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Tom Quinn

@geologiser.bsky.social
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Active-travel advocate, renewable energy professional, cargo bike riding dad. Lapsed geologist.

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 03/09/2026
The Australien Government made an ad about carbon offsets and koalas, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 💛 produced by our Patrons 🙏 support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thejuicemedia ☕ buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/thejuicemedia
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bearswayfriends.bsky.social @bearswayfriends.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Please sign and share! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fi... @magnatom.bsky.social @sturmyarcher3.bsky.social @gobikeglasgow.bsky.social
you.38degrees.org.uk
Finish the Bearsway
Thousands of Bearsden and Milngavie residents are currently cut off from Glasgow's growing network of safe, segregated cycle routes because two short sections of missing infrastructure leave the area ...
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Requesting that ED Council finishes a vital cycle link: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fi... @bearswayfriends.bsky.social
you.38degrees.org.uk
Finish the Bearsway
Thousands of Bearsden and Milngavie residents are currently cut off from Glasgow's growing network of safe, segregated cycle routes because two short sections of missing infrastructure leave the area ...
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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Question for those who haven't been part of the climate movement. Please repost this for a wider response, I think it'll be interesting. Now that the northern hemisphere is effectively on fire, now that climate change is running amok, what is it you didn't get all these years?
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Can any of my road-design savvy followers give some tips on what guidance or rules have been broken here? This used to be a continuous crossing. East Dunbartonshire Council thought car priority was more important. @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Lovely mix of cycle routes in south Netherlands.
Off road bike path through a nature reserve
Shared space in a townSegregated cycle path by a main road
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Is it better to spend taxpayer money to encourage more driving, or to use that money and invest in sustainable transport so we’re less exposed to volatile fuel prices? Can we also make our supply chains more sustainable, so fuel prices don’t hike up the cost of everything else?
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
My e-bike motor cuts out at 17mph. For safety.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I’ve been thinking about this - the UK should have escalated fuel duty as planned over the last 20-odd years, which would allow for faster fuel efficiency and transition to alternatives, but also the ability to cut fuel duty in times of crisis and keep inflation down.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Frogs = mad shaggers. My pond needs to be moved and actually finished, but that’s not stopped them… will need to wait for the baby frogs to vacate now!
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Given the state of public health in the west of Scotland, Glasgow will see even bigger health cost savings.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This sounds like a job for @urbantruth.bsky.social The consultation includes a removal option, but intentionally makes it look bad or foolish. However, removing a motorway cutting through a city centre is the ONLY viable option!
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GoBike Strathclyde @gobikeglasgow.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
GoBike supports Remove the M8 - a grassroots campaign to replace Glasgow's urban motorway with a ground-level road for people. Support the REMOVE Option in the M8 Woodside viaducts consultation (deadline: 25 March 2026). Visit: removethem8.org.uk @replacethem8.bsky.social @getglasgowmoving.org
removethem8.org.uk
Remove the M8 — Have Your Say
Support the campaign to remove the M8 urban motorway and replace it with a boulevard for Glasgow. Answer Transport Scotland's consultation before 25 March 2026.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Give me a metaphor for cycle infrastructure in Bearsden:
Bicycle rack at a shopping centre filled with shopping trolleys.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
@passpixi.bsky.social it may be time for a new order 🙈
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
These are both on the Transport Scotland home page. Cause and effect?
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Anyone used this for reporting dangerous driving in Scotland yet? @magnatom.bsky.social @kennymunro.bsky.social @sturmyarcher3.bsky.social www.scotland.police.uk/about-us/how...
scotland.police.uk
Digital Evidence Sharing Capability: DESC
Digital Evidence Sharing Capability: DESC
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bayernbastler.bsky.social @bayernbastler.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Second year I made a small calendar on the state of the active travel infrastructure here in Bearsden. Would be funny if it wouldn't be so sad. @sturmyarcher3.bsky.social @magnatom.bsky.social @geologiser.bsky.social @bearswayfriends.bsky.social @kennymunro.bsky.social #activetravelbearsden
Picture of 5 identical photo-calendars for 2026 about the sad state of active travel infrastructure in Bearsden (Glasgow). They are all open on different month.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Train rights are human rights.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The crossing point on the only main road I pass with my kids on the cycle to primary school. 3 of the 4 bollard/posts with buttons have been hit by drivers. Latest victim is traffic light which has been been hit by a driver on the wrong side of the road. Or a cyclist… @bearswayfriends.bsky.social
Pedestrian crossing point with three bollards/posts having been hit by drivers
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
@octopus.energy I just had to delete and reconnect my devices. IO has offered a 2 hour slot to charge 50%. ~35-40kWh in two hours with a 7kW charger… something doesn’t add up!
