Matthias Feist (he/him)
@matthiasfeist.bsky.social
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They should invent a city where every driver isn't trying to kill cyclists and pedestrians
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
They should invent a city where every driver isn't trying to kill cyclists and pedestrians
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I remain forever disappointed in “online safety” advice for families being about banning phones and social media.
And very rarely about having conversations, explaining risks and reflecting as adults on what we trust
The adults are the ones who need the most advice, in my opinion
And very rarely about having conversations, explaining risks and reflecting as adults on what we trust
The adults are the ones who need the most advice, in my opinion
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I remain forever disappointed in “online safety” advice for families being about banning phones and social media.
And very rarely about having conversations, explaining risks and reflecting as adults on what we trust
The adults are the ones who need the most advice, in my opinion
And very rarely about having conversations, explaining risks and reflecting as adults on what we trust
The adults are the ones who need the most advice, in my opinion
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Germany‘s resistance to the EU‘s phase-out of combustion engines barely matters. The only choice Germany will have long before 2035 is whether to buy Asian or German electric vehicles. In that sense, Germany‘s government is frivolously pretending to be pro-business while it really is anti-growth.
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Germany‘s resistance to the EU‘s phase-out of combustion engines barely matters. The only choice Germany will have long before 2035 is whether to buy Asian or German electric vehicles. In that sense, Germany‘s government is frivolously pretending to be pro-business while it really is anti-growth.
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Mentioning this fact was the basis of my first shitstorm from both the left and the right. :)
Displacement unites.
"100 million deaths as a result of road traffic accidents since the car’s invention: that’s more deaths than in both World Wars combined."
paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-nownes...
Displacement unites.
"100 million deaths as a result of road traffic accidents since the car’s invention: that’s more deaths than in both World Wars combined."
paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-nownes...
The Nowness of Things
Thoughts from the Alaskan Highway, part three
paulkingsnorth.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Mentioning this fact was the basis of my first shitstorm from both the left and the right. :)
Displacement unites.
"100 million deaths as a result of road traffic accidents since the car’s invention: that’s more deaths than in both World Wars combined."
paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-nownes...
Displacement unites.
"100 million deaths as a result of road traffic accidents since the car’s invention: that’s more deaths than in both World Wars combined."
paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-nownes...
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We should abolish automobiles
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We should abolish automobiles
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I would prefer it if Wes Streeting did not become Prime Minister
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I would prefer it if Wes Streeting did not become Prime Minister
If you see this, post a Star Trek.
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
If you see this, post a Star Trek.
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You don’t have to ban cars everywhere to transform your city centre. But you do have to seriously rethink and redefine the car’s role. There are many ways to do that, from #completestreets to #sharedstreets, pedestrian priority streets & Dutch #woonerfs, that prioritize streets for people, not cars.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
You don’t have to ban cars everywhere to transform your city centre. But you do have to seriously rethink and redefine the car’s role. There are many ways to do that, from #completestreets to #sharedstreets, pedestrian priority streets & Dutch #woonerfs, that prioritize streets for people, not cars.
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I strongly believe that #RemembranceDay should be about things this rather than about honor, glory, etc.
Tim O'Brien captures it so well.
Find something here that speaks to you, share it, and carry that forward.
Tim O'Brien captures it so well.
Find something here that speaks to you, share it, and carry that forward.
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I strongly believe that #RemembranceDay should be about things this rather than about honor, glory, etc.
Tim O'Brien captures it so well.
Find something here that speaks to you, share it, and carry that forward.
Tim O'Brien captures it so well.
Find something here that speaks to you, share it, and carry that forward.
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The one thing I missed most while living in the US.
edition.cnn.com/travel/germa...
edition.cnn.com/travel/germa...
Germans think their bread is the best in the world. Here’s why they might be right | CNN
Germans have more bakeries and eat more varieties of bread than most other countries in the world — no wonder it’s so good.
edition.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The one thing I missed most while living in the US.
edition.cnn.com/travel/germa...
edition.cnn.com/travel/germa...
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My unpopular opinion: those of us advocating for non-car travel need to stop apologetically saying "I know not everybody can cycle!" Obviously not everyone can cycle, but that's also true of driving. I fear we're just giving our opponents' attack lines legitimacy by shouting them out for free
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My unpopular opinion: those of us advocating for non-car travel need to stop apologetically saying "I know not everybody can cycle!" Obviously not everyone can cycle, but that's also true of driving. I fear we're just giving our opponents' attack lines legitimacy by shouting them out for free
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This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
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The idea (in the US and UK) that immigration is the central issue of our time is really mass psychosis.
October 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The idea (in the US and UK) that immigration is the central issue of our time is really mass psychosis.
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21 Oct 2025 -- Swimmer Lia Thomas opens up in a rare interview: "It’s easier to fight the whole world than to fight yourself every day. Because when I look back on my journey, on all the difficulties, all the highs and lows, I would do it all over again in a heartbeat." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
‘It’s easier to fight the whole world than to fight yourself:’ Why transgender swimmer Lia Thomas wouldn’t change a thing | CNN
In a rare interview, Lia Thomas described what life was like as arguably the most prominent transgender swimmer in the world.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
21 Oct 2025 -- Swimmer Lia Thomas opens up in a rare interview: "It’s easier to fight the whole world than to fight yourself every day. Because when I look back on my journey, on all the difficulties, all the highs and lows, I would do it all over again in a heartbeat." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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Sport & gender: A history of bad science & 'biological racism'
The main problem with all “sex testing” is not with the tests per se, but with the assumption that any singular marker of sex is adequate to classify people into a two-sex system.
