Paul
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Paul
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@RadicalAnthro It's incredibly clear that these places are designed with priorities other than protecting people, particularly people who aren't encased in heavy private metal boxes on wheels (and yes, 100%, people on foot are the most vulnerable!). These particular junctions, like countless […]
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mastodon.social
June 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
@RadicalAnthro The most dangerous junction for pedestrians is just a few minutes away, at Brixton Road and Acre Lane. It would be trivially easy to produce a similar piece showing pedestrians crossing against the lights for that junction, and suggesting that it's their fault if they're in an […]
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mastodon.social
June 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@RadicalAnthro Clearly there are cyclists (and especially people on bicycle-shaped electric motorcycles) out there behaving in dangerous and disrespectful ways. It's important to acknowledge that. But this piece is pretty much Daily Mail-level anti-cyclist ragebait. Have you cycled through the […]
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mastodon.social
June 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
@Ruth_Mottram Are the distributions of probabilities on eg "climate sensitivity" really so well established that such extreme outcomes can be appropriately described as impossible?
May 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM