ProfT @ProfT@social.cleverlibre.org

I really appreciate this from @mcmansionhell on the need for systemic solutions to bike safety, rather than treating individual drivers as the villain. #BikeTooter https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bicycles-cycling-bike-safety/

Warped tour…of space? ✨

See those strange arcs and streaks in this new Webb image? They’re actually distant galaxies, magnified and warped due to an effect called gravitational lensing: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2303a/
#JamesWebb

"We could dramatically increase the amount of green space on city streets...with benches; beehives; trees; wild gardens; community gardens and allotments; communal barbecuing and picnic areas; and green play areas. Imagine walking out of your house in the morning, in the middle of the city, and being greeted not by dozens of stationary vehicles but by nature." - Una Mullaly on the benefits of removing cars from our cities

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/03/27/una-mullally-cars-have-to-go-people-can-fight-this-all-they-want-but-it-has-to-happen/

@TheWarOnCars #LiveableCities

From the bike lane opponents' newsletter, talking about the city council meeting where they want people to show up to oppose bike lanes: “If you can bike or walk to the venue (it’s on Addison near Bonar), please do that, since parking will be at a premium.”

I HAVE EXPIRED 💀💀💀
I WILL HAUNT YOU FROM THE GRAVE 👻👻👻

#Berkeley #RoadSafety #BikeTooter

For those of you who completely left the bird app, I'd just like to let you know that this person is undergoing the largest dunk-on by bike/urbanist Twitter in all of 2023 as we speak. 😂

Do you still use Twitter now that you're on Mastodon?

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse

Feel free to comment with how and how much you currently use Twitter or why you no longer use Twitter.

#Poll #Polls #POTD #Twitter #AllThingsTech

Amazing how many brilliant scientists will look at an LLM "passing" a standardized test and think, "wow, this computer is very smart" and not "standardized tests are very bad at measuring intelligence"

Are you a teacher looking for new tools to enhance your digital teaching skills? #SELFIEforTEACHERS_EU is the tool that you’re looking for!

Click the link for more information & follow @EUDigitalEdu for more resources!

🌐 https://europa.eu/!rmq3kM

#DEAP #EUDigitalEducation

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUErasmusPlus/status/1639243162320539651

Improved pedestrian priority by way of continuous footpath on the main road outside, thanks to my pro-pedestrian changes to planning rules last year.

The original planning application downgraded the pedestrian infrastructure. Planners insisted on maintaining footpath.
3/3

Sand…coarse, rough, gets everywhere. We may have found it on VHS 1256 b, a Tatooine-like world orbiting twin suns. Among other molecules, Webb detected silicate dust grains in its atmosphere. The larger grains may be like very hot, small sand particles: https://go.nasa.gov/40jDNje
#JamesWebb

The IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report released today. Here are the key takeaways and figures.

First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.

"It feels as if the industry and the government have simultaneously woken up to the enormous potential of cargo e-bikes to replace car trips and improve the environment, and honestly, it’s about time."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/18/23645151/cargo-ebike-electric-golden-age-prices-utility-dtc

#TheWarOnCars #cargobike

20 lanes of highway...
...or 1 subway line.

#TTC poster from mid-70s—driving home transit's advantages

(a lesson #Toronto and too many other cities still struggle to learn).

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter reconnaissance for an attack on an alleged North Vietnamese-controlled village at My Lai.

As the ground attack developed below, Thompson realised he was in fact witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. /1 🧵 #history #histodons

Cars are freedom? This story features people who see friends less because weekday congestion is terrible, are chronically late to drop their kids off at school no matter how early they wake up, and who are rethinking where to spend retirement so as not to spend the rest of their lives "sitting in traffic."

#TheWarOnCars

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sunbelt-traffic-jams-are-frustrating-drivers-and-threatening-growth-223df06b

“the project would generate enough oil to release 9.2 million metric tons of planet-warming carbon pollution a year – equivalent to adding 2 million gas-powered cars to the roads”

Fossil fuel expansion must stop!

#ClimateEmergency

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/13/politics/willow-project-alaska-oil-biden-approval-climate/index.html

The quiet part, really loud. "Woke" just means including people other than straight, white men. "Anti-woke" means white, hetero, male supremacy in all institutions of power. h/t @malwaretech

🚲 Biking is by far the cleanest and most affordable form of transport.

Executive Vice-President @TimmermansEU announced a European Declaration on Cycling coming this summer, inviting @europarl_en and @EUCouncil to sign up for it.

Read the full speech ↓

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1633855060886126592

STUDY: Researchers found almost all road users broke the law, but while motorists mostly broke road rules to save time, the most common reason for people on bikes to break road rules was personal safety. And yet bike-riders get more scorn & scrutiny for the rule-breaking, despite motor vehicles literally being the source of the danger. V/@carltonreid@urbanists.social
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/09/18/motorists-break-law-to-save-time-cyclists-break-law-to-save-lives-finds-study/