Simeon Jackson
@aristocrates201.bsky.social
Maybe there should be a law requiring that car ads depict the typical amount of other car traffic that an average driver experiences in the country it is being shown in.
Car brand BYD's new SUV ad pokes fun at people walking and cycling, comparing them to Horse & Carts.
It joins a long list of car ads that sell a false promise of convenience and aspiration while punching down at sustainable transport modes.
So I made it a bit more realistic...
It joins a long list of car ads that sell a false promise of convenience and aspiration while punching down at sustainable transport modes.
So I made it a bit more realistic...
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Maybe there should be a law requiring that car ads depict the typical amount of other car traffic that an average driver experiences in the country it is being shown in.
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Did you know you pay more fuel tax on a single car journey than a billionaire does on a private jet flight?
Right now the gov is subsidising tax breaks, when they could be using that tax to generate billions for public services.
Help us change this: https://bit.ly/43NAeFN
Right now the gov is subsidising tax breaks, when they could be using that tax to generate billions for public services.
Help us change this: https://bit.ly/43NAeFN
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Did you know you pay more fuel tax on a single car journey than a billionaire does on a private jet flight?
Right now the gov is subsidising tax breaks, when they could be using that tax to generate billions for public services.
Help us change this: https://bit.ly/43NAeFN
Right now the gov is subsidising tax breaks, when they could be using that tax to generate billions for public services.
Help us change this: https://bit.ly/43NAeFN
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"Top graduates" could be tackling polycrises, meeting humans & nature's urgent need for solutions.
Instead they "use mathematical models combined with vast amounts of data & computing power to spot correlations & asymmetries in asset prices & make bets"
#TooMuchFinance
www.ft.com/content/8a65...
Instead they "use mathematical models combined with vast amounts of data & computing power to spot correlations & asymmetries in asset prices & make bets"
#TooMuchFinance
www.ft.com/content/8a65...
London becomes ‘quant’ powerhouse as traders rake in revenues
A pipeline of skilled graduates is helping the UK build out its expertise in algorithmic trading
www.ft.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Top graduates" could be tackling polycrises, meeting humans & nature's urgent need for solutions.
Instead they "use mathematical models combined with vast amounts of data & computing power to spot correlations & asymmetries in asset prices & make bets"
#TooMuchFinance
www.ft.com/content/8a65...
Instead they "use mathematical models combined with vast amounts of data & computing power to spot correlations & asymmetries in asset prices & make bets"
#TooMuchFinance
www.ft.com/content/8a65...
Neighborhood plans are essential to ensuring that local residents can determine how their communities are developed. Please sign to ensure their continued funding: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/co...
Continuing support funding for community-led Neighbourhood Plans
Cancelling Neighbouhood Plan NP and technical support grants (via Locality) is a means to stop communities having the ability to foster community empowerment and self-help.
The loss of Neighbou...
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November 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Neighborhood plans are essential to ensuring that local residents can determine how their communities are developed. Please sign to ensure their continued funding: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/co...
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"We can afford this, we have broad shoulders, come and tax us."
Patriotic Millionaire Phil White spoke to LBC about why the Chancellor needs to tax wealth, not work.
#TaxTheSuperRich
Patriotic Millionaire Phil White spoke to LBC about why the Chancellor needs to tax wealth, not work.
#TaxTheSuperRich
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"We can afford this, we have broad shoulders, come and tax us."
Patriotic Millionaire Phil White spoke to LBC about why the Chancellor needs to tax wealth, not work.
#TaxTheSuperRich
Patriotic Millionaire Phil White spoke to LBC about why the Chancellor needs to tax wealth, not work.
#TaxTheSuperRich
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It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
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October 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
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I'm not going to try and claim that I've built a house extension without needing to borrow a car or van, but a significant portion of it has been built using cycle trips like this to Screwfix.
October 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I'm not going to try and claim that I've built a house extension without needing to borrow a car or van, but a significant portion of it has been built using cycle trips like this to Screwfix.
I'm not going to try and claim that I've built a house extension without needing to borrow a car or van, but a significant portion of it has been built using cycle trips like this to Screwfix.
October 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I'm not going to try and claim that I've built a house extension without needing to borrow a car or van, but a significant portion of it has been built using cycle trips like this to Screwfix.
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Assuming that everyone drives or has access to someone with a car is really annoying.
I have a medical appt on the outskirts of town, not on a bus route, & on a hideous road for cycling. I shouldn’t have to spend money on a cab for a journey that is such a short distance, just inaccessible on foot.
I have a medical appt on the outskirts of town, not on a bus route, & on a hideous road for cycling. I shouldn’t have to spend money on a cab for a journey that is such a short distance, just inaccessible on foot.
October 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Assuming that everyone drives or has access to someone with a car is really annoying.
I have a medical appt on the outskirts of town, not on a bus route, & on a hideous road for cycling. I shouldn’t have to spend money on a cab for a journey that is such a short distance, just inaccessible on foot.
I have a medical appt on the outskirts of town, not on a bus route, & on a hideous road for cycling. I shouldn’t have to spend money on a cab for a journey that is such a short distance, just inaccessible on foot.
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Why am I hearing more about migrant bashing than this actually good thing Labour are doing?
Who is running their community strategy?
Are they an eejit?
(Rhetorical question)
Who is running their community strategy?
Are they an eejit?
(Rhetorical question)
🚨GREAT NEWS FOR RENTERS🚨
Last night, we defeated last-ditch amendments that would have weakened tenants' rights and shifted power back towards landlords.
