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Laura F

@dantsis87.bsky.social
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Energy | Cycling | Urban Development | Car free | Knitting | Travel | Food | Oxford | Hedgehogs

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 26/09/2026
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The roofs won’t be enough
“Just put them on roofs instead” is the most comfortable argument in British politics. It is also the one that quietly hands the bill to our children.
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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hear, hear! Excellent piece. The roofs first objection to urgently needed solar farms "does not survive contact with a calculator". It also doesn't survive our duty to our children.
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/the-roofs-... excellent article here from a councillor in Abingdon. He's so right that we need more solar everyone, roofs won't solve the problem alone.
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The roofs won’t be enough
“Just put them on roofs instead” is the most comfortable argument in British politics. It is also the one that quietly hands the bill to our children.
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Liz Godfrey @lizgdfy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wood burning has definitely started again in my area. We had the windows open last night and the house stank of smoke - it was dark so we don’t know who is burning. We need much better public health messaging about this issue so everyone can understand the damage they are doing when they light up!
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@carryshitolympics.bsky.social fan rake by bike? No problem 😆 #carryshitolympics #Oxford
Grey ebike on patio with full flowery panniers, black basket, shopper hanging off the handlebars, toilet roll pack on back rack and a full size fan rack bungeed to the back rack
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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Car-free streets aren’t empty streets, they are full of life. People walking, cycling, browsing market stalls, sitting outside cafés, chatting and enjoying being in their city. Remove the cars, and you make space for people. 📍Middelburg, NL.
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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 23/09/2026
"I am a 91 year old who used to nip about by car" ... Now he's a 🚲 campaigner in #Colinton! 👍 An example to us all! @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @cllrconorsavage.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @sw20.info @longstonecc.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @osbert.org

I am a 91 year old who used to nip about short journeys by car but since 2020 I have used a bike, an electric assist, to do the same thingEmail to his councillor...

I am a 91 year old who used to nip about short journeys by car but since 2020 I have used a bike, an electric assist, to do the same thing

The lights on Redford Road near the Dreghorn Link give safe access to the Dreghorn houses but are difficult for bicycles due to steps. Could the steep step be smoothed out for bicycle access?

In the same area could the Dreghorn Link be provided with a secure cycle lane, there is plenty of room as one lane is hardly ever used.

