Some people seem to change when behind the wheel. It’s as if they forget basic manners and respect.
They think their need, journey and passage on the road is all important regardless of risk.
Entitlement. Toxic masculinity. Impatience. Arrogance.
We need a radical overhaul of driving culture.
Great video — but the real issue is driver culture. Why rush past a cyclist only to sit at the next red light, where they catch up anyway? Adding real risk for only a few seconds — or often zero gain. We wouldn’t barge ahead in a normal queue, so why do it behind the wheel?
#RoadSafety #Cycling
Shame Canada couldn't win gold at hockey, but on the bright side, they've probably saved their nation from the imposition of 1000% punative tariffs on goods into the USA
Album cover for Cirith Ungol's 1984 release King of the Dead.
Bought this vinyl on sight in 1984, browsing through Shades in Soho, London. Quickly grew to love its doomy vibes.
Since a handful of hate filled people protested outside RNLI HQ yesterday because they're angry that crews don't discriminate in their rescues and work to save all lives at sea you might want to show your support with a one off or regular donation.
rnli.org/pages/ig/new...
Note how he's not presenting any ideas, nor telling people why they should vote for him.
He's just insulting everyone else.
I spent several hours with Gisele Pelicot in Paris last week
She is REMARKABLE
Her interview is powerful, emotional and…uplifting
She has a message of hope for survivors of sexual violence around the world - but also for all of us
Plus….she has found love ❤️
BBC iplayer from 6am tomorrow, & Sun
The rise in serious injuries makes the publication of the Mayor’s Vision Zero Action Plan 2 all the more urgent.
We need every tool in the book to reduce danger on London’s roads and provide viable alternatives to driving with safe crossings, bike lanes, speed limits and a huge culture shift.
Isn’t it time we changed the language of “sex trafficking”? Instead use “Rape trafficking”. Sex implies consent. There is none. This is rape, coercion and abuse of vulnerable people. Our language should reflect the harm inflicted. Words matter.
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026...
This is another reason measures to reduce traffic are so urgently needed.
Everything helps - pedestrian crossings, bike lanes, 20mph limits, clean air zones, congestion zones, investment in new public transport options, parking control, liveable neighbourhoods and car clubs.
Let’s do it all.
Neat demonstration of how artificial so-called intelligence is taking us backwards.
"ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s."
#AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this
phys.org/news/2026-02...
With criminality this serious ending in death, what other crime would escape national news? This was only BBC local. What more must happen for a lifetime ban? Driving is a privilege, not a right. Our culture — and sentencing — needs radical change.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Let’s shift the narrative: focus on drivers — with better legislation, clearer guidance and stronger communication — so harm isn’t normalised or dismissed as “cycling is risky”. It’s long past time to prevent harm, not explain it away. Less victim-blaming.
As the graphic so clearly shows US NHTSA data would support the concerns being raised…
#OtD 29 Jan 2024 6-year-old Hind Rajab and 6 of her relatives were attacked in Gaza by Israeli troops. Rajab survived and called an ambulance, which got permission from Israel to rescue her. Then troops killed the paramedics, and Rajab also died. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1545...
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
I can't tell you how many times in my old job I warned that a change in technology would not result in a change in productivity because the technology was implemented not in response to identifying a business problem and finding a well-matched solution but because some guy wanted it.
This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
I have signed this petition. It calls for by-elections if MP's change party.
petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...
Driving is a privilege, earned through assessment and retained via acceptable standards.
Why should such people ever be allowed to lawfully drive again and share the road with victims?
We would never return a firearms licence to someone who unlawfully used a gun to kill. Why is driving different?
Crossed Hammersmith bridge on my bike earlier & honestly only sociopaths who live nowhere near here would think it’s a good idea to bring 25k cars back over this bridge every day
Sound on for a rant about the Putney politicians demanding exactly this based on convenient lies & political cowardice
“In 2024, Oxfam’s figures show, the wealth of the world’s 2,769 billionaires grew by $2tn, or $2,000bn. The total global spending on international aid last year was projected to be, at most, $186bn, less than a tenth of the increment in their wealth.”
Excellent thread. Do click on the alt text.
The entrance to Reading Bike Hub being painted. A few light and dark blue stripes have been painted already. Caption: "can you guess what's coming?"
Reading Bike Hub is all about sustainability and is getting an exciting new mural to represent this.
Recognise those stripes? @edhawkins.org @uniofreading.bsky.social
BORIS JOHNSON: If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire - and if that's the fight they want, bring it on! But they should heed my warning before things get bloody..
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
