Leonard Cohen on his tricycle with his sister Westmount, Canada ca. late 1930s 🇨🇦
Alan Paxton
@alanpx.bsky.social
Cyclist, software person, interested amateur, servant of Labrador
Data centres are a physical representation of all the stuff people hate about big tech power. They're the symbol.
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d agoWondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...
I've updated my previous work to make an unofficial map to help explain Oxford's traffic filters, due to start on 28th September. Please share if useful, but not for republication in news media, advertising or political/campaign material without further approval from me.
Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue
Hahaha. We need so much more of this Private Eye style ridicule when it comes to Farage. No one should be taking him seriously any more.
From Will Self of all people, an absolutely clinical deconstruction of Kathleen Stock. Nice to know that some writers can see through some of the GC crowd.
hi, musicologist here: this is a cars problem not a music problem
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoA new study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, found a 15% increase in traffic fatalities on the days major new albums are released, compared with the days immediately before and after. https://cnn.it/4g2Sl1d
People who "almost got hit by a bicycle" are extremely numerous while people who actually got hit by cars remain unavailable for comment.
If you're not willing to pay that cost, so it goes. Just don't lie to me or yourself that it's because you're very concerned about the possibility that proper speed enforcement would prevent Steve McQueen being able to build up the necessary momentum to jump the fence into Switzerland or whatever.
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 6d agoEvery conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"
Here’s a bank saying the thing that everyone else in the EU can see with their own eyes. If you weaken climate action because you want better economic outcomes, your economic outcomes get much worse because of the bad climate change you could have acted on.
Rosamunde Van Brakel@rosamundevb.bsky.social · 6d agoA Dutch bank has warned that Europe risks falling into a “doom loop” in which climate damage slows economic growth, prompting governments to weaken climate policy, and so leaving the continent even more exposed to future heatwaves. euobserver.com/232026/eu-fu...
The Recurring Speed Camera Discourse is a bit exasperating really because, look, we all know what's actually happening is people just want to be able to commit the pertinent crimes and don't like being punished for it, but people come up with obvious post-hoc pseudo-woke rationalisations for this.
Fatalities and casualties reduced by 34% on London roads after the speed limit was lowered to 20 mph. Are drivers just more obedient in London than elsewhere? No! It’s the speed cameras!
'20mph roads are working in London - they should be England's default'
TfL's Chief Safety, Health and Environment Officer has told government ministers they are being too "hesitant" and should take inspiration from Sadiq Khan
mylondon.news
My neighbor told me sharks keep eating his influencers so I aked how many influencers he has and he said he just goes to Instagram and gets a new influencer afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding influencers to sharks and then his daughter started crying.
The fact there’s multiple dickheads giving £5 million to racist wasters tells you we don’t tax these fuckers anywhere near enough
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · last wk.Racist loser Laurence Fox got 27 times fewer votes than Binface. That £5 million Jeremy Hosking gave him really paying off.
Dunno, gang. Probably just me but it seems like there's been a lot more chat about disposable BBQs than there ever was about successive governments abandoning targets for transitioning away from petrol vehicles or fossil fueled power generation or domestic gas use and stuff.
I still can’t wrap my head around heatwave/drought news articles that don’t mention climate change. The best this article can do is say “this has been a year like no other”. Heatwaves are hotter because of climate change, predominantly driven by burning fossil fuels. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Amber heat health alerts for almost all of England as next heatwave begins
The amber alerts will be in place until Friday evening to cover high and even extreme temperatures expected through this week.
bbc.co.uk
Vaccine benefit in children "Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The most striking benefit was for vaccination vs measles (Figure)
I am not asking people to feel sorry for tech employees whose microkitchens no longer have diet snapple, but the shift from "we have to keep our employees happy" to "fuck off you ungrateful cretins" has happened at the same time as the tech oligarchs going full mask-off fash it's not a coincidence
August 9th: Happy Richard Nixon Resignation Day. When there were consequences for corrupt, criminal presidents.
When you don't listen for *years* to what loads of us who actually understand universities say, when you listen to a load of know-nothing frauds from think tanks and consultants and media loudmouths instead, this is the university disaster you make. Govts could have listened. They didn't.
