VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Have we considered that the Foreign Office didn't tell Starmer the results of the Mandelson vetting because they thought it was insultingly obvious.

I'm sorry, but this is utterly unacceptable from Stonewall's new Chair. And entirely unnecessary. Nothing is gained from this except communicating to trans people that Stonewall does not care about them.

It's weird how many otherwise progressives and left wingers get to "yeah but that's how capitalism made it" and then refuse to countenance that it could or should be changed for the better when it comes to transport and land use.

I'm really just fed up lately that lots of otherwise progressive people have decided traffic violence is an issue that we simply cannot address. How can people claim to care about equity and ignore the toll of car dependency?

Drivers love to say that they're just telling pedestrians and cyclists what to do because they're so so terrified of hurting us but then when you suggest they drive like they're actually terrified of hurting us they're like no fuck you

I don't think we should ban cars but nobody makes a more compelling case for it than drivers who argue that it is unreasonable to expect drivers not to kill people.

Art.

Delivery work is wild.

Also had a customer threaten to call the cops because I asked them to sign for a parcel; a customer who habitually complained (lied) that we didn't ring their doorbell but refused to send the Ring doorbell footage; a customer who told me their dog didn't bite both before & after it bit me....

We didn't even have set delivery times and we still got yelled at for "being late."

I don't think we should ban cars but nobody makes a more compelling case for it than drivers who argue that it is unreasonable to expect drivers not to kill people.

I was postie which is (or at least was) at cushier end of delivery work and people - even people who think of themselves as being on the side of labour - have no idea what hard work it is. I only did it for a few years and by the end my back, hips, knees and ankles were begging for mercy.

I cannot and will not be stopped.

Yes! It's also like "look, I'm doing the thing now and I'm trying to stick with it rather than wandering off and doing something else - I can't cope with thinking about what I should have done before or what I should do in the future at the same time."

The plan:

I'm stressed af so I'll go sit in the park and be in the sun and 🌼🌳 nature 🌳🌼 (well, the park, so ~nature) and that will be relaxing for me

In practice:

*stressed af next to a flower*

Glad you got it done! Hope the recovery is as straightforward and easy on you as possible. 💖

You don't have to tell ADHDers that something would have been easier if they'd done it earlier or if they did it more frequently. They know. They're probably beating themselves up about it. They probably tried really hard but not getting shit done even when we try is a big part of our whole deal.

🤞🤞💖

I did have a lot of stuff with me and I think I looked a bit flustered - although not half as flustered as I got when I thought she was going to make me miss my flight. But yeah, it was a massive leap of logic.

16. But they're supposed to ask if they think you might be under 25 so it's probably that rather than actually thinking I'm a child.

That's so good, thank you!

Travel Time Map | Drive Time Radius & Other Modes Create a travel time map in a few clicks. Select your maximum walking, cycling, public transport or drive time radius and explore where's reachable in this time limit. Available as an API.

Not a full scale map, but

app.traveltime.com/search?aId=2...

Is good for seeing how the map changes for different transport mode from a certain place (centred on my local leisure centre)

And www.chronotrains.com/en/station/2... for how far you can travel by train in X hours.

Just got ID'ed (36yo) buying ibuprofen lmao. Age 25, I once nearly missed a flight to visit my mum because a lady on the Metro saw me with large backpack & thought I was a teen runaway & tried to "return me to my parents" while I frantically tried to explain that I was returning myself to my parent.

Map distorted to represent public transport travel time! Is this a thing? It sounds pretty complicated to do (and that's just accounting for journey time - it'd be more representative but phenomenally complicated to account for frequency, uncertainty, effort, and cost) but it'd be very effective.

Yes! It just makes the cost of every journey arbitrary. It's like "well, I'm going somewhere new and I know roughly how far it is but I don't know how many buses or other modes of transport it's going to require - let's go to the Wheel O' Public Transport Fares to find out."

Exactly this. It's not just the journey time either - it's the complexity (connections add both effort and uncertainty), the frequency (how early do I have to set off for appointments and then am I stuck there?) and cost (one bus costs less than two buses costs less than one bus plus the Metro.)