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“Boss, where should we leave the signs when we’re not using them?” “Just chuck them on the cycle path, that’ll do” @bearswayfriends.bsky.social
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Made it to the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome with child 1 today for the first time. Incredible venue. Hitting those steep corners for the first time is scary but so much fun.
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David Brennan @magnatom.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Local campaign group Bearsden Safer Streets need our help. They are asking for local folk to contact their councillors to express support for piloting a 20mph limit across all streets in Bearsden - without exemptions. Please look here and help if you can. oursafestreets.substack.com/p/we-need-yo...
oursafestreets.substack.com
We need you to take action against proposed 20mph amendments
Amendments have been proposed to the 20mph trial that risk exempting key roads and collision blackspots. Here is an urgent action we need supporters to take.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Frustrating to see @privateeyenews.bsky.social calling this an accident. Being three times over the drink-drive limit and getting behind the wheel is not an accident, but a deliberate choice by Dosunmu.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
How do you take a cargo bike for a service and get home again? Put your bike in a bike!
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Loads of parents & kids cycling to West rugby club this morning, but still no safe routes.
Bikes around a playing field fence
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I’ll admit to breaking a road rule today. Light turned red ahead of me. I could have stopped, but didn’t. Car behind me flew through, so if I had stopped, I’d be flattened. 20+ years of sharing the road with cars and my spidey-senses are finely honed.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I’d like to see @octopus.energy offer a tariff for EV & solar/home battery owners that works in the winter better. Lack of sunlight means our battery usually runs out just in time for afternoon peak. A second cheap window at 2-4ish (with higher £ peak) would see us through.
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Bikery @bikery.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Please support the campaign for Presumed Liability. Presumed liability shifts the burden of proof to the insurance company in a collision, and is intended to compensate vulnerable road users more quickly and effectively petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... @carltonreid.com
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Introduce presumed liability for civil cases from road traffic collisions
Introduce presumed liability for civil cases relating to certain road collisions, to shift the burden of proof. It would mean when vulnerable road users, e.g cyclists & pedestrians, claim against a mo...
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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"Do we not want to protect and encourage active travel in Scotland? Do we not need a justice system that helps achieve that? Do we not recognise how incidents like this can cause serious injury or death?" road.cc/311763
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"Justice needs to provide protection": Cyclist close passed by wife of ex-Scotland footballer, before filming driver use phone and run red light, criticises Scottish courts' "very obvious issues" afte...
The wife of the former Rangers and Scotland footballer received six penalty points and a £255 fine having agreed a deal with prosecutors to only be punished for a mobile phone offence
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
@kennymunro.bsky.social good to find you here. I’m reopening the defunct rat-run access road on Bearsway (Alexander Grove) with the council. Can copy you in some emails if you’ve got the energy.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
@magnatom.bsky.social I joined a call this morning to show and state support for A807 redetermination and speed limit reduction. Was outnumbered by objectors stating the same old nonsense, but not outgunned and thankfully it’s still all going ahead. Was mention of “cyclists with helmet cameras”
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
More path clearing cardio today on the school run. Amazing what 10 minutes here and there can achieve!
Cycle path with grass growing on itCycle path cleared of grass
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
A very satisfying 14 minutes spent this morning. Needs some willow spiling to finish it properly.
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
I felt furious at the time (and nervous on my bike), and now even more furious at the total lack of action.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 18/08/2024
Hello lovely new Bluesky people. If you missed it, here's a recent video where GCN came over to Swansea to talk all about our motonormativity work youtu.be/-_4GZnGl55c?...
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Carspiracy - You’ll Never See The World The Same Way Again
YouTube video by Global Cycling Network
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 18/08/2024
Not visible - pond with LOADS of frogs 🐸
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Committee appearance in House of Commons today. Stood under a very unsettling portrait of the Iron Lady…
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Tom Quinn @geologiser.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
I’m not bitter, was just getting inundated by bots and nonsense on the other place. I have made bitters.
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