Will cycles slower than you 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️

Oh, it's only Monday.

It's shameful way bus user groups, bus industry & Lords routinely blame cycling for their woes while ignoring the rising & ever-present issue of too much traffic. TfL has done entire studies on this. But hey, climate, pollution, road danger, inactivity. Who cares right? Let's kick cycling some more.

"Generations to come"? I'm starting to suspect that the people who make money selling gas might not have a plan to transition us off fossil fuels after all!

Hmm. Except, and hear me out on this, if we switched to renewable electricity as our energy source, then there'd be no need whatsoever to ship energy anywhere.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

The worst possible news

This means 2C will likely be breached in the late 2030s

So much for us being on track for a 2.8C rise by 2100

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What is the shape of the Venn Diagram of people who wanted us to leave the EU because of our "sauvereignity", and the people who are okay with following the USA and Israel blindly and unconditionally into an unlawful war?

And you know all the shipping that is currently disrupted? Just remember 40% of the entire world's shipping is used simply to move fossil fuels around.

With cheaper renewals, we would also nearly halve the considerable pollution from shipping.

Bigger, better, faster, MORE I have a confession to make: I don't like all those Red Bull extreme cycling videos. The reason for that is really simple: real people get hurt doing ever more...

From the archives: Bigger, better, faster, MORE

I have a confession to make: I don't like all those Red Bull extreme cycling videos. The reason for that is really simple: real people get hurt doing ever more...

https://www.willcycle.com/2025/12/23/bigger-better-faster-more/

Just your irregular reminder that wind, solar, thermal and tidal energy is far cheaper, and not at the mercy of madmen with lots of bombs.

Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs Move is part of scheme to target families for expedited voluntary removals before enforced removal proceedings

This from what claims to be a Labour government.

Vote Labour, get Reform.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Yup, I strongly agree with that.

There’s something deeply problematic with framing of this conflict as driven by highly sophisticated weapons & AI tech. Comparatively little focus on actual destruction & targets. Just like girls murdered whilst at school, victims in these hospitals should be plastered across media. It’s horrific

I wonder how the Zionist funded Labour Party's rhetoric around asylum seekers would change if it were Israelis getting in small boats to cross the channel?

A single-panel cartoon in Private Eye. Onto a photo of plumber and Green MP Hannah Spencer giving her election victory speech, with Reform's Matt Goodwin in the background, a speech balloon has been added, so that Hannah is saying: "I've stopped the cock."

Bravo, Private Eye, bravo.

Never. They're so hate-filled that happiness is beyond what they're capable of.

If only the cyclist had a unique identifier so that he could be held acounta......

Oh hang on a minute.

I hope the twelve year old makes a full recovery.

Just the usual, despicable Israeli war crimes, cheered on by the usual, despicable people.

Israel has destroyed 21 hospitals in Iran

Abingdon's Radley Road neighbours angry at parking ban to speed up buses The restrictions to parking have been made to help speed up bus journeys along the road.

I love the way expensive new roads are celebrated, even if in business case terms, they only shave a few seconds of journeys.

But when it is a modest scheme to help to get buses moving, that same argument is deployed against.

Sorry Bub, it's not your road outside.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cyclists in a cycle track near Marble Arch with buses stopped in a bus lane nearby.

"Car traffic is the problem, not... bikes". Our @psimonk.bsky.social in @transportxtra.bsky.social on the fake 'buses v cycling' culture war. www.transportxtra.com/publications...
Many bus industry folks blame cycling, incl cycle tracks & LTNs for falling bus speeds. Piece left out (due to space)...

The Rowling Tax - and only women are required to pay it.

Dubai is a real world Omelas. To live there you have to make yourself comfortable with knowing that your lifestyle is propped up by human suffering (you know, moreso and more directly than those of us in the rest of the rich world).

How Travelodge in Maidenhead gave sex attacker key to woman's room The woman, who woke to find Kyran Smith sexually assaulting her, branded a £30 reward offer

Hotel says their staff followed the security procedures but then would not say what those procedures were. Apparently, you just need to give the front desk the name of the woman. They will give you the key AND the room number she is in.

No more Travelodge for me.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

British society has figured out what to do with the increasing elderly demographic: kill them off.

There is no disguising it now. Mahmood (and the Labour party) are just evil bastards

I wonder how much Russia is impacted by the war in Iran, as I expect Iran no longer has surplus missiles and drones to supply to Russia.
The USA and Israel attacks may yet be of great benefit to Ukraine.

Russia is attacking Ukraine.
The US & Israel are attacking Iran.

With these distractions, it's almost inevitable that China will take Taiwan.

If Muslims do this we call them radical terrorists and drop bombs on them.

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NYC has created an official reporting app for engine idling, it works well.

If the UK was serious about engine idling, and illegal parking, HMG would develop a similar app.

There are plenty of concerned citizens who would use it.

apps.apple.com/us/app/idle-...

Interesting thread