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@styrrellou.bsky.social
This is globally true, and not just for climate: for liveable spaces, for the physical health of those around us and for our own mental health. When cities invest in active travel car ownership declines not because cars are banned but because people have better options. They have the choice.
Going car-free is the best thing most people can do for climate. To reduce car dependency, cities should promote car-free living, supporting compact cities through policy, and investing in public transportation, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and shared mobility options.
These key strategies could help Americans get rid of their cars » Yale Climate Connections
Research points the way to a more climate-friendly, diverse, and desirable transportation system.
yaleclimateconnections.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:25 AM
This is globally true, and not just for climate: for liveable spaces, for the physical health of those around us and for our own mental health. When cities invest in active travel car ownership declines not because cars are banned but because people have better options. They have the choice.
This.
“Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed”
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Government bodies need to get off X, now
Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed, writes Clare O'Donoghue Velikic
www.irishexaminer.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:57 PM
This.
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Isn’t it time we changed the language of “sex trafficking”? Instead use “Rape trafficking”. Sex implies consent. There is none. This is rape, coercion and abuse of vulnerable people. Our language should reflect the harm inflicted. Words matter.
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026...
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026...
Epstein victims demand US time limit on sex trafficking cases be dropped
Democrats introduce ‘Virginia’s Law’ to remove barriers for survivors of sexual violence from seeking justice
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Isn’t it time we changed the language of “sex trafficking”? Instead use “Rape trafficking”. Sex implies consent. There is none. This is rape, coercion and abuse of vulnerable people. Our language should reflect the harm inflicted. Words matter.
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026...
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026...
There’s so much in this. Firstly the debate around deportation changes utterly when it’s no longer abstract but about friends, neighbours and teammates. Secondly 2.5 years is quick in immigration cases but an age for children who can come to belong in that time. People who move are people first.
South Dublin community urges quashing of deportation order against family
South Dublin community urges quashing of deportation order against family
Supporters of South African Oyekanmi family say they have blended into school and community life
www.irishtimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 AM
There’s so much in this. Firstly the debate around deportation changes utterly when it’s no longer abstract but about friends, neighbours and teammates. Secondly 2.5 years is quick in immigration cases but an age for children who can come to belong in that time. People who move are people first.
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Another uninformed letter writer that seems to choose to ignore that hi viz is never replacement for lights and lights are already a legal requirement for cyclists... As are reflectors.
The issue is enforcement of existing laws.
The issue is enforcement of existing laws.
Cyclists shouldn’t swerve their responsibility to other road users
Wearing a fluorescent vest is hardly a big burden
www.irishtimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Another uninformed letter writer that seems to choose to ignore that hi viz is never replacement for lights and lights are already a legal requirement for cyclists... As are reflectors.
The issue is enforcement of existing laws.
The issue is enforcement of existing laws.
I welcome the fact that EV sales are outstripping FFV sales but the photo shows why it’s motornormativity itself that’s the issue.
Fully a third of the pedestrian (which serves wheelchair users, buggies etc too) has been taken for chargers.
Put the car-related street furniture in the road!
Fully a third of the pedestrian (which serves wheelchair users, buggies etc too) has been taken for chargers.
Put the car-related street furniture in the road!
This is a shift we've been waiting for! ⚡️🚗 "I’m really encouraged by this: EVs outpacing petrol cars feels like a tipping point. It’s a systems signal that when the right options are available, people choose solutions." - Heather Jones, Research Fellow
@carbonbrief.org 👉 https://bit.ly/3Mprsse
@carbonbrief.org 👉 https://bit.ly/3Mprsse
Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever - Carbon Brief
Sales of battery electric vehicles (EVs) overtook petrol cars in the EU for the first time in December 2025.
bit.ly
February 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I welcome the fact that EV sales are outstripping FFV sales but the photo shows why it’s motornormativity itself that’s the issue.
Fully a third of the pedestrian (which serves wheelchair users, buggies etc too) has been taken for chargers.
Put the car-related street furniture in the road!
Fully a third of the pedestrian (which serves wheelchair users, buggies etc too) has been taken for chargers.
Put the car-related street furniture in the road!
