Sam Wakeling
@samwake.bsky.social
Loves streets. Make them safe. Set them free. Sheffield. Abolition.
Works at Living Streets.
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Sam Wakeling
@samwake.bsky.social
· Jan 4
What do you dream of your local streets being like?
For me it is making them welcoming public spaces for everyone to enjoy and move in without fear from traffic (including the remaining vehicles which are there).
I drew this of my local South Road, Sheffield.
For me it is making them welcoming public spaces for everyone to enjoy and move in without fear from traffic (including the remaining vehicles which are there).
I drew this of my local South Road, Sheffield.
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The more you have, the less you know it.
The only people more likely than not to understand where their income places them in the UK distribution are those with incomes in the lowest fifth.
The only people more likely than not to understand where their income places them in the UK distribution are those with incomes in the lowest fifth.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The more you have, the less you know it.
The only people more likely than not to understand where their income places them in the UK distribution are those with incomes in the lowest fifth.
The only people more likely than not to understand where their income places them in the UK distribution are those with incomes in the lowest fifth.
The more you have, the less you know it.
The only people more likely than not to understand where their income places them in the UK distribution are those with incomes in the lowest fifth.
The only people more likely than not to understand where their income places them in the UK distribution are those with incomes in the lowest fifth.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The more you have, the less you know it.
The only people more likely than not to understand where their income places them in the UK distribution are those with incomes in the lowest fifth.
The only people more likely than not to understand where their income places them in the UK distribution are those with incomes in the lowest fifth.
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Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
For a century people being endangered on our roads have been told they are the problem.
This from 1927.
This from 1927.
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
For a century people being endangered on our roads have been told they are the problem.
This from 1927.
This from 1927.
Waymo say safety is urgent.
What if they’re right?
How to reduce road danger as fast as we can? So many things we could do, with trivial tech we have now:
Speed limiters
Lower speed limits
Remove cut-through traffic (LTNs)
Retrofit safer road design.
Faster, cheaper and simpler than promised AVs
What if they’re right?
How to reduce road danger as fast as we can? So many things we could do, with trivial tech we have now:
Speed limiters
Lower speed limits
Remove cut-through traffic (LTNs)
Retrofit safer road design.
Faster, cheaper and simpler than promised AVs
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Waymo say safety is urgent.
What if they’re right?
How to reduce road danger as fast as we can? So many things we could do, with trivial tech we have now:
Speed limiters
Lower speed limits
Remove cut-through traffic (LTNs)
Retrofit safer road design.
Faster, cheaper and simpler than promised AVs
What if they’re right?
How to reduce road danger as fast as we can? So many things we could do, with trivial tech we have now:
Speed limiters
Lower speed limits
Remove cut-through traffic (LTNs)
Retrofit safer road design.
Faster, cheaper and simpler than promised AVs
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And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
And just like that, road user charging!
Next, apply it to all fuel types, multiply it on vehicle weight, and increase it to levels relevant to the harms caused by driving and the reductions in driving needed for liveable communities and planet.
And scale it by income to make the rich pay the most.
Next, apply it to all fuel types, multiply it on vehicle weight, and increase it to levels relevant to the harms caused by driving and the reductions in driving needed for liveable communities and planet.
And scale it by income to make the rich pay the most.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
And just like that, road user charging!
Next, apply it to all fuel types, multiply it on vehicle weight, and increase it to levels relevant to the harms caused by driving and the reductions in driving needed for liveable communities and planet.
And scale it by income to make the rich pay the most.
Next, apply it to all fuel types, multiply it on vehicle weight, and increase it to levels relevant to the harms caused by driving and the reductions in driving needed for liveable communities and planet.
And scale it by income to make the rich pay the most.
“AVs will result in more cars on the road. If we don’t want to spend more of our lives inside them …and deal with all the externalized public health and climate impacts of driving … ask if AVs move us closer or further from the kinds of communities we want to live in.” @nondriver.bsky.social
Thursday's Most Read # 1 - I Tried to Hate-Ride a Waymo. Turns Out, I Loved It bit.ly/3AI1sme Streetsblog USA @nondriver.bsky.social @streetsblogusa.bsky.social
I Tried to Hate-Ride a Waymo. Turns Out, I Loved It — Streetsblog USA
And therein lies the problem with the autonomous vehicle revolution.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“AVs will result in more cars on the road. If we don’t want to spend more of our lives inside them …and deal with all the externalized public health and climate impacts of driving … ask if AVs move us closer or further from the kinds of communities we want to live in.” @nondriver.bsky.social
A third Heathrow runway costing £33 BILLION is “expected to be fully privately financed.”
