#Flachwitz #Allesnurgeklaut Wisst ihr wo man im Baumarkt die Leihmuttern findet. Stehen direkt neben den Spahnplatten. (geklaut von Benjamin Schöttler)
Peter Brommer
@pbro.bsky.social
Born, lives. Cares about active transport, including cycling, sustainability. Associate Professor in Materials Modelling at the University of Warwick. Pronouns: he/him.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Taking the money from overseas aid budgets is fundamentally wrong headed. If you want to fund public transport, do it with car fuel duty.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w agoNew UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will use money allocated to helping poor countries deal with the worst impacts of climate change to fund a new cap on bus fares across England.
I broke this story two weeks ago for @cyclingelectric.bsky.social - good to see it get wider pickup www.cyclingelectric.com/news/police-...
Call for education as police crush road-legal, council-funded Tern HSD e-bike
A legal e-bike, mistakenly seized and destroyed by West Midlands Police as part of a crackdown on illegal electric motorcycles
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Can you imagine the uproar if someone's legal car was seized and immediately crushed because some woodentop made a mistake? And the Police don't even apologise or accept they made a mistake. It's good to see this go mainstream. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Birmingham man's legal e-bike seized and destroyed by police in error
The BBC finds the bike was legal and supplied as part of a scheme to reduce pollution in the city.
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Even though yesterday's match didn't count for much it was infinitely more fun to watch...
Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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Another reason to never vote Labour again: Institutional violence against trans children.
Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 3w agoJust had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2
It is mad that we have, somehow, allowed net zero - a policy common to all major parties under 5 years ago and supported by a majority of the public - to become a synoym for mad radicalism. It is doubly mad that we've allowed this to happen during the hottest summer on record.
Jo Michell@jomichell.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m sorry, but what is ‘radical’ about the policies pursued by Miliband?
I thought I was doing a small story on confusion over the sudden disappearance of water fountains on a popular South Mississippi biking and running trail. What I found was a bigger story about homelessness, the meaning people find in the things they love, public infrastructure and civic engagement.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · last mo.Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI
Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI
Longleaf Trace Removes Water Fountains Over Homelessness Fears, Infuriating Trail Users
The Longleaf Trace removed all water fountains in June over homelessness concerns, alarming trail users and health experts.
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Right now we have three right wing racist parties (Labour, Reform and Conservatives) fighting each other to prove that they are the cruelest and most inhumane towards vulnerable people. These are policies based on xenophobia and hate, aimed at excluding people who need asylum. 6/
By 2028, every Brit will have been Prime Minister. www.der-postillon.com/2026/06/prim...
Hochrechnung: Bis Ende 2028 ist jeder Brite einmal Premierminister gewesen
London (dpo) - Mit Keir Starmer ist erneut ein britischer Premierminister nach kurzer Regierungszeit zurückgetreten. Dabei wird der hohe Verschleiß vo
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It seems that several commentators have set themselves a challenge: to write a thread or article expressing disbelief as to why Starmer was so loathed without mentioning his stances on AI, Black Lives Matter, Gaza, trans rights, and then dismiss that loathing as the hysteria of out-of-touch elites.
It seems to have become commonplace to blame net zero for Britain’s high energy bills and/or weak job market… … and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this. Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is) 🧵
Ed Miliband would be ‘noose around neck’ of job creation as chancellor, union boss warns
Comments by Sharon Graham come as Burnham team explores key government appointments
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When I lived in Montréal, I lived on rue Tupper. I never knew who it was named for. Well, now I know.
Jamie Bradburn@jbcurio.bsky.social · last mo.16) Somebody who seemed like they should have been Thompson's successor was Sir Charles Tupper, who was serving as Canada's high commissioner in London. But "the ram of Cumberland" was disliked by Thompson, his widow, and, most critically, Lady Aberdeen, the wife of the governor-general.
The EHRC trans code explained: What it does, how it works and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/the-ehrc-t...
The EHRC trans code explained
What does it say, how will it work, and what happens next?
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With the full caveat that I have never managed a govt dept, as Wes Streeting knows very well having been health secretary, investment in active travel *pays for itself many times over* in better public health outcomes etc. Cutting investment is often a false economy, as the UK knows to its cost.
h/t @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social The UK has a serious problem: media coverage of online safety is ill-informed and lacks serious attention to the risks inherent in the Government's dangerously intrusive policies. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-naked-...
The naked truth about press coverage of Keir Starmer's nude ban plan
The Prime Minister's latest "won't somebody please think of the children" policy is treated seriously by a media addicted to easy solutions to complicated problems.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Reutlingen HBf. Der Bahnhof, an dem die Zeit still steht. Oder zumindest die Uhr an Gleis 1. @deutschebahn.com
Everything I know about economics, I learned queueing at Alton Towers as.ft.com/r/21e56ef4-2...
The UK is stuck in a rollercoaster queue
British theme parks are a fitting symbol of the country’s supply-side economic woes
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In November 2023, police discovered the decayed corpse of Tracey Turnell in Walthamstow Market. She had no phone, job, passport, friends or lovers. There wasn’t a single photo of her. It was as if, in her far too public death, she entered the public record for the first time. Who was she?
The body in the wheelchair: How did a troubled family get lost by the state?
A decayed corpse was found being wheeled through the centre of Walthamstow. Who was she? And who is to blame for her death?
the-londoner.co.uk
Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.
NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoMisogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed.
Love this bit on Ai from the Royal Society. A classic case of the probability engine getting itself in a mess and revealing its complete lack of understanding
For generations, the American empire was the most powerful force on earth, and so we tended to assume that it was the most *durable* force on earth - surely anything so powerful *must* also be *eternal*? 1/
The UK Government’s new Code of Practice offers cruelty, not clarity. Despite promises and spin to the contrary, this is a bathroom ban and a huge rollback for human rights in the UK. Read now: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/05...
"Call it out. Tell your friends. Write to your MPs and councillors. There will be protests – join them, we are going to." Our statement on the latest EHRC Code of Practice. lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...
Statement on the latest EHRC Code of Practice - LGBTIQA+ Greens
Cover Photo Attribution: What The Trans?! The LGBTIQA+ Greens are disgusted by the latest update to the Code of Practice from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). This version rows back o...
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Trans people in the UK can now be banned from spaces that both align & do not align with their gender because the UK Gov believes sharing a toilet with a trans person is dubious regardless of circumstance. The UK Gov has given services free reign to completely ban trans people from their premises