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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 9h

It is insane the diesel is £2/litre and bike shops are closing down

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11h

In other words, voting only matters if it's the final stage of a sustained campaign to build and mobilize popular power. Without that, voting will get you precious little.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nirvana: My Unplugged In New York One of the best albums I bought in my late teenage years. RIP Kurt. What a legacy.

A screen capture showing the album art work (front cover) for the Nirvana Album, Unplugged In New York.

Released November 1994, just over 6 months after lead singer Kurt Cobain tragically shot himself.

The front cover features a live photo of the band performing on stage, inset within a squarish hand drawn (?) border within a white frame

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hello @515mm.bsky.social How goes? I notice AudioT sell the Eversolo T8. Do you have any experience with them?

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Isn’t it obvious that selfishness on the road changes us as a society? The belief that a driver should be allowed to do whatever they please, regardless of the impact on others, mounts the pavement and travels deep into our lives." Via @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

theguardian.com

Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot

In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or conscience. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

About time the GBeebies broadcasting license was suspended.

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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Arresting RNLI volunteers and impounding their boats, is it, you walking scrotum-sack of a man?

Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 18/09/2026

These things are filed in my head under “rank hypocrisy” — take, for instance, then MP Kate Hoey raging against “all cyclists run red lights” and who was later convicted of guess what in her car?

Belfast Telegraph headline: Kate Hoey fined for running red light.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I see there's more Bad Cyclists Discourse again. It's actually a symptom of how broken the UK's road network planning is, but it's easier to complain about what just *nearly* happened to you than to pause for thought about the "why" it nearly happened. The actual real problem is political.

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Everyone’s Favourite Jim @jimmeruk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Cunts have just stolen my bike from the garage and fucked my garage door. If anyone sees this around Croydon, let me know.

Norco Threshold A1 with orange Brooks bartape and saddle.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Slowing down well ahead of a red traffic signal, to reach it as it went green rather than driving towards it as fast as I possibly could in order to determine the full stopping power of my brakes and experience some negative G was enough to send a tailgating driver into a fit of rage.

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Which is why vested fossil fuel interests in the traditional media conflate e-bikes with e-motorbikes and exaggerate battery fire risks

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There needs to be a serious clampdown on tailgating drivers. It is a public highway. Not a circuit in the Mario Kart 150cc Cup.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've had my HiFi in it's current guise for what must be a year now. Just listened to some of Paul Simon's Graceland. On CD. Absolutely, no exaggeration, blown away by the musical arrangement and talent of the musicians. You just don't get that with a Bluetooth speaker or a soundbar.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Why are cars that can far exceed, even the highest speed limit in the country, legal to sell? There was a justifiable outcry to ban the sale of illegal e-bikes. Where is the outcry to ban the sale of cars that can do these excessive speeds?

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Last week I had new job induction. Driving safely was a point laboured. On way to work, HR director overtook my car in an inappropriate place as I approached queue of traffic. She ignored 15 mph site limit on arrival. I don't like hypocrisy. I don't like dangerous driving. Words were had.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This has actually turned out to be pretty awesome.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There's a 'department day' in the office pencilled in for next week. A big chunk of the afternoon has been pencilled out for 'social activities' (scant details so far). I am taking the modern equivalent of a boom box and preparing a play list, 'just in case'. Any suggestions?

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Not very often I find the excuse to rummaging through the town's charity shops and second hand record store looking for CDs. Got quite a nice haul today with some guilty pleasures. Highly recommended.

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Entitled means actually owed something. @streetsvillain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We just this past week in the GTA had several pedestrians hit and killed or severely injured by drivers. I want to see the re-education camps for drivers and i want the camps to have solitary boxes where the worst can be sent for weeks at a time, before i see one more PSA about cyclist safety.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Last year a man out jogging hit his head on a low bridge over the canal. He lost consciousness, fell into the canal and drowned. Not one person advocated for jogging helmets following that incident. Yet jogging head injury risks are similar to that of non-competitive cycling.

