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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Given this level of expertise exists in the USA legal and medical system, it's a surprise they could bungle an execution /s

"most people who get lethal injection die from it" he told the BBC...

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's space for more apparently.

Screenshot of Google Maps satellite view with a pin in MFA Bowl Ilkeston and the note "Not too busy"

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The boys are out in Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also, they should be fined for their use of punctuation.

The sign from the front of the van, reading "This vehicle is currently involved in collecting/delivering from/to a customer, and for security reasons cannot be moved until the service is completed.

We apologise for any inconvenience G4S recognise that any criminal action against this vehicle could involve members of the public and feel it is important to cut the crew's exposure to as little as possible and thereby..." The bottom of the notice is obscured so no more text is visible.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A striking resemblance to Johnny Vegas playing up the vulnerable side of his character.

Daniel Thomas, aka Danny Tomo, crying in a courtroom drawing.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just about the saddest news of the day. (In Dutch, translated for you) www.nu.nl/media/641036...

Paul Haenen is stepping down after more than fifty years as the voice dubbing artist for the Sesame Street puppet Bert. Haenen cites the death of colleague Wim T. Schippers last June as the reason. Schippers provided the voice of Ernie.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The council presumably shrugs because it's an occasional event and "what else could we do". The answer is you should fill the verge with bike racks. Temporary bike racks.

A sea of densely parked bikes in a field.

From r/fuck bikes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/uv86o2/dutch_festival_parking/

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And we'll need some kind of catapult to get them there.

Screenshot from Google Gemini stating "The RNLI does not have a strict physical limit on how far offshore they will go to save a life, but their fleet operational range generally covers up to 50 to 100+ nautical miles offshore."

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It beats this one of a lad cheerful as he gets close-passed.

A Dutch billboard stating "De scholen zijn weer begonnen" (school has started again). Two school kids are pictured riding their bikes towards the viewer, a girl behind a boy, smiling. The front of a black car, also heading towards the viewer, is visible next to the boy, alongside the girl and slightly behind the boy's elbow. If the composition is taken as real, the car is about to hit or dangerously close-pass the boy.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

They're banned in some places in NL🙁 Totally missing the point. Some mums at my kids' school use them because they're competitively price ebikes and commonly have long saddles for kids to ride pillion.

Dutch handhaving (law enforcement, not cops) chat with a guy on a fatbike in Vondelpark, where fatbikes are banned.

I copied the photo from another thread, apologies if it's yours.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Had a ride through some of Utrechtse Heuvelrug today. Dutch hills! A+++++ would wheeze up and down again.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Racist actions no longer racist" - Reform

Screenshot from the bbc news article about racists turning up to protest immigration at a Marriott hotel only to find that the people staying there were merely dark-skinned and not asylum seekers.

It reads "Responding to criticism and comments on his Facebook post, Madgwick denied the reaction to the cricketers' arrival had been racist.

He said: "I think one person made the assumption and everybody else followed that assumption."

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sharing opinions on SM is not enough. Now is a good time to donate to Hope Not Hate. hopenothate.org.uk/donate-to-ho...

About 50 hate-filled far-right thugs hide their identities with face coverings while gathering in a station stairwell.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I have de-aged at least a whole month!

A fitness watch on a hairy wrist informing the user that their fitness age has decreased to 49.0.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is my recent ride home across North Holland, an average gradient 0.001%. And I expect that was down to the handful of bridges and huge number of speed bumps🤣

Screenshot from Strava reading
"End of holiday ride
Distance: 28.6km
Elev gain: 28m"

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Bell broken, please wave" - message at the dock of the Nessersluis ferry this morning. It seems permanent, I guess running a door bell wire across a river is not simple. We had a nice ride this morning amongst the cows, sheep and feral kittens of the Ronde Hoep, south of Amsterdam.

A steel box next to a river. A sticker on the box reads "BEL DEFECT. GRAAR ZWAAIEN. ONZE EXCUSES".

Another sticker, just in shot, reads "hier alleeen pinnen" - meaning "here you can only pay by bank card".

There's a lever on top of the box, the function is unclear.

In the background, above the box, a cable can be seen stretching across a river. Beyond that, somewhat blurred, is a cable ferry on the other side of the river.

Green trees flank modern houses.

A view from the edge of the ferry down the river, untroubled waters, blue sky, fluffy clouds and a duck complete the picture - it was a nice day.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Went for a walk starting at Castricum station yesterday and met this rusty tussock moth.

