Belinda Scott

Belinda Scott

@bycyclebee.bsky.social

Vegetarian, cyclist, dog companion of @lolablacklab and @rosarednosa Unenthusiastic about Brexit, Tories and the patriarchy. Enthusiastic about women’s sport, especially cycling.

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Michael
@therightarticle.bsky.social

More than 140 experts, led by University College London and the World Health Organisation, have called for the climate crisis to be officially declared a global health emergency even more so when the impact of #climatechange on public health is devastating.

Belinda Scott
@bycyclebee.bsky.social

Well said.

Michael@therightarticle.bsky.social

When the Government and Chancellor talk about difficult choices, why are they always difficult choices for the poor, migrants, disabled people, and young people? It's about time we ditched austerity and neoliberalism, took a more creative approach including taxing the banks and the rich isn't it?

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Máirtín Ó Loċlainn
@mr--mo.eurosky.social

And people wonder why I get so fuvked off by oh but a cyclist ran a red light!

road.cc@roadcc.bsky.social

Joseph Hedley will not spend time in prison for the “violent, sustained, and unprovoked assault” after his lawyer argued he had not intended to inflict serious injury when he grabbed the cyclist by the neck and pushed him to the ground. road.cc/news/road-ra...

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Grumpy
@grumpybb.bsky.social

#BBC Take note.

Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social

This is just funny. Serbian RTV channel starts bulletin by apologizing to viewers👇 "For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly and failed to ask necessary questions. We owe our viewers an apology”

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Adam Rutherford
@adamrutherford.bsky.social

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Chris Rivers
@chrisrivers50.bsky.social

Dudley was unceremoniously dumped from his role in Reform for saying the deadly blaze, which led to the deaths of 72 people, was a “tragedy” but that “everyone dies in the end”. He’s now welcomed back as if he’s never been away.

Sam Bright@writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Simon Dudley was apparently sacked by Reform in April after making - in the words of Farage - “shocking” comments about Grenfell. Now, just a few months later, it seems he’s back in the fold

desmog.comReform Figure Behind ‘Shocking’ Grenfell Comments Still Involved in PartyA former housing executive fired by Reform UK for making “shameful” comments about the 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy still claims to have a role in the party, DeSmog can reveal. Simon Dudley, a former c...

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social
@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social

#Audi has a new company logo, after it – which plans to close its plants in Germany – had #DonaldTrump announce that it intends to invest 4 bn in a new factory in the US, where, rather than #EVs, petrol-guzzling #SUVs are to be built by 2030. Does Audi know how the world will look like in 2030?

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Peter Jukes
@peterjukes.bsky.social

Shocked that Brexit was a Putin Plan? Four years we document confirmation of this by the US Army who saw it as as the “First Step in a Russian Information Blitzkrieg on the West” @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2022/03/02/t...

bylinetimes.comTrump Military Study Saw Brexit as ‘First Step’ in Russian ‘Information Blitzkrieg’ on WestA US Army study commissioned by the former President's Secretary of the Army warned that a global information war launched by Putin in 2014 could escalate into a display of Russian power in Eastern Eu...

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News to Remember
@moments2remember.link

Trump last night: “Why do we always have to take people from shithouse countries? Why can’t we take people from Norway, Sweden or Denmark?” Dane here. I’m going to the hospital to use my FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE to treat the stroke your question just gave me.

Belinda Scott
@bycyclebee.bsky.social

These people are thick as mince. Let’s not sugercoat this.

News to Remember@moments2remember.link

NEW: MAGA voters say they're going to the polls to fight “communism”—but when asked what communism actually means, things get awkward FAST.

Belinda Scott
@bycyclebee.bsky.social

🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ I’m not a shareholder but are they ok with this?

Katja Diehl@katjadiehl.bsky.social

1/ I'm exhausted. I have no energy for a post on Medium. But I shared some thoughts in sharepics, as the young do. Was bisher geschah: Our top Audi salesman jumped on stage at the midterm rally, hugged his friend Trump and announced the first Audi factory plus an investment of 4.6 billion dollars.

