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Chancer On A Bike
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Nottingham to SW France, not the moon and back (geddit?)
It's strange where life takes you.

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The bsky account @ChancerOnABike is dead - forgot the login 🤦‍♂️
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November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
October 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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There was a Futurism exhibition in London à few years ago - missed it

Fascinating ethos behind it
Recent highlight of the @coolbikeart1.bsky.social feed: fantastic painting by Enzo Benedetto from 1926 in the Second Wave of Italian Futurism. #procycling
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Why is it called a lie detector machine and not a defibillator?
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Marvellous
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Dear friends, do me a favour and please spread the word on this. Times are tough, but so is this record...
I've not plugged this in a while, but if you still haven't got yourself a copy of my Rodigan endorsed Sleng Teng rework of Eddie Cochran's Somethin' Else, then what are you waiting for? rongorongorongo.bandcamp.com/album/someth...
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Giving this one another plug, for anyone needing blowing away some cobwebs after the weekend…

2+ hours of chuggy reworks of rave classics..it shouldn’t work really, and yet…

www.mixcloud.com/julian-foddy...
Time Machine: The Third Rewind
www.mixcloud.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Looks like half of Toulouse has taken a bridge day as tomorrow is bank hol for Armistice.

School bus didn’t turn up so had to drive samuel to Lycée, 21mins at 08:40. Unheard of.

Work car park is half full.
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Morning all.

Photograph by David Hurn. Sheep shelter from the rain, on an artillery range Mynydd Epynt, Wales 1973.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Not sure what was happening last night, thousands of birds gathered in the trees having a party at the airport.

My wife said she’s seen the same earlier in the evening near home
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
At LHR, waiting for the flight back to Toulouse. such a cracking saturday night at @ono-ch1.bsky.social

Such a great vibe and cracking tunes. A massive slap on the back to all involved, was a privilege to be able to attend.

Can’t wait to get in my bed! A bit knackered to say the least
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Some absolute crackers from this weekend, but this is one for the ages. A true legend of its genre.
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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As every Remembrance Sunday, a thought for my grandfather, lieutenant Henri Auclair, a Verdun veteran who fought in the trenches throughout all of WWI, died in 1999, aged 103, and taught us about the insanity of war and the necessity to embrace the European ideal.
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Spot on , what a bellend he truly is.
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I've just finished listening to a massive 11-part series on the history of Gaza (it starts with the Philistines!) on @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social and I have to say it's extraordinary. Start here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines (Part 1)
Podcast Episode · Empire · 17/09/2025 · 45m
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November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Just put a ticket up for resale as bought one too many
Here we are…

1 more sleep till @jarmain-etc.bsky.social , @acidgrandads.bsky.social &
@andydunn295.bsky.social
head down south and return to our favourite basement.

We’re really looking forward to seeing you all AND popping upstairs to see @dannykelly.bsky.social and the #BarTrax collective 😘
November 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.

www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM