Cyclops Dave

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Surely that’s the final move…

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

4 days of over 5000 trips in the past week

An excerpt from Google maps showing a journey that is 29 minutes by car or 1 hour 50 minutes by public transport

Motonormativity in action: my city's main hospital has been built miles outside the city, up by a motorway junction. You want to get there but you can't drive? Tough, your time has no value

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"

-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

This is Utrecht's reinvented Amsterdamsestraatweg.

The municipality faced a unique challenge: How to transform one of the busiest car routes into a greener, more liveable space?

FInd out how they did it: buff.ly/p06KxAA

How to Defeat the Far Right: Lessons From Hope Not Hate ‘A brilliant and challenging book’ GORDON BROWN From the founder of Britain’s leading antifascist organisation, HOPE not hate, this is an urgent call to resist the forces of extremism on the march in ...

1243 youth centres have closed since 2010. 42 percent of local authorities have no council-run youth centres in their area.

I wonder why so many young people feel disconnected.

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You need to come to Bradford (current UK City of Culture @bradfordgreens.bsky.social )

The Embankment cycleway (CS3) in London was purposefully built to be wider than was usual in order to future proof it.

Some said it would hardly be used.

Now there’s a decent case for widening it further.

Induced demand is real.

YouTube video by Norwich Cycling Campaign Cllr Maxine Webb and Peter Silburn - Larkman Lane crossing

Campaign chair Peter Silburn was on BBC Radio Norfolk this morning, along with local councillor Maxine Webb, to discuss the removal of cycling safety measures from the Dereham Road/Larkman Lane junction scheme.

#BBCRadioNorfolk
#NorfolkCountyCouncil
#CyclingSafety

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Your nearest mainland harbour is a ten minute walk from railway station with a regular direct train line to London.

Why did you buy an island without buying a boat?

Rachel Reeves is running out of time Slick messaging is no substitute for sound political judgment when running the UK economy

Straight to insults & dismissals.
Labour have collapsed in the polls. Reform are rising.
Labour are on course to fix nothing.
Things are bad. Really bad.
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How much money do you save by omitting pedestrian lights and white paint? Almost none.

This possibly avoids land take.

They need a better Design Brief. Better priorities.

Absolutely the wrong decision.

Have they fixed the economy: Is it starting to grow?
Has growth stopped austerity?
Have they stopped the scapegoating of migrants & defused small boats issue?
EU? Trump? Putin?
Electoral reform?
you have a human rights lawyer who is utterly silent on a Genocide that the UK military are facilitating…

Well said.

It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)

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Hmmm… I got a link off an email.

On their FAQ it says “our name can be a barrier for many people. it has different connotations now than it did when it was first created”

Looking forward to Nike, Volvo, Oxfam, Sony realising that they need to rebrand to be called sportswear and trainers, reliable and safe cars, Famine relief not limited to Oxford, electrical goods and music…

Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.

On Sky News last night, talking about @zackpolanski.bsky.social 's win and why his hopeful, progressive politics can take on Reform's hate filled rhetoric. My own experience winning in a historically Conservative area shows people want real change and together, we can deliver it 💚

Joyous

YouTube video by James Robertson The News Where You Are

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I’m continually surprised that Cornwall hasn’t achieved the same level of devolution that Greater Manchester and The West Midlands recently have.

Absolutely loved this roundabout just as you approach one of Camden’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods.

It’s great fun for cycles, and gives space for drivers to turn around and not go through the filter!

I no longer identify as English. I’m Northern British. I think Northerners are an oppressed people subjugated by “The English” (a London/Home Counties/Public School/Oxbridge elite).

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I think Northerners have a lot in common with The Scots, Irish, Welsh, Cornish etc.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)