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Bread and Rosie

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🏳️‍🌈 🚲 😷 She/her. pfp: black and white photo of me, dark circles painted under eyes as though extremely tired, black lipstick, collar of black faux-fur coat

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · Sep 21

If anyone needs me, I'll be riding my bicycle through an enchanted forest.

Dirt path through trees and bushes like a tunnel, light shining on path in distance, green gravel bike propped against a tree

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1h

As well as being a short walk from the station - although not inconsiderable if you have mobility issues and/or are transporting anything heavy - these bus stops are both unsheltered, so if it's raining, you and your belongings will get soaked.

Arriva Buses saying fuck bus users.

Blyth's Northumberland Line train station bus stop snub 'madness'

North East Mayor Kim McGuinness says bus services should be stopping at Newsham Station.

www.bbc.com

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 19h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 15h

Tbf, having to pay for a heated seat subscription would probably have saved me from that time I nearly burned my & several family members' asses by not realising the heated seats were on as hot as they would go & then not being able to find anywhere to pull over & work out how to turn them off/down.

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 19h

It's weird that we just don't talk about how that happens when you make porridge.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 21h

If you say you support something that is not the status quo but your only engagement with the subject is to be negative about it and your only expressions of support are in the context of deflecting criticism of that negativity, you do not - in any meaningful way - support the thing.

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · Jan 28

A lot of nominally left wing people who were very intent to remind everyone that not everyone can wear a mask in 2021 were very quick to flip to "anyone who wants to avoid infection can just wear a mask" the second mask mandates (such as they were) were dropped.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 1d

Liberals clutching their pearls on this site when told that not masking to protect others in essential public spaces is ableist. Instead of getting angry, they should reflect on how they can do better

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of people seem to have a new cough that "definitely isn't infectious" and also doesn't require them to cover their mouths.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Omg

Keir Starmer inexplicably turned around staring at the wall in a press conference with various world leaders, after being embarrassed by Trump.

The end scene of the Blair Witch Project, with Mike standing in the corner facing the wall in the basement.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Staff working with elderly and disabled service users have been advised to travel to work in racially mixed groups and carry panic alarms....It comes against a backdrop of charities also warning of growing intimidation, racial abuse and threats of violence towards staff and beneficiaries.'

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1d

I've ridden a lot of bike lanes that felt like this but I'd never seen one that actually looks like this before.

trick van treat @derek.bike · 1d

good morning to the bike lane big finish designers

photo of a bike lane going down a ramp and leading to a concrete wall with a dumpster in front of it

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 1d

signing up for the hot new linguistic dating site

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1d

It really makes you think about language & concepts - are lower limbs & table legs both legs in Italian too? (Yes.) But it is making the task unnecessarily difficult. Especially as my puns have been described as "thorough" (which I would argue is not antithetical to "fun" but some would disagree.)

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Transport for All @transportforall.org.uk · 1d

So much of the conversation about cycling assumes two wheels and lycra. But it’s far broader. For many Disabled people, cycling is mobility. Trikes, recumbents, handcycles, e-bikes, tandems can be aids to freedom and independence.

Wheels for Wellbeing @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk · 5d

In this clip, Wheels4Me loan recipient, Jeremy tells us how having access to cycling has helped him reconnect with his family & get back to doing things that were important to him.

Watch the full video on YouTube & find out how you can trial a cycle yourself at wheels4me.co.uk

youtu.be/q-ZnnXd3M2s

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, I'm out. I should've known not to expect good faith in a thread starting with you complaining that a study didn't include something that it explicitly did include.

Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1d

Some of those will be reused but have a finite useful life, some could be reused but won't, some can't. They're not shedding microplastics in your house but they're still somewhere. And that's only from a plastics perspective.

Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1d

The plastic associated with shipping is part of the process though. As with production & packaging of those chemicals, veterinary care, cleaning products, producing, packaging & transporting animal feed, including producing & packaging pesticides - by no means exhaustive, lots of plastic use.

Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1d

I made it. 🥳🍦

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot of the problem is that the task is "use it in a sentence" and, despite my best efforts to do it normally, my brain interprets it as "use it in a pun."

Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 7d

For my Italian homework, I have to write a sentence using a specific idiom. The idiom exists in a very similar form in English except now I've thought about it so hard I can't use it in a sentence in English either.

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1d

Vegan leather uses plastic directly, while leather production uses lots of other plastic products to make fabric, & has other negative impacts. It'd take a lot of analysis to know how that balances out &, without that, it's simplistic to say leather is definitively the better environmental choice.

Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1d

Plastic and worse quality (than some leather products - the leather wore through on my most recent work uniform leather shoes in less than a year, far less than their vegan replacements) is fine, but the implication of your post is worse in the context of environmental impact - like a gotcha.

Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 1d

Again, I'm not actually arguing that vegan leather is better. But I am saying that I've never seen a thorough analysis that came to a concrete answer except from groups that used it to bolster the position they started with (leather industry and animal rights groups, respectively.)