The main problem with all “sex testing” is not with the tests per se, but with the assumption that any singular marker of sex is adequate to classify people into a two-sex system.
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Sport & gender: A history of bad science & 'biological racism'
The main problem with all “sex testing” is not with the tests per se, but with the assumption that any singular marker of sex is adequate to classify people into a two-sex system.
The main problem with all “sex testing” is not with the tests per se, but with the assumption that any singular marker of sex is adequate to classify people into a two-sex system.
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EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum - a week of absolute scenes has left the organisation in limbo. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it all means iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened...
Frightened and desperate: EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum
A week of absolute scenes leaves the organisation in limbo.
iandunt.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum - a week of absolute scenes has left the organisation in limbo. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it all means iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened...
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“Meanwhile, the e-bike market is skyrocketing…
The question now is: Do officials double down on deadly car-centric urban design, or do they rethink cities to encourage people to ditch four wheels for two?” Via @grist.org
And do we let elected leaders keep doing the wrong things for our cities?
The question now is: Do officials double down on deadly car-centric urban design, or do they rethink cities to encourage people to ditch four wheels for two?” Via @grist.org
And do we let elected leaders keep doing the wrong things for our cities?
E-bikes could cut carbon, congestion, and costs — if cities take them seriously
E-bike sales are booming, providing a clean form of transportation that also improves public health. Yet cities remain committed to cars.
grist.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“Meanwhile, the e-bike market is skyrocketing…
The question now is: Do officials double down on deadly car-centric urban design, or do they rethink cities to encourage people to ditch four wheels for two?” Via @grist.org
And do we let elected leaders keep doing the wrong things for our cities?
The question now is: Do officials double down on deadly car-centric urban design, or do they rethink cities to encourage people to ditch four wheels for two?” Via @grist.org
And do we let elected leaders keep doing the wrong things for our cities?
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We used @sciam.bsky.social's 180th anniversary as an excuse to revisit an old favorite. Familiar with the efficiency of locomotion chart from the March 1973 issue? Here it is again, reimagined for 2025 by DTAN Studio, w/text by @parshallison.bsky.social 📊 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
www.scientificamerican.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We used @sciam.bsky.social's 180th anniversary as an excuse to revisit an old favorite. Familiar with the efficiency of locomotion chart from the March 1973 issue? Here it is again, reimagined for 2025 by DTAN Studio, w/text by @parshallison.bsky.social 📊 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
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…are in fact the ones doing the silencing. Bindel getting an article in mainstream media yesterday when no trans person did, evidences my point.
This type of hate activism is closely related to Mirror Propaganda, another dishonest (they’re all dishonest) strategy deployed by GC transphobes.
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This type of hate activism is closely related to Mirror Propaganda, another dishonest (they’re all dishonest) strategy deployed by GC transphobes.
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How anti-trans activists silence their opponents
People claiming to be ‘silenced’ are being featured in national mainstream media platforms. There’s a word for that
www.opendemocracy.net
October 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
…are in fact the ones doing the silencing. Bindel getting an article in mainstream media yesterday when no trans person did, evidences my point.
This type of hate activism is closely related to Mirror Propaganda, another dishonest (they’re all dishonest) strategy deployed by GC transphobes.
4/4
This type of hate activism is closely related to Mirror Propaganda, another dishonest (they’re all dishonest) strategy deployed by GC transphobes.
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How to relieve traffic congestion, guaranteed:
Support density, sidewalks, protected bike lanes, and high quality public transit. Give people more reasons to stay out of cars and the road will open up to you.
Support density, sidewalks, protected bike lanes, and high quality public transit. Give people more reasons to stay out of cars and the road will open up to you.
October 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
How to relieve traffic congestion, guaranteed:
Support density, sidewalks, protected bike lanes, and high quality public transit. Give people more reasons to stay out of cars and the road will open up to you.
Support density, sidewalks, protected bike lanes, and high quality public transit. Give people more reasons to stay out of cars and the road will open up to you.
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We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
How cancel culture came for everyone
Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s changing.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 AM
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
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I’ve said it for a long time: our failure to call out the racism right from the start is what led us down this path.
I think the racists know it, which is why they’re so desperate not to have their racism called out.
I think the racists know it, which is why they’re so desperate not to have their racism called out.
October 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I’ve said it for a long time: our failure to call out the racism right from the start is what led us down this path.
I think the racists know it, which is why they’re so desperate not to have their racism called out.
I think the racists know it, which is why they’re so desperate not to have their racism called out.
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Komm, kurz mal Erinnerung an good news from Germany.
In NRW ging KEIN Amt als Ober-Bürgermeister*in oder Landrätin an die AfD!
In NRW ging KEIN Amt als Ober-Bürgermeister*in oder Landrätin an die AfD!
September 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Komm, kurz mal Erinnerung an good news from Germany.
In NRW ging KEIN Amt als Ober-Bürgermeister*in oder Landrätin an die AfD!
In NRW ging KEIN Amt als Ober-Bürgermeister*in oder Landrätin an die AfD!
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Another little reminder: asylum seekers in the U.K. already have ID cards.
September 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Another little reminder: asylum seekers in the U.K. already have ID cards.
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I've had enough of listening. Time for action on low traffic.
My letter in the Oxford Times today
My letter in the Oxford Times today
September 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I've had enough of listening. Time for action on low traffic.
My letter in the Oxford Times today
My letter in the Oxford Times today