Sam Clifford
@samclifford
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Australian data scientist living in The Netherlands.
Joined December 2008
Yes, I live in Amsterdam. And from July 2018 to Nov 2022 I lived in London, so I still talk about transport in London having walked, cycled, and caught PT to get around for fourish years. And before that I did a PhD in Australia on air pollution and was in Green politics.
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@SlickuseTweets @cottoncandaddy If getting laughed at for not knowing how to cut a cauliflower in half is the root cause of male emotional problems, then masculinity is even more fragile than we thought. Take a cooking class. Go to therapy.
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If you're a council who have declared a climate emergency but are ripping out bike lanes and LTNs just admit that you don't have the guts to do your job and quit. Let someone else have a go.
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Just saw two cyclists refuse to use this perfectly good cycle lake.
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@LouisatheLast As an Aussie it's absolutely WILD watching how much American culture and politics has been infiltrated by, frankly, extremist forms of Christianity. Dominionism, in particular. And it's so normalised.
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@mspowahs 4 nations lived in harmony. But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Here are 7 teenagers that are trying to restore balance by taking down the Fatherlord: 👇.
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@EverydayFinance @aak47__ @JasonReidUK @hemantmehta Then he can afford to pay his staff and let them take toilet breaks.
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@MrRBourne Yeah I might just walk down to the supermarket later and get some bread that has texture to it. That ought to do.
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"Driver did nothing wrong; the cyclist was illegally riding across the crossing". Does this mean that if a driver is driving across the pavement I, as a pedestrian, am able to assault them to the point they fear for their life? Didn't think so.
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Bikes are impractical and we shouldn't build bike lanes. What is a disabled woman who needs to get a fridge across town going to do, take it on a bike?
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@damonspencer @NickyWoolf Yup. Its uncomfortable in Australia but at least the houses in Queensland are built to shed heat and get cross breezes. Here in the UK those building flats 100-150 years ago assumed it'd always be cool enough that you'd want to retain heat.
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@bartsdiaz7 @SlickuseTweets @cottoncandaddy Not knowing how to halve a cauliflower and thinking that ripping it in half with your bare hands is more appropriate than asking for guidance is a completely normal thing for an emotionally available guy to do.
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@jonkudelka I'm a blue man shape married to a rainbow woman shape. Why is my marriage not represented with a seatbelt plugged into a seatbelt extender?.
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@simongerman600 Is "maps with extraneous New Zealand" the flipside of "maps without New Zealand"?.
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Twitter should have a feature that whenever you start to complain about cyclists doing something legal (eg not wearing a helmet, riding two abreast, riding in primary position) it changes the "Tweet" button's functionality to open the relevant Highway Code section instead.
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Air quality in Tooting is awful this afternoon and we don't even have any LTNs to scapegoat. Maybe it's because cars can't park on the High Street. Possibly the fault of cyclists jumping red lights. Maybe Highway Code changes? Literally anyone but drivers.
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@Road_Safety_GB @MarkPawsey I grew up in Australia, where helmets are mandatory. Live in The Netherlands now, after a few years in London. You know what makes me safe when I ride? A well designed and safe route. Not paint, not a helmet, it's physically separated bike lanes and low urban speed limits.
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@ClemMoraschi @theeyecollector I remember being a moody high schooler whose friends would congregate around the fountain in the middle of our town. Worst I ever did was accidentally knock a kid in who was walking along the edge as I leaned back. Or leaping up to see if I could catch a passing pigeon.
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@DianaNrco @laurabee1980 @LetToysBeToys @LEGO_Group Both are great. Baked this this morning while doing reconciliation on data entry for a systematic review.
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@bartsdiaz7 @SlickuseTweets @cottoncandaddy I'd argue that someone being in an emotional state where seeing another guy get called out for minor odd behaviour is such a negative emotional experience that it causes them to become emotionally closed off is an indicator that they might do well to talk to a therapist.
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@habibelhawa @rachmonroe The privatisation of public space should be a concern no matter how cool you think the head of the corporation is or how worthy its goal.
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You want to know who the entitled road users are? It's drivers who pull up in drop kerbs to park on yellows at a junction and then tell you to mind your own business when you ask them to move.
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Walking on the footpath holding my daughter's hand and a driver mounts the kerb behind us to park, totally unaware there's a child. I picked her up to show the driver there was a child, they waved to apologise and kept inching towards us!!.
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@MarkPawsey @UKParliament Wearing a helmet is fine. Mandating a helmet is a blame-shifting exercise that lets councils and governments off the hook by telling cyclists it's their own fault for getting injured when there's no safe cycling route. Australia's cycling culture shouldn't be emulated.
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@dovgvlad @lamborghinibank @HCLPO That's The Hunger Games you're thinking of. A 15 minute city is about ensuring everyone has access to their day to day needs without being required to drive. You know, like the good old days.
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I keep seeing news story notifications about the "confusing" new Highway Code amendments. If you're confused, consider reading it through and maybe getting some extra lessons and resit the test. You know, before you run someone over.
