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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

The Rider

Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952

A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

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Paul O'Toole @endodoc.bsky.social · 3d

I’m thinking the unknown guitarists may be ‘Rene and Rene’ m.youtube.com/watch?v=bXDb...

Rene & Rene "Angelito"

YouTube video by NRRArchives2

m.youtube.com

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Paul O'Toole @endodoc.bsky.social · 4d

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Paul O'Toole @endodoc.bsky.social · 5d

This was from 1970 edition

Paul O'Toole @endodoc.bsky.social · 5d

I got the Treasure annual every year, so have had plenty of practice.

Drawing of the crooked man, wearing grey suit with green check waistcoat and bow-tie (at a crooked angle). He walks along a paved country footpath with wall, style, trees in view. It is greyscale but with green for trees and grass. 12 objects related to the rhyme “There was a crooked man” are hidden in the picture.

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Paul O'Toole @endodoc.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you. That was quite brilliant

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Lukas Knöfler @lukascph.bsky.social · 18d

I'm crying tears of joy. #Kigali2025

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28d

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration

It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

on.ft.com

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Anna Mac 👑🪱 🌈🖤 @annamacb.bsky.social · Sep 12

Pog didnt stand a chance… look at the size of that tuft!

#GPCQM

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Paul O'Toole @endodoc.bsky.social · Sep 10

@robhatch.bsky.social I believe "Juju Adri" refers to characters in the terrible film "Tour de Pharmacy" and is presumably a protest against drugs in cycling (or Magic Potions perhaps in view of the Obelix costume).

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Paul O'Toole @endodoc.bsky.social · Sep 6

Did “Ride the Route” sportive today: final stage of #ToB in South Wales one day before the pros. Lovely roads across the moors, but verges littered with more empty Red Bull cans than I’ve ever seen in one place. Hope Remco will be inspired.

Paul O'Toole @endodoc.bsky.social · Aug 29

Is like Sunday

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · Aug 26

We've forgotten who we are.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · May 3

I have discovered a pile of Nigel droppings under my bed tonight.

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Paul O'Toole @endodoc.bsky.social · Aug 1

The statue plinth translates as: “Homage to the Emigrants from Pias” (Northern Portugal). I hope they were all welcomed and made to feel at home in their chosen country #FingerPostFriday

Stone statue of a traveller wearing a beret and carrying a suitcase. In the foreground is a signpost showing distances to a number of countries such as Venezuela, Brazil and France.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · Jul 26

For the past 6 years I have felt compelled to watch first the GCN+ and now the TNT coverage of the Tour. But the ITV (and previously Channel 4) highlight hour is a thing of absolute perfection. It instilled a love for the history and beauty of cycling and I will miss it terribly.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · Jul 26

Think I’m going to pop outside at 8pm and clap the NHS

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Paul O'Toole @endodoc.bsky.social · Jul 24

@nedboulting.bsky.social Marijn Zeeman admitted Matteo Jorgensen had “some health issues” during Mont Ventoux stage www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/merij...