I hope we’ll be seeing more of @social-democrats.bsky.social @hollycairns.bsky.social and @westcorksocdems.bsky.social here and that they are leaving that cesspit of far-right bile and sexual abuse imagery once known as twitter ? « Doing things differently » should include telling musk to fuck off.
"Social Democrats have shown that our politics of equality, inclusion, honesty - and above all hope - really resonates.
We’ve shown that we can do things differently - not just for our party, but for the country." - @hollycairns.bsky.social
We’ve shown that we can do things differently - not just for our party, but for the country." - @hollycairns.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 12:01 PM
I hope we’ll be seeing more of @social-democrats.bsky.social @hollycairns.bsky.social and @westcorksocdems.bsky.social here and that they are leaving that cesspit of far-right bile and sexual abuse imagery once known as twitter ? « Doing things differently » should include telling musk to fuck off.
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Ce ne sont pas les athlètes américains qui ont été sifflés, c'est JD Vance. Il ne mérite aucun fair play.
February 7, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Ce ne sont pas les athlètes américains qui ont été sifflés, c'est JD Vance. Il ne mérite aucun fair play.
Apparently the pedestrian crossing is new, yet it doesn’t appear to be raised up to allow a continuous level path for pedestrians - good practice that also calms the traffic.
Still traffic lights that genuinely prioritise pedestrians - green by default and drivers need to use a begging button … :)
Still traffic lights that genuinely prioritise pedestrians - green by default and drivers need to use a begging button … :)
The Cllr is wrong, roundabouts with zebra crossings DO prioritise pedestrians and cyclists, traffic lights never prioritise pedestrians on busy roads like this.
Traffic lights will only see red light breakers.
Traffic lights will only see red light breakers.
Councillor calls for replacement of infamous Farronosheen roundabout with signalised junction - News - Waterford News & Star
Fine Gael councillor Jim D'Arcy said Waterford needs to follow the path of Galway in removing roundabouts across the city
www.waterford-news.ie
February 7, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Apparently the pedestrian crossing is new, yet it doesn’t appear to be raised up to allow a continuous level path for pedestrians - good practice that also calms the traffic.
Still traffic lights that genuinely prioritise pedestrians - green by default and drivers need to use a begging button … :)
Still traffic lights that genuinely prioritise pedestrians - green by default and drivers need to use a begging button … :)
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We had this once and can again.
@olaln.bsky.social - let’s design it so that a 10 year old can cycle safely to school, without dressing like a construction worker. @irishtimes.com letter
@olaln.bsky.social - let’s design it so that a 10 year old can cycle safely to school, without dressing like a construction worker. @irishtimes.com letter
February 7, 2026 at 9:06 AM
We had this once and can again.
@olaln.bsky.social - let’s design it so that a 10 year old can cycle safely to school, without dressing like a construction worker. @irishtimes.com letter
@olaln.bsky.social - let’s design it so that a 10 year old can cycle safely to school, without dressing like a construction worker. @irishtimes.com letter
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We need a miracle tonight but sometimes they do happen.
The greatest show on earth is back.
COME ON IRELAND!!!!!
#FRAvIRE | #SixNations
The greatest show on earth is back.
COME ON IRELAND!!!!!
#FRAvIRE | #SixNations
February 5, 2026 at 7:53 PM
We need a miracle tonight but sometimes they do happen.
The greatest show on earth is back.
COME ON IRELAND!!!!!
#FRAvIRE | #SixNations
The greatest show on earth is back.
COME ON IRELAND!!!!!
#FRAvIRE | #SixNations
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The question isn't whether people should wear high-viz/helmets. People should wear whatever makes them feel safer. Question is whether mandatory high-viz/helmets is good public policy - it's not
Protected lanes, safe junction design, more cyclists, and better driver behaviour are good public policy
Protected lanes, safe junction design, more cyclists, and better driver behaviour are good public policy
People do wear them. Cyclists know the risks better that anyone. But again.... study after study has shown that while they may help individually in falls, as a whole they drastically discourage people from cycling, they encourage poor behaviour in motorists (who give less room because they...
February 5, 2026 at 6:32 PM
The question isn't whether people should wear high-viz/helmets. People should wear whatever makes them feel safer. Question is whether mandatory high-viz/helmets is good public policy - it's not
Protected lanes, safe junction design, more cyclists, and better driver behaviour are good public policy
Protected lanes, safe junction design, more cyclists, and better driver behaviour are good public policy
The difference between him and Marvin the Paranoïd Android is that Marvin has an essential humanity, is far more intelligent and, crucially, isn’t a dick.
