Spoinged

31% seems wildly optimistic. Wouldn't expect that level of compliance unless there was a copper in full hi-viz.

Time to get the terrorism out.

It's large landowners cosplaying as farmers that have been stirring this up.
30%+ of farmers are tenants.

They destroyed Final salary schemes and then terrified people into over paying into DC schemes
Low and behold people have enough money to get out. Corporate greed had unintended consequences.

Companies making people redundant left right and centre. Why would you stay in the labour market that undervalues workers.
No wonder folks are taking early retirement.

Journalism around this is odd.
Little mention that the FRB is only used by buses and cyclists. All vehicular traffic uses the new crossing. Little disruption to traffic other than any poor cyclist stuck in fife.

If you think electric bikes are bad, there’s a much bigger menace hitting our roads Electric bikes are a menace. They go almost as fast as a car (if the car is parking), they’re whisper...

"Over 40,000 people die in car crashes in the US every year...neighborhoods are carved up by high-speed traffic. Kids can’t walk to school safely. But someone saw a teenager run a stop sign on an e-bike, so the real crisis must be those darn batteries on two wheels."

electrek.co/2025/07/20/i...

Just back from a holiday touring around the Baltic. It's easier to negotiate public transport in countries where I can't speak the language than in the UK. Helsinki blew my mind. The art of the possible.

Biffy reminding me why messy noisy intense live music means so much more to me. it's rough round the edges but it touches something that the more polished can't. #glastonbury #biffy

Flytipping in Falkirk with a creepy child's doll sitting on a rock surrounded by rubbish.

In today's episode of dystopian fly-tipping.
Cycling near Limerigg and the amount of fly-tipping on country lanes is off the scale.

I don't care if your dog is friendly... That's far from clear when they first run at me. Keep it on a leash!

That must be cheaper than rebuilding the bridge?

Bridge on Longford Lane Derbyshire.

Correction... More digging. Two parallel roads called Longford Lane 🤷‍♂️.Weird.
It's narrower but unless you're in an HGV then that shouldn't trouble any competent driver even in a Chelsea Tractor.

Screen grab from Google street view of 1 Longford Lane showing a fairly wide bridge

Couldn't help but check. Surely not this bridge. 30mph zone. Pretty wide and well after the bend. Couldn't find another bridge on the road. And the bricks match the bbc story picture.

Ketamine v. Adderall
the showdown.

Just install him in his own remake of The Truman Show.

You mention the road was closed for investigation after the incident but was it not also worth pointing out the road was closed to traffic at the time of the collision?

It's horrendous. Had to go digging about to find clarification that the section was "closed" 8:15 till 13:00. Zero mention in any news reports I found.

Crossing Balnard Burn near Kirkmichael Beautiful April sunshine. Gravel Bike resting on the Bridge before slogging up the hill.

Post ride dip in the hotub in April Sunshine looking out at the forest

April in Scotland?
Gravel and trails round Kirkmichael taking in bits of the #CateranTrail. Even time for a quick dip in the hot tub before a day out with the family.
Lots of off-road routes if you want to avoid mixing with the cars. Will be back to do more trials when time allows.

'Merica sneezes and the world catches bubonic plague.

And next to the dangerous Redford Rd is Dreghorn Link, another uncontrolled space.

And again residents have to resort to homebrew signs. A vacuum of action from @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social @policescotland.bsky.social

Drivers exciting the 70mph bypass given no to minimal clues of 30mph limit.

Bbc4 The Naked Week mad me chuckle with Keir Starmer/Wheelchair Harmer ala Maggie Thatcher/Milk Snatcher.

Roses are red
Violets are blue

Meta stops former Facebook director from promoting critical memoir Social media company wins US emergency ruling preventing ex-director from publicising her book.

BBC News - Meta stops ex-director from promoting critical memoir
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Have a sudden urge to listen to some Streisand.

It's also allowing me to track if we're acknowledging that they're collision rather than "accidents."

At worst, he's an asset. At best, they know how to manipulate and push his button so well he's a defacto manchurian candidate.

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

Have reserves of cooking whisky been depleted?

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At the end of a 138km stage! I can, for a second or 2 hit, 1000w but 45 seconds. I can't even imagine