Michael Batey

*sigh* #AllTreatsNoTricks

people get hella mad when you suggest adult drivers should be more responsible than children walking/biking.

Enjoyed that half. Proper football with an old-fashioned edge to it #eveche

If you’re in Sheffield and want safe speeds to apply to our main roads too, here is a petition for you! www.ipetitions.com/p/safe-speed...

Because all the problems caused by putting cars first will be solved if we just put cars *more* first 🙄

‘How many local models do you run?’ I continue to ask, as I slowly shrink and transform into a corncob

Compliments of the season

An obviously essential bit of app functionality is 'if I select something and then zoom in, make sure the thing I selected remains visible'. Acrobat, Miro and Figma all fail on this score.

And as ever, I will begin to believe in "parity" between technical/vocational education and university degrees when the children of at least some government ministers go down the former route.

What Blair and Badenoch don't seem to understand is that you can't penalise people into better mental health. Why not address the depression and anxiety caused by zero-hours exploitation, shitty housing, and crippling costs of living instead?

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

Yellow kit and yellow keeper kit again 🤔 #bskyblades

Clint Boon coming across as a really good guest and a nice bloke on Six Music

I wouldn't really think to listen to Underworld these days – but this just came on and blew me away 💥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAIF...

What Pefkin track was it that Stuart Maconie played last night on Freak Zone? #MildlyObsessed

Wrexham LOLs #bskyblades

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

We’re reaching a new low in this country when the fantastic heroes of the #RNLI being attacked for their amazing work. Not forgetting the other #Lifeboat services that also keep people safe too. Bill Bryson said it best. Please unfollow me if this is a problem for you.

I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to

media: are these blackshirts fascists. andy burnham: good question. my favourite biscuit with tea is a custard cream although in culcheth we used to call them cuppy-busters.

Today in 'what the fuck is wrong with these people':

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

I do enjoy a street-name sign that misspells the name of the street. Maybe they were misled by The Shamen’s spelling of it? #EsAreGood

Javier Milei there, answering the question 'what would Benny Hill have looked like if he'd joined Mud?'

These Santander banking insights are as useful as they are literate

Ndiaye to Man City – windfall incoming for the Blades? #bskyblades

#PaedoCardie

We know how to build infrastructure that keeps people safe(r) and encourages cycling - we have pages and pages of documents on how to do it properly and why. We just choose not to.

It's weird to me that there isn't a term that denotes nouns that refer to people in a 'one who...' sense, eg parent, atheist, middleman, liar

Thinking today of all the water-absorbing front gardens torn out and paved over to park cars on - all without any government oversight or regulation.

Fleetwood away in the Carabao Cup – the Ched Evans derby #bskyblades

Mayor Mamdani's focus on a helmet paints deadly crashes as the failure of vulnerable road users to protect themselves, rather than as the failure of government to stop completely avoidable carnage. buff.ly/0HIM3RQ

Twice divorced Richard Tice, currently in a relationship with a divorcee, speaking for a party led by twice-divorced Farage, tells us unmarried people should be deprioritised for social housing.

This Times editorial opinion calls for more traffic police on the roads and action to curb social media glorification of joyriding. It does not mention what would be by far the easiest, cheapest and most effective remedy: speed limiters on cars.

I’ve lost track of the number of times an immigrant has told me they had to sit on a prison bus in the back of an airport for six, 10, 20 hours with no food or water and being told to urinate in a corner or onto themselves.

There are other forms of transport that do not tolerate such frequent violence/death. They learn from tragedy and make improvements. Why not motoring?

It's a universal truth. No one wants drivers to speed down their street, but they all want the ability to speed down someone else's street. Thanks to @tomflood.bsky.social

Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When an AI company's security tool "escapes containment" and hacks someone else's servers, we need to ask the company "Why do you suck so bad at building secure sandboxes for your hacking tools?" rather than "Why are your hacking tools so amazingly powerful?" 24/

If early release can be altered so as to exempt homicide offences, it should be. Prisoners who have caused the gravest harm should be among the last to benefit from the overcrowding crisis. But carving out exceptions for individual prisoners in response to media campaigns is weak and unprincipled.

‘Hogh scored a hat trick’ – the Scottish football/Abbot & Costello crossover we didn’t know we needed

'Step foot' goes right through me. What the hell was wrong with 'set foot'?

these fucking dweebs could be rolling around in a pile of money on a private island with their pet jaguar and instead they’re posting

'Chilli sauce, boss?'