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For a newer cyclist, working out what to do when your separated bike lane vanishes with no signage and you're suddenly contending with buses and taxis could be very scary. That's not an excuse for hitting pedestrians but it is dreadful road design.

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Because I am in Sheffield at the moment. I'll have a look next time I'm in London. Have you tried renting a Lime bike and riding through that junction along the Farringdon Road from the north? With a bus behind you? I could navigate it safely because I have been cycling in traffic for decades.

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A floating bus stop with a bike lane by the kerb and bike stop lights would help. And Zebra stripes on the crossing too. But there really isn't signage there to show what someone on a cycle should do, and a novice will be more aware of buses than pedestrians. Could you ask TfL to comment on it?

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Where Farringdon Road crosses Cowcross St and Greville Street? Looking at it in Google maps, there's a separated bike lane coming from the north that dead ends into 2 bus stops, then truncated zigzag stop markers and no labelled bike box at the junction. That's a real mess.

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So yes, people on bicycles should not endanger pedestrians or other road users. This is fundamental. However you can't reduce it to "follow the rules" when road markings are chaotic nonsense.

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It is impractical to follow all the signage and road cues provided, so you have to improvise and learn which junctions need which behaviour. London is better at providing separated cycleways, but junctions without separated lights are often ambiguous if you should follow car or pedestrian lights.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

How this mindset comes into being is that in most of the UK, cycle infrastructure is completely incoherent. Bike lanes appear and disappear arbitrarily, sometimes merging with pavements, sometimes vanishing entirely, throwing you into fast moving traffic, sometimes being gutters full of wet leaves.

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I'm glad a lot of cis people are feeling so much optimism over Burnham, optimism is good, but I'm also immensely sad as a trans person because our persecution is so easy to completely and utterly dismiss for some shiny words.

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 10h

In London? Like the web? Come along *this evening* from 7pm to Shoreditch where the lovely @londonwebstandards.org are hosting some of the prime movers shaking up mobile browser competition (also, me? weird). Tickets (free!) and details here: londonwebstandards.org/events/lws-o...

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Meet Open Web Advocacy | London Web Standards

Meet the contributors from Open Web Advocacy, there will be a few talks by their members giving updates on the work they are doing to help make the web a better place for all.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h

Men Explain Rape to Me.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 13h

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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The way to do that is to tax it back, not impose means testing. You should know that already.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 6h

Wet Leg are bigger than Level 42 for Isle of Wight, and Pulp bigger than Def Lepperd for West Yorkshire.

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Vivid numbers in this overview of Illinois’s new Net Zero carbon plan: “improvements in air quality alone would lead to between 392 & 631 fewer premature deaths per year. That translates to between $8.8 and $13.8 billion in avoided healthcare costs & increased worker productivity.” #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Illinois EPA releases ‘Comprehensive Climate Action Plan’ to reach ‘net zero’ emissions

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois has made substantial progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in recent years, but it is not yet on track to meet its goal of reaching net-zero emissions

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Treat yourself - go try out an electric cargo bike.

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The epithet that was widespread when I was young was "you daft apeth" — used by an elder when you were being silly. It took me years to realise that it was short for halfpenny worth and should properly be written 'a'pe'th - which is a probably the maximum number of apostrophes per letter possible.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 8h

My late wife Rosie would say "you look as miserable as a muppet with mud on its boot", and then be surprised when we didn't recognise the reference to something she saw on TV in the 1970s.

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Our fourth Beforecast episode is up, with more fun Machiavelli gossip! And a zoom in on why he and fellow patriots loved the unique city of Florence so much! youtu.be/ehJRm-OzbHo

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Why did Machiavelli love this city so much? | Beforecast Episode 4 with Ada Palmer

YouTube video by Beforecast

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 11h

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 18h

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Has there ever been a Doctor Who story about people substituting human capabilities with machine replacements that lack any genuine human feeling or emotion? If they did, remind me, was it good or bad?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 30/09/2026

Is this SI Super Intelligence nonsense a plot to sell Slovenian domain names?

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's happening again!!!! This Saturday is the TRANS NERD MEET UP. If you identify as trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, whatever, you are welcome. We define "nerd" super broadly: there might be games. Zeitgeist SF, 12:30 until whenever Deets/RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-nerd...

TRANS NERD MEET UP: trans flag against a colorful starfield background

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 30/09/2026

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 30/09/2026

Loconundrum #199 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 🟩🟩🟩

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm finding that Swarm works again the way Foursquare used to

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Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My friend Mark Cho, co-founder of The Armoury, visited Lovat Mill in Scotland some years ago. He filmed this charming video with Lovat co-owner and design director Alan Cumming, who explains what goes into making tweed. You can see how many bright colors are used to make a "simple" earthy color.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it.

A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 29/09/2026

We really need to stop analyzing and pathologizing AI bros and the the crazy that comes out of the the Bay Area. They're assholes. Bog standard, just assholes. Selfish cunts. You never need more than two syllables to describe these people.

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 29/09/2026

Activists unfurled a 24-foot-long quilt protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violence. Made of 11,000 individual patches representing individuals disappeared by ICE in the state, the “Stolen Neighbors” quilt was stitched together by dozens of volunteers.

hyperallergic.com

Activists Unveil Quilt Honoring Thousands Disappeared by ICE in Minnesota

The Stolen Neighbors Quilt features 11,000 hand-stitched squares in an indictment of violence against immigrants and a “call for political courage.”

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Apparently a stopped clock is right once a decade x.com/kevinmarks/s...

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Why is it that when
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@sama
go looking for subconscious heretical ideas they land on sexism and homophobia rather than, say, Georgism, homoiousios, or becoming Levellers, Diggers, Shakers or Luddites?
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A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation

It's also behind a lot of handy mapping apps. I use organicmaps.app for walking and cycling routes in Sheffield because, unlike Google Maps, it doesn't send my bike up staircases or over stiles, and it has alleyways mapped.

organicmaps.app

Free, open-source, fast, privacy-focused, detailed offline maps for travelers, tourists, drivers, hikers and cyclists created by MapsWithMe/Maps.Me app founders

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osmsheffield.bsky.social @osmsheffield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Open Street Map! It's an open source and free to use map of the world that most people engage with on a daily basis without even knowing. It helps first responders locate addresses, underpins humanitarian aid and disaster relief efforts and much more. www.openstreetmap.org

openstreetmap.org

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

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For someone who cites logic, you're not very good at it. You made an absolute statement that can be disproved by a single counter example. You're now trying to rephrase my statement into an absolute. Do read up on the law of the excluded middle.

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If you want an edit button use mu.social

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