The footbridge over the Dreghorn Link has been closed for a long time, could this be opened to allow safe access avoiding Redford Road from Bonaly and Colinton in general.
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy #newbikeday to my son - he was so happy whizzing round the park with his friends this evening 🚲❤️😊 Woom bikes are amazing 🤩
Red and black Woom 5 kids bike with a blue bow on the handlebars parked in the kitchen
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 22/09/2026
On the way to get some groceries yesterday with my 8yo we passed a friend of mine, also on a cargo bike. I waved hello as we rode by & my kid asked "Who was that?" Me: "My friend, Phil." 8yo: "Why didn't you say more?" Me: "Like what?" 8yo: "Like ask about a play date." Me: "Oh... "
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The rogue Waymo that drove through a farmers market in Denver is a reminder that Colorado has no laws to issue citations for driverless vehicles and their actions.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” The most efficient travellers are us on bikes. Proven science via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
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The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Researchers have been asking, why are pedestrian deaths going up, particularly driven by a spike in the dusk period? Well, right now it's 8:30 pm and I'm walking the baby to sleep, and every other driver I have seen is staring at their phone while rolling stop signs. Just a thought.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 21/09/2026
Driving a car for errands is so stressful. Biking (on protected infrastructure) is not. More Americans should have the ability to decide how to complete each trip w/o car dependency forced on them. 🚲 ❤️
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Walking to pick my kid up from elementary school and watching the mayor ride by on her e-bike. Just another day in Berkeley. ✌🏻
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is obviously bad news for those who have to drive - hauliers, farmers etc. but for private cars, although this mentions a rise in EVs/hybrids, it doesn't say anything about encouraging people to use public transport/active travel. Motornormativity again. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s...
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‘Half my day’s pay goes to filling up my car now’: diesel crisis ripples across Britain
Small traders and drivers bear the brunt of a refining shortage taking UK diesel towards £2 a litre as wars wipe out about a fifth of global supplies
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's that time of the year again 🥳🦸🏼‍♂️🎂🎈🎉8️⃣💕
Chocolate 8 shaped cake with red Marvel icons and black spider web icing, all on a silver cake board
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Everyone screaming to "BUY EVs" and completely ignoring the fact that we need to redevelop our transportation infrastructure away from a singular form of mobility. This is the definition of unintentional car brain.
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Learn a language with me for free! Duolingo is fun, and proven to work. Here’s my invite link: invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWK...
Duolingo orange graphic of Duo the owl with sunglasses and a 2250 day streak
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andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's interesting to me that "championing taxpayers" never seems to mean ensuring, like, safe sidewalks with curb cuts; separated bike lanes; funding for the arts & culture & lifestyle stuff that I personally feel should be one of the benefits of living in a society
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Way to go Bristol! First city to ban ads for flights, cars and fast fashion on public billboards. Why should our streets advertise the very things that are harming our planet? Other cities.. it is time to follow suit 💚 #FlightFreeMovement
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Disgraceful
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📢Oxfordshire Residents📢 We are hosting our flagship event, ‘Travel, Flying and the Climate Crisis’ in Oxford next month. Our panel will discuss airport expansion, human influence on climate change and flight-free travel inspiration! Free tickets: tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ditching flights is one of the biggest single changes most people can make. It's not just a step but a stride - every choice matters! 💚
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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every public event that only gives driving directions is a policy failing, a moral failing, and a failure of imagination.
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Another year, another birthday party shop and another basket full of pineapples 🥳 😆🍍 #Oxford
Grey e bike parked on a patio with black and flowery panniers plus front basket with shopping in including 3 pineapples
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With bikes, it's easy to stop and enjoy the scenery. It adds enjoyment to life, which is something you can't get with a white knuckle grip on a car steering wheel in high speed urban stroad traffic.
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There aren't many plus points about getting a 6:30am train for work but at least it's easier to find a parking space at Oxford station 🤣 #activetravel #Oxford
Grey e bike with black basket and red and white flowery pannier locked to a Sheffield stand
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Normalising doing grocery shopping like this 👇 🛍️🛒#activetravel #Oxford
My grey Cube e bike on the patio with a full front basket and rear panniers and shopping bungeed to the rack
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We've just got back from a week in Cornwall and we travelled by train from #Oxford to #Looe. Apart from the odd taxi, we've walked or caught the train all week and as a result broken the step goal streak - 10,000 steps a day for 7 days in a row! Public transport = active travel 😎
Longest goal streak from Garmin showing 7 days on 28/08/26
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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 26/08/2026
Can we not even make malls safe from cars? Good grief
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly 💔 country music has lost its greatest star today. I always remember my Dad introducing me to Dolly, playing me his vinyl collection #DollyParton 🎸🎙️
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
Cartoon image of a street with much of the space taken up by a car with a single driver, while the rest of the street has people tightly packed in a bus, a bus shelter and riding bikes in a bike lane. Adding insult to injury, the driver says “damn those bike paths and bike lanes taking all the space.”
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
City leaders often claim there's no room for better urban infrastructure. But the truth is the space is always there, you just have to look under the cars to find it.
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I've just bought a hot drink in my own reusable cup from the trolley service on a @gwr.com train and been told they cannot pass the hot drink to the table (about 30cm) without them putting on the lid. This is really ridiculous. I don't know who makes up these rules. 1/2
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Really sad to have left Bavaria - now back in the UK (on a very delayed Eurostar 🙄) on day 2 of Murnau ➡️ Oxford via Cologne last night. Train travel is the best (even with a few delays it's still so much better than flying) #flightfree (and yes we played a lot of "taco cat goat cheese pizza" 😂
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
No, you cannot shift a pack of 2.4m x 150mm feather edge boards on a cycle. #VeiculoLongo #CarryShitOlympics
A large black bicycle with red pannier bags is towing a smaller black two wheel (side by side) trailer. On the trailer is a pack of thin wood sticking way over the end of the trailer.
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Photos of an amazing trip up the Zugspitze yesterday and Munich today 😎🚠🚇🚋🏞️
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Bayern is beautiful 😍 - some highlights from the first few days here #blaueland #Germany
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Miss Omar @auntiekayadventure.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This is the best cycling advert ever, especially because I’m in it. It beautifully shows that cycling is for everyone, no matter who you are or where you come from. Bikes bring people together and remind us that cycling is one of the best ways to improve our health and wellbeing.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 08/08/2026
Every time I take my mom somewhere in our cargo trike she says the same thing (at some point in the ride): “Wow, you sure do see more on a bike than driving, don’t you?” Today she added “I think I have a glimpse into what my 80s will be like” (me riding her around even more in my bike). 🥰
Laura’s mom sits in the front of her Bunch cargo trike wearing a high viz helmet and rain jacket
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 08/08/2026
The face of a grandpa who gets to ride both of his grandkids through a rainstorm on a cargo trike: 😁🌧️
Laura’s dad wears a colorful Cleverhood rain jacket and rides a bunch bike with Laura’s two kids in the front under a blanket
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The most dangerous thing many people do every day is drive their car and almost no one operates a vehicle with that in mind
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Oxford ➡️ Murnau by rail Day 1 Oxford - London - Paris - Mannheim Great journey, a little delayed but we love the Eurostar and ICE - free toys for kids "kleine ICE Benni" 🚄😊 lovely scenery, super fast trains and I just spent the time napping 😴 or reading my book (The Lincoln Lawyer) 📖 #flightfree
Small German train toyView of the Rhein going through StrasbourgView through the train window with our table in the foreground with bags on
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
RIP Monty Roberts, an incredible horse whisperer 🏇😢 I remember watching him on tour doing join up in Clevedon, UK about 20 years ago and it was magical to watch.
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Stephen @stephen.int42.org · 26/07/2026
A ladder on the cargo bike definitely gets some looks. I even stopped at the hardware store for a few supplies. Just another day. #CarryShitOlympics #CargoBike
A red electric cargo bike is parked on the sidewalk outside a Frattallone’s Ace Hardware store with a green and yellow fiberglass ladder strapped securely to its cargo area. A black pannier on the bike reads “MAY USE FULL LANE.” Parked cars line the street beneath a bright blue sky with scattered clouds, with the hardware store and neighboring storefronts in the background.
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Miss Omar @auntiekayadventure.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A folded helmet and a folded Brompton. It is compact, clever, and always ready to go. Simple, convenient, and made for every days adventure.✨ Just unfold, hop on, and enjoy the ride.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 25/07/2026
riding bikes is also vastly more pro social than driving a car. you pay so much more attention to the world around you and are so much better enmeshed in your community.
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A letter to the Prime Minister from the #𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴 experts in today's @financialtimes.com. Please share. Link to a zoomable image: www.nebriefing.org/media With thanks to Business Declares. #TimeToStepUp #NationalRenewal
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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Laura F @dantsis87.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
@film.curzon.com just arrived in your #Oxford cinema to be given our hot drinks in single use cups when there were china ones clearly available (and that's what used to be used). Why the change? Terrible choice for the planet, please rethink this ASAP #noexcuseforsingleuse #climatechange
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