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Chessguessr #1041 5/5 ⬜⬜⬜🟦⬜ 🟦⬜⬜⬜🟦 🟦⬜⬜🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟦🟦⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 chessguessr.com

submitted 58 minutes ago • 0 comments

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

submitted 8 hours ago • 376 comments

more death and destruction using a car as a weapon  i’ve said it before, the use of cars in towns and cities needs to be massively curtailed   #CarsAreWeapons #CarsRuinEverything www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

The whole "my country is full" nonsense is quite a lazy trope but there is no doubt that things feel fuller than ever - and the reason for that is not anything to do with net migration. It is cars. In the UK the number of cars registered is going up by 17% per year and now stands at 41.2million.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Andry Romero, a gay makeup artist came to the US last year in search of asylum. He did not show up for his scheduled court date - ICE had seized him & took him to brutal prison in El Salvador. His family is desperately worried. Senator request to see him was denied. Proof of life denied.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

As a European I just can't get my head round this. A family member had a mini health scare a few weeks ago - scans and specialists all arranged in a couple of weeks on the NHS and it cost precisely nothing. They were OK too btw.

submitted 18 hours ago • 334 comments

“With Brexit, Farage helped embed the poor growth and state dysfunction that are even now providing fuel for his return.Britain has already spent one decade struggling to get by in the world Farage created. It can ill afford a second” Ffs. How much failure can we take? economist.com/leaders/2025...

submitted 23 hours ago • 103 comments

Here comes the arrests of journalists now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1496 comments

I solved MATLE #87 in 3/5 attempts! ♟️ e6 e7 f5 g5 h2 🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 www.matle.io

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A president who doesn't care about the Constitution. An attorney general with no regard for the Law, An FBI unconcerned with civil rights... What could go wrong?

submitted 1 day ago • 464 comments

Chessguessr #1040 4/5 ⬜⬜🟨🟦⬜ ⬜⬜🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟦🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 chessguessr.com

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

speeding and on her phone, why wasn’t she jailed for life? y’know like someone on a 10kg bike? oh and only banned from driving for 11 years #DistractionPolitics www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

They’re arresting judges. America is in a very dark phase. Call this what it is now. It’s no longer in doubt. American fascism is in the White House.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

populist pandering while ignoring the real cause of harm on UK roads same pattern as inflaming culture wars to avoid class war deflection essentially “Cyclists who kill could face life sentence” www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I will wholeheartedly support this change if anyone can provide me with both 1) a cyclist who was sentenced to the maximum allowed (2years) under the current law 2) a single driver sentenced to life for death by dangerous driving. 14,000 deaths in 10 years. There must be someone right? #bikesky

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

But life sentence for cyclists who kill.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

A question about the new cyclists-jailed-for-life law: If I kill someone with my bike and instead of stopping google "can you get away with a hit and run?" but when I'm caught just say I thought the person I killed was a bush? Or do you have to own a car to avail yourself of this loophole?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Automobile drivers who kill pedestrians still face the possibility of a small fine.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

It's all so performative. A serious reforming government would focus its efforts on the things that will make the most difference. Labour only seems to care about headlines.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

submitted 1 day ago • 351 comments

I can't remember who said it on here, but one reason causing danger on a bike isn't the same as causing danger in a car is that the bike rider has already taken steps to mitigate any harm by using a 10-kg vehicle instead of a 2000-kg vehicle

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

I solved MATLE #86 in 5/5 attempts! ♟️ a3 a4 a5 a7 c6 🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟨🟩🟩⬛ 🟨🟨🟩🟩⬛ 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 www.matle.io

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Chessguessr #1039 X/5 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟦 chessguessr.com

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

My cargo bike CAN where my car CAN’T. Car: Caps out at 3 kids. I’ve got 2 kids. Hosting more than 1 friend? Nope. 🙅‍♀️ Bike: Seats 4 kids w/ a 5th on the back. 🤩 The smartest upgrade for us wasn’t a $40k minivan - it was a bike. 🚲💡 #cargobikelife

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

I've launched a new website. It's for "A History of Britain in 100 Cycle Rides," the book I put on Kickstarter last year but quickly removed because of an ordering issue. www.historyofbritainin100cyclerides.com

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Fw... RIP David Thomas

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

sad news always loved "The Story of My Life" "Later on Messing around in the backyard I was nine I stumbled onto the secret of Anti-Gravity It's such a simple trick I said to myself"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

📢A new study from @uniofbath.bsky.social shows London's low emissions zones have had major benefits for human health and the economy, with a 10.2% decrease in respiratory issues following LEZ implementation, an 18.5% reduction in sick leave, and annual public health savings of over £37 million.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

We just published a new study on COVID-19 in Ontario, and it turns out, the way we measured cases may have been way off. Why? Because testing wasn’t equal across age and sex groups. That skews what we think we know. In epi-speak this is called “ascertainment bias”. Here's what we found:

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

not a clue Chessguessr #1038 X/5 🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜ 🟦🟦⬜🟦🟦 🟦🟦⬜🟦🟦 🟦🟦⬜🟦🟦 🟦🟩🟩🟦🟦 chessguessr.com I solved MATLE #85 in 4/5 attempts! ♟️ e5 e6 f5 f7 g8 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬛🟩⬛ 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 www.matle.io

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“Pro-life”

submitted 3 days ago • 1254 comments

... in her soup

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Scottish Government are shocked, that doing pretty much nothing to reduce car use has resulted in pretty much no reduction in car use. You just couldn't predict it...🧐🙄☹️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Thinking about all of the attacks on minorities and vulnerable people it’s nice to know that the human race has learned nothing, and the wannabe dictators are still using the same playbook to manipulate the masses. Goodnight.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

70% of wheelchair users said pavement parking was a regular problem, forcing them into the road. London can ban pavement parking; why can't the rest of the country? There seems to be widespread support for it; for example, 78% of Daily Express readers back a ban. Let's do it.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments