Owler Nook

@owlernook.bsky.social

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Award-winning active travel campaigner Stockport and Manchester

A vehicle turning spot on a walking and cycling route, made of a concrete mesh so that grass can grow through it.
The Penguin Modern Classics cover for Kalpa Imperial.
A headline from what was once a good-quality local newspaper. 'The bins in Stockport went "woke", and people are fuming'
A cumulative chart for southbound data on the Oxford Road Cycleway from January to July for the years 2017 to 2026. 2026 is in third place, close behind 2024 but with 2025 well ahead.
A chart showing Oxford Road Cycleway counts for the month of July for the years 2017 to 2026. The highest figures for both directions were in 2024. June 2026 counts are down on the previous year.
A chart showing Oxford Road Cycleway counts for the month of June for the years 2017 to 2026. The highest figures northbound were in 2024 (after the northbound counter was recalibrated), and the highest southbound were in 2023. June 2026 counts are down on the previous year.
A woman being interviewed on BBC News what feels like a million years ago, saying 'You're joking, not another one!'
Three men of indeterminate appearance in a very large room.
A view of the cycle crossing earlier in this thread from a different angle. This view shows how the cycle lane meets a side road junction. A car driving in from this direction would not be impeded by bollards.
Because the truth is, our boroughs have been left behind by Labour. Roads going unrepaired for months, sometimes even years. Housing sandwiched onto the little green space we have left. And Council Tax climbing ever higher – putting even more strain onto stretched families. All while more funding is poured into Manchester city centre.
A black booklet with pink text: 30 July Greater Manchester Combined Authority Mayoral Election Election Booklet Information from the Combined Authority Returning Officer and Candidate Election Addresses
A screen on wheels. There's some fancier term for this, but it's basically a screen on wheels.
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A newspaper headline What Manchester can't tell you about Burnhamism His governing record in the citt tells us what he would like to do but how it scales nationally remains uncertain Jennifer Williams
Sir Humphrey Appleby from the TV series Yes Minister, giving one of his trademark smug looks.
A Guardian headline from the live blog. Badenoch accuses Burnham of being 'unambitious' and stuck with 'mayor of Manchester ideas'
A photo of some kind of detecting mat lying in a cycleway in Manchester. The mat does not appear to be flush.
Tyres from the TV series Spaced.
A Google Maps image of the area between Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station and the proposed No. 10 North site (ex Great Ancoats Street Retail Park). A red line has been drawn along London Road and Store Street to show a possible cycle route between the two locations.
A Google Maps image of the area between Manchester Piccadilly Railway station and the future No. 10 North (ex Great Ancoats Retail Park). A yellow line runs along Piccadilly Approach and Ducie Street.
A highway schematic for a new CYCLOPS junction at the Whitworth Street West/Albion Street junction in central Manchester.
The Manchester Working for a Nuclear Free City poster, qorh a white dove on a blue background
A large dark cloud layer across an otherwise clear sky. The sun is a deep red, forming a perfect circle through the smoke.
Wallace Shawn playing Vizzini the Sicilian in the film version of The Princess Bride.
A Zebra crossing, from the north looking south. The Belisha beacons are built into streetlights.
A referee, eyes like gimlets, raises a red card.
A map, purloined from Wikipedia, showing the extent of Northumbria around AD 700. The southern boundary is along the Mersey and Trent, the northern boundary including half of modern-day Galloway and Edinburgh.
A map of the ITV network in 1962, courtesy of Wikipedia. The pertinent detail is that the Granada TV region also covered most of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and part of north Wales.
A meme with the caption Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me.
A scene of disarray in Manchester. Three yellow hire bicycles parked in docks are blocked in by around 20 Lime e-scooters, part of a long-running trial in Salford.
Two people in a crowd watching tennis, wearing dark blue baseball caps with an owl logo and the words BLUE OWL.
A shaft of light silhouettes some geese across a canal at night.
An image of several badgir 'wind-catchers' in Iran.
A still from the film War Games. A segment of a 1980s computer screen. Pale block-caps text on a dark background. A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.
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A Met Office forecast for Messina, Italy. The high is 32°C.
A Guardian Pass Notes headline. Micro-staycations: why are people holidaying an hour away from home?
It's the domino meme! Small domino: Jess Phillips hypes a tech grift in her resignation letter Big domino: Hermit Kingdom
A bar chart showing total cycle counts for May, from 2017 to 2026. May 2026 is down by around 10% on the previous year.
A post from @kevinhewett.bsky.social Ha! What happens to Rich people like me who'll very nearly die laughing--at a bunch of aching pensioners from rainy, cold morning, forced onto trams or bicycles in their declining years, while I cruise by in my 7-series BMW touring sedan with the heat on full blast? I may gag from laughter!
Birgitte Nyborg, from Borgen.
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A YouGov map with the title 'How do you pronounce "scone"?' Lots of detail, but the majority of respondents in Scotland, Northern England and North Wales rhyme with 'gone'. It gets more complicated in Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, depressingly. The East Midlands are mostly rhyming it with 'bone', as is Essex and (to a lesser extent) Cornwall.
A newspaper headline. TUI pilot grounds Manchester Airport flight 2,200 miles away after passenger suddenly turns
Arthur Machen – The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories. Oxford World's Classics The cover illustration is art nouveau, depicting Pan playing pipes. The illustration uses solid colours (white for Pan's body, green for his hair and foliage, red for the background).
A PSA section from the original He-man cartoon. He-Man points to the viewer, while She-Ra stands by his side. It's possible there is yet another glaring error in this alt text. Get it together, Nook!
The Penguin SF edition of Trafalgar. A mostly white cover, showing a cubist illustration of a person smoking. The only colour on the cover is a light purple for the title and the Penguin logo.
The book cover for the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer. The top of half is white, with a series of block-colour abstract shapes on the left and a painting of some kind of goose (black neck, white eye shape, red area above beak) on the right.
Another Toy Story 5 title screen. 'Childhood Nostalgia Forever'
It's the Toy Story 5 logo, but with the words 'Why Can't I Die?'
A scene from Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. The main character. Guybrush Threepwood, stands in a dark underground passage seemingly made of metal and concrete. The passages are mostly featureless.
A chart showing the number of billion passenger km per year, from 1952 to 2016. For cars, vans and taxis, the number was well under 100 billion km in 1952, rising to around 650 billion km by 2016.
A screengrab from the r/stockport subreddit. Title: Stockport smells
It's the 'somehow Palpatine returned' meme, but with the caption as 'Somehow Powell returned'
A Doctor Who title card from... I dunno. I'm not a Whoie. Title: IS IT BINS?
A photo of a direktørsnegl pastry – the tastiest chocolate-covered cinnamon swirl in the world.
Another Star Trek: TNG episode title screen. "Gordon's Alive!"
Labour set to announce crackdown on social media for children within weeks Age limits and changes to allegedly addictive design features could be in place by the end of the year
Batty from the film Blade Runner, being doused in rain. The caption says: 'Time to sweat' (IT'S HOT HERE)
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