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Bicycles give you wings. Ding ding losers, weeeeewooohooo! Recovering Brit, 🇳🇱 resident. Very slow with likes, sorry.

A view of Pampus from the back of the Pampus ferry. The Dutch flag is prominent.
A small butterfly sits on the tip of a barely open purple flower bud. Its folded wings are pale-blur with a pattern of dark flecks. More pink flowers are in the blurred background, as well as an impressive set of abs under a brown tee shirt. Well, impressive for a 50 year old who doesn't exercise and eats badly.
A buzzard soars (as buzzards do) over the flat farming landscape of north Holland
A video taken from the PoV of a cyclist riding on a narrow road going along the top of a dike with a drainage canal to the right. The sky is blue, clouds are fluffy and the landscape is green.
Pink erasers which resemble the car, but they're probably more useful to be honest.
Cartoon still from the opening sequence of the BRITISH TV show Lab Rats
List of 11 drivers, their age and punishment after prosecution for using their phones to film the A14 collision: • A 40-year-old man from Leicester received six points on his driving licence and was disqualified for six months due to the points totting up rules. He was also fined £1,054. • A 45-year-old man from Wolverhampton received six penalty points on his driving licence and fined £662. • A 52-year-old man from Godalming received six points on his driving licence and fined £1,054. • A 43-year-old man from Birmingham received six points on his driving licence and fined £502. • A 46-year-old man from Wellingborough received six points on his driving licence and fined £659. • A 38-year-old man from Birmingham received six points on his driving licence and fined £1,134. • A 71-year-old man from Manchester received six points on his driving licence and fined £232. • A 46-year-old woman from Burton Latimer received six points on her driving licence and was disqualified for six months due to the points totting up rules. She was also fined £1,054. • A 33-year-old man from Kilsby received six points on his driving licence and fined £439. • A 36-year-old man from Leicester received six points on his driving licence and fined £744. • A 41-year-old man from Leicester received six points on his driving licence and fined £1,266.
A screenshot from Google Gemini responding to the prompt, "I want to know if you're legally responsible for the answers you supply me". Google answers, "No, I am not legally responsible for the answers I provide "
He said he was not a racist, was "angry in the moment and lost himself" and said he has two children with a third on the way, the barrister says. Crawford has 19 convictions for 33 offences including battery, robbery, burglary and shoplifting. On one occasion, he broke a partner's front teeth, punched her unconscious and when she woke up told her he had put bleach in her hair, the court is told.
27 people have been made homeless "because people went door-to-door to try and target foreign nationals", a UK minister has said A tw0-month-old baby was among those rescued during Tuesday's violence, the Police Service of Northern Ireland's chief constable said Police say social media users "highlighting properties" by posting addresses online or through apps are "putting lives at risk" and may be committing a crime Two police officers were injured as they tackled the violence in Belfast on Tuesday night Two men have been been charged -a 42-year-old was charged with riot, attempted criminal damage and assault, and a 39-year-old man was charged with riot There were also three arrests as two police officers and three members of the public were injured in Glasgow after the unrest spread to Scotland Lord Mayor of Belfast, Sinn Féin's Róis-Máire Donnelly, said she had received death threats
Masked demonstrators are tearing bricks from properties and smashing paving stones with sledgehammers to create projectiles to throw at riot police. Footage showed demonstrators kicking bricks off a property on Antrim Road in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, and then throwing them at a line of police vehicles. The balaclava-clad demonstrators could also be seen taking wheelie bins from outside homes and lighting fires in them.
A "news" story about an attention-starved celebrity reads (in Dutch) "bv doet straffe bekentenis: 'Orgasmes op de fiets'" translated: "BV makes shocking confession: 'Orgasms on the bike'"
A screenshot of a Google search for bike trailers which has triggered Google's safe search warning over adult content. The word "SafeSearch" sits at the top with the option buttons "off", "blur" and "filter" available next to it. "Off" is selected and uncensored images of bike towing options sit below. None of them is actually rude, that's the joke.
5 kids on a bicycle being wheeled by a man.
A large Volvo excavator sits at a red traffic light on a grey wet day. On top of the back of it sits a lovely bicycle with enclosed chain, hub gears and roller brakes.
Dielectric coated hexagonal prisms in a neat arrangement.
A quite blurry photo of a square cross-section cycle tunnel. There are pictures and electrical boxes on the wall and a dashed white line along the centre. It's long, artificially lit and curves into the distance so the exit cannot be seen.
You girl in a white ski jacket holds up a transparent freezer bag with some pond water and a couple of dozen or so tadpoles swimming in it.
Screenshot of the Bluesky Add muted words and tags options, reading: Posts can be muted based on their text, their tags, or both. We recommend avoiding common words that appear in many posts, since it can result in no posts being shown. The filtered word is "arsenal"
BMW advert featuring a blue car and a red car on a shiny wet road. The BMW logo is top left, the storyline is "for those who have a drive for freedom. This independence day, test drive the BMW 3 series and BMW gran turismo". Top right is the text "BMW Financial Services"
First person view of me cycling along a narrow countryside gravelled track towards a sheep and her two lambs. There's a nice light blue sky with fluffy white clouds, a farm building and the Amstel river just off to the left.