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Prof. Ian Walker
@ianwalker.bsky.social

Messing around with clocks every year "so it's safe for kids to walk to school" is yet another casual widespread acceptance that people driving cars won't do so safely

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Prof Bill McGuire
@profbillmcguire.bsky.social

If this death toll was the result of a terrorist attack, the world would be up in arms And remember, this is not the new normal From the perspective of 2100, or even 2050, the summer of 2026 will be one of the coolest www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comHeat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warnPeople succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll

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Rebecca Sear
@rebeccasear.bsky.social

"In Denmark, movement is often part of the day, built into commuting. In the UK, activities are often separated, with clearer boundaries between work, travel & leisure. These are not just individual choices but reflect broader systems, from infrastructure & work hours to childcare & cultural habits"

theconversation.comA day in the life: a look at the Danish way versus the British wayA typical weekday in Denmark and the UK looks similar on the surface, but hour by hour, the differences tell an interesting story.
Belinda Scott
@bycyclebee.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “The IFS warned that falling immigration would mean falling tax revenues, shrinking John Healey’s headroom at the budget by about £4bn. So much for the rightwing myth that migrants are a drain on their host country: if anything, they’ve been bailing Britain out.”

theguardian.comImagine if, for once, Labour decided to tell the truth about immigration | Gaby HinsliffOur economy needs it. The NHS needs it. And making foreign workers’ lives more miserable – as the home secretary plans to do – will undermine integration, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social

Replying to @chadbourn.bsky.social

Witkoff’s disgusting, fawning comments to a war criminal: “You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being the humanitarian. You are, you are humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that. I commend you”.

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Eliot Higgins
@eliothiggins.bsky.social

Can a journalists ask Witkoff what Putin's boot taste like when he returns?

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Steve Witkoff to Putin: "You are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again."

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Prof Frank McDonough
@fxmc1957.bsky.social

21 October 1833. Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, was born in Stockholm, Sweden. After reading a newspaper article that condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms he decided to bequeath his fortune to fund the prestigious Nobel Prizes each year.

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Prem Sikka
@premnsikka.bsky.social

King Charles does not pay income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax Duchy of Lancaster trades, doesn't pay corporation tax, capital gains tax. Its competitors do. The King voluntarily paid £30m since Accession. No way of knowing what it could/should be. Would you like to pay tax voluntarily?

leftfootforward.orgRoyal financial privileges show that we are not in it togetherThis week, after perfunctory scrutiny, the UK parliament approved a core Sovereign Grant of £99.9m (from 2027/28) for the King, a 93% increase from the £51.8m for 2024/25 and 65% higher in real terms ...

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Emma Jacobs
@emmavj.bsky.social

‘Last night of the pogroms’

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk

GB News is launching GB Music Radio, a 24-hour digital station only playing artists from Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on 2 November. Chief revenue officer Ross Sergeant said this "gives advertisers something genuinely new". radiotoday.co.uk/2026/10/gb-m...

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Otto English
@ottoenglish.bsky.social

The absolute terror of car free 15 minute cities

Hackney Cyclist@hackneycyclist.bsky.social

Removing motor traffic from city centre streets creates places where people linger, relax, dine and enjoy being outside. Places where families can safely ride their bikes, people of all ages can get safely around, and where streets are dominated by people, not cars.

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Signe Johansen
@signesjohansen.bsky.social

It’s thanks to the likes of clever-sounding, know-nothings like Hannan that brexit happened, so this tracks. Why learn anything when you can be confidently wrong about everything, all the time!

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social

Daniel Hannan says learning languages is a waste of time now that AI can translate. He seems oblivious to the fact that learning languages develops analytical and interpretative skills that he wants schools to teach. And how would you know if the translations are wrong?

Belinda Scott
@bycyclebee.bsky.social

How much more damage is Trump going to do to our planet? It’s obscene.

papaesoco.bsky.social@papaesoco.bsky.social

Trump Rule Change Allows for ‘Unintentional’ Killing of Polar Bears by Fossil Fuel Companies www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

commondreams.orgTrump Rule Change Allows for ‘Unintentional’ Killing of Polar Bears by Fossil Fuel Companies | Common DreamsNew Trump rule allows oil and gas companies to unintentionally kill polar bears and walruses in Alaska. Fossil fuel giants shielded from legal liability.
Belinda Scott
@bycyclebee.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/business/202... What advice would she offer Burnham in Britain? “Renationalise water, invest in the NHS where people experience the state every day. Some form of rent controls. The affordable food basket. Make public transportation very cheap, free even, in overcrowded cities.”

theguardian.com‘People’s dignity, and democracy, is at stake’: meet the economist ditching ideology for realityExclusive: Isabella Weber prescribes a common-sense solution to poverty, inequality and fascism – making life’s essentials affordable for all