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Dr Grahame Cooper. Grandad, retired Prof, naturist. I walk, I cycle, I drive, I use public transport. Hitchens's razor applies.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.
People riding bikes in a full separated bike-lane in Central Paris.Cars jamming a street in central Paris.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Nothing on the benefits of nature restoration & same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to N Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out Rosebank & Jackdaw now
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 30/09/2026
That's why I have both a bell and an Airzound.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 28/09/2026
Save the date! The next #BoltonCriticalMass ride will be the Halloween ride on Friday 30th of October. This is the highlight of the #CriticalMass year. Come along, dress up and decorate your bike with lights if you can. boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/o...
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October 30th 2026
The Halloween Ride This ride is usually the highlight of the Critical Mass year. Riders can decorate their bikes with lights and spooky stuff, and dress in spooky or outrageous costumes. We will ri…
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 28/09/2026
The open door suggesting outdoor living and nature connection. She's just existing in the world, fully part of it, carefree, and naked - so what; never gave it a thought. If ever there was an image to represent naturist living, this is it. Brilliant!
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 28/09/2026
That is a stunning photograph, Col. All the elements in the boat (love the copper kettle on the stand in the foreground), the light falling on Sadie, her relaxed but focussed expression, the natural passive pose, and the text of the tattoo on her hip. 1/2
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 28/09/2026
An interesting question is whether Neil would have been treated like this if he'd been female, or if there'd been a woman with him, nude or clothed.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 27/09/2026
The judgement says of the CoP guidance: "This is guidance for police officers. It is not a statement of law binding on the courts, and it does not purport to be." Unfortunately, the legal jeopardy is more significant than the guidance leads one to believe. 2/2
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 27/09/2026
Yes; it's ridiculous. The problem lies in the incredibly vague terms that section 5 of the Public Order Act is written in. The term "disorderly" does not even have a clear meaning. The judgement says it should have its "ordinary meaning", but I've never heard it outside of the legal context. 1/2
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 27/09/2026
An absolute travesty of justice.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 27/09/2026
Another enjoyable #BoltonCriticalMass last Friday, with a glorious sunset. boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/s...
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September 25th 2026
The Autumn Equinox Ride Another nice ride in excellent conditions, to a good, September themed music playlist. Just five of us this time. We saw a magnificent sunset as we went through Harwood and …
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 25/09/2026
Don't forget it's #BoltonCriticalMass this evening. The Met Office forecast has got much better in the last 24 hours, so it should be a nice ride. #CriticalMass boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/s...
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September 25th 2026
The Autumn Equinox Ride Another nice ride is expected, and we have put together a good, September themed music playlist. We may also see a nice sunset if we are lucky, as the sun will set at 7.02pm…
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 20/09/2026
Regarding discrimination, do the rules tend to say it must be a heterosexual couple? Refusing entry to gay couple (male or female) could well constitute discrimination in law.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 19/09/2026
The next #BoltonCriticalMass ride will be this Friday. With the weather looking good, we are expecting another nice ride. Come along and enjoy yourself whilst supporting our Council to build more cycling infrastructure. #CriticalMass #SafeCycling boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/s...
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September 25th 2026
The Autumn Equinox Ride Another nice ride is expected, and we are putting together a good music playlist. We may also see a nice sunset, as the sun will set at 7.02pm. Let people know you are comin…
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 13/09/2026
A brilliant time was had by all on the York leg of the World Naked Bike Ride yesterday. Thank you Sadie for organizing it. #WNBR #OilDependencyProtest #CycleSafety #BodyPositivity #naturism #nudist
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 12/09/2026
Abuse of the horn to intimidate.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 12/09/2026
This is what a selfish, entitled idiot looks like. PE74XUN. Total Handling Solutions. www.totalhs.co.uk
Shows the driver of a van looking towards the camera through the nearside window.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 11/09/2026
Latest progress on Yang style 8 step Tai Chi. I still see issues with it, but it's much improved. Feel ready to move onto 24 step now. Doing this gives me immediate relief from a lower back problem, and doing it outside without clothes feels amazing. #TaiChi #naturist #naturism #nudist #bodypositive
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/09/2026
Bikes aren’t the reason why traffic is bad. Cars getting in the way of other cars are. The best way to reduce traffic is to give people other options to get around. That means bikes. And transit. And pedestrian-first streets.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 01/09/2026
I'm seeing a lot of posts saying that today is nude cooking day. I'm really not sure how that differs from any other day. 🤣 #naturist #naturism #nudism #bodypositivity
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 30/08/2026
(Solid white line, not double, but same.)
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 30/08/2026
DD12GGD - 23/07/2026. It was very surprising that @gmpolice.bsky.social #opsnap decided No Further Action against this van driver who close passed me across a double white line, forcing an oncoming HGV driver into the kerb to avoid a head-on collision. #dangerousdriving
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Andy @andydrummond.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026
Since 2008 it’s been a requirement to install rainwater soakaways when paving a front garden or building an extension. Councils don’t have the resources to adequately enforce this due to austerity. #SlowTheFlow
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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We must stop referring to every cycleway proposal as 'controversial'. It is high time motor lanes are discussed as controversial.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 27/08/2026
Today is the fifth anniversary of the first #BoltonCriticalMass ride, so tomorrow's ride is a bit of a celebration. See this web page for full info. Everyone's welcome. boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/a...
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August 28th 2026
A picture from the first ride on 27th August 2021 The fifth anniversary ride. The first Bolton Critical Mass happened on Friday 27th of August 2021. So, as we start this ride, we will have been doi…
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 27/08/2026
Getting better. Working on rooting, balance, driving from the waist (dantian) and improving smoothness and grace. (Still a long way to go, though.) #taichi #naturism #naturist #nudist #bodypositivity
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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 22/08/2026
They will tell you it takes years of studies and millions of dollars to make a protected Bike lane… They’re lying
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 22/08/2026
#naturist #naturism #nudist #bodypositive #Fuerteventura #cycling
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 21/08/2026
Three and a half hours au naturel, gravel riding and exploring. About 24km and 313 metres of climbing. It's wonderful seeing and doing stuff most tourists never see or do.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 18/08/2026
That would be a vast improvement on what we have now. It's not "whiny" to call for local authorities to stop designing the whole urban environment around cars, and then allowing those cars to block all the footways as well so you can't even walk anywhere.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 17/08/2026
And yet people buy bigger and bigger cars, but don't see that as a problem. City streets are easily wide enough for cycle lanes. They're just not wide enough for cars with armchair-like seats three abreast, most of which are empty most of the time. They call your way of thinking "motormativity".
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Here's something England's National Highways could learn about.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 15/08/2026
A lovely afternoon au naturel at the beach in Fuerteventura. Walking in the dunes and on the waterline for 4.5km. (Hard going on sand.) #naturism #naturist #bodypositivity
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 14/08/2026
I'm just a boring old prostate cancer, who turned out to be very aggressive. I was stopped in my tracks by a very skilled surgical team at The Christie who removed me by means of an impressive many armed robot. So far, I haven't returned.
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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The push to EVs is virtually the only significant thing the government is doing to decarbonise transport. Reducing the targets makes no sense (unless you make cars). Please respond to this consultation. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Andy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targets
Possible cut from 80% down to as little as 50% could add millions of tonnes of CO2 to emissions and comes amid UK heatwaves
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 14/08/2026
This is looking good, but we need many more miles of it to be useful. Video from last week. #ActiveTravel
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 10/08/2026
Yes, it might be possible for it to drain, but the point of a continuous footway is that the footway stays at the same height across the side road rather than dropping down towards the carriageway.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 09/08/2026
This seems a perverse design to me, but perhaps @cyclopsdave.bsky.social, or @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social, can shed some light on it.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 09/08/2026
I don't know whether this is the same one, but I Found this from Bradstone: www.bradstone.com/commercial/p... The image in the brochure does indeed show the footway, or in this case a cycleway, sloping, and therefore draining, away from the kerb edge.
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DUTCH CYCLE ENTRANCE KERB
Dutch Entrance Kerb is a robust concrete system designed to create safe vehicular crossings over continuous footways and cycle tracks, supporting the street design principles set out in LTN 1/20. By k...
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 09/08/2026
... So the kerbs appear to have been installed exactly as intended by the manufacturer. This can be seen more clearly in this image. This is really weird, and like no Dutch access kerb I've ever seen, so I searched for the manufacturer. ...
Shows an end kerbstone, taken from the middle of the dropped kerb.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 09/08/2026
... down towards the carriageway so that it drains into the gutter. But I noticed something else strange about the end kerbstones. There is a flat surface that is angled slightly up from the plane of the top surface, which lies flush with a similar surface on the mid kerb stones. ...
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 09/08/2026
... so I had a closer look, and took pictures. These two show that the top surface of the end kerbstones does indeed slope back away from the kerb, so that the final surface will need to slope down away from the carriageway. That seems absurd; the footway should slope ...
Picture shows one of the Dutch style entrance kerbs for the end, from a low perspective.Picture shows one of the Dutch style entrance kerbs for the end, from a low perspective.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 09/08/2026
... so that the footway still dropped at least part-way down to the carriageway level, thus defeating the object of a continuous footway. When I had a look, I thought: yes, he's right. But the plot thickens. I noticed today that some more had been used on another part of the scheme, ...
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 09/08/2026
(Kerb nerdery.) I had a conversation with @cyclopsdave.bsky.social earlier this year about the way the Dutch style entrance kerbs had been laid on the continuous footways on part of an active travel scheme in Bolton. They seemed to have been laid tilted backwards ...
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 09/08/2026
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Stand up to Trump and Bezos: stronger tax rules NOW
Jeff Bezos has just been crowned the world's third richest person...while Amazon dodges billions in tax. Right now, governments are negotiating new global tax rules. Tell the UK Government: don't cave...
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 08/08/2026
I posted this to replace an earlier one as my technique is a bit better now after another week of practice.
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 08/08/2026
My new happy place. Yang style 8 forms Tai Chi. Technique needs improving, but it's still very satisfying to do. I'd like to progress to 24 forms next, though it is the journey, not the destination that matters. I would recommend this to anyone. #taichi #naturism #naturist #nudist #bodypositivity
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 05/08/2026
This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
😔“In 2005, about 7.5% of the UK’s front gardens were paved; by 2025 that had risen to 55%” “… changing paved gardens back to grass could reduce night-time temperatures by as much as 0.5C, and adding trees would double the benefit”
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Weatherwatch: Paving over front gardens is leading to hotter nights
Changing paved areas to grass and planting trees can reduce urban heat island effect by as much as 1C, study shows
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Bicycle-Riding Motorist @grahamecooper.com · 01/08/2026
This article, about growing up as a naturist or coming to it later with a body positive attitude, is really good. Well-written and captures so well what naturism (or nudism) is about. From @slavicuncovered.bsky.social. slavicuncovered.substack.com/p/nude-and-u...
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Nude and Under 18: What My Naturist Friends Know About Raising Kids
Or: how a five-year-old trying to buy sweets changed the way I think about bodies, shame, and laundry
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