A Strava map of a ride from just south of the forest in Amstelveen to a location east of Vondelpark in Amsterdam. The route taken has long straight sections skirt roads alongside the forest.
Screenshot from the linked news article reading"The research concludes that taken together, fossil-fueled facilities are about 17 times more dangerous per gigawatt hour of electricity produced to birds than wind and nuclear power stations."
Richborough Power Station cooling towers (before demolition) in Kent, UK, against a blue sky with scattered puffy white clouds. In the foreground a brilliant white wind turbine blocks the view a little.
A pretty blue ebike from manufacturer Gazelle. It's on its stand in a forest in front of a map showing a section of the Dutch Veluwe national forests, waypoint 16.
A full looking stupid while another gull sneaks up behind it, with wings raised and evil in its eyes.
A red Dutch mijlpaal - mushroom shaped way mile stone - indicating the distances to several nearby places is surrounded by stinging nettles. In the background is a blue ebike parked by a map on an information board.
Screenshot of the headline "Man arrested over Nazi salute at Green Party rally in Hastings" showing further text reading "Address by leader Zack Polanski interrupted by men who used megaphone and unfurled Reform UK and St George's cross flags, while another man gave series of Nazi salutes". The thumbnail of a video below the headline shows a dick head giving a nazi salute while holding an English flag, the caption below reads "Man gives Nazi salutes while Reform UK supporters disrupt Green Party rally".
Alder fly on a stone step
A swallow seat atop a pole in front of a beautiful blue sky.
A Strava map showing I had a lovely time riding a long way from Amsterdam today.
Screenshot from carsized.nl showing a filtered search for "bakfiets" with no results.
Comparison between the width of an original and a new Renault 5 showing the new model is 22.4cm broader.
Screenshot of the BBC website displaying "Episode 1 The Museum of CuriositySeries 7 Episode 1 of 6 The Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd welcomes his latest curator Phill Jupitus. With the space-obsessed star of Radio 4's It Is Rocket Science Helen Keen; the internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales; and curator of the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam Kees Moeliker, who won an Ig Nobel Prize for his study of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Duck. The Museum's Steering Committee discusses: * A smuggling ring 27 kilometres in circumference * Why the largest reference work in the history of civilisation has room for a list of sexually active popes * How a sparrow became Holland's most famous martyr to TV Light Entertainment * How invoking The Wand helped put Americans in space * How Africa will be transformed by a £10 gadget."
A lovely bike-only bridge on Noordammerweg south of Amstelveen in the Netherlands. A white arch with cables supports a deck for two-way bike traffic.
Snippet of the news story linked by OP reading "The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that Valantino Cash Amil, the 30-year-old man accused of running over a pedestrian, is facing a murder charge. Amil, who is also facing a felony charge for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident"
A forest path, two kids ride bikes away in the distance.
A grebe swimming with a crayfish in its mouth
A bike leaning against a railing in front of a canal.
These two sources reflect different data collection methods: STATS19 provides detailed police-recorded road casualty information, while the four-nation dataset brings together national death registrations across the UK. Both datasets found significant rises in the deaths of pedestrians, with 269 people dying in these accidents in the 2023 four-nations data, a 15% rise from the year before. STATS19, meanwhile, found a 5% rise in pedestrian deaths in Great Britain, a total of 405 people. Compiled four-nation mortality data indicate that cyclist deaths in the UK rose to 73 in 2023, a 26% increase on the previous year. In contrast, the police-reported STATS19 dataset, which covers Great Britain, did not show an annual rise, and recorded 87 cyclist fatalities in 2023. Stagnation alone is concerning given the UK's historic progress in road safety, but emerging increases, in either dataset, are even more worrying. As cyclists and pedestrians remain among the most vulnerable road users, any upward movement in fatalities warrants close, ongoing scrutiny and investigation.
Pink, black and grey pavers bearing a white stenciled image of a helmet-wearing cyclist and the words "ZET 'M OP".
The world's longest bike.
Tree fungus growing on a tree.
Two kids in the middle distance run between the waves in a sunset-lit beach.
An open and closed task from "Paasmaster" . Task 2 is open revealing a task in which the kids have to identify differently flavoured chocolate eggs (oh no!) whilst blindfolded.
A little birdy. A house sparrow in fact, with it's yellow beak, brown wings, white underside and dappled chest feathers. It's sitting on a small branch atop a bush. The background is blurred but the lack of segmentation artefacts indicates it was taken using an actual camera. So it was probably taken by a middle-aged man without a real life. Let's face it, it's hardly an impressive bird. But it is quite a nice picture of it.
Deep inside a fold between two tree bows, there lives a slimy snail. This is a photo of that snail.
A long-range photo shows a country scene with trees, a canal, a picturesque arched footbridge, and ducks. A boy sits on a bench near the end of the bridge while two (presumably very disappointed) people walk into the distance up a hill.