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Paul Allen

@marsflyerpaul.bsky.social
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Cycling, Energy and Space are my interests. NW London.

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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h
Ukrainian Commander Andrii Biletskyi personally spoke with Russian POWs captured during Operation "Vivaldi." In total, the 3rd Army Corps has taken more than 250 enemy soldiers prisoner in the past week. Severe hunger, exhaustion, abandoned casualties, and […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15h
37,000 people arrive on small boats. 4,000,000 kids are in poverty. 4,500,000 can't get a dentists. But they will blame these vast problems on a tiny one. They think you are too stupid to know the problem, is them, the greedy billionaires.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 22h
Graham gets it #wealthtax #fairtaxation
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mr Mancini established a Mauritian company - Sparkleglow Holdings Ltd - to receive his consultancy income. Why would he receive more for four day's consultancy work than his season with City? It's a mystery.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just re-found this excellent list of yes, buts… mateosfo.substack.com/p/the-incons...
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The (In)consistency of Car Culture
A partial list of contradictions
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy.
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Mark On A Bike @mtonabike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why are our governments so complicit with this?
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But they're using renewables! a) they're not, they're all quietly pivoting to dedicated natural gas plants, built by their oil buddies, b) renewables should be used to power useful shit c) this makes it so that renewables don't displace fossil fuels, they just add to supply for increasing demand
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The UCI World Championship is streaming live on BBC! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cyclin...
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Cycling World Road Championships LIVE: Watch TV coverage of the Women's Road Race
Watch live BBC coverage of the Women's Road Race event at the Cycling World Road Championships in Montreal.
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not good: "The Flemish government’s “the driver is 100% responsible” line is a cop-out. Regulators aren’t approving the driver. They’re approving the software, and the software sped in most of the 30 zones tested."
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fuel Land Allotments in East Finchley "Originally set aside in 1811 to provide fuel to local residents after the Finchley Common enclosures, the 15 acres were transformed into thriving garden allotments in 1890 thanks to determined local campaigners" @jackthurston.bsky.social
Steel gates preventing any view of the green allotments behind.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Hey!!! Here's a new @crikey.com.au piece - on why the bullshitty AI doom hype frenzy perfectly represents the tech industry's cutlist climate denialism and their unhealthy methane addiction. Plus the media's total failure to grasp the real risks at play. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Cosáin Climate @cosaingalway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Longer vehicles reduce road capacity generally, and junction capacity in particular. In this study of Ireland's M50 motorway, capacity fell from 1771 to 1103 vehicles/km/lane as car lengths increased. 👇 The phenomenon should be studied more. ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1049/...
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Enhanced motorway capacity estimation considering the impact of vehicle length on the fundamental diagram
This paper presents an the application of various fundamental diagram models to real traffic data to examine factors which influence their ability to model traffic behaviour. A new model, which allow....
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just think of all the talent, time, and treasure that has gone into producing nonsense — NFTs, Bitcoin, “prediction markets”, fast fashion, data brokers, most social media, and a good fraction of AI “solutions” — that could have been used to make the world better instead… What a lost opportunity.
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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The British government is a major user of X. They’re not watching helplessly, they’re encouraging people to use X every day.
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 19/09/2026
Reporters are now granting the same instant exoneration to people who run AI models as they do to people who drive cars. "Gemini hacked into" is the new "A BMW crashed into." This is why #DriverNotCar matters. Once we agreed to blame inanimate machines instead of their operators, precedent was set.
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#WindTurbineZoom Spanish edition, Cadiz
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#WindTurbineZoom Spanish edition, Strait of Gibraltar
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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026
The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A clean, electrified energy system has been a dream for decades. Thirty years ago the core components existed, but they weren't economical. Rapid price drops have brought it into reality. It's best to recognise a shift early. Second best is to act on it when it's staring us in the face.
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Praying mantis in Spain
Praying mantis insect on the edge of a pool.
