Phil Himsworth

@philhimsworth.bsky.social

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Software - bikes - energy - transport - climate - he/him

A bar chart of monthly rainfall over the last few years; most months are somewhere between 30 and 120mm, but July 2026 is 1.8mm.
A bar chart of solar PV generation every month between October 2022 and July 2026. The bar for July 2026 is quite a bit higher than any other bar, and significantly higher than any other bar in July.
The Colin Hunt character from the Fast Show, a deeply annoying office colleague
A map from ONS census data showing car ownership per household in the Telford area; highlighted is the Malinslee area, where 30.5% of households do not have a car or van. Wellington and other areas in south Telford have similar statistics.
A planning diagram of a proposed new traffic light controlled junction between an existing major and a new minor road. An existing cycle track on the north side of the major road will cross the new minor road over two separate push-button controlled, offset crossings.
A chart showing the lengths of day and night throughout the year for Birmingham, UK. It looks to be symmetrical around midsummer. It shows two lines for when the clocks change in March and October.
A graph of day length change / actual day length over the first half of the year; the peak is in February, due to the days being short but getting longer quite quickly.
Google travel times to Shrewsbury hospital. 21 miles; 25 minutes by car, 6 hours 59 minutes by public transport; 6 hours to walk...
Screenshot from the Bank of England Inflation Calculator; £440 in 1939 at normal rates of inflation would be £25,083.42. House price inflation is absolutely not normal.
A graph of vehicle mileage by vehicle type from 2019 - 2023. There is a big dip in the cars graph in 2020, but the number has rapidly increased since then. Cars are still overwhelmingly the largest total and fastest growing total mileage.
A graph of vehicle traffic by distance in the UK between 1949 and 2019. Car traffic is far greater, and has increased far more, than any other type.
Results from the Sustrans / Halfords study. Kids are overwhelmingly in favour of active travel and reducing the impact of cars.
A sign saying "QUICKSAND", "STAY AWAY" underneath a silhouette of a flailing person stuck waist deep in quicksand. The sign is in a grass bank (it's next to a sand quarry)
Rays of sunlight poking through the trees in a forest at sunrise on a misty day
Me sitting on the edge of the cantilever rock at the top of Glyder Fawr on a warm, sunny, cloud free day.
A mountain bike leaning on a tree in a forest, with rays of the sun shining through the trees.