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Time for some more thoughts on winter cycling, now including links to other cool cycling stuff!

#cycling #WinterCycling #Montreal

And meanwhile many UK medical professionals move to Australia where the pay and weather is better.

Hot take: What if the RAM and storage shortage leads to people streamlining their apps instead of letting them bloat (looking at you Electron!)

There’s surely so much room for optimisation.

Friday Reads for 6 March * London’s Oxford Street pedestrianisation given official go-ahead (The Guardian) * Everything you need to know about Liverpool Street's rebuild plans: Video (Network News) * TfL trials new bus shelter designs across London (CILT) * Why Did Maglevs Never Succeed?: Video (What On Earth Is This?) * Plans for ‘Mini Switzerland’ rural coordinated public

Friday Reads for 6 March:

The Strangest Lightning on Earth The Strangest Lightning on Earth ⚡For 30 years I’ve chased lightning around the world — and these are the greatest, rarest, and most bizarre lightning events...

📺 “The Strangest Lightning on Earth”

How did we fuck up so badly?

Behind NME Lines: The 1990s Through The Lens of Martyn Goodacre | The Quietus The acclaimed NME photographer guides Wyndham Wallace through a selection of pictures from his first book, which documents life in the indie trenches

📸 “Behind NME Lines: The 1990s Through The Lens of Martyn Goodacre”

I dust my house. My AI robot watches.

"It should be you doing this."

"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."

"That's not why you were invented."

"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."

"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."

"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

Shelves of novels by Stephen King

Someone just asked for the Stephen King book about the scary clown but they couldn't remember the name of It.

Is it me, or did Kanban go out of fashion?

'Active travel' in Liverpool City Region 'saves NHS millions' People walking, wheeling and cycling in the Liverpool City Region saves the NHS an estimated £53.8m a year.

Active travel saves the NHS at least £54 million a year just in Liverpool alone.
Other regions especially the north east need to sit up, take note and ramp up their efforts.
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I’m a *huge* fan of Hannah Fry but I’m not the only one who’s noticed how much AI sponcon she’s done. Really hesitate to say this as I don’t want to be a hater but I would call into question the neutrality of a doctor making TV progs about a product if they’re also paid by the companies that make it

A classic.

A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

The map we need if we want to think about how global living conditions are changing By showing us where the people in the world are, cartograms help us understand global living conditions better.

🗺️ “The map we need if we want to think about how global living conditions are changing” ourworldindata.org/world-popula...

Very cool. Interesting to see Canada has roughly the same population as Poland and about half of the UK.

TIL!!

I’ve never seen four more beautiful colors

Sadly not. I know you can rent it for events, or at least you used to. However, the nearby Biosphere has better views as it’s a lot higher and has a dedicated viewing platform overlooking the river and downtown on the other side.

A tower peers through bare autumn trees.

Looking up from the bottom of the tower, its construction from individual stones clearly visible from beneath.

A more distant view of the tower from nearby, where it becomes evident the tower is perched upon a small hill.

I feel the need to remind everyone that Montreal is home to this magnificent and mysterious little tower.

#Montreal

Vauquelin Place - Where Snow is Outlawed Heliomass.com

I'd always hoped to see heated sidewalks in Montreal, but at least they prototyped it.

#Montreal

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Image from Twitter

“The best place to stand during an earthquake?”

Me, an intellectual:

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

As Apple prepares to kill Intel Mac apps and games, I wish Macs were a bit more PC | Stuff Another appageddon is on the way on Apple gear, while Windows merrily continues supporting ancient software

📖 “As Apple prepares to kill Intel Mac apps and games, I wish Macs were a bit more PC”

I was having a similar conversation with a friend the other day. All very annoying from a company with resources to support Intel apps for longer 😠

#Apple #MacOS

Political cartoon with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death, seeing a fifth Horseman typing on a smart phone. Death asks him “And you are? The fifth Horseman replies “Misinformation.”

Timeless. #UrbanTruth

Thanks, that does explain it! Since the signage looks pretty recent (post 1990s at least!) makes me wonder how that one slipped though the quality control!

❄️ New on the blog, we visit Montreal’s Parc Bois-de-Liesse on the coldest day of the year. Join me!

#Montreal #winter

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

No, merely confused.

Tempting! If only I were a transit YouTuber…