Chris
@sullyc.bsky.social
Cymro, dad, utility cyclist and bike bus marshal, semi-retired programmer (FIRE), Dr (Computer Science)
Endlessly failing to declutter.
Believes in experts and following the evidence.
All for a meritocratic world.
Endlessly failing to declutter.
Believes in experts and following the evidence.
All for a meritocratic world.
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Can't help think about this having just skimmed the government's new road safety strategy
In 2014 I met Australian traffic researcher Ian Johnston at a conference in Edmonton. I think often about something he said, and this week shared his words with a colleague: "If your plan is not for zero deaths, then your plan is for some deaths to happen"
January 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Can't help think about this having just skimmed the government's new road safety strategy
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Overcharging by asylum contractor bit.ly/45uCBhK there’s a surprise!
Firm in overcharging scandal won £3.9bn in public sector contracts
Australian travel group that supplied the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge for the Home Office has admitted UK clients overpaid at least £80 million
bit.ly
January 8, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Overcharging by asylum contractor bit.ly/45uCBhK there’s a surprise!
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Renee Good, a citizen & mother was shot 3 times in the head, on camera, by a masked gang. She is smeared by Trump & MAGA lunatics.
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
January 8, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Renee Good, a citizen & mother was shot 3 times in the head, on camera, by a masked gang. She is smeared by Trump & MAGA lunatics.
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
Call for monthly student loan payments 'backed by dozens of Labour MPs' | Politics News | Sky News share.google/vS2lMEk1iIzy...
Tinkering around the edges ... Again. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Tinkering around the edges ... Again. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
January 8, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Call for monthly student loan payments 'backed by dozens of Labour MPs' | Politics News | Sky News share.google/vS2lMEk1iIzy...
Tinkering around the edges ... Again. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Tinkering around the edges ... Again. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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The Road Safety Strategy is an opportunity to address the dangers pedestrians face every day, but the vision should be for zero people to lose their lives. We should not accept that a certain number of people will die on our roads.
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
“The vision should be for zero people to lose their lives”
Living Streets comments on the Government's first Road Safety Strategy in over a decade, released today (7 January).
livingstreets.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 PM
The Road Safety Strategy is an opportunity to address the dangers pedestrians face every day, but the vision should be for zero people to lose their lives. We should not accept that a certain number of people will die on our roads.
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
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The only target for the number of people killed on the road should be zero.
With its Road Safety Strategy, the Government has massively overlooked key actions to cut traffic and achieve safer and slower vehicle speeds, which are truly effective at saving lives and essential to reaching this goal.
With its Road Safety Strategy, the Government has massively overlooked key actions to cut traffic and achieve safer and slower vehicle speeds, which are truly effective at saving lives and essential to reaching this goal.
The Road Safety Strategy is an opportunity to address the dangers pedestrians face every day, but the vision should be for zero people to lose their lives. We should not accept that a certain number of people will die on our roads.
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
“The vision should be for zero people to lose their lives”
Living Streets comments on the Government's first Road Safety Strategy in over a decade, released today (7 January).
livingstreets.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
The only target for the number of people killed on the road should be zero.
With its Road Safety Strategy, the Government has massively overlooked key actions to cut traffic and achieve safer and slower vehicle speeds, which are truly effective at saving lives and essential to reaching this goal.
With its Road Safety Strategy, the Government has massively overlooked key actions to cut traffic and achieve safer and slower vehicle speeds, which are truly effective at saving lives and essential to reaching this goal.
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This feels like an over-engineered solution to the "problem" of selling train tickets. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ticketless train travel trial: Your questions answered
East Midlands Railway is testing location-based technology until August.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 6:44 AM
This feels like an over-engineered solution to the "problem" of selling train tickets. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brave woman, brave Russian. Important to acknowledge there are other currents in Russia.
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
The weightlifting champion jailed by Russia for ‘plotting sabotage and assassinations’
Yulia Lemeshchenko was defiant and did not deny the accusations, saying she had decided to fight against Russian military aggression
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Brave woman, brave Russian. Important to acknowledge there are other currents in Russia.
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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In a remote jungle in the Philippines, one combatant is still doggedly waging a conflict that actually ended years before.
January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
In a remote jungle in the Philippines, one combatant is still doggedly waging a conflict that actually ended years before.
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Leave oil in the ground.
January 5, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Leave oil in the ground.
How much evidence do you need not to vote Reform in Cymru. There is an overwhelming amount as it is.
Reform UK can’t stand scrutiny…
Reform declines invitation to first Senedd election broadcast debate
Reform declines invitation to first Senedd election broadcast debate
Reform declines invitation to first Senedd election broadcast debate
Party faces criticism after opting out of BBC Radio Wales discussion ahead of May vote REFORM UK has come under fire after choosing not to take part in the first broadcast debate of the 2026 Senedd…
pembrokeshire-herald.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:24 AM
How much evidence do you need not to vote Reform in Cymru. There is an overwhelming amount as it is.
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When parents are afraid to let their children cycle, that’s not “choice” - it’s policy failure.
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
West Midlands councils struggling to deliver bike safety training
More than half of councils in the West Midlands are seeing a fall in the number of children taking part.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 8:12 AM
When parents are afraid to let their children cycle, that’s not “choice” - it’s policy failure.
