@AngusEd

Architect / Urbanist / Sustainable Urban Mobility Senior Mobility Planner @SustransScot Co-founder @SKELFBikePark

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New lifeform identified in the human gut. Function and symbiosis unknown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelis…

Obelisk (biology) - Wikipedia

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Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Private School Education $19,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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Absolutely, a poster in Manchester today. Worth a read.
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There's a direct relationship between mediocrity and authoritarianism. Authoritarians value loyalty over competence, and so attract those who know they can never accomplish success based on their competence, but have a chance through groveling subservience to the authoritarian.
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The #PedestrianPound launches in Edinburgh today - follow @LStreetsScot for the day's action. The report makes the economic case for walkable streets, showing that pedestrians spend more and that pedestrianised high streets see bigger sales. livingstreets.org.uk/Pedestr…
A split image of a woman walking across a street with a bag that reads Walk Local, Shop Local. Alongside an image of the front cover of the Pedestrian Pound.

ALT A split image of a woman walking across a street with a bag that reads Walk Local, Shop Local. Alongside an image of the front cover of the Pedestrian Pound.

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Let it become a tale. Never forget the victims of a genocide.
Dr. Ezzideen
@ezzingaza11 Nov 2024
When I used to work at the Indonesian hospital, I would pass a tent that seemed out of place. One day, I asked about it and learned a story that broke my heart: the tent stood where a family home once was, destroyed in a bombing that killed everyone inside except one son. With no way to retrieve his family’s bodies from the rubble, he built the tent over the remains, over his family. Every time I passed by, I was reminded of the resilience of the human spirit, our will to adapt and survive even in unimaginable circumstances. It gave me hope that we could rebuild, that we could endure, but only if this war ends. Just days ago, that tent and the entire area in Jabalia camp were burned and destroyed. End the war. #SaveNorthernGaza #GazaGenocide
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This is why it’s so important young people learn how to riot at an early age. Violent retribution and barricade building is great exercise and engages many of the children other sports find ‘hard to reach.’
Nation.Cymru
@NationCymru11 Nov 2024
"The deprivation gap is stark, with children living in the ‘most deprived fifth’ postcode areas in Wales significantly more likely to be overweight or obese compared to the least deprived," ✍️ Rocio Cifuentes, Children's Commissioner for Wales buff.ly/40GP0xm
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i treat well the people still in my life as a tribute to the love i have, and also a promise to myself to honor the love no longer with me...to make those losses not be in vain
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Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

ALT I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

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Israeli victimhood kinda reminds me of male victimhood. In both cases, the beneficiaries of long-term oppression frame the responses to it as oppressive.
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Attention urban decision-makers: I’m hoping to see city halls, mayors, city councillors and chief planners create & use accounts on Blu#sky. Media too. They were all on Twitter when it was THE place to be, but many have left X. I think @Bluesky is the new place we need.
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"This is PRECISELY the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write... That is how civilizations heal." In these wordless hours, a lifeline from Toni Morrison worded 20 years ago: themarginalian.org/2016/11/1…

No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: Toni Morrison on the Artist’s Task in Troubled Times

“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

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“ When a Clown moves into the Palace, he doesn’t become a King, The Palace becomes a Circus” is a Turkish proverb which is worth heeding in the coming days.
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The Netherlands’ systematic approach to road safety—especially on walking and cycling—is a textbook application of the Hierarchy of Controls: an industrial method which identifies a preferred order of actions to best reduce hazard exposure based on their general effectiveness…🧵
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TODAY'S THE DAY! Through-traffic no longer allowed in "hypercentre" of #Paris, including the Louvre and Le Marais. (No fines until April 2025.) This is historic—a bold move by Mayor @Anne_Hidalgo to lower emissions, improve quality of life. Meanwhile, in #Toronto ↓
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Iran’s authorities must immediately & unconditionally release the university student who was violently arrested on 2 Nov after she removed her clothes in protest against abusive enforcement of compulsory veiling by security officials at Tehran's Islamic Azad University. 1/2
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We're not like A̶m̶s̶t̶e̶r̶d̶a̶m̶ We're not like G̶h̶e̶n̶t̶ We're not like B̶i̶r̶m̶i̶n̶g̶h̶a̶m̶ We're not like P̶a̶r̶i̶s̶ Why not Manchester?
Brent Toderian
@BrentToderian1 Nov 2024
THIS IS HUGE. Paris City Hall has announced that starting on Monday, Paris will limit (not ban) car traffic in the city centre, as cities like Ghent have done. They’re creating a limited traffic zone (ZTL) about 2 sq miles in size, to clean the air & create more space for people.
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“Do not be afraid, I am a colonel of Soviet Army and a Jew. We have come to liberate you” – Red Army Officer Georgi Elisavetskii, during the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp (1945)
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Once upon a time I thought the relationship between scientists and governments would be like that between a look-out and the captain of a ship You know, one warns of danger and the other takes appropriate action to keep everyone safe How fucking naive 😂😢
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