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Rebecca Bennett
@bicyclewitch.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, geomancer, cycle advocate, water spirit.
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thewaroncars.bsky.social
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!
Tom Flood in black jacket and black hat in front of billboard that says There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet, strong enough or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Billboard shows a picture of a child with a green backpack, riding a bicycle and a painted bicycle lane. Doug Gordon in baseball hat and brown shirt in forefront with group of people behind him posing in front of billboard
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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modacitylife.com
“You're not alone in wanting a better world, one in which cars are relegated to their proper use. Cars are tools that can be useful at certain times and places. They’re not gods. They’re not the foundation of our society. They should serve us. We should not serve them. There can be life after cars.”
A hand holds a hardcover book, “Life After Cars”, inside a three-storey bike parking facility beneath Utrecht Centraal Station.
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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londoncycling.bsky.social
🤔 What could £2,500 do to your community cycling project?

Apply for the Share the Joy fund and start to make those ideas a reality: bit.ly/4jXxZGn
November 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
🚨 Call for Papers NOW OPEN! 🚨
The 42nd AARG Meeting is happening in Trondheim, Norway on 11–13 Sept 2025. Organised by AARG & NTNU’s Dept. of Archaeology.

📍 Venue: Dokkhuset, a top spot by the waterfront!

Submit your paper by 30th April 2025! 🏛️✍️
More details here:
aargonline.com/wp/events/aa...
April 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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jasonthorne.bsky.social
A mobile bicycle-trailer pop-up library ... with hammocks. Genius.
A group of people are lounging in colorful hammocks arranged around a central structure that holds books. They are engaged in reading while sitting in a public space. The setting appears to be a lively urban environment. A yellow tricycle with a large blue cart in the shape of a small building structure is parked on a cobblestone street. Trees provide shade in the background, and a café can be seen with patrons seated
February 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
bicyclewitch.bsky.social
Here's a great summary of where this week's events sit in history and why we shouldn't be normalising this shit.
Origin Story: Trump’s inauguration: Can we call it fascism yet?
megaphone.link/NSR2275997499
Trump’s inauguration: Can we call it fascism yet? – Plus exclusive audiobook excerpt by Origin Story
megaphone.link
January 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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olivier-rbxl.bsky.social
L’usure de la route est fonction du poids par essieu à la puissance 4

🚲 + cycliste = 100kg
🚗 + conducteur = 1500kg
Facteur x15
Loi de la puissance 4 : 15x15x15x15=50625

