What’s the maximum speed you feel safe cycling in a city and why? For me it’s somewhere around 30kph/20mph - above that the speed of having to deal with ‘situations’ (holes in road, dipshits walking into traffic, cars turning across you etc) gets stressful. Why do car drivers feel 50-60kph is safe?

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

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English: coriander American: cilantro English: courgette American: zucchini English: paedophile American: President It’s hard to remember all these linguistic differences.

Idea for performance art: Either one person on phone or two people in conversation, and discuss a completely insane narrative to hook bystander tables into listening. Like a small theatre production for an unsuspecting audience.

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Man walking down the street screaming “how can they show their face with dignity and pride when they goddamn lie all the time. ALL THE TIME!!” So many possibilities.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

Good to see that Donald Trump can see that total surrender is on the table.

I wonder if it will turn out that AI is the most incredible tool for academic research (eg bio, maths etc) but has no viable economic application for any routine human task. That it is at once wonderful and useless. That the techbros have built the most ivory tower tech ever with no business plan.

Resonancia Installation / PPAA - https://www.archdaily.com/1181998/resonancia-ppaa

Resonancia Installation / PPAA

Completed in 2026 in Logroño, Spain. Images by Josema Cutillas, Milo Huet. Logroño City Hall, designed by Rafael Moneo, was conceived as a fragment of the city rather than as an autonomous object. Its architecture not only...

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www.mirror.co.uk/sport/golf/g...

Golf course where North Korea leader 'scored 11 holes-in-one in first round'

Stunning pictures of Pyongyang Golf Course show where Kim Jong-il - current leader Kim Jong-un’s father - played his one and only game and outshone every pro golfer who ever lived

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”

Brilliant clear thread on wacko octopus ribosomes.

Meg Mindlin@invertebabe.bsky.social · last wk.

New research just dropped today that makes octopuses even weirder than they already are… let me explain🧵🧪🐙🐡🦑

Stages of run today in this insane humidity: I am wet from rain Oh no I am wet from sweat I am still wet from sweat I am wet from shower I am wet from sweat again Beurgh.

Once again the US has failed to control its weather, resulting in yet another US storm front invading Canada

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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When it comes to Trump’s money laundering, this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Trump Soho laundered Russian mob money. Trump Panama laundered drug cartel money. Trump Azerbaijan laundered Iranian Revolutionary Guard money. Florida real estate was used to launder Russian oligarch money.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago

🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/

I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center

The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity

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I don’t think even many of those who have come to recognize Donald Trump's extreme narcissism and his sociopathy have any idea how dangerous this phase of his pathology is. When malignant narcissists go down, they try to take as many people as they can with them.

Listen- If you are going to feed my unpublished paper into an AI data set, can you at least delete the prompt from your review before submitting? Not only is this unethical but it's a goddamn waste of my time. I'd rather have gotten a desk reject.

Over and over the cycle repeats: Bad tech do bad thing Politicians: make bad tech not to bad thing? Companies: no bad thing make money Politicians: ah okay keep doing bad thing just add more spy

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 5d ago

The new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I'm absolutely furious that facts and information like this are allowed on social media while every Reform MP is working so hard to spread misinformation and lies and stir up our gullible supporters who will believe any old bollocks.

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵

Nigerian cycling kit appreciation post (Commonwealth Games edition)

The Avlí Houses / Ona i Ona Architecture and Design - https://www.archdaily.com/1181483/the-avli-houses-ona-i-ona-architecture-and-design

The Avlí Houses / Ona i Ona Architecture and Design

Completed in 2025 in Paralimni, Cyprus. Images by Creative Photo Room, Maria Efthymiou. The Avlí Houses (Avlí: Αυλή = courtyard) reinterpret the archetype of the Cypriot courtyard house, creating a contemporary multi-generational summer...

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@raxkingisdead.bsky.social is great. And this is the take. I enjoyed Nolan's film, and will watch again when it's available at home. But "Oh Brother" is an all-timer.

Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 6d ago

TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on Oh Brother Where Art Thou?'s thrillingly loose, modern and musical adaptation of The Odyssey. "It can develop or dismiss any parts of the source material as it sees fit in order to kick the maximum possible amount of ass." flaminghydra.com/issue-618/#f...

Is it smart to tell your enemy in a war “we will bomb you to make you surrender but don’t worry we will stop by Monday so it won’t spook our markets but definitely definitely surrender ok”? Hard to say.