Peter Carter

Bollards > cameras

the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads: * PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES * YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE * Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS" * "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them (This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers): ? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop] ?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars] ??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving] "Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please" They have played us for absolute fools

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

As it should be. Bottled water, in a country with safe tap water, is an environmental failure - no matter what they tell you.

Everyday Philosophy: Trump’s bullying tactics Eventually, when a bully has got out of control and he’s made enough enemies, he may find the roles of bully and bullied reversed

Trump’s bullying - this week’s Everyday Philosophy column @theneweuropean.bsky.social
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/everyday-phi...

Ireland 🇮🇪 has unilaterally renamed the North Atlantic Ocean 😒

Fantastic listening to this. Much broader consideration of moral objections in clinical work

RIP Jimmy Carter.

Ornament on tree. Ornament is round and covered with yellow logos that say The War on Cars.

Happy Christmas to all and to all a good bike!

YouTube video by About Here How to make streets safer with just a brick

A more ergonomic alternative to the brick

youtu.be/8kP6R0clBGY?...

Me aged 30. I was in LA and dressed up to go to a posh do (hired tux). My hair is slicked back and, in black and white under bright Californian sun, my skin looks impeccable. I’m looking directly into the camera with a closed mouth smile. I look like a movie star.

Selfie. I’ve got very freshly cut hair and I’m looking directly at the camera with a similar smile. I’m wearing a vest. My lines are deeper, my eyes heavier, but I’m still in pretty good shape for a 57 year old.

I was diagnosed with HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died but I was told, with the new drugs available, I could expect to live another 20 years.
That was 27 years ago.

Honour those we lost.
Celebrate that we can now treat and prevent HIV.
Make HIV stigma history.

#WorldAIDSDay

Figure 1. Sir Hans Krebs in a motorized cycle. Shows a photograph of an old man, Hans Krebs, on a motor cycle.

In my undergrad, my cell biology lecturer showed us a picture of Krebs' cycle.

Open consultation. Leading the NHS: proposals to regulate NHS managers (26 November 2024) A consultation seeking your views on options for regulating NHS managers, and on the possibility of introducing a professional duty of candour for NHS managers

🗣️Consultation added to the hub today🗣️

The Department of Health and Social Care is seeking views on options for regulating NHS managers, and on the possibility of introducing a professional duty of candour for NHS managers (the consultation closes on 18 February 2025) www.pslhub.org/learn/leader...

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.

(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

I love Ian Hislop but it’s worth noting that most of us would balk at the prospect of publicly admonishing a wrongdoer whose conduct you condemn in this way. I did it once to the UKIP/Reform/Brexit twerp Richard Tice but that took exactly zero guts.
This is speaking truth to actual power…

At the end of a badly bruising week for UKHE, a reminder that even when measured in the narrowest economic terms, UK universities are stonkingly good value for money. 2021-22 for example saw a return on government investment in 1st degree students' teaching of £13 for every £1 spent. (page 3) #UKHE

Would love to be added too please #tatatwitter

Amazing Tom

Six ways I use AI when writing And four ways AI fails me

Great piece on AI for writing. Particularly agree about pointless forms: "What’s not worth doing isn’t worth doing well."
It's the flipside of how I feel on reading AI prose when I want a human: Why should I bother to read it if you couldn't be bothered to write it? substack.com/home/post/p-...

This charming gentleman has had enough of GP letters Time for hospital doctors to write direct to patients

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... My latest healthtech Substack post is about those annoying letters that are addressed to your GP but should be written for the patient