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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

11. But the economics are clear, allowing people to continue to suffer without treatment and support is expensive and unconscionable. According to NHS England, not treating ADHD costs the UK economy ~£17 billion in lost tax, benefits, unemployment, health/social care/justice costs

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Would argue that it's the government that lacks credibility here: "You're a free market now" *Caps tuition for over a decade despite inflation "Make it up on international students" *Makes country inhospitable for immigrants* "Compete for funding" ...

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Robert Campbell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @madman2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can confirm drivers still haven’t figured out that repeatedly overtaking a cyclist averaging 15mph in an urban environment is fruitless as they will catch you up at the next set of traffic lights every time.

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Mark On A Bike @mtonabike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 25/09/2026

I don't know enough about sports journalism and who's sourced with who to know who is briefing this to Ornstein and why. But oooofph. www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...

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Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches (Gift Article)

City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023.

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John T @jrtonca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Enshittification: Step 1: Be good for users. Lock them in via the network effect. Step 2: Screw the users, be good for business customers. Lock them in. Step 3: Screw everyone, capture all value for yourself once everybody is locked in. All of Meta is now fully in Step 3. @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

Holy smokes they actually did it www.cnbc.com/2026/09/21/t...

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White House TV press pool won't cover Trump after CNN ban

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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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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Though the Observer article focuses on AI as the culprit, the BoE study is more even-handed and notes that WFH post-pandemic may be equally or more to blame. One impact of that shift is actually an increase in productivity at the expense of employer control.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I did well at GCSEs & A-Levels, but flunked out of Uni in first year. I'm pretty smart but turns out I can't bring myself to do work of my own accord - I need a teacher or parent looming over me to make me do it. I'm considering hiring a part-time dominatrix for this reason

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Parents: pack this shit in.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The quickest way to make UK roads a bit safer is for "a bit of fucking patience" to be added to the driving test.

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Tom Pike @tompike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So ~£1700 annual cost of just owning a car vs ~£300 e-bike So those 797 miles just got about £1.75 *per mile* more expensive in the car.

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Tom Pike @tompike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Last 12 months of vehicle ownership, additional (hidden i.e. not daily) costs: £400 insurance £20 VED £250 maintenance (self serviced - this will be higher for many, and increase per mile) £1000 depreciation (again, increases per mile) eBike: £20 insurance £0 VED £60 maintenance £200 depreciation

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Beachrave @beachrave.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Quiz! Which would you rather be hit by? A. An exceptionally slow (15 mph), exceptionally light (1600 lb) Smart Car driven by Olympic gymnast Simone Biles (105 lbs) B. An exceptionally fast (28 mph), exceptionally heavy (115 lbs w/ cargo) ebike driven by an ~average woman (185 lbs) Hint: 0.5*m*v*v

A 2008 Smart Fortwo in bright yellow.

This is perhaps the smallest 2-seater car sold in the USA that is street legal to at least 65 mph since 2010.

It's small and cute, like a kids' Jeep car scaled up. Or a VW Beetle scaled down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2008_Smart_ForTwo_Passion_convertible_--_04-22-2011_2.jpg

Ebike. A circa 2026 Trek Verve+ 4S Lowstep in yellow.

It's on the beach with water visible. It holds some cargo about the size of a cinder block.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xZyBIPD0E

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics".

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Tom Pike @tompike.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Horrible situation. Hypothetically - what would stop an employer from forcing these contract changes onto an employee (in advance or during the redundancy process - as it seems they can do this unilaterally) and then making them redundant, paying out at new %FTE?

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy.

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Tom Pike @tompike.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is the way. Always off the bike, never off the being. It's the *bike's* weight that is the issue

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Curiously, the French translation of the Reform ‘agreement’ doesn’t say that France will take back small boat migrants intercepted in British waters.

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TfL Barbie @chaff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve read that telegraph article on disability, and I think the author’s real view, under all the other justifications they throw in there, can be neatly summed up by this final paragraph - disabled people are too visible now and some even look happy at times

“If there is a sickness identity, there needs to be a recovery identity - not just one that exists to sell people more products. A chronically "sick" person does what a chronically sick person is supposed to do: they withdraw from regular life, struggle with previously simple tasks, receive support and condolences, and rarely, if ever, get better.”

