Notices by Petrichor (sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie)

@Ciaraioch Selkies also have no sense of humour, hence "Is cosúil gur mheath tú, nó gur thréig tú an greann"

@Ciaraioch Jaysus, that's a scary-looking mother goddess. Is she running for Fine Gael?

@Antiqueight Nowt so queer as folk

@Antiqueight Hey, you're bringing in new rules here! Who said the same as was? Who said no counselling!

@Antiqueight Sure! Some people end up remarrying the same person, sometimes even more than a second time

Belgians to get 27c per kilometre for cycling to work, or €54 per month https://www.brusselstimes.com/358636/all-belgians-entitled-to-bicycle-allowance-for-commute #Paywall

@gerrymcgovern Just get people out of their private cars and onto bikes and ebikes - every second climate article has the line "X would have as much climate mitigation effect as getting X million cars off the road" - but they don't seem to make the connection

@gerrymcgovern Yet still be drive around in our private cars

Oddly, nothing about this in the newspapers (that I've found on a desultory Sunday morning trawl) - virtually every delivery cyclist in Dublin walked silently through the streets to Parnell Street yesterday, then convened on a block in Dominick Street where a stolen bike was showing up on its tracker. They got the bike back; no violence, no noise
#DeliveryCyclists #NonviolentAction #PassiveResistance #Ireland #Brazil
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/156poqk/ok_who_ordered_that_many_takeouts_in_this_weather/

Extraordinary that there's virtually no coverage in western media of China's extraordinary expansion of its railway network, and no questions about why we can't or don't do the same
#Railway #China #Europe #US

Drivers pass cyclists *a third of a metre closer* when the cyclist is in a painted (not protected) cycle lane
#Carbrain #CycleLanes

https://www.treehugger.com/painted-bike-lanes-are-car-magnets-4853839

Martyn Turner on #climatecrisis

Martyn Turner on Davos
#Davos #WorldEconomicForum #Cartoon