Language matters. Asylum seekers live in appalling conditions but the buildings are described as "hotels". Members of the Royal family live a life of luxury and privilege but their homes are often called "cottage" or "lodge". Why not just describe things accurately?

Just showed this to DaughterOnSea, and her only question was, “Why is he riding a #ClownBike?” Hashtag: #TheAppleNeverFallsFarFromTheTree youtu.be/GimLuOUVkxg?...

It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him. The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK. The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.

Ah yes. A swan bag. Unfortunately my former boss, who had his first career as an RSPCA man isn't on here. So I can't get him to tell his hilarious story about his swan bag mishap.

100% this. In the face of racking up a £60K debt that I'd be stuck paying interest on for my whole working life, I'd have never gone to university. www.youtube.com/shorts/ZYYMc...

Hammond is a dick. As a person cycling you can do everything that anyone asks, and there will still be a driver that could kill you without caring. Yes there are some silly cyclists about, but that's a distraction from the real danger. Absolute nob. road.cc/content/news...

Question for @audaxuk.bsky.social followers: What do you use for planning 200+km rides? About 10 yrs ago I paid for the Komoot global maps upgrade & have been very happy with it. But since the company was sold, the app & website have been messed about with in a bad way. I’m looking for alternatives.

I'd love this to be true, but this fess is very obvious BS, from someone who clearly has never seen the inside of a brewery.

Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.

Starting the design work for a rack to go on the back of my M*ulton.

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

Share the road www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And so it was that throughout the lands, as news readers named Watson and Crick as the discoverers of the DNA helix, a rousing chorus of “Rosalind Franklin” was directed towards the news.

DNA pioneer James Watson dies at 97 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tesla have approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk. That's 20 billion times more than a nurse in the UK earns. Don't let anyone tell you immigrants or disabled people are the problem. It's the richest 1% hoarding all the wealth. Time to tax the super-rich properly.

Germany, a nation of car lovers, has around 85 million inhabitants. These people own ~50 million cars, of which 1.5 million are 🔋. They also own 90 million bicycles, of which 15 million are e-bikes. We are, in fact, a hidden cycling nation. So well hidden that we can’t even see it ourselves.

Worth noting that Members can request a EGM to discuss this. You don’t need to cancel your subscription (yet).

If you found out you had a year left to live, you'd stop posting hateful shite online. So why do it when you'll be dead in 100 years?

Well Edmund "failed Think Bike campaign" King of the AA doesn't like it so it must be a good idea. If you look at the detail, EVs users still pay less, but EVs do actually cause congestion, and in a place which is bursting with public transport. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Great Debate, circa 1434.

I agree with a pay per mile driving charge for EVs. But a key fact that many are missing is that fuel duty has been frozen since 2010 and petrol is cheaper now than 2 decades ago. It's about time conventional car drivers actually started paying a fair share too. www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

Explain a film plot badly: A woman and her pet cat enjoy a game of hide and seek aboard their space vessel, while something big is happening to the rest of the crew

Explain a film plot badly. A pouty boy with a bit of a knife fixation dreams of growing up to be the white saviour of a bunch of primitives. His dream comes true, and then his eyes turn blue.

What on earth is Claudia wearing?

This is good - the police using unmarked lorries to metaphorically shoot fish in a barrel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYpb...

I’m selling my Riese & Muller Cruiser 2 Mixte Vario. It’s a lovely bike, I’m just not using it. Full specs in pics below. It’s 2 years old and done 2600 miles. Just been serviced. Tyneside. Niche so please share! www.facebook.com/share/1AGbtx... If you’re not on FB, can share more via DM.

I won’t wear a poppy, on principle: ▪️ remembrance should be voluntary, not enforced or secured by moral blackmail ▪️remembrance should be honouring the victims, not this plastic patriotism by people who would funk out totally if asked to make these sacrifices themselves

Planet: am too hot now really much too hot stop pls tnx China: uh yes but no but infrastructural hegemony Trump: something something animals IQ test drug boats asylum Labour: let’s tax EVs it seems like the perfect time Ecosystems: I might just retire

73% of Copenhageners don’t own a car, and the city has made huge strides reclaiming public space for people that had been previously surrendered to cars. Now candidates in the upcoming city election want to prioritize “car storage” again. Not surprisingly, @colville-andersen.com isn’t holding back.

We've been down on the beach today picking up firework debris. It's odd, isn't it, that you can be fined £250 for dropping litter but somehow it's OK to launch rockets containing plastic casings into the sky.

Saving the planet is not optional. This would be about the stupidest nothing labour could do. We need to be pushing harder on environmentally friendly actions. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Cars the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of motors on our roads as there were 30 years ago, but anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood and anti-cycle lane campaigners keep claiming they 'cause congestion'. Okay.

I'm not 1 of those who love to bash them, and I think they've done some blummin amazing things, but I *really* prefer the name Sustrans.

This is why I was so pissed off to hear Badenoch talk as though everyone in the UK was threatened by a wave of knife crime. It’s bollocks.

The most French new story possible doesn't ex... Oh. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

*squints in Ireland*

I've no idea if this is #AISlop or not, but the first one is DEFINITELY what those who oppose floating bus stops think is going to happen. www.youtube.com/shorts/Q0Ks2...

"It's all fields." www.youtube.com/shorts/WuK8l...

St Neots #PortraitBench at sunset.

Just told my cousin that she had a nice rack. Here’s a photo for you to see if her subsequent reaction was justified.

A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif

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Watch out folks the fake images of a kid in black clothes is doing the rounds again... 🙄 irishcycle.com/2019/10/25/m...

@tynetom.bsky.social for next year?

After their second planned child, our friends got an unexpected item in bagging area. And it turned out to be a BOGOF. So they ended up with four children under four. 😳

Shame you never hear motor racers avocating that car occupants wear helmets when driving to the shops. Racing and utility cycling have very different risks. Helmet use should be personal choice without this kind of guilt tripping or emotional blackmail.

What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean “cheating on your partner” stupid, I mean stupid stupid. Like, once, I had this bubble bath which smelled absolutely delicious, so I took a big glug of it. That kind of stupid. (It did not taste delicious.)

@cultureshipnames.bsky.social Alignment Problem, ROU

Since NOAA is not updating its GHG graphics, I thought I would update CO2 this month. Based on the available data, CO2 came in at 424.98 ppm for Oct., 2025, up 2.60 ppm from Oct., 2024. Data: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... Here is the most recent Keeling curve:

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth just hit a new record high reaching a growth rate of 7.88 ppm per 3 years for October, 2025. This breaks the previous record high of 7.83 ppm per 3 years, from February, 2019. Net-Zero by 2050? The Climate 8-ball is bored.