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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And dare to even lay a mere tap on a car that gets too close or give a hand gesture showing your displeasure at bad driving and expect a driver to react as if you have just attempted to murder their family. Absolutely deranged anger.

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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s much much harder now to be an anti racist than it is to be a racist. That’s one of the things I learned from talking to Rachel Marsh, who has been doxxed and abused for standing up to the far right. www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...

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‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm

Natasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ex WT pro. Gravel Bike. National hill climb champion. Bonkers power surges. And lots of heavy breathing. youtu.be/IB-6hcrDnIA?...

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Can a Hill Climb Specialist Beat a Tour de France Stage Winner?

YouTube video by Rule 28

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TimeGuessr #1200 — 40,460/50,000 1️⃣ 🏆9,641 · 📅 2y · 🌍 14.6km 2️⃣ 🏆9,179 · 📅 4y · 🌍 5.3km 3️⃣ 🏆2,621 · 📅 17y · 🌍 2637.0km 4️⃣ 🏆9,582 · 📅 2y · 🌍 29.6km 5️⃣ 🏆9,437 · 📅 3y · 🌍 15.8km timeguessr.com

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TimeGuessr

TimeGuessr - the game that tests both your geography and history knowledge. Guess where and when historic photos were taken.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm probably a dinosaur, but I wish students were allowed more time just to be students: to study, to read, to think, to talk to each other, to have big ideas - maybe even to have fun now & then. I'm not convinced turning unis into training centres is going to fix bigger problems in the jobs market

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 09/09/2026

🚨 THE TOMMY FILES: Tonight, our work with #C4Dispatches put Tommy Robinson’s finances under scrutiny. Now, we’re publishing everything we found, in one place. hopenothate.org.uk/tommy-files-...

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Tommy Files: The Game Is Up

For years, Stephen Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has asked his supporters to fund his political campaigns, legal battles and media operation. Now his finances are coming under unprecedented ...

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This bridge in Amsterdam, designed by British architects, links IJBurg with the mainland. It has a bidirectional tramway, bidirectional roadway, a bidirectional cycleway - plus space already built in for another cycleway when demand increases. Build for the future, not the past.

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

15 minute cities. Them: they want to track you where you travel! They don’t want you to own anything! Musk/Tesla: You don’t have to own a car now - we give you the autonomous Cybercab! (And we’ll track all your travel data on the app and on in-car cameras). Them: Musk is a genius. I love Cybercab!

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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 08/09/2026

High-speed rail is not a boondoggle. *Highways* are a boondoggle. Biggest one ever foisted on the public. We pay far too much, for the world's most costly transport system. $12,000 a year for car ownership in North America. And we still don't get to work on time. 🧵

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So much Cybercab content on my YT timeline! Weird form factor - cab with just 2 seats. Yet the boot could take a baby elephant!? And what about disabled access? And stupid swing doors rather than sliders? Hugely anticipating vids of groups of 5-6 bundling into the two seat cab and in the boot too!

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Separate cycle tracks alongside rural main roads give the elderly or people with mobility issues far more freedom. Someone on a mobility scooter can travel safely from town to town, without having to rely on a car or public transport. This is what accessible transport infrastructure looks like.

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Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · 08/09/2026

Japan just made its streets safer overnight! Following Spain and Wales, the country just slashed the speed limit on more than two thirds of its streets, from 60 km/h to 30 km/h. Read more: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 08/09/2026

Which one are you? These masked stock characters from Italy's commedia dell'arte traveled Europe from the 1500s to 1700s. Tricksters, scholars, soldiers, and more inspired centuries of comedy, while touring troupes included some of Europe's first professional actresses.

A colorful illustration of a Commedia dell'arte clown taking a selfie with text assigning your historical clown type based on your phone battery percentage.

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Finally caught the cat napping! Quick Bic pen sketch while she snoozed.

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Uh oh duck and cover:) Me personally; 2 minute ride to go get some milk & bread at Co-op, no helmet. 50 mile ‘sporting’ road ride, helmet. MTB ride, helmet. More for protection if I fall. But I fully understand that in the event I get twatted by an incompetent driver, it’s unlikely to do much.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson on the RNLI in "The Road to Little Dribbling : more notes from a small island" (2015)

I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people - teachers, plumbers, the guy
who runs the pub - drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that? The RNLI - I looked this up later - is an organization run by volunteers, supported entirely by public donations. It maintains 233 stations around the coast of Britain and averages twenty-two call-outs per day. It saves 350 lives a year on average.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org

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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I really enjoyed this book too. A travelogue and Pippa’s life story woven into the story of the hard graft, isolation and culture shock of a Scottish cyclist throwing themselves in the closed world of European professional cycling during the 80’s and 90’s.

