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Rolo

@rolo-lines.bsky.social
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Spatial Designer. Runner. Everyday cyclist. Advocate for active travel (actually doing it, as opposed to sitting in meetings wishing for cycle paths that are never going to be funded or materialise in the North of England...). SEN Dad.

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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 23h
#Activetravel meeting fact 2: The bloke who cycled to the meeting in a helmet, lycra and high vis, in the dark and the rain is not anti-cycle lanes. He's a realist. The 20 people that have driven there and are now arguing with him expecting 100% infrastructure will never cycle in their own lifetime.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#activetravel meeting fact: The schoolkid who has to cycle fast everyday in all weathers regardless if there's a cycle path or not, has far more to contribute to the meeting than somebody who's preaching about cyclists slowing down when all they do is take their vintage bike to hipster coffee shops.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Riding a bicycle across Hull at night because despite working full time for 30 years in a good job I can't afford a car, in a city with no proper cycle lanes, is a very good example why 60% of all Active Travel Funding needs to stop being spent on hipsters, Brompton owners and tourists in London.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They didn't need to leave. One person needed to be thrown out.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Turns out billionaire Robert Kraft has put the squeeze on artists before, leaning on his multi-millionaire friends to ensure their speech fits with his worldview/doesn't mention his --ahem--history. Good thing free speech comedians stand up to this censorship!!! PS Jeff Ross sucks.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Something very off about this. The UK property industry is synonymous with invoking deliberate car dependency through remote greenfield development.https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19cQZ27rwf/
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hooded tops to hide the beer guts and weapons. Jogging bottoms to hide the elecronic tags. Balaclavas because they can't be claiming to be actively seeking work if they're seen running about in traffic, wasting their benefits on a daytrip. The stench of Special Brew and cheap vapes must be terrible.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Most mediocre zombie apocalypse ever. No balaclavas necessary because the daft twats don't realise their mobile phones, debit card transactions, train tickets, NPR, electronic tag data, numerous social media updates, Wetherspoons debits, pinpoint exactly where they were.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Still, the SAS at Primark range must be selling very well.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If an "active travel advocate" posts a pic of a different bicycle and outfit everyday, they are an influencer. They aren't economically dependent or sustainably minded to active travel. That's not advocacy, its fashion. Just as many, if not more "ordinary cyclists" as sportier cyclists do this.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is a completely toxic perversion of the statistics from 1967 until now. Population has obviously risen since then. But Gaza's local population has dropped following October 2023. Tens of thousands of deaths reducing Gaza's living population from 2.2 million down to approximately 2.1 million.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
One thing you can absolutely guarantee in life. When Labour ministers talk about difficult choices, it's never the rich and powerful that will be taking a hit.
Andy Burnham to make it harder for people to claim benefits as he vows to get serious about cutting welfare bill
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=V5mD... As I said, don't be being #NorthernWashed by #Burnham Same toxic Blairite party.
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Burnham allows Trump to use British military bases to bomb Iran
YouTube video by LBC
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Idiot with blacked out windows just flung his car door open onto me while I was cycling. I have concussion, cut my head and legs. He was more bothered about his car door which didn't have a mark on it. Not reporting it, if you're still breathing Police around here aren't at all interested. #doored
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Don't believe the grift. Labour have tried WMD washing, greenwashing,comfort washing [Corbyn]. Now we are being Northernwashed. Always the same mock-left Blairite ingredients. They're just trying to put somebody who can name-drop indie bands on the cover.
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Uber said it would cut congestion and became the single biggest driver of it. The Boring Company promised to move tens of thousands of people an hour and moves a few hundred. The pattern is reliable enough that you can spot the next one coming. This time, it is ... delivery robots."
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
SOP now stands for selling out professionals. If mamagement have not shown any interest in what you do before but now wants it "On an SOP, but keep the formatting simple" , it's going straight in AI.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Palestine fundraiser today The Farage rabble threatened to show up, but didn't. Wasters can't have slept off their Special Brew
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Of course Gen Z know nothing about packer mac, or the Raleigh Banana 10 speed . That's why they're riding around in balaclavas on illegal electric bikes. At those speeds your packer mac would ignite, and your steel wheels would buckle catapulting you into a Tandy shop window. It was a simpler time.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The term "Boycott" (not buying a ticket and not going) has been diluted to a few minutes of (easily edited out) booing. Then the audience have satisfied their moral outrage, so settle back to blindly watch and stuff popcorn into their faces. The sponsors would demand change if the public did.
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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
They only say they must stick to the manifesto when it suits them. When they decided to introduce ILR reforms harsher than anything the Tories had done, that was not (as far as I know) in the manifesto. But they didn't care, because it affected immigrants, whom Labour barely considers to be people.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Something I've noticed in Spain: Priority is given to achievable incremental improvements for people that are already active travelling. They've very little time for expensive fantasy masterplans aiming to prise habitual drivers from their cars some time in the next 50 years.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Hey, friends. We are often asked if The War on Cars is our full-time gig, and it is! There's no way we could do it at the level and frequency we want without devoting our days (and nights) to it. We are extremely grateful to everyone who helps make that a reality with a subscription.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Hot 8 mile run this morning!
