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Purple Mouse

@purplemouse.bsky.social
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Wurzel • Canuck • Norfolker Newly qualified Biomedical Scientist. I cycle for transport with a helmet camera. I don’t eat animals.

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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This week I’ve already had 2 drivers honk their horns at me just because I didn’t get out of their way & held my position in the lane to ensure my safety. (I was trying to prevent a close pass/avoiding the door zone). Their journeys were clearly more important than mine. In one instance 1/2
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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Drivers when they have to pay to park at the hospital (usually with exemptions for long admissions, disabled parking, etc.) vs Drivers when people who don't or can't drive have to pay as much or more for a bus that goes near but not to the hospital or have to pay several times more for a taxi
Shot from The Simpsons of entire town marching holding burning torches and looking furious Tumbleweed on desert road
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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.
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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.
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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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.
MOTORISTS AND ROADS
MAY I humbly point out to your correspon-dent, Colin M. G. Ross, that were in existence before motoring commenced, and if only cyclists had used them they would probably have lasted for ever? It was the ad-vent of motor-cars that made a tax neces-sary owing to their destructiveness.
With regard to cyclists riding three and four abreast, this is the exception, not the rule; and the practice is usually confined to irresponsible local youths.
Cyclists as a rule never ride more than two abreast and are quite willing to ride single file where the road is narrow, but they cannot fade away for every motor-horn.
С. Т. С.
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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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.
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jonpsp.bsky.social @jonpsp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Can you also discount the costs of buying ecargobikes, whilst providing adequate funding for cycling infrastructure and public transport, at the same time?
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The guilt of calling in sick over a weekend 😞
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cyclists sharing the road: holy shit holy shit please don’t kill me holy shit is it safe to go holy shit please don’t kill me im just trying to get home Drivers sharing the road: GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY RIGHT NOW I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU I WILL BREAK EVERY TRAFFIC SAFETY RULE TO SAVE 5 SECONDS
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Masato Jones @masatojones.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Prove we can still gain sales from social media in 2026 #shopindie use coupon X15 at the checkout www.masato.co.uk
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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
A busy highway/arterial road separating Riga, Latvia’s beautiful historic downtown with its public waterfront. The pedestrian connection is an underground walkway, with stairs downward, and a tight, dark connection under the road, raising issues of safety and comfort and relegating pedestrians to second class citizens with all the priority going to cars and drivers. #UrbanTruth
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’ll pass, thanks.
A shop display for Sexulal Health and Pleasure with Savlon for sale underneath.
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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."
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Birmingham 20mph limit: a 'life saver' or 'a war on cars'?
Birmingham City Council is proposing the city becomes England's first 20mph city.
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Can anyone recommend an email account provider? I want to ditch my gmail accounts.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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.
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
When you're riding a bike there are too many drivers who don't see you as a person, only as an inconvenience.
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Cycling in term time: 😱😨🚗🚗😠😬💀🥊🤬💨💩 Cycling during school holidays: 👋🚲🤗🤫😊⌚🌼🫶
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digitalfurball.bsky.social @digitalfurball.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A bit like how people driving cars will slow to a crawl to make it through those width restriction bollards in case the scratch their car, but happily blast past at the same distance if it’s flesh and bones
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Campsites really need to start giving discounts to people who arrive on foot or by bike.
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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.
A picture of Worthing Library - it's not very pretty on the outside - concrete was all the rage when it was built, but inside it's a treasure-trove of the imagination and somewhere my boys love to visit
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Football is a potentially good game, ruined by the people who play it and the people who watch it
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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.
Half of England officially in "exceptionally serious" drought
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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.
Telegraph article: John Cleese: I trust Rupert Lowe more than any other leader
Monty Python star backs the Restore Britain founder in a series of social media posts
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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 27/07/2026
The #EdFringe starts early with car brain comedy* signs: 1. Single file traffic: so let’s make the pavement single file too 2. Road ahead closed: so we’ve blocked the pavement too 3. Road ahead closed: sign blocking pavement obscured by cars anyway 4. Diversion: so pedestrians are diverted too
single file traffic sign adjacent to three open lanes for cars blocks the already tight busy  high street pavement Road ahead closed sign for carriageway (not pavement) closure 100m away covers 80% of pavement Road closed ahead sign that blocks pavement is largely obscured behind parked carsDiverted traffic sign blocks 75% of pavement and is hidden behind a parked SUV that obscures the diversionary route for traffic
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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.
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Harry @harry-is-human.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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.
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from your device without comment.
3 red waste bins in the street. The bin on the left has a deflated blow-up doll hanging out of it.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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.
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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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.
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Just ordered one of these. I just love Masato’s doodles!
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 14/07/2026
Hello! Just a little reminder that my shop is full of bold, colourful things for your home and wardrobe. Think mid-century design, brutalist architecture and lots of vinyl. Designed in Manchester and made in the UK. Go on, have a nosy! www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
A grid of nine images featuring prints, T-shirts, a phone case and a mug with music, mid century and architecture designs.
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Got the bus to my graduation today. Got a few funny looks, but 🤷‍♀️
Waiting at the bus stop to get to my graduation.Me in my gown
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Great job 👏
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I have one of these. It makes me feel so summery when I wear it, and the cotton feels so nice. Bargain!
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6
If a person has the tenacity and drive to get to the UK in a tiny boat, they should be welcomed and given a job. They are clearly enterprising and determined

anon_opin GOLD from 13th December 2023
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This sounds awful & I definitely think Lime should be much more accountable… but… when are we going to get a ‘something must be done’ piece about the 42 pedestrians killed & 100+ seriously injured every year on the pavement by cars? #Motonormativity www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation
The collision was catastrophic. Jane Ouartsi suffered a fractured collarbone, two spinal fractures, a broken femur that took three operations to fix, and she had to learn to walk again like a baby. Wh...
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Councillors who don't like immigrants won't be any better at organising your bin collection or filling in potholes.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I can’t say it better than this.
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Loving this on my train ride
Neil from The Young Ones singing Hurdy Gurdy Man.
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Purple Mouse @purplemouse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Yes, I’m also that person at work who uses pipette tips in a random order. #biomedicalscience @ibmscience.bsky.social
Postage stamp book with stamps removed randomly.
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Masato Jones @masatojones.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
July 4th was not only #independenceday but it was our 14th birthday as a small business spend only over £40 and 14% whooshes off excludes clearance sale go on #shopindie Expires at midnight 5th July No coupon needed www.masato.co.uk #ukgiftam
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Shop Sign with Marquee Lights
ALT: Shop Sign with Marquee Lights
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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Another selfish driver parking on the mandatory cycle lane on West Bank. One of very few half decent bits of Cycleway 1 and drivers still find a way to make it more dangerous. @hackneycouncil.bsky.social are you even taking notice of driver behaviour like this anymore?
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Masato Jones @masatojones.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Check out the #clearancesale more items added July is our end of company year and stocktake 31st July so we need as much as possible to go go www.masato.co.uk/collections/... #shopindie
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Clearance Sale
Final Clearance – Once They’re Gone, They’re Gone! A mix of previous lines with only a few sizes left—or past favourites we no longer stock. Don’t wait! When these items are gone, they’re gone forever...
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
One calculation that blew my mind: When I push a pedestrian beg button to cross an arterial road w/ 40 mph spd limit. Wait of 90 sec means a car 1 mile away gets to priority to clear the intersection before I am allowed to cross the road. I am standing roadside breathing particulates
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Too many motorists: "If you criticise car culture you're excluding disabled people!" Also too many motorists:
A van, parked by some absolute bellend over the top of the tactile paving intended to make crossing the road safer for blind people
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