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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My question has always been this: If you had a new TV delivered protected by 1.2cm of polystyrene, would you be happy if the delivery guy just pushed it off the back of the truck? What if they then reversed over it? No? Then shut the f up about cycle helmets.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

HHFND. This is sitting between a Rega P8 and a Rega Elicit-R. It doesn't sound half bad on first listen. Not sure whether it will do the P8 justice but I will give it a shot. #HiFiSky

A photograph showing a Rothwell Simplex Phono stage

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If half as much effort went into tackling bad driving as does berating cyclists for just existing, I would wager on fewer people dying due to traffic violence.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Cars should prominently display the estimated cost of each journey, in a similar manner to the meters in taxis. An algorithm that takes into account deprecation, tyre wear etc. that's good enough to illustrate the point is not beyond the capabilities of the manufacturer's software developers.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You can't advocate for cycling helmets without advocating for car helmets, jogging helmets, or walking up and down stairs helmets. To do so is too massively overstate non-competitive cycling head injury risks. It is also counter-productive. Mandating cycle helmets makes cycling less safe.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I ain't often for naming and shaming, but for this standard of driving I make an exception. Tailgating. Speeding. Using the wrong lane to undertake. Setting off from traffic lights using a tablet. And for all her antics, she gained no advantage. Just wasted fuel. A danger to everyone.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Torygraph at it again. Cambridgeshire County Council introduce 15 mph speed limit* on two shared use paths along guided bus way. Torygraph publish an article and drop in 3 deaths that have occured on the bus way. No mention they were each ped/bus collisions.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Count Binface has more credibility than Reform, Tories and Labour combined IMHO.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you think cyclists are entitled, try martialling a bike race on open roads.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Turning up to a triathlon on this sums up my MO

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Why I didn't think of this myself? When storing vinyl records, put the anti-static sleeve behind the original outer sleeve in the jacket for easier access + save wearing out the outer sleeve or damaging the original inner sleeve. Picked this tip up from A British Audiophile (YouTube)

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It doesn't matter what you do to your car. It is not a race car. Making it sound like one and revving the balls off it is just a selfish heinous act.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Needs to be mandatory for work places with >100 employees to provide showers. And for all work places that provide car parking to provide secure and sheltered cycle parking. Rode the same distance as to work. Only, the cycle parking at work is distant wheel bender bike rack and there's no showers.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

8/ No court will ever say the Telegraph did this. That's a fact about our courts, not about what they did. They'll run a thoughtful piece about mental health next week, and then they'll go back to work. My most sincere condolences to his close ones Right. My friends are waiting, I am off.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Starting the day with some music. Public Service Broadcasting's 'The Race For Space'. #MusicSky

A photo of a vinyl LP record sleeve, Public Service Broadcasting's 'The Race For Space', second album from the band released in 2015 to critical acclaim. The sleeve is stood up in a stand. There's a collection of torches to the right.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

COBRA meeting was effective then ..

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The world is on fire and Doug Ford is still hell bent in ripping out the bike lanes. That is fucked up.

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Andy @andymb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So if a ban on zero hours contracts could cost businesses £3bn a year, presumably working these contracts is currently costing low paid workers £3bn a year.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Didn't use the air con in the car driving home. Trying to maximise efficiency and keep climate impact to a minimum. Wife says I look like I have been on a bike ride. I wish.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

EV question. Is 5.7 miles per kWh good? If I am getting that in summer, what is it going to be like in winter?

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Don't be moaning that your SUV's acceleration from 60-80 mph is really slow. The planet is literally burning.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Driving back from work today, I gave way to an oncoming vehicle. The driver gave a very deliberate and clear nazi solute as he passed by. WTF?

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We need to stop maintaining economies and built environments that rely on private car travel. I have happily worked from home for the last 7 years. Now I am forced into two hours of driving a day because the competition for what few fully remote jobs that remain is so intense. Why no local jobs?

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Slowly but surely losing the will to live. As I start work tomorrow, from an office, I thought I should check I can still VPN into my home network. Nope. Either both mobile networks I have SIMs for are dropping the traffic or my main ISP is. I am sure getting tired of working around ...

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Pleased to report I did get this done. A slowish but steady effort.

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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Planning to do this tomorrow. I should go for a proper bike ride, but with the other 9 Tour Fever stages completed, I feel compelled to cover this one too. #zwift

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