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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 1d

Stink puff!

(Pink stuff)

MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 1d

Exeter could have this around every school. Why not at least outside Ladysmith and St Michaels? And the Cathedral School? Nearly one year since focus groups held to find solutions following the LTN removal.

Streetfilms/Clarence Eckerson Jr. @streetfilms.bsky.social · 2d

How crazy is this? The Kia Oval is a large cricket stadium in London. How large? Try 27,500 seats! And now about half of the perimeter of space surrounding the stadium feature two schools streets at Henry Fawcett Primary School and St. Mark's C of E Primary School.

youtu.be/s7UnmaTmSwc

Crazy! London Installed School Streets around a Cricket Stadium! Look!

YouTube video by Streetfilms®

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 3d

Very apt for today on the blustery aftermath of Storm Amy

Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 9d

One of his greatest poems.

• Seamus Heaney •

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly!

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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 5d

The Welsh 20mph default reduced casualties by 25% and insurance costs by £90m. If done in England expect reductions of 15,000 casualties pa and insurance by £2bn pa. Implementation cost would be approx £0.5bn. For comparison, 1st yr depreciation on new cars registered in England in 2024 was £78bn

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Natalia Barbour @nataliabarbour.bsky.social · 5d

You know cycling should be safe on regular occasions like „existing” and „getting groceries” and not having to change continents just to not get ran over.

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 6d

The language!
Not 'our failure to meet those vital targets' but 'failed targets'
I weep.
I am grieving for the next generation.

'Badenoch said: “Under my leadership we will scrap those failed targets. Our priority now is growth, cheaper energy, and protecting the natural landscapes we all love.”'

Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 6d

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 6d

Remember this email well:
"There is no shortage of PPE. PPE is to be kept in a locked cupboard, matron will hold the key at all times".

When I watched with pity at the very beginning, those nurses in Wuhan; little did I think that a few weeks later I'd be envying their spacesuit PPE.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 9d

I may have found my defining quote.

Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

From a poster called “just shower thoughts“ reading: when people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small, barely anyone in the present to really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 7d

900 bike hangars and yet Exeter has zero.
Why are we waiting?

##activetravel #cycling

Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 7d

Another 40 new bike hangers coming to Waltham Forest - bringing the total to over 900 serving 5,400+ residents.

Well done @labourstone.bsky.social
& colleagues.

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 10d

In Devon & Cornwall, VisionZeroSW are 4yrs into 10yr plan to ⬇️ road deaths by 50%. Nearly all the effort is going on police enforcement, nil on infra (we only had some a Look for Cyclists signs on proven dangerous roundabouts).
Result? Road deaths increasing.
Depressing.

Graph showing (road) deaths per year vs target deaths.

2020 was 44 (baseline)
Planned by 2030 is 22
2024 actual was 56
On plan target for 2024 should've been 36

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 10d

I wish I could find it again, but I once read about a legal judgement from "the olden days 🙄" C19? that "the highway is not a stable" ie you'd no right to keep your horse & carriage on the street if you couldn't afford stabling.
Wish we'd learned to stick with that...

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 11d

That explains it. Cowardly.

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 11d

I'm not sure. I watched part of the debate online (as they were covering 20mph motion) but I found the subsequent minutes hard to follow.

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Ben Lowndes @blowndes.bsky.social · 11d

Puts the uproar about Angela Rayner’s troubles into perspective.

No, I don’t think what she did was good.

But this is on another level.

Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 11d

There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 11d

Bad idea!

The ability to request judicial review is a vital safeguard against the govt making bad decisions and ignoring environmental rules & agreements.

Without the Aarhus Convention, @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social and I would not have been able to bring our case on oil production at Horse Hill

Campaign for Freedom of Information @campaignfoi.bsky.social · 11d

📢FOI in the News!

The government is considering leaving the Aarhus Convention, which allows groups to judicially review environmentally damaging proposals without massive costs if they lose.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#Aarhus #EIR #informationrights #transparency

Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews

Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion

www.theguardian.com

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 14d

Or worse, people will self select aspirin or an otc NSAID during pregnancy and end up in real trouble.
I'm hoping the acetaminophen name will deflect some of the misinformation. 🤞

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 17d

Praying isn't begging God to give us things but aligning our hearts with His.
"Who can I show love to?
Help me to be generous even when it hurts.
Help me to grow a forgiving, not vengeful heart.
Who, unseen, is feeling lonely and needs a kind word?"

It's about changing our hearts, not His.
🙂

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17d

📌Just in case you want to know what Trump's boss, Putin, sounds like ...

Brett @23brett.bsky.social · 17d

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 17d

If you haven’t signed this please do then give yourself a hug

Tony Beales @tonybeales.bsky.social · Jun 15

Brown hare backlit by early morning sun anxiously watching signatures on the petition heading for 30,000. I'm sure you've signed the petition to protect hares from shooting in the breeding season, but any more family and friends to sign? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
#UKwildlife #mammals

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 18d

Mind blown

The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 18d

Birds aren’t the only creatures that fly south for the winter.

Thousands of flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs then taking off a few hours later – here’s why

Birds aren’t the only creatures that fly south for the winter.

tcnv.link

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 21d

One week ban per km/hr over speed limit. Retest before driving again and mandatory black box for one year. That should concentrate minds and retrain them too.

MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 22d

She's got more flowers than me. I feel a bike revamp coming on!
🚲🌻🚲🌸🚲🌹🚲🌼🚲

Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 22d

Props to Kyle Kelley over on IG for capturing our sister in her full glory. Ciclavia South LA/Watts event this past weekend...

#BikeSky

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 23d

The @exeterobserver.org doing well in Exeter.

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MummaLovesExeter @loveexeter.bsky.social · 26d

And those pics should really show the cars driving over the pavement edge too.

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