Bob Brick

TLDR; there are a massive number of overseas manufacturers who are making their living off regulatory loopholes that make it too easy to import dangerous e-motorcycles if you *call* them e-bikes, or add enough "e-bike-like" features to get past customs. And often, they're being marketed to kids.

🧵 Wow - this article is bordering on unhinged! Apparently the BBC is akin to a “North Korean re-education camp” for teaching children about net-zero and covering both the pros AND cons of immigration Join me for a masterclass in cherry-picking and context stripping to brainwash your own readers👍🏻

It was a bit stormy on this morning's walk here in Glastonbury. Rain showers and very very windy.

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

What most people don't know: when you fill up a petrol car most of the energy never moves it. Petrol car: 13–21% of the crude oil's energy reaches wheels. Electric car on today's UK grid: 43–45%. Electric car on wind+solar: 77–80%. That's why we don't need to replace fossil energy one for one.

NEW ANALYSIS: Expensive gas behind "nearly 90%" of rise in UK household electricity bills since 2020 + 77% of the rise in gas bills Contrary to what you've seen in media / political narratives, net-zero is "helping to shelter Britain from the impact of expensive gas", says @acjsissons.bsky.social

The 2026 UNEP Emissions Gap Report is out: The Point of Return. 🌍🌡️🔥 It's sobering but actionable. Decades of inadequate climate action have closed off opportunities to limit warming, but ambitious action today can still prevent much greater harm. A thread of some of the highlights 🧵

Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4

High schoolers, students: the twilight of macronism thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/h...

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Looks like it’s Bad-Things-Happening-In-Britain o’clock. A few hours to Bad-Things-Happening-In-The-US o’clock.

Absolutely not. Humans evolved to live on Earth and there’s no other place that has the right amount of everything we need, like climate, liquid water, mix of oxygen and non-toxic gases in the atmosphere, magnetic field, gravity, puppies, kittens, etc.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

500 years ago today, a pandemic, a divisive election and white-on-white violence sparked one of America’s greatest traditions A thread.

It should be simple: 👉 Warm Homes Plan: projected £1bn annual bill savings, 50,000 jobs. 👉 Rosebank: around 1,100 jobs. Insulate homes. Cut bills. Create jobs. Reduce fossil fuel dependence. Why not invest in warmth, not more oil? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It hit me. The culmination of my life’s work may have been targeted by an AI-assisted censorship tool & terminated by a politically-motivated AI hallucination. 13/

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First

The news is pretty good at the moment because it's 'The AI companies are trying to kill us all' and 'no one can afford to be alive anymore' and 'we have created a society built to appease the greed of the few at the detriment of the many' and then ask 'why are the young people rioting'.

Hard to argue with that.

Back in the shed

Spotted near the 30km marker at the Antwerp Marathon, a spectator holding a handwritten sign: “Je hebt zelf voor dit gekozen” (= “You chose this for yourself”)

Well, happy ninth birthday to this tweet, I guess

@wulfhelm.bsky.social @psychicsquirrel.bsky.social @russincheshire.bsky.social Would appreciate a repost of this. Am trying to start another petition (I'm bored) but need 5 people again to support it before it goes public. Please click the link to support it. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/78...

Did Newsnight get switched from hard news reporting to interviewing the clueless rambling of a fascist banjo twanger, whose dad owns GB News, by accident

Released on this day in 1978: Alternative Ulster #StiffLittleFingers youtu.be/V5OyHIV1j5w?si…

Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009. "My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead." "My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza."

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

I've played chess in professional tournaments. I still privately refer to knights as "horsies".

Skunk Anansie played a secret gig where tickets cost just £1. But the price wasn’t the most interesting thing about it. Jennie Kermode went along to find out what was really being launched. @jenniekermode.bsky.social @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1

Telling that Wes Streeting considers someone diagnosed with ADHD has been 'written off'. Also telling that the government commissioned a review in the face of independent reviews finding there is no overdiagnosis, just increased awareness & historic underdiagnosis of girls & women.

I'm all for rural communities being able to shape the future of the places they live. But let's take an appropriately expansive view of what 'community' means and be careful not to conflate 'the people of a place' with one set of rural activities. national.thelead.uk/p/the-rural-...

Mikel Arteta has signed a new contract so here's a new drawing of him in his happy place (PS this also marks the beginning of our quest to draw the entire Premier League by Xmas so wish us luck we're going to die x)

My man looks like Hermann Göring on Casual Freitag

For about the ten thousandth time: the stock market was a mistake.

Holy shit.