@Aeronaut4 @DavidJaques10 @RichardWellings Nice bit of victim blaming. Maybe we should get drivers to look up from their phones.
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Nigel Lupton
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Nigel Lupton
@luptonn
Ying to the Yang of @HallAnnie . I ride a bike, write code, go to gigs and take photos. Sometimes I try to combine these. Lens man for @Folkroom records
Harringay, London Katılım Nisan 2008
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@DavidJaques10 @RichardWellings Or, hear me out here because it's controversial... maybe teach people to look up from their phones for 2 seconds to look both ways before stepping out in front of moving traffic? just a thought...
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20mph limits are really about nudging people out of their cars and restricting travel, not saving lives. In many locations the costs far outweigh the benefits and the resulting economic damage means fewer resources for healthcare and other essential services.
BBC Scotland News@BBCScotlandNews
Glasgow will see phased rollout of 20mph roads from June bbc.in/4d1jNei
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@carlafrancome But what if the safe/quiet route? North of Finsbury Park is just a desert for safe cycling. Wightman Road is possibly more intimidating than Green Lanes and I know I’ve had more close passes taking that route.
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My friend Rachel came to visit today - cycling from Islington to Bounds Green.
“The quick route was DREADFUL” she says, shuddering.
“Yes my friend, that is GREEN LANES”, I replied. “AKA a sh*tshow for cycling”.
I wonder how many people experience it for the first … 1/3
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Shout out to our new 28 Green candidates in Haringey.
The last council did nothing about this in the last 4 years despite our endless shouting. Maybe it’s why some of them lost their seats.
How about we give it a go 🎉🎉
Francesca 🚲💕@francesca_kms
Very early cycle down Green Lanes this morning. You know what this road is CRYING out for… SAFE 👏CYCLING 👏INFRASTRUCTURE
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@PETERDFF @francesca_kms @JohnJohnStewart If only people had others ways to get to the shops and restaurants. Driving is simply the only way!
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@francesca_kms @JohnJohnStewart yea all the shops closed and no one is sight just for half a dozen bikes
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Very early cycle down Green Lanes this morning. You know what this road is CRYING out for…
SAFE 👏CYCLING 👏INFRASTRUCTURE
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@carlafrancome It will be interesting to see how Labour and the Lib Dems approach opposition. Will they team up to block Greens implementing pledges
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Greens just miss out on a majority in Haringey. From 1 seat before to 28 now. Crikey!
Haringey Council@haringeycouncil
All seats have now been declared. The political makeup of Haringey Council following the election is as follows: 🟢 Green Party: 28 🔴 Labour Party: 21 🟡 Liberal Democrat Party: 8 This means that no party has achieved a majority and the council is under no overall control.
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@forwardnotback The commentators will still find a way to spin it as a bad night
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It won’t be a great night for Labour but a fair bit of humble pie might be eaten by some commentators/pundits
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Tuesday evening non scientific political theories on Thursday’s election
1: It is possible the much talked about and predicted @UKLabour wipe-out has/will help Labour as it will ‘wake-up’ shy or reluctant Labour voters and get them out to vote
2: The so called “green surge” is
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@Flap62 @sharrond62 Are you sure? I think World Athletics would have something to say about that. But you have highlighted the difference between Parkrun and competitive elite athletics.
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@sharrond62 The absurdity is that Sawe could declare himself a woman tomorrow, run another marathon setting a new woman’s world record that could never be beaten and yet these clapping seals for trans inclusion would insist we have to respect the new record. Madness
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Can you imagine how quickly it would be stopped by these same outraged men if women could ride bikes & record fastest male in a running activity? Strange how it’s just ‘fun’ when unfairness only affects women. History shows us men do not accept unfairness in their events, ever
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I know what Twitter needs, a @LondonMarathon flatlay!!
Nothing new on raceday!!
Except, vest, socks and sunnies..
And yes, I’m colour blind. 😂😂 (I’m not, I’ve just got no taste!)
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@PaulOBrienArch @parkrun @parkrunUK Ah, Grovelands is a lovely parkrun. Record numbers for us at Finsbury Park this morning
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@oldasadlo @Hesamation And thinking laterally about a problem. Linking 2 events in a log file and building a hypothesis on what could be going on
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MAN DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU
Vivo@vivoplt
Software Engineers, what’s your backup plan if Artificial Intelligence writes better code than you in 2 years?
