Bernard the Badger
@thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social
MTB, gravel and road bike rider. Avid bicycle race watcher. Occasional snowboard turner. Art dabbler. 🇺🇦🇬🇧🏳️⚧️
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This is your city on driverless cars.
A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.
sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...
A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.
sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...
December 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is your city on driverless cars.
A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.
sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...
A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.
sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...
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Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
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An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼
December 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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The idea of “imported” violence against women and girls is a deeply comforting fiction - one that allows people to avoid looking at where it actually happens: within our homes and behind closed doors.
The Violence Isn’t Imported. It’s Domestic.
Kemi Badenoch’s attempt to blame violence against women on migrants doesn’t just collapse under scrutiny - it actively distracts us from where the harm really happens, and who is actually responsible.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The idea of “imported” violence against women and girls is a deeply comforting fiction - one that allows people to avoid looking at where it actually happens: within our homes and behind closed doors.
Would appear God does love inflicting ‘acts of’ on their own houses of worship. Cheeky blighter.
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
December 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Would appear God does love inflicting ‘acts of’ on their own houses of worship. Cheeky blighter.
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In this story, I reported how counter-terror police warned the Palestine Action ban was creating "a lot of noise in the system that risks detracting from our core mission"
New stats show it drove terror arrests up from 248 to 1,886 in the last year
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
New stats show it drove terror arrests up from 248 to 1,886 in the last year
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
Ban a Pro-Palestinian Group? The U.K. Government Thought Few Would Care.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
In this story, I reported how counter-terror police warned the Palestine Action ban was creating "a lot of noise in the system that risks detracting from our core mission"
New stats show it drove terror arrests up from 248 to 1,886 in the last year
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
New stats show it drove terror arrests up from 248 to 1,886 in the last year
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
Interesting La Vuelta route for 2026. Starting in Monaco. Finishing in Granada. And luckily for me, stage 12 passes 10 mins from my parents house. And stage 13, finishes in the town, Loja, they lived near for 15 years. So Spain in September is calling 😊
www.lavuelta.es/en/
www.lavuelta.es/en/
Official website of La Vuelta
La Vuelta is one of the leading cycling races in the international calendar. 21 stages, three weeks of competition between August and September, and more than 3,000 km covering the Spanish geography, ...
www.lavuelta.es
December 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Interesting La Vuelta route for 2026. Starting in Monaco. Finishing in Granada. And luckily for me, stage 12 passes 10 mins from my parents house. And stage 13, finishes in the town, Loja, they lived near for 15 years. So Spain in September is calling 😊
www.lavuelta.es/en/
www.lavuelta.es/en/
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This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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A new women-led team, The Hera Project, has entered the UK domestic scene ahead of 2026.
thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/12/16/n...
thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/12/16/n...
December 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A new women-led team, The Hera Project, has entered the UK domestic scene ahead of 2026.
thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/12/16/n...
thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/12/16/n...
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An article in the Financial Times argued that Britain should “fall in love with cars again” and invest in more motorways.
Here’s why the economic argument is flawed and why we should not.
open.substack.com/pub/pinecono...
Here’s why the economic argument is flawed and why we should not.
open.substack.com/pub/pinecono...
Should Britain Fall Back in Love with Cars?
A response to Tim Leunig's call for Britain to fall back in love with cars
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
An article in the Financial Times argued that Britain should “fall in love with cars again” and invest in more motorways.
Here’s why the economic argument is flawed and why we should not.
open.substack.com/pub/pinecono...
Here’s why the economic argument is flawed and why we should not.
open.substack.com/pub/pinecono...
Your pilot today, aboard this AA154 flight to Washington, is inexperienced and unqualified. We wish you a safe journey. It’ll be fine. It’s probably a good thing.
A level of discussion only previously seen or heard when a Talksport phone-in host "just puts it out there" on a night when the number of callers is extremely low.
December 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Your pilot today, aboard this AA154 flight to Washington, is inexperienced and unqualified. We wish you a safe journey. It’ll be fine. It’s probably a good thing.
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
The liberal wokerati are cancelling Christmas!!
In other news, passed by at least 25 Father Christmas and a spattering of elves on my morning bike ride. Bloody wokies riding their bloody bikes!
In other news, passed by at least 25 Father Christmas and a spattering of elves on my morning bike ride. Bloody wokies riding their bloody bikes!
December 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The liberal wokerati are cancelling Christmas!!
In other news, passed by at least 25 Father Christmas and a spattering of elves on my morning bike ride. Bloody wokies riding their bloody bikes!
In other news, passed by at least 25 Father Christmas and a spattering of elves on my morning bike ride. Bloody wokies riding their bloody bikes!
