“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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HOW HAS THIS BEEN ON YOUTUBE FOR THREE MONTHS AND NOBODY THOUGHT TO TELL US, IT'S BEEN WDYT?'S HOLY GRAIL FOR YEARS www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPA...
Statutory Right of Entry - Richard Stilgoe
YouTube video by Matt Poole
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@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social @lauralaker.bsky.social I've never seen this before. Hostile paving to enforce new restrictions on cycling and walking on this path. Has been a cycle route for ages. Next to A3 in Guildford
RIP Ronnie Le Drew - one half of Zippy (we lost Roy Skelton a while back) Tom Chadbon - Bye bye Duggan!, and Del Grant in B7, and loads more inc Game of Thrones. Bill Oddie - Another Goodie and long time twitcher and nature bloke Not a good day 😢
The end of the Pharos Project? Didn't help when the Tom Baker fell off it though. Seriously though, not good news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
Just double checking, but have you signed the #savewot petition? Over 239k signatures (and growing daily), just over 1 year in existence, and we STILL are finding #WheelofTime show fans who know nothing of the larger SaveWoT movement. savewot.com #ThereIsALWAYSHope
Save The Wheel of Time – #SaveWOT Campaign
Join fans from around the world working to find a new home for The Wheel of Time. Help us show Sony and streamers the story deserves to continue. #SaveWOT
savewot.com
All seems normal until you see the cars. Brilliantly done!
MꙬse Allain@mooseallain.bsky.social · last wk.Got this to try to sort out ear issues. Not sure if I should be filling it with special happy stuff 😄 £15 though for a tiny bit of plastic and some balloons.
Richard Burton, War of the Worlds style narration
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
"What has the BBC ever done for me?" Is the wrong question. It should be, "What can the BBC do for me?"
Come on, it doesn't even have, "What does God need with a starship?" Rubbish list movieweb.com/star-trek-ca...
'Star Trek': 10 Captain Kirk Quotes That Still Live Rent-Free in Our Heads
Captain James T. Kirk has a lot more great quotes than just "KHAN!"
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Police admit mistake over destroying eBike and agree compensation cyclingindustry.news/police-admit...
Police admit mistake over destroying eBike and agree compensation - Cycling Industry News
West Midlands Police have reversed their decision to prosecute a Birmingham cyclist and have agreed to compensate Birmingham Bike Foundry after wrongly seizing and destroying a legal eBike worth £6,50...
cyclingindustry.news
Ruin a book by adding a word: Charlotte’s Web Page
The Ranty Highwayman@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 2w agoRuin a book by adding a word: The Lion, the Witch and the IKEA Wardrobe.
Is there a directory of "professional old person" used by news orgs?
Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 2w agoElaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)
Flamingoed up! "What a smeg up! - Red Dwarf convention descends into chaos" www.chortle.co.uk/news/2026/07...
Can you imagine the uproar if someone's legal car was seized and immediately crushed because some woodentop made a mistake? And the Police don't even apologise or accept they made a mistake. It's good to see this go mainstream. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Birmingham man's legal e-bike seized and destroyed by police in error
The BBC finds the bike was legal and supplied as part of a scheme to reduce pollution in the city.
bbc.co.uk
“I would drive past his house nearly every day and 99 times out of a 100 the car would be there.” Could say that about me. I barely drive. I mostly ride bikes when out or walk. inews.co.uk/news/everyth...
Everything we know about Ann Widdecombe murder suspect Joshua Kerry
As new details emerge following the killing of the former MP, the suspect's neighbours and relatives reveal what they knew about his life
inews.co.uk
Bins of Guildford isn't on here I think, but here's a bin in Guildford borough (Gomshall) next to a phone box, with an actual working pay phone inside!
Browsing Microsoft's Blazor documentation, and up pops a Doctor Who code example! learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet...
Possibly the greatest thing ever uploaded to YouTube.
Ulysses 31 Redux
YouTube video by dermotcanterbury
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James@jamesrandall.bsky.social · 3w agoI've been spending some time analysing the code and systems of the epic 1988 BBC game Exile resulting in a (I hope) bit perfect recreation in TypeScript and a set of @markmoxon.bsky.social inspired deep dives into its working. bbcexile.com #retrocomputing #bbcmicro #gamehistory
