Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

LNR

@lnr.bsky.social

790 followers 490 following 4.3K posts

Geek, Cyclist, Parent, UCU, Goth, Knitter, Cis, Bi, Fat, Queer. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Other places you may know me from: https://lnr.dreamwidth.org/650568.html Trans rights are human rights.

lnr.dreamwidth.org

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 13h

I don't have enough savings for it to be worth even having an ISA at all any more, but I'm not sure this will net the govt enough to be worth the image it gives.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 18h

You, and @georgepenney.bsky.social

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 20h

The Dark Is Rising also lends itself to reading like that over Christmas.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 21h

I rather enjoy Dracula Daily for this very reason, though it ends up rather oddly paced in places.

1 1

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

"What are you trying to say here?" ?

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

Good!

Though this was one of the very few areas where the proposed new EHRC guidance was somewhat clear and sensible!

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

Tesco appear to be cheaper than Boots (at least round us).

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

This one is from the late 70s :)

A toddler in a yellow top and brown dungarees sits on the hearth of a fireplace, next to a typical gas fire, holding a duplo brick and grinning, while chewing her fingers.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

When they should still be making it *easier* not harder!

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, 29 is only a bit short on me (and 31 is a bit long. I want my 30" legs back!)

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

A friend broke their leg at Versailles, at the point when we'd all split up in little groups in the grounds. I was the one talking to members of palace staff in very broken aged-14 French trying to get them to help find the teachers.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

Horseshoe! Just what I needed! Horseshoe shaped jeans.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

They do seem to have both short/petite and extra-short as options online. And a baffling selection of widths/styles including such items as "girlfriend" "boyfriend" "wide" "extreme flare" and "barrel leg" ?!?

The shops seem to have gone for wide aisles and fewer actual clothes and feel a bit sad.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

Oh FFS, M&S have two pairs of jeans that look like this sort of shape - and they're both out of stock in regular length in my size. Every other size is available, just not mine. *sigh*

1 1

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

It's the "We're taking the hobbits to Isengard" for older people.

1 3

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

I've pretty much liked the same jeans since about the 90s. Black, mid-rise, straight leg, a bit of stretch (that's a more modern addition). Not that I currently *have* any jeans that fit.

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 2d

My fashion advice for buying jeans is: buy the jeans you like and ignore absolute bullshit like this.

2 1

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

The bravest little hobbit of them all.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

Ah damn,this is the right answer

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

Lettuce, guacamole, bacon and tomato.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

While I totally understand the aversion to it, particularly when it's associated with near disaster, I'm with you. But perhaps eating it every day for a month might not be a good idea for a type 2 diabetic even in near remission. Quite tempted to buy *one* bar now though.

Reposted by LNR

j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 2d

These takes always conflate two very different types of safety. The danger of not being very good at riding a bike is that you might fall off & graze your knee, or if very unlucky, break a bone. The danger of sharing the road with cars is that someone might kill you because they're texting.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

What if we made the infrastructure good enough that "experience" wasn't required? What if we made the infrastructure robust enough so that cycling in Boston *is* incredibly safe?

This post is vehicular cycling nonsense.

What’s your Boston Cycling Hot Take?

What’s your Boston Cycling hot take?

Mine is that I think Blue Bikes have democratized cycling a bit too much. They handle terrible and it encourages non-cyclists to ride a machine they have little experience with. We need a little elitism in cycling to weed out the folks who do not have experience riding bikes in a city.

Bonus hot take: while Boston was in dire need to upgrade its almost nonexistent bike Infrastructure, there is a small but vocal minority of cyclists who insist on safety at all costs. I hate to break it to you, but riding in a city will never be completely safe. It’s a risk that any cyclist takes when they decide to ride in a busy place. The more you ride, the more experience you will get. And the more experience you will get the more you will adapt to riding in moldy stressful situations.

4 8 41

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

One of those days where there's a litre of milk best before today and you find a perfect windfall bramley in the woods and crumble becomes an inevitability. (Added a pink lady from the fruit bowl and some mixed berries from the freezer). Full now.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 3d

I am tired of men telling me I should be scared of trans women.