplores these racist, divisive statements." It is that easy! Just say the bad thing is bad straightaway and move on.

Come on @theguardian.com "Truce resumes after Israeli airstrikes"? This is just a period of time between Israeli airstrikes, not a truce.

Then fix it.

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today! observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Wood burning and gas cooking hugely costly to healthcare systems, study finds #airpollution Story by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this tweet turns 10 today 🎂🥳

Putney. London SW15 "Traffic crisis dominates Putney meeting" - it's always the same, but this really doesn't look like a representative group of residents - only 12% whom are over 65. putney.news/2025/10/12/t...

Another thing on modern cars that is less intuitive, less safe - flush electric (ie non mechanical) door handles. Also see touchscreen controls. Unsurprisingly, mostly led by Tesla www.wired.com/story/new-ru...

Sundays beers. Peanut butter and jelly brown ale ✅

New study on the Paris cycling revolution momentummag.com/new-study-pa...

I ❤️ Viz

This one must have a tractor beam - its on the pavement on the wrong side of the road (More evidence - clearly locked onto this vehicle on streetview as well) @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

“Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport… in cities that have made them mainstream, the idea of going back to car-clogged streets is considered ridiculous.” @economist.com on the rebirth of cycling: e-bikes and safe infrastructure.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

We're pleased to report on a project that Mark has been working on with Robert Weetman for Manchester City Council. This post sets out some ideas that developed from this work and which will hopefully start to explain what "pedestrian-friendly" is, and how we can design better side road junctions.

Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year

Experts feared it would take 193 years to reduce London's deadly levels of NO₂ air pollution to legal levels. This week Mayor Sadiq Khan announced his team had defied the howls of pro-fossil fuel and motoring lobbyists to achieve the life-saving target in just 9 YEARS. Here's how they did it 🧵

Avignon has an interesting bike share. All electric, super cheap (annual pass 30/15€ then free up to 30min) and space efficient minimal docks that keep bikes upright but all smarts are in the bike) Nephew says the issue is you have to take outer bike, even if damaged or low battery.

According to the Israeli far right the Board of Deputies is pro-Palestinian. Absolute lunatics

This is absolutely wild, @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social filmed Robinson with a Hitler appreciation society in Germany for Panorama, a film that was never shown. He has openly expressed antisemitic views.

In memoriam...

“Nearly all 12 apostles” is so funny. I guess there’s no “What would Judas do?” option