Maybe if Elon tried that last one he’d feel better about himself.
Maybe if Elon tried that last one he’d feel better about himself.
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The difference between him and Marvin the Paranoïd Android is that Marvin has an essential humanity, is far more intelligent and, crucially, isn’t a dick.
Maybe if Elon tried that last one he’d feel better about himself.
Maybe if Elon tried that last one he’d feel better about himself.
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What a wildly stupid idea.
Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.
That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.
Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.
That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.
All bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms irishcycle.com/2026/02/04/a...
All bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms
— Plan was expected to be put to the Cabinet today before it was withdrawn from the meeting of Government Ministers. A reported plan by Ireland’s Government to make the wearing of helme…
irishcycle.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:19 PM
What a wildly stupid idea.
Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.
That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.
Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.
That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.
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This is cycling in Copenhagen.
No hi-vis. No helmet mandates.
People cycle because it’s safe — by design.
This is what cycling should look like.
Ireland is moving in the opposite direction. Instead of designing safe places to cycle, we're blaming the people cycling...
No hi-vis. No helmet mandates.
People cycle because it’s safe — by design.
This is what cycling should look like.
Ireland is moving in the opposite direction. Instead of designing safe places to cycle, we're blaming the people cycling...
February 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
This is cycling in Copenhagen.
No hi-vis. No helmet mandates.
People cycle because it’s safe — by design.
This is what cycling should look like.
Ireland is moving in the opposite direction. Instead of designing safe places to cycle, we're blaming the people cycling...
No hi-vis. No helmet mandates.
People cycle because it’s safe — by design.
This is what cycling should look like.
Ireland is moving in the opposite direction. Instead of designing safe places to cycle, we're blaming the people cycling...
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Green Foundation Ireland have left the bad place and joined Bluesky. Give them an aul' follow / repost / a bit of love!! They have a nice conference on food systems coming up in TUS Athlone in partnership with @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social
Ireland’s Food systems have a huge impact on climate and biodiversity. Join @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social and GFI on 17 Feb in TUS Athlone for a day of discussion and sharing on how Universities can help shape better food systems. More details here: greenfoundationireland.ie/in-person-co...
February 2, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Green Foundation Ireland have left the bad place and joined Bluesky. Give them an aul' follow / repost / a bit of love!! They have a nice conference on food systems coming up in TUS Athlone in partnership with @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social
One of the things that puts people - especially with wheelchairs, mobility devices or buggies - off using the footpath and so can seriously restrict their freedom of movement is drivers parking in pedestrians spaces. Another is the pavement damage caused by those drivers. Pavement parking disables.
To anybody who wants to say there was nobody on the footpath, when I was going back, another motorist drove fowards onto the footpath while 3 old people were walking out from one of the restaurants.
I wasn't going to say anything to any of them parking there but after that I got them to move off.
I wasn't going to say anything to any of them parking there but after that I got them to move off.
"Cars don't drive on footpaths"
No, motorists do and 99% of the time I see them doing so there's somewhere else they can park within 30 seconds to a minute or so that's legal, safer and doesn't cause damage to footpaths:
No, motorists do and 99% of the time I see them doing so there's somewhere else they can park within 30 seconds to a minute or so that's legal, safer and doesn't cause damage to footpaths:
February 2, 2026 at 7:58 PM
One of the things that puts people - especially with wheelchairs, mobility devices or buggies - off using the footpath and so can seriously restrict their freedom of movement is drivers parking in pedestrians spaces. Another is the pavement damage caused by those drivers. Pavement parking disables.
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Heute in den USA (links). Vor 100 Jahren in Deutschland (rechts).
February 1, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Heute in den USA (links). Vor 100 Jahren in Deutschland (rechts).
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Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
January 31, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
What amazes me is how these « élites » manage to attend so many dinner parties, get to all the secret meetings at the volcano lair and still manage to subvert everything right wing governments want to do and yet keep it all secret from everyone except that annoying guy in the pub who tells everyone.
