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@ericeatspickles.bsky.social
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Cycling, active transport, sustainability Editor/writer/law publisher, corporate communications Ex-molecular biologist Ex-genetic virologist

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
YES! No one needs to speed except emergency services (another benefit - car theft & other car-related crime would plummet).
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Youth Mobility + Youth Independence should be key metrics of a city's success.
two kids biking on their street one is standing on the handlebars.
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"Weekly spin class ‘better than physio’ for people with common hip issue" Yet another endorsement of regular cycling. So many people with health issues could avoid blighted lives & expensive therapy/gym membership by cycling their everyday journeys. www.standard.co.uk/news/science...
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Weekly spin class ‘better than physio’ for people with common hip issue
The approach could also be more cost-effective for the NHS and could help tackle waiting times for physiotherapy, according to researchers.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Musician Brian May enjoying one of London's Santander bike share bicycles Happy #BicycleBirthday, Brian! Born July 19, 1947
A man in a red jacket rides a bike on a street.
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The UK's train companies don't employ staff to help you avoid expensive mistakes (or sell you a ticket on the train you've just boarded). They pay lawyers to sue you when you make a mistake trying to navigate their labyrinthine pricing & ticketing options...
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
"$2 billion investment to promote cycling throughout [France] over the next four years" @heidialexander.bsky.social - France has confirmed its "unprecedented investment in cycling & walking". When are you going to confirm ours?
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Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it's not stopping
The report delves into the nuances of Parisian cycling culture, exploring the vibrant community of riders who navigate the city's streets
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Thousands of winged ants have just swarmed out of my compost bin...
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
#Wimbledon, will free water be available at this year’s Championships, which is likely to be held during a possible record heatwave, or will visitors have to face getting fleeced for Evian…?
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Escape-pea...
Last night’s dinner - chicken katsu curry, peas, basmati rice & naan bread
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"It's why someone who would normally hand over their seat on a bus will speed through a zebra crossing as an older pedestrian or child crosses the road." Great piece in @echolive.bsky.social about Car Brain by Catherine Conlon feat. @ianwalker.bsky.social's research www.echolive.ie/corkviews/ar...
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To reduce the road deaths toll, we need to tackle ‘Car Brain’
Any perceived inconvenience ignites ‘Car Brain’ as we justify our right to behave in a manner that would not be tolerated in any other aspect of ...
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The question: “How can we save the car industry?"
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
What’s the future looking like for overweight kids - never-ending jabs? It seems we’ll do anything to them apart from letting them live natural active lives...
Screenshot of today’s The Guardian site, main headline “Majority of children will be overweight or obese in nine areas of England by 2035” with subhead "NHS begins mass rollout of weight-loss jabs to patients in England"
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Don’t say I didn’t warn y’all...
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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Liveable Neighbourhood has 'brought calm to our streets' www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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Liveable Neighbourhood has 'brought calm to our streets'
'Already it’s made a huge difference to this area'
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Get me to the match on time... www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2...
England’s international cricketers Harry Brook, Brydon Carse and Matthew Potts travel by hire bicycles to their match against the West Indies at The Oval cricket ground, south London
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@theguardian.com overlooked the greatest "money hack" of all when it comes to avoiding the high cost of motoring: use a 🚲 for your everyday travel needs. I estimate my 2 bikes saved me around £37,000 over the years. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...
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10 ways young UK drivers can avoid high car insurance costs
Adding a parent to the policy, opting for a small-engine vehicle or paying annually can all bring premiums down
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Another group of people on foot, another car ploughs into them. Have cars lost their freakin' minds?? Or is it time to take stock of our motonormative society & more tightly regulate access to these death machines...? www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...
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Man arrested after car ploughs into pedestrians in Leicester
Four people were taken to hospital following the collision
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The devastating impact of the congestion zone, hire bike scheme & protected bike lanes on average motor traffic speeds in London. Won’t somebody think of the drivers...
Chart showing average traffic speeds in central, inner & outer regions of London 1977-2021, with flags indicating introduction of congestion zone, bike hire scheme & protected bike lanes
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CykelTony @tony-eh.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Who could have guessed?! momentummag.com/the-happiest...
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The Happiest Cities in the World are Also the Most Bicycle Friendly
The 2025 Happy City Index is in and the world's happiest cities are also some of the best places to ride a bike.
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Concern over several dozen Liverpool fans being rammed & hospitalised by an angry driver is presumably also “woke”...
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Can anyone imagine London mayor Sadiq Khan slagging off the city’s public transport system quite like the US secretary of transportation does here for New York’s? He thinks it’s "dirty", plagued by "criminals" from "homeless shelters" & "insane asylums”. If he cared, he could fix it.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Wheelchair user. The scourge of dickheads parking cars and vans across the pavement and completely blocking my way is getting worse. I'm completely helpless and am so frustrated, angry and upset by its impact on my daily life, I now carry a penknife in my chair to puncture tyres.
