J.G. Bollard

What if - hear me out - instead of holding their phone in front of their mouth, using speakerphone, we... innovated, no "disrupted" communication by holding a phone to their ear.

What if - hear me out - instead of holding their phone in front of their mouth, using speakerphone, we... innovated people holding it to their ear.

The sheer amount of misery the 3 Semitic religions have inflicted on the world through their tribalism and inherent aggressive colonialism just isn't going away is it?

Anyway, we’re Here

Absolutely the best thing doing the rounds just now. And the best critique of late capitalism you will ever see.

What is one of your ultimate comfort movies?
#FilmSky 🎥

Red Letter Media do a great , rather uncynical review of it. Heartwarming stuff.

Traffic Engineering: 2026 Edition 📖

We used to be a proper country.

Tate appropriating what is one of the most humane and progressive action films for his ego. Is he stupid?

An Iranian warship destroyed in a US torpedo strike on Wednesday was "defenceless" and participating in an international naval exercise as a guest of the Indian navy, according to reports. Former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal said “the Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk [sic] part in our Milan exercise”. Sibal added that because it was taking part in an exercise “it was defenceless”. Indian politician Supriya Shrinate said on social media: "These Iranian navy men parading at an event in India, were our guests. Invited by us. "US submarine targeted their ship and killed them while they were returning home." Shrinate also criticised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his failure to make a statement on the attack.

The Iranian warship that was bombed by the US was unarmed

www.middleeasteye.net/news/iranian...

Interesting thread

Remind me: when you bomb an elementary school, lure the survivors into a false sense of safety, and then bomb the survivors, leaving behind dozens and dozens of dead school children... are you the good guys?

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

WAR CRIME BY THE US.

An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.

The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.

THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.

This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.

I have just found a company producing brackets for certain ebikes that replace redundant mid drive motors with a standard bottom bracket. With inbuilt obsolescence having crept into cycling via ebike tech, this is extremely welcome.

Colorado man advocating for traffic light dies in crash at same intersection where wife was killed A man who spent two years pushing for a traffic light at the Cherry Hills–Greenwood Village intersection where his wife was killed in 2024 died Monday in a two‑vehicle crash at the same location.

it's really understated how horrific car killings are

EAV, VOK, Mubea. The really bike 4w "bikes" are bike in law only.

So many of the bigger cargo cycles work on the same principle. All the pedals do is activate a sensor. The machine could be throttle activated in half an hour of work.

There are some cases. Smaller cargo bikes for example like the Bullitt, which still have a dedicated acoustic bike following

I have just found a company producing brackets for certain ebikes that replace redundant mid drive motors with a standard bottom bracket. With inbuilt obsolescence having crept into cycling via ebike tech, this is extremely welcome.

So much will be said about all this in the coming days, but IMO the biggest takeaway is that James Watt and Martin Dickie each pocketed more than the price BrewDog was eventually sold for, while 500 hardworking staff are now out of a job & 220k equity punks don't get a dime.

Absolute charlatans.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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A neolib Labour government doing what it did last time. Quelle surprise. Shit timeline we've got here.

Death toll from school bombing in southern Iran reportedly rises to 165 Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

Israeli-US strike on girls’ elementary school in Minab killed 165 people and injured 96 others

Kids.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Israel did this with 'Waltz with Bashir'. A good film, but lousy politics.

Why is Spock on the Death Star