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Steve Knattress

@cycleoptic.bsky.social

“retired" broadcast technical editor. Islington, North London. Campaigning for a safer London for cycling and walking. https://m.youtube.com/@cycleoptic Everything is possible, somethings just take longer than others ! Opinions my own

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Johnson thinks it can wipe asses !

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07.08.2025 21:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A city where a 10 year old can’t safely bike to school alone has failed.

07.08.2025 16:32 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Why can’t all the asylum seekers enter the uk legally ( by ferry) after being processed in France ?

07.08.2025 20:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In another location… “While the works couldn’t proceed as initially planned, I can confirm they are still scheduled to take place at all junctions at this location. Unfortunately, I’m currently unable to provide specific dates, but I anticipate they will commence within the next 6 to 8 weeks”

07.08.2025 20:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

If you'd like to subscribe to HCC's newsletter – and any of the other local borough LCC newsletters, here's the link:

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07.08.2025 16:55 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I've donated to the @hackneygreenparty.bsky.social crowdfunder for their campaign for Mayor of Hackney.

Can't wait to see their campaign unfolding with @zoegarbett.bsky.social running for Hackney Mayor with @dylanmlaw.bsky.social as Deputy.

Watch their video and you'll see why I'm excited...

07.08.2025 10:51 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Chat GPT isn't wiping the arse of a doubly incontinent resident in a care home. Boris Johnson is more full of shit than every care home in the UK combined.

07.08.2025 08:46 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Taxpayer-funded spy flights for Israel's military are unforgivable. The UK must immediately cease military cooperation with Israel amid mounting evidence of war crimes and genocide in Gaza. We must uphold international law, protect Palestinian lives, and end our complicity now.

07.08.2025 09:15 — 👍 72    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 1
London Ambulance Bicycles

London Ambulance Bicycles

7:30 AM, Soho, London. If there was ever any question about the fastest way to get from A to B in the middle of a vast city, these incredible men and women demonstrate the answer.

❤️ London Ambulance

07.08.2025 09:44 — 👍 172    🔁 45    💬 7    📌 5

ChatGPT can you empty my commode I was given as I can’t go to the upstairs toilet ?

07.08.2025 10:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Response to TfL consultation on Congestion Charge proposals Caroline Russell's response to the consultation run by Transport for London (TfL) on the Congestion Charge proposals. Londoners are welcome to use this response as a basis to help shape their own resp...

The best solution to any concerns about unfairness in changes like this is to move to smart, fair road user charging, and the Mayor should be starting that conversation with Londoners right now.

🏃‍♀️ You have until Monday 11 August to add your voice.

My response: www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...

07.08.2025 10:18 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Of course it's a bloody Range Rover

07.08.2025 10:19 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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The History of the Transistor Radio | Back Then History The transistor radio let teens listen to music and news without their parents. Read the fascinating history behind this revolutionary device!

I remember when "transistor radios" told you how many semiconductor transistors were used to construct it ;)
www.backthenhistory.com/articles/the...

07.08.2025 08:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎉 Happy Cycle to Work Day 🥳

🚲 With over 1.3 million cycle journey's in the capital a day, London is fast becoming a cycling city!

BUT... there's still work needed to make it a city safe for everyone to ride - join LCC today to support this vision 👉 bit.ly/3R38Pcd

07.08.2025 07:30 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2

TfL could lead by example on the roads it controls such as in Outer London, but we still have junctions without green men.

07.08.2025 07:49 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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East Worcestershire DA

My parents pre 2000 used to belong to this camping and caravanning group, (different “farmers field” each week) perhaps they can help ?
www.eastworcsda.co.uk

07.08.2025 07:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Will we now see USA tariffs on imported apple devices reduced ? #bribe #corruption ?

07.08.2025 07:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Will he personally be counting each transistor
in a computer chip ? ( ps there are billions of semiconductors in each computer chip)

07.08.2025 07:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It shouldn't be allowed to just close off big chunks of commuter routes with no acceptable, safe and signposted diversion. And it certainly shouldn't be allowed to close off big chunks of commuter routes *and* the logical diversion at the same time.

07.08.2025 07:28 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Will she be liable for capital gains tax ?

07.08.2025 07:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Street greening transformation before and after in Paris

Street greening transformation before and after in Paris

New forest in front of Paris city hall

New forest in front of Paris city hall

New “school street” with greening in central Paris

New “school street” with greening in central Paris

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

06.08.2025 22:47 — 👍 620    🔁 208    💬 11    📌 27

It will not be an accident but a perfectly preventable collision for which the driver will be very much liable.
@camdencouncil.bsky.social

07.08.2025 07:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grafton Road NW5, drivers untroubled by no entry signs, passing police cars (and ambulances). CCTV still missing @newjournal.bsky.social @camdencyclists.bsky.social @adamdkharrison.bsky.social

06.08.2025 20:47 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

many decade ago we used to camp on hereford side of the seven just north of Worcester by a lock and by a pub ( camp inn?) which did good scrumpy cider ;)

06.08.2025 22:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To be Semitic means to belong to Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew speaking groups but does not refer to any of their religions, so not, for instance, Jewish. Its meaning has been hijacked, misused, just plain wrong.

06.08.2025 03:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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RAF still carrying out surveillance flights over Gaza for Israel The UK is handing over intelligence from British spy planes to ‘help find the remaining hostages’ in the Palestinian territory, government sources confirm

RAF spy planes fly over Gaza and pass intelligence to Israel, govt confirms bit.ly/3J82g7z no publication of course of the pictures showing the military devastation of the country which has killed an estimated 61,000 Gazans

06.08.2025 06:23 — 👍 62    🔁 36    💬 8    📌 2

80 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

We remember the thousands who were killed in a crime against humanity, as well as the survivors who carried the pain of the past.

Today, let us honour them by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.

06.08.2025 09:30 — 👍 3626    🔁 869    💬 189    📌 57

Lucky neighbours, our street is “awoken” by the building works out back at 8 prompt each morning !

06.08.2025 11:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Graphic for The Bikeability Trust's latest Impact Report. A cycling instructor in an orange shirt reaching out to a child in riding a hand cycle during an outdoor cycling lesson. Text reads: "Beyond the school gates". With logos for Funded by UK Government, Active Travel England, and Bikeability at the bottom.

Graphic for The Bikeability Trust's latest Impact Report. A cycling instructor in an orange shirt reaching out to a child in riding a hand cycle during an outdoor cycling lesson. Text reads: "Beyond the school gates". With logos for Funded by UK Government, Active Travel England, and Bikeability at the bottom.

📢 Over 500k children trained by Bikeability in 24/25!
That's more schools, children and hours riding than ever before.

Top areas leading the charge in children trained 24/25:
Hull
Solihull
Rutland
Lancashire
Plymouth
N/E Lincolnshire
Kirklees
N Lincolnshire
Wakefield
Shropshire

06.08.2025 07:03 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Are the police investigating the assault ?

06.08.2025 06:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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