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Cities around the world are starting to ban fossil fuel advertising - just like tobacco ads before them.
It’s time more cities followed.
#BanFossilAds
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A billion reasons why we urgently need transition from #FossilFuels to renewable energy. Here's another one! Pay of #Shell Chief Exec Wael Sawan rose 60% to £13.8m in 2025 despite 22% drop in annual profits & 4 workers died in workplace accidents. Now Shell Board wants to raise max CEO pay by 50%🤑🤯
I'd be very interested to see the numbers on this, but have no idea where to find the data.
How many women athletes must now take this test x £185 = How much money drained from women's sport funding? In order to stigmatise and exclude how many on ideological grounds?
Finally it sends a terrible message. Complain loudly enough and we will take out cycle lanes. Is Shinfield Rd next? To the cycling community it sadly shows to never trust this council. They will show pretty drawings of cycle lanes (e.g. along London Rd, Queens Rd) to then bin them a few years later.
The new plans will also make it very difficult to cross Sidmouth St along South St. They are planning to take out two pedestrian refuges without putting in any crossing. Imagine having to cross two lanes of heavy traffic as a wheelchair user or with small children.
A bridge with a big gap, with the text "We're not seeing drivers using the new bridge we built.". At the bottom "Connected networks are just as important for people on bikes as they are for those driving cars."
The cycle lane was certainly underused, because it was never connected to anything. The council has been promising this for years. Just in 2024 they were given £238k to draw up plans for active travel connections at the Sidmouth St/Queens Rd junction. That opportunity will now be gone for decades.
A more courageous council would have implemented congestion charges and used that income to connect up walking and cycling routes. If they are so hell-bent on adding road space they could have taken out parking spaces instead.
Could adding another lane of traffic reduce congestion locally and temporarily? Maybe. Will it displace the congestion further down into an already heavily congested network? Probably. Even if it does reduce overall congestion induced demand will rapidly clog it up again.
After years of glacial progress Reading Borough Council now plans to remove cycling and walking infrastructure in an attempt please car drivers.
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Last week’s successful challenge of Palestine Action’s proscription is a huge win - but is our right to protest still under threat?
Watch new PSUK now to hear more from @amnestyuk.bsky.social UK Director of Law and Human Rights, Tom Southerden.
#Politics #UK #News
Something the Government want you to forget...
I have friends being threatened by their workplaces over the use of toilets they've been using for years without problem.
Google, who is reported to merrily hand over data on ICE critics to DHS, wants to control what you can do on your device. Another reason for tech independence.
In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
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Or, here's an idea, maybe we shouldn't let the "financial market investors" who have caused decades of austerity, dictate how we treat the most vulnerable in society?
💡 Ever heard of monopoly power?
What sounds like a board game is Big Tech’s core strategy: lock-in. Companies like Microsoft make institutions depend on them - not because they’re ethical, but because ecosystems are hard to leave.
Great long-read series by SOMO 👉 www.somo.nl/beyond-prices/
We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy!
Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence.
Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.
Ban on ads for carbon intensive products, including meat! This is progressive
Did you mean to write "But *when* will these ambitious career politicians cause problems"? 🙂
📣 Parents. If cars make your walk or cycle to school feel unsafe, that's not okay.
We need your photos of the school run! The more people can see how awful it is out there - and how unsafe it is for our children - the more power we have. DM pix or tag us in a post.
#streetsforkids #schoolrun
2025 global climate highlights are out:
🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level
📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5)
🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record
See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
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Flanders sees a mobility shift: 51% of new bikes are electric & cycling risk dropped 30% since 2017. 🇧🇪 Investments hit €300m/year, aiming for 30% of all trips by bike by 2040.
#ActiveTravel #Flanders
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Flanders, with a population about 1/10th of the UK, invests €485m/year in cycling or €71 per capita per year. For the UK this would mean a £4,265m per year (or £3,609m/y for England)! Consider this the next time the government tries to sell a few £100m as a significant investment.
A bar chart entitled "Evolutie fietsinvesteringen" ("evolution of bicycle investments"). It shows bars for local, provincial and Flemish investments for the years 2019-2024. The total numbers are 315, 466, 475, 455, 408 and 485 million respectively.
It seems like €300m/year is the Flemish investment at regional level. The brochure in the link adds up the local and provincial numbers to around €485m/year. That's a whopping €71 per capita per year!
A bar chart entitled "Evolutie fietsinvesteringen" ("evolution of bicycle investments"). It shows bars for local, provincial and Flemish investments for the years 2019-2024. The total numbers are 315, 466, 475, 455, 408 and 485 million respectively.
It seems like €300m/year is the Flemish investment at regional level. The brochure in the link adds up the local and provincial numbers to around €485m/year. That's a whopping €71 per capita per year!
Labour Party friends: I cannot in good conscience vote for this agenda and nor should you
IANAL, but it seems so clear that the government's inaction (especially against SUVs) is breaching the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (the rights to relax and play, health, and safety from violence). But "the economy" comes first. Time for crowdfunded mass litigation?
If you are thinking of following suit, here's a list of EU tech alternatives:
european-alternatives.eu
