What is “the E-Bike Effect?”
“Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%.”
Fewer car trips.
Via @lloydalter.bsky.social
It doesn’t matter what bike you ride, how far you ride or how fast you ride, whether it’s with some e-power, lots of e-power or no e-power, the feeling of joy and freedom always remains. A lovely, uplifting read 👌🏻
Today we have a double debunk:
1. A debunk of the idea that 67 dog breeds are being banned in Britain
2. A debunk of what the usual suspects are saying online (because they are so tediously predictable!🙄)
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I rang Russian customer services and gave a very stern talking to the operator. I strongly suggested that if they didn’t stop, I’d take them to small claims court and let the local papers know they’re all so mean….
🇳🇱 Tibor Del Grosso doing Tibor Del Grosso things at 🇮🇹 Strade
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Coffee, straight out of my nose.
He sees a problem, (being exposed as a rapist and a nonce) he wants us to solve it (how not to face the consequences of being a nonce and rapist), & he assembles the right people (other nonces, rapists, and sycophants) to get it done.
BREAKING NEWS in the world of Sticky Toffee Puddings
You know that thing we’ve scaremongered about. And banged on and on and on and on and on about for years?
‘Too many migrants’ and reducing immigration?
Yeah. Should we tell the proles it’ll cost ‘em in lost revenue, leading to worse services and higher taxes?
What now? Yeah, g’wan then.
Awesome.
‘Ensuring those who come here contribute’. By working. Paying taxes. Like I do.
Or do they want extra? Forced to join a Morris Dancing Troupe? Always speak in Cockney rhyming slang? Compelling them to paint mini roundabouts with George crosses? A roast every Sunday? Proving they’re ’assimilated’.
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.
In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.
Fake headline: Allister Heath The catastrophic rollout of bottom bracket standards is the final nail in the coffin for our economy
At last, an Allister Heath column I can get behind
This weekend we have luge from sunny St. Moritz, the penultimate stop on the World Cup tour this year
Here's a POV video of 2018 Olympic silver medalist Chris Mazdzer on ice. You'll note how much more quiet this is since the track is just constructed out of snow and ice
Allister Heath headline generator with the e-bike rage lol
Excellent write-up here from @suewilson91.bsky.social for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk on the practical & morally urgent changes we need to make to immigration policy
Imagine a govt willing to do what's best to protect migrants' rights AND benefit host communities
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men
This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!
The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.
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A bit of French indie pop loveliness for a dreary Saturday:
youtu.be/VzRy1r7IGQE?...
Graphic showing a photo of a plate and food in the background and a glass of beer in the foreground. Text reads: The best Sunday lunches on the National Cycle Network. Walk Wheel Cycle Trust
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, is there anything better than sitting down to a roast lunch?
And what better way to earn your lunch than getting out on the National Cycle Network for a cycle or walk 🚶 👩🦽 🚴
Hoarding all the wealth made possible by workers. So in principle, fuck ‘em.
If they weren’t greedy, voracious, money hoarding shits and didn’t steal all the wealth from us, we would all be better off. That works.
He needs to suck on an exhaust pipe for an hour and see how that sweeeeet plant-growing Dino-gas does for him……
The rich have really got an attractive pitch for the young developing: “Ha, Ai will take all your jobs so we can hoard more wealth, but if you’re lucky to get a job we’ll pay you less. Suck to be you, losers.”
Workers are such a tiresome burden to the wealthy.
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
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I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
Wow.
They need to look forward to the traditional Easter Break, then watch traditional Morris Dancing, and take in some summer Cricket or some footie, have a full English Breakfast, laugh at Cheese Rolling antics, prepare a Guy Fawkes bonfire, and buy some early Xmas pressies. Shame about ‘our Kultuuure’
Fantastic to see my Mini Switzerland idea covered by the BBC.
It captures so many people’s imaginations because it’s both obvious, simple and yet - from where we are today - unspeakably radical.
Please share!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
FIFA special award to the first footie fan to domesticate and ride one of these robo-pooches to a WC game.
‘I want a change.’ (And so they appear to cluelessly pick the party that will make a change for the worse by being a more extreme version of the privatise-everything, screw the worker, love the rich Tories, plus a huge extra dollop of racist, xenophobic and planet wrecking policies to boot).