Recouped by the profits the aviation industry makes by being massively subsidised with tax-free fuel etc?
Recouped by the profits the aviation industry makes by being massively subsidised with tax-free fuel etc?
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A third Heathrow runway costing £33 BILLION is “expected to be fully privately financed.”
Recouped by the profits the aviation industry makes by being massively subsidised with tax-free fuel etc?
Recouped by the profits the aviation industry makes by being massively subsidised with tax-free fuel etc?
In Barbara Streisand form, this makes the lectures that much more interesting and likely to get a bigger audience.
I’m guessing that wasn’t deliberate though.
I’m guessing that wasn’t deliberate though.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In Barbara Streisand form, this makes the lectures that much more interesting and likely to get a bigger audience.
I’m guessing that wasn’t deliberate though.
I’m guessing that wasn’t deliberate though.
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Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
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The claimed excuse for a cap on #Cycle2Work doesn't hold water & will be harmful for Disabled ppl.
If Govt was bothered abt rich ppl benefitting from Govt tax breaks for things rich people use for leisure, they'd tax aviation fuel, when air travel is disproportionately used by richest (by LONG way).
If Govt was bothered abt rich ppl benefitting from Govt tax breaks for things rich people use for leisure, they'd tax aviation fuel, when air travel is disproportionately used by richest (by LONG way).
Wheels for Wellbeing are concerned by reports that the Chancellor is considering putting a maximum price for cycles allowed through the Cycle to Work scheme.
We are calling for the scheme to be reformed rather than capped.
Read our full statement. wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/wheels-for-w...
We are calling for the scheme to be reformed rather than capped.
Read our full statement. wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/wheels-for-w...
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The claimed excuse for a cap on #Cycle2Work doesn't hold water & will be harmful for Disabled ppl.
If Govt was bothered abt rich ppl benefitting from Govt tax breaks for things rich people use for leisure, they'd tax aviation fuel, when air travel is disproportionately used by richest (by LONG way).
If Govt was bothered abt rich ppl benefitting from Govt tax breaks for things rich people use for leisure, they'd tax aviation fuel, when air travel is disproportionately used by richest (by LONG way).
This is the only glacier I’ve been lucky enough to see in person. In 2010 it still reached around the corner.
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This is the only glacier I’ve been lucky enough to see in person. In 2010 it still reached around the corner.
“And hope, detached from material reality, is just another word for delusion.”
"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe"
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-co...
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-co...
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“And hope, detached from material reality, is just another word for delusion.”
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BREAKING 🚨: campaigners halt felling of iconic Trafalgar Square UK-Norway Christmas Tree.
Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.
#StopRosebank
Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.
#StopRosebank
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.
Good morning to everyone using the A57 in Sheffield this minute:
17 cars
31 pedestrians
17 cars
31 pedestrians
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Good morning to everyone using the A57 in Sheffield this minute:
17 cars
31 pedestrians
17 cars
31 pedestrians
Sheffield city centre from the 9th floor 🌈
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Sheffield city centre from the 9th floor 🌈
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Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
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“When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist”
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist”
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
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This is the problem with trying to inspire hope using the message "we have the solutions": such a message may inspire the kind of techno-optimism that actually fosters political *dis*engagement.
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⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk!
A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action.
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osf.io/preprints/ps...
A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action.
(1/4)👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is the problem with trying to inspire hope using the message "we have the solutions": such a message may inspire the kind of techno-optimism that actually fosters political *dis*engagement.
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Facing down the climate crisis is less like an Industrial Revolution and more like decolonisation, anti-apartheid, slavery abolition…
We need to tell stories about fights that last over decades, against enormous odds, that continue wounded despite extraordinary challenges and painful losses, and that in the end overturn a dead order and found a new world.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Facing down the climate crisis is less like an Industrial Revolution and more like decolonisation, anti-apartheid, slavery abolition…