carl mark (he/him)

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DMs for important stuff only please KILLED a billion peolle 🇮🇪 Probably straight I like trains

I’ll be interested to see how the Grand Tour fares without its initial hosts. I do have hopes it’ll be better than the Top Gear reboot, mainly because they’ve chosen three people with a genuine passion for the subject rather than three rent-a-face big names. just a thought.

Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.

Stunning display of motornormativity here from the BBC. No, they are not "closing down streets" - if they were doing that they would be shut off from everyone. Rather, they are changing who is using the space. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Leeds: The city closing down streets so children can play

In Leeds, streets are being temporarily closed to traffic so kids have more space to safely play - an initiative proving beneficial to both children and adults.

bbc.co.uk

Dear America: absorb Delaware into Maryland and give Hawaii independence, and then you can make DC and Puerto Rico states, then develop Puerto Rico’s domestic economy, make it independent and then give Delaware back its statehood, and you’ve done all that while keeping at a round 50 states.

RIP Louisa Gag, a transit planner who dedicated her career to making Boston’s streets safer for cyclists & pedestrians. She was killed while biking to work on July 9, 2026. Street safety improvements shouldn’t be delayed, watered down, or treated as a political inconvenience. Safe streets now!!

Half of the country is in "exceptionally serious drought" - putting us at more risk of wildfires and threatening our food security. Meanwhile water companies are wasting a staggering 2.87 billion litres of water every day through leaky pipes. Time to end water privatisation.

Half of England officially in "exceptionally serious" drought