This weekend @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social of @thewaroncars.bsky.social were speaking at a cute bookstore in Oxford, and it felt like such a unique opportunity so I made the trip! Wonderful to feel part of a movement rather than like an oddball for once 😅. So glad I went!

Quinn Simmons wearing a trans ally jersey??!! Awesome to see the jerseys on display, but isn't Simmons a Trump-supporting, Joe Rogan-listening piece of work?

Waitrose essentials muesli has too much nice stuff in it, (in a bad way) balance is way off. Eating an entire breakfast bowl of sultanas, coconut flakes, and hazelnuts, and getting an occasional rolled oat every other spoonful... have some modesty for goodness sake, Waitrose.

Got a new e-reader and was excited to use it but wth is with the pricing of some e-books?! Is this a case of "Some publishers trawl through university reading lists, find the commonly used titles, classify these as e-textbooks rather than ebooks and raise the price" that I read about?? #ebooksos

I do not want to watch the orca ram the sunfish so hard it explodes

My beautiful sons. #pathfinder #minipainting #miniaturepainting

20 days since I suffered my stroke and just been out for a decent bike ride. was brilliant to get out but still felt slightly detached, like when you try to run in a dream. I really hope it will come back with time and I can get back to the fitness I once had. #youngstroke #TIA #cycling

Originally planned to buy this as an e-book, but realised this is one book I'd really want to be loaning out to friends and family #thewaroncars #lifeaftercars

train worker waking me up to check my ticket

Sometimes I see artists do little tutorial sketches for how to properly draw folds in clothes and stuff. I'd love to see one for how to faithfully reproduce the way Trump's soft, doughy neck is pulled taught and gathered at the knot of his tie.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last yr.

Trump is not too pleased with the photo they used of him in TIME Magazine

Cycling home from work I passed a field of cows and the young ones watched me and I said "hey!" to them like you might to a dog and they stopped chewing to think about what I'd said and I guess that isn't really anything at all but I'm glad I wasn't in a car.

I'm getting some absolutely stellar customer service from @galibiervelo.bsky.social at the moment. Their kit is some of the best performing I've used, and easily the best value. What a cool company.

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

My wife actually suggested to ME that we watch the new Tour de France: Unchained season! Then a few minutes in the monkeys paw curls as she insists we keep it on dubbed...

At midnight, Palestine Action will be proscribed under the Terrorism Act. Their real “crime”? Exposing the UK’s role in arming Israel’s genocide. This is a dark day for our democracy. Criminalising non-violent resistance won’t silence the truth. We are all Palestine Action 🇵🇸

Thank you @beetlemoses.bsky.social for the finishing touches to my office room! Monkey quadfecta 👌

Journalist speaking to a Trump supporter who is becoming concerned about the economy. "You voted for Trump?" "I did... I did..." "And what do you think now? Do you still support him?" "Well I'm not a quitter..." Fuck sake dude. Change your mind. What is this attitude?

Enjoying #MHWilds but still not crash-free. Probably averaging a crash every two hours or so. Super annoying mid-hunt 😡

Asking "willst though grant me succor?" to my colleague when I want to borrow their USB-C charging cable.

Today thing that you are likely not going to see in your usual news channel:

Did a big Audax today and had to navigate this. Water came up to the wheel axles.

Heard on the news this morning that some guy killed his daughter by withholding her insulin, and he was acquitted of murder (got manslaughter instead) because he "believed god would save her". What the fuck. Where does that argument end?

"How the fuck do I turn off the AI assistant" is a phrase that is coming to define my existence. I'll be saying this every hour or so, every day, for the rest of my life.

January 19

There's this set of 4-way traffic lights on my commute. Their default is all lights on red until they detect traffic. Unfortunately, they use an induction loop. On my bike at 06:00am, they don't detect me. I either have to wait several minutes until a driver arrives for my direction, or go on red.

Just tried TrainingPeaks Virtual as it's free at the moment. Found it to be... complete garbage. UI is awful on phone. It stopped changing thing resistance on my trainer part way through (could be my trainer), and it won't sync data in either direction with other apps. Account deleted after one ride

Rode my bike a bunch!

My Garmin is dead 😔 Was working totally fine previous ride, and now simply won't turn on. 2 years out if it seems rubbish, and would ordinarily seek a different brand now... But the thought of yet another sign up and another app... I guess that's me, a mug, stuck in the ecosystem like they wanted.

I guess I do think that people should feel some form of shame or embarrassment for choosing to drive something that takes up more of our public space and has greater destructive power. If their own conscience doesn't do that for them, imposing mild rejection towards them seems like leadership?

Stephen Frost@sfrost.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bravo Cardiff. Absolutely the right thing to do. Local parking reforms have a big role to play in reducing the number of large cars on our roads with all the benefits this brings - for safety, climate, air quality, space in our crowded public realm and, as mentioned here, road maintenance