Will cycles slower than you 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️

Be a quaint café in a world full of Starbucks.

Playing with 'Climate Wedges' climatewedges.com raises questions: If I chose to deploy more biofuel vehicles (and why would I when electifying them would be so much more efficient: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/biofuels-v... ?) I'd likely lose all the land gained from reducing meat consumption...

And if policies to reduce FF use had been applied each month at a global level since the mid 1990s, the impacts of this avoidable war could have been minimalised.

There was a time I absolutely would have supported the Guardian financially (as I do with a couple of independent commentators). Now I would pay for marshmallows to toast on it's embers.

This saved me an expletive laden post about knowing people who complain about cyclists and would probably kill them if they could, who go on holidays to Amsterdam and Copenhagen picturing and videoing themselves cycling there

Doing my least favourite type of technical change:
Risk of going wrong is tiny, but the impact if it did go wrong is enormous.
That means I spend far more time on preventive measures than on the actual job.

www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

I was wondering that, too. If I was Iran, I'd launch even cheaper drones, with far less payload, forcing the IDF to deplete their supply of missiles, before launching EVERYTHING at them.

This is not my fess!
However, if I DON'T introduce you to someone else, please do us all a favour and introduce yourself, so I can also hear what their name is?

A new report shows hitting our climate targets by 2050 costs less than one oil shock costs the UK.

We need a rapid transition to clean energy to shield people & the economy from price spikes every time oil prices jump.

Some commentators still can’t connect those dots…

What's the acceptable level?

USA has been interfering somewhere in the world EVERY year since 1945......

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

150+ countries admit what we already know: endless GDP growth and sustainable biodiversity cannot coexist.

GDP growth = more extraction, more land use, more pollution.

Death by GDP is a choice. We need a Wellbeing Economy!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

tell you what lads, maybe getting ourselves off gas and oil wasn't such a bad idea after all

Getting (slightly) ahead of the curve by replacing domain controllers well before the version of Windows Server they're running goes EoL.
I know, I know! I'm just SO rock and roll, living a life of glamour and excitement here!

We are now well into the "absolute made up nonsense" stage of smearing Zack Polanski.

It's weird when you grow up on films of journalists being incorruptible truth seekers to see multiple papers just lying through their teeth.

Sculptor Antony Gormley calls Norfolk solar farm 'cruel' The development would cover the equivalent of 1,500 football pitches in the countryside.

He says it will industrialise the countryside. Which is already industrialised.
Tit.
Frankly anyone objecting to renewables now isn't patriotic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

"In the United States, a staggering 60% of all car trips cover less than 10km."

It's the reason for 'strategic oil reserves' and foreign wars.

So that people can harvest 5 kg of groceries within a three-kilometre radius using a two-tonne car.

theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

Oh, I was on Mastodon before I joined BS. While BS is more interactive still, Mastodon in some ways is far better.
I'm more active on here, but I do regularly use Mastodon.

I did wonder that, but they were stood up on the bluff above where my tent was, then after a few minutes walked away, towards Burrator.
I remain convinced that they had no idea I was there.

I'm constantly reminded of just how privileged I am as a man, and how tiny the risks to me are as a result of that, compared to what women are faced with.
This was one of those times.
They didn't have torches though, and my tent has a camo net over it. Where I pitched it they couldn't see it.

A Dartmoor Gravel Adventure Last week I set off from Princetown, following the course of the old Princetown Railway. On my bike I had my tent, and two full panniers, as I was planning...

From the #WillCycle archives: A Dartmoor Gravel Adventure

Last week I set off from Princetown, following the course of the old Princetown Railway. On my bike I had my tent, and two full panniers, as I was planning...

https://www.willcycle.com/2025/07/15/a-dartmoor-gravel-adventure/

Gears for Queers Gears for Queers is a book by Abigail Melton and Lilith Cooper, or Abi and Lili, as you'll get to know them. In the foreword, the authors say the book...

From the #WillCycle archives: Gears for Queers

Gears for Queers is a book by Abigail Melton and Lilith Cooper, or Abi and Lili, as you'll get to know them. In the foreword, the authors say the book...

https://www.willcycle.com/2025/04/22/gears-for-queers/

A map of the UK and Ireland, showing rain radar data.

Cyclists, BEFORE your bike ride, check this rain radar map, and also check the wind speed and direction, as that could help you avoid getting wet.
Tell your friends, too, and bookmark it!
www.willcycle.com/rain-radar-m...

Peter Mandelson wanted £547,201 for being sacked as UK ambassador to the US, settled for £75,000.

Will he pay it to Epstein's victims?

Mandelson had danger written all over him. Resigned previous ministerial posts in scandals, relationship with Epstein was known. Starmer still appointed him. Why?

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Net zero doesnt cost more than one fossil fuel crisis and we've had two this decade.
The uk needs to ramp up the move.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Leadership …

Are you that emotionally immature that you're scared of talking to other people?

Like, if you live somewhere that is not extremely remote and you have to drive umpteen miles to buy toothpaste, your problem isn't that the country or the city is big; it's that they've put a highway outside your house instead of a shop.