Jake Owen

Anyway, here's a helpful video for anyone interested in the cyclist's perspective of close passing: youtu.be/9kgPt-lNYGY?...

11.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Even with this short journey, which I only make once or twice a week, more often than not there's *something* that puts me off ever doing it again. I can normally just ignore the abuse and dodgy overtakes but yesterday really did take the piss.

11.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm a purely functional cyclist, I only really do it to commute on the days I work in south Liverpool as the 3 mile journey is 15 minutes whether I go by bike or car and I like the fresh(ish) air in the mornings.

11.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

... mobile phone use or just general shit driving. Either way, one false move by either of us as he passed and I could have been knocked off, injured, maybe killed like Keith Hornby was, tragically in Huyton last week.

11.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Without a doubt, the driver could see me well ahead of him staying in lane to continue straight after the railway bridge, I don't know if it was punishment for having the audacity to filter past him to the bike box at traffic lights about half a mile earlier ...

11.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I shouldn't be shaking with anger and fear when I arrive for work in the morning but I was yesterday. I got "close passed" by a lorry on Smithdown Road (Liverpool) and it was bloody terrifying.

11.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

LSA Four Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un

A statement by the Linguistic Society of America on designating English as the official language
www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

07.03.2025 02:37 — 👍 35    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

Finally got through all 8 hours of the Let It Be doc in a few late night sittings. An absolute joy. Been on the to-do list for a while, all it took was having a baby. Who knew there was an entire extra half day to be enjoyed, it's just called night time?!

12.02.2025 05:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A selection of unrelated screenshots

02.02.2025 08:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Agreeing with my wife that moving my foot would be too much of a disturbance for this little guy and that as a result, she is responsible for all drink replenishment.

31.01.2025 22:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Characterising equality initiatives as “‘actually, we're about anti-whiteness'” is the kind of thing Musk and Trump do. This is far-right framing from Streeting, and has no place in any mainstream political party in the UK, let alone the ostensibly left-wing(!) one

29.01.2025 11:10 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Oh my God me tooooo. Blocked around 20 Sarahs this afternoon! I only joined the other day and this is the only real turn off so far. (Except individuals/organisations I want to follow that aren't here yet but I'm confident that'll resolve over time!)

07.01.2025 20:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trying to rebuild my Twitter as it was circa 2014-18.

05.01.2025 17:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New year, new social media presence.

05.01.2025 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0