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On my 30 min cycle home in the rain on a gloomy evening I saw 1 car with no lights on, 2 without rear lights, and 1 with malfunctioning lights. The smarter ones among you won't need me to spell out what I'm getting at here.

When you don't want to take part in the world for a day the single life seems very desirable - to not be found out and to be yourself. I get very tired of acting out in order to hide my weakness and appear acceptable.

As someone who has a genuine fear of dogs I’m finding my options for dining out away from them are becoming increasingly limited. I’ve always expected dogs in pubs, but if I’m paying more money in a restaurant I want to feel at ease.

I’m looking for a new teapot. Does anyone know of a #Norwich independent who makes them?

Had to put the shower on a warmer setting this morning. We’re on the slippery slope towards winter. Cartoon by @mooseallain.bsky.social

No bike lane ever “forced” a single driver out of their car, but lack of safe bike infrastructure has literally forced people to stop biking.

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If I worked on a factory floor operating a bandsaw I’d use a guard. I wouldn’t expect all other workers to wear protective armour so that I could use my saw without a guard. We need to start putting the onus for safety on the ones who cause the danger.

I’m in the UK. The only thing I hate about cycling to work when it’s pissing down is that drivers act as though it’s them who are getting wet. They are more impatient, more agitated, and therefore more dangerous. If the infrastructure kept me away from them I’d have no qualms about the bad weather.

100 years ago today: A cyclist replies to a motorist's complaint that cyclists don't pay road tax and cycle two or more abreast, holding up drivers. How things have changed.

Tears up membership card. Please explain how this puts more money in my pocket? I walk or cycle to work, and drive an electric car for those trips where I can't walk or cycle.

Can you also discount the costs of buying ecargobikes, whilst providing adequate funding for cycling infrastructure and public transport, at the same time?

The guilt of calling in sick over a weekend 😞

Low with Covid. A colleague told me that it’s “replaced the common cold”, implying that I’m making a fuss. Tell that to my nausea, achy body, chills, hot flushes & fatigue. She also told me that I don’t have to take a test. I KNOW that! I had one tucked in the bathroom cabinet & was curious. Grr

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I took this in while working in Riga Latvia years ago. A busy arterial road cutting off the downtown from the waterfront, and this is the way to get to the water for pedestrians. On the one hand, at least they have a “connection”…on the other hand it turns pedestrians into mole people. #WarOnWalking

I’ll pass, thanks.

Good luck to all non-drivers trying to get to work today. The parents are back on the road transporting their precious cargo to school, but to some of them the rest of you will be expendable.

On the one hand, some people want to make it so that kids and other people aren't crushed to death by cars. On the other hand, some people are upset that they might have to pay attention, slow down or be inconvenienced by about 15 seconds. So you can see how it's a "war on cars."

Can anyone recommend an email account provider? I want to ditch my gmail accounts.

There's enough drivers on the UK's roads. It should be 'one out, one in'. Maximum driving age of 75. As the OAPs get pruned off the top, new drivers are let in. Numbers remain just about manageable. Public transport & cycling get boosted. Helps carbon targets. Sanity maintained.

When you're riding a bike there are too many drivers who don't see you as a person, only as an inconvenience.

Cycling in term time: 😱😨🚗🚗😠😬💀🥊🤬💨💩 Cycling during school holidays: 👋🚲🤗🤫😊⌚🌼🫶

Campsites really need to start giving discounts to people who arrive on foot or by bike.

Apart from that time Rory left the tap running for a couple of minutes, our local data centre uses very little water, but it does offer exceptionally accurate information and well-written, original literature. It's also free for everyone.

If you need a quick injection of happiness go and wave at people on a steam train. It’s sheer joy watching the old and young having a small but uplifting interaction with another human being. Makes me tearful.

You'll enjoy a real painting by a local artist much more than a print of a painting by a famous one. And you'll have absolutely made their day/week/month.

Football is a potentially good game, ruined by the people who play it and the people who watch it

Half of the country is in "exceptionally serious drought" - putting us at more risk of wildfires and threatening our food security. Meanwhile water companies are wasting a staggering 2.87 billion litres of water every day through leaky pipes. Time to end water privatisation.

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

Things that should be fucking illegal: 1. Fake grass. 2. SUVs. 3. Having your phone on loud speaker in public. 4. Foil balloons that take hundreds of years to breakdown. 5. Releasing helium balloons at a funeral. 6. Sneezing into your hands and carrying on as normal.

When you're opposing local care facilities that will improve Children's lives because you need somewhere to store your private property, you are in fact the bad guy.

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from your device without comment.

If only people were moved half as much by natural ecosystems and wild species as they are by domestic pets and livestock, the world would be in far better shape.

As The War with Cars made the point recently. Yes it is basically a necessity to own a car in order to have children. That should be changed. You shouldn't need a car to get to school, the doctor, the shops, playground. These things should be reachable without a private vehicle.

Just ordered one of these. I just love Masato’s doodles!

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Got the bus to my graduation today. Got a few funny looks, but 🤷‍♀️

Great job 👏

I have one of these. It makes me feel so summery when I wear it, and the cotton feels so nice. Bargain!

I’ve worked 7.5 hours over my expected 52.5 this week. I’ve also skipped breaks and taken short lunches because there is so much work. I’m hesitant to claim for it because I don’t like costing the NHS more money, but then I think of all the tax dodgers…

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