The Bill now just needs sign-off from the Commons (and the King) before becoming the Renters' Rights Act!
Last night, we defeated last-ditch amendments that would have weakened tenants' rights and shifted power back towards landlords.
The Bill now just needs sign-off from the Commons (and the King) before becoming the Renters' Rights Act!
October 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Why am I hearing more about migrant bashing than this actually good thing Labour are doing?
Who is running their community strategy?
Are they an eejit?
(Rhetorical question)
Who is running their community strategy?
Are they an eejit?
(Rhetorical question)
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Policy makers should be reading this and how it ‘… is in sharp contrast with the UK's stop-start funding programmes, which can't grow a market, where supply chains can't expand, and housing associations can't plan more than 12 or 24 months’
Been pushing on this for >6 years!
Been pushing on this for >6 years!
NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.
I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.
www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...
I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.
www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...
Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn
www.sureserve.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Policy makers should be reading this and how it ‘… is in sharp contrast with the UK's stop-start funding programmes, which can't grow a market, where supply chains can't expand, and housing associations can't plan more than 12 or 24 months’
Been pushing on this for >6 years!
Been pushing on this for >6 years!
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This specific post is about domestic heating retrofit, but also applies to railways, cycle lanes, power plants, nature restoration, flood defences - more or less every bit of build out needed in the UK right now.
Policy makers should be reading this and how it ‘… is in sharp contrast with the UK's stop-start funding programmes, which can't grow a market, where supply chains can't expand, and housing associations can't plan more than 12 or 24 months’
Been pushing on this for >6 years!
Been pushing on this for >6 years!
NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.
I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.
www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...
I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.
www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...
October 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This specific post is about domestic heating retrofit, but also applies to railways, cycle lanes, power plants, nature restoration, flood defences - more or less every bit of build out needed in the UK right now.
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It's bonkers to me that, after having not driven for 10 years but with a valid license, I could just..get in a car and drive away?? Regular testing makes perfect sense.
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's bonkers to me that, after having not driven for 10 years but with a valid license, I could just..get in a car and drive away?? Regular testing makes perfect sense.
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
A "group of Palestine activists who were reading the names of all the people killed in the past two years in Gaza... from youngest to oldest, began at 7am and, by 1.45pm, still had not finished the names of toddlers."
Truly shocking.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Truly shocking.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Police make more than 440 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London
Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
A "group of Palestine activists who were reading the names of all the people killed in the past two years in Gaza... from youngest to oldest, began at 7am and, by 1.45pm, still had not finished the names of toddlers."
Truly shocking.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Truly shocking.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&
October 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&
Does anyone find the sweary Aussie drama sketches funny? If so, why?
Some of the other sketches in Mitchell and Webb aren't helping are great!
Some of the other sketches in Mitchell and Webb aren't helping are great!
September 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Does anyone find the sweary Aussie drama sketches funny? If so, why?
Some of the other sketches in Mitchell and Webb aren't helping are great!
Some of the other sketches in Mitchell and Webb aren't helping are great!
@norwichcathedral.bsky.social thanks for your policy giving pedestrians priority within the gate and close. However, there's nothing that indicates this from the outside. Can you add a sign? I just witnessed several pedestrians moving out of the way of a car because the driver had assumed priority.
September 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
@norwichcathedral.bsky.social thanks for your policy giving pedestrians priority within the gate and close. However, there's nothing that indicates this from the outside. Can you add a sign? I just witnessed several pedestrians moving out of the way of a car because the driver had assumed priority.
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What astonishing victim-blaming. Your post should say:
In 2024 drivers killed 7,100 pedestrians, and in recent years drivers hit and killed more than 1,000 cyclists annually. Safety experts explain how drivers can keep bikers and walkers safe.
In 2024 drivers killed 7,100 pedestrians, and in recent years drivers hit and killed more than 1,000 cyclists annually. Safety experts explain how drivers can keep bikers and walkers safe.
September 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
What astonishing victim-blaming. Your post should say:
In 2024 drivers killed 7,100 pedestrians, and in recent years drivers hit and killed more than 1,000 cyclists annually. Safety experts explain how drivers can keep bikers and walkers safe.
In 2024 drivers killed 7,100 pedestrians, and in recent years drivers hit and killed more than 1,000 cyclists annually. Safety experts explain how drivers can keep bikers and walkers safe.
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This is pretty great.
You know, when you really think about it, does all that driving and car dependency really make sense? @adamconover.net weighed in.
Adam Conover - Driving cars is insane
YouTube video by Interstellar1977
youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is pretty great.
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I’m not
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
September 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I’m not
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
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🚨 Legal win 🚨
UK Govt forced to review its Industrial Strategy
Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas
#ClimateJustice
Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS
@dalevince.com
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
UK Govt forced to review its Industrial Strategy
Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas
#ClimateJustice
Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS
@dalevince.com
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
🚨 Legal win 🚨
UK Govt forced to review its Industrial Strategy
Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas
#ClimateJustice
Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS
@dalevince.com
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
UK Govt forced to review its Industrial Strategy
Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas
#ClimateJustice
Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS
@dalevince.com
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Absolutely this 👇
Part of the issue with people saying you can't cycle in winter/rain/wind/whatever is because they haven't tried and if they did they'd find out it's almost always fine but another is that we've normalised driving in unsafe conditions and, crucially, being expected to drive in unsafe conditions.
September 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Absolutely this 👇