Exemple de contribution au budget maintenance:
🚲 = 1€
🚗 = 50.000€

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_po…roaddamagecalculator.com
Screenshot of the road damage calculator website showing that a large pickup truck damages the road 500000 times more than a cargo bike
January 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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susiedentwords.bsky.social
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
bicyclewitch.bsky.social
Christmas come early, time to read and drink tea in peace. Happy holidays y'all
December 24, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Our values & priorities are revealed in thousands of small but important details in our city design, deliberate decisions that have prioritized cars over people for decades. It will take equally deliberate decisions to change to cities for people. HT Dutch cartoon by Verwey, 1980
Drivers having to push “beg buttons” to have the lights change, rather than pedestrians.
December 21, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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rosiemund.bsky.social
Between 2012 and 2020, if you were a pedestrian on a pavement in the UK, you were over 100 times more likely to be killed by a motorist than by a cyclist.
December 19, 2024 at 8:03 PM
bicyclewitch.bsky.social
made my very first piece of #bikeart entirely by accident!
December 13, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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yatebikehub.bsky.social
Wheely Great Wednesday - supporting the next cycling superstar! 🌟
In July we were gifted a Raleigh Equipe track bike. These bikes are a bit special, designed for use on a velodrome with a fixed gear and no brakes, this bike needed a different sort of next life to most of our pre-loved bikes. 1/3
Raleigh equipe track bike in black with pink handlebar tape
December 11, 2024 at 11:04 AM
bicyclewitch.bsky.social
Just a bike mum casually packing a dragon for the school run #goodmemories
December 6, 2024 at 10:59 AM
bicyclewitch.bsky.social
only just heard about this request for evidence to the APPCW about active travel in the UK, if you have a minute drop them a short note before 16th Dec to tell them what stops you from using your bike more everyday #bikesky #activetravel #biking
yatebikehub.bsky.social Yate Community Bike Hub @yatebikehub.bsky.social · Dec 6
Have you seen that the All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling & Walking is conducting an inquiry into Active Travel and Social Justice? If you'd like to have your say on what currently makes it hard for you to cycle for everyday travel you send your experiences in tinyurl.com/APPGCWrespond
Active Travel and Social Justice inquiry - All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling & Walking
Call for evidence deadline is 16th December 2024
tinyurl.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:40 AM
bicyclewitch.bsky.social
Really interesting research from New York regarding the quantitative impact of bike lanes on public health
www.reuters.com/article/busi...
Bike lanes are a sound public health investment
Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:12 AM
bicyclewitch.bsky.social
Love this illustration from the 1940s!
Just a woman doing her thing cycling a christmas tree home
jameslonghurst.bsky.social James Longhurst @jameslonghurst.bsky.social · Nov 30
It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the December 19, 1942 cover of The New Yorker, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions. Gas and tire rationing had begun that year. #bikesky
The cover illustration of the December 19, 1942 New Yorker. A woman, jauntily attired in cat-eye sunglasses, a stocking cap, flowing white scarf and red sweater rides a bicycle towards the observer, a recently-purchased christmas tree balanced on the front basket of her bike. A black scottie dog runs along at her side. Behind her on the road, the rural farm house where she purchased her tree, with a sign for cider for sale and bushels of apple at the front. It is snowing lightly, and there are no cars on the road, and only two figure -- perhaps another woman shopper talking to the tree sales person -- stand in the background. The title, date, and price of the magazine are at the top. The predominant colors are green and red over the gray of the road and off-white snow, with pastels of the farmstead highlighting. The mood is of independence, self-reliance, and stubborn holiday cheer persisting in any circumstance.
December 1, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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jameslonghurst.bsky.social
It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the December 19, 1942 cover of The New Yorker, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions. Gas and tire rationing had begun that year. #bikesky
The cover illustration of the December 19, 1942 New Yorker. A woman, jauntily attired in cat-eye sunglasses, a stocking cap, flowing white scarf and red sweater rides a bicycle towards the observer, a recently-purchased christmas tree balanced on the front basket of her bike. A black scottie dog runs along at her side. Behind her on the road, the rural farm house where she purchased her tree, with a sign for cider for sale and bushels of apple at the front. It is snowing lightly, and there are no cars on the road, and only two figure -- perhaps another woman shopper talking to the tree sales person -- stand in the background. The title, date, and price of the magazine are at the top. The predominant colors are green and red over the gray of the road and off-white snow, with pastels of the farmstead highlighting. The mood is of independence, self-reliance, and stubborn holiday cheer persisting in any circumstance.
November 30, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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tomflood.bsky.social
Table For One Please.
Child biking in a painted bike lane next to a large transport truck. Text: smoking tables next to non smoking tables used to be considered normal too
November 29, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

www.jstor.org/stable/24923...
A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.
November 24, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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satellitesci.bsky.social
The fact that rainbows continue beyond our range of vision is the kind of fact that's both so obvious in hindsight, and yet completely mind-blowing! 🌈🤯

Some amazing multispectral photography in the thread below:
statto.bsky.social Andrew Steele @statto.bsky.social · Nov 21
There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet.

Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.

🧪 #photography
An infrared photo of a rainbow: a strange, ghostly-looking rainbow in a mostly black and white photo, with a faintly red outer edge and a cyan inner edge, and what look like a few even fainter ‘echo’ bows inside A regular visible-light pic of a rainbow An ultraviolet picture of a rainbow: a dark, foreboding landscape with a deep purple stripe emanating from it, and a grey stripe inside A composite of the three preceding photos, showing that the infrared bow is ‘outside’ the visible light rainbow, and the ultraviolet bow ‘inside’
November 22, 2024 at 7:28 AM
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chrisboardman.bsky.social
Switching just 1 trip a day from 🚗 to 🚴 or 🚶‍♂️ = almost 30% less transport CO2 for the ave UK urban resident. If 1 in 5 did this in 🇪🇺 it’d cut emissions from all 🚗 travel in 🇪🇺 by 8%. The potential impact of active travel on CO2 could be huge
November 19, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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simongerman600.bsky.social
This I what a series of paths created by 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over looks like. Science is beautiful. Obviously they used the same few bicycles for the data rather than 800 individual one. Source: buff.ly/3Cnb4PP
November 21, 2024 at 12:05 PM
bicyclewitch.bsky.social
Alright Duo put your claws away! 🐈
#judgysoftware
November 21, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
To say: my profile pic is a LiDAR image showing the river-ghosts—historical meanders—of the Lower Mississippi.
Water, wandering, wilfully.
It’s by Daniel Coe, who has deep-mapped the pasts of many rivers.
See more of his work at dancoecarto.com/work
& below.
What wild, wondrous beings rivers are.
November 18, 2024 at 11:08 PM