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I'm about to get my road bike out and cycle 20 miles, on the road, because I am not living under the delusion that proper cycle paths will be built in British northern provincial cities in my lifetime. Critical Mass is critical thinking. Advocacy is demonstrable action.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
That friend who after years of telling you your kids are badly behaved despite them both having a profound autism and Adhd diagnosis, has just found out that they themselves are mildly on the spectrum so have over night become an evangelist for neurodiversity.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
@britishcycling.org.uk @sustrans.bsky.social @thejeremyvine.bsky.social @urbancyclinginstitute.org @discerningcyclist.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social Appalling article from VICE ideating violence towards @cyclingmikey.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/1Dxjxs...
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Well at least he doesn't think he's saving the planet
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Tim Jaques 🇨🇦 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰 @editorwhedon.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
'Ministers decided to prioritise driving over active travel because of worries among ministers about “15-minute cities”, documents seen by the Guardian show.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Ministers prioritised driving in England partly due to conspiracy theories
Exclusive: Documents show shift in transport policy influenced by unfounded fears about loss of freedom of movement in ‘15-minute cities’
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Story about the terrible incident where an illegal e-biker hit a pregnant woman - or that's what it should be. It's a negative generalisation about all cyclists and a collection of photographs of legitimate bikes, one daft teenager, but otherwise legal cycling activity. metro.co.uk/2026/02/04/b...
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How bike gangs came to dominate a UK town where a baby was left critically ill
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is why we need an absolute total crackdown on illegal e-motorbikes and scooters now. The reporting is just destroying legitimacy of all e-bikes. Boy, 13, arrested after fail-to-stop e-bike crash with pregnant woman in Dorset | ITV News Meridian www.itv.com/news/meridia...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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dylans1.bsky.social @dylans1.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I guess if they can ignore a live streamed genocidal slaughter for two years, bombing a sovereign state and kidnapping its President is small potatoes.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Just payed £9 for a 13 min train journey from a station that calls an open sided shed "secure bike parking" whilst maintaining a very large subsidised car park. This isn't enabling anything other than perpetuating car use. Spend taxpayers money north of London on proper active travel infra please.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is total BS. A brown female liberal journalist that isn't afraid of offending white male Tory racist fatcats [Tim Davie exec of bbc]. That's not bullying.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Finally, some useful cycling research. Now let's put actual restrictions on car use and stop pretending "build it and they will come" is a foolproof development strategy. Most of UK is not getting cycling infrastructure so focus on habitual drivers and make the roads quieter road.cc/content/news...
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Improving cycle infrastructure and public transport has little impact on car use, new review finds
These non-coercive measures need to be combined with measures such as higher driving costs or reduced car access to have an effect
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
If you see people raising #flags , film them. Time on their hands when they likely should be actively seeking work as agreed by claiming job seekers allowance. The physical ability to climb lamp posts, whilst claiming incapacity benefit. Buying flags but exploiting food banks. Vandals not volunteers
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I never thought I'd agree with Reeves but Cycle to Work has always been a grift and not fit for purpose. The people thst need it most can't access it. People that can usually buy a weekender but continue to drive to work. Support grass roots bike refurbishment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Rachel Reeves to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes
Chancellor expected to introduce new limit on how much can be spent on a bicycle through cycle to work scheme
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Friend asks for a free bike. I have bikes. Serviced, cleaned, resprayed bike. Friend gets free bike from me. Friend doesn't say thanks. Friend isn't a cyclist (habitual driver) and actually just wanted a bike for one social event. To fit in. Lesson learnt.
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Royal Dutch Blue 🇳🇱 @dutchannie.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Truth!!
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Via Euronews: Scottish brewer helps Palestine beer make its way from West Bank to UK www.euronews.com/business/202...
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Scottish brewer helps Palestine beer make its way from West Bank to UK
Since the war began, the Israeli crackdown has hit the West Bank industry and economy hard, forcing bars, restaurants and hotels to close.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The dregs of society that can barely draw a symmetrical red cross are scrawling their racially motivated tags on roundabouts and most councils are not bothering to remove them. One of Britain's leading artists creates a satirical humanitarian social comment and the state can't remove it fast enough.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The building was built as a pastiche following a genocide of a native population. A sanitised white facade for an unjust regime. It might have metamorphosised into its most honest form of despot signalling yet.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Won't riot about Water Companies, cost £16bn a year Won't riot about Banks, steal £82bn a year. Won't riot about Supermarkets, take £20bn a year, 4x in 3 years. Won't riot about Energy Companies, stealing £130bn a year. Will riot about Asylum Seekers, cost less than £3bn a year.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Widening an existing footpath to create a neighbouring cycle lane from a small town to a rural college to make it safer for students. But as always Dull Daily Fail manage to not mention the college at all, but are concerned about the cost and the temporary traffic lights. Jeremy Clarkson syndrome.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Where do you think the Rockup cyclists will be cycling? On roads. What do you think they'll be wearing? Lycra. Who do you think they'll be slightly inconveniencing? Car drivers. Who will shout abuse at them because of the BS they've read in your newspapers? Car drivers. Your hypocrisy is hilarious.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
A @davewalker.bsky.social cartoon that is perfect. This should be everywhere not shitty flags.
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Rolo @rolo-lines.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Is there no self reflection amongst Hull Live hacks? You run a daily campaign of hatred towards cyclists. These are just normal people in a low income city trying to get to work, school or shops sustainably. You treat them with utter contempt with your pro-car bias. But a one-off charity ride...
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