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Almost 300 killed or badly hurt by speeding drivers in N Ireland in 4 years "a sad & stark reminder of the human cost of speeding". I see it as a stark reminder of the cost of car brain. We could reduce that to near zero, but we choose not to. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/belf...
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Almost 300 killed or badly hurt by speeding drivers in N Ireland in four years
Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins described the figures as a ‘sad and stark reminder of the human cost of speeding’.
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A tragic & unnecessary death caused by a teenager on a “Sur Ron electric motorcycle". The message is starting to get through to the media & the police that these machines are not bicycles. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/nort...
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Teenager arrested after woman, 86, killed while ‘using zebra crossing’
Gloria Stephenson was full-of-life and a much-loved great-grandmother, her family has said.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Greek salad for dinner yesterday evening. Looks like a lot of onions but they were the last thing I added before the herbs & olive oil (& I love onions!).
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Another malcontent uses a car as a weapon. We control guns very effectively in the UK - the same measures are needed for cars. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Man arrested after car hits pedestrians during Liverpool FC victory parade
Police called to Water Street in Liverpool city centre around 6pm after report of a collision with pedestrians
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money and pollution. Via UITPnews
Graphic showing how much less space is needed to move more people on transit.
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Anyone who is more concerned about bikes on pavements than cars on the road is deeply unserious about pedestrian safety.
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
At last, we have strong evidence from Transport for London’s latest research that 20mph speed limits significantly reduce the numbers of people dying and being seriously injured on our roads. I've been campaigning for 20mph limits for over 25 years. view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx...
photo of the back of a red no 43 bus in 2014 carrying a sign "20" in a red roundel against blue sky with text "slower speeds safer roads"cardboard box with A4 posters saying 20 in black text in a red roundel and "20's plenty" underneath.

Black bar at bottom with "Transport 2000" now Campaign for Better Transport.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Darshna Soni, "Look what happened after Brexit" "This line shows the new points based system introduced under Boris Johnson, and net migration soared to more than 900,000" #C4News casually calling out Boris Johnson's Brexit lie that he would bring migration down
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Two brilliant letters in the Irish Times this morning on how cars are weapons.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
Pic of Pontevedra from the air
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De Filmende Fietser @filmendefietser.eurosky.social · 19/05/2025
"A proud feeling? That's a bike ride away!" The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure launched a new TV ad to encourage people to take their bike instead of the car for short journeys. Whatever the occasion or weather conditions! 🚲 👌🏼
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Takeaways from a trip to Dunstable. When towns prioritise cars, they not only make it difficult for drivers, forcing them to navigate impenetrable, meandering mazes with misleading, confusing or missing signage, but they make it virtually impossible for everyone *not* in a car.
Multi-lane one way road system entering Dunstable’s town centre retail area
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Just what is it with billionaires? All that money & they still can’t buy themselves good PR...
Guardian headline: Slot machine firms target UK’s poorest areas and channel funds to billionaires
Politicians including Andy Burnham call for councils to be given powers to stop new sites opening
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is how you create an "island of strangers", #UKLabour/#Keir_Starmer. Claim to be "on the side of drivers", enforce a culture of car dependency, ignore active travel & the benefits it brings the NHS, & sit back as community severance does the rest...
Chart showing social interactions on three streets with traffic ranging from heavy to light.
Removing #LTNs restores residential streets to excessive motor traffic, resulting not in “united" communities but community severance with:
⬆️ social isolation, litter, crime, noise & air pollution, road danger & 
⬇️ mental wellbeing.
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Unstable in Dunstable...
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
If this all feels too much to fight, start small. Take "aspiring writer" out of your bio and replace it with "writer." Stop saying things like "I don't have a proper job." Support creators; translators; illustrators. Boycott AI generated junk. We are many. They are few. And we have the words.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
In the news: In which we learn that our leaders find it easier to believe "AI is the future" than to believe that actual, living human beings who make art for a living have rights and deserve respect. Our consent doesn't matter to them. Only appeasing the tech bros matters.
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The UK famously underwent a period of tectonic plate collision from the mid-1950s onward, leading to large scale movement of the Earth's crust, folding, faulting, igneous intrusion & the formation of mountains - all of which rendered cycling almost impossible in modern times...
Annual kilometres cycled per year in the UK 1949-2018
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
How 15-minute-city conspiracy theorists love spending their time...
Signpost with several daily destinations marked in miles
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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Ride a bike they said, it'll be fun they said! Kidding, we embrace and celebrate the radicalization. If only the anti-bike lane folks would take a ride in our shoes, we're certain their perspectives would change. It's the humanity of it. As always, genius 📷 by @tomflood.bsky.social
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
“Parity” will be when people on bikes get to kill & seriously injure thousands of drivers every year with little or no fear of consequence...
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ericeatspickles.bsky.social @ericeatspickles.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"Nobody wants to cycle." They do when cycling gets sustained investment & safe space that protects people on bikes from drivers.
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/05/2025
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!
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Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen...
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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The latest carbon emission figures for 2023, released last month, show that transport (not including international aviation and shipping) is responsible for 29% of the UK's domestic emissions, with most of that (89%) due to road transport.
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