@southernrailuk.bsky.social
The ticket office is closed, the last peak time train has gone, but the ticket machine will not issue a cheap day ticket.
My train departs at 9.01
So I can't attempt to buy a ticket till 9 00 for a 9 01 train

From Fog to Sunshine: Revisiting the F35 Continuous-Cycle Route Well over twelve years ago, in November 2012, I visited the F35 continuous-cycle route under construction between Hengelo and Enschede in the province of Overijssel. At the time, only about 3 kilometres of the route had been completed. Over the years, viewers of my videos from that visit kept commenting that I should return, because so much had changed. And indeed, by 2024 and the first half of 2025, a considerable number of sections had been finished.

🚲 After more than 12 years, I returned to the F35 continuous-cycle route between Borne and Enschede. A lot has changed—new sections, design upgrades, and even cross-border ambitions.
Blog post with two videos: one report and one real-time ride.
Read and watch:

80 years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki — time for a nuclear-free world for a peaceful, sustainable future - Greenpeace International On August 6 and 9, 1945, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, instantly claiming the lives of tens of thousands of people.

"Passing on the determination to never start war to the next generation is a vital step toward protecting all lives and building a green and peaceful society. "

A photo of the front cover of issue 1655 of Private Eye magazine. The main headline reads "STARMER: UK WILL RECOGNISE PALESTINE." Below this is a photo showing a devastated urban landscape of destroyed buildings, over which a speech bubble from Benjamin Netanyahu in the foreground says, "No one will recognise Palestine after I've finished with it."

Starmer: UK will recognise Palestine

The new Private Eye is out now.

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream Environment secretary urged to stop drought order that could damage the ecology of River Test in Hampshire

#SouthernWater continuing its destructive practices.

Southern Water has applied for a drought order that would allow it to draw larger quantities of water than usual from an internationally prized chalk stream and rare salmon habitat.
#cleanupyouract

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Company bike leasing (CBL) unlocks a myriad of benefits—Germany is proof. 🚲

The country adopted CBL early and now boasts 2.1 million company bikes on the road — mostly e-bikes 🔋 — supporting the cycling industry and promoting healthier, happier communities.

#cycling #sustainablemobility

We can't keep going down this path. It's time to change course. It's time to make fossil fuel corporations pay for the damage they've caused.
Join us in our call to hold the biggest polluters accountable. #MakePollutersPay

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Invoke Chapter 7 now, set up humanitarian corridors. This has gone on far, far too long. Each day we see more innocents slaughtered, civilians displaced and traumatised.

And UK Gov move a lot faster and at greater scale to evacuate those needing emergency medical care.

Unions back fossil fuel treaty Two British unions join calls for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

A truly just transition will be led by workers of all industries.

That’s why two more trade unions have proudly joined the endorsement @fossiltreaty.bsky.social

Together, it makes over 30 million workers globally whose unions are calling the #EndFossilFuels

theecologist.org/2025/jul/16/...

🚨New evidence: Traders' study finds nearly all soy farmers blocked by the Amazon Soy Moratorium cleared land illegally. The ASM is under attack, stakeholders must act now to defend this vital deforestation shield ‼️

🔗Sign the petition to #RespectTheAmazon >> act.gp/RespectTheAmazon

The Guardian opinion headline reads: “Brexit has been a resounding disaster. Starmer must find the courage to change course” by Ed Davey.

Brexit isn’t working, and the British people know it. They're fed up with the damage caused by the deal forced on us by Conservative party.

Keir Starmer must show some courage and set Britain on a clear path to a new customs union with the EU by 2030.

Keep the immigrants.

Deport the racists!

Please note everyone. Fracking #gas over the Great Artesian Basin is NOT a #sustainable plan.

Because we profit by selling fighter parts to the Country which has bombed their homes, families and hospitals...

Tweet from @emzorbit describing a chart with monthly U.S. government revenue from tariffs steadily rising from 2021 to a significant spike in July 2025 reaching nearly $30 billion. Their tweet reads "Instead of taxing the income of extremely wealthy people, they’re taxing all of us when we buy things. They’re replacing income tax with what amounts to a sales tax."

This is a case study in billionaires having too much influence: they replace taxes on their income with taxes on us buying essentials.
We need to tax billionaires – before they tax us!

Extreme weather is intensifying.

Food and energy costs are rising.

Environmental and human rights defenders are facing crackdowns.

