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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 8h

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 · 10h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

Including travelling in a car?

Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

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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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 23h

No, indeed! You just don’t often see it!

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 23h

They increase the chances of being hit by someone in a car whilst providing no protection against such an impact.

But that’s not the issue. The issue is people calling for cyclists to wear one whilst ignoring people doing things more likely to get a head injury.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 23h

What have bike helmets got to do with concussion? No bike helmet in the world is designed to prevent concussion.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Keep it up, folks!

Together - hope is here!

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Exclusive: Greens Plan To 'Overtake Tories And Replace Labour' As Support Surges

The party has also seen its membership break through 100,000 for the first time.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 23h

I mean this is good anyway, but “conspiracy theorist loser” is brutal!

Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 1d

Jolly good.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Alex Jones loses Supreme Court bid to avoid paying $1.4B to Sandy Hook families

Lawyers for conspiracy theorist loser warned his website and assets will end up in the hands of his ‘nemesis’ and be ‘destroyed’ unless the justices get involved

www.independent.co.uk

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

This is definitely a petition I can support

James Latimer awaiting sequel to The Wolf and the Wild King 🐺👑 @jameslatimer.bsky.social · 1d

If only more people cared!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Petition: Require media retractions be made as visible as original headlines or articles

We think media companies should not be allowed to get away with printing false, misleading and malicious headlines, only to hide the retractions on interior pages or fine print some days later. Retrac...

petition.parliament.uk

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

I still wince now when I see someone with a kite within 5 miles of an electricity pylon.

Football in the substation was the other one embedded in my brain.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that’s naughty!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Former lord speaker faces suspension for ‘improper influence’ over speeding offence

Frances D’Souza wrote to Met commissioner in apparent attempt to evade sanction for exceeding 20mph speed limit Former lord speaker Frances D’Souza is facing suspension from the Lords after writing to the Metropolitan police commissioner to try to “influence a police investigation into alleged speeding offences”. Lady D’Souza wrote to Mark Rowley saying she feared she would have to give up attending parliament if she were banned from driving for exceeding the limit in a 20mph zone. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

“Easily up to 30mph”? Maybe you can ride that fast, not many people can.

You’re twice as likely to get a head injury walking to the shops as you are riding a bike there.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

Right. There’s a greater risk of a head injury in a car, even with airbags and seatbelts and a giant metal cage, than there is on a bike.

And you’re right; you’re not my mother. My mum knows that bike helmets don’t do much.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

It’s obscene.

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

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Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 1d

If I had £1bn and someone made me pay 1% of it, I’d still have £990,000,000.

If I’m lucky I’ll live for another 40 yrs. I’d have to spend nearly £70k per day, every day (and shops close early on a Sunday) for the rest of my life in order to spend that £990m.

Cont..

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 1d

The Reform mask has slipped.

They'll always put bad bosses ahead of the rights of working people.

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