Wendy W @WendyW@qoto.org

"Burn Fat, Not Oil," is my new favourite punchline.

I don't listen to #podcasts much - but 99% invisible is one notable exception. One of their recent episodes is about while the Netherlands is such a good biking country - and no, it's not because it's flat or because it doesn't snow here much:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/de-fiets-is-niets/

I've not ridden a bike from the age of 12 to the age of 34 and here I am now, happily cycling 11km to work on my ebike!

#biking #bike #fahrrad #mdrza #

#Violet knows what the sounds of the linen closet opening and the bathtub faucet turning mean...

#DogsOfMastodon

Suella Braverman is listed as a speaker at the upcoming "National Conservatism" event.

Natcon is a radical Christian nationalist movement which demands immigration moratoriums and opposes the “grave threat” of “ever more radical forms of sexual license and experimentation".

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/05/suella-braverman-to-address-radical-national-conservatism-event-with-ties-to-us-right/

🔴 'VOTER SUPPRESSION': Huge Numbers Set to Lose Vote as Only 2.5% Of 'Missing Millions' Apply for Voter ID

With weeks until the local elections, just 50,000 out of an estimated two million voters without photo ID have applied.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/05/voter-suppression-huge-numbers-set-to-lose-vote-as-only-2-5-of-missing-millions-apply-for-voter-id/

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars…Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.”

#cities #urbanism #cars #VisionZero #streets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/how-helsinki-and-oslo-cut-pedestrian-deaths-to-zero

Happy Easter from Streatham #london

Britons have more confidence in EU than Westminster, poll finds:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/30/britons-more-confidence-in-eu-than-westminster-poll-brexit

Climate change is accelerating – and the UK government is ‘strikingly unprepared’
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-accelerating-and-the-uk-government-is-strikingly-unprepared-202863

@vicgrinberg fascinating. One thing I don’t understand is how a transient ‘flash’ exciting dust clouds thousands of light years from us is observable in the same time frame as the flash hitting earth’s atmosphere? Sorry to be dim.

Got these two lucky shots whilst on my walk this evening

This #NationalPuppyDay, we salute all the dog stars out there. Exploring is more fun with your best friend at your side. 🐾
#NASA

Disunited Kingdom https://reader.foreignaffairs.com/2023/02/21/disunited-kingdom/content.html

Peace and geometry by the sun
#dogsofmastodon