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@PaulaCoyscot @tedsanders53 If you do that then your know your position because as you cross the finish line you are given a token with a finish position on it. This is currently the only way to map timings to runners.
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@tedsanders53 I get you, I do, I just don’t see why they can’t just put up a list of all the numbers of the runners and their times, this *best* thing is irritating. Ppl can look up their personal time and use it how they wish.
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ParkRun needs to remove its ranking tables, I’ve said this all along. Ppl can record their own times if they want to see improvement in their fitness or arrange groups themselves to race. It isn’t conducive with their ethos anyway to celebrate athletes who participate.
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@talentedfergal @TFerTrog @sharrond62 @jwhitey98 Yeah, it’s not the Olympics and the timings really aren’t that accurate, so why get so worked up about it
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@luptonn @TFerTrog @sharrond62 @jwhitey98 Jesus Christ, Nige, you're a bit full of your own self importance. Just scan the code, you're not an Olympic judge.
If you don't know the difference between a man and a women, you're in serious trouble.
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And now they come for Parkrun. PARKRUN.
Threatening community run events with legal action cannot possibly be part of protecting women’s sport.
For these campaigners, the only thing that seems to matter is the erasure of the trans community from public life.
Telegraph Sport@TelegraphSport
🔴 Parkrun and nine sports bodies have been threatened with legal action by Sharron Davies over their refusal to ban those born male from their female categories. Letters seen by Telegraph Sport have been co-signed by Baroness Davies and Tracy Edwards MBE telegraph.co.uk/sport/2026/04/…
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@TokenBird @sharrond62 @jwhitey98 No we don’t check. Yes, these things could all be happenin. But no one is threatening legal action over it
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@luptonn @sharrond62 @jwhitey98 Do you currently verify people's age categories? Do you check if people had the right barcode and they haven't picked up a family member's? No, you rely on people being honest and obeying the rules. Unless you think trans people are simply incapable of obeying rules. Do you?
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@TFerTrog @sharrond62 @jwhitey98 Yeah, have you ever volunteered for a parkrun? The barcode doesn’t have sex on it and I really don’t have time to check when there are 800+ runners to get through. At the end of the day it’s a fun run designed to get people active.
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@luptonn @sharrond62 @jwhitey98 Generally speaking, with your eyes, using the same secondary sex characteristics that we all recognise as belonging to a male or female person, hip width and angles, shoulder width, hand size, face shape etc. If you ask them and they get aggressive, it's most likely they're male
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@sharrond62 @jwhitey98 And as a volunteer scanning someone’s barcode, how would you like me to verify someone’s sex Sharron?
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@jwhitey98 Simply log yourself as the sex you are, it’s not hard. Yet males keep on ruining it for females! Total male entitlement. There’s even a ‘prefer not to say’ stop stealing stuff that belongs to females.
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@DuncanStott @albiondumsday @LoftusSteve I was responding to the “no antisocial effects whatsoever” comment. The indoor smoking ban was an instrumental public health intervention and I suspect if it were suggested today people like Steve would object
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The dumbest thing about the smoking ban is the problem was already resolving itself.
The Government just HAD to interfere for no reason.
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New Zealand did the same and backtracked swiftly when they realised they needed the tax money.
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@UKhotfoodchat I always thought it was to prevent fraud: you have to turn up with your id to get that golden race ticket rather than just pass it on to some random
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@albiondumsday @LoftusSteve Yeah, except for secondary smoke that we all had to breath if we wanted to go to a club, see a band or work in a bar.
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@LoftusSteve Tobacco smoking is the one addiction that had no anti-social effects whatsoever.
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@criticalurban It’s impossible to look cool on a bike. The best you can do is get where you’re going and get off before anyone sees you.
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Bikes are objectively inferior transportation by every metric. Slow, minimal carrying capacity. Can't carry passengers. Exposed to the elements, the rain, snow, sleet, heat, and cold. It's awful. Incapable of practical regional access.
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I’m so happy for Wout. It’s like all the stars aligned and in a world gone to shite one really good thing happened.
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