Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

True story. Via @xkcd.com

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

It seriously blows my mind that the other reporters present let him get away with that. That they didn’t show support for their colleague, and stand up for their profession. Cowards.

How's it going folks? [79] #UkrainianView

Driving an SUV is paying more for the same thing BUT MORE DANGEROUSLY Paying more to kill more. That is an awful way to behave. The public roads are not the hunting grounds for your colonial Safari.

Can you imagine YOUR city like this? Why not, more to the point. All road deaths are a decision made at all levels of Government, within the courts, and to a large extent within the manufacturing of cars and the marketing of them. It doesn't have to be this way.

Traffic deaths are policy choices.

New data shows that since @mayoroflondon.bsky.social launched the Direct Vision Standard lorry safety scheme in London we've seen: 📉a 50% fall in people killed & seriously injured by HGVs ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️six fewer fatalities every year tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/pedestr...

Steeds meer pesticiden met pfas www.nieuweoogst.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Driving an SUV is paying more for the same thing BUT MORE DANGEROUSLY Paying more to kill more. That is an awful way to behave. The public roads are not the hunting grounds for your colonial Safari.

With the world heating up [and more pedestrians being killed], why are more SUVs being sold? “It’s the industry that has driven the demand through huge marketing & advertising campaigns in recent years. SUVs offered the industry a simple way of charging more for a vehicle that does the same thing.”

Just think about what we have let onto Australian city streets with no requirement for additional training of drivers, no additional speed restriction in built up areas and no regular testing on licence renwal Maybe thats why pedestrian death rates have increased www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

This is my average-height wife next to one of the Dodge RAM trucks (called “utes” here in NZ) that are becoming more common on our roads. I contend nobody needs a vehicle this large in an urban setting. It’s purely for self-esteem.

Journalist Eric Smit heeft vanmiddag op zijn Linkedin een reactie geplaatst op de uitleg van NRC

Een aantal partijen in de Tweede Kamer die menen de de volkswil te representeren (BBB, PVV, FVD, JA21) representeren duidelijk niet de wetenschappelijke consensus. Wie dat soort iodicratie-aanhangers in een regering zet, zoals de VVD vol overtuiging deed, sloopt de samenleving op gewetenloze wijze.

Over 'verhoudingen' #Klimaatwetenschappers wereldwijd 2025: Duidelijk 🙂 (in Trouw)

Funny how the usual "think about the kids" gang is completely silent about these monsters on our roads..

Logica. ‘Links’ (welk kabinet? Den Uyl?) maakt de visserij kapot, dus daarom: zwarte pieten! Dat zal ‘links’ leren, dat wij vissers van hun beleid (uit 1975?) voor de visserij demonstratief racist worden. Nu hun weer!

I find it terribly disappointing that a quality brand like Woom makes these cheap ass choices. 2 months. Around 800, but certainly no more than 1000 km and very much worn. I'll probably have to replace the chain before Christmas. Which is ridiculous for a (kids) bicycle.

Cycling is an great part of parenting. I like proper stuff or my kids. We have had a lot of Wooms. I love these bikes, but they tend to put really shitty poor quality parts of them. Case in point, a 2 months old bike for my 7 yr old daughter. The chain is worn and now well beyond its half life.

This is the price we are paying for not smashing russia into the ground when they started their unjust war against Ukraine. Putin is evil but the russians do learn ......

Goede politieke analyse.

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

Waarom publiceert NRC wel over de app van Wijers dat Yesilgoz een 'feeks' zou zijn, maar niet over de bomaanslag op een vliegveldcriticus? Komt dat doordat NRC en De Telegraaf beide eigendom zijn van Mediahuis? Twee kikkers in dezelfde mand? Overigens is benaming 'feeks' nog veel te vriendelijk..

This is the price we are paying for not smashing russia into the ground when they started their unjust war against Ukraine. Putin is evil but the russians do learn ......

Ik herhaal: Baas in eigen buik.

Russians hit the Dnipro warehouse of one of the country's two largest pharmaceutical distributors, Optima-Pharm. Russian bombing campaigns now target food and pharmaceutical warehouses, clearly intending to cause a humanitarian disaster.

Juist. Wetenschap is geen Winkel van Sinkel waar je kan halen wat je wilt. Kinderachtig gezanik met andere woorden.

En laten we het vooral niet hebben over de leugens van Yeșilgöz en de machinaties van uiterst rechts om rechtsstaat en democratie te saboteren.

Cycling is an great part of parenting. I like proper stuff or my kids. We have had a lot of Wooms. I love these bikes, but they tend to put really shitty poor quality parts of them. Case in point, a 2 months old bike for my 7 yr old daughter. The chain is worn and now well beyond its half life.

Confirmed: 4x S-400 launchers and 2x radars confirmed destroyed in the Novorossiysk strike. SBU's Alpha unit conducted this strike, and there is a high chance that other air defence equipment nearby was damaged in the explosion and fire as well. This is a big loss for Russia.🔥

I call them Murder-weagons

They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school. And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this. This is not a serious society.

Let op mensen, de Trump-kliek probeert de boel hier over te nemen en de rechtse partijen staan te trappelen om ze hierbij te helpen.

“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.

Love to bike to work through the middle of the vehicular manslaughter arms race

So funny 😆

"Golden age of law enforcement" are by far the scariest word I read today....

This is simply outrageous. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Let us not forget: every russian accusation is a confession. Day after day, the moscow-centered terrorist organization hurls absurd claims at others to mask its own crimes, a propaganda tactic so crude it would make Goebbels proud. Here are just a few examples 🧵👇 1/9

WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.

Dit is hoe het Europa breed opschuiven naar extreem-rechts er in de praktijk uitziet: www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/l...

This is a very good must see. There are gems like this youtu.be/pRPduRHBhHI?...

Toddlers don't have to eat vegetables, a new classified toddler memo announced.

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

And how exactly are they going to ban VPNs? 1stly, many simply run over Https, and are indistinguishable from other Https traffic. Also, LOADS of companies and gov departments are critically reliant on VPNs. This is what you get when techno-idiots get to make laws.

This is just insane. VPN use is legal and not just used by ppl circumventing the crap and pointless online safety act. This is nothing more than an attempted authoritarian power grab that North Korea would be proud of.

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.