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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think the reluctance to say that abusers shouldn't have positions of power comes back to Great Man Theory. There's a temptation to think that movements pivot on particular exceptional individuals and we therefore have to excuse their abuse in the name of their contributions to a higher cause.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Claiming that facilitating and encouraging cycling is still an individual solution to a collective problem is the transport discourse equivalent of acting like anyone saying "property is theft" thinks everyone should have to use a communal toothbrush

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seems Not Great that yesterday evening I - a person who has cold urticaria or, in other words, is literally allergic to being what I would describe as "a bit chilly" - was able to sit outside in a short sleeved t-shirt very comfortably in northern England in October.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The whole "yeah but drivers, unlike cyclists, don't drive on the pavement or use paths that are shared with pedestrians" thing might be slightly less unconvincing if drivers didn't routinely drive over paths and pavements en route to crashing into people's homes, hospitals, bars, etc.

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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Is Lubalin still setting internet posts to music because I have a banger if he is

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Billy, Garry, Orville @billythecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A Comfortable Man!!

Billy the brown tabby cat is asleep on his back on the top shelf in the wardrobe. Only his tail and his back legs can be seen, with his pink and black beans high in the air.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Being like "I just use stuff I've got kicking about & my regular clothes as Halloween costumes" then realising maybe most people don't have a horned helmet & a cat face & ears balaclava kicking about & regular clothes so costume adjacent that they dressed up as Orpheus & Paddington Bear by accident.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Face covering bans are incredibly discriminatory for lots of reasons. I get that a lot of people have a gut response to "masked far right thugs!" but many anti-fascists also cover their faces to protect their identities & all sorts of people wear them for health &/or religious or cultural reasons.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I still love Halloween so do I no longer covet the Halloween tat in the Halloween tat aisles because the general standard of the Halloween tat offering has got shittier or is this what is called Personal Growth?

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sat next to a crying baby for the entire flight. I don't mind though. Feel like they were the only other passenger who truly grasped the unnatural horror of our undertaking. Man does not belong to the sky. The real monsters are those who remain silent.

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Benches are important mobility aids - they allow people to take frequent rests, enabling them to walk greater distances, by breaking them down into stages

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For those of you who haven't been playing along at home: A slave labour petrostate's football club got caught cheating & they're cross the Prime Minister isn't making Big Football let them do prolific a fraud as a treat so now they're taking their ball home & not building us a fancy business park

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's partly confirmation bias, partly received wisdom & partly not really caring whether it's true so long as they can use it as a stick to beat cyclists with but part of drivers' conviction that cyclists are all constantly breaking the law is that they neither know nor care to know what the law is.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's also a more efficient use of resource, more equitable, safer, makes our built environments & communities more resilient against effects of climate change that are already baked in, & paves the way for further active & public transport infrastructure rather than introducing yet more impedimenta.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trunk or Treat is to Halloween as AI is to Art

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saying "emotos pose less danger to other road users than cars do" isn't minimising the danger of emotos. If you think it is, it's because you're minimising the danger of cars & can't countenance any challenge to that so "you're minimising the danger of emotos" is the only way it can fit together.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Any argument about "cyclists don't obey the law!" or "unlike cyclists, drivers don't share space with pedestrians" or "drivers have to earn a license" or whatever is pretty comprehensively undermined by the fact that even if all those things were true drivers are still objectively far more dangerous

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Give people an emoto & most won't ride very fast because riding fast on two wheels with nothing solid between you & anything you might crash into feels fast & scary. Give people a car & most will drive too fast. Because cars create the illusion of safety & we disassociate them from harms they do.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Uhhh I saw some of the Eminem lyrics and, like, obviously it was obnoxious and wanky but also I nearly cringed myself inside out

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"It's too late to fix it now so why bother" & "government & industry don't want it so forget about it" are doomerism. "We have to try our best but we know it won't be quick or easy" & "this would be a fuck of a lot less difficult if we didn't have to fight supposed allies over it as well" are not.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two Ball Lonnen is a real place. We have buses driving around with Two Ball Lonnen written on the front. There's some good place names round here but Two Ball Lonnen is my favourite and if the reason it's called Two Ball Lonnen isn't funny I don't want to know.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Jamie Oliver decked a bairn who asked for chips" is ICONIC

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Ellie B. Spookypants @brynstar7.xyz · 02/10/2026

“They’re called skeets, your honor.”

