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Time to drift to sleep, night all 😴 📅 🧩

Councils urged to prioritise cycling as decisions on active travel funding progress - BikeBiz New research shows cycling plans continue to be sidelined by local councils across England, leading Paul’s Cycles to push for cycling to be prioritised in

Norfolk County Council’s decision to drop all the cycling elements from the Dereham Road scheme leads in this article on council’s sidelining active travel plans.
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Special “kids up chimneys” apprenticeships.

Bit of a Kenneth Williams night on BBC4 this evening. Works for me 👍

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Fun in sun this morning at Longstone for our volunteers.

210 native trees planted on the mounds behind Saughton prison for future bird friendly trees copse.

More planting to come, a huge thanks to CMS Law for funding the trees through their social impact fund.

All people at my work place do is complain about the parking, it's relentless. But suggest they use the free bus, or cycle, or walk and it's instantly shouted down as a stupid suggestion which will never fix the issue. I know people who can see the site from their house, and still drive.

Or bras.

Driver guilty of killing pedestrian in high-speed crash Raymond Munro was recording travelling at 91mph when his car hit David McCallum in East Kilbride.

91mph, killed someone. It's relentless. Imagine the outcry if trains or planes killed this frequently.
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Abolish Welsh.

YouTube video by Channel 4 News Collapse of this Atlantic current could change Europe's climate forever

Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring.
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
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A humidifier on the sink in front of a bathroom mirror. The combination of small "on" and "full" lights above a wide curved vent make a pleasant smiling face and on the back of the humidifier, which can be seen in the mirror, another wide curved air vent and the two screws holding it together above it make a horrified face.

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

Government of All the Twats

Square graphic with a purple border. Text reads: "Scotland 2026 Election. Our manifesto asks". Beneath the text and to the right is a green ripple graphic that looks like wheel.

Today we launch our charity’s manifesto for the 2026 Scotland election.

Our 5 asks:

💰 boost investment in #ActiveTravel
🚸 enable active journeys to school
♿ empower Access Panels
👣 set up a Pavement Fund
🔀 connect Scotland via the #NationalCycleNetwork

#Holyrood26

A handwritten notice in a plastic wallet, stapled to the outside of a bike shed: "Bike Racks Closed From Tuesday 17th Feb Til January 2027"

When the hospital estates team need to close a section of carpark for a weekend, we get multiple all-staff emails informing and reminding us.

When they close a busy secure bike shed with capacity for 100 bikes, that's frequently full, we get this the day before:

Obviously an influence on Star Wars fans too who loved to say what The Force could and couldn’t do after TLJ.

Screenshot of the front page of the paper showing the words ‘On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study’, the names of the authors – Ali Rahimi, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, MIT, and Ben Recht, Jason Taylor, Noah Vawter, all of the Media Laboratory, MIT – plus an image of one of them, a man in glasses, wearing a sensible shirt and sitting in front of a bank of electronic equipment. He is wearing a tin foil hat.

It’s 17 February! Yes, that’s right – it’s exciting because it’s the 21st anniversary of the publication of a scientific investigation by four men at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into the effectiveness of tinfoil hats to protect you from government mind control... 🧵

YouTube video by ClassicTrailerGuy Notorious (1946) - Theatrical Trailer

#blackandwhitefilm of the day: Notorious, 1946. Scientist's daughter Ingrid Bergman is forced to marry Nazi Claude Rains to spy on him by agent Cary Grant. But hatred becomes love in Hitchcock's brilliant and moving #FilmNoir on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 4.30pm youtu.be/H8f4UOtLf5Q?...

An image of a child wrapped in cotton wool, playing in a colourful ball pit. The text reads: “Wrap your children up with the best protection – vaccinations. Stay strong. Get vaccinated.”

🆕 We’re excited to announce the launch of a new government campaign urging parents and guardians to get their little ones vaccinated to protect against serious illnesses such as measles.
🔗 nhs.uk/childhoodvaccinations
#StayStrongGetVaccinated

BBC News screenshot with the subtitle "Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate..."

Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake

And a happy year of the whores to you all

Oooooooooo!

"I would absolutely love to have better active and public transport but, very unfortunately, buses are too slow and unreliable, and bikes are too dangerous to be a realistic option for most people" - someone who is going to absolutely flip their shit if anyone proposes a bus and/or bike lane.

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Green poster titled “When is your country’s Overshoot Day in 2026?” with six mini calendars (January to June). Country flags mark specific dates: Luxembourg 17 Feb, Denmark 20 Mar, Lithuania 23 Mar, Finland 1 Apr, Austria 2 Apr, Sweden 4 Apr, Czechia 11 Apr, Belgium 11 Apr, Ireland 14 Apr, Malta 16 Apr, France 24 Apr, Croatia 25 Apr, Poland 28 Apr, Italy 3 May, Portugal 7 May, Slovakia 7 May, Bulgaria 10 May, Germany 10 May, Switzerland 11 May, Serbia 16 May, UK 22 May, Greece 4 Jun, Spain 4 Jun, Georgia 14 Jun, Romania 19 Jun, Hungary 24 Jun. European Greens logo, note says no data for Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia.

No EU country has a date later than June, meaning they are using resources in less than half of the time that they should.

3 actions to #MoveTheDate:
⚡️increasing the tax on carbon (63 days)
🥕reducing food waste would (13 days)
🌳reforesting 350 million hectares (8 days)

In the last 5ish years we've gone from...

"If we act now we can keep below 1.5C"

To...

"It's probably going to be 2C but we can keep below it"

And now...

"Buckle up and prepare for 3C"

I think people just don’t think about the “hidden” costs the NHS is having to pay to let you park your car. at our local hospital it even includes employing attendants to direct traffic at busy times.

I doubt the NHS paying poorer people to get free taxis or buses to hospitals would have such popular support.

"One could see the birds landing [on the water]…but they couldn't fly away"...

'In rockpools, starfish, limpets and other wildlife were smothered - while Pembrokeshire's fishing industry was brought to a standstill'

Our addiction to oil is death to wildlife, perilous to coastal communities

Feeling a bit crap but still managed to solve 😷 📅 🧩

Hooray for superheroes AND adequately funded municipal infrastructure!

Dan wasn't even born before decimalisation (nor was he anywhere near the UK when he was born) but still he yearns for Britain's pre-decimal times 55 years later.