Ken Matheson
@kenem.bsky.social
Long time cyclist and coach - been there done that - 🥱 / Trust has not always served me well / Always out of place, now running out of time / Traditional left leaning
I didn’t expect to be cooking Christmas dinner for 6 at 81 years old, which could be said for other things. And yet here we are.
December 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I didn’t expect to be cooking Christmas dinner for 6 at 81 years old, which could be said for other things. And yet here we are.
Just re-watched this. Was nobody listening?
December 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Just re-watched this. Was nobody listening?
Reposted by Ken Matheson
Toddler wants new toys.
“Trump-class” Golden Fleet AI-controlled battleships will be the largest "in the history of the world ever built" with hypersonic weapons, the most-sophisticated lasers and Cruise nuclear missiles and "ultimately there'll be 20 to 25 of these," announces the president.
December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Toddler wants new toys.
The Clown Who Broke The World.
(Note: It was already fragile.)
(Note: It was already fragile.)
December 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The Clown Who Broke The World.
(Note: It was already fragile.)
(Note: It was already fragile.)
Requested as a present.
I'm just showing off, but MY BOOK IS OUT NEXT MARCH DOESN'T IT LOOK NICE
December 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Requested as a present.
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Leader of Worcestershire County Council, Reform UK’s Jo Monk sent a cease and desist letter to an opposition member for doing what an opposition does.
To celebrate her fragile authoritarianism, here’s a list of Jo Monk fails. Please share as she ‘doesn’t want her name mentioned in public’
To celebrate her fragile authoritarianism, here’s a list of Jo Monk fails. Please share as she ‘doesn’t want her name mentioned in public’
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Leader of Worcestershire County Council, Reform UK’s Jo Monk sent a cease and desist letter to an opposition member for doing what an opposition does.
To celebrate her fragile authoritarianism, here’s a list of Jo Monk fails. Please share as she ‘doesn’t want her name mentioned in public’
To celebrate her fragile authoritarianism, here’s a list of Jo Monk fails. Please share as she ‘doesn’t want her name mentioned in public’
If bikes could speak what stories they would tell.
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
If bikes could speak what stories they would tell.
Reposted by Ken Matheson
This petition will be mentioned in Parliament now that it has reached over 10,000 signatures.
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This petition will be mentioned in Parliament now that it has reached over 10,000 signatures.
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
This would look better with a turd in his Mr Whippy.
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This would look better with a turd in his Mr Whippy.
Reposted by Ken Matheson
Hoy en "Como lo hacen?"
Visitamos una fábrica de Punkis en china
Visitamos una fábrica de Punkis en china
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hoy en "Como lo hacen?"
Visitamos una fábrica de Punkis en china
Visitamos una fábrica de Punkis en china
Reposted by Ken Matheson
If you're concerned about the erosion of anti racist norms and the rise of the far right, you have to factor in two solid years of bipartisan British complicity in this genocide. What do you think our government's role in this racist bloodbath tells us about the state of our political culture?
Analysts told me that they agree with @amnesty.org in that Israel's genocide in Gaza is not over.
The mass killing has slowed but the conditions for life & society have been destroyed and are not being allowed to be rebuilt.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
The mass killing has slowed but the conditions for life & society have been destroyed and are not being allowed to be rebuilt.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire: Analysts
Analysts and a human rights group say Israel's genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire.
www.aljazeera.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If you're concerned about the erosion of anti racist norms and the rise of the far right, you have to factor in two solid years of bipartisan British complicity in this genocide. What do you think our government's role in this racist bloodbath tells us about the state of our political culture?
I would prefer to buy from a seller with a simple offer of what I want at a reasonable price and which is easy to purchase.
I do not want permanent Cyber, Mega, Black, Christmas, New Year, Spring, Easter, Summer, Autumn/Fall discounts.
I do not want permanent Cyber, Mega, Black, Christmas, New Year, Spring, Easter, Summer, Autumn/Fall discounts.
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I would prefer to buy from a seller with a simple offer of what I want at a reasonable price and which is easy to purchase.
I do not want permanent Cyber, Mega, Black, Christmas, New Year, Spring, Easter, Summer, Autumn/Fall discounts.
I do not want permanent Cyber, Mega, Black, Christmas, New Year, Spring, Easter, Summer, Autumn/Fall discounts.
In other, better, news. Quite a story.
www.krizevac.org/general/the-...
www.krizevac.org/general/the-...
Krizevac Project: 2025 Round-up and not quite goodbye -
Well… what a year 2025 turned out to be! Not exactly the one any of us would have ordered, but here we are, still standing, still grateful, and still full of stories. In May we faced a loss that shook...
www.krizevac.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In other, better, news. Quite a story.
www.krizevac.org/general/the-...
www.krizevac.org/general/the-...
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It's 2029, and a Reform government has sworn in its first batch of politically appointed judges. Suddenly, the Labour Party remembers why jury trials mattered.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It's 2029, and a Reform government has sworn in its first batch of politically appointed judges. Suddenly, the Labour Party remembers why jury trials mattered.
Reposted by Ken Matheson
That's terrifying shit
![Social media screenshot:
Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
That's terrifying shit
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I should like to see several former Tory government ministers in prison. Not for incompetence, because that isn't a crime, but for misconduct in public office associated with turning the pandemic into an enrichment opportunity and for gross negligence manslaughter.
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I should like to see several former Tory government ministers in prison. Not for incompetence, because that isn't a crime, but for misconduct in public office associated with turning the pandemic into an enrichment opportunity and for gross negligence manslaughter.
“…. over reliance on earth.” Ah, so that’s the problem. Let me guess what the solution might be…..
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“…. over reliance on earth.” Ah, so that’s the problem. Let me guess what the solution might be…..
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Cycling has come a long way.
And with cargo bikes offering more transport capability plus the option of extra power from electric batteries, the fun and benefits are great
Matthew O'Connor Lomas tells all...
And with cargo bikes offering more transport capability plus the option of extra power from electric batteries, the fun and benefits are great
Matthew O'Connor Lomas tells all...
From cars to cargo bikes: How families found freedom
A new study shows that households using cargo bikes can halve their car miles – and a scheme is helping Norwich residents make the shift
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Cycling has come a long way.
And with cargo bikes offering more transport capability plus the option of extra power from electric batteries, the fun and benefits are great
Matthew O'Connor Lomas tells all...
And with cargo bikes offering more transport capability plus the option of extra power from electric batteries, the fun and benefits are great
Matthew O'Connor Lomas tells all...
But Frogface escapes?
A criminal court in Brussels on Wednesday convicted two Polish nationals – including a current European Parliament assistant – of misusing EU funds tied to political entities associated with Brexit-backer Nigel Farage.
https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R
https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R
Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv
Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner
www.euractiv.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
But Frogface escapes?
Just stumbled on this in my archive, an extract from “Speed Trap” by Charlie Francis, Ben Johnson’s coach.
November 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Just stumbled on this in my archive, an extract from “Speed Trap” by Charlie Francis, Ben Johnson’s coach.
Today I did an e-bimble 😬
October 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Today I did an e-bimble 😬