🚨 NEW from me: Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration crackdown, has a financial stake of up to a quarter million dollars in Palantir, a key ICE contractor. Experts cite conflict of interest concerns
Read it @pogo.org:
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
“New research led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that the depth of social networks that older adults have is linked to their health outcomes.” Informative story by @elviamalagon.bsky.social.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/06...
I very much hope you will pose in profile in a helmet though.
Illustration promoting car-free areas for road safety. A large "No cars" sign is shown alongside people walking, including an elderly person with a cane, a child, and market vendors. The background includes trees, buildings, a bicycle, and clouds. Text reads: “CAR-FREE areas boost businesses and make streets SAFER.”
When streets are safe for walking & cycling, people spend more time outdoors, supporting local businesses & keeping city centres alive.
👍Good for business
👍Great for communities
👍Essential for safer & healthier cities
🔗 bit.ly/4jPzXsa #RoadSafety #StreetsForLife
Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you don't know about. Unless they're fighting a horse-sized duck. Then you probably know.
Grateful that my local coffee place is outdoors, in rolling distance for me and walking distance for the staff (some of whom even help me get there/back). Community innit.
The Green Party doesn’t just talk the talk about democracy, we live it.
Did you know that Green Party policy is created, and voted on, by our members?
If you want to get involved, join our policy community this wkend in Birmingham or online, for Policy Fest 2025.
Book here 👇
It's International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - and just 3 days ago it was revealed that the UK is now one of the more difficult places in Europe to live as an LGBTQIA+ person. A sobering reminder that our rights can never be taken for granted. #IDAHOBIT2025
Having deleted all my T accounts I now can't find or access any of the wonderful work Heavy Metal Handcyclist did, does anyone on here know the minimum recommended unobstructed width on pavements? I'm having a chat with a councillor about some interestingly placed 1980sish lampposts.
Regular owl on left, another own with long legs exposed on the right
For those who aren’t aware, I feel like this NEEDS to be shared here.
Disabled people have been right about almost everything that’s happened over the last five years.
People don’t listen to us because they don’t think of us as real people. We’re invisible (at best) and completely disposable (at worse).
We are the canaries - and we are trying to warn you. Listen.
Ditch woonerf
Dutch woonerf
Dutch woonerf
Dutch woonerf
One of the most intriguing & misunderstood street design and place-making ideas in the world is the Dutch #Woonerf, or “living street.” When I studied woonerfs while working for the City of Groningen, I learned the key is street design that makes it impossible to drive faster than people can walk.
Four pictures of adorable scrungly little kittens and their namesakes on Wikipedia. If it turns out any of them did terrible things, I'm sorry, I am not all-knowing, just a hair-encrusted weirdo trying my best
Thank you so much for the support over the last week, sorry I haven't updated much - sickly kittens need round-the-clock care.
Since they came from Wales, I've named them after Welsh innovators. Calicos are likely girls, other 2 I've gone for neutralish names. Meet Martha, Frances, Taffy & Tudor ❤️
My local egg delivery service, my mobile bike fitting kit, collecting Christmas and moving bike shop premises
Just a phew
This gave me goosebumps.
“My 18-year-old daughter was at Starbucks, alone, the other night.
A man came up to her and started talking to her.
A barista handed her “an extra hot chocolate someone forgot to pick up.”
How grateful I am for people who look out for other people!”
We need each other.
Charmed I'm sure 😅
Fancy seeing you here! 🌊🧜🧜♀️🌊
Swoon!
A young child walks to school in the road between two cars, while behind him an adult pushes a smaller child in a pushchair, also in the road,
Over the weekend the Guardian reported on the Council's new taskforce, which will look to develop a comprehensive strategy for 'space beside the kerb', including tackling pavement parking.
Here's why it's happening 🧵
Carla Denyer warns that threats the super rich will leave the country if they're taxed more shouldn't be taken seriously.
“This didn’t happen when changes were made to non-dom status in 2017.” (1/2)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlvggr9qz5o
Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer warned against taking threats by the super rich to leave the country seriously. “This didn’t happen when changes were made to non-dom status in 2017,” she said. “There are lots of reasons that the wealthy choose to live in the UK, including work, family and culture, and many are happy to pay a bit more if it means a happier and healthier society."
Wealth tax now!
BBC News - Amount UK's richest pay in income tax revealed
www.bbc.com/news/article...
starbucks barista: order for cathy lou
cthulhu: (visibly incensed) i guess that's me
Before people dared to take up valuable road space from cars by riding cargo bikes, there were these, er, cargo bikes
Video games need a "We noticed you stopped playing this game six months ago but have picked it up again today. Here's a quick tutorial of all the basic controls you forgot and need to know in order to keep playing the game from this current point" feature
My 7yo, upon seeing ads for a credit union’s car loans during the Bucks game tonight:
“Who needs a car when you have a bike? Enough about cars, what about bikes?”
Red and black type on blue background The solution will never be a louder bell, a stronger helmet or brighter clothing The solution will always be political will to make real change everything else is a distraction and victim blaming. ROVELO CREATIVE
The solution.
I might have photos from our actual sports days...
