A rare request from me. One of the things I'm involved with is I co-own a small business, selling sustainable catering disposables to the trade and individuals. We're trying to clear a load of old stock. This is niche but would love as many people as poss to see this. singleusealternatives.co.uk

Home - Single Use Alternatives - Simple. Affordable. Less Plastic.

Biodegradable catering disposable alternatives to single use plastic. For businesses, schools, fêtes, garden parties, festivals, homes and more...

singleusealternatives.co.uk

Cardle 1/5 Streak 1🔥 Total Score 91 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com Quite proud of that one

I’m on holiday in Dorset and discovered gracesfudge.com I can’t recommend highly enough. I have the lavender, lemon, peanut butter and salted flavours and they’re all amazing. Seriously amazing

Grace's Fudge

Homemade, small-batch fudge from Dorset

gracesfudge.com

Steve’s beer of choice @in-otter-news.bsky.social

Post a picture that should be an album cover

Rob H&ynes@robonabike.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Post a picture that should be an album cover.

I live in Wales where we’ve banned plastic take-away containers so McDonalds, Costa (which is Whitbread) etc can’t use plastic lids (I’m still not sure how Greggs get away with it). Why can’t they stop using them in England too?

Anybody else heard this? Fairly certain it’s absolute bollocks

Imre 🇨🇦@im-re.bsky.social · 2w ago

6 pedestrians killed by cyclists in London, UK so far this year.

“This isn’t the Junior Chamber of Commerce Brad!”

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3w ago

without naming the film, say a line that would make any true fan immediately recognize the film: “Besides, you know what a cautious fellow I am.”

This is extremely encouraging. Well done to @london.gov.uk for pushing on in the face of the whining from the naysayers, including some of the local borough "leadership". www.bbc.com/news/article...

Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone

Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.

bbc.com

Apart from the e-bike/motorbike naming thing, I’m interested as to what “new laws” are being called for. What gap exists that they need to fill? Modification, speed, licensing, helmets are all covered under existing laws.

UK Politics News // Papernaut@ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 3w ago

YORKSHIRE POST: South Yorkshire Police seized 267 illegal e-bikes in a year, up 112%, amid a UK-wide crackdown. Police, politicians and charities have called for new laws over dangerous modified machines, which can exceed 70mph. - by Rachael Grealish

When you know it, it’s easy! Cardle 2/5 Streak 4🔥 Total Score 61 🟢 🟢 🔴 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

My estate is in for some stuff and I have a 2000 CR-V as a courtesy car. The CR-V must have been one of the first “everyday” SUVs in the UK (the Range Rover was always posh). If they were all like the CR-V, I don’t know how they became popular! It’s like driving a transit, but not as useful!

A video being shared on social media does not show recent scenes at the Morocco-Ceuta border, as has been suggested online. The footage actually dates back to May 2021.

Old video shared with misleading suggestion it shows migrants recently crossing into Ceuta – Full Fact

A Facebook video suggesting it shows recent footage of people crossing the border from Morocco into Ceuta actually dates back to May 2021.

fullfact.org

Yeah? Well you’re not from Chicago

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3w ago

without naming the film, say a line that would make any true fan immediately recognize the film: “Besides, you know what a cautious fellow I am.”

Hi I’m the 3,000kg pile of timber that a dodgy fork lift truck driver didn’t load properly.

Ryan CrawCour@ryan.crawcour.social · 3w ago

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I’m a large articulated tipper truck doing 100kmph driving precariously close to the edge of the road ignoring the cyclist riding his mtb along the dirt shoulder of a sealed road.

I haven’t read the article, but from the headline, I’m not sure the method of transport was the problem.

Randy Shulman@randyshulman.bsky.social · 3w ago

An e-bike rider allegedly hurled anti-gay slurs at a gay couple before shooting one of the men in the head and leaving him critically wounded. @metroweekly.bsky.social

In the UK, your car insurance premium isn’t based on you. It’s based on what a million people with your job do or 1m people in your postcode or 1m people your age. You could have another year’s NCB but if people with your job have just started causing expensive injuries, your premium is going up.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 3w ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

Does anybody else struggle with enthusiasm to ride in the heat? I’ve noticed it when I was commuting - I’d ride all winter - dark, rain, windy and then get bored of it in May. Same this year - I’m looking forward to it being cold enough for long sleeves and tights.

One of those #AITA moments for not allowing my son to recharge the battery from his mate’s dodgy Amazon “e-bike”. If he’d bought a Ribble or a Trek or an anything from a company I’ve actually heard of, then no problem.

💯

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 3w ago

Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Okay, this is funny—especially since it’s pretty much true! 😂😂

This article is a load of crap. For lots of reasons. Children as young as nine hurt in growing number of e-scooter crashes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Children as young as nine hurt in growing number of e-scooter crashes

Three trauma centres - Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield - say they have treated nearly 500 casualties under the age of 16.

bbc.co.uk

105 crank and Veloce rear mech?! Why?! You don’t cross the streams.

Meanwhile in the UK…

Lozluc@lozluc.bsky.social · 4w ago

Family bike ride into Bruges for waffles #cycling

I am that annoying bloke. Going swimming. “Hi can I take your email address?” “Why do you need it?” “Oh it’s just for safety” “Safety?!”

Maybe doing a century yesterday wasn’t the best idea after not doing any proper rides since my 320km in June. My legs are ok, but my back hurts! Hate being old!

Oh one thing from today’s ride: The Severn Bridge was closed to all traffic yet still National Highways managed to endanger people using the shared use path

Yes I did! I did go too hard so am now nursing myself home! In other news, I’ve just seen a guy use his 3.0 Turbo Diesel Toyota Land Cruiser (Landcruiser?) to go and get a newspaper. Talk about wrong tool for the job.

Rich@rich531forever.bsky.social · 4w ago

I seem to have lost my Garmin (hopefully just temporarily misplaced) which means that today’s 160km ride is completely on feel. Half way in and my legs hurt, which might mean I’ve gone too hard. We’ll find out after the coffee stop!

I seem to have lost my Garmin (hopefully just temporarily misplaced) which means that today’s 160km ride is completely on feel. Half way in and my legs hurt, which might mean I’ve gone too hard. We’ll find out after the coffee stop!

#GoodNews

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4w ago

Like the time fires raged through Gatlinburg and she just gave the families impacted $1k/month for 5 months and $5k the 6th month. no means testing, no complicated hoops, just "your life is destroyed here's some cash" resulting in another UBI experiment gone right. www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...