Karl-on-Sea @karlonsea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026An opinion from someone living in what is correctly identified as “the midlands.” 020
Reposted by Karl-on-Seadjcaress.bsky.social @djcaress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The hyper-vigilance required in order to stay as safe as possible when cycling is not just for self-preservation purposes, it’s also because you have the pick up the mental slack on behalf of distracted or inattentive motorists, of which there are many. 23211
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaSimon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable? 8238131
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaTim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is a refuge on a residential street. The guy leaning on his bike is at the primary school entrance, hence the green fencing beside him. The bollards are pencil shaped to say “KIDS HERE” the plastic bollards on the refuge have been flattened. There is no #WarOnDrivers there is a #WarOnWalkers 33510
Karl-on-Sea @karlonsea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Out riding at the weekend, we had probably four close passes that I'd definitely have reported if filming, two drivers *astonished* that neither we nor the traffic islands in front of them simply disappeared by their force of will alone, one driver decided to just barge through anyway... 180
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the hardest things about being a cyclist is dealing with the nagging feeling that a serious crash is inevitable. Because you can indeed do everything "right" and it still does not matter. 3682104
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaPhil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 28/09/2026Just saw someone zoom by on a Solar powered recumbent e-bike, clearly homemade. I barely got a photo before he was away. Just commuting to work in Chippenham I think? Legend. 1326545
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaAlex M @wigan2000.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Agreed. This should also apply to those who take their front plates off and shove them on the dashboard. There’s a real epidemic of that round our way 171
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaReal Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Dodgy number plates are a red flag to a criminal mind. The UK really needs to do two things. Make use of them a serious criminal offence rather than the £100 now. Make prosecution easy and a priority through the existing #opsnap portals. It's currently too difficult. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukThousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new camerasIllegal registration plates are far too easy to get hold of and are putting the public at risk, BBC is told. 105710
Reposted by Karl-on-Sea𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For reference, Voyager 1 launched in September 1977, and on November 18 of this year it will finally hit one light day. 49 years for one light day. 361060310
Karl-on-Sea @karlonsea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Cyclists should have number plates” Also: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukThousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new camerasIllegal registration plates are far too easy to get hold of and are putting the public at risk, BBC is told. 25925
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦⬛ 20802200
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaGiles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026AfD bans Stolpersteine: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGerman town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victimsGermany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal". 24266160
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaThe Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Again, what difference does the bike being an e-bike make in this dog's dinner of a report. 84810
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaStacia Seamonster 🦑 @stacia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you’re female, consider choosing a gender-neutral handle. I was an editor for years but the misogyny was overwhelming and I finally deleted my editor account. 062
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaRobert Campbell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @madman2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It doesn’t have to be a huge amount but a monthly standing order held enormously. Do it 001
Karl-on-Sea @karlonsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A thread to give all you pedants out there something to think about. 010
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/09/2026Old time religion / Going to need a bigger boat (Cthulhu Classics, cover by Lee Gibbons for a compilation of reprinted Call of Cthulhu adventures, Chaosium, 1989) oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/8289391... 2506
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaSteve Worcester @stevewfolds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Regular donations help them a lot. Less than 2% of users donate. 001
Karl-on-Sea @karlonsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Use Wikipedia regularly? Set up a monthly payment. Also, contribute your expertise. Write content. Review others’. 282
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaTyron @tyron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit 19765123
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaDr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Always donate. #RNLI There’s one in all good pubs. 0143
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaMike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I wonder if making the single carriageway bit of the A1 into a Dual Carriageway will make it safer? 0153
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It’s far too early to speculate what’s going on down there, but it’s obviously posh kids, a dog, and lashings of ginger beer. 1938760
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We can read the equivocations mate here i circled em for you 732684
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaThe Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In modern terms. I don't think you can beat Dutch roundabouts. British roundabouts are mostly terrible, including for drivers. 4206
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference. 531590861
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Only 10% of the richest 0.01% of the population paid close to the top 47% (45% income tax marginal rate + 2% NIC) rate on earnings. A quarter of that group paid an effective average tax rate of 20% or less. The tax system appears to be progressive for some but is frequently not so at the very topbmmagazine.co.ukOnly one in ten top UK earners pay close to top tax rate, says CenTaxCenTax says equalising capital gains tax with income tax could raise £19.7bn by 2030, as HMRC data shows few top earners pay the 47 per cent top rate. 14296163
