Toby Doubleu

Sensible man. Will keep an eye out for local gigs.

Good to hear he's still playing. If he remembers tutoring a Toby from the '95-'97 era, tell him he says hi! 👋🏻 Is he still in the NW?

...goes to dig out his Calvin Party CDs

Now then. The legend JD was my (extremely cool) tutor at Blackpool college. #backintheday #obscureclaimtofame

Highways Magazine - £1bn Black Cat scheme gets green light Transport secretary Grant Shapps has granted a Development Consent Order for National Highways to begin work on the much-delayed A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet scheme, which is due to cost nearly £1b...

The same National Highways who are quite happy to spend £1400m on two roundabouts, won't spend £8-22m on the longest cycleway tunnel in the UK. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️☹️ www.highwaysmagazine.co.uk/1bn-Black-Ca...

YouTube video by ITV Sport Emotional GOODBYE from us at ITV Cycling | Tour de France

If you've missed it, then this emotional goodbye from the ITV cycling team who present the Tour De France is worth watching.
Feels very heartfelt and left a lump in my throat.
They're going to be missed🥲🥲🥲
@nedboulting.bsky.social

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Arse. Unlucky ☹️

🤦🏻‍♂️ far from home?

Presumably Starmer and the press will next condemn Olivia Rodrigo for her 'hate speech' regarding the Roe v Wade judges. I'll wait.

If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong.

This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today

So in MS Teams, you have to still have access to an organisation to leave said organisation. And if the organisation has already locked your account or no longer exists...you can never leave. 🤦🏻‍♂️

6 months in and he's got troops on the streets and is detaining senators who disagree with him. 😳

YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature Max Porter’s stunning soliloquy on the weapons industry, ‘WILD WEST' | London, December 2023

youtu.be/qGXcDz8PU4A

On Monday, at start of Bike Week, transport secretary Heidi Alexander told @cyclinguk.bsky.social meeting that "there's no better investment than investment in cycling.” Today, active travel funding in England was cut by 40%.

Sorry to hear that Jon, losing a parent is horrible whatever age you are and they are. Thinking of you and your family.

Brukit are from Alpkit only. Jetboil available more widely but more £££

Yes, but you still need a fuel bottle (which can be very small), probably a wind guard and somewhere level to stand it.

On a bike? You can get tiny meths stoves you can sit a Ti mug directly on (See Bear Bones). An all in one set such as an Jetboil (or cheaper) Brukit fits a small gas bottle inside and boils enough for food as well so more versatile.

Anyone else starting to feel the proliferation of AI is the end of ALL culture as we know it? It won't be long before ANYTHING could be AI generated. Book, film, photo, art, music. And no one will bother stating it was AI generated as it'll be so common. 😳 Anyway, happy Saturday

Screen shot of one of Keir Starmers pre election pledges about defending migrants rights

Evidently he used to 'get it' but he doesn't any more apparently.

Déjà vu

Wonder how well the Green Party would do if they had the same media attention as Reform UK Ltd

Shaun the Sheep - Series 2: 37. An Ill Wind Children's animation. The Farmer receives a huge electricity bill and decides to build a wind turbine to power the farmhouse. But Shaun has other ideas for its use.

Now ‪@evanhd.bsky.social‬ isn't allowed to promote the use of 'woke' heat pumps, I hope the BBC will stop the unacceptable fleecing of public funds by blocking a certain S.T. Sheep from promoting wind turbines.

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AI generated image of a room with a number of toilet cubicles all with brightly coloured doors in a range of colours

100% of these toilet cubicles can be used by humans.

Lucky for Starmer most people have forgotten his 10 pledges he made when running for Labour leader, given he's abandoned so many, including: free movement, higher income tax for top 5%, higher corporation tax, abolish UC, common ownership of rail/mail/energy and water, no more NHS outsourcing, etc.

Life sentences for dangerous cyclists but 14 months for drivers who kill. Seems fair 🤔 bsky.app/profile/road...

But life sentence for cyclists who kill.

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A view from Lingmells along Wasdale. Wastwater is reflecting the afternoon sun. The west Cumbrian coast can be seen on the horizon. Clear blue sky.

Wasdale last Tuesday.