Wendy W @WendyW@qoto.org

Never forget, a 13-year study of a dozen cities found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. As for sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them. Via #StreetsblogUSA, read their article. #bikelanes #bikes #cities #transportation #mobility #sharrows #infrastructure #urbanplanning
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says/

How do we tax unliquidated asset value increases? In there surely lies an answer to a fairer taxation system? People (especially very rich people) are sitting on squillions of £ of inflated assets which cannot be touched by the exchequer until they are sold.

Anybody interested in #Manchester interest groups #manchesterwine #manchesterbeer #manchesterfood ?

I don’t know whether I’m going about this the right way for Mastadon? Help appreciated.

Just come back from visiting the other place - full of anger and (righteous) rage at the state we’re in. Decent people being incessantly wound up by MSM pro right wing agenda. It is horrible.

Barcelona students to take mandatory climate crisis module from 2024 | Barcelona | The Guardian

All students at the University of Barcelona will have to take a mandatory course on the climate crisis after the establishment agreed to meet the demands of activists conducting a sit-in occupation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/12/barcelona-students-to-take-mandatory-climate-crisis-module-from-2024

Just an oddity to end the evening. This white bird, photographed a week ago in our back yard, is a gold-crowned sparrow, like the other birds in the picture. It's a leucistic sparrow rather than an albino as it does have some coloration on its wings and the eyes are not pink.

We've seen it a couple times since, but we don't expect it will live long, as every predator in the area can see it from far away.

So a toast to all the white sparrows among us. May you escape notice when necessary.

🐘 Craig, the elephant with largest tusks in Africa and one of only 20 or so "Super Tuskers" left on earth, calmly passing me as a sat on the ground with my camera in hand and heart in my throat.
Taken in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. #photography #elephants #wildlife #elephant #photo #travel #kenya #fotografie

The Milky Way arch over Namibia’s Quiver Tree forest - when it’s really dark, you see more than darkness. #milkyway #photography #astrophoto #astrophotography #fotografie #travelblog #namibia

Twitter me: angry person following lots of angry people.

Mastodon me: enquiring person, who wants to learn from people who know more than me. And discuss / ask questions re my interests.

So far, the water’s lovely….

Ever wonder why those #bicycles keep getting in the way...

If one good thing has come out of Elon-gation of Twitter, people are now talking about the price of insulin in America.

One of my all-time favourite book covers: the Penguin edition of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

I’m new to Mastodon - just come over from Twitter.
I’m a classical musician - running music appreciation classes on line. Happy to hear from anyone who wants help finding their way with music or expanding their knowledge.
I’m also a soprano and a singing teacher based in Bristol.

Hello!

We are a small shop in #Uxbridge which is in London "technically" but if you say you are in London when you're here people give you a dead arm.

We #print and #embroider stuff for people and try to make printing and embroidering stuff for people as fun as possible.

We have come from Twitter with the other hoards, but don't worry, we've wiped out feet.

We mainly tweet about #shop life and the more interesting things that happen to us.

Thank you!

Scott #introduction

How far back in history do you have to go before the days of the week (monday, tuesday, etc) no longer line up... in other words, how long have we been consistently keeping track of days of the week as a society before it breaks down...

The number of observations submitted to the #CitizenScience platform @inaturalist is outpacing the rate at which the organisms can be identified. @callaghanct @thomasmesaglio &co call for more experts to identify organisms on iNaturalist #PLOSBiology
https://plos.io/3UROmHr

@aliceroberts I think some of us are hoping to be redeemed by Mastodon. Twitter was propelled by Brexit for me. Full of anger at the meaningless destruction of the U.K. post 2012. After Brexit now wreaks it’s inevitable havoc on peoples lives it is going to be difficult, but at least the arguments have stopped. And we can agree. We all lost.

Something I’ve noticed from lurking here the last few days: the attitudes in conversation are far better than Twitter. Because of the lack of trolls, people here don’t assume a challenging reply is an attack, instead they engage in a healthy debate. I like that.

A key thing I've learned about Mastodon: When you find people you know and want to keep up with, don't just follow them — add them to a list!

Merely following is not enough, b/c their posts may not show up in your feed at a time you're logged on. Unlike FB or Twitter, Mastodon has no algorithm to resurface your friends' posts from hours or days ago.

So create a list called "Friends" and check it when you're on. This will ensure that you see what they posted while you were away.

My niece went to the fab National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park and found a game I wrote over 30 years ago running on an Amstrad PC.

Which resulted in me digging around for old source code for that and some adventure games I wrote. Hard to believe I wrote this code now...

#Blox #Humbug #retrogaming