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A landscape without wildlife is just scenery. Anti-Brexit. Cycle everywhere. Smarter water management for our freshwater future.
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“I wish to Christ we had bicycles,” Bonello said. “Do they ride bicycles in America?” Aymo asked. “They used to.” “Here it is a great thing,” Aymo said. “A bicycle is a splendid thing.” “I wish to Christ we had bicycles,” Bonello said. “I’m no walker.” ~ A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway

LOL from @lewisgoodall.com

First swallow over the house this evening! #Exeter #herecomessummer

As the article (in thread) says, outsize SUVs cost the public purse more in terms of strain on the infrastructure & pollution, and are far more dangerous for pedestrians & cyclists. Yes, we should tax them and their usage heavily. Why on Earth should the rest of us subsidise this obnoxious trend?

Good news & a call to action

Overheard in an Italian restaurant in Brighton, two embittered oldsters (with venom) "thank god we left the EU, I don't care how much it cost." Definitely a case of FADFO @benansell.bsky.social but also interesting acknowledgement that it has cost us @pmdfoster.bsky.social

Excellent to see this high quality separated bike path fully open - a great project by the Devon transport team.

Our report, What is being built in 2025: In search of the station, found new housing developments full of roundabouts & ring roads, of lorries & cars, where cycling is neither pleasant nor safe. We think all new housing should come with cycling facilities. Read our recommendations: buff.ly/ZtDnzPY

A stark warning from insurance giant Allianz: "We are fast approaching warming levels where insurers won't be able to offer coverage for many climate risks. The premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay. This is already happening"... www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...

Love this @cohsat.bsky.social @exetercycling.bsky.social

Every word of this. Take down the anti-child, anti-play signs @exetercouncil.bsky.social . They're out of date. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

At Stoke On Trent station and the platform fills with the Stoke football first team players, to a gaggle of selfie hunters on the platform. In the UK multi millionaire footballers travel to their matches by train

This is basically what I say in my book. Without road pricing/congestion pricing, the lower costs of charging and running EVs will lead to a lot more driving

Important to remain as clear-eyed as Raphael Behr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Water wars

The US "peace plan" is essentially to take Ukraine to the brink of defeat and then leverage their desperation to impose a surrender on them. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/kei...

these are now 'tariffs' in the sense that your 2yo is 'making tea' in their play kitchen that you have to pretend to eat & i propose that next time he does it, everyone just goes 'tariffs, eh? oh yes super scary!' but carries on trading as if literally nothing had happened, everyone's happy

I wish more journalists would ask Trump ... What peace process?

It's not "NO"...🤞🤞🤞

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.