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Tom Pike @tompike.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Never has your Avatar photo been more apt.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you're "in a stand-off with the RNLI" - the *RNLI* - there's a very good chance you're the baddies.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c... 2/

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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

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Ellie Saurus @elliesaur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Reasons to ride a bike: - Bikes are fast and get you places on time - Gives you a nice butt - Most energy efficient way to travel - Get to go whee the whole time - Virtually immune to traffic - The going whee thing, but again

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Hatred draws itself on your face and it doesn't use nice pens." You have a way with words, my man.

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

SIGNED✔️ Sorry, but academic freedom isn’t some kind of invincibility cloak that can or should protect people spewing white supremacist nonsense under the guise of scholarship. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Here are a few actual facts about welfare payments in the UK in response to fairly nasty, baseless headlines like the below, which are numerous and unfortunately widely believed by the UK population. 🧵

Headline
ALLISON PEARSON
Britain must pop the welfare balloon or face ruin.

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Eoin Flynn @eointf.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

In my dismay at how #carculture leeches into our three-year-old's life, I felt this book needed an edit.. I give you #thatsnotmycar – a thread (Shamelessly recycling this post from t'other place, sorry)

Children's book 'That's not my car' adjusted with snarky tagines.

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Franglaise @franglaise.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Richard Tice is going to pop up any minute to tell the people of Nepal they should just enjoy the swim

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

every single time i see this guy it's just a video of him saying "this thing sucks and here's how i'm fixing it", and my god for the merest sniff of something like that from anyone in power here

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Tom Pike @tompike.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Best bit - EMP to ~Water Orton is mostly past villages or the outskirts of small towns, through farmland. Aside from crossing mainline nr Polesworth, and the M1 23A/24, the route is relatively simple.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Either every single media organisation in the UK doesn't understand their audience or people are lying to pollsters. I genuinely can't make up my mind which it is.

YouGov graphic showing that, overwhelmingly, people have no or little interest in the whole Harry and Meghan coming back to the UK 'news'.

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Tom Pike @tompike.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Imagine an interview panel. Reform has done away with equalities legislation. Anyone who currently has a protected characteristic that may lead to them legitimately being off sick more/longer (e.g. underlying health/disabilities (physical/mental) would be hugely disadvantaged vs "healthy" applicant.

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Tom Pike @tompike.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This thread breaks down the latest Reform proposals on welfare and exposes the half-thought-through nature of them. Especially concerning is the disincentive (perceived/otherwise) for businesses to recruit employees that they believe may be more likely to be sick.

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 17/08/2026

"I view that speed limit as a guideline" is the defining statement of a whole group of people who don't think speed limits are binding or don't believe that rampant speeding is a dangerous societal problem.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just had a thought. Farage registered a £9,253 benefit from George Cottrell funding a Belgium trip in April 2024 - before the GE. This is the time that Farage and his allies say he was "not in politics." He declared that, but didn't declare the £5m Harborne gift. Something doesn't add up there...

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Will cycles slower than you 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

Paul is talking about universities here, and he's right. Foreign students pay around £44 000/year tuition fees, heavily subsidising UK students, but for some stupid reason, foreign students are counted as immigrants. The UK is destroying the unis to appease a handful of racists.

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fun Fact: Carbon isotope dating can’t be done on anything after 1950 because of the amount of radioactive carbon isotopes created by nuclear weapon use & testing.

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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Hey we've got a zero cost proposal proven to reduce deaths on the road, lower congestion, reduce pollution and noise and it has no measurable impact on average journey times" That's great. What is it? "20mph urban speed limits" BUT I HAVE TO DRIVE FAST HOW VERY DARE YOU!!!!!!1!11!!

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/07/2026

NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇

Farage the money launderer and me: a decade of denial

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thing about British Steel being nationalised is there is no argument around nationalising it that doesn't also apply to the universities except "steel is boy coded :) and teaching is girl coded :("

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Amongst many important points in @jdportes.bsky.social article is the succinct explanation of why universities are vital to a coherent economic strategy.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

He can’t always get what he wants

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