winkybiker
@winkybiker.bsky.social
Cyclists are (part of) the answer to congestion and traffic violence, not the problem. Cars ruin everything I love. They're literally killing us. Sighthounds rule. Save the Galgo. Fender > Gibson. 🍁
OK, what the fuck does "T&S" mean in the context of this post?
There's nothing a T&S team can do to "earn trust", because every single decision you make, even if it's 100% consistent, will always have one party upset with the outcome and incentivized to present their case to the court of public opinion in as distorted/favorable-to-them light as possible!
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
OK, what the fuck does "T&S" mean in the context of this post?
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xkcd.com/3167/ welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social @xkcd.com ? I think that's a much more direct approach but I'm game for giving it a shot.
Car Size
xkcd.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
xkcd.com/3167/ welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social @xkcd.com ? I think that's a much more direct approach but I'm game for giving it a shot.
Seems like it's well past time to do something about these so-called "cars".
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Cyclist in near miss as car crashes off road near Wellingborough
Video shows the moment a car skids sideways, narrowly missing a man on a bike, before crashing.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Seems like it's well past time to do something about these so-called "cars".
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Gabriola is beautiful...
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Gabriola is beautiful...
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A fun first night in Vancouver on our LIFE AFTER CARS book tour. Got to hang with @tomflood.bsky.social @visionzerovancouver.ca @lucymaloney.bsky.social. So cool to see the Vision Zero campaign Tom designed on a billboard!
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
A fun first night in Vancouver on our LIFE AFTER CARS book tour. Got to hang with @tomflood.bsky.social @visionzerovancouver.ca @lucymaloney.bsky.social. So cool to see the Vision Zero campaign Tom designed on a billboard!
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You love to see it.
Judge’s final order bars Trump from sending national guard to Portland
Karin Immergut said earlier she ‘found no credible evidence’ that protests in Oregon city were out of control
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
You love to see it.
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💫 New panelist alert! We're thrilled to have @tomflood.bsky.social joining @lucymaloney.bsky.social & @thewaroncars.bsky.social THIS SATURDAY for Life After Cars in downtown Vancouver, hosted by the incredible @uytaelee.bsky.social.
A few tix still available!
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/l...
A few tix still available!
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/l...
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
💫 New panelist alert! We're thrilled to have @tomflood.bsky.social joining @lucymaloney.bsky.social & @thewaroncars.bsky.social THIS SATURDAY for Life After Cars in downtown Vancouver, hosted by the incredible @uytaelee.bsky.social.
A few tix still available!
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/l...
A few tix still available!
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/l...
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It is bullshit. No acknowledgment of the fact pedestrians are being killed by drivers in their cars WHILE walking on the sidewalk. It resoundingly ain’t a person on a bike that’ll be the death of you, it’ll be a culture that prioritises a person in a 2 tonne metal box and to hell with everyone else.
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It is bullshit. No acknowledgment of the fact pedestrians are being killed by drivers in their cars WHILE walking on the sidewalk. It resoundingly ain’t a person on a bike that’ll be the death of you, it’ll be a culture that prioritises a person in a 2 tonne metal box and to hell with everyone else.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
Have real estate prices in NYC crashed with the million-or-so people leaving as promised? How's the bridge and tunnel traffic?
November 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Have real estate prices in NYC crashed with the million-or-so people leaving as promised? How's the bridge and tunnel traffic?
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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
A lot of people seem to think that DST is the thing we have in winter. As in: "Fuck this DST, it gets dark so early now."
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
A lot of people seem to think that DST is the thing we have in winter. As in: "Fuck this DST, it gets dark so early now."
In the US, road deaths increased by about 15% over the same period.
🚦 Changes in road deaths in the EU from 2019 to 2024:
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🇸🇮 -33%
🇱🇹 -33%
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🇮🇪 +22%
🇪🇪 +33%
🇵🇱 -35%
🇸🇮 -33%
🇱🇹 -33%
🇧🇪 -27%
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🇲🇹 -25%
🇧🇬 -24%
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🇱🇺 -18%
🇭🇺 -17%
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November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In the US, road deaths increased by about 15% over the same period.
"inexcusably expensive"? They're not free? Where is this? The rest of the world wants to know.
B&I are going to get our (inexcusably expensive) Covid vaccinations together tomorrow. We know what makes a great date night 😅
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"inexcusably expensive"? They're not free? Where is this? The rest of the world wants to know.
You might have seen some mixed reviews about House of Dynamite, Bigelow's latest film. But I urge you to see it yourself, and make up your own mind.
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
You might have seen some mixed reviews about House of Dynamite, Bigelow's latest film. But I urge you to see it yourself, and make up your own mind.
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"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.
No corner coffee shops: Toronto committee waters down neighbourhood retail plan
It’s the second time in less than a year councillors balked at allowing certain businesses to open on some residential streets
www.torontotoday.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.
Don't drive on Halloween, people. Just don't.
once again posting The Chart
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Don't drive on Halloween, people. Just don't.
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Leave your ebike at home and drive a car instead, which is statistically 1000x more likely to kill a pedestrian.
Your brain on cars.
Your brain on cars.
Very frustrating to still see public campaigns like this from Delta PD telling kids to wear bright reflectors on their costumes and people to leave their bikes at home.
The risk to pedestrians on Halloween comes from drivers, not cyclists.
The risk to pedestrians on Halloween comes from drivers, not cyclists.
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Leave your ebike at home and drive a car instead, which is statistically 1000x more likely to kill a pedestrian.
Your brain on cars.
Your brain on cars.
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"E-bike owners are reminded to leave their bikes at home on Halloween."
When have the cops ever — EVER — advised drivers to leave their cars at home for the sake of kids' safety? Give me a single example.
When have the cops ever — EVER — advised drivers to leave their cars at home for the sake of kids' safety? Give me a single example.
Very frustrating to still see public campaigns like this from Delta PD telling kids to wear bright reflectors on their costumes and people to leave their bikes at home.
The risk to pedestrians on Halloween comes from drivers, not cyclists.
The risk to pedestrians on Halloween comes from drivers, not cyclists.
October 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"E-bike owners are reminded to leave their bikes at home on Halloween."
When have the cops ever — EVER — advised drivers to leave their cars at home for the sake of kids' safety? Give me a single example.
When have the cops ever — EVER — advised drivers to leave their cars at home for the sake of kids' safety? Give me a single example.
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
I polled a thousand people last week, and not a single one of them had been killed by the measles they contracted as a child. So we don't need to worry about this stuff, right?
October 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I polled a thousand people last week, and not a single one of them had been killed by the measles they contracted as a child. So we don't need to worry about this stuff, right?
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
The new WH ball room.
October 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The new WH ball room.
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In France so many of their neon coloured maintainance vans get run into, they are making sculptures of them to make drivers think about it.... Yep they had big flashing lights on them too, and STILL drivers hit them.
October 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
In France so many of their neon coloured maintainance vans get run into, they are making sculptures of them to make drivers think about it.... Yep they had big flashing lights on them too, and STILL drivers hit them.