You owe it yourself to not be taken in by populist evasions. The inflationary pain ordinary people are about to endure is directly caused by warmongering which we can't control, and a stubborn refusal to transition, which we can control, accelerate, and target.
As I put it a few years ago in my blunt advice to Irish cities, “Your goal SHOULDN’T be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with a million electric vehicles. It should be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with 250,000 electric vehicles. The main answer MUST be FEWER cars driven LESS."
trailblazer on the streets, laggard in the sheets
NYer cartoon: "Behold, as I guide our conversation to my narrow area of expertise."
Me at literally every kids birthday party.
is there a question coming?
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
"However, the fetishisation of cycling should not take precedence ..."
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It's still one of the most unbelievable moments in Irish legal history.
Read our full story from when it happened: jrnl.ie/1983239
Two classes of Dutch schoolchildren on their way for a 4-day camp, some 15 kilometers from school.
3 teachers 👨🏫👩🏼🏫🧑🏫
4 parents 👩🦰👨👩🧔🏼♂️
40 very happy kids 🙋🏼♂️🙋🏼♀️🙋🏻🧏♂️🧏♀️🧏
47 bicycles 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
(and some cars 🚘🚙🚗 for all the luggage)
The journey is as much fun as the destination!
Graham Yost is also involved, sign me up
The "Cycling Through Water" trail in Belgium, 🇧🇪 designated by Time magazine as one of the world's most astonishing places, is a 212-meter trail that crosses a lake at water level…
Ugh guys can we PLEASE just hurry up and get on with the killing and destruction, there's planet-killing money to be made
The government hates two things with a burning passion:
building houses and us
A very good thread about new adventures on a cargo bike following a trial via @limerickecargobike.bsky.social library.
A game changer, car trips reduced to 1 day a week. Predictable journey times and good vibes from the passengers. What’s not to like. Go team Ronan!
Still catches my european mind off guard seeing americans post like "noooo gas prices have skyrocketed up from $0.03 to $0.04 cents per swimming pool"
Exhibit 97 of headline with big number.
is this not less than 800 euro a day left behind by 100,000s of drivers
holy shit
but make sure your 4 year old is wearing hi vis at all times archive.ph/LgEVM
All the hawks in Europe concerned about "mutual defence" better be backing a renewed Green New Deal today with a massive commitment to renewables. If not, they are clearly just worshippers of Mars in disguise.
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
when moderate Visiting Committee reports are being leaked, you can be confident things in Mountjoy Female prison are much much worse
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another effective RSA campaign
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be sweet when you get a chance to take him for a visit
Ireland to have contactless payment by 2028 (at the earliest)
“We lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military. We become addicted to the “spectacle” of explosions. And the price of this habit is almost unnoticeable, as we become desensitized to the true costs of war.”
This video shows real smoke over Tehran from Israeli strikes on oil depots & fuel facilities last night—confirmed by NYT, AP, Al Jazeera, Times of Israel. Black clouds from burning hydrocarbons—not normal sunrise.
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
as my paper straw crumples to mush
"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"
