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Mike @ksmikey.bsky.social · 3h

Here’s how you report a fatal tragic incident with a cyclist

Via France3

Picture of a car on a road alone with fields of long green grass either side

Headline says - mort d’un cycliste de 62 ans, renversé par un automobiliste dans les Ardennes [death of a 62-year-old cyclist, run over by a driver in the Ardennes]

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Sy @patpucker.bsky.social · 3h

Once again…

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Chancer On A Bike @darrenhayes.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve been telling my wife for months to stop reading every article in Le Monde as she gets so stressed, most of which she can’t do anything about

A week ago, she uninstalled the app and stopped her subscription. Her stress levels have dropped massively

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22h

Current mood

A cartoon depicts a man and a woman walking side by side on a street. The woman wears a stylish dress and holds a purse, while the man is in a suit. The caption reads, "My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.”

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14h

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Peter Cossins @petercossins.bsky.social · 13h

Given recent events in cycling, this is worth a read on how the UAE is using Colombian mercenaries to fight a proxy war in Sudan having done the same in Yemen.

‘War is a business’: the Colombian mercenaries at Sudan’s battlefront

A soldier of fortune tells of lucrative contracts, the siege of El Fasher and training child fighters to ‘go and get killed’

www.theguardian.com

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Chancer On A Bike @darrenhayes.bsky.social · 11h

😂
I think i’d be volleying this thing out the window

Äpplesche 💚 @aepplesche.bsky.social · 15h

Huiii... 🤣

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EverGemma @evergemma.bsky.social · 2d

Evri seem to be sending out a bunch of feedback forms at the moment.

If you get sent one I'd appreciate it if you'd take a moment to let them know that the working conditions of the couriers is a priority when choosing a courier service. It's especially important in the run up to Christmas.

What can we do to improve your experience with Evri?
My primary concern when using couriers is how the courier themselves are treated by the company. Receiving parcels on time is great, but in the run up to christmas I do worry about how much work the couriers are doing. I would much rather wait longer for my parcel and know the courier is well rested and happy, than receive my parcel on time from a fatigued or stressed courier.
[Submit Survey button]

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 12h

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Chancer On A Bike @darrenhayes.bsky.social · 11h

A moon on a stick you say?

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 1d

😂🐳

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☢️Dangerously Radioactive M. O’Lybdenum☢️ @perchorin.bsky.social · 1d

Folks joke about wanting their cat’s life, and that wouldn’t be bad, but give me the life of a Canadian goose anytime. Summer home, winter home, free flight. Eat what you want, shit where you want, nobody fucks with you and god help them if they try. Yeah, that’s the life for me.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Chancer On A Bike @darrenhayes.bsky.social · 1d

What a turncoat 😂

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Chancer On A Bike @darrenhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My take is they don’t like good strong coffee. I’ve lived here 14yrs and only ever had one, in a little place in Montauban, but it was marked on the menu as an Italian Espresso which is why i ordered it

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Chancer On A Bike @darrenhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Melenchon is too divisive is one of the problems. He still talks like an ‘80s union leader and it turns off a lot of the left leaning people, like my socialist wife.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."
-Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist

#BicycleBirthday
October 7 (1931 -2021)

Photo of a man wearing a tie standing astride a bicycle with one arm raised in the air.

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1 of 100 @weare1of100.bsky.social · 1d

Fini Tribe will be in Glasgow on Sat 11th, 1pm in our shop! They will have records and CDs to sell and for the first time EVER you will be able to order their Limited Edition T-shirt number too before it goes online. Four of the band are going to play some 45s and have a blether. Let The Tribe Grow.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Chancer On A Bike @darrenhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Picked a good weekend for it 🤪

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Chancer On A Bike @darrenhayes.bsky.social · 2d

That’s lovely

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Chancer On A Bike @darrenhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t see any troops on the streets here, no immigrants being kidnapped and we have a president who is articulate irrespective

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Chancer On A Bike @darrenhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Quite thought provoking

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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DonDeLion @dondelion.bsky.social · 2d

One thing I love about Rastafari is what a giant hermeneutical "Fuck You!" it it to ALL mainstream Christian denominations. Christians just can't deal with ganja smoking, natty dread sporting, poor, country Bible-thumping Biblicists telling THEM how to read their Bibles.

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Tawny @tawnycam.bsky.social · 3d

Tadej Pogačar even rode with one arm tied behind his back today, in an attempt to give the others a chance.

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