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@tomflood1 A 2 tonne vehicle at 5mph has the same kinetic energy as 6 rounds fired from a .357 Magnum. Increase speed to 20mph and it's about 100 rounds. No one really enjoys being shot at and if you carelessly opened fire in the street, you'd be arrested. But careless driving is accepted.
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@realJacobDietz @dgb49 @_WonderRoy Show Euron: Captain of the Varsity archery and rowing teams and acts like it .Book Euron: President of more than one religious club, President of History Society, collects musical instruments no one dares play, Latin prize, wears a sword at debate meets "just in case ;)".
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@HalcyonEmber @charleshymas @willperrin @BigBroWatch @Livingstone_S @uclnews @alancookeaddic1 @kitmalthouse @InspGadgetBlogs @PoliceInspForum @belindaparmar @FaceRecNews It's all about hiring the white person for the role.
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@David_desJ @ZJAyres How about we identify processes and professors that cause suffering and remove them instead?.
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My favourite thing about the UK's new culture war about cycling (death charge) is that people who clearly haven't ridden a bike in decades are coming out of the woodwork to say exactly what's needed regarding cyclists being registered and being confined to crap bike lanes.
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@DrCuriosity @TuffJimmy @MaraWilson Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree.Circumventing anti-theft technology.Laugh, kookaburra, laugh.Got an eighty dollar top for free.
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@ladbible If cyclists want to use the road they should pay council tax like the rest of us! And why is it that pedestrians' shoes never have to pass an MOT????.
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@AdamBronkhorst Committing to passing the sign to the point you willingly accept a fine? Until councils can issue endorsement points for contravening LTN signs and the courts reject hardship defences for wilful lawbreaking while driving, the best we've got is bollards in the middle of these.
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@soccerfanRVA @VisionZeroYVR @granville_isle You understand that this is a riff on the totally ineffective pedestrian flags, right?
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@roadcc Life changing injuries as a result of poor driving of a badly maintained car, with wholly inappropriate behaviour post-collision. Driver shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel for the rest of their life.
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According to many of the comments everyone at a GP clinic is an elderly person with a disability who is at death's door and cannot cycle yet is somehow still able to drive.
Seven bicycles = one car. This is the way to do it. More please!.
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@AngelinaRandom @jonkudelka Even in homophobic propaganda it'd be nice to see a little bi visibility.
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@cjmcgowne @GoingDutchDEN a) commuting isn't the only trip. b) driving wouldn't have become as popular as it did if we didn't change the entire layout of our cities and the legal framework for carriages. c) the infrastructure needs for cycling are simple and cheap compared to those for driving.
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@MCRCycleSam If the bike lane is so narrow that the bike stencil is overprinted with the double yellows, you haven't built a bike lane you've painted a gutter.
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I can't believe that no one has pointed out that this is why they're called floating bus stops.
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@FloatingToHome @VPM_IanStewart Because the visibility is terrible and he doesn't want to get run over (or anyone else, really).
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@allpartycycling I don't understand why it needs to be made more complex than something like this:
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@thunderxstorm07 @orikron Maybe Europeans are amazed by yellow school buses because they live in a town/city with functional public transport and so kids just get a regular bus.
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@WarringtonBC So it had the intended impact but you removed it because you can't tell the difference between a consultation and a statistically valid survey? Disappointing.
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@joncstone Come visit (George/Charles/James/William)(town/ton/ville/borough/field) and see what's left of the historic downtown we bulldozed to build freeways, complete with a retail scene dominated by chains who promised they'd attract investment but only killed off local independents.
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@thatdanstewart It's not Enfield Council's fault. 50% of UK drivers don't recognise the sign's meaning, and 29% of UK drivers think it means "Cars and motorbikes only". Maybe it's just too easy to get a driver's licence.
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@asusarla 20 lots of 16 (320) plus 4 lots of 16 (64) makes 384. And you'd think I could remember this by now given my afternoon filter coffee is 24g of coffee beans and then water at 16:1.
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@AlecStapp Finding the original is easy. The 999 forgeries all have a goat behind them. The real one has the car.
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@sushil_js Your best days are never behind you if you turn your adult life into an extension of high school.
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@HolyBollards @Alydavidlewis But London (670mm rain per year, avg temp 10.8°C) doesn't have the same warm, dry, sunny weather as Copenhagen (728mm, 8.9°C) or Utrecht (827mm, 10.6°C), or cycling paradise Amsterdam (844mm, 10.7°C).
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@the_transit_guy Who gets on a tram with an unfamiliar route number that doesn't exist? I mean apart from chaos-loving railfans who would leap at the opportunity to say they were one of the few people to have ever caught route 33.
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@ChronicShaun @ShabuQureshi @AlogoAgogo There was a lot to be angry about when it came to the Howard government. The reaction after Port Arthur is probably the only thing where you can point to the Howard government and say "This was the right thing to do for the country" and face minimal resistance.
