On the face of it she's the same as Bradley!
12.12.2025 12:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@davidriddell.bsky.social
Exeter, UK. Research programme manager by day, former trustee by night. Bikes, environment, community, dogs and cats.
On the face of it she's the same as Bradley!
12.12.2025 12:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sarah doesn't appear to have a job, is that not negative?
12.12.2025 12:27 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That's really useful, thanks!
21.11.2025 15:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Does he say what particular values he means?
23.10.2025 19:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I read a very depressing discussion on LinkedIn (I know but it's like looking at a car crash) between oil industry folk explaining that it's only, say, a 1% increase in UK emissions. It's like they're deliberately missing the point that increase = bad.
17.10.2025 09:15 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1And he saw her. And didn't use the whole lane when passing the other cyclists. Reporting of cyclists being killed by drivers is a joke.
15.10.2025 16:55 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I love your optimism that banks won't be dicks and will stop requiring daft bits of paper.
26.09.2025 15:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0bsky.app/profile/tomf...
21.08.2025 18:54 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was just thinking that. I wonder if I murder someone if the judge will give me community service as it's my first offence.
21.08.2025 18:50 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've had more pleasant journeys on Ryanair, with better leg room, and not been rinsed with the cost.
19.08.2025 09:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0CrossCountry has to be the worst UK train company doesn't it? Trains are always jam packed, with mostly reserved seats. This is why I travel to Aberdeen via London rather than the west coast mainline.
19.08.2025 09:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Edmund King, president of AA, defended drivers like Peter over the age of 70, saying they "are still relatively safe" - although acknowledged bringing in a compulsory eye test was "a small price to pay" for safety.
'Relatively safe'?! 'A small price to pay'?!
11.08.2025 11:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I agree with everything other than flashing modes as I think they help, particularly in daylight or in urban areas. They could be replaced by the need to have a pulsing mode or something more amenable to group riding though.
10.08.2025 19:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What if these residents go to another town? He's obviously not thought through his argument at all. Or read the Highway Code.
04.08.2025 19:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That looks exactly like a UK speed limit sign. www.gov.uk/government/p...
04.08.2025 19:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Photo of a traffic light at a junction that has been knocked down.
Why do drivers bang on about cyclists wearing hi viz and helmets when they can't even avoid poles that have lights on them? If they can knock over a metal pole then a helmet won't do much.
27.07.2025 18:54 β π 65 π 11 π¬ 1 π 1Trying to hark back to the days of Thomas the Cherry-scented Tank Engine aren't they? Anti-social morons.
20.06.2025 07:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They could easily take out a lane of parked cars or that right turn lane. Our obsession with cars is suppressing free enterprise!
14.06.2025 18:10 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0At his age I'd have thought that was the coolest thing in the world!
14.06.2025 16:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0the year is 2029. i start my work day by logging into the authentication app and plugging a six digit code from my phone into the computer. after repeating this process 300 more times for every application and website i use, i am finally ready to get to work. it is now 5pm and time to go home
12.06.2025 15:05 β π 2310 π 392 π¬ 33 π 16This gets on my goat. The answer is enforcement of current laws not frothing! But then they struggle to enforce the current laws for cars.
30.04.2025 06:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The problem is that it's one oppressed group crowing about 'victory' over another, ignoring the elephant in the room that it's CIS males who are the problem, not trans people. It's divisive and not what the country needs just now. It's the same as the moral panic over Section 28.
27.04.2025 18:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What about trans rights then? And benefits cuts?
26.04.2025 15:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0They don't surface when out on patrol so camouflage not needed.
27.03.2025 20:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's the way the Oxford PPE think tankers talk so casually about people's jobs like that which disturbs me.
13.03.2025 08:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Image shows a website with a required password that includes special characters etc.
Why on earth are systems still asking for these ridiculous and proven to be counterproductive passwords?
18.02.2025 08:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If that's what they think a zit looks like then I think they should probably go to their doctor!
16.02.2025 11:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The man is so fond of his own voice and an absolute embarrassment. I'm from North East Scotland and it pains me to see him fΓͺted as some sort of business genius when it's really all about the grift.
13.02.2025 20:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 02 year ban. We accept this as normal life. There's a cycle lane sign knocked down at the end of our residential road and there seems to be no fuss whatsoever.
07.02.2025 19:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It has to be the Dragon Rapide. The classic 30s vision of what future transport would look like. Instead we got the Cybertruck
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