We are looking forward to our summer social evening picnic 🍉🍐🥪🍾 in Belmont Park, tomorrow Friday 14th. Hope to see you there from 5pm - there should be some welcome shade under the trees :) 🌳🌳🌳🌳 fb.me/e/77o2qbmva Lots of things to discuss and celebrate. Do join us. 🏃‍♀️🛴🚲🧑‍🦽👨‍🦯🚶‍♀️

Exeter Cycling Campaign @exetercycling.bsky.social · 3d ago

Summer social - Fri 14th Aug 5-8pm Bring drinks, snacks & picnic blanket. Find us 5-8pm near the grassy play park by hut, Belmont Park All welcome We've arranged this as a family-friendly picnic so no need for those with childcare responsibilities to arrange babysitters. 1/

It was helpful to read this.

Christian Wolmar@christianwolmar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Excellent by the sometimes gloomy Monbiot. Are we at a tipping point on climate? www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

This year's batch of elderberry and blackberry vinegar bottled up ready for the coming year.

1️⃣What causes the NOx & particulate emissions we are forced to breath in? In Exeter, the vast majority is caused by cars (petrol, electric and diesel). 🚗🚗🚗🚗💨🚗🚗🚗🚗💨🚗💨🚗💨🚗💨🚗💨 All shaded in green & yellow in the pie chart - a cunning disguise! #pollution #ExeterAQAP

UK National Centre for Domestic Violence is a free, fast emergency injunction service to those at risk of all forms of domestic abuse regardless of their financial situation, ethnicity, gender or sexuality. Contact info for anyone who needs their help or knows someone who does 🫂

I'm exasperated that Vinted have added international listings with no means to filter them out. It's not #lowcarbon shopping if its flown in from USA. #climatecrisis

Every vehicle in this picture is transporting one person #arroganceofspace

Apparently there's a hose pipe ban in my area but South West water haven't bothered to email me to tell me. Quite bizarre.

To be clear, the arseholes kicking off in Thetford aren’t ‘race rioters’. They’re racist rioters. Big difference.

Went am i not surprised?

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · last wk.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...

National Highways closes walking and cycling routes beside heavily polluted roads

Roads body accused of 'perversely penalising' walkers and cyclists for motor traffic pollution

lauralaker.substack.com

Two late swift over our house this evening in Exeter.

This is what I think of when people complain that climate activists are 'disruptive'

Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Within the next 2 decades half the entire world’s infrastructure will be located in places where we can no longer survive. Half the global human population will need to migrate in the next 20 years just to survive.

2 drivers in 2 days on mobiles at this junction- where people cycling/walking must cross between queuing cars. Is my safety worth their attention? Feeling very demotivated re DCP OpSNAP after they didn't act on a van driver using phone with 2 hands, steering with forearms on pedestrianised street!

Just wondering... #streetsforkids

Good grief, this hits home.

People in Devon might be interested to know this.

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 3w ago

Humphrey Clemens is Reform UK’s Candidate for Honiton St Michael’s, Devon He’s an anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist. In 2023 he posted that Paul Cattermole’s death through a heart condition was “yet another tragic Covid death”, without any evidence. archive.is/6dV1D

Number of side road zebras in Exeter: 0 Number of on-street bike hangars in Exeter: 0 Number of metres of new bike path in Exeter in past three years: 30 (three-zero) Because reactionaries have a veto on progressive transport policy.

MummaLovesExeter@loveexeter.bsky.social · 4w ago

@exetercycling.bsky.social once again I wish Exeter took hints from Oxford

If almost every person on Earth did nothing but make cups of tea, day and night, one every second, and poured every single one into the ocean, that's how much heat the ocean is absorbing. This heat absorption, driven by our CO₂ emissions, causes sea level rise, marine heatwaves, and polar ice melt.

‘7.6 billion mugs of tea a second’: a new way to make sense of the heat pouring into our oceans

Most of the heat from global warming ends up in the oceans, not the atmosphere.

theconversation.com

@exetercycling.bsky.social once again I wish Exeter took hints from Oxford

Cllr Emily Kerr 💚@emilykerr36.bsky.social · last mo.

DRUMROLL - we've got our first side-road zebra crossings! Well done Manchester & Westminster for piloting. And Oxfordshire for rolling it out.

The key point is that the NHS might keep you alive with one or debilitating diseases, but it's much more fun to be fit and active and not become sick in the first place. But that requires the infrastructure to allow us to be fit and active!

It took me about 17 phone calls to end my Virgin contract. I was at my whits end. I never thought to bring in the Ombudsman. BBC News - Virgin Media fined after hanging up on customers trying to cancel contracts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Virgin Media fined after hanging up on customers trying to cancel contracts

Millions of phone calls from customers were "likely mishandled" over nearly a three-year period, the regulator says.

bbc.co.uk

What a wonderful diversion to counter my gloomies.

Nome@nome.bsky.social · last yr.

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

Amnesty International UK@amnestyuk.bsky.social · last mo.

The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.

Until the 50s the main form of Private transport was the Bicycle When we were forced into cars, we were not asked if we wanted to give up our safety on every single road in the entire country It was simply taken from us

Laura G Mitchell@lauragmitchell.com · last mo.

We need to stop dedicating a disproportionate amount of public space on city streets to cars. I rarely see drivers driving on many streets, but the tax payer subsidized “free” car parking & dangerous car driving greatly hampers traffic flow & safety. Most people drive on the highway anyway.

I like this!

Jeff Spencer@revjss.bsky.social · last mo.

And there’s more… More lies, more dodgy deals and denials.. Farage has bought 4 houses for cash since 2020 - the year we left the EU. And declared only 2 of them. Come on people. The man’s a hot mess of corruption, racism, national security threat and greed. Let’s bin him off.

Pithy on climate science www.ft.com/content/a2ea...

Apart from a small decrease in lorries, motor traffic is up generally in GB 2025-6. Traffic on ‘A’ roads up 2.0% and on minor roads up 1.6%. The Government needs to switch investment and policies enabling such traffic growth #RoadTrafficReduction www.gov.uk/government/s...

Provisional road traffic estimates, Great Britain: April 2025 to March 2026

Provisional estimates for road traffic in Great Britain for the year ending March 2026, by vehicle type and road class.

gov.uk

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23