@racingboo
Media studies PhD with focus on discourse related to cycling and cyclists: applied social dominance theory to the roads network. Interested in social justice and equality. I share anything i find interesting. 🇿🇦🇮🇪
I'm scrolling BlueSky after about three months of deliberately cutting myself off from everything for my own mental health: I love you all but I'll see you again in another three months. Or more.
I bought myself proper, decent quality in ear nose cancelling earphones and I live here now, in this heavenly headspace. I'm never leaving again. Well, maybe to recharge them but except for that, this is my home now.
There are 3.4 million girls 14 and under in England.
Elon Musk just wrote that 1 out of every 13 such girls is right now being “systematically raped by migrant gangs.”
The man has gone utterly insane. He’s a sociopath. His latest post is—unambiguously—neo-Nazi rhetoric intended to incite violence.
Brown Thomas Arnotts boss voices ‘deep concerns’ over Dublin city transport plan Retailer says current proposed plan will see €141 million drop in retail activity because of the measures ‘Electric’: Brown Thomas Arnotts’ boss hails strong Christmas Donald McDonald says sales up 5% in store and 20% online in December – ahead of expectations
July: Brown Thomas Arnotts CEO says the City Centre Transport Plan will reduce retail activity and lead to the loss of thousands of jobs
August: City Centre Transport Plan is implemented
December: Brown Thomas Arnotts CEO reports 5% increase in sales
Without evidence, Israel has arrested the last doctor at the last hospital in North Gaza and declared that he's a "militant". Here is his piece from earlier in December for NYT Opinion www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o...
“hole in the ozone layer” levels of erasure. my mom was a project manager who busted her ass for years to make sure IBM was ready for Y2K and completely succeeded, only for it to get turned into a late night joke. funny how the stories of mass collective action to avoid disaster rarely get told
Everyone's teeing off, so I might as well join in. What people are mostly responding to is the ill-advised use of the word "hype" in the headline. It wasn't hype, there was a real problem, and it was ultimately adequately addressed. Which the story says. But ...
Surround yourself with people smarter than you. If you are often the smartest person in the room, you are either an arrogant ass or need to find some better rooms.
Need more Irish design / Dublin-y / public sector / civic-y people in my feed - any recommendations greatly appreciated.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Good to see some long-overdue attention to climate fund travel policies. Many developed countries make their civil servants fly economy, so it's only fair that international officials funded by taxpayers do the same. This money is supposed to help communities to deal with climate impacts.
As conditions become more extreme everywhere, people will have to move. We need to plan #NomadCentury
Good thread here:
"Thousands of Australians showed up on the coast to express their support for the peaceful protesters. Local law enforcement officials, on the other hand, threw the book at the newly-arrested activists while depicting them in disparaging terms."
www.salon.com/2024/11/26/1...
#VoteBikeTransferBike
Whatever your politics please use your vote today if you can. Half the people don’t have a vote. Then half of those who can vote often don’t.
If you don’t know a candidate personally then this article might help you choose based on a candidate's party affiliation.
“It should not have taken 30 years” says Minister Ryan as Dublin’s first continouslly segragated suburbs to city centre cycle route is opened
-- Minister questions if the incoming Government will fund public transport, walking and cycling enough to allow progress to continue. Outgoing transport…
Today might be a good day to acknowledge that twelve decades of near-continuous French military involvement in Chad has been utterly ruinous for that country and its population. If you'd like to know more, there's a good book about it.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
What a quote…
On the one hand: kids’ freedom, independent mobility and health..
On the other hand: air and noise pollution, transport poverty, tolerance of pedestrian and cyclist deaths
Today is my first general election as an Irish citizen. It is staggering to me just how much more democratic Ireland’s voting system is than the country I grew up in, the US, where the binary is really the only choice. 1/4
Who is looking forward to a safer, healthier, more sustainable and active travel commute along the new Clontarf-City Centre segregated cycle track?? 🚲 🌳 🐿️ Good news for north-side students and staff bound for campuses in Dublin’s City-based campuses. #SmarterTravel
www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...
Huge kissing canopies in downtown Brisbane, Australia
Kissing canopies in Vancouver
Kissing canopies in Vancouver
Kissing canopy over the sidewalk in Vancouver
Did you know that a “kissing canopy” is when trees above a street or sidewalk grow to touch overhead, creating a cool, shaded place? Despite it being colder and darker these days, let’s remember the beauty and value that #StreetTrees add to our cities, IF we design for them. #KissingCanopies
Interesting that the far right in this country are now putting abortion top of their agenda. Always has been part of it, as my book states, but I wondered when this would start ramping up…
Now we’re talking
How dare this Indigenous community & their lawyers try to deprive a giant fossil fuel company of its god given right to profits?
SLAPP suit of a new kind decided on technical grounds could shake up climate litigation in Australia & beyond
Legal defense NGO ordered to pay $9 million to gas co:
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
How much of this data is genuinely useful?
Hi, Conrad here. I spread intriguing research from Pew Research Center and beyond.
I'm a sociologist and demographer paid to study global religious change. If you think your peeps would be interested in my posts, please share this #introduction.
The situation at Whitefield wasn't isolated. There are still autistic children around the country facing abuse because lessons continue to be ignored for their protection, including application of utterly harmful applied behaviourial analysis (ABA) approaches. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Switzerland—Rejects a referendum to spend $5.6 billion on highway widening.
Paris—Moves to replace 60,000 parking spaces with trees and green spaces.
Oslo—Eliminates cars from city center, cutting greenhouse emissions 35%.
Kathy Hochul and Doug Ford—Let’s ask suburban boomers what they prefer.
Tweet from: @BravoCoolee Twitter the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say "I like pancakes" and somebody will say "So you hate waffles?" No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about. 6:04 PM • Oct 23, 2017
Thank you to the trolls for bringing the Twitter energy here. If I say "I like bikes", someone will ask "So why do you hate disabled people?"
Drivers keep getting angry at for me saying that they are only limited by what we allow them to do.
But reality keeps proving me right.