🔴Bassim Haidar: The ‘Globalist’ Billionaire Bankrolling Britain’s Anti-Globalist Party Why is Nigel Farage’s supposedly ‘anti-globalist’ Reform UK being bankrolled by a globe-trotting billionaire who once advised Amnesty International and the World Economic Forum? bylinetimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

Massive dust plume crosses the Persian Gulf! Captured on Nov. 4 by #Copernicus #Sentinel3, this amazing image shows the enormous dust cloud from southern #Iran and #Pakistan making its way to #Oman and #UAE. #AirQuality

“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high cost for taxpayers. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, new research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.” Via @fastcompany

Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu

DOCUMENTARY UK PREMIERE ‘HOW TANITA TIKARAM BECAME A LIAR’ SUNDAY 9TH NOVEMBER BFI, SOUTHBANK 6-7.30PM Tickets: www.docnrollfestival.com/films/how-ta...

From today's @financialtimes.com #cop30

Worried about the increasing %age of cars that are SUVs? You should be! Take a look at this BMJ Editorial www.bmj.com/content/391/.... Also check out the SUV Alliance, which RDRF is a member of.

I find "not everyone wants to cycle" incredibly frustrating - I'm literally saying I don't want to drive (whether I can or not) but apparently that doesn't matter.

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

Ah here it is. Whenever you see a council rolling out the red carpet to car-dependency and making it really hard to walk or cycle, you can always be sure they've declared a climate emergency and patted themselves on the back for a job well done www.carmarthenshire.gov.wales/council-serv...

I gave @cyclinguk.bsky.social a few days to redeem themselves & undo the damage they have created in the equality for ALL women in their organisation & the public. But they chose to be silent to those who do not agree with their transphobic behaviour, so I've no choice but to cancel my membership.

108 years ago, on the 7th of November 1917, an insurrection in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) led to the October Revolution in which the Bolsheviks seized power from the Russian Provisional Government. It is named 'October' Revolutian as Russia was still using the Julian calendar at the time. #otd 🗃️

Love it. This Miss Chile contestant performed her special talent on the stage: singing (grunting) in her metal band metalinjection.net/metal-in-the...

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...

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire

Labour were broken a long time ago. Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires. A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them. Time to make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I am a little late to this, but I have also requested my name and face to be removed from @cyclinguk.bsky.social publicity due to the decision to remove trans women from their awards. Trans women are women, gender is on a spectrum (and I did a genetics degree), and cycling is for everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️🚲❤️

Anyone else old enough to remember when Cambridge hung an effigy of a female undergraduate riding a bike from the window of what is now the university bookstore, as part of their riot against granting degrees to women?

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

"The Financial Times has calculated that the market value of eight of the most valuable AI-related stocks — including Nvidia, Meta, Palantir and Oracle — has fallen by more than $750bn since the end of last week."

And saying it's 'in response to' the 'Supreme Court Ruling' is weak. Nothing about that ruling makes this decision inevitable or necessary it just provides @cyclinguk.bsy.social with an excuse for transphobia, and I'm appalled they've taken it.

Shhhhh!! Don't tell anyone else about this stunning, 20-mile almost completely traffic-free cycle route! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXC2...

Call people the name they ask you to. It might not the name they've always been known by, it may not be what you want to use, for whatever reason, but respect them and their choice. How is this even up for discussion?

Said it before, will say it again. The rule must be if you're an MP, that's your only job. Property above, say, £400k should be held in trust while you're an MP. These jobs must be above corruption.

Bosses at six water firms had £4m bonus blocked, Ofwat says. Ban applied only to the CEO & CFOs, not all execs Companies circumvent rules by branding bonus as incentive payments, higher basic pay, giving execs multiple directorships. Must publish exec pay contacts. Let customers vote on exec pay.

These photos are 100 years apart. Bikes are so awesome.

The Labour right have basically one electoral strategy which has already been torpedoed by the Greens and no one has absolutely deserved it more.

We're taking on Reform. Join.greenparty.org.uk

“We keep coming across problems that have already been solved” is exactly right. Endless ministerial enthusiasm for what rail commentator Roger Ford calls ‘bionic duckweed’ aka alternative traction technologies like hydrogen stems *entirely* from the treasury allergy to capital spending

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Which one is more English?

I see some are losing their shit over the suggestion of per mile charging for EVs, and the remote possibility of tracking mileage. My EV sends trip data to Peugeot and the app I have after every drive. It would be so easy to push that on to govt. If you don't want to be tracked then ride a bike

Someone just shared this with me: 1967, 3,000 publicans marching against introducing breath tests for drivers. Barbara Castle MP got this introduced and speed limits and seatbelts as mInister for transport, and faced the standard opposition.

During covid with minimal traffic I could cycle to work in 22 minutes. Today it took me 30 as I was continually stuck behind single occupancy cars. It’s not cyclists who hold motorists up - it’s motorists.

PMSL!! Even South Africa has a way better rating than the USA 😂😂

Starmer’s #COP30 speech is deeply embarassing. See through it? You could sail a ship full of Canadian prime forest on it’s way to Drax through it.

"The government, afraid of its own shadow, has done almost nothing to speak out regularly and loudly against people misusing our symbols of state for a campaign of hate. People who have tried to act on their own and cut down flags have been beaten black and blue."

Local authorities putting up signs to convert existing pavements into shared use has effectively legitimised any pavement for cycling on. Often it's hard to tell the difference. Also anyone who parks a vehicle on a footway loses the argument straightaway.

Part of this is considering the consequences of forcing cyclists off pavements where there is no safe alternative. Sometimes that will mean cyclists change route or don't go at all but it will push some cyclists to make the journey by car - a mode of transport which poses far greater danger to peds.

The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed. #auspol #ClimateChange

You've not made it safer for trans women, have you. Shame on you.

Nah. I'm all for keeping women cyclists like myself safe. But your anti-trans policies endanger women, both cis and trans. I prefer to donate to charities with morals and backbone.

I would have done too. He’s been told no football, rugby or bike rides for 3 weeks because of the risk of a head injury. Wasn’t told “don’t go in a car or for a walk unless wearing a helmet”. Cycling is not dangerous. His injuries weren’t as serious as when he fell over running up the street.

Excited to announce our next mass ride! Join us for a family friendly, festive frolic around the Christmas Illuminations in Torquay! Meet at Cantina (Abbey Park) register at sstt.eventbrite.co.uk

It is always surprising to see posts like "we can't let immigrants overrun the country, we should be more like Australia" In Australia the immigrants overran the country my bro.

"And why at the next election it won't be Conservatives Vs Labour but Reform Vs The Green Party." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Like many others, I am disappointed and angry about the decision by @cyclinguk.bsky.social to change the eligibility criteria for Women in Cycling 2025 to exclude trans women. Trans women are women 🏳️‍⚧️ I have requested for my name and face to be removed. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/do-we-n...