Dr. Lesley Barron, MD, MPhil, FRACS

The problem isn’t misandry—most feminists don’t hate men (this has been studied)—but this woman does a great job of describing what a lot of us do hate.

How Toxic Masculinity Drives Car Culture — Women in Urbanism Canada Men have created cars, built cities around cars, and have linked driving to their male identity. Toxic masculinity is a key driver of car culture in Canada, and must be addressed to wean all Canadians...

This is a good article about that;

www.womeninurbanism.ca/words/toxic-...

The Washington State Legislature will likely take up legislation to reduce the blood alcohol concentration limit for drivers from 0.08 to 0.05. Are you curious what that means and the effect it is likely to have? Check out this scholarly review of the literature.

Australia fiddles with fossil gas while the country swelters in record heat. It doesn’t make sense | Bill Hare Australians have an obvious interest in action against global warming. Focusing on gas instead of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future

Financial institutions fund ongoing production of fossil fuels. But it's govs backed by their relationships w the fossil fuel industry that permit & enable it. & worse, trap other countries into ff lock-in & dependency when they could otherwise develop renewable energy options
@billhare.bsky.social👇

The link between toxic masculinity and this stuff needs to be examined and addressed.

“Do you have a big UTE or SUV? It was the advertisement that convinced you. Unless you are tradie you don’t need it.

The bigger the vehicle, the bigger profit for the carmaker.”

A group decorates a memorial under a ghost bike

A new separated bike lane at the same location.

Before and after. It took 12 years, but it’s done. RIP Lance David.

The tail tho….that cat isn’t happy.

When travelling in a country with reliable public transport, it takes awhile before your stress level goes down as you realise there’s another train/bus/tram coming in a few minutes. (I live in Australia, so there’s similar contempt for public transport here).

Volunteering at community festivals is instructive about how deeply the average American yearns to plow their car directly through a parade and often needs it explained to them why they can't.

Take Action: Supporting “Safe Streets for Trick or Treats” Kids love Halloween. It’s the one night where they get to take over the streets. Unfortunately, it’s also by far the most dangerous night of the year when it comes to their safety from …

Halloween is the one night of the year kids get to take over the neighbourhood - but when it comes to the risk of being hit by drivers, it's also by far the most dangerous.

@lucymaloney.bsky.social has a motion to fix this! Please read & email council (and call if you can) with your support!

Car prices hit an average of $50,000 for the first time—here's how much you'd pay per month Rising car prices have pushed monthly ownership costs past $1,000 per month.

Average monthly cost now over $1200 to enslave yourself to the automobile/petroleum cabal.

Half the rent in a walkable area.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/24/c...

Dodger Stadium's parking lot is so big that it could fit an additional 10 Dodger Stadiums.

People think that families were displaced out of Chavez Ravine in the 50s in order to build the stadium, but it's technically more accurate to say that they were displaced to build the stadium's parking lots.

beige poster with blue type in a baseball shirt style Orange type Don't wanna go far for stuff 15 minute cities no big conspiracy just lazy

rebranding the 15 min city.

Health care in the USA: money has become the mission Despite extraordinary scientific and medical resources, the US health-care system underperforms. In this Review we consider the damage wrought by decades of market-based policies that have stimulated ...

The title says it all!

Health care in the USA: money has become the mission

@thelancet.com review on "the damage wrought by decades of market-based policies that have stimulated profit-seeking by insurers and health-care providers"

@awgaffney.bsky.social et al

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Hear, hear. 👏👏👏

Screw people who think cyclists deserve to get hit by cars. Screw people who say “use common sense, cars are bigger so get out of the way” to justify people driving dangerously around cyclists. Australia has a real problem in regards to entitled drivers and their car-brain. Needs to be addressed.

California will spend $31 billion on transportation this year with about 3% of that budgeted for support for transit agencies. lao.ca.gov/Publications...

the inhumanity of our DOTs

Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions

Important story on the horrors of #woodburning by my excellent colleague @dpcarrington.bsky.social a must-read and must-follow:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“If we want people to feel less congested, they are going to have to get out of cars — and sadly sometimes onto crowded transit, but at least on transit we have a fighting chance of building the capacity so that congestion isn’t totally unbearable.”

Stories like this—which are shockingly common—are always in my mind when I read news stories about hysteria about e-bikes. It is like getting hysterical about pretend threats trans people pose in bathrooms as thousands of cis men commit actual sex crimes.

This morning cycling into work, guy in a large pickup truck ran over and dragged a >1 m high bright orange pylon which was placed to prevent him from driving down the road he was driving on. He dragged it some distance with his truck without slowing or ever stopping to check what was going on.

As we enter the summer season in Australia- a reminder to please not idle your engines. It’s bad for everyone, especially kids and those with cardio respiratory disease.

#NoKings Miami!

ABC not reporting on this is …an interesting choice.

Down under, guess which services are being cancelled in private hospitals courtesy of being non profitable (bc of a sexist schedule of benefits)? It’s all part of the same issue of the systematic devaluing of women’s healthcare.

Either aren’t enforced or are selectively enforced….

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner Perennial runner up finally claims the crown in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll, ahead of Baudin’s black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo

www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Also the winner of the “Bird that most closely resembles a Muppet.” Congrats to the Tawny Frogmouth.