Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden)
@markonthemaps.bsky.social
🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌 and ‘in transit’ from X as @markovenden.
There is still hope we can turn this around but it requires bold action, not climate-change deniers like #ReFuk.
Our 2025 State of the Climate Report was just published in BioScience by scientists from around the world including @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social This video (2 minutes) shows the key highlights: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
There is still hope we can turn this around but it requires bold action, not climate-change deniers like #ReFuk.
What do you think of this: a new urban environment built mainly of wood, linked by #trams: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality
Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
What do you think of this: a new urban environment built mainly of wood, linked by #trams: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This looks like a good petition to achieve sensible things. 38d.gs/lmux
Sign the petition: End the tax break for big pharma like GlaxoSmithKline at the Autumn budget
While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax break...
38d.gs
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This looks like a good petition to achieve sensible things. 38d.gs/lmux
Reporting on tonight’s show from the #TransitMappingSymposium in #HongKong. Impressed by the range of young, enthusiastic & talented designers from around the world…(& some of their guérilla tactics to improve design & #wayfinding)! Check it out now: www.vectisradio.com/podcast/catc...
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reporting on tonight’s show from the #TransitMappingSymposium in #HongKong. Impressed by the range of young, enthusiastic & talented designers from around the world…(& some of their guérilla tactics to improve design & #wayfinding)! Check it out now: www.vectisradio.com/podcast/catc...
Once again: any friends or family toying with ReFuk need to see this video. These jokers will destroy Britain. Watch and learn from the idiocy of Trump: allow these people to run things and it’s the road to hell.
Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
By Nafeez Ahmed
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
By Nafeez Ahmed
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Once again: any friends or family toying with ReFuk need to see this video. These jokers will destroy Britain. Watch and learn from the idiocy of Trump: allow these people to run things and it’s the road to hell.
Whenever you hear anyone spouting racism, and spreading misinformation: this what they are desperately trying to deflect attention from. The billionaires are the real problem.
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Whenever you hear anyone spouting racism, and spreading misinformation: this what they are desperately trying to deflect attention from. The billionaires are the real problem.
#typography lovers: some more #FascinatingFontFacts from my recent #HongKong visit. Not only are the double-decker #trams unique (I think) outside #Blackpool and #Alexandria, but check out the vehicle number typeface: a fair representation of #London’s #Johnston lettering. Handpainted too it seems.
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#typography lovers: some more #FascinatingFontFacts from my recent #HongKong visit. Not only are the double-decker #trams unique (I think) outside #Blackpool and #Alexandria, but check out the vehicle number typeface: a fair representation of #London’s #Johnston lettering. Handpainted too it seems.
Lovely to see that most road signage in #HongKong uses the #TransportMedium #typeface for English language directions. Pictograms also from the 1960s hand of #MargaretCalvert. Plus they drive on the left which makes border crossings interesting!
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lovely to see that most road signage in #HongKong uses the #TransportMedium #typeface for English language directions. Pictograms also from the 1960s hand of #MargaretCalvert. Plus they drive on the left which makes border crossings interesting!
I just signed the petition to to demand the UK Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services like transport and housing. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I just signed the petition to to demand the UK Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services like transport and housing. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Dear #RachelReeves: wealth taxes can work. Exhibit A: Massachusetts (see link). Why are you scrabbling around doing all the wrong things when you were elected to tackle wealth inequality? Something about your banking mates connections we don’t know? Please implement fairer taxes!
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Dear #RachelReeves: wealth taxes can work. Exhibit A: Massachusetts (see link). Why are you scrabbling around doing all the wrong things when you were elected to tackle wealth inequality? Something about your banking mates connections we don’t know? Please implement fairer taxes!
Just raise the fuel duty up to where it was when the tories cut it. Just that!
I do wonder if labour are just chucking ideas at the wall to see what sticks, and what the reaction is.
They just seem to be fiddling at the edges and avoiding the big issues.
JUST RAISE BLOODY FUEL DUTY
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
They just seem to be fiddling at the edges and avoiding the big issues.
JUST RAISE BLOODY FUEL DUTY
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: chancellor plans to fund energy efficiency levies via warm homes plan as part of drive to lower energy bills
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Just raise the fuel duty up to where it was when the tories cut it. Just that!
Someone please tell Transport Sec @heidialexander.bsky.social / #Treasury / #RachelReeves that "growth" doesn't come magically: transport improvements are key to it. Halting this crucial project is insane. Funding #RailInvestment brings growth. Stop being so timid/this is what you were elected for!
Midland Main Line electrification to the north ‘not affordable' https://bit.ly/4hRyukG
Midland Main Line electrification to the north ‘not affordable’
Midland Main Line electrification to the north ‘not affordable' https://bit.ly/4hRyukG
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Someone please tell Transport Sec @heidialexander.bsky.social / #Treasury / #RachelReeves that "growth" doesn't come magically: transport improvements are key to it. Halting this crucial project is insane. Funding #RailInvestment brings growth. Stop being so timid/this is what you were elected for!
