Pip Gowenlock

@PipGowenlock@urbanists.social
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Too much coffee, not enough sleep. Cycling, urbanism and (refraining from taking about) policy. Boosts indicate interest not agreement.

Avi: me in black and white infront of optical illusion dots.
Background: 'Or, whatever' from Edward Gorey's The Deranged Cousins

CoffeeFilter, batch, long black
CyclingAt least I try
BeerDimple glass
FailFail harder

Ask not whether cyclists should wear helmets, ask why pedestrians shouldn't carry bricks.

#BikeTooter #pedestrian #pedestriantooter

I realised some time ago that, in all the many things about grief I’ve written in that time – in all the thousands of words about how it feels for the world to explode at 8.08 on a Saturday morning – I’ve been writing about myself. I’ve not said nearly enough about the incredible woman who is incomprehensibly gone from the world.

It’s been two years. I figured that should change.

https://jonn.substack.com/p/the-long-goodbye

The Long Goodbye

Time, at last, to write about Agnes.

The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything

Jesus did a Mon Mothma at the wedding in Cana.

That's it, that's the toot.

Going "fungal". Like going viral, but more organic because you're on the Fediverse and no artificial algorithm helped.
Love this. #biketooter

This looks amazing. All UK cyclists out there - record attempt starts on 15th June in London.

https://ontheedge.cc/the-record/

#BikeTooter

The Record

THE Record The current World Record for cycling round the British coastline was set in 1984 by Nick Sanders, and despite a number of athletes attempting to break it in the 40 years since the record of 22 days still stands today. While the 1984 record is no longer

On The Edge

Angus Deyton voice: 'seen as cute and beloved by millions yet predatory, disease spreading and thoroughly untrustworthy...'

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/09/google-foxes-roof-london-kings-cross-office?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Google battling fox incursion on roof of £1bn London office

Foxes have ‘begun to dig burrows’ in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King’s Cross headquarters

The Guardian

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

#Pride ⚔️

Anybody out there in GIS or urbanism or sustainability or transportation planning or any related field interested in taking over this server? I hate to have move again...but the owner is leaving mastodon.

#fediadmin #fedimods #sustainability #urbanism #bike #GIS #transportation #trains #walkability #Community

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com