Adam Turner 🏳️🌈
@awjt.bsky.social
Just a big, queer ADHDer who plans and designs places. Views are my own. He/him. 📍 Glasgow, Scotland
A 'cost of living' government needs to be a 'climate action' government—or it won't be either.
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d agoBBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?
Interesting framing in that headline. I'd say it's traffic that "closes down" streets. Children playing is a sign of a street that's *open*—safe, welcoming and community-orientated.
Stephen Frost@sfrost.bsky.social · 17h ago“As Aydin jumps a scooter over ramps set up in the middle of the road, children around him are drawing with chalk, blowing bubbles and kicking a football in a spot where cars are usually driving through.” Good job Leeds. More children should have the chance to play in their neighbourhood like this.
This. 👇 I can delete this app just as I've deleted many others.
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d agoCalling it a bubble is to miss the point. Go to where a community suits you, and where you suit the community. Where you can get what you want. I don’t want fights any more. I want facts, freedom and fun - peppered with interesting information. Is that a bubble? Maybe, but a good one. 4/4
#Motonormativity is... focusing on minor overnight disruption for drivers, at news that two essential footbridges spanning the single widest stretch of motorway in Europe are to be repaired - after being out of action for two years.
This drone shot of Strathbungo in Glasgow reminded me earlier of a very very similar area in Copenhagen. Similar townhouses, very similar streets. Very different uses of street space. 🌳🛝🚲🌷🏡
Past Glasgow@pastglasgow.co.uk · last wk.Looking down on the category B-listed three storey late 19th century tenements of Nithsdale Rd in Strathbungo. There's something appealing about the uniformity of this stretch. #glasgow
One of the great photos of our time. Captured by Maximilien Lamy for AFP.
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
The ‘Zero Flags’ exhibition just off Candleriggs, flying the flags of the Commonwealth nations that still criminalise homosexuality. The good news is, there’s fewer flags than there would have been in 2014; the bad news is, there’s still 29. Here’s to fewer still in 2030.
I know the impacts of climate change are often abstract, but if farmers can't grow food, that's a *very real* problem. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We might as well not bother growing things, says Merseyside farmer
Farmers in the north-west of England warn extreme weather conditions are causing significant problems.
bbc.co.uk
It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.
BREAKING: The Cost of Renting Receipt 1988 was the last time we had rent controls in England. Since then rents have risen by 1,200%. If our groceries had risen at the same rate, a standard ten-item shop would cost nearly £120, more than five times what it costs today.
A video well worth 2 minutes 20 of anyone's time. #NetZero
Chris Howe (Rail Focus) 🏳️🌈@railfocus.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's almost like there are people/organisations that don't want the public to know the truth about our over reliance on gas for electricity generation and its impact on our energy bills. #EdMilliband #AndyBurnhan
Think my new ADHD meds are subtly working... I can count to 10 reps without getting distracted by my own thoughts, so that's a win.
I marched in my first Glasgow Pride today. Some colleagues and I got hold of a rainbow JCB for the parade and I spent most of my time trying to part the crowds and get the gayest telehandler you've ever seen through the city! I wanted folks to know that queers are EVERYWHERE, even in construction.
The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.
‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says
Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record
theguardian.com
On his last day of PMQs and cabinet Starmer oversaw the order to enforce the trans segregation guidance that makes Britain one of the most trans hostile nations in Europe - creating a culture of gender norm enforcement, social suspicion, and vigilante toilet police.
Seriously, what is going through the mind of the person matching this picture to this story?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3w agoSad that these people died in their beach chairs.
NEW: Anti-racism campaigners will hold a rally in Glasgow on July 25 to counter a meeting of the far-right group 'Unite the Clans' 🚨
Anti-racism rally set to counter rising anti-immigration disorder in Glasgow
thenational.scot
Pedestrianization is often framed as transforming streets. In many cases, we're actually restoring them. We're reclaiming what's been lost: social connection, local commerce, civic life, and human-scale movement. Perhaps it's time to shift from street transformation to street restoration.
First day on atomoxetine today and... The effects with this one aren't supposed to kick in as quickly as they do with methylphenidate. I have however just had a three-hour nap in the middle of the day. 🤷
Adam Turner 🏳️🌈@awjt.bsky.social · 8mo agoFirst day on ADHD medication today. 🥳 Trust me to feel mega sluggish and sleepy after basically taking a stimulant. Absolutely standard. 🙃
The lack of urban trees across the UK is a public health emergency. We need vastly more green shade (and we need to nurture it through ever more brutal summers).
Heatwave: UK's overheating towns and cities rank way below European…
Only Hastings and Guildford rank above European average for urban tree cover, with Manchester leading large cities in England
eciu.net
The nice thing about lifting in a heatwave is I'm one of only few who are insane enough to do it. That's the only nice thing about lifting in a heatwave.
Bold of you to message me on Grindr when your profile says you're "looking for sane guys".
Me, unmedicated, at 2am: joyful, buzzing, brimming with joie de vivre, literally bouncing off literal walls. Me, unmedicated, at 10am: despondent, brain missing, flat, dispirited, need sleep, thinking hurts, help.
