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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 6h

BMW X5
Audi Q7
Volvo XC90

Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 6h

What? more than 2,000kg (which is what it will be)?

BMW X7
Jaguar F pace
Range Rover
Kia EV6
Hyundai Santa Fe

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 7h

A picture of the actor Kathy Burke next to a quote attributed to her which says “I love being ‘woke’. It’s much nicer than being an ignorant fucking twat”

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 12h

Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that

www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams

ADF, a conservative Christian lobby group that counts among its allies JD Vance, has stated that its goal is to see abortion rights curtailed in Britain, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

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HumanTravl @humantravl.bsky.social · 11h

www.change.org/p/make-walki...

Sign the Petition

Make Walking Easy: Adopt the International Zebra Crossing Design on 20mph Streets

www.change.org

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 11h

Yep it was!

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 11h

Yes! Definitely.

I do miss dj-ing!

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 11h

If you haven’t already, check out Lamont Dozier’s version youtu.be/FdEwRm-kSJ0?...

Lamont Dozier - Going To My Roots (1977)

YouTube video by 000soul000

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 11h

As a hotel/wedding/corporate DJ it was perfect - double the length so one less song to come up with and mixable.

The original was always perfect for going between Motown and Disco, but the re-edit made it a proper rescue track - if I couldn’t think of something to play, put that on & people danced

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 11h

Rule 170 of the Highway Code now makes zebras at junctions without actually painting them or backing them up with a law.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 11h

I’d raise you the Dimitri From Paris re-edit of “I Want You Back” by Jackson 5. It’s brilliant and I now feel cheated when I listen to the original.

Honourable mention to the Jim Steinman produced version of “Never Forget” by Take That - completely over the top as only Steinman could do

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 12h

The number of cars on the road has doubled since I walked to school

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 12h

No. There isn’t.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

Or bike storage! As I found when they decided to replace the 800 with one of these and I sat on floor of the vestibule blocking the door with my bike for the 2hrs of Cardiff to London

Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

a woman is writing on a blackboard in a classroom .

ALT: a woman is writing on a blackboard in a classroom .

media.tenor.com

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

They’re the same people that write “I would of known”

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

I was full of hope when Labour got in. I loved Louise Haigh and Angela Raynor. Starmer was a bit boring, but I passed that off as serious.

Then Louise Haigh went then they played to the right, then Raynor went and they kept on playing to the right

You’ve brought hope back.

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 1d

Jobs said the Mac is a "bicycle for the mind". That vision of the Mac is now buried deeper than he is, but I suppose Linux is something akin to being a cyclist.

Everybody knows you're getting there in half the time they are, and for free, but they'll be fucked if they're ever trying it.

Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 1d

I am not going to tell you to use Linux, but what I am going to tell is you is it is *very* satisfying being your computer's boss and not the other way around.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

I’d have to sell my third favourite yacht 😉

On the plus side, now I only have to spend £67k per day for 40 years to spend it all.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 2d

Including travelling in a car?

Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 2d

Conveniently I was going very slowly anyway way, but it was intervals so I could have been coming down from a sprint. First proper ride on the new bike too. Hey ho. Could’ve been worse

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 2d

You know that moment when one of the bolts that holds your saddle to your seat post falls out and then your saddle falls off and bounces on the road? Yeah. That.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody said helmets weren’t beneficial, but you seem to only want them for cyclists when they’d save more lives if pedestrians and drivers wore them. The paper you quoted doesn’t prove or disprove the paper I quoted; they’re making two separate and distinct points.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 2d

As for the focus, you confirmed that it’s only cyclists you encourage to wear helmets not drivers or pedestrians, despite those two demographics having a greater risk of a head injury.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 2d

The standard for a bike helmet is a person’s head hitting 12mph a flat surface at 12mph. That’s someone 5’ 6” falling over. How far beyond that design brief do you think someone hitting you at 30mph with 2,000kg of metal is? And it’s not just me www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Bicycle Helmets Not Designed For Impacts From Cars, Stresses Leading Maker Giro

A leading bicycle helmet maker has stressed that bicycle helmets are not designed to mitigate impacts from motor vehicles.

www.forbes.com

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