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"L’histoire de Michael Mann, c’est un peu celle d’un guitariste devenu rock star presque à son insu" ["Michael Mann's story..a guitarist who became a rock star almost without realizing it."] | My interview w/ @natmayer.bsky.social @futurasciences.bsky.social: www.futura-sciences.com/planete/actu...
Attaques, procès, pressions : comment Michael Mann est devenu malgré lui l’une des voix les plus écoutées du climat (interview)
L’histoire de Michael Mann, c’est un peu celle d’un guitariste devenu rock star presque à son insu. Celle d’un climatologue qui, sans le vouloir, a été propulsé sur le devant de la scène. Une posit...
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November 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"L’histoire de Michael Mann, c’est un peu celle d’un guitariste devenu rock star presque à son insu" ["Michael Mann's story..a guitarist who became a rock star almost without realizing it."] | My interview w/ @natmayer.bsky.social @futurasciences.bsky.social: www.futura-sciences.com/planete/actu...
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This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
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The American car industry quite deliberately designs its products so that they kill people. They know this. They are not ignorant of how their products work.
They don't care.
They don't care.
Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The American car industry quite deliberately designs its products so that they kill people. They know this. They are not ignorant of how their products work.
They don't care.
They don't care.
I wonder if there’s also an element that in bending over backwards to avoid affecting drivers those « carrots » come with conflicts between other modes ? Cutting trees to build non-continuous mobility lanes instead of taking the (ample) road space for a proper continuous one? Dozens of examples
Yet another evidence review argues very strongly that simply providing alternatives to driving doesn't reduce driving
This isn't surprising, if only thanks to habit. If I unthinkingly jump in my car for every trip (as many do), new buses won't change that
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This isn't surprising, if only thanks to habit. If I unthinkingly jump in my car for every trip (as many do), new buses won't change that
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reducing traffic with “carrots”: A review of the evidence
Reducing traffic volumes is one way to reduce carbon emissions from the transport sector. Since increasing driving costs is often met with public resi…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I wonder if there’s also an element that in bending over backwards to avoid affecting drivers those « carrots » come with conflicts between other modes ? Cutting trees to build non-continuous mobility lanes instead of taking the (ample) road space for a proper continuous one? Dozens of examples
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
www.rte.ie/news/ulster/... imagine a pilot - or maybe a crane operator - who has been found drink-impaired at work six times previously and who then killed someone while drunk again. There would be outrage: public enquiries and demands for change in the law. When it’s a driver ? Tumbleweed.
Man jailed for dangerous driving causing death of man
A man with six previous drink-driving convictions has been sentenced to four years in prison for dangerous driving and disqualified from driving for ten years for causing the death of a pensioner in D...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
www.rte.ie/news/ulster/... imagine a pilot - or maybe a crane operator - who has been found drink-impaired at work six times previously and who then killed someone while drunk again. There would be outrage: public enquiries and demands for change in the law. When it’s a driver ? Tumbleweed.
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RÓBATE ESTA IDEA
Yo haría que las guaguas salgan 5 minutos después de la llegada del tren urbano a una estación.
Y que lleguen a la estación 5 minutos antes de que el tren salga.
Yo haría que las guaguas salgan 5 minutos después de la llegada del tren urbano a una estación.
Y que lleguen a la estación 5 minutos antes de que el tren salga.
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
RÓBATE ESTA IDEA
Yo haría que las guaguas salgan 5 minutos después de la llegada del tren urbano a una estación.
Y que lleguen a la estación 5 minutos antes de que el tren salga.
Yo haría que las guaguas salgan 5 minutos después de la llegada del tren urbano a una estación.
Y que lleguen a la estación 5 minutos antes de que el tren salga.
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Cork City Council's annual reminder that parking enforcement is just for Christmas and not for the other eleven months of year
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Cork City Council's annual reminder that parking enforcement is just for Christmas and not for the other eleven months of year
If we want to promote certain behaviours we need to reduce the barriers to those behaviours - whether they be financial, structural or administrative. Not necessarily to zero - informed consent is essential - but to a reasonable level that is proportional to the risk.
If the HSE wants more parents to take up the child flu vaccine, they could make the consent form shorter.
It's the flu vaccine.
It's the flu vaccine.
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If we want to promote certain behaviours we need to reduce the barriers to those behaviours - whether they be financial, structural or administrative. Not necessarily to zero - informed consent is essential - but to a reasonable level that is proportional to the risk.
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When asked how people like to travel, workshop participants cut car use by half: from 37% to 19% while bus use tripled. A great insight from the recent co-creation workshop on how conversations can shape smarter, greener mobility 🇮🇪 @cyclingincork.bsky.social @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
When asked how people like to travel, workshop participants cut car use by half: from 37% to 19% while bus use tripled. A great insight from the recent co-creation workshop on how conversations can shape smarter, greener mobility 🇮🇪 @cyclingincork.bsky.social @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social
Absolutely this. But youth mobility is also senior mobility - older people who can’t or don’t want to drive can get around easily. It also supports people with disabilities and those who can’t afford to drive. And even those wedded to their cars might find a walk and fresh air not as bad as feared.
This so much!
Parents (usually mothers) in car-centric areas are forced to chauffeur their kids around. It also means they emphasize predictable, scheduled activities (like sports leagues) that cost money.
Youth mobility gives kids freedom, saves money, and reduces the unpaid-labor burden on women
Parents (usually mothers) in car-centric areas are forced to chauffeur their kids around. It also means they emphasize predictable, scheduled activities (like sports leagues) that cost money.
Youth mobility gives kids freedom, saves money, and reduces the unpaid-labor burden on women
Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Absolutely this. But youth mobility is also senior mobility - older people who can’t or don’t want to drive can get around easily. It also supports people with disabilities and those who can’t afford to drive. And even those wedded to their cars might find a walk and fresh air not as bad as feared.