A black caterpillar with tufts of white hair and red spots in rows sits on the edge of a fence post.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Can you still get Tioga Farmer John tyres?

A tyre with tread pattern resembling that of a tractor tyre. The image is tagged www.bikerecyclery.com.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Electric ferry with solar panels in Rijsenhout. It takes less than a minute to cross the Haarlemmermeer Rondvaart Kanal and runs year round (weekend voyages only happen April to October). It saves a ~6km detour for bikes.

An electric ferry sat by the canal side in the Netherlands. The ferry features a bike rack and roof, with solar panels thereon.

A sign in dutch and English declaring that the ferry is free today.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Nice touch, but if drivers are doing as they should, what good does it do? Hearing-impaired sign on the back of a bike seen in NL.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The lad made a 42km trip to our campsite last week. His longest yet and something to be super proud of. The lass, who is older and more able, did the return trip with me to pick up the car on the same day, clocked 72km. Another record!

A girl on a bike on a sand path. Clear skies, hedgerow, green fields and a blond plait.

Even more beautiful than a green landscape, a beautiful broad cycle path made of red asphalt. It's smooth and well maintained, appearing new (it is).

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A red-legged shield bug, looking after the skin on my leg for me.

$A rough-skinned flat-bodied bug sits amongst hairs on human skin. The bug is brown in appearance but shows some rainbow-coloured edges typical of diffractive effects in fine-structured materials. The rear of its body shows two transparent wings otherwise hidden beneath a tough shell, and a striped frill around the edge (but I don't know what that is).$

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Really loving the macro on my Pixel now I'm (slowly) learning to use it.

A white moth with black spots, close up in macro shows eyes, mandibles and hairy head.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I noticed this because I sometimes cycle, sometimes drive with my kids to their school, which is along a 2km 60kmh road with more cycle lanes allocation than motor vehicle. Img: @bicycledutch.bsky.social, bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2020/08/12/c...

A Dutch road where more asphalt is painted red than there is black road for motor vehicles in between (in fact, the black road is too narrow for a car, and these are not really cycle lanes.)

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today I saw my first one of these, and what a beauty! *A purple-barred yellow moth in North Holland dunes.

A moth (that you could easily mistake for a butterfly, it's so pretty) sitting on a ground scattered with brown leaves or seeds amongst some yellowing grass. The moth is a purple-barred yellow and has pink and yellow stripes running across both wings.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

During lunch in the dunes today we watched a field digger wasp bury her eggs. She only buried them 1-2cm deep but in her defence, the sand was pretty hot and she was being watched by two excited kids.

A wasp with eggs digging a hole in some sand against a piece of concrete.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I don't think I'm ignoring it, I don't see evidence of a collapse! There have been many recent scarcities and price rises, but they appear to be down to commercial, political and economic events. In my life time there were huge, lengthy famines! Why do you say there's a collapse now?

Graph showing global deaths due to famines from 1870 to 2023. No decade after the 1970s has exceeded any preceding decade in the 20th century.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Day at Pampus today, a fort on an artificial island in the Ijmeer (halfway between Amsterdam and Almere). It may have never served an active military purpose but it sure makes a nice home for barn swallows.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I saw a Holly Blue butterfly while I was putting the washing out in the sunshine, so snapped it with my phone. I took it from the sunny side, pointing towards me, so had no view of the screen. Does that make it a 180 no-scope?

A small butterfly sits on the tip of a barely open purple flower bud.

Its folded wings are pale-blur with a pattern of dark flecks.

More pink flowers are in the blurred background, as well as an impressive set of abs under a brown tee shirt. Well, impressive for a 50 year old who doesn't exercise and eats badly.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

More Dutch niceness. It's been a long journey this year, after a back injury on Jan 01, but this is probably my 8th or 9th ride this year, achieving 37km of pain-free fun.

A buzzard soars (as buzzards do) over the flat farming landscape of north Holland

A well in front of a flat green field, interrupted only by drainage ditches.

Small cows standing behind a gate on a sunny day.

A bridge over a canal is lifted high in the air to allow a canal boat through. The photo is taken from a cycle path made of pink pavers next to an asphalt road. Red and white striped traffic barriers block the way and a traffic light on a black and white striped pole shows red.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Who wouldn't want this on their doorstep? And if you have it, who wouldn't want to spend their time riding through it on a bike?

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Large white. Big fan of thistles.

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