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@DmytroKurko @adamtranter Leaving gaps between three cyclists for cars to leapfrog them one at a time is a daft idea. You would be so spread out and there'd be three, rather than one, overtaking manoeuvres to execute safely.
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@rendall @KeithNHumphreys @andysabl @e_j_barnes "Okay, now that I've got everyone's attention, today I'll be talking about. " and just go on with the talk.
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@NorthantsPolice @northants_SRT Lots of stupid comments in here from drivers defending a driver who pleaded guilty to careless driving because they think that as long as you don't hit someone you're a good driver. Post those licences back to DVLA, folks, you're a menace.
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@markdinan @RohinGhosh @AngieBEvans Three recorders that are a few cents of pitch off from each other.
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Today, along with @Jarvis_Stats, @FJColon, Sarah Moxon and @_nickdavies, I start work as an Assistant Professor in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology department at LSHTM. Massive thanks to everyone along the way who I've worked with, bounced ideas off, and learned from.
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My wife and I have decided to co-supervise a new student. She hasn't picked out a topic yet, so it's going to be a few years of intro and gen ed courses until she figures out what she wants to with her life.
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@RishiSunak We should be spending that money on alternatives to car transport so that people all across the UK aren't reliant on their cars to get food, go to school, see family, etc. Everyone deserves access to low carbon mass transit, walkable neighbourhoods, etc.
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@talkRADIO @Iromg "Concrete expands as it is heated" is a veerrrrrry different idea to "You can grow all sorts of things" "You can't grow concrete" "You can".
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@ShabuQureshi @AlogoAgogo And not just any government, a conservative one. This wasn't left wing radicals it was a centre right party whose other claims to fame include a tax cut for taking out private health cover, privatisation of the national telco, and funding chaplains in public schools.
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@MadeleineMHKing Why is the ALP so desperate to cling to Rudd's failure rather than celebrate Gillard's success? The CPRS was an unambitious bill and Rudd rejected Greens amendments, which is a funny way to try to convince them to vote for your bill.
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What's the point of a Cycle Superhighway if you can just plonk a car there? This is a no stopping zone at this time. Perhaps some timed retractable bollards for the loading zone could work.
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@JoRigby_Balham Ah yes the countryside, famous for its dense, walkable, car-free neighbourhoods, world class public transport and physically separated bike lanes.
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@ClaudiaStokes Whole lot of men in here not exactly covering themselves in glory with comments that essentially go "Well, actually. ".
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@Hellyers @jameelajamil I've known people who've gone to see a doctor about constantly being in pain, been told to lose weight, and then years down the track finally been diagnosed properly as having an autoimmune condition such as lupus. Doctors make judgements based on stereotypes too.
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@rhaegal He works with Stark who I bet patent hoards and doesn't publish in academic journals due to commercial considerations.
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@joncstone Once the Overground has its new names it's time to turn our attention to the District Line and split it up and give them all names.
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@DaisyCousens I'm fairly sure that cop would have also asked someone with a huge camera crew not to walk to a Catholic church and start asking people if they supported cover-ups of child sexual abuse.
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@cyclegaz Even if what that poster said was true, and they were transporting fuel to fill an SUV, the fact that you can get tens of kg of petrol home on a bike indicates that maybe cars aren't all that necessary and that it is indeed drivers at fault here.
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@hauntedbussy @keewa How long would it take you to walk to those places? Is it physically possible? Is it physically safe? Lord knows the USA is full of multilane main roads with bugger all crossing time and suburban streets with ample on street parking but not a single inch of pavement.
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What an awful place. Would be much nicer and better for the community if this was used by vehicles to cut through from Bedford Hill to Balham High Road.
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@habibelhawa @rachmonroe "Build another public area"? Where do you propose a new beach be built which is as accessible to residents?. When will ordinary folk stop oppressing these hard-working corporations who just want to launch rockets at 3am?.
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@starstrickenSF Woman I was on a first date with got a call mid-date and said "Sorry, I have to go home and look after my mum" and to prove that it wasn't an out because she was having a bad time, broke her rules and kissed me on the first date, basically nervously headbutting me in the process.
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@BarbaraFantechi @benorlin After against safety: Dissolve or lick rocks to understand them? dissolve - chemistry; lick - geology.
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@RupaHuq @physrj @ealingMPS I've cycled some of the junctions where people have been killed recently, and lived to tell the tale. That doesn't make them safe.
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@kateleth Kids scream "traitor" at Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on Disney Junior for two minutes every morning.
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@curmudgeon_x @CompletedStreet Freedom to be stuck in a traffic jam while bikes filter past, buses get by in bus lanes, and trains use their dedicated rights of way.
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@ravenscimaven @neuman_nicolas Once the olivermitochromwelldria dies it leaves behind richardmitochromwelldria which isn't as effective at regulation.
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@ianwalker @SwanseaUni @UWEBristol @EdNapierTRI Prepare for the onslaught of comments saying that this is biased because you write about how bad cars are.
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