Wonderfully clever 1980s advert for UK's InterCity rail service.
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Wonderfully clever 1980s advert for UK's InterCity rail service.
Typography lovers: this discussion about the poor kerning of Trumps latest garish installation is truly joyous!
huh, that's interesting. once you see the comparison, it becomes very obvious why one is better. would not have noticed it before
The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Typography lovers: this discussion about the poor kerning of Trumps latest garish installation is truly joyous!
Agreed. Time for #BBC to stop the newspaper reviews. Maybe a round up of news sites across the diversity of opinions? Including sites like @bylinetimes.bsky.social etc? Now that would be more impartial surely?
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Agreed. Time for #BBC to stop the newspaper reviews. Maybe a round up of news sites across the diversity of opinions? Including sites like @bylinetimes.bsky.social etc? Now that would be more impartial surely?
Dear #RachelReeves, if you're serious about generating growth, you would be well advised to watch this excellent video on why investment in #publictransport is crucial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PADr...
Important message for your own constituents in #Leeds also. PS Why you not on @bsky.app Chancellor?
Important message for your own constituents in #Leeds also. PS Why you not on @bsky.app Chancellor?
Is Manchester finally getting an underground network?
YouTube video by CityEd.
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Dear #RachelReeves, if you're serious about generating growth, you would be well advised to watch this excellent video on why investment in #publictransport is crucial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PADr...
Important message for your own constituents in #Leeds also. PS Why you not on @bsky.app Chancellor?
Important message for your own constituents in #Leeds also. PS Why you not on @bsky.app Chancellor?
Relief for our #LGBT friends in the USA but the opinionated little biggot who failed to get same-sex marriage overthrown says she and her right wing backers will keep trying to overturn the Supreme Courts 2015 ruling. What is it with these small minded extremists? www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Relief for our #LGBT friends in the USA but the opinionated little biggot who failed to get same-sex marriage overthrown says she and her right wing backers will keep trying to overturn the Supreme Courts 2015 ruling. What is it with these small minded extremists? www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
Sad to leave Honkers after meeting so many old and new friends in #transit #mapping world. What an incredible diversity of transit from light rail to heavy, metro to streetcar. Major congrats to Jug Cerovic and @richardarchambault.com for getting us together to discuss wayfinding and design.
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Sad to leave Honkers after meeting so many old and new friends in #transit #mapping world. What an incredible diversity of transit from light rail to heavy, metro to streetcar. Major congrats to Jug Cerovic and @richardarchambault.com for getting us together to discuss wayfinding and design.
Nailed it @implausibleblog.bsky.social
How wise Britain was to do its own thing…NOT!
How wise Britain was to do its own thing…NOT!
EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nailed it @implausibleblog.bsky.social
How wise Britain was to do its own thing…NOT!
How wise Britain was to do its own thing…NOT!
Greetings from the #transitmapping symposium in #hongkong. A superbly informative day looking at transit hubs and wayfinding. Bravo to organisers @richardarchambault.com and Jug Cerovic for gathering so many transit map designers from around the world. :-)
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Greetings from the #transitmapping symposium in #hongkong. A superbly informative day looking at transit hubs and wayfinding. Bravo to organisers @richardarchambault.com and Jug Cerovic for gathering so many transit map designers from around the world. :-)
Never ever allow these monster machines onto the UK roads or anywhere else.
Remember “SUV” stands for:
#StupendouslyUnnecessaryVehicle
Remember “SUV” stands for:
#StupendouslyUnnecessaryVehicle
Nothing to see here, literally! Just 6ft me standing, you read that right, standing upright in front of a truck.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Never ever allow these monster machines onto the UK roads or anywhere else.
Remember “SUV” stands for:
#StupendouslyUnnecessaryVehicle
Remember “SUV” stands for:
#StupendouslyUnnecessaryVehicle
Know anyone suggesting Refuk has the answers? Just get them to read this please: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Having gone through the dramas of my mum’s care home and end of life, my heart goes out to those Lancashire families worried by what Fürage foot soldiers will do.
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Know anyone suggesting Refuk has the answers? Just get them to read this please: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Having gone through the dramas of my mum’s care home and end of life, my heart goes out to those Lancashire families worried by what Fürage foot soldiers will do.
Stating to get the “Refuk” reference more and more
First UKIP ruin the country with Brexit…next Fürage wasn’t to Re-fuk us with right wing populism.
First UKIP ruin the country with Brexit…next Fürage wasn’t to Re-fuk us with right wing populism.
Refuk’s Dubai Dick Tice whines the minimum wage is too generous for young people. Talks “fairness” till Marr asks for numbers, then looks like a clueless idiot. Refuk hates young people, pensioners, nature, people of colour, and even disabled kids. #ukpolitics
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Stating to get the “Refuk” reference more and more
First UKIP ruin the country with Brexit…next Fürage wasn’t to Re-fuk us with right wing populism.
First UKIP ruin the country with Brexit…next Fürage wasn’t to Re-fuk us with right wing populism.