Been exploring hip hop and by extension rap music, having started out with some curiosity around break beat. Surprised how male dominated and misogynistic it is. Which is a shame given some of the themes artists explore. Guess I'll be moving on then.

In my teens, i had always wanted a decent HiFi separates system. And music to play on it. Just post-COVID lock down, I was working from home and finally sat still in one place long enough to justify buying some bits.

There be some Hi-Fi shenanigans occuring. Got myself a Quadraspire HiFi rack, second hand of course. 6 tiers of it for the new price of a single tier. And a new turntable should be arriving soon, so hopefully listening to a vinyl record is no longer so anti-climactic.

Normalise this please.

Observations from thos evenings walk. Drivers will take more care passing a broken down vehicle than they will a man walking a dog.

Pedestrians: frowned upon for wearing headphones Drivers: Piloting mobile sound insulation booths whilst emitting health-affecting levels of noise

"A cyclist challenged a motorist about allegedly using a phone when driving and he then complained to the gardaí that the car revved and drove closely behind him." Fuck Reach PLC, Romeo Stoica and Sinéad Behan. Romeo should have thought about the implications of his actions before commiting them.

I stopped biking in around 2003 and then took it up again in 2013. I started mountain biking in 2021 If you liked biking as a kid, but stopped for one reason or another, get back on a bike!

Had a bit of a remonstration with a couple who live so close they are practically neighbours. I was cycling along minding my own business. A vehicle overtook on a blind uphill bend and turned left into a side street. This is on a 30 mph ring road that snakes its way around our suburban estate. 1/n

Going to take the bike I bought and customised for last winters riding and go for a ride, carving out some time I don't really have.

A Range Rover evoque weighs 2450kg. How much less serious would those injuries have been if it had been a normal car? These wankpanzers need to be banned

There's a top-class trolling opportunity here: "In the absence of people driving over Hammersmith Bridge it's not clear there's any demand for a car route"

I just drove along here and gave way to a driver turning left onto a side road. He didn’t notice I was giving way because he was looking at his phone - while sitting in the middle of the lane trying to cut across a line of traffic. This inattention is rife and dangerous.

First week in $newJob. Accepted a more junior position on account I'm not 'cloud enough'. Oddly I have an immediate colleague who looks to have done the exact same thing. The two juniors on the team have over twice the experience of the two seniors. And it really shows. Technology is weird.

#Starmer #Gaza #IsraeliShill Keef say he is: "Proud"... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fk3...

Look, of course Wes Streeting is completely disingenuous in blaming strike action for the risks the NHS faces due to flu while he's refusing to advise the use of masking to restrict the spread of flu. This is a tactic, not a position of principle.

A few thoughts on this. Are speed awareness courses available to drivers who haven't been caught speeding? Why do over 50% of bus drivers exceed a 20 mph limit? The flow talk is BS. What is wrong with being mindful and concentrating?

Really hope this was not filmed with a mobile phone whilst driving. Sure looks like it.

You'd never see this type of traffic calming on a trunk road so what the heck is it doing on a cycleway?

I was once approached and threatened for taking photographs in public,at the side of a lake/nature reserve where there were families and children present. I was not given chance to explain myswlf called all sorts of things, loudly and humiliatingly. This was the photograph I had just taken:

"We can't all be expected to bike" - well, neither can we all be expected to drive.

Sounds to me like this driver approached a blind bend on a narrow lane without anticipating anyone may be coming the other way. When I drive m narrow lanes around here, I'll only reach 20 mph when the view ahead is unobstructed. Can't help but think jury influenced by villification of cyclists.

"Meanwhile, CCTV footage, analysis of the collision site, and a reconstruction of the road also concluded that Potkin would have been visible for up to 200 metres, due to the hi-visibility clothing he was wearing and the lights on his bike." Yes hi-viz is the ultimate safety tool. RIP Aran Potkin

Kudos to anyone who maintains their own media library. Seems to be that I'm always fixing metadata, ans fighting with something. Today is was DLNA not playing nice with one of the clients and SD cards eating themselves.

