I worked in a private library that still had it’s card catalogue up until 2005. People were always ripping out the cards (there was something like a metal knitting needle that passed through a punched hole in each card to stop idiots from destroying the catalogue, so the gobshites ripped them out instead).

The early digital catalogues weren’t great so the old card system persisted.

Interesting.

Trump and co. are merely impatient oligarchs that feel that they now have the technological and propaganda controls fine tuned enough to reduce the chances of blowback ever reaching them as they ramp up the extraction of value from the rest of us.

For the other lot were doing this apace too but most of the worst of their efforts were hidden in the global south.

Is the image hosted on imgur. If so we can’t normally see it in the UK

Who knew fanning insurrection and bombing a developed country into a Mad Max like dystopia could be so profitable for the ‘good’ guys.

No time for William the bastard?

I’ve been cycling for 45 years and have only ever retired one bike. Theft or catastrophic damage took care of the rest.

That particular bike had a steel frame and an aluminum seat post that became permanently fused and much of the the bottom bracket barrel was rusted out so I had to let it go. A couple of salty winters in Calgary killed it.

I have a single speed that is almost twenty years old. I’ve easily spent six times the original price in replacement parts. It’s such a low-key ridiculously good bike. If the frame geometry is good for you then keep it ticking over.