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good "woke" reconstruction in the Cueva del Tesero, Malaga, of the Homo Sapiens meeting Homo Neanderthalensis. As Homo Sapiens are more recently out of Africa they are black. Take that white supremacists.
3 people meeting a group of Neanderthals on a beach.
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Aaron Aardvark @laughinglemon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Aaaaaand still arresting pensioners for holding signs up. So they are doing *something*. Not the right notes and not in the right order.
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Leeds & Liverpool Canal down by Wigan was lovely, but the LEJOG route took the hillier route via Belmont and the edge of Forest of Bowland, rather than carrying on to the Lancaster Canal
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
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rob @robpatrick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“the 68-year-old (the victim) had been given the all-clear from cancer earlier the same day” “He (the driver) was given a two-year driving ban, fined £500 and ordered to pay £85 costs, along with a £154 statutory surcharge” really, what kind of justice is this?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This animated map shows a day of actual UK train movements, delays and all! On 19 August 2026 the network peaked at 1,794 trains moving at once. Even around 3am, at least 141 were running. Passenger services wind down, but freight and maintenance keep rolling. Source: buff.ly/0zrhl41
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Forgiving infrastructure design is essential, especially for people outside of cars. No one should be subject to the death penalty for falling off of their bike or tripping while walking. A proper buffer is a life insurance policy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump's attacks on our civil liberties didn't come out of nowhere. The groundwork for his Orwellian surveillance state was laid by the post-9/11 PATRIOT Act. Only one Senator at the time had the foresight to see what it would unleash.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Spot on from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social North Sea drilling makes no economic or energy security sense - but “the policy could scarcely be better designed to give the final push to voters who are minded – after so many disappointments since 2024 – to abandon Labour for a progressive alternative”
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Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Exhumated Zombie Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Steve Jobs: "Computers are a bicycle for the mind." Me: "and in fricking titanium, too? 😍 Aww, you shouldn't have." *mashes buy button* AI Bros: "Our new Agentic Escalade™ is powered by a 20l V8, weighs six tons, and is ideal for everyday tasks like driving to the shop to buy milk..." Me: 😒🤢😴
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Car vs Building, no doubt driven by some dangerous idiot.
A hole in the wall of a building. The car must have already been removed.
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Kent police have serious questions to answer. When they had been given clear information from multiple sources that hundreds of far-right activists were planning to descend on Dover on the following day, why did they fail to act? Counter-Terrorism police also have questions to answer."
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I turn on BBC Radio 4 and invariably turn it off again after a few seconds because they are always reporting things from the side of the aggressors / exploiters.
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@CreativeCamden @creativecamden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In my experience, most people in the bike advocacy community understand the need for broad climate action, while too many in the climate advocacy community fail to see the need to challenge car dependency.
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nice Exo Mars cladding on a multistorey car park near Stevenage railway station. Hopefully the Rosalind Franklin rover will get to Mars eventually (it's been a loooong time coming). www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...
Metal cladding with stencils of the Exo Mars rover and text such as 245.27 million miles.
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Cute LNER flower planter at Grantham station.
flower planter in the shape of the front unit of an Azuma train
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Mamabird @jaybirdnest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Humans need water for survival NOT data centers!
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 06/09/2026
Two options for @andyburnham.bsky.social to show he’s not continuity Starmer. A) Arrest every fascist thug involved with the obviously coordinated terrorist attack at Dover. B) Release every single elderly vicar connected/conflated with Palestine Action, @xrglobal.bsky.social, Just Stop Oil, etc.
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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Dear Burnham Labour government, There are uniformed fascists on the streets of Dover. You have done and said f*** all so far. Not good enough. You'll lock up pro-Palestinian grannies and young climate activists - but you ignore fascist thugs. NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
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jasonroberts3114.bsky.social @jasonroberts3114.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Even at a cynical political level this should be an open goal for Labour. State clearly it’s unacceptable & criminal disruptive activity like this won’t be tolerated. The vast majority of the population hold this position. Then challenge Reform to condemn such lawlessness & watch the ensuing chaos
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