Whilst billionaires prop up industries polluting our land, air and water.

This September, join thousands on the streets to – #DrawTheLine ✊

drawtheline.world

Change your bank

New polling shows UK public don’t want oil and gas money in politics New polling shows UK public don’t want oil and gas money in politics

Links showing fossil fuel interests met with UK ministers on average once a working day in 2023, and that pace continued in the first months of the Labour government.

globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

fossilfreeparliament.uk/2025/02/21/r...

Angela Rayner gives councils green light to sell off allotments Labour's Angela Rayner has approved the sale of eight allotment sites in England since the party came to power, according to a report in the Telegraph. The move has been branded a "kick in the teeth" ...

In a food insecure, climate collapsing world, we need MORE locally grown, preferably organic food NOT less. We need more working people with skills to make local areas resilient

This nature & climate illiteracy from @angela-rayner.bsky.social pushes against what makes life worth living for many

Elected officials still posting on Xitter are basically a giant honeypot for the far-right and its deranged conspiracies

Still posting there gives a giant megaphone to the worst people in society, while providing no room for any other kind of discussion whatsoever

Stop platforming the far-right

Yorkshire Water’s boss pocketed £1.3m in extra undisclosed payments via a Jersey-based parent company, all while bills continue to rise and sewage floods into our sea.

These massive payouts for failing executives need to stop. It’s time for full transparency & accountability in our water system.

🧡 Win big and support better cycling across the UK!

Enter our Summer Raffle for £2 and you could bag a Raleigh e-bike worth £2,650, a cycling holiday or one of 20 prizes. Every ticket helps build safer streets, stronger communities & greener lives.

🎟 Enter at www.cyclinguk.org/make-a-diffe...

Reform Dog Bites Media Man The British press is failing in its duty to ask the right questions of Nigel Farage

How we will look back at the British media's current constant indulgence of Nigel Farage and his brand of anti-migrant politics as the biggest collective failure of our times

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-dog...

Photo of Steve Reed with text saying "Steve Reed Come Clean on the true cost of publicly owned water. Take Action". Behind is a screenshot of a newspaper headline saying "Public Ownership of England's water companies could cost close to zero, says think tank."

9/9 Get Steve Reed to tell us the truth about the cost of publicly owning water.

✍️Sign the petition here: https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/petition-steve-reed-come-clean-on-the-true-cost-of-publicly-owned-water
#ComeCleanSteve

Renewable energy is a big opportunity for our region–we must seize it Renewable energy is a big opportunity for our region – we must seize it.

Well done @alicemlabour.bsky.social for saying it like it is. Renewables are better, cleaner, cheaper, and will make this country more prosperous and end our reliance on dictators.

It's good to see a politician on the front foot instead of running scared of Reform—92% funded by polluters.

Keir Starmer's Government Still Hasn't Reviewed Use of Musk's X Despite Platform 'Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation' Downing Street continues to refuse to explore communicating through alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer's violent disorder

Keir Starmer’s Government Still Hasn’t Reviewed Use of Musk’s X Despite Platform ‘Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation’

bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...

Remove immigration from the conversation & no one would vote to make the richest 1% richer while putting the NHS, social care & even state pensions in the shredder.

Which is what Farage & his wealthy private school chums & billionaire donors dream of.
They hate their taxes going to us ‘plebs’

Water firms cause more than 100 potentially illegal sewage spills a day Raw sewage is pouring into waterways on dry days far more often than reported as infrastructure fails to keep pace with population growth and climate change

Raw sewage spills from England's sewage works are only legal when there's been heavy rain

There shouldn't be any on dry days, although still thought to be about 6000 per yr

New analysis shows in 2025, there were over 6000 "dry day spills" in just January & February
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

The influence of money over our democratic system is a crisis 'I didn’t come into politics to watch our democracy auctioned off to the highest bidder.'

'I didn’t come into politics to watch our democracy auctioned off to the highest bidder', writes @mp4stratford.bsky.social

Toxic treads: Tyre wear’s journey from air pollutant to marine threat Researchers from the University of Plymouth are calling for better environmental regulations on tyre-related pollutants, following a study of the damage tyre wear particles cause to marine life. As ex...

‘Something as ordinary as driving a car can contribute to pollution that reaches far beyond the road, all the way to the sea floor, and to the microscopic organisms that help keep our planet breathing’ - Henry Obanya, Institute of Marine Sciences airqualitynews.com/health/toxic...