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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 2d

Not really.

More like children shouldn't have to wear helmets as no one is out to kill them.

fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 3d

An excellent explainer about improvements planned for Abingdon town centre.

Improvements for pedestrian access to Market Square.

The proposed changes also connect the missing link in NCN5, meaning that you'll now be able to cycle along this stretch of the national cycle route!

Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 3d

I made a detailed explainer video (with Q&A) for the proposed new junction in Abingdon to prioritise walking, cycling, wheeling, and generally make it a more pleasant town centre

It won't work on the hardcore antis but I couldn't bear the lies going around!

youtu.be/9k4VjunZhqQ?...

Abingdon Town Centre Junction: A Redesign to Prioritise Cycling, Walking, and Active Travel (NCN5)

YouTube video by Cllr Nathan Ley

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 3d

Hey Nathan. Thanks for the explainer. It's very clear, and it helped to make more sense of the plans that I've already looked at.

I used to cycle commute to Milton Park, so I know too well how poor the current design is.

With thanks to everyone involved for getting Abingdon this far!

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 5d

One was installed in York a few years ago, and there's a campaign to improve it.

There are some council / planning documents online.

Don't know anything else, I just recall seeing in a few years ago.

Tanners Row

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Roman Quarter Planning Response

In January developers re-submitted plans for a mixed-use development on Rougier Street, consisting of offices, a hotel, flats, and a new museum exhibiting the city’s Roman heritage – ea…

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 5d

It's great to see the improved pedestrian and cycle provision happening!

Thanks to everyone involved.

fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 5d

I appreciate it's not a very helpful comment, but there would be masses of space if equal priority was given to through traffic, ie cars and bikes using the NCN.

There used to be a Taxi rank here, and parking is removed to prioritise motors during the fair.

Bikes are bottom of the pecking order.

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 9d

What's your view on the jars of pre chopped garlic, if you have an opinion on it?

40 cloves ~ a jar I guess. Job done. Bish, bash bosh.

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks. A useful article.

And it gives me an opportunity to share bike parking that I installed.

It's used more often for guest parking, as I store mine undercover.

Not exactly space saving, unless you compare to guests arriving in their car.

Several bikes locked to Sheffield bike stands at the end of a drive

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 10d

For the best views, you could always step onto the A44

fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 10d

Tashi Delek!

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 13d

I love the way that Billy Brag leads Twice to make his claim about sharia courts.

Twice takes the bait, and with the context from Brag, Twice shows himself as the reactionary racist and / or wannabe populist he is.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13d

Richard Tice, "We've already got 80 sharia courts in the UK"

Billy Bragg, "There are also Jewish courts as well, thats part of their religion. We as a tolerant nation accept that"

"To demonise, particularly the Muslims, is the sort of thing we worry about Reform UK"

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 17d

Not just being a traitorous cunt.

Buying up huge amounts of agricultural land so as to avoid inheritance tax, and then complaining about measures to close the farmland tax loophole.

That will do it, you tax dodging, shit hoover flogging, cunt.

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 18d

An excellent exploration into the music genre Falcid House.

Flaciiiid🙂🙂

Mixmaster Morris @mixmastermorris.bsky.social · 18d

youtube.com/watch?v=Bc-O...

The Birth of Flaccid House Music

YouTube video by Origins of Culture

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 18d

Okay. But no need to be so judgemental about other people's food choices.

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 18d

If you want meat, the obvious that's what you should have.

But let's respect the decisions of others.

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 18d

No, it's meant to be vegan or vegetarian.

It's personal taste that informs if people want a something resembling meat.

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 19d

I put the same spikes up to stop the cat walking along the fence to access the bird box.

Whitney walks and sits on the spikes to access the bird box!

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 19d

I find it incredible that people don't understand the very obvious point that you are making!

I mean, is it really important to this lot to know that an animal has suffered for them to take pleasure from a taste they are familiar with?

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 19d

Why would a meat eater, not want to reduce the suffering placed on other animals and the environmental burden they inflict from their diet?

Consider a veggie burger a gateway food for a meat eater into the massive varied styles of a plant based diet.

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 19d

Agree.

Additionally..

A sports car that accelerates like a sports car is pointless -- and also dangerous.

😎

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 21d

“make reference to Oxford’s famous spires”.

I wonder if anyone recognised this oblique reference?

Certainly not me 🙂

Rest in peace Nicholas Grimshaw.

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Nicholas Grimshaw - Wikipedia

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 21d

Sure, you like having fags, but do you enjoy smoking?

(I'll get my hat)

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 21d

Well done you for choosing to refrain from cycling in the company of idiots.

That misses the point entirely though.

As a pedestrian or a cyclist, if your path crosses an out of control road user, what ever vehicles they are in, you might be injured or killed.

You have no choice. That's the point.

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 23d

Let's look at other land uses.

There are a few shining examples of where land that was once primary purposed to blood sports has been regenerated, and repurposed.

treesforlife.org.uk/glenfeshie-r...

www.glenfeshie.scot/pleasures

Glenfeshie reborn - Rewilding a sporting estate - Trees for Life

Can regeneration of existing woodland be achieved just by reducing deer numbers? Surprisingly, a few decades ago, the answer to that question – that indeed it is possible - was not universally accepte...

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 23d

Our topic is grouse moors, which are ecological deserts, in comparison with their potential if the land were allowed to regenerate.

For this reason I've not got into whataboutism other land uses.

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