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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 6h

Yup, so tiresome.

ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 7h

Agree - just I would be at pains to communicate as widely as possible the differences - is the rider pedaling? No? Then it’s not an e-bike. Is it going above 15mph? Yes? Then it’s not a legal e-bike.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11h

“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.”

Via @momentummag.bsky.social

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution

Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

momentummag.com

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 9h

Agree they are a menace, we have to make sure we emphasize the difference between these and normal e-bikes, as they are often treated as the same thing in media and politics.

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 10h

Sadly, the research shows that the most impactful policy on encouraging integration is ILR and citizenship. (Why put down roots if you’re stuck in visa limbo?) Something Labour and opposition parties are making harder or want to take away altogether.

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”

Man in ski mask and camo gear points a weapon out the window of unmarked van directly at us. While staring wide eyed directly at us.

ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 1d

They aren’t regular people, farmers are rich republicans. Stop thinking of them as poor people duped by rich GOP politicians, they know exactly what they’re doing.

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 1d

Consultancy firms are already doing this with their pricing - if you want AI free work it costs extra.

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 1d

“Yes that’s very interesting about transgenderism, however this is the third time you’ve been asked to kneel sitting on your feet in the seiza position at the dinner table.

“But my legs have gone numb”

*harsh stare*

ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 1d

They also have 0 tolerance for big egos “me me me” types, with preferred method of imposing consequences being passive aggression and ostracism.

I hope one day they get what they wish for, like those conservatives who moved to Russia because of woke.

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about comparisons with Japan’s orderliness - somewhere I lived for 10 years - is most people have no idea the level of conformity and rule-following it takes to make Japan the way it is. I have a feeling these right wing blowhards would tap out after about 5 minutes.

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 1d

Mums! Local mums!! Real working class local mums!!

ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 1d

These days just seeing Jared Leto’s face tells you everything you need to know about a film.

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 2d

(I know it’s not funny)

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 2d

Only a person who’s never had to move or has never dealt with a visa and immigration system could say those things. I guess it’s the same people who say “immigrants come here because we’re a light touch.”

…lol, lmao, even.

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 2d

The Usual Bollocks

The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 2d

No Country for Old Bollocks

Text saying "Take a movie title, and replace one word with 'bollocks'..."

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 2d

Still, there is never really any need to “be fair to Tommy Robinson”.

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isaac @sevier.io · 3d

i think this is a practice just like anything else we are doing. the social media brain chemistry rewards looking at and magnifying and churning out a witty comment about the bad things. And i think the reaction to good stuff is asymmetric as heck.

Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 3d

Bad news feels inescapable. There’s a lot of it, it goes viral, and things are getting worse.

But resistance is also everywhere, and it doesn’t get the same attention.

We need to share mass resistance, to inspire hope and so that more and more people join in.

www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...

Resistance is everywhere — it just isn't getting enough attention

Nepal, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Madagascar, and the United States

www.jphilll.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

We are living under an aspiring fascist regime that has not yet fully consolidated. This is not difficult to understand unless you get paid to muddy the waters.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 3d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s be honest this is about anti-LGBT intimidation. They’re not protesting the O’Brien’s Irish bar, it’s the gay bars and drag venues they don’t like.

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Helga the Horrified @horriblehelga.bsky.social · 5d

And she's right when she writes:

"I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers – but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked – time and time again – is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 5d

The same in #Edinburgh. It invested in its public realm to increase walking and cycling and Mastercard reported a 20% increase in local spend.

Many other benefits were also evidenced in the multi year study - despite predictions of disaster, the scheme was anything but.

🚌 🚶‍♀️ 🚲 95% of people interview travelled by sustainable means

⬆️🚶‍♀️pedestrian satisfaction up

⬆️🚲Local residents cycling more to work 8% to 12% to 15% over three years

⬆️📈residents support increased from 49% to 68%, opposition drops from 11% to 9%

⬆️🅿️satisfaction with local parking is up

⬆️🛍️Traders support for scheme increases from 12% to 60%

⬇️ 🛒vacant shops down - it’s up in similar areas in Edinburgh

⬆️💳Mastercard data shows local spending in scheme area up 20% (wow!)

⬇️🚗traffic levels down 27% since 2018

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 5d

Can imagine certain Trump aligned right wing commentators now - “a DEI hire from a town literally called “Woke-ing”. “

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah I thought this, just expected it to be described as a “bold and progressive” pick, as it’s the first woman and will be controversial.

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ClimateNick 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 @climatenick.bsky.social · 5d

It does sound odd to describe the first ever woman ABC as a “managerial pick”. Though I understand what you’re saying.

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