First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
Cab Davidson
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Mad inventor. Rides bikes a lot. Plays D&D. Forager.
Woman on a bus (reading from an article): Have you ever discussed your fantasies with your partner? Her friend: Like the one where I’m in a cottage by the sea completely on my own with a book and a cup of tea?
One has to wonder whether Badenochs reticence to defenestrate a Tory candidate with a history of gross antisemitism and abuse is in part because of the precedent it would set in having to ditch many hundreds of candidates for routine Tory islamophobia.
Israel is burning the forests of Wadi al-Slouqi and Houla in South Lebanon. Not military targets. Forests, valleys, hills and entire ecosystems. This is not only an environmental crime. It is the deliberate erasure of a piece of Lebanon’s natural heritage. 💔😢💔😢🤬🇮🇱🤬🇮🇱♾️
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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It's always the exceptional hardship defence that gets them off a driving ban. If the hardship would be exceptional for losing their license, then they wouldn't speed. share.google/4NeTQD0PTRtK...
More than 4,000 drivers with 12 or more speeding points still allowed on the road
RAC calls on Government for repeat and excessive speeders to have Intervening Intelligent Speed Assistance devices fitted to prevent them reoffending
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And still people come out in public to defend speeding, whining that "people get caught out".
And to be honest labour and the libdems have little of note to say about this too. The northern hemisphere is on fire and heavily subsidised fossil fuel companies continue to rake it in.
I Am Incorrigible@imincorrigible.bsky.social · 14h agoEight of the world's biggest oil companies made a combined $93bn in just three months as the Iran war sent oil prices soaring. Europe and the UK are literally on fire from climate change caused by their product. And yet conservatives and right wing media view them as heroes. 🧵 #r4today
"I'm getting fed up with getting pulled by you guys, so this one will result in a complaint," says the driver with 59 points on his licence. 59 points, and still driving, and he didn't go to prison. The system is broken. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lincolnshire driver with 59 points on his licence avoids jail
Iain Ashmore, of Witham St Hughs, was caught driving on three occasions despite being disqualified.
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I'm just gonna say it, unless there's a health concern then checking underwear for aerodynamics is a step too far. Let 'em game their bra's if they want, its fine, the sport will survive.
Domestique@domestiquecycling.com · yesterdayRiders’ union demands clarity over 🌈 UCI bra checks at 🇫🇷 Tour de France Femmes 📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/how-... 📸 Cor Vos
“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...
National Highways closes walking and cycling routes beside heavily polluted roads
Roads body accused of 'perversely penalising' walkers and cyclists for motor traffic pollution
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For overseas folk - most of the pretty red boxes got removed, but lots came back as defibrilators, local community book swaps, places for notice boards, all sorts of things. There are still some serviceable phone boxes like this in tourist towns, but not many.
David Quantick@quantick.bsky.social · yesterdaySCENE: A man runs panicking from a murder scene. He knows he is the murderer's next victim. He runs to a phone box to call the police and leave the clue that will catch his killer. He flings open the door -
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A thread in the history of antibiotics that have not seen pulled before. Interesting.
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d agoPenicillin was not, in fact, the first antibiotic.
Flip it round @mrjamesob.bsky.social - if he's no longer a mad extremist, would he actually be in Badenochs Tory party?
Ben... Just don't. Please. I understand the desire to respect someone who has just died but at best the response here cannot be to eulogise a dreadful, shameful excuse of a man.
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
But this... I mean this is the most terrifying news report you'll ever see. Discussing epidemiology as a "the bible says, scientists speculate" eu.floridatoday.com/story/news/l...
BREAKING: The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.
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The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.
The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"Playful genius who poured petrol where others feared to tread." I know it's supposed to be a compliment, but.. where to start? Pouring petrol where it isn't meant to be? Not genius. Dangerously stupid. People afraid to tread? IDK, maybe that's 'cause some fuckwit poured a load of petrol there.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2d agoThe Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'
Incredible sight: Brioc, a replica high medieval leather boat, has sailed from Brittany all the way round England, Wales and now Scotland. The crew navigate, dress and cook exactly as their medieval counterparts would have⛵️ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0n259yx7no
“Doomsday Scenario’: How Trump and Republicans Could Steal Power – Even If They Lose” Jan. 3 could be the new Jan. 6 if Republicans challenge election wins by Democrats and try to steal power in the House. Read Part 1 of our new ‘Start the Steal’ series:
‘Doomsday Scenario’: How Trump and Republicans Could Steal Power – Even If They Lose
Jan. 3 could be the new Jan. 6 if Republicans challenge election wins by Democrats and try to steal power in the House.
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He mocked a trans person saying they couldn't know they were the wrong sex because they were blind. He compared trans identities to identifying as a dinosaur. He said of gays using lube “God's way of telling you that what you're about to do is unnatural and perverse.” Thats not wit, its just nasty
Leo Enright@ollopa11.bsky.social · 2d agoI am saddened by the tone of commentary in this place about my former BBC colleague. The level of vitriol seems more suited to the other place. I worked with Rod at the Today programme. He took no prisoners, but he was witty and personally capable of genuine warmth. My sympathy to his family.
It says a lot about a politician when 20% of people would rather vote for a bin.
