FrequentFlats

@frequentflats

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

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FrequentFlats@frequentflats· 2d

The lad made a 42km trip to our campsite last week. His longest yet and something to be super proud of. The lass, who is older and more able, did the return trip with me to pick up the car on the same day, clocked 72km. Another record!

A girl on a bike on a sand path. Clear skies, hedgerow, green fields and a blond plait.

Even more beautiful than a green landscape, a beautiful broad cycle path made of red asphalt. It's smooth and well maintained, appearing new (it is).

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· 2d

A red-legged shield bug, looking after the skin on my leg for me.

$A rough-skinned flat-bodied bug sits amongst hairs on human skin. The bug is brown in appearance but shows some rainbow-coloured edges typical of diffractive effects in fine-structured materials. The rear of its body shows two transparent wings otherwise hidden beneath a tough shell, and a striped frill around the edge (but I don't know what that is).$

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· 3d

I wouldn't have thought so.

A bike on a bridge. Liniebrug on the Amsterdam Rijn Kanal.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· 8d

Really loving the macro on my Pixel now I'm (slowly) learning to use it.

A white moth with black spots, close up in macro shows eyes, mandibles and hairy head.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· 11d

I noticed this because I sometimes cycle, sometimes drive with my kids to their school, which is along a 2km 60kmh road with more cycle lanes allocation than motor vehicle. Img: @bicycledutch.bsky.social, bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2020/08/12/c...

A Dutch road where more asphalt is painted red than there is black road for motor vehicles in between (in fact, the black road is too narrow for a car, and these are not really cycle lanes.)

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· 12d

Today I saw my first one of these, and what a beauty! *A purple-barred yellow moth in North Holland dunes.

A moth (that you could easily mistake for a butterfly, it's so pretty) sitting on a ground scattered with brown leaves or seeds amongst some yellowing grass. The moth is a purple-barred yellow and has pink and yellow stripes running across both wings.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· 12d

During lunch in the dunes today we watched a field digger wasp bury her eggs. She only buried them 1-2cm deep but in her defence, the sand was pretty hot and she was being watched by two excited kids.

A wasp with eggs digging a hole in some sand against a piece of concrete.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· 16d

I don't think I'm ignoring it, I don't see evidence of a collapse! There have been many recent scarcities and price rises, but they appear to be down to commercial, political and economic events. In my life time there were huge, lengthy famines! Why do you say there's a collapse now?

Graph showing global deaths due to famines from 1870 to 2023. No decade after the 1970s has exceeded any preceding decade in the 20th century.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· 19d

Mum! Mum! Mum! Mum!

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jul 12

I saw a Holly Blue butterfly while I was putting the washing out in the sunshine, so snapped it with my phone. I took it from the sunny side, pointing towards me, so had no view of the screen. Does that make it a 180 no-scope?

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.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jul 11

More Dutch niceness. It's been a long journey this year, after a back injury on Jan 01, but this is probably my 8th or 9th ride this year, achieving 37km of pain-free fun.

A buzzard soars (as buzzards do) over the flat farming landscape of north Holland

A well in front of a flat green field, interrupted only by drainage ditches.

Small cows standing behind a gate on a sunny day.

A bridge over a canal is lifted high in the air to allow a canal boat through. The photo is taken from a cycle path made of pink pavers next to an asphalt road. Red and white striped traffic barriers block the way and a traffic light on a black and white striped pole shows red.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jul 11

Who wouldn't want this on their doorstep? And if you have it, who wouldn't want to spend their time riding through it on a bike?

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jul 1

Pink erasers which resemble the car, but they're probably more useful to be honest.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 28

Large white. Big fan of thistles.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 28

Peacock butterfly on a thistle

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 20

Hup Holland, hup!

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 17

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Cartoon still from the opening sequence of the BRITISH TV show Lab Rats

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 16

These are not social-media addicted 18-year-olds! Every single one of them is old enough to know better.

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.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 14

Gemini is pretty certain about this🤔

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 "

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 11

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.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 11

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

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 11

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.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 7

I think I've discovered why Google got triggered 😳

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'"

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 7

Filth.

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.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 2

Don't come to Amsterdam, you'd have a heart attack. Have a look at the per-km cycle injury statistics though, and you'll find that looks, and your preconceptions, can be decieving.

5 kids on a bicycle being wheeled by a man.

Man with the manliest of hairstyles riding a bike. There is a child on the front cargo rack and another on the rear. Nobody has a restraint, child seat, harness or helmet.

Man (great hair) rides a bike with two occupied child seats (front and rear). Both children are asleep.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· Jun 2

Business at the front, party round back.

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.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· May 31

Dielectric coated hexagonal prisms in a neat arrangement.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· May 25

Why do cars get to park inside the lobby of shops? When I ask for my bike I always get told to leave it in the bike rack round back.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· May 25

Yay! Yes it does!

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.

FrequentFlats@frequentflats· May 22

We did some biology in the dunes last weekend. They went back immediately.