Illuminating article on a Reform local council.
‘I ask him why he voted Reform. “I thought it was going to change Great Britain for the good.” ‘ oh well, maybe next time…and the next, and the next.
‘I ask him why he voted Reform. “I thought it was going to change Great Britain for the good.” ‘ oh well, maybe next time…and the next, and the next.
What happens when Reform UK takes over your local council? I’ve been keeping very close tabs on Lancashire County Council since May for this magazine piece www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like
Nigel Farage’s party is gunning for power – so what is it like in the places where they’ve already got it? We embedded with Lancashire county council to find out what happens when rhetoric meets reali...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Illuminating article on a Reform local council.
‘I ask him why he voted Reform. “I thought it was going to change Great Britain for the good.” ‘ oh well, maybe next time…and the next, and the next.
‘I ask him why he voted Reform. “I thought it was going to change Great Britain for the good.” ‘ oh well, maybe next time…and the next, and the next.
it can pick your kids up from school’…or we could order society around the idea that kids deserve autonomy & freedom & can walk/bike to school safely, first with parents and then, once old enough, independently. And then parents are also free to run errands, walking, biking, public transport etc
I hope you like gridlock!
"[Rivian CEO] Scaringe said he was 'very bullish' on his cars being self-driving in the next couple of years, such that 'you can own a car, but it can drop you at the airport, it can pick your kids up from school, it can go get things from the store for you.'"
"[Rivian CEO] Scaringe said he was 'very bullish' on his cars being self-driving in the next couple of years, such that 'you can own a car, but it can drop you at the airport, it can pick your kids up from school, it can go get things from the store for you.'"
Rivian's CEO said self-driving cars shouldn't just be able to drive, but also run errands for you like a secretary
CEO RJ Scaringe said he wants his AI-powered cars to be able to coordinate their own servicing, so their owners don't have to.
www.businessinsider.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
it can pick your kids up from school’…or we could order society around the idea that kids deserve autonomy & freedom & can walk/bike to school safely, first with parents and then, once old enough, independently. And then parents are also free to run errands, walking, biking, public transport etc
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None of this could Bullshizz. E-bikes/bikes WILL continue to revolutionise urban transportation and be far less damaging than a techlord’s wet dream flying taxi fantasy.
Flying taxis could be in UK skies from 2028 and end up being as cheap as an Uber
Flying taxis could be in UK skies from 2028 and end up being as cheap as an Uber
Electric flying taxis with speeds of up to 150mph could soon be available to UK passengers, with plans to gain approval for commercial flights as early as 2028.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
None of this could Bullshizz. E-bikes/bikes WILL continue to revolutionise urban transportation and be far less damaging than a techlord’s wet dream flying taxi fantasy.
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NEW | The countdown of this year’s most contemptible columns continues…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
Our annual look at the commentariat's most contemptuous content continues.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
NEW | The countdown of this year’s most contemptible columns continues…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
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Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers.
If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.
INCLUDING DRIVERS.
The “war on cars” has always been a lie.
If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.
INCLUDING DRIVERS.
The “war on cars” has always been a lie.
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers.
If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.
INCLUDING DRIVERS.
The “war on cars” has always been a lie.
If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.
INCLUDING DRIVERS.
The “war on cars” has always been a lie.
Note to self: check sealant is good before winter. Don’t leave it until a wet and miserable ride and a puncture reveals said sealant is dry as a bone and won’t seal. And the valve lock nut won’t undo. So can’t remove valve and fit a tube. (Luckily, Sister only a 15min push away, with pliers!)
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Note to self: check sealant is good before winter. Don’t leave it until a wet and miserable ride and a puncture reveals said sealant is dry as a bone and won’t seal. And the valve lock nut won’t undo. So can’t remove valve and fit a tube. (Luckily, Sister only a 15min push away, with pliers!)
What would Jesus have done? Why, he would have blown these buggers into a million bloody pieces with hellfire missiles. The Bible tells us so.
She compares the boat strikes to Jesus breaking the sabbath to heal someone.
December 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What would Jesus have done? Why, he would have blown these buggers into a million bloody pieces with hellfire missiles. The Bible tells us so.
Dom Whiting giving it some in London. I love how this mobile micromobility party has grown from just him and a mate. People love to party and love human scale mobility!
youtu.be/9k2CnY5rCzM?...
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Drum & Bass On The Bike - LONDON Night Ride Special
YouTube video by Dom Whiting
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December 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Dom Whiting giving it some in London. I love how this mobile micromobility party has grown from just him and a mate. People love to party and love human scale mobility!
youtu.be/9k2CnY5rCzM?...
youtu.be/9k2CnY5rCzM?...