Michael Molcher

Pedal Power Remains Most Efficient Way To Travel, Confirms Scientific American Scientific American confirms that human on a bicycle more efficient than salmon, seagulls, or jet planes, updating a piece from 1973.

“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social

The further I get from it, the more it feels like it was someone else – I'd struggle focusing like that for so long these days.

A desk hidden by a laptop surrounded by books, notebooks, large Post It notes.

Received this handy reminder that four years ago I was busy going insane.

Care Lessons for the Climate Endgame During the climate endgame, our survival hinges on rebuilding the systems of interdependence that make life in the ruins possible.

This essay, by @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social, is superb –– on the centrality of care to the climate crisis
www.break-down.org/care-lessons...

Saddle up, Troopers. We're excited to reveal that @2000ad.bsky.social will continue to sponsor CBCC in 2026. And, gosh, it's gonna be a great year with the bitter war between the Norts & the Southers being depicted in Duncan Jones' ROGUE TROOPER flick. Lisa's recent Nu-Earth fandom is ready.

Suspect a major issue with this kind of book is that, by the time they hit shelves, all the specific details that might make them worth reading in the first place have already been broadcast and dissected for weeks. If you got the précis from an SNL sketch on Instagram, why bother buying it?

Might be cool to have like, a day, without totally cataclysmic news from the USA.

ccing @scarredforlife.bsky.social

A LEADING Scottish newspaper editor has been suspended after he was arrested and charged in connection with “indecent online communications”. David McCann, the editor of The Times and The Sunday Times in Scotland, was charged after police officers “executed a search warrant at a property in the Edinburgh area” on November 25. McCann has been suspended from the business while he is subject to a “criminal investigation unrelated to his work”, a spokesperson for Times owner News UK said.

Depressing yet utterly unsurprising that it's taken two weeks for any media to report that the editor of The Times has been arrested and charged. Any newsroom trying to claim they had to wait for indictment doesn't seem to apply that logic to literally any other arrest/initial court appearance.

How did 2000 AD scar you when you were young? Molch-R & KLO-E teamed up with @scarredforlife.bsky.social this week to discuss some childhood comics trauma!

Watch now: youtu.be/jxR3SMU_R3g
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Or search '2000 AD Thrill-Cast' on your fav podcast app!

As someone who remembers the old Bass (cheapest beer you could buy, was nearly a riot in Huddersfield when it went over £1 a pint), I was pleasantly surprised to find it a) in student pub The Star in Oxford and b) to be a really lovely, smooth ale.

All antitrans campaigners are bigots. They swim in a sea of online bigotry in which trans people are routinely treated as less than human. They rejoice in having found a group to victimise that they have so easily stripped of all dignity. They laugh about it between themselves. Publicly. Online.

Tomorrow's front page 📰

'The UK is letting these people die'

Actually, should have tagged @hugobookclub.bsky.social as I'm sure they know either way...

a man wearing a robotic helmet has the word assimilate written on his face ALT: a man wearing a robotic helmet has the word assimilate written on his face

Do we have a name for the hive-mind body snatcher monsters in TV and film? They’re so ubiquitous (Pluribus, Bodysnatchers, The Borg, Mind-flayers), but I don’t think we’ve ever given them a label a la zombie, vampire, werewolf, ghost, etc. Unless I’m mistaken…?

Donate to Theo's gender affirming medical fund., organized by Sherry Postma Hi, For those who don't know me, or who don't know me by my chosen name, I'm Theo… Sherry Postma needs your support for Theo's gender affirming medical fund.

My nephew recently lost his job and benefits right before his top surgery was scheduled. If you can help, please do, he's flipping awesome: gofund.me/299a31bc3

Reenactment Garb Reenactment is for everybody!

We've so far raised almost £100 for the Mermaids charity through sales of these 'Reenactment is for everybody' hoodies and tees mancstees.myshopify.com The perfect Xmas gift for the historical nerd in your life!

Another frame from The X-Files: Scully, a red-headed woman in a black jacket, does an eyeroll while behind her a man and woman in formal wear kiss.

I *really* enjoy Scully's eyeroll when she sees Mulder kissing his Holmes replacement ex.

Hugs and love, but yes it's just a kind of cruelty.

Haha, I *loved* talking to my gran about my Amazon purchases and random right-wing Substack accounts I'd never visit.

We are always the product.

TBF the British had sung that song long before modern America learnt it.

I miss my grandparents very much indeed. But I know that they are dead and I will never see them again. To try and create a hollow marionette that vaguely mimics them seems, at best, like cruelty and, at worst, a way of trapping me in my grief in order to monetise it.

The late 19th Century and early 20th Century inability to deal with death but make it an app that uses it to tell you to buy things, please.

Not that it's in any way likely, but if you happen to walk past the Wesley Methodist Church in Belize City then cast a glance at the church hall next to it – I helped build that 😆

It's been almost 30 years but I loved Belize, incredible memories of Lamanai and Xunantunich

Silver is one of the reasons I keep my subscription to 2000AD. While the prog does stories based on 40-year-old characters, it also does new stuff like "what if your sci-fi dystopian war unleashed a grumpy vampire on the alien invaders?" (Also, a rare case of an older woman as an action hero.)

Another frame from The X-Files, showing a sheet of paper being held up with an outline drawing of a gorilla-like hominid, similar to the Patterson-Gimlin film of 'Big Foot', with a pair of breasts drawn badly and incongruously on the torso. The closes caption says "Maybe it isn't a beast man we're looking for after all".

Still one of the greatest moments on any TV show ever.

A new analysis found that 80% of 45 anti-trans groups in the U.S. have received funding from fossil fuel companies or billionaires, including Shell and Anschutz.

www.ehn.org/fossil-f...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

YouTube video by 2000 AD "Scarred for Life?" – In Orbit Every Wednesday

Borag thungg, earthlets! @2000ad.bsky.social is my favourite thing ever, so it was an honour to be guests on the Thrillcast. We talk about the comic, Britain in the 70s and 80s and how it influenced 2000AD, and much more!

youtu.be/jxR3SMU_R3g?si=fOXiFh_EnMWetunN