J.G. Bollard
@jamesnonchalant.bsky.social
Professional cargo cycle consultant and trainer. Cycling Instructor / Bicycle 🔧
Retired pseud. Rather be watching 🎥. All views my own. www.cyclelondon.org #London #Islington
Retired pseud. Rather be watching 🎥. All views my own. www.cyclelondon.org #London #Islington
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Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
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Petition to honor Michael Shannon every Jan. 6
January 6, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Petition to honor Michael Shannon every Jan. 6
Today I also learned how to set up an Avid BB7 cable disc brake.
Actually had to use a tyre boot today. Second puncture in 2 days around Nags Head, Holloway. This time a proper tyre slicer. Roads are disgustingly sharp round there.
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Today I also learned how to set up an Avid BB7 cable disc brake.
Actually had to use a tyre boot today. Second puncture in 2 days around Nags Head, Holloway. This time a proper tyre slicer. Roads are disgustingly sharp round there.
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Actually had to use a tyre boot today. Second puncture in 2 days around Nags Head, Holloway. This time a proper tyre slicer. Roads are disgustingly sharp round there.
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From what was the bike industry's largest cash raise for a brand to scale rapidly, to now a potential closure by January. Rad Power Bikes' steady wind-up appears imminent.
Will the bike trade do anything differently next time a black swan event arrives?
www.cyclingelectric.com/news/rad-pow...
Will the bike trade do anything differently next time a black swan event arrives?
www.cyclingelectric.com/news/rad-pow...
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
From what was the bike industry's largest cash raise for a brand to scale rapidly, to now a potential closure by January. Rad Power Bikes' steady wind-up appears imminent.
Will the bike trade do anything differently next time a black swan event arrives?
www.cyclingelectric.com/news/rad-pow...
Will the bike trade do anything differently next time a black swan event arrives?
www.cyclingelectric.com/news/rad-pow...
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I’m old enough to remember when the Director General of the BBC categorically didn’t resign after one of its flagship politics shows literally photoshopped Jeremy Corbyn with a Soviet hat and painted red with the Kremlin in the background like some kind of Cold War-era communist mural.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I’m old enough to remember when the Director General of the BBC categorically didn’t resign after one of its flagship politics shows literally photoshopped Jeremy Corbyn with a Soviet hat and painted red with the Kremlin in the background like some kind of Cold War-era communist mural.
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Still possibly one of the greatest Armistice Day tweets of all time from the good old days on Twitter.
#inremembrance
#lestweforget
#cockdestroyer
#inremembrance
#lestweforget
#cockdestroyer
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Still possibly one of the greatest Armistice Day tweets of all time from the good old days on Twitter.
#inremembrance
#lestweforget
#cockdestroyer
#inremembrance
#lestweforget
#cockdestroyer
Fucking pathetic. We used to be a country. Etc etc.
BREAKING: Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
Tim Davie has resigned as the BBC's director-general.
news.sky.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Fucking pathetic. We used to be a country. Etc etc.
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CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."
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All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.
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I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
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The UK is behaving abysmally.
Environmental protesters are being given licence conditions on release from jail that are supposed to be limited to extremism cases.
Ella Ward, 22, was banned from going to any meetings or gatherings, except for worship, without permission.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Ella Ward, 22, was banned from going to any meetings or gatherings, except for worship, without permission.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Jailed UK climate protesters facing conditions reserved for extremists on release
Exclusive: Just Stop Oil activist was banned from attending gatherings, including meeting a friend in a cafe, without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The UK is behaving abysmally.
So I saw Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein last week and was inspired to build The creature
November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
So I saw Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein last week and was inspired to build The creature
Frankly I think this is perhaps the biggest cognitive blind spot most people suffer on some level. A form of lack of spatial awareness that their actions have consequences beyond themselves. Or they don't care. Neither is social.
“We tend to treat the car as a closed thing, ignoring its impact on the environment, the climate, & the pedestrian,. We need to think about big cars in the same way that we think about cigarettes: Affecting not just the user, but everyone around the user.”
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November 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Frankly I think this is perhaps the biggest cognitive blind spot most people suffer on some level. A form of lack of spatial awareness that their actions have consequences beyond themselves. Or they don't care. Neither is social.
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“We tend to treat the car as a closed thing, ignoring its impact on the environment, the climate, & the pedestrian,. We need to think about big cars in the same way that we think about cigarettes: Affecting not just the user, but everyone around the user.”
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November 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“We tend to treat the car as a closed thing, ignoring its impact on the environment, the climate, & the pedestrian,. We need to think about big cars in the same way that we think about cigarettes: Affecting not just the user, but everyone around the user.”
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Honestly don’t know how we ever come back from this.
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Honestly don’t know how we ever come back from this.
Almost as if they're trying to provoke us into stringing the entire oligarch class up from lamp posts at this point. And does anyone in the USA of any power save Mamdani have any backbone at all?
BREAKING: Nazi Salute-Curious Tesla Investors Give Elon Musk Largest Payday in Human History for Being a White Supremacist Sociopath
Elon Musk Wins $1 Trillion Tesla Payday
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Almost as if they're trying to provoke us into stringing the entire oligarch class up from lamp posts at this point. And does anyone in the USA of any power save Mamdani have any backbone at all?
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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Oh look at that it’s just Keir Starmer being an actual comic book villain again
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
- Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at #COP30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at #COP30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Oh look at that it’s just Keir Starmer being an actual comic book villain again
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Mamdanigrad (formerly New York City), will stand as a shining example to the world of what is possible when the workers unite, and crush the bourgeois class with an iron fist (mild increase in minimum wage, free buses, etc).
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Mamdanigrad (formerly New York City), will stand as a shining example to the world of what is possible when the workers unite, and crush the bourgeois class with an iron fist (mild increase in minimum wage, free buses, etc).
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This is the best thing I’ve seen all day.
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is the best thing I’ve seen all day.
Cycling's problem is that the default approach is enthusiasts selling to enthusiasts. Which has no conception of how to deal with non enthusiasts. Same in the cycling advocacy world to a certain extent. Same brick walls in getting cargo bikes into motor centric companies.
Tim laments about how the UK bike industry is centred around leisure and sports in our new podcast: Carspiracy.
This diminishes cycling as a legitimate form of transport with serious negative impacts for those of us trying to sell and service cargo bikes and utility cycles.
This diminishes cycling as a legitimate form of transport with serious negative impacts for those of us trying to sell and service cargo bikes and utility cycles.
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Cycling's problem is that the default approach is enthusiasts selling to enthusiasts. Which has no conception of how to deal with non enthusiasts. Same in the cycling advocacy world to a certain extent. Same brick walls in getting cargo bikes into motor centric companies.
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I'm just asking questions.
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I'm just asking questions.