Gethin
@gethin76.bsky.social
Foodie, lover of bikes, active travel nerd, 🏴Cymru 🏴
This seems like a small thing but it'll be a huge improvement for people walking
If you're on foot, you already have priority to cross at side roads, but most people driving either don't know this or just ignore it
A visible, cheap to install reminder on every side road will make it much clearer
If you're on foot, you already have priority to cross at side roads, but most people driving either don't know this or just ignore it
A visible, cheap to install reminder on every side road will make it much clearer
Holy moly - Welsh Government have approved side-road zebras! www.gov.wales/written-stat...
Written Statement: Side Road Zebra Crossings in Wales | GOV.WALES
Ken Skates, Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
www.gov.wales
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This seems like a small thing but it'll be a huge improvement for people walking
If you're on foot, you already have priority to cross at side roads, but most people driving either don't know this or just ignore it
A visible, cheap to install reminder on every side road will make it much clearer
If you're on foot, you already have priority to cross at side roads, but most people driving either don't know this or just ignore it
A visible, cheap to install reminder on every side road will make it much clearer
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I think AI might have been a bit... overhyped.
It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.
It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I think AI might have been a bit... overhyped.
It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.
It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.
This whole thread is spot on but especially this bit from the article.
Needs saying repeatedly and loudly
Needs saying repeatedly and loudly
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This whole thread is spot on but especially this bit from the article.
Needs saying repeatedly and loudly
Needs saying repeatedly and loudly
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In Goodwin Curve news, @willhaycardiff.bsky.social's latest newsletter notes how the immediate aftermath of the Welsh 20 mph speed limits saw a petition raise 400,000 signatures. Today, a second petition has just 2387 signatures
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
In Goodwin Curve news, @willhaycardiff.bsky.social's latest newsletter notes how the immediate aftermath of the Welsh 20 mph speed limits saw a petition raise 400,000 signatures. Today, a second petition has just 2387 signatures
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves will freeze fuel duty to dodge ‘political suicide’
The chancellor will also highlight a rise in the minimum wage and plans to cut energy bills as she tries to win over voters by focusing on cost of living
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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In an environment where pretty much every tax rise has been touted, to let this one go begging.... again.... is an absolute mind boggler.
Such a bad decision on so many policy fronts.
Such a bad decision on so many policy fronts.
When can you declare an emergency over?
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In an environment where pretty much every tax rise has been touted, to let this one go begging.... again.... is an absolute mind boggler.
Such a bad decision on so many policy fronts.
Such a bad decision on so many policy fronts.
Build people safe ways to get around by bike and they will use them in large numbers
Cycling in London has soared to 1.5m journeys every day. 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
We've grown London's Cycleway network from 90 to 430km
There’s no doubt that London is fast becoming a cycling city.
standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
We've grown London's Cycleway network from 90 to 430km
There’s no doubt that London is fast becoming a cycling city.
standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Build people safe ways to get around by bike and they will use them in large numbers
Very selfish off this bridge to keep draining the public purse by enticing poor defenceless lorries to crash into it 🤷🏻♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Very selfish off this bridge to keep draining the public purse by enticing poor defenceless lorries to crash into it 🤷🏻♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You sexy Maris Piper
CORRECTION: A *third* potato has been named after Prince.
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
You sexy Maris Piper
And now I'm over my John Peel moment, I'm enjoying their debut eponymous album in all its glory.
It's still a stunning sounding record, even before you consider that most of the band were late teens / early 20s when they wrote it.
Dreaming Of You is still one of my favourite ever songs.
It's still a stunning sounding record, even before you consider that most of the band were late teens / early 20s when they wrote it.
Dreaming Of You is still one of my favourite ever songs.
TFW you forget you've left the turntable on 45rpm and you make The Coral sound like The Chipmunks 🤦🏻♂️
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
And now I'm over my John Peel moment, I'm enjoying their debut eponymous album in all its glory.
It's still a stunning sounding record, even before you consider that most of the band were late teens / early 20s when they wrote it.
Dreaming Of You is still one of my favourite ever songs.
It's still a stunning sounding record, even before you consider that most of the band were late teens / early 20s when they wrote it.
Dreaming Of You is still one of my favourite ever songs.
TFW you forget you've left the turntable on 45rpm and you make The Coral sound like The Chipmunks 🤦🏻♂️
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
TFW you forget you've left the turntable on 45rpm and you make The Coral sound like The Chipmunks 🤦🏻♂️
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People will say it's the lack of enforcement, and that's a factor, but we also have technology to limit phone use while driving and our automakers and leaders refuse to implement it. It's a choice to allow distracted driving. And all the deaths and injuries that result are because of that choice.
We’ve 100% lost the war on using phones while driving and it’s the worst.
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
People will say it's the lack of enforcement, and that's a factor, but we also have technology to limit phone use while driving and our automakers and leaders refuse to implement it. It's a choice to allow distracted driving. And all the deaths and injuries that result are because of that choice.
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"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
This.
I am still yet to see a single example of a service or function that is not actively shitter with AI than without it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This.
I’d forgotten just how good the last Mary Wallopers album is. If you don’t have a massive grin on your face listening to it you’re dead in side 😂
They’re playing a 5 night residency at the Barrowlands before Xmas which I’d love to go to. Reckon it would be the best kind of carnage
They’re playing a 5 night residency at the Barrowlands before Xmas which I’d love to go to. Reckon it would be the best kind of carnage
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I’d forgotten just how good the last Mary Wallopers album is. If you don’t have a massive grin on your face listening to it you’re dead in side 😂
They’re playing a 5 night residency at the Barrowlands before Xmas which I’d love to go to. Reckon it would be the best kind of carnage
They’re playing a 5 night residency at the Barrowlands before Xmas which I’d love to go to. Reckon it would be the best kind of carnage
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Here's to a constructive international men's day for everyone except all the "but what about men's day" dudes who only care about this day on March 8th each year.
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Here's to a constructive international men's day for everyone except all the "but what about men's day" dudes who only care about this day on March 8th each year.
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There is absolutely nothing to beat sport commentators totally losing their shit when their team - impartiality can do one - do something outrageous.
Glorious.
Glorious.
The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
There is absolutely nothing to beat sport commentators totally losing their shit when their team - impartiality can do one - do something outrageous.
Glorious.
Glorious.
So much for the expected tight game for Cymru tonight 😂
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
So much for the expected tight game for Cymru tonight 😂
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Maybe don’t put it at the top of every search result then?
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Maybe don’t put it at the top of every search result then?
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Quite an impressive data visualisation on where refugees settled in the UK since 1989 came from. Part of the House of Commons Library briefing note on asylum policy. Link: researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN...
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quite an impressive data visualisation on where refugees settled in the UK since 1989 came from. Part of the House of Commons Library briefing note on asylum policy. Link: researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN...
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I feel at this point that we need the self-driving car in the same way that we need the self-shitting bed.
October 24, 2023 at 7:46 PM
I feel at this point that we need the self-driving car in the same way that we need the self-shitting bed.
Cancel the entire UK road building budget for at least 5 years and spend it all on implementing decent public transport, implementing people friendly neighbourhoods & high quality walking and cycling routes. The difference would be transformative in people's lives
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Cancel the entire UK road building budget for at least 5 years and spend it all on implementing decent public transport, implementing people friendly neighbourhoods & high quality walking and cycling routes. The difference would be transformative in people's lives
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People think Britain was a better place when they were prettier, had more sex, went out more and didn't go oof every time they moved.
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
People think Britain was a better place when they were prettier, had more sex, went out more and didn't go oof every time they moved.