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaMike @ksmikey.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026Pourquoi prend le Pape un avion vers Lourdes quand il y a une liaison rapide à Toulouse? 011
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaThe Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Same energy. 1111
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaIt’s me, Claire 💚 @faultfinderuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I will always have the image of JSO activists stopping traffic and members of the public, whipped up by media hate, trying to drag them off the street or run them down. If petrol use, our love for oil, kills people and planet through heat and floods what heroes they are. 0154
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaCargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026These are not ebikes, for fucks sake. They’re electric motorbikes and if the police are selling on motor vehicles with no type approval, that’s the real fucking story @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social. They should be crushed; not put back onto the streets to be seized again.bbc.co.ukE-bikes seized by police sold on at auction, BBC findsThousands are confiscated annually because they are suspected of being driven illegally or used in a crime - most are destroyed, but last year police sold at least 161. 45314
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaCool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Mark Hamill on a Schwinn, circa late 1970s Happy #BicycleBirthday, Mark! Born September 25, 1951 1054159
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaKatja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why I don´t talk about helmets? I lost too many wearing them. On Car-Free Day, 22 September, Nicolò, a seven-year-old child, was killed by a motorist in Turin. He was riding in the bike lane, wearing his helmet, riding to school with his father. A car driver killed him anyway. Photo Fabio Ferrari 37927
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There is a tendency to talk about people who receive support from the state as though they are somehow a completely different group from the rest of us: ‘taxpayers’ over here and ‘benefit claimants’ over there. My piece for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/non...yorkshirebylines.co.ukNone of us knows what is around the cornerA personal testimonial of the life-saving benefits of a social security system that supports the people, and the dangers of villainising those who find need of it 68026
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The normies will own a truck, SUV, and midsized SUV all in one home, but call this weird. 3759
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaRobert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 25/09/2026I see a lot of people complaining about the undoubtedly stressful conditions at present on London's roads. But I see few people complaining about motor vehicles. Yet in the last 24 hours three vulnerable road users have died after being hit by people driving motor vehicles. 312060
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaPaul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You have to read down to paragraph 18, out of 26, before you learn *which party* runs this council.bbc.co.ukSouth Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027. 192
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human—sweat, bad breath, everything 1635546
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaGraeme 🦋 @fatherhilarious.blog · 25/09/2026“Let them drown! Let them drown! Let them drown! Let them drown!”, a small girl was encouraged to chant through a megaphone in an anti-migrant protest in Gosport this week. It will be a nice thing for her to look back on at her 18th birthday... www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...thenerve.newsStewart Lee: Why don’t we stage public drownings of migrants, to address people’s legitimate concerns?The collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain suggests it’s now time for Roman-style lethal spectacles. The alternative – stopping malign global influences from destabilising our society, say – s... 3157
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...leftfootforward.orgOutrage as Reform-run council votes to shut 10 nurseriesMembers of the public shouted “you should be ashamed” as Reform councillors approved the plans 40774300
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Blockbuster movies need alternative soundtracks for when they are broadcast on TV. It's infuriating having to reach for the remote every time the soundtrack switches from inaudible mumbling to all out nuclear war and back. 81325
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaRobert Campbell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @madman2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This happened in my patch. The modal filter met all the kpi the council set for its implementation but still it was dug up. Space for Fenham are still trying to get answers almost 2 years after. 111
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaSeymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sarkar: “I feel like I’m going completely nuts, because there are mobs of men styling themselves as paramilitaries and both of you have had more to say about refugees and asylum seekers than you have had racism, which I just think is completely obscene." www.thenational.scot/news/2658099...thenational.scotAsh Sarkar brands far-right thuggery 'small penis behaviour' in Question Time clashASH Sarkar has branded the behaviour of far-right activists “small penis behaviour” during a fiery clash over immigration and racism on BBC… 14919
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaHush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Terminator internal comms declassified 14313
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaGary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026road.cc/content/news...road.ccFamily "devastated" as London lorry driver cleared of killing cyclistThe mother of a cyclist killed in a collision with a skip lorry at Ludgate Circus in the City of London say her family are “devastated” after a jury today cleared the driver of the vehicle from causin... 012
Reposted by Karl-on-SeaCyclingMikey @cyclingmikey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Skip lorries are amongst the most dangerous vehicles on London's roads, involved in many cyclist fatalities. What can we do to stop the epidemic of phone driving, @MayorofLondon, @willnorman, @metpoliceuk? We desperately need those Oz style AI cameras. youtu.be/aR03PYrrhf0youtu.beCyclingMikey Climbed Onto his Lorry - LT21NJV Star SkipsYouTube video by CyclingMikey 2246
Karl-on-Sea @karlonsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Two junctions yesterday, and I caught two drivers on the phone. Except I mucked up the camera download for the first, and the battery died just as I got to the second. 😭️ 280