Workmen digging up the street outside have cut through our phone line. What now? Might as well go to bed, I guess
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Workmen digging up the street outside have cut through our phone line. What now? Might as well go to bed, I guess
Loved editing this gem of an interview by @stephanieboland.bsky.social with 91-year-old Shirley Hockridge – a podium finisher in proto-Tour de France Femmes in 1957... And still riding her bike!
www.cyclingweekly.com/news/shirley...
He seems to find it difficult to stop admiring himself
"Religion is the opium of the people? Fine, we need the opium – because life is hard. Religion remains important because it's our way of negotiating the conscience through the other"
open.spotify.com/episode/2Lvl...
Cannot overstate my glee that @michaelstipe.bsky.social is on here 😁
Labour could bring back our water into public hands but they care more about investors than they do about you
Prof. Robert Pape:
"I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".
Glenwood Springs Co. July 1984. photo by Mark Williams. I was apparently working on a song that became Maps & Legends. Thanks Mark!!
Yet another reason for Labour voters to switch their allegiance to Green
Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
... in the latest issue, on sale now
Who remembers this guy? 💭
Excellent piece by @cmbreports.bsky.social
Work no longer pays - I'm sure this is generally true, but plumbers do very nicely, don't they? Mine certainly does! 🤔
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Guys in the gym who at the end of each set drop the weights with a loud bang for everyone to enjoy. Yeah, those guys
Luke Grenfell-Shaw was 24 when he was diagnosed with stage-four cancer and told he had just months to live.
He has since cycled more than 35,000km from his hometown of Bristol to Beijing. The now 31-year-old told me his story👇
www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-fac...
‘We grow into a love of the world, a love that is all the more precious and poignant because the great glory of which we are but a particle is lost almost as soon as it is gathered’
John McGahern
David Dimbleby skewering the monarchy is glorious #WATO
I'm looking forward to the rewilding of the requisitioned estates of the criminal Windsor racket 🌳
An infographic from Our World in Data titled "Global land use for food production" uses a series of stacked horizontal bar charts to visualize the distribution of Earth's surface and the disproportionate land requirements of livestock. The first bar shows Earth's surface is 71% ocean and 29% land (141 million km²); the land surface is then broken down into 76% habitable land, 10% glaciers, and 14% barren land. Of the habitable land, 45% (48 million km²) is used for agriculture, while 38% is forests and 13% is shrubland. The agricultural land bar reveals a major disparity: 80% (38 million km²) is dedicated to livestock (meat, dairy, and textiles) including grazing land and cropland for feed, while only 16% is used for crops for direct human consumption and 4% for non-food crops. Finally, two smaller bars at the bottom contrast this land use with nutritional output, showing that while livestock uses 80% of agricultural land, it only provides 17% of global calories and 38% of global protein, whereas plant-based foods provide 83% of calories and 62% of protein.
80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein.
16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.
RIP Jesse Jackson
Will always remember seeing him speak in Hyde Park, alongside Harold Pinter, against the invasion of Iraq, back in Feb 2003. I was 20, at my first rally, and it was freezing – but electrifying. "Give peace a chance"
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2765...
This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...
'don't expect any five-stars this year'
Blue Lights is one of the best TV dramas ever, & this is a fascinating chat with its creator Declan Lawn 🚔
open.spotify.com/episode/11WG...
'Pogacar celebrates winning 2026 Paris-Roubaix inside van der Poel's heart'
