I am out of hospital & sore but otherwise well & recovering on the sofa. 😊 If you would like to show me your animals (apols: invertebrates need not apply) or your bicycles or other micromobility vehicles or pretty landscapes, I would very much like to see them, with alt text if at all possible. 💖

I didn't really have time to think about it last time but I have become very concerned about what I will do when I come round from surgery and am completely off my face.

Bread and Rosie@rosiemund.bsky.social · 2y ago

Me: This anaesthetic ain't shit. Also me: Trying to use my heart rate monitor to change the channel on reality.

Urbanists Don't Unironically Use The Same Rhetoric People Use Against Urbanism Against Urbanists You Disagree With Challenge

Urbanism is really compatible with left anti-authoritarian politics but if you tell potential allies to urbanism that they can't be on the team unless they sacrifice existing deeply held principles, you won't win them over to speed cameras; you're just going to turn them away from urbanism.

Broke my glasses - like the whole arm came right off - and don't have time to replace them before my operation and can't wear contacts to hospital and can't see shit without them FUCK

it's less of a "mind palace" and more of an "abandoned warehouse for thoughts"

I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here

stop

I know people dunk on improv but a lot of social media interactions could be improved by learning to "yes and..."

Urbanism is really compatible with left anti-authoritarian politics but if you tell potential allies to urbanism that they can't be on the team unless they sacrifice existing deeply held principles, you won't win them over to speed cameras; you're just going to turn them away from urbanism.

Urbanists Don't Unironically Use The Same Rhetoric People Use Against Urbanism Against Urbanists You Disagree With Challenge

Every 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!"

It's fine to disagree with me in whole or part & I get that people use likes & replies their own way. But I'm so sick of people who only ever interact with me to quibble. If you're following me just to put me in my place or whatever, please just fucking unfollow or mute or block & leave me alone.

RIP Jean-Paul Sartre you would have loved Bluesky

I know people dunk on improv but a lot of social media interactions could be improved by learning to "yes and..."

I really hate the word "jobsworth." Sure, some people use rules to be obstructive. But often it just means "somebody I don't respect who won't give me my own way for reasons I don't understand, don't care to understand or that they can't explain to me right now because they're busy or scared of me."

I think part of the desire to conserve pubs is that they're often one of few third places (or approximations of third places depending on pub.) But then ensure access to third spaces that people want, rather than propping up pubs. Also no doubt part of it is lots of people are skint - address that.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d ago

Angela Rayner moves to protect pubs from being turned into houses or offices

Had to disable comments on clip of me talking about Jason Arday yesterday on lbc because of sheer volume vile comments suggesting (just as they did with George Floyd) that he ‘deserved’ it. I think Black people are getting pretty sick of the ‘be perfect or expect us to kill you’ routine.

Reform: We're going to leave babies outside so only the strong survive to become our elite warrior class BBC: Reform will save NHS 100 TRILLION Pounds

"And that's what you want to call this colourway?" Yes. "And it's not just the dehydration & carrots talking?" No.

People constantly complain that the UK public sector is inefficient, usually as a pretext for privatisation. As someone who's seen it from both sides: it's true. But it's inefficient because it's underfunded. Things don't work properly & working around that wastes resource & exacerbates problems.🧵

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

Spoke to BBC Notts David Pittam about lost lidos. Work figuring out Tynemouth Outdoor Pool restoration, alongside wider @northumbriauni.bsky.social and @future-lidos.bsky.social research, amplified by the heatwave, has seen 2026 focus on our public leisure spaces. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'They shouldn't all be in London' - the call to bring back our lost lidos

There are calls to bring back Nottinghamshire's lost lidos as the summer continues to be a scorcher.

bbc.co.uk

Fixed it for them.

Slut Gnomes of False Berlin could take Four Eels in a fight any day.

bowie deschanel@raisingonebrow.bsky.social · 7d ago

Bluesky is dying because we have no Four Eels posts

Like this crocodile, I am an ancient and deadly being who is nevertheless struggling hard to do my best

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · last wk.

the little legs kicking

Slut Gnomes of False Berlin could take Four Eels in a fight any day.

bowie deschanel@raisingonebrow.bsky.social · 7d ago

Bluesky is dying because we have no Four Eels posts

I'm such a huge supporter of e bikes & e trikes because of their ability to support disabled people of all kinds, their tangible impact on the climate, & their ability to help improve our connections to each other & our world through what we can notice that differs when car dependent.

MN Cargo Bike Library@mcbl.bike · 7d ago

Borrower feedback: "Last year I was able to borrow the electric trike here in Minneapolis. I am disabled and the experience gave me enough motivation to go out and buy my own electric trike that works for my body type." 🚲 ❤️

"And that's what you want to call this colourway?" Yes. "And it's not just the dehydration & carrots talking?" No.

young man has been killed by a non race vehicle, BBC uses 'lycra clad', the very term used in so much hate posting about people on bikes. I wonder why? "Cycling might not seem as dangerous as motorsport or boxing, but on descents out on public roads lycra-clad competitors can reach up to 60mph"