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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 16h

A chat with a fellow "person who has never used Lycra or been in an organised ride, but who generally goes to the shops and school run and to transport hubs on a bicycle" has just reminded me of some of the wording used by people @ealinglibdems.bsky.social were listening to re Safer Neighbourhoods..

Tweet from @OneEaling:
"We're going to fight this. This is basically a bunch of pathetic middle aged men in lycra trying to tum quiet residential streets into daytime cycling racetracks, usually without even the support of their wives, and we are going to expose them and their saddle crushed balls."

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 16h

This happens a lot and I don't get why.
As a signed up user, what are the chances you'd be reporting it for larks rather than because of genuine problem?
So why do they not immediately make it unavailable?
@limebike.bsky.social

Steven Hirschorn @milh0use.bsky.social · 15d

This Lime bike is missing a pedal but, despite me reporting it, Lime still leaves it available for the next customer's time to be wasted. @londoncentric.media

A map showing the nearest Lime bike, reported unusable to Lime, but still offered for rental to the next chump.

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 4d

That's not a common scenario in Oxford and many other cities is it?

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have to commute with kids 40 miles a day?

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 4d

Best way to get from Marston up Jack Straw's Lane to Headington!

Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 4d

..if it gives me a chance of power.

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 5d

Usual internalised insecurity - look at me I can be whiter than white, despite my brown colour!! Let me be part of your white club! I will even trash my own coloured people to prove how white I can be! 🙈

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 4d

ZACKLY!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 4d

I so enjoyed @zackpolanski.bsky.social using the phrase "right wing shit rags" - it's about time a politician had the courage to call them what they are.

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 5d

Can you honestly believe how far down the drain these tabloid culture wars have taken Britain?

Kelvin MacKenzie, a man who has done his share of sowing division in the UK, is being invited to share this ghastly view that being a Muslim in the NHS somehow makes you a sinister presence:

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 5d

LBC clipped the excellent @mrjamesob.bsky.social call with Jack, from Handsworth, on Jenrick's comments..

but trimmed out BEFORE the key take-away that was offered.

So.. I've put it together in a more complete, powerful form: 🔊

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 5d

MP Claire Coutinho, whose last boss was Rishi Sunak.
Both of them children of immigrants.

Now her boss is a person of colour who grew up in Nigeria.

But instead of highlighting that all three are proof of the SUCCESS of integration she is talking about a need for token white faces for validation?!

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 5d

LBC clipped the excellent @mrjamesob.bsky.social call with Jack, from Handsworth, on Jenrick's comments..

but trimmed out BEFORE the key take-away that was offered.

So.. I've put it together in a more complete, powerful form: 🔊

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 18d

It appears @mrjamesob.bsky.social missed the nuance of what Farage appeared to be saying in that unedited clip from Nick Ferragy's love-in this morning.

Nigel seemed to be suggested that the 'extremists calling for Sharia Law in the UK' are, in fact..

CABBIES!

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 15d

^ Fascinating how the reaction remains pretty much "aww cute! Bless it!".
As if nobody has considered how these might be used.

Are they even illegal?
Does any police force have a policy on how to approach one?

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 15d

While the UK and much of its media focuses on Farage & others claiming illegal migrants are an existential threat to us all..
Tech Bros have been priming remote-controlled & autonomous robots that can run + grip an object.

Police can barely tackle illegal e-scooters.
What happens when these appear?

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 15d

While the UK and much of its media focuses on Farage & others claiming illegal migrants are an existential threat to us all..
Tech Bros have been priming remote-controlled & autonomous robots that can run + grip an object.

Police can barely tackle illegal e-scooters.
What happens when these appear?

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 18d

It appears @mrjamesob.bsky.social missed the nuance of what Farage appeared to be saying in that unedited clip from Nick Ferragy's love-in this morning.

Nigel seemed to be suggested that the 'extremists calling for Sharia Law in the UK' are, in fact..

CABBIES!

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Nathan Dane @nmsni.co.uk · 24d

HQ capture (3/3)

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Nathan Dane @nmsni.co.uk · 24d

...a wonderful piece of BBC history lives again. This unit was last used on-air in 2012 for DSO! (2/3)

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 28d

Highlight of the day #3:
Finally we can feel proud to be British again.
Proud of our culture.
Showing the rest of the world that we've not forgotten who we are:

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 28d

Highlight of the day #2:
This moment of traditional British culture which we've "got back"

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Drew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 28d

Highlight of the day #1:

"I just want to know if these immigrants are untrustworthy or violent criminals using fake identities!"

asks woman at rally organised by Brit man using made-up name with criminal record that includes fraud, ABH, assault + who used someone else's passport to enter a country

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28d

OK we're getting somewhere, 24 hours later. Good to hear, but patently not enough.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Britain will ‘never surrender flag’ to far-right protesters, Starmer says

PM condemns attacks against police, racist intimidation of minorities and use of flag to instil fear

www.theguardian.com

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