DorindaDorinda
@dorindadorinda.bsky.social
Real beer. Proper coffee. Sheffield steel. Speaking french badly in a viking town. ✌️😸
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What if we stopped waiting for permission and built the future ourselves? Mutual aid groups, worker co-ops, community kitchens, free clinics, solar collectives, rent strikes. People are doing it now. We don’t need billionaires or ballot boxes to start. We just need each other and the will to begin.
May 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
What if we stopped waiting for permission and built the future ourselves? Mutual aid groups, worker co-ops, community kitchens, free clinics, solar collectives, rent strikes. People are doing it now. We don’t need billionaires or ballot boxes to start. We just need each other and the will to begin.
Twice this month back has 'gone' this is from a driver knocking me off my bicycle in 2015.
Why I'm so into campaigning for safer #RoomToRide & safe passing distance:
1.5m up to 30mph
2m over 30mph
The 10 seconds you're trying to save yourself could still affect somebody 10yrs later
#ActiveTravel
Why I'm so into campaigning for safer #RoomToRide & safe passing distance:
1.5m up to 30mph
2m over 30mph
The 10 seconds you're trying to save yourself could still affect somebody 10yrs later
#ActiveTravel
May 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Twice this month back has 'gone' this is from a driver knocking me off my bicycle in 2015.
Why I'm so into campaigning for safer #RoomToRide & safe passing distance:
1.5m up to 30mph
2m over 30mph
The 10 seconds you're trying to save yourself could still affect somebody 10yrs later
#ActiveTravel
Why I'm so into campaigning for safer #RoomToRide & safe passing distance:
1.5m up to 30mph
2m over 30mph
The 10 seconds you're trying to save yourself could still affect somebody 10yrs later
#ActiveTravel
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If you are voting in the local elections today, do remember there is a free IQ test too. Simply enter the voting booth and if you find yourself voting Reform, you'll know you're a thick twat.
May 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
If you are voting in the local elections today, do remember there is a free IQ test too. Simply enter the voting booth and if you find yourself voting Reform, you'll know you're a thick twat.
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We’re rolling now! Please join us if you can…
Cheers!😀👇
Cheers!😀👇
YAY! IT’S PREMIERE DAY: Pls tune in today, Friday, April 18th, at 2 pm EST for my conversation with @chelsearsoronen.bsky.social, owner and principal artist at Chalk Riot, a mural company specializing in vibrant pavement art increasingly used to make streets safer for all users.
youtu.be/DWaHb1gToYQ
youtu.be/DWaHb1gToYQ
EP 296 CHELSEA RITTER-SORONEN: Chalk Riot Traffic Calming Asphalt Art
YouTube video by Active Towns
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April 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We’re rolling now! Please join us if you can…
Cheers!😀👇
Cheers!😀👇
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Anger at Section 28 emboldened LGBTQ communities.
Following the massive Manchester rally the numbers attending Pride marches soared.
The proportion of people who were open to friends, family and colleagues about their sexuality grew - and homophobic attitudes and beliefs began to recede.
10/16
Following the massive Manchester rally the numbers attending Pride marches soared.
The proportion of people who were open to friends, family and colleagues about their sexuality grew - and homophobic attitudes and beliefs began to recede.
10/16
April 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Anger at Section 28 emboldened LGBTQ communities.
Following the massive Manchester rally the numbers attending Pride marches soared.
The proportion of people who were open to friends, family and colleagues about their sexuality grew - and homophobic attitudes and beliefs began to recede.
10/16
Following the massive Manchester rally the numbers attending Pride marches soared.
The proportion of people who were open to friends, family and colleagues about their sexuality grew - and homophobic attitudes and beliefs began to recede.
10/16
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This looks v. interesting.
This isn’t rocket science but far too few neighbourhoods do it well:
“The humble bench – improved with armrests, numbered to aid in a medical emergency, or placed strategically for wellbeing and intergenerational conversation – can be transformative…”
This isn’t rocket science but far too few neighbourhoods do it well:
“The humble bench – improved with armrests, numbered to aid in a medical emergency, or placed strategically for wellbeing and intergenerational conversation – can be transformative…”
The radical plan for a futuristic age-friendly neighbourhood in Manchester
£1.5bn of funding has been granted to transform a hospital into a neighbourhood designed for people to thrive as they age
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This looks v. interesting.
This isn’t rocket science but far too few neighbourhoods do it well:
“The humble bench – improved with armrests, numbered to aid in a medical emergency, or placed strategically for wellbeing and intergenerational conversation – can be transformative…”
This isn’t rocket science but far too few neighbourhoods do it well:
“The humble bench – improved with armrests, numbered to aid in a medical emergency, or placed strategically for wellbeing and intergenerational conversation – can be transformative…”
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AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.
April 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.
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AOC: When he talks about rapists and criminals, he should look in the mirror
April 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
AOC: When he talks about rapists and criminals, he should look in the mirror
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In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.”
This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent.
He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.
This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent.
He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.
April 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.”
This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent.
He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.
This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent.
He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.
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1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵
February 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵
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Similarly, Octavia Butler's prescient Parable of the Sower, which just two weeks ago felt in LA as tho it were happening right now, depicts the fall of the US government to religious authoritarianism from the ground level. 3/
February 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Similarly, Octavia Butler's prescient Parable of the Sower, which just two weeks ago felt in LA as tho it were happening right now, depicts the fall of the US government to religious authoritarianism from the ground level. 3/
@lula.com.br 🙌🙌✌️
Brazil Took on Musk and Won. Now Lula Is Sharing Notes With Europe
Macron & Lula have had “many” conversations: “Brazil is bringing its expertise..pulling us along in the fight against disinformation"
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
We wrote @katemac.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pol...
