Wendy W @WendyW@social.cleverlibre.org

#Violet knows what the sounds of the linen closet opening and the bathtub faucet turning mean...

#DogsOfMastodon

Suella Braverman is listed as a speaker at the upcoming "National Conservatism" event.

Natcon is a radical Christian nationalist movement which demands immigration moratoriums and opposes the “grave threat” of “ever more radical forms of sexual license and experimentation".

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/05/suella-braverman-to-address-radical-national-conservatism-event-with-ties-to-us-right/

🔴 'VOTER SUPPRESSION': Huge Numbers Set to Lose Vote as Only 2.5% Of 'Missing Millions' Apply for Voter ID

With weeks until the local elections, just 50,000 out of an estimated two million voters without photo ID have applied.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/05/voter-suppression-huge-numbers-set-to-lose-vote-as-only-2-5-of-missing-millions-apply-for-voter-id/

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars…Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.”

#cities #urbanism #cars #VisionZero #streets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/how-helsinki-and-oslo-cut-pedestrian-deaths-to-zero

Happy Easter from Streatham #london

Britons have more confidence in EU than Westminster, poll finds:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/30/britons-more-confidence-in-eu-than-westminster-poll-brexit

Climate change is accelerating – and the UK government is ‘strikingly unprepared’
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-accelerating-and-the-uk-government-is-strikingly-unprepared-202863

@vicgrinberg fascinating. One thing I don’t understand is how a transient ‘flash’ exciting dust clouds thousands of light years from us is observable in the same time frame as the flash hitting earth’s atmosphere? Sorry to be dim.

Remember GRB 221009A? The gamma ray burst that was bright enough to rattle Earth's atmosphere? Turns out, it's indeed a "once in a many thousand years"-event.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Brightest_gamma-ray_burst_illuminates_our_galaxy_as_never_before

Wanna know why the strange name? There is logic to it! "GRB" means "gamma ray burst", to distinguish it from other transient phenomena observed in the sky on the same day. It happened on on the 9th October 2022 - that's the 221009. And it was the first GRB on that day, that's the "A" there.

#astrodon #astronomy

Got these two lucky shots whilst on my walk this evening

This #NationalPuppyDay, we salute all the dog stars out there. Exploring is more fun with your best friend at your side. 🐾
#NASA

Disunited Kingdom https://reader.foreignaffairs.com/2023/02/21/disunited-kingdom/content.html

Peace and geometry by the sun
#dogsofmastodon

“once cities make the decision to reduce or remove cars, they rarely go back. No one I spoke to for this piece could name a recent sizable pedestrianization or traffic-reduction scheme that had been reversed once it had been given time to have an effect.” Via WIRED. #cities #cars #urbanism#streets #CarFree

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/car-free-cities-opposition

happy bday to this wonderful chonk

#DogsOfMastodon #labrador #LabsOfMastodon #pup