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PACrosthwaite 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇨🇦🐸 @baggytrousers1.bsky.social · 1d

fao: Rachel Reeves,

Before raising tax on my meagre (worst pension in the EU) pension can you advise if the disgusting tax cheat Nadim Zahawi has paid back the millions he owes HMRC. Has Hunt paid the back tax on the flats he ‘forgot’ bought

Hit the charlatans Rachel, not the poorest in society.

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Mr Richards @mrrichards.bsky.social · 2d

This needs reposting again!

Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 29

Waiting for that tipping point when most sensible people realise that transporting a single 80kg person in 2.5 tonnes of SUV was not the height of technical advancement but peak stupidity for the human race.

Tax SUVs out of existence

Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn

Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space

www.theguardian.com

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Mr Richards @mrrichards.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for the info. I'm finding that I'm noticing and really appreciating all the different builds of bikes and the environments they are being used in in my feed recently. Long may it continue!

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Mr Richards @mrrichards.bsky.social · 2d

I'm imagining a film being made where the two of you go out, alone, month in, month out, in good weather and bad. Sometimes it's even sideways rain and birds go flying past backwards.

After a while someone else comes along and joins you and then another then groups and before you know it... Boom!

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Mr Richards @mrrichards.bsky.social · 2d

What kind of bike is your bike? Or, what are the tyres? From your other pictures it looks like a fast road bike but it also seems to be happy riding through muddy forest trails as well.

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Mr Richards @mrrichards.bsky.social · 3d

The ad I saw looks like the sort of thing I'm interested in anyway so that's ok

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 3d

I'm old enough to remember "latch-key" kids. The moral panic in the 80s was kids having *far too much" play time.

Then it was TV, abduction, gaming, sex and violence in movies, murder by delinquents, drugs....

If I were American I'd worry far more about guns and cars stealing outdoor space....

Jonathan Haidt in

Following

Professor, NYU Stern School of Business, author of

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If you were raised in the 80s or earlier, think of all the happy times you played with friends. Now cut that by 70-90% that's how #GenZ grew up.

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Mr Richards @mrrichards.bsky.social · 4d

It's a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness kind of Morning!

Misty early autumnal morning over forest plain

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William Simpson @williamsimpson.bsky.social · 5d

As far as I can tell, this policy would deport my Swedish wife (who has a well-paying job and pays thousands in tax each year, not that that should decide these things) because she "took" from society by going on maternity leave when our kids were born.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this

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Mr Richards @mrrichards.bsky.social · 5d

Has anyone ever successfully re-waterproofed an old (no longer) waterproof jacket?

I've got an old & much loved cycling jacket that was an Aldi special buy about 15 years ago, it lets water seep through the arms now which is a shame. I've tried spraying some shoe waterproofer but not much success.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d

Who wants to go ride EuroVelo 15?

Riding the Rhine: Europe's first certified long-distance cycle path

Spanning 1,450km from the North Sea to the Swiss Alps, the Rhine Cycle Route is 87% car-free, culturally rich and surprisingly accessible.

www.bbc.com

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 7d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Mr Richards @mrrichards.bsky.social · 7d

Nom!

Sandwich approaching mouth from point of view of camera, bike in background propped on rock in front of shrubland

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Mr Richards @mrrichards.bsky.social · 7d

Hmm not sure I should go that way

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Mr Richards @mrrichards.bsky.social · 8d

It looks like something a rockstar goes touring in.

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