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're so totally fucked & we're not even doing what little we could do about it now because the super rich are completely unaccountable & don't give a single fuck & even everyone else is like "I know we're so totally fucked but that doesn't make it ok for me to be mildly inconvenienced about it." 😭

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If I say that something is less dangerous than cars and you infer from that that I'm saying that it is necessarily safe and unproblematic, you're going to interpret a lot of things I say - and, quite frankly, the world around you - exactly wrong

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"That's the law!" & "That's how things are!" in response to serious criticisms of the law & how things are are absolute shit-heel arguments made by shit-heels who want to act like better things are not possible rather than admit that they just don't want them to be for selfish or spurious reasons

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love Halloween so do we like: Dread and Rosie Bread and RoOoOosie Bread and Rose from the Dead Other None of the above: why fuck with perfection None of the above: solidarity scares all the right people None of the above: you're in a Halloween costume in your profile pic all year round, calm down

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh no I did a lying down in my lunch break and now I have developed Inertia

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just called us "Homey Sapiens" as a typo in my book, wake up babe, new species name just dropped

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've found it weirdly common for left wing men to try to gain my trust by volunteering a "the worst thing I ever did to a woman" anecdote. For one, I'm going to assume it's the worst thing you'll cop to which may or may not be the same thing. But I'm not here to praise, reassure, console or absolve.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trunk or Treat is to Halloween as AI is to Art

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When I was very small I used to get taken to the local hardware shop to look at the Henry and Hetty Hoovers in the window as a little treat.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Jamie Oliver decked a bairn who asked for chips" is ICONIC

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm no expert but I lived in Kuala Lumpur as a teen & I've never understood why nobody in F1 (teams, governing body, media) seems to ever consider enlisting a Malaysian meteorologist as a consultant for the week rather than repeatedly trying to apply principles that don't work there & being wrong.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I see the "I don't like tofu" people can dish it out but they can't take it

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After many hard years of "clothes fitting" videos that turned out to be about dieting rather than sewing, extremely hardcore mean girl wig enthusiasts, every production ever of the musical Cats, & trying to convince me that my hair is actually curly, the YouTube algorithm has finally got my number

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Do I regret seeing the off-broadway Chess buttpl*g musical in nyc (twice)

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Despite AI, there is still art to make and there is still art out there - new and old - that can light up your brain like a million watt bulb and change you forever

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just think that if you are aware that you have traumatised someone & it was your fault & you are genuinely sorry, one very simple thing you could usefully do is keep a low profile to avoid or at least minimise them having to see or hear about you ever again, not choose to become a public figure

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I got a ski suit to ramp up my defences against the cold urticaria this winter and it's black and white and it's not skin tight and I wear stuff under it but it is fairly, shall we say, form fitting and every time I've tried it on my whole brain is just like "Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!"

Ned Flanders from The Simpsons wearing skin tight red and blue ski suit with body twisted to show extremely defined ass, red helmet, red boots, yellow ski poles, blue skis

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 01/10/2026

We live in a society that punishes people who are assaulted. We question them, we shame them, we disbelieve them. Many survivors instinctively do that societal work for us. Survivors question themselves, they shame themselves, they don't believe their own version of events. We've trained them!

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If, as speculated, this was caused by the driver hitting the accelerator due to human error or medical event, let's be 100% clear: That does not make it "just one of those things." That does not make it "unforeseeable." That does not make it "unpreventable." This is not an acceptable failure mode.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is devastating. And this represents a tiny proportion of the death and destruction allowed to continue in just one city. And it is allowed to continue. This is absolutely preventable. We know how. It's effective. It's cost efficient. Allowing this to happen - refusing to stop it - is a choice.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your city might not be as far gone as Birmingham, but no matter where you live, you're likely to find familiar many of the aspects of @sarahchaundler.bsky.social's brilliant and now publicly available short film "City of Cars." Stop what you're doing and watch this.

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City of Cars: shorter version

Please be aware that this film contains scenes which show the impact of road traffic collisions, which some people may find upsetting.

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