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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 04/09/2026

"A cyclist can go 3 or 4x faster than a pedestrian, but uses 5x less energy. A bicycle is a perfect transducer to match metabolic energy to impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, humans outstrip the efficiency of not only all machines, but all other animals as well." —Ivan Illich

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When Mr Beast meets a real Beast: ‘hey Gemini, exactly how fast does one need to run to get away from a Polar B…………………….’ Gemini: ‘Polar B is a brand that offers a variety of children's toys and educational products, it’s unlikely you’ll need to run away’

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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Being one of the only people On Here who has ever made map decisions for a consumer product, I was intrigued when this old skeet of mine started doing numbers. It’s likely correct in today’s context but it’s also missing some important nuance, because it was about another situation. Here you go.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You've been hearing the story about how Dolly Parton turned down Elvis when his people demanded a chunk of her royalty rights in exchange for recording "I Will Always Love You". That reminded me of something I've wondered about for a long time. The guy who actually put the ask on Dolly was a ...

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 28/08/2026

Bike infrastructure isn’t about catering to existing cyclists. It’s about opening up access, independence, and opportunity for those who can't drive. Cities that invest in cycling are actively choosing to give more people the freedom to move through their communities. LISTEN: bccycling.ca/podcast

A collage of people cycling in the Netherlands including a family, an elderly couple, a man in a mobility scooter, a woman on a tricycle, and a group of young boys.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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Jennifer Parsons (she/her. Cry more, fash.) @parsonsjm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Her gospel-tinged version of “Stairway to Heaven” was better than the original. She was a brilliant songwriter, and I think that’s how she knew to interpret this song so well. youtu.be/YhTvxVxXJLQ?...

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Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven (Audio)

YouTube video by Dolly Parton

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Amazing. Such a charming, warm, funny, and down-to-earth person. And what a voice. She truly was a good’un.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Downhill v XC MTB. Big boingy bike v bit less boingy bike. Lycra v trail threads. youtu.be/1_87VGKSE0A?...

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What happens when World Cup XC and DH racers switch bikes??

YouTube video by Trek Bicycle

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

FDJ United - Suez - Behind the Scenes at the TDFF avec Zwift. How was the race won? youtu.be/bq0nlp5Vkvg?...

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WE WON THE TOUR DE FRANCE FEMMES ! 🥹💛

YouTube video by FDJ UNITED - SUEZ

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Drivists: You can’t carry 100kg of sand on a bike!! Bike riders/scooters/boarders/inliners: Great. Now, shut up and let us hold a wheeling rave! Now That’s What I Call a Proper Traffic Jam. Bournemouth doing it in style. youtu.be/o-AiSy4-e_Y?...

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Drum & Bass The Bike - BOURNEMOUTH 2026

YouTube video by Dom Whiting

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I agree. That heap of hulking metal does belong in a museum not on the road. A relic illustrating the idiocy of 20th and 21st century car bloat.

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I have spent 20+ years talking to drivers who have counterfactual complaints about bike riders. My conclusions...

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don't want to alarm you, but it turns out John Carpenter was right: THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE FOG. But it turns out it's here to help us! Welcome to the fascinating new science of methylobacteria, fog harvesting and hyper-quick eco systems. 1/

Image from John Carpenter's "The Fog" showing a creepy, glowy-eyed figure approaching the camera.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🪙THE GOLDEN PAVILION🔥 True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. -Mishima Yukio (三島由紀夫). In 1950, almost bald of gold, and having survived the Ōnin War, Kinkaku-ji was burnt to the ground by Hayashi Yōken, one of its own novice monks.

Kinkaku-ji, the 'Golden Pavilion' of Rokuon-ji.

A closer look at the phoenix atop the Golden Pavilion.

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Lukas Knöfler @lukascph.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Here's my preview of the #TDFF2026 race route for @dnlbenson.bsky.social's Substack (free to read!): dnlbenson.substack.com/p/2026-tour-...

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2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift race route preview 🇫🇷

The most comprehensive stage-by-stage guide to this year's race (free post)

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

1/ Kemi Badenoch says she isn't a climate denier. Let's take her at her word. Here are five findings she wrote around this week as though they don't exist. 🧵

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Cycling. Safely pull into turn lane. Ford Raptor tailgating. I stop at red light - slight rear wheel skid. ‘That was irresponsible wasn’t it?’ Growled driver. Me: ‘Nope’ ‘f**king c*nt cyclist. I’ll f**cking sort you!!’ I u-turn to leave situation. Driver attempts a U-turn to chase. Truck too big!

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/07/2026

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