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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

usa.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Enjoy the victory, New York. You did great. #NYC

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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 21/11/2024

The city of #Ljubljana in #Slovenia, population 280,000, kicked cars out in 2007. Since then, car use has dropped by 32%, black carbon emissions are down 70%, noise pollution is down by 6 decibels. Unfortunately, going car-free has made the center a living hell, as this video shows: 🧵

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book: Toes!

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I reposted your thread onto facebook and within 30 mins I've had people flagging that it's more difficult to get these onto modern buses, which surprised me. It's generated more interest than I expected.

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I’m talking about the humble wheeled shopping trolley - or as they’ve been unfortunately branded almost everywhere: the “granny trolley.”

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Charlotte “Pure True Love” @charluv.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

No one owns the Water. No one owns the Land. No one owns the sand. These are given by Our Mother. The Planet provides for Free. Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Oh goodness, thankfully there's nothing more serious going on in the world.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I confess I stood with the Dutch protestors a couple of centuries or so back when those earlier windmills started appearing.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Got to say that there's much water to flow into the sea before there's any opportunity for Corbyn's party to dent the polls. However, the impact on party discipline could be immediate and could go one way or both.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Seems bad: "We identified more than 30,000 tire wear particles in 24 liters of stormwater runoff from roads and parking lots after two rainstorms. In heavy traffic areas, we believe the concentrations could be much higher."

theconversation.com

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires

Rain storms wash those tire shards into streams and ultimately into lakes and oceans. That’s bad news for fish and other aquatic life.

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 04/07/2025

Have to say, the name’s a bit of a surprise.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

No, of course not! Not that Jeremy Corbyn! You didn't think I meant that Jeremy Corbyn? Oh, I can see now where I might have confused you. I should have spotted that.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 01/07/2025

Gran Vía, Madrid’s iconic central avenue, has long been the cultural and commercial heart of the city. But by the mid-2000s, it had become overwhelmed by private cars, and noise and air pollution that failed to meet EU standards; reflecting the car-centric urban planning paradigm in post-war Spain.🧵

People in casual summer attire walk and sit along the wide sidewalks of Gran Vía, Madrid’s central avenue lined with retail storefronts, tall buildings, shade trees, lighting fixtures, and wooden benches.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Love that the Evening Standard carried this complaint about Neil Young as genuine. A third viewer added: “Fuming about Neil so-called Young just miming in front of a strobe light while writhing around in a pair of leather Y-fronts. This sort of pop outrage is killing live, quite dull dadrock.”

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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Good to see the MEN giving coverage to the dreadful rates of dangerous driving in Greater Manchester. Stockport has the 18th highest rate in the UK – but it's less than a third of the number in Bradford.

manchestereveningnews.co.uk

The scourge on Greater Manchester roads that should shame our region

The city-region has been shamed as a national hot-spot

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Terrific thread on facilities for girls (and boys). 👇

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The US will take part in Russia’s Intervision Song Contest, a Eurovision rival created primarily for Soviet Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War, RIA Novosti reports.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Totally agree with Caroline on this. Well argued. Cars are getting too big and lives are being put at risk.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

via Wild Bird Scoop

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

If The Fast Show is ever revived, could Ed Miliband be a character? He's very funny.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I still think Davey has work to do to make himself vitally relevant. Farrage's rise will squeeze Davy in the cities, but it might work to his favour outside. Labour worries me. Too many islands of reassurance - I can say that because I think Trafford is one such. I want Davey to get serious.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The BBC also reinforcing the 'fact' that white men don't do terrorism. Quite a relief to Manchester.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

BBC carrying the police request not to speculate on the Liverpool tragedy. Immediately followed by lots of speculation by BBC, politicians etc.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I see a Japanese snow fairy bird, I share a Japanese snow fairy bird. Those are the rules.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

And far enough away from the wall so that bike can be snug with stand.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Still no comment from the RAC or AA.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I somehow think the speculation will recede.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

67th year on the trot I've missed the world cheese rolling championship. Why is there never any pre-publicity? On my bucket list.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

You probably needed to know this earlier, but the Trafford Centre stinks of the sewage works today.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I'm quite impressed. It took me more than a few months to realise the town hall was a place to indulge councillors nodding enthusiastically at instantly forgotten slides, in affirmative therapy for a sense of self worth.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I know of Manny. There must be a modern reference to Manneh and I need to know. Simply because I hate not knowing

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

No offence to Sheffield United. I don't like your manager. I don't want Chris Wilder anywhere near the premier league again.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

A library open Sunday? That shouldn't seem revolutionary, it really shouldn't.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

It's raining. Sort of, but not as I remember rain. It used to make itself travel downwards to a drain pipe or other piece of engineering.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Clarkson's farm - scripted. Not good.

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Can't believe I've got an ear to the window, hoping for rain. # allotmentfever

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Mike Cordingley @mikecordingley.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Eurovision was dire, but the voting was fun. The comfort is that I'll never hear a single song from the show again.

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