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
January 5, 2026 at 7:26 AM
The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
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That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
'Audacious' 🤔🤦♂️
Maduro jailed in New York after audacious raid and capture – live
Maduro jailed in New York after audacious raid and capture – live
Nicolás Maduro is expected to make an initial appearance in Manhattan federal court on Monday, according to officials
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:05 AM
'Audacious' 🤔🤦♂️
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We used to have better priorities with our space in cities. We used to understand the many things that streets in cities are for.
January 3, 2026 at 4:44 AM
We used to have better priorities with our space in cities. We used to understand the many things that streets in cities are for.
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Normalize it.
January 3, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Normalize it.
Pretty pictures but how true is this? Is the rest of Europe really doing that much better than the UK? In which ways? Evidence?
Back on the roads after the holidays. Our goal: your safety.
We turned Europe’s best road safety practices into EU action so you can walk, cycle, ride, or drive safely.
To bring us closer to almost zero road deaths by 2050.
We turned Europe’s best road safety practices into EU action so you can walk, cycle, ride, or drive safely.
To bring us closer to almost zero road deaths by 2050.
January 3, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Pretty pictures but how true is this? Is the rest of Europe really doing that much better than the UK? In which ways? Evidence?
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“Survey after survey has shown that business owners overestimate how many customers drive to their stores vs walking or biking. In a 2012 Los Angeles study, more than half of the store owners on the bike-laned part of the boulevard thought most of their customers drove. The actual number was 15%.”
I read all the studies on the economic impact of bike lanes. Here's what I learned.
Research proves that bike lanes are good for business. So why do so many stores and restaurants still oppose them?
www.businessinsider.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:41 AM
“Survey after survey has shown that business owners overestimate how many customers drive to their stores vs walking or biking. In a 2012 Los Angeles study, more than half of the store owners on the bike-laned part of the boulevard thought most of their customers drove. The actual number was 15%.”
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UK government should end rail outsourcing ‘racket’, says union
UK government should end rail outsourcing ‘racket’, says union
RMT estimates six cleaning, security and catering suppliers made £150m profits last year
Railway leaders should “think afresh” about outsourcing contracts and try to run services better, the rail minister has said, as union research indicated six major private suppliers made £150m in profits last year.
Rail unions are campaigning to end the widespread outsourcing of jobs such as cleaning, security and catering, arguing that staff employed by third-party companies have worse conditions and that profits could be reinvested in the railway. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:13 AM
UK government should end rail outsourcing ‘racket’, says union
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Predicted one hundred years ago, yet we’ve allowed it to pretty much happen. 🤷♀️
There will be so many cars that none of them will be able to move
January 2, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Predicted one hundred years ago, yet we’ve allowed it to pretty much happen. 🤷♀️
The money/resources we have to waste because drivers won't stay below speed limits. Mandatory geo-fenced speed limiters for all, at the driver's expense, please.
Chicanes are a prime example of self-enforcing infrastructure design.
Unlike a speed limit sign, which relies on voluntary compliance, a chicane uses physical geometry to dictate safe speeds. It removes the choice to speed.
Unlike a speed limit sign, which relies on voluntary compliance, a chicane uses physical geometry to dictate safe speeds. It removes the choice to speed.
The chicane on 37th Ave S looks great! I’m looking forward to SDOT adding more features like this around Seattle to slow down cars and discourage cut-through traffic.
January 2, 2026 at 7:56 AM
The money/resources we have to waste because drivers won't stay below speed limits. Mandatory geo-fenced speed limiters for all, at the driver's expense, please.
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I see Kier Starmer has a plan to cut the cost of living? Is it to finally tackle the two major structural costs that have for decades crippled citizens & government: housing density & car dependency?
Of course it isn't. It's subsidising energy 🤦♂️ More shuffling of costs around; not cost reduction.
Of course it isn't. It's subsidising energy 🤦♂️ More shuffling of costs around; not cost reduction.
Keir Starmer to woo voters and MPs with new year plan to cut cost of living
PM to highlight energy bill and interest rate cuts, plus end to two-child benefit cap, and to invite his MPs to Chequers
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 AM
I see Kier Starmer has a plan to cut the cost of living? Is it to finally tackle the two major structural costs that have for decades crippled citizens & government: housing density & car dependency?
Of course it isn't. It's subsidising energy 🤦♂️ More shuffling of costs around; not cost reduction.
Of course it isn't. It's subsidising energy 🤦♂️ More shuffling of costs around; not cost reduction.
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All the data points to micro plastics being a massive human health issue, never mind the effects they're having throughout the natural world.
How is the plastics industry continuing to get away with pushing inconceivable amounts of toxic pollution into the environment, and our own bodies?
How is the plastics industry continuing to get away with pushing inconceivable amounts of toxic pollution into the environment, and our own bodies?
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“What plastics do to human organs is subject to intense study. When scientists add microplastics to human tissue samples in the laboratory, it can result in cell death, immune reactions and tissue damage. And hundreds of studies have exposed animals —
“What plastics do to human organs is subject to intense study. When scientists add microplastics to human tissue samples in the laboratory, it can result in cell death, immune reactions and tissue damage. And hundreds of studies have exposed animals —
Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.
www.nature.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
All the data points to micro plastics being a massive human health issue, never mind the effects they're having throughout the natural world.
How is the plastics industry continuing to get away with pushing inconceivable amounts of toxic pollution into the environment, and our own bodies?
How is the plastics industry continuing to get away with pushing inconceivable amounts of toxic pollution into the environment, and our own bodies?