Drivers: Drivers are extremely safe and law-abiding at all times even though the speed limit is far too low and they could be trusted to travel at the speed of sound, especially at night.
Also drivers: You were riding a BIKE? On a ROAD? Are you trying to make me KILL you?
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Miffy’s bicycle by Dick Bruna Miffy is a simple rabbit that goes on a bike trip
Title page
When I grow up, thought Miffy, There’s something I would like - To take a trip, if I’m allowed, Touring on my bike
I’ll pedal through the meadows, So colorful and bright. I love to be near flowers. They’re such a lovely sight
I’d like to share with you one of my favorite children’s books as a timeline cleanse. Maybe you know someone small you can share this story with.
Miffy’s Bicycle by Dick Bruna
I hope you enjoy it too.
These authors reviewed 73 previous studies examining car touchscreens.
Conclusion: They're awful
"Touchscreens tended to have negative effects on driving performance, visual attention, and secondary task performance compared with voice control and physical controls."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Do I have any followers with a story about how an electric bike changed their life for the better? I'm looking for strong examples of how an e-bike made something previously unattainable, or hard, a possibility.
For a print magazine, so come prepared with your best head/bike shot!
That looks SOOOO GOOOD
Un balcon vert avec toute une panoplie pour ne pas y avoir d'oiseaux : effarroucheurs d'oiseaux, piques sur le rebord du balcon, et même piques sur le garde-corps !
Facebook post "Councillor Khayer Chowdhury is at Ilford Town Centre Last week, Redbridge Police held an operation in the town centre to tackle footpath cycling and moped riding. A number of riders were issued Fixed Penalty Notices. I am pleased that the police are finally taking action on this and I have asked for these operations to take place on high streets across the whole of Redbridge. Many elderly residents and parents with children have complained to me about footpath cycling. Riders need to slow down, get off the footpath, and be considerate to vulnerable pedestrians. Use the road instead please!" It is over a selection of photos with loads of police walking through a pedestrianised area and in one, talking to a delivery rider.
These councillors make me sick.
Before posting this stuff, they should be forced to cycle the alternatives. For Ilford, it's either a full-on dual carriageway bypass, a series of service roads where you play chicken with drivers of the No.86 bus or chancing it through the pedestrian area which
Canals, windmills, bike paths… What more is there? If you have a few days in and around Amsterdam, here’s what I'd probably do if I wanted to geek out on the transportation network for the first time… www.rollinginthecity.ca/blog/first-t... #netherlands #transportation #cities #bicycles #cycling
this is not a tiktok it is a documentary
They're switching to biodegradable glitter 🥳
Still feel like a dick though
One of the small joys of kids is that if they listen to your music, they will:
1. Find songs they like and ask for again and again
2. Refer to that song *exclusively* by a random line from that song, whether the words are correct or not
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
It's exhausting to listen to and watch him. I don't blame them, he's an energy vampire.
Sure, what he says and does is "important" but listening and distilling through the nonsense makes my whole body tense up
Reluctantly sent an email to school about using glitter outdoors and just washing it away down the drain
Feel like the biggest bloody grinch. "Um, could the children not have fun please??"
Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same.
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Drawing of a busy terraced street has pavement-parked cars down both sides. A long cane user is trying to get down the left pavement. A driver in a pavement-parked SUV on double yellow lines is shouting "I need to park here! You can squeeze through or go on the road!" A powerchair user is driving down the road, while an adult and child on a side-by-side tandem are cycling towards us. A driver coming up the road is shouting "Get off the road! You'll get yourselves killed!" A child on a small bike is riding down the right hand pavement, while a driver in a pavement-parked van shouts "Get off the pavement! You're a danger to pedestrians!"
It's great to see action starting against dangerous pavement parking. Now we need: A clear definition of what "unreasonable obstruction" means; Effective ways to enforce against obstructive and dangerous parking; Enforcement against pavements being broken by heavy vehicles.
Read more: bit.ly/4jsWbRa
Lauren Mercer-Smail, (Canadian)
“Helena from the Alley”, 2019
#art #painting
Coming back to this with my car hating hat on because it's worth noting how often right-wingers have used vehicles to attack protesters, and in fact, Republican lawmakers have passed laws that shield drivers if they hit protesters. Like this one in Florida.
www.yahoo.com/news/desanti...
Our dehumidifier was reading 30-40% yesterday and we thought it was broken
I really effective school program would just be "OK kids, let's create a fresh account and go through what we see".
A Facebook homepage feed which says "No more posts"
I went to my content settings and unchecked the only two options:
- No political content
- "Show less" Sensitive content
This is what facebook looks like for me now
I have a facebook account for work. It is 100% dormant, no activity, no groups, no commenting or posting.
And yet it was flooded with crime, depression, fighting, anti-social driving, anti-social behavior, football hooliganism, adult content.
Uninvited, powerful and anxiety-inducing - all day long
#Bikesky i found the coolest bike, look at this piece of art
I think I just had a physical anxiety reaction to being on the local newspaper website - god that was weird
A magazine cover, with a single illustration covering the entire page, and no headlines over the top. A hand illustration -- perhaps watercolors -- shows a snowy day and an empty road heading towards the viewer. In the distance, a cozy christmas tree store surrounded by green trees, some cut and some still standing, with a cozy cabin behind. In the foreground, a jaunty woman with hat and sunglasses and scarf bicycles toward us, with a christmas tree horizontally held on the front rack of her bike and a black scotty dog running alongside. She and the shop and the cabin are all in pastels; pinks and purples and white. Her white scarf and hat match the white snow on the store and cabin. It is a cheerful, jaunty, undaunted tone, and evenly spaced big snowflakes float down over it all. At the top the magazine name, The New Yorker, the date Dec. 19, 1942, and the Price: 15 cents. At the bottom is the signature of the artist, Garrett Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Price
It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️
Count to seven, slowly in your head.
That's how long I was visible, approaching the junction on a large black and yellow bike with a hi-vis helmet on and they still started to pull out when I was parallel to the side road - literally 2m from the bonnet of the car
