I understand that I am entitled to my own opinion, as are you. Repeatedly stating that feels unnecessarily condescending and like a suggestion that one side of this discussion is dealing in mere opinion and the other unassailable facts (which in the world of social sciences sadly do not exist).
Or how making high-viz compulsory (especially given the already high rates of high viz usage by cyclist in this country) is unlikely to be of any benefit while again acting as a disincentive to an otherwise positive for public health activity?
However have you engaged at all with how promoting helmet usage (particularly through compulsion) can impact on ridership levels) and how this weighs up against the overall public health benefits of cycling?
My (perhaps erroneous) impression is that you support this measure because research has shown that increased helmet usage will reduce cycling related TBI on a population level (if so, fair)?
The goal of this proposed legislation might be admirable but it has to be evaluated in terms of it's actual outcomes which research, experience and logic suggest will be small but primarily counterproductive.
More people pushed towards driving makes the roads more dangerous for those who continue to cycle. It means more car crashes, more asthma and lung cancer due to brake and tyre particulates, and exhaust fumes, more strokes and heart attacks due to less active lifestyles. More death, injury, illness
Experience has shown repeatedly that such regulations disincentives cycling and in turn leads to more driving. Cycling is not zero risk but still relatively low risk (and no research suggests mandatory hi-viz would mitigate those risks).
A poster advertising a gig for vsevolod plotkin, This Ship Argo and Muckish in the A Centre, Belfast on 18th Feb. £8 entrance fee and bring your own bottle.
Gig? GIG!
With @vsevolodplotkin.bsky.social and Muckish in the A Centre, Belfast. Right in the city centre to prime position for the bus home after. Wonderful.
18th Feb, £8 in!
On the air at 8pm on @eistradio.bsky.social with the first new ep of Raidió Mar Dhea this year.
New tunes from @vsevolodplotkin.bsky.social, NIMF, @cypressmine.bsky.social, E the Artist and more!
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Next weekend.
The X situation is an excellent example of the perils of neoliberalism. The state has become so beholden to a private service provider for public service announcements, they're resorting to equivocation on responsibility for CSAM and violent misogyny on that platform rather than risk losing it.
Full track listing of the album "Parking Tickets" by Vsevolod Plotkin, including the missing track "John Waters"
All songs recorded for the bew VP album are available, including the song "John Waters" which is also about John Waters. It is probably the worst song on the album and I am pretty sure Leon tried to hide it. vsevolod-plotkin.bandcamp.com/album/parkin...
Scrooge contemplating his morality
Scrooge with noose around his neck, about to jump
Some of the most fun I've had in the band was writing and performing our riff on a Christmas Carol in Daylight last Friday. Highlights were my sleeping cap and the finale (scrooge solving the problem)
Reminder of this late 2025 Vsevolod Plotkin release available through our Bandcamp. It's a Ween album about an Irish Catholic reactionary commentator 👍
Man holding a baritone telecaster wearing a Calgary white cowboy hat taking a mirror selfie
Writing the VP country album is going well.
Derry January 31st. Do we have any fans in Derry? Is this a bad idea? Let's find out.
There will also hopefully be a raffle but none of the prizes will be any good. Any money we make off that will go to buying extra jigsaw puzzles for the special needs kids I teach.
The Christmas rapidly approaches and with it the annual Vsevolod Plotkin Christmas play. Join us in Daylight this Friday (Dec 19th) for our interpretation of Charles Dicken's Christmas Carol.
vsevolod-plotkin.bandcamp.com/album/parkin...
New full length Vsevolod Plotkin album out. All the songs are about Sinead O'Connor's worst ex husband
missing: sabotaging fossil fuel infrastructure
The Common and the Goose is an anonymous English poem from around the mid 18th century which tells of how common land was legally stolen and privatised by enclosure.
I'm still against the Basic Income for the Arts. We shouldn't be encouraging them. Artists should be punished
The fact that Trump can't be reasoned with is why it's necessary to have a democratic alternative. People tried to reason with Harris. She refused, proved herself not to be a genuine alternative to Trump, and lost the election for it.
vsevolod-plotkin.bandcamp.com/track/subway
The subway monologue from our 'Make Dinner' show is now on bandcamp. You can listen to it if you want.
Europe, let's follow the Danes.
#DigitalSovereignity
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Anyone going to Electric Picnic this year? We're playing the Brutoplis State Stage 17.40 til 18.30 on Saturday the 30th
Vsevolod Plotkin this Friday July 11th at the Santry Tunnel. With Stupid Son, Trash Guzzler and Soft Boi. Kicking off after 8pm.
The final date of the Vsevolod Plotkin June/July mini tour is this Friday 11th July. This will be another drummer show, this time with Enda after his Amerikkkan solo run. This is going to be a big one.
Tonight in Philadelphia
The first show of the June/July tour is tonight in Anseo Dublin with Peer Pleasure and Gynophobia.
With live drummer, without Enda.
28 June: Anseo, Dublin, Ireland. With Peer Pleasure and Gynophobia. * 29 June: the meetinghouse, West Philadelphia, USA. With Cowboy Alley, Birdgun and Frank Delane. # 01 July: Vers, Brooklyn, New York, USA. With MXTR and Obliviana. # 03 July: Cafe Nine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. With FAFA, Videodome and Bushranger. # 05 July: The Watchtower, Drogheda, Ireland. With Skinner and Fly Parts. * 06 July: Summer Sessions, the Station, Onchiota, Upstate New York. With a load of weird bands. # 11 July: Tunnel, Santry, Ireland. With Stupid Son, Trash Guzzler and Soft Boi. § * = TRIO # = SOLO § = FULL BAND
Intense run of dates Vsevolod Plotkin dates coming up in Dublin, Drogheda, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, New Haven, Onchiota and Santry. Details below:
