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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 4h

"I cycle to school every day. I feel very free." 🚲 We spoke to pupils at Riverside Primary School in Perth about what they love about cycling, how it makes them feel and the confidence given to them by #BikeabilityScotland training.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 18h

Short video from the @ecf.com on why Groningen is one of the best cities in the world for cycling. - Commuter routes from all nearby towns - Junctions everywhere that consider cycling - Reduced motor traffic in city centre - Massive recent increase in bike parking www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkF3...

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A Liveable City | City of Groningen | The Power of Cycling

YouTube video by European Cyclists' Federation

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clareskeltonmorris.bsky.social @clareskeltonmorris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This morning’s commute ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 06/10/2026

This year's El Niño continues its climb into uncharted waters; Niño3.4 region anomalies are now at a 3.4C above normal (how fitting!), higher than any prior El Niño event on record. September monthly Niño3.4 anomalies also set a record at 2.9C (beating 2015 and 1877's 2.75C).

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A lot of the time they follow or at least overlap with the rail network: doubling the impact by not just connecting small villages to one another via active travel, but also expanding the catchment of rail stations. Win-win for sustainable transport overall.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

👇 A really nice photo diary of a brand new rural #Doorfiets route in the Netherlands - routes connecting small villages and towns to one another (& importantly connecting more rural locations to their nearest rail station 🚆🚲). ⭕ Red marks the route in @bicycledutch.bsky.social's photos, I think!

Map of completed and planned "Doorfiets" routes in the Netherlands - "continuous cycling" routes that are built between settlements, rather than just inside urban areas. Green routes are completed as of 2024, with orange routes under construction. Grey routes are for the future, and a red circle marks the route talked about in the linked blog.

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The shiny red floor that leads to the Station Buffet at Barter Books, Alnwick. The amazing secondhand bookshop in a former railway station. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pen #watercolour #drawing #ArtShare

A pen and watercolour of rows of bookshelves leading the eye to a doorway of a room used as a cafe. Above the door is a sign saying STATION BUFFET partly obscured by books on shelves.

A triptych showing a pen drawing, the drawing being given watercolour washes and the finished colour drawing.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Actually, I've got decent photos of the neighbourhood. Once industrial & railyard land, then unused scrubland for decades. An entire new housing district has been built here, with an incredible new walking and cycling boulevard on the main street (Zygmunta Krasińskiego) [Info in alt text]

A family ride their bikes on a newly opened walking and cycle path that weaves along Zygmunta Krasińskiego street in the Żoliborz area of Warsaw, Poland. The whole area used to be industrial and railyard land, then unused scrubland for decades. It's now a new residential district with new apartment blocks, shops, and plenty of outside spaces like this running along main streets.

Looking the other way down Zygmunta Krasińskiego street in Warsaw, as the sun begins to set. A couple walk together on a wide footpath, surrounded by new greenery and planting. The whole linear park follows the street for about 500 metres, providing a cycle path that connects to side streets and main arterial routes. The amount of planting is incredible, with plenty of benches and creative play areas for children every 50 metres or so down the route.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Admittedly I'm going through the dregs of my camera roll here - but something I spotted everywhere in the newer neighbourhoods of Warsaw: cycle repair stations outside loads of shops. A sign of how central cycling is becoming, that businesses (even big chains) are chasing customers on two wheels.

A green cycle repair station (with bike pump, tools and an arm for hanging your bike while you fix it) outside a Żabka convenience shop in a new neighbourhood in Warsaw, Poland.

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEWS: 2025-26 a record-breaking year for #BikeabilityScotland. 🚲️ • 56,000 pupils participated • 64% of primary schools delivered on-road Level 2 training (more than ever before) • Greatest increase in delivery in the Highlands Read more: buff.ly/dqv3fcE

A girl smiles as she takes part in an on-road Level 2 Bikeability Scotland cycle training session.

A girl looks over her shoulder to observe traffic as she takes part in an on-road Level 2 Bikeability Scotland cycle training session with classmates, on a residential road.

School pupils concentrate as they cycle on a residential street during a Bikeability Scotland cycle training session.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This thing is so much fun. Looks like a strat but sounds like a cross between the bite of an SG and the jangle of a Telecaster (I think because of the tailpiece).

A red Höfner Galaxie 176 guitar, from the mid 1960s, sitting in front of a row of houseplants.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Atmosphere was somewhere between a wrestling match and amateur panto. Definitely think this should become a regular thing.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#TennentsSixes really good fun today (apart from the last game let's not talk about that)

Hearts and Motherwell former pro six-a-side teams warm up on the pitch at Tennents Sixes at Braehead Arena.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

More exceptional cycling data coming out of Glasgow this week: 𝟳𝟰% 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰, showing how quickly the new infrastructure is having an effect. (Data from 88 fixed cycle counters around the city ➡️ www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/1587... #bikesky)

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

I am so happy about cycling in Glasgow. Up 74% in 2 years! Long way to go but in the urban core it is a mainstream transport mode.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 28/09/2026

For the last 3 days the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly has been hodling steady in record territory at about 3.10°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, well ahead of the previous record anomaly of 3.03°C set on November 19, 2015. The Climate 8-Ball thinks everything is fine.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Crossing the Danube in Vienna. The Impressionist look is created by twilight and a mucky train window but I rather like it.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wish I'd given #Stellaris a go much sooner: 2hrs in and loving it so far. It's nowhere near as daunting as most other Paradox games seem. If anything, it feels similar to Civ in a lot of ways, with that same creeping sense of dread about what's around the corner, powering you on in the early game.

Screengrab of 4X grand strategy game Stellaris on Xbox, showing my expanding galactic empire.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just as impressive: 500m of Slovenska Cesta, central Ljubljana's main north-south boulevard that hugs the western side of this car free zone, was closed to private motorized traffic in 2015. Now it's exclusively for buses, pedestrians, bikes and mini electric mobility taxis.

The section of Slovenska Cesta that private motorized traffic has been prohibited from since 2015, marked in yellow.

Photo of Slovenska Cesta in 2023, from Wikipedia Commons. It shows the portion of the boulevard redesigned as a space only for buses, bikes and pedestrians.

A sign on Slovenska Cesta marking that you're now entering the section of the boulevard where private motorized traffic is prohibited.

Slovenska Cesta in 2013, with five lanes of vehicle traffic.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That box shape was just a quick way of showing the scale. The actual shape of the zone is a lot more crooked, but basically most streets inside that box have bollards and other filters, preventing through-traffic. It's a bit easier to see the specific car-free streets on Google Maps.

Looking at the centre of Ljubljana on Google Maps, with thin lines denoting streets without vehicle traffic.

Looking down one such traffic-free street in central Ljubljana (Ciril-Metodov trg). Bollards can be seen making the start of the car-free zone.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The (nearly) car-free zone's not a small area either. A touch smaller than Edinburgh's Old Town.

Google Earth view of Slovenia's capital City Ljubljana, with the city's large central pedestrianized zone marked by a yellow rectangle.

A closer view of Ljubljana's large pedestrianized city centre on Google Earth, showing more detail. It contains the central Old Town, Ljubljana Castle and many other landmarks.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The (nearly) car-free zone's not a small area either. A touch smaller than Edinburgh's Old Town.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anecdotally, I think they're also increasing the number of cycling advocates and flipping the debate. A couple of friends of mine were ambivalent/hostile to changes to streets ("loss of space for cars"). Now after using Voi they're complaining that cycling infra doesn't go where they need it to!

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Any Black Crowes fans out there? I know it gets a rough ride, but Lions has *really* grown on me the last few years. To the extent it's maybe a top 3 (after Amorica and Southern Harmony).

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Cosmic Friend

The Black Crowes · Lions · Song · 2001

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Ally Tibbitt @allytibbitt.me · 24/09/2026

Having led a campaign for proper continuous segregated bike lanes on Leith Walk a long time ago, it's very pleasing to read this. Build bike lanes and they will come... Who knew? www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

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More bikes than cars recorded on Edinburgh rush hour route for first time

Highest figures also notched up on major Glasgow cycle routes too

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A snap going the other way (into town) this morning. I was about midway in the queue, with about as many people behind me. This was around 8.45am, so some time after the *actual* peak, which seems to be around 8.15am.

My view from the middle of a queue of cycle traffic, waiting to cross at traffic lights on the South City Way cycle route in the south of Glasgow, around 8.45am this morning. The city centre is up ahead.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's something amazing about being in a peloton of 40+ bikes on the cycle lane heading home. Every driver at the front of a queue of side-street traffic... every person peering out of a bus window... every passer-by gets the message: "Oh wow, yeah, people are using this stuff". Never gets old.

My view travelling home by bike: Loads of people cycling on the South City Way cycle lane on Victoria Road in Govanhill in the Southside of Glasgow, during evening rush hour. A woman in front of me wears an incredibly fetching gold coloured helmet.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

More of this! Just reporting on what's happening on the streets as though it's news rather than normal is so powerful. vimeo.com/1203509441

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City of Cars: shorter version

This is "City of Cars: shorter version" by Sarah Chaundler on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A valuable addition to the Glasgow’s mapping - thanks to Neil Scott neilscott.substack.com www.neil-scott.com/plaques/

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Plaques & Statues of Glasgow

A map of the plaques, statues and public art of Glasgow, drawn from Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A few minutes of scrolling and I saw various active travel accounts and decent folk (that I'm no longer really in touch with unfortunately) deep in debate with *literal bots*. Like they just haven't noticed what a hellscape it's become.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not making a big point here, but I dipped into X for a minute there to find some info (posted by an account that doesn't post elsewhere) and jeeso... People are still there, arguing with trolls, AI slop and bot accounts. Bewildering to see (actual) people expend any energy there in 2026.

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New #MapMen episode!!! 🗺️ How many languages are there in the world? And can you put them all on one map? (No.) youtu.be/hX21ctsGhNc Share and enjoy!

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Why a Language Map of the World is Impossible

YouTube video by Map Men

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A delightful day walking around Nice. I loved the use of streetcars and the huge parks cutting through the city, as well as the markets in car-free squares. It's a joy to experience places designed with people and not just cars in mind. It felt so vibrant.

A two-way separated cycle track running alongside a street

A pedestrian only street absolutely packed with people

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Pearl Jam @pearljam.com · 20/09/2026

17 years of Backspacer today. What's the first song you remember hearing from the album? 📸: mih___carvalho, VinylwithDad, now.playing___, & wasogrunge on Instagram.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just saw it was the European TramDriver Championships in Warsaw yesterday. Edinburgh successfully avoiding a relegation spot.

A Warsaw tram knocks down some inflatable bowling pins in front of a crowd

Lower bit of the final league table for the European TramDriver Championship 2026, which Prague won.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Current hyper-niche guitar obsession: Joe Walsh's weird little raspy off-beat 12th fret slide thing he does in the verse of One Of These Nights

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Eagles - One of These Nights (Live 1977) (Official Video) [4K]

YouTube video by Eagles

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cat cafe window on Woodlands Road never disappoints

A large, grumpy looking ginger cat tries to snooze in a bed framed by the Mona Lisa painting, in the window of a cat cafe on Woodlands Road, Glasgow.

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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS 💍 🪏 More remarkable early medieval finds in the 1,500-year-old churchyard at Govan Old, home of the @govanstones.bsky.social, and featuring my own photos of the roughout of a finger ring that's just been unearthed! drtomhornearchaeology.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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BREAKING NEWS! Early Medieval Finger Ring Workshop Unearthed in Glasgow

A partially finished 'roughout' of a shale finger ring has been discovered during a dig in Govan Old's 1,500-year-old churchyard

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