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#ShareTheJoy #CyclingForFood

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Yes! (But also every time Diana talks to you it’s like this 👇🏼)

I’d like to tell you all about the “prepared piano”…

Morons always find a way anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can indeed !

This one off soho road particularly annoying. First all up a kerb so a pain to access. Loads of glass too. But this a cycle route according to Google and it’s just impossible to get through even for a standard bike

Don’t think you’d have much luck with these though. 😀

I must say some of them are spectacularly solid! I think you'd need an angle grinder and a blow torch

Another gate blocks access to a road this time

Still at least when you get to your destination you can just rejoin the road. BISCUITS! /end

Massive kerb between cycle paths

And when trying to get from canal path to actual cycle path confronted with massive kerbs. Nasty for this bike often impossible for a disabled user with an adaptive bicycle. 3/4

A gate blocks cycle access to the canal path

Meanwhile the city’s insistence that canal paths are infrastructure is rather undercut by being unable to get to the actual paths. No bicycle is getting through this gate 2/4

A “cycle route” that’s impossible for this cargo bike to use

Scenes from another frustrating day cycling around Brum. Impossible stuff to navigate if you are on a cargo or adaptive bike and pretty impossible for all but the fittest riders with light bikes. First the cycle route that is blocked by these “gates” 1/4

I was never off the phone to Nintendo during Zelda: Link to the Past on the SNES. Hilariously they often would refuse to give too much away despite me pleading with them. Excellent service, game lasted for ages.

I took an ex to see Akira many years ago and about halfway though he whispered to me “why is Tokyo exploding again?”

1983 shows lots of tarmac and bollards. Today the street is paved with trees. A woman walks in the street with a pushchair and in the distance you can see people eating outside in a group

Frans Halsstraat, Amsterdam in 1983 and today. Notice how the neighbours in the distance have brought tables out to have dinner in the street together

In tears reading comments on Instagram about the headteacher who was killed by a driver whilst riding his bike in Manchester. Dozens and dozens of heartfelt messages from his ex-pupils who say what a wonderful teacher and role model he was.

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

The number of angry messages I got from insecure men on my article demanding men be accountable for rape culture & 'Rape Academy' reminds me to share my article repeatedly.

Men: Stop being insecure. Stop being pathetic. Start holding rapists accountable.
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2,500 open cases: a day inside Birmingham's courts Double-booked interpreters, broken screens, and a system buckling under a backlog that's doubled since 2019

“108 miles per hour and they let me walk scot-free!”

Another great @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social Dispatch read this time on the state of Brum’s courts. But that quote really stuck out to me.

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New Inf🧅wars logo is so pretty! 🌈

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

Husband wanted a physical copy of Pragmata. Ordered from well known river-based online site. Email to say it's not arriving in a couple of days, instead in a month's time! In fact it's sold out all over (secured in the end from another site). Disappointed but also good news for developers?

A graph showing the rise in citations for our 2023 motonormativity paper, up to 101 in total today

Given the considerable lags in the academic publishing process, I'm surprised and gratified by how rapidly motonormativity is becoming a thing in the literature

‘She’d been drinking with Julie Walters. I heard a crash’: Victoria Wood’s genius – by her friends, fans and actors Dazzling performer, brilliant writer, maddening perfectionist, Easter Egg hunt maestro … on the 10th anniversary of Wood’s death, those who knew her best celebrate the shy introvert who redefined come...

Oh this is such a lovely start to the week. Remembering Victoria Wood. www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...

Rode legally through a roundabout today. An SUV had to yield. Because her time is clearly worth more than mine, she laid on the horn, sped past, and flipped me the bird while yelling. The entitlement of motoring culture is exhausting.

This is exactly how this street should be. It is not a street designed for motor vehicles, which are guests.

Already, people are demanding in these videos that the tech becomes more assertive against pedestrians and cyclists.

This is the beginning of a slippery slope for human-scale cities.

I’m going to be that person and say he’s a lovely fella. Knew him when he grabbed every shift snd worked so hard. Am delighted he’s achieved this.

“If you invite more cars, you get more cars. If you make more streets better for cars you get more traffic...If you invite people to walk more and use public spaces more, you get more life in the city. You get what you invite.” - Jan Gehl

I’m quite impressed by the “well actually physics” guys who can’t spot AI slop