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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · Feb 17

So, nearly five years since my last cycle tour holiday - early in the pandemic in 2020, between lockdowns, from Bordeaux to Carcassonne - I’ve finally organised the next one. In May I’m going to cycle from Nevers in the upper Loire, following the river or its Lateral Canal down to Orléans

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 11h

He'smade that observation many tjmes, and it appears to be said ironically.

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 11h

The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young of politics, but without the harmony on stage?

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 11h

"Cinematic opportunity"?
You mean, like "Whitehawk Down"?

CNN @cnn.com · 12h

"When helicopters descended on a Chicago apartment building last week with federal agents kitted out in military gear, locals saw a terrifying escalation.

Department of Homeland Security officials saw a cinematic opportunity," writes Zachary B. Wolf | Analysis
https://cnn.it/4h3BuKt

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 12h

Well, I think you’re in illustrious company.
I did manage to read the Marquez in my youth, though holding my breath waiting for any form of punctuation or paragraph end nearly suffocated me!

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 12h

Anyway, it’s been done before - Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce and Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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Claude Taylor @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social · 14h

Credit Jim Watson/Getty Images for showing Trump really is the Devil incarnate.

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 14h

“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”
Emiliano Zapata.

Norwegians worry about backlash as Trump misses out on Nobel Prize

After the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the White House said the committee had placed “politics over peace.”

www.washingtonpost.com

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 14h

Or the Ignoble Piece Prize.

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 14h

I’m sorry, but - what the fuck are “sceptical scrollers” and “dissenting disruptors” when they’re at home?

Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 15h

Is this a problem for Reform? Potentially, when asked if people would like Britain to become more or less like America, Brits clearly say less. Though some right leaning segments are more open to the US. It explains Davey's attempts to link Farage to the US at his conference

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 14h

Robber baron self-justifying his robber-barony as God’s will.
Like the notorious deleted verse of “All Things Bright and Beautiful”
🎶The rich man in his castle
The poor man at his gate
God made them high and lowly
And ordered their estate🎶

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 18h

“A Dockyard cyclist was able
Or so old wives would recount
To get to his dining room table
Without having to dismount.
His wife would open the door
And then stand well to one side
And without his feet touching the floor
Straight up the passage he’d ride.”

Tally ho! It's the charge of the Dockyard Light Horse

Like many of you I can still recall and remain fascinated by the mass exodus of dockyard workers on their bikes each evening.I never tire of looking at pictures such as those here of an event which se...

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 18h

🎶Oh Lisdoonvarna
Lisdoonlisdoonlisdoonlisdoon-varna!🎶

NPR @npr.org · 18h

Most won't leave the town of Lisdoonvarna with a partner. But for a few nights each fall, they find something rarer — company, ritual and the comfort of not looking for love alone.

In the age of algorithms, one Irish town still does love the old-fashioned way

Most won't leave the town of Lisdoonvarna with a partner. But for a few nights each fall, they find something rarer — company, ritual and the comfort of not looking for love alone.

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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 18h

For those yet to know it: 👇🏽
1818, published 3 days after Shelley's death.

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 18h

Born on this day in 1946, the late John Prine.

John Prine and Iris DeMent In Spite of Ourselves

YouTube video by Philippe Ballarini

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 20h

MP defends government plans to restrict repeated protests.

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 18h

The Peace Prize has had a few pretty Ignobel laureates so frankly, if dangling it like a carrot motivates trump to compel Bibi to honour a ceasefire, maybe that’s no bas thing?

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 18h

His face to be carved in relief on the new Triumphal Arch proposed to face the Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac?

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 19h

Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions

www.latimes.com

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 19h

Haven’t I told you a million times not to exaggerate?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19h

"The need is urgent for some coalition of politicians to take the lead and state baldly that Brexit was an error."

"The public is clearly ready to see Brexit reversed. There cannot be a single industry that would oppose it. The need is for leadership."

https://bit.ly/42Btcnf

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 19h

“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone….”

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 20h

You would think that *might* persuade Starmer to rethink the direction in which he is probably at risk of losing votes, and stop fawning over Farage?

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 20h

Presumably - though, this being Irish news, the article doesn’t say so - the name derives from the effect of cold water on a certain part of men’s anatomy.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

The members of Blueballs Midlands recount how the community it has created has benefited their lives

Taking a dip with Blueballs 'takes me out of my head'

Members of a group, which aims to support men, recount how the community it has created in the midlands has benefited their lives.

www.rte.ie

Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 20h

Mind you, I do take a dim view of my LA passing on the RingGo admin fee to me instead of absorbing it themselves, bearing in mind that they save the cost of maintaining car reading machines or of maintaining and emptying coin-ops, not to mention cash security issues.

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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 23h

Cow petting at farm refused planning permission by killjoy councillors who say the road is too busy to walk down. So. Tame. The. Road. You. Bozos.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cambridgeshire Highland cow petting farm refused over safety

The farm's owners say they set up the cow petting business and tea shop to diversify their income.

www.bbc.co.uk

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