Bloody Caitlin Moran again making me cry…
25.10.2025 13:00
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Bloody Caitlin Moran again making me cry…
Ne vieillit jamais
Suggesting if we ever doubt it that despite roadside litterers and flag-shaggers (very much the same group, surely) most folk are OK and just doing their best to rub along as best they can.
My parents met on a cycling club ride not dissimilar to the one in the intro here, albeit in Surrey but about this time. Having got his girl, my Dad like the rest of that generation couldn’t get his first car (an Austin A40) and abandon cycling fast enough.
Agreed, and better if anything because they want to go out in a blaze of glory. The Matt Rendell piece on the hypocrisy of team sponsors was superb. Love how Ned wryly teases Gary, the closing songs, it’s all great.
Sucks about Ganna, eh?
After yesterday's Summer Solstice festivities I had the hill back to myself again. What a glorious start to Sunday on Glastonbury Tor.
Well, here’s something: Arthur C Clarke on a Raleigh Chopper! I MAY just have driven @coolbikeart1.bsky.social crazy by liking every one of his #bicyclebirthday posts on here, amazing stuff and so much more entertaining to wake up to on a Sunday morning than the start of WWIII
The tension is killing…
A New Yorker cartoon of a door zone bike lane. A car door opened into the lane, and the familiar bike decal painted on the asphalt depicts a cyclist flying off their bike.
Cartoon by John O’Brien
YES! it won an Oscar
BECAUSE I’M MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU AND I’LL DRIVE WHAT I WANT AND AS FAST AS I BLOODY WELL WANT!
Should imagine after coal mining, riding a skinny-tyred bicycle flat-out across cobbles in the freezing rain is relatively enjoyable.
Wild flowers on an Austrian wooded walk: Petisides Albus or white butterbur
Wild flowers on an Austrian wooded walk: golden saxifrage
Wild flowers on an Austrian wooded walk: wood anemone
Palatschinken aka pancakes with cherries and cream
Austrian version of #wildflowerhour here for @njgard.bsky.social. Walking the Talbachweg today from Schladming with @heidiholistic.bsky.social and delicious palatschinken as a reward at the end
Thank you, this is DOCUMENTARY is amazing!
Naming it ‘Blinder’ certainly doesn’t help!
Isn’t fitting a tonneau cover to a truck tacit acknowledgement that you should have bought a van like a normal tradesman?
Completely off Twitter for a year now and weaning off the various Meta platforms while watching the progress on here. REALLY interested to see this interview today with Bluesky’s CEO Jay Graber: www.youtube.com/live/B7OwcXC...
Yeah this misses that X is being used as a fascist propaganda machine; actively promotes disinformation; actively inhibits liberal leaning material, links. It also gaslights about the intentions of people undertaking 'debate', which is usually not a good faith attempt at exploring disagreement.
Nice work Laura. Anyone gazing wistfully at our NL neighbours and who knows what went largely wrong with our own UK post-war town planning will gain a little comfort from this project near Cambridge. More like this please!
I have started a Substack called The Backpedal where I *ahem* backpedal through stats and history to come up with stuff that you cannot Google and AI cannot possibly tell you.
Come on over and have a read and please subscribe!
cilliankelly.substack.com
How quaint that there was a format before USB-C #smartass
Did you read the article?
And still going strong, as is his ol’ pal Letterman
Except that Paul Shaffer is a great guy playing that shtick with an eyebrow heavily raised
Damn, I scored 4/10 which is a reflection on dropping my Discovery+ TV sub and only following pro cycling now on Bluesky. Thank goodness for @procyclingstats.com being here now; hopefully more will continue to do the right thing
All the above in support of Bluesky true, plus I’m guessing you gave it more than a day on original Twitter to build your 100k following?
Traffic and subscriptions are not the same thing either.
People of ‘good conscience’ have ended up in the pickle we’re in because we allow ourselves to argue over the semantics of language while missing the main prize. Yes, we want less cars. Now what are we going to actually do about it?