@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Please could you follow me back so that I can reply to your posts? Thanks

One more negative of SUVs. Cleaning them and scraping the windscreen requires either go go gadget arms or a step ladder.

Vehicles take a lot of cleaning when the aren't used much.

CDs are not dead. Just totted up and I've acquired 38 of them this year. I was amazed at those shiny disks as a kid. They seemed really futuristic back then.

I start my new job Monday. New employer would like me to be in the office on the first day. A 330 mile round trip. To take the train is £280. I would have to drag my folding bike along and mask up. To drive, probably around £30 in fuel.

Here are two incidents from just the past 4 months of teen drivers involved in fatal crashes here in the East Bay. I know of no incidents wrt teen ebike riders involved in fatal crashes here. The ebike outrage is dangerously misplaced. www.ktvu.com/news/wrong-w... www.ktvu.com/news/girl-di...

If there is not enough money to pay for public services, why does the Government not just make more? The Government are responsible for the suoply of money, after all.

When the media reports a driver hitting and almost killing a cyclist with a headline such as "Cyclist Seriously Injured In Collision" we know our media and our journalists are corrupted. They set out to distort and misrepresent.

I do like a belt drive on a bike. Yes, they are not as efficient as a chain. However they do save time cleaning, lubricating, messing with chain cases and they stop you from getting oil marks on your thighs/trouser legs. There is a reason my belt drive bike is my highest mileage bike.

I miss that Brox. broxcompact.blogspot.com?m=1

Introduce yourself with 5 motorcycles you’ve owned Kawasaki KMX 125 Suzuki Bandit Honda Fireblade Kawasaki ZXR 400 KTM 540 EXC

Introduce yourself with 5 cars you’ve owned MG Metro Ford Escort Mk IV VW Beetle VW Type 2 BMW E36

Introduce yourself with 5 cycles you've owned: Raleigh Totally Extreme Peugeot Audax Brox Quadcycle Pedicab Trek District 4 Specialized Tarmac SL7

Good to see another road safety campaign both informed by actual research and targetting the source of the danger on the public highway. /sarcasm

Being off work, dog's walk times have all slipped back a bit. Twice I have seen a mum and her three daughters cycling, presumably on nursery/school trips. Youngest ~4. Oldest ~8. Total admiration from me. Especially with the youngest riding her own bike. Even in car-centric places it's possible.

Who, earning the NL Wage, can afford an EV? Never mind the shaky set of assumptions this budget is based on. Inflation receding to 2%? Not likely. Interest rates forecast to remain high. Investment (corporate and public) remaining low. The façade depicting stability will give out before long.

Car manufacturers are banks, or rather lenders, that just happen to sell cars. Bigger margins on the finance than the cars themselves. I don't think they actually like it when customers roll up and buy them outright. At least not in my experience.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: Radiohead Evanescence David Gray Elbow Err thats it. Unless we can count supporting acts/festivals.

Intrpduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: Radiohead Evanescence David Gray Elbow Err thats it. Unless we can count supporting acts/festivals.

So where is the BSky Zwift Cycling Club at?

I'm so sorry my existence delayed your next red light by 10 seconds.

I am so sick of this lie being sold to the public. It's economically illiterate. Yes indeed we DO have a magic money tree. We're a sovereign nation.

I need an e-bike for zwift

Energy companies should be nationalised and profit should be taken out of the equation. Privatise energy companies making £billions in profit as the less well off freeze is not okay. As for reducing energy costs for manufacturers - more corporate welfare from Labour.

Email address validation should support sub (plus) addressing. People who don't understand '[email protected]' is a valid email address should not be allowed to implement validation on web forms. /rant

Hell riding a non e-town-bike at a decent pace is enough to get tarred as an e-biker by the ignorant IME.