Macron & Lula have had “many” conversations: “Brazil is bringing its expertise..pulling us along in the fight against disinformation"
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
We wrote @katemac.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pol...
February 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
@lula.com.br 🙌🙌✌️
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“Parking lots don’t employ any people. They simply provide space for cars. We have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. … We’re killing our own cities. It’s a huge bummer.”
RIP Donald Shoup
RIP Donald Shoup
In memory of Donald Shoup, we re-released our 2023 interview with the brilliant, witty and influential scholar. "The High Cost of Free Parking" is a hugely important book and his research has influenced countless planners and advocates around the world. RIP.
thewaroncars.org/2025/02/08/r...
thewaroncars.org/2025/02/08/r...
February 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“Parking lots don’t employ any people. They simply provide space for cars. We have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. … We’re killing our own cities. It’s a huge bummer.”
RIP Donald Shoup
RIP Donald Shoup
I got him drums. 😬
Maybe I'll regret it, but the way the world is right now..ah, stuff it. Why not?
Maybe I'll regret it, but the way the world is right now..ah, stuff it. Why not?
February 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I got him drums. 😬
Maybe I'll regret it, but the way the world is right now..ah, stuff it. Why not?
Maybe I'll regret it, but the way the world is right now..ah, stuff it. Why not?
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Climate action globally is under threat. It’s hugely urgent to seize initiative from rightwing populists. We need to change tactics: start by building climate resilience in local communities where people can feel tangible benefits – we’re calling it climate popularism. @rupertread.bsky.social & me🧵
It’s time for climate populism
As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.
www.newstatesman.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Climate action globally is under threat. It’s hugely urgent to seize initiative from rightwing populists. We need to change tactics: start by building climate resilience in local communities where people can feel tangible benefits – we’re calling it climate popularism. @rupertread.bsky.social & me🧵
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🤦♂️ So Labour are making ads boasting about deportations, with Reform-style branding.
Why are Labour trying to be like Farage and his mates?
If only the Government put as much effort into creating a fast, fair and dignified asylum system.
Why are Labour trying to be like Farage and his mates?
If only the Government put as much effort into creating a fast, fair and dignified asylum system.
February 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🤦♂️ So Labour are making ads boasting about deportations, with Reform-style branding.
Why are Labour trying to be like Farage and his mates?
If only the Government put as much effort into creating a fast, fair and dignified asylum system.
Why are Labour trying to be like Farage and his mates?
If only the Government put as much effort into creating a fast, fair and dignified asylum system.
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How to Parent Kids Growing Up in a World on Fire. Trading Hope for Reality Is Essential To Get Through the Climate Crisis, by @emmapattee.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com #parenting #ClimateChange
Opinion | Trading Hope for Reality Helps Me Parent Through the Climate Crisis
In the hospital, I learned the first lesson of parenting: You are not in control of what is going to happen, nor can you predict it.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
How to Parent Kids Growing Up in a World on Fire. Trading Hope for Reality Is Essential To Get Through the Climate Crisis, by @emmapattee.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com #parenting #ClimateChange
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The experts, lawyers, and scholars who I’ve been speaking with since last night agree with me that it’s a coup and that this a 5-alarm fire.
This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
February 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The experts, lawyers, and scholars who I’ve been speaking with since last night agree with me that it’s a coup and that this a 5-alarm fire.
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I have Parable of the Sower and the second book ready to read once I've finished reading Eddie S Glaude Jr's book about James Baldwin. Celebrate #BlackHistory by learning some, and learning about some black creators ✌️
Hanif Abdurraqib, always so, so good:
“Yes, we are doomed—doomed to adapt, to define our comforts and part with them when we must. Like Butler’s characters, we get to determine what kind of apocalypse we’d like to have, and you can’t drag everyone to a better place.”
archive.ph/fJoZQ
“Yes, we are doomed—doomed to adapt, to define our comforts and part with them when we must. Like Butler’s characters, we get to determine what kind of apocalypse we’d like to have, and you can’t drag everyone to a better place.”
archive.ph/fJoZQ
"What “Sower” imagines, rather, is a future in which surviving the seemingly unsurvivable requires people to show some emotional dexterity, some ability to surrender whatever selfishness they’ve been harboring and see if they have something that someone else needs."
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
February 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I have Parable of the Sower and the second book ready to read once I've finished reading Eddie S Glaude Jr's book about James Baldwin. Celebrate #BlackHistory by learning some, and learning about some black creators ✌️
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The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Many people feeling this way. Even if you don't want to vote @greenparty.org.uk or don't have a great green candidate to vote for, you could donate to the party so there's at least a decent left opposition - the fear right will be getting lots of donations from top 1% and we have to counter that.
A government true to Labour values wouldn't permit the scumbag water companies to raise bills, and would instead have nationsalised them.
But Starmer and Reeves don't care about ordinary people, nor the environment. Only about their rich pals.
Never vote Labour. Vote Green instead.
But Starmer and Reeves don't care about ordinary people, nor the environment. Only about their rich pals.
Never vote Labour. Vote Green instead.
February 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Many people feeling this way. Even if you don't want to vote @greenparty.org.uk or don't have a great green candidate to vote for, you could donate to the party so there's at least a decent left opposition - the fear right will be getting lots of donations from top 1% and we have to counter that.
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Stop worrying about bats and newts? No Rachel Reeves MP – start worrying about the future of our economy if we tear down the nature it depends on.
Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.
Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.
January 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Stop worrying about bats and newts? No Rachel Reeves MP – start worrying about the future of our economy if we tear down the nature it depends on.
Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.
Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.