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A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc.
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Join us for our November public meeting to meet reps from Dublin City Council’s Active Travel Programme Office re-
• Active Travel Network progress
• Project Consultations
• Early Engagements
• Plans for 2026
📆 Thu 13 Nov
📍 Academy Plaza Hotel off O'Connell St. D01 X2X0
⏰ 7.30pm
• Active Travel Network progress
• Project Consultations
• Early Engagements
• Plans for 2026
📆 Thu 13 Nov
📍 Academy Plaza Hotel off O'Connell St. D01 X2X0
⏰ 7.30pm
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Join us for our November public meeting to meet reps from Dublin City Council’s Active Travel Programme Office re-
• Active Travel Network progress
• Project Consultations
• Early Engagements
• Plans for 2026
📆 Thu 13 Nov
📍 Academy Plaza Hotel off O'Connell St. D01 X2X0
⏰ 7.30pm
• Active Travel Network progress
• Project Consultations
• Early Engagements
• Plans for 2026
📆 Thu 13 Nov
📍 Academy Plaza Hotel off O'Connell St. D01 X2X0
⏰ 7.30pm
The most extraordinary part is how successfully these exceptionally high polluters have managed to convince relatively low emitters that climate action is aimed at making them poorer. Especially when climate inaction really is making them poorer while not affecting the Musk’s, Gates’s etc at all.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The most extraordinary part is how successfully these exceptionally high polluters have managed to convince relatively low emitters that climate action is aimed at making them poorer. Especially when climate inaction really is making them poorer while not affecting the Musk’s, Gates’s etc at all.
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Every urbanist needs a close friend who navigates the city in a wheelchair/w mobility challenges & a friend who does city life w small children & a friend who does it living w age-related challenges. Understanding these perspectives is vital. If we built for these, it would work for nearly everyone.
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Every urbanist needs a close friend who navigates the city in a wheelchair/w mobility challenges & a friend who does city life w small children & a friend who does it living w age-related challenges. Understanding these perspectives is vital. If we built for these, it would work for nearly everyone.
The frog is very concerned about the cost of turning off the fire that is slowly boiling his pond even though there’s a gas tap right beside him. He’s only days away from developing high grade insulation or a radical new cooling system and there’ll be no need to invest energy in turning the tap off.
People must understand that don't need to save the planet. It's perfectly capable of saving itself, and will do so by killing ut when we become too much of a nuisance. Extreme weather, higher temperatures, less arable land, water shortages? The planet don't care.
It's just about saving ourselves.
It's just about saving ourselves.
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The frog is very concerned about the cost of turning off the fire that is slowly boiling his pond even though there’s a gas tap right beside him. He’s only days away from developing high grade insulation or a radical new cooling system and there’ll be no need to invest energy in turning the tap off.
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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And people say the British press doesn't know anything about Ireland. They got this scoop, didn't they.
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
And people say the British press doesn't know anything about Ireland. They got this scoop, didn't they.
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This, and absolutely this. You make big statements, you fuckin' stand over them or get yourself a clue.
#spéirghorm #ireland
#spéirghorm #ireland
Every time a pundit says ‘woke’ they should be asked to define it. On the spot before anyone can move on with the discussion. Every single time
David Quinn (who else) on Brendan O'Connor show now, dominating the discussion. FG rep says we need to connect with young people. DQ says you need to connect with people like me, he says FG 'too woke'.
Can see where this narrative is heading.
#SpeirGorm
Can see where this narrative is heading.
#SpeirGorm
October 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This, and absolutely this. You make big statements, you fuckin' stand over them or get yourself a clue.
#spéirghorm #ireland
#spéirghorm #ireland
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Love this country sometimes, honestly!
I'll be writing to the Electoral Commission suggesting that every polling station has tea and cakes in future
I'll be writing to the Electoral Commission suggesting that every polling station has tea and cakes in future
The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
October 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Love this country sometimes, honestly!
I'll be writing to the Electoral Commission suggesting that every polling station has tea and cakes in future
I'll be writing to the Electoral Commission suggesting that every polling station has tea and cakes in future
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Make space for bicycles on regional bus, says campainers
All regional buses should have spaces for bicycles, according to the Irish Cycling Campaign, a national umbrella group for most cycling campaigns. Bicycles are carried on most intercity buses in Ireland, both public and private, but more…
All regional buses should have spaces for bicycles, according to the Irish Cycling Campaign, a national umbrella group for most cycling campaigns. Bicycles are carried on most intercity buses in Ireland, both public and private, but more…
Make space for bicycles on regional bus, says campainers
All regional buses should have spaces for bicycles, according to the Irish Cycling Campaign, a national umbrella group for most cycling campaigns. Bicycles are carried on most intercity buses in Ireland, both public and private, but more recent inter-urban regional buses, which were purchased by the National Transport Authority (NTA) for public service routes, have no bicycle storage. Responding to an NTA examining the requirments of new regional buses, the Irish Cycling Campaign said it has a preference for bicycle storage in "areas within the bus for bicycles with fold up/down seats" so, it says " the space is not wasted if there are no bikes, and a bike can be rolled on and off the bus easily, similar to wheelchairs.
irishcycle.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Make space for bicycles on regional bus, says campainers
All regional buses should have spaces for bicycles, according to the Irish Cycling Campaign, a national umbrella group for most cycling campaigns. Bicycles are carried on most intercity buses in Ireland, both public and private, but more…
All regional buses should have spaces for bicycles, according to the Irish Cycling Campaign, a national umbrella group for most cycling campaigns. Bicycles are carried on most intercity buses in Ireland, both public and private, but more…