Don't drive past a small town, ask nicely if it is possible to charge the bike in a community café. That's how you get to know people. They might not be like you, but that is also an important lesson here. mu.social/profile/aarn...

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Especially oversized SUVs! Not only are they physically more dangerous to pedestrians & cyclists, they attract a type of driver that makes them massively more dangerous!!

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Most people knew Patrick Stewart through his justly famous role as Jean Luc Picard, but to me he'll always be first and foremost the tyrannical Praetorian captain Aelius Sejanus from I, CLAUDIUS, a performance so effortless and natural it felt like he might reach through the TV and get you.

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Victim blaming season is back, alongside darker evenings and mornings. But perhaps it’s time to recognise that like “cities aren’t loud; cars are loud”, our roads aren’t dangerous by themselves. It’s the motor vehicles on them that create the danger and that perhaps it’s time to address the source.

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So Lula not only won, he basically doubled his margin of victory from 2022. I'm guessing he won thanks to voters who didn't love him, but were terrified to see Flavio given near-dictatorial power. It's going to be a messy next chapter for Brazil, but at least it'll be a fight, not a curb-stomping.

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