Goodwin’s semi-conspiracist obsession with dinner parties is a real psychological tic. He imagines that all the fancy “elites” are moving from dinner to dinner talking trash about him (I would actually enjoy that though)
You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
February 1, 2026 at 10:22 AM
What amazes me is how these « élites » manage to attend so many dinner parties, get to all the secret meetings at the volcano lair and still manage to subvert everything right wing governments want to do and yet keep it all secret from everyone except that annoying guy in the pub who tells everyone.
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This is unhinged regardless. But if it was an environmentalist doing something even half as destructive, it'd be all over the place:
This is the first time I’ve read details about a bomb that was set off in residential London street, destroying cars and sending shrapnel into kids’ bedrooms.
Young people are considered vulnerable online, but the actual radicalisation of old generations is given a free pass by the press.
Young people are considered vulnerable online, but the actual radicalisation of old generations is given a free pass by the press.
Ulez bomber: the retired electrician who turned bomb-making extremist
January 31, 2026 at 7:56 AM
This is unhinged regardless. But if it was an environmentalist doing something even half as destructive, it'd be all over the place:
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Excellent point. And if you want to hear me talk about motonormativity I'll be at it in Cambridge tomorrow...
Can anyone show me an equiv sign asking #drivers to slow down on the 1000s of miles they share w #cyclists? @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk
January 30, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Excellent point. And if you want to hear me talk about motonormativity I'll be at it in Cambridge tomorrow...
I’m sure the Government will do everything possible to tackle the root causes and promote international cooperation to address the climate emergency*
*short of mildly inconveniencing drivers, farmers, Michael O’Leary, US tech giants, oil companies or motor manufacturers, of course.
*short of mildly inconveniencing drivers, farmers, Michael O’Leary, US tech giants, oil companies or motor manufacturers, of course.
We cannot build our way out of this problem, difficult decisions will need to be made in relation to abandoning properties and land to allow for flooding. We must also stop this obsession with draining agriculture land so quickly.
Storm Chandra floods made three times more likely by climate change
Storm Chandra floods made three times more likely by climate change
Storm Chandra floods made three times more likely by climate change
Analysis shows rainfall preceding storm left areas ‘primed’ for flooding
www.irishtimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:44 AM
I’m sure the Government will do everything possible to tackle the root causes and promote international cooperation to address the climate emergency*
*short of mildly inconveniencing drivers, farmers, Michael O’Leary, US tech giants, oil companies or motor manufacturers, of course.
*short of mildly inconveniencing drivers, farmers, Michael O’Leary, US tech giants, oil companies or motor manufacturers, of course.
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If you haven’t seen this before, a warning, you might end up liking Bill Nye even more.
x.com/CarsRuinedCi...
x.com/CarsRuinedCi...
The Inefficiency of Cars Explained by Bill Nye the Science Guy! #science #green #climatechange
YouTube video by Science Savant
youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:13 AM
If you haven’t seen this before, a warning, you might end up liking Bill Nye even more.
x.com/CarsRuinedCi...
x.com/CarsRuinedCi...
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I'm a scientist because I love learning when I am wrong and updating my knowledge.
A good science teacher encourages us to be wrong and then figure things out as the evidence rolls in. The "gotcha!" mentality shown in movies and pop culture are wrong, and not in a good (learning experience) way
A good science teacher encourages us to be wrong and then figure things out as the evidence rolls in. The "gotcha!" mentality shown in movies and pop culture are wrong, and not in a good (learning experience) way
The whole "sandgate" thing that happened yesterday on Bluesky was pretty fun. I wrote a blog post with some deeper thoughts on this, and why it is important for scientists to have humility. raisedbeaches.net/2026/01/29/s...
Sandgate
A beach on Inujima (Dog Island) in Japan, which is composed of a sand that is primarily slag. It is close to an abandoned copper refinery. In September last year, I participated in the Ark of Coral…
raisedbeaches.net
January 29, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I'm a scientist because I love learning when I am wrong and updating my knowledge.
A good science teacher encourages us to be wrong and then figure things out as the evidence rolls in. The "gotcha!" mentality shown in movies and pop culture are wrong, and not in a good (learning experience) way
A good science teacher encourages us to be wrong and then figure things out as the evidence rolls in. The "gotcha!" mentality shown in movies and pop culture are wrong, and not in a good (learning experience) way