Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist

Overheard multiple people on the street today bemoaning Marty Supreme, fully animated about what a drag they found it. Meanwhile the paid reviewers rave. WHOM TO BELIEVE? 🏓

Whereas for me, the song initiated me into the cult of REM adoration www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

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Cycling Weekly is looking for a new writer Apply herein: wrkbl.ink/bv3TcCw

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Imagine overcoming sharp gingerbread only to succumb to doughy-faced Lords

Started Blue Lights but struggling w/ verisimilitude issues such as lack of armoured Land Rovers when they're most needed 🤔

Is there any such thing as a non-evil printer? Your advice for my mother please 🙏

This reminded me of Nomadland; elegant, elegaic and quietly hopeful magazine.atavist.com/author/masha...

Private fuck property

"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending": 1. Action Against Hunger 2. ActionAid 3. Alianza por la Solidaridad 4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine 5. CARE 6. DanChurchAid 7. Danish Refugee Council 8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion (cont)

This quote from @thomasbeller.bsky.social's latest Substack struck a discomforting chord "There is a fine line between working from home and living at work.”

Reading @jeremyathertonlin.bsky.social's brilliant Deep House & reminded that it's 20 years since the UK's first civil partnership - Chris Cramp and Matthew Roche, in Worthing, 5 Dec 2005. Matthew died the next day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What really hits home at this time of year is boomers' extraordinary tolerance of instant coffee

Merry Christmas 🎄

"For 25 years, I was contracted to produce three articles a year, long ones, typically 10,000 words. For this, my peak salary was $498,141. That's not a misprint-$498,141, or more than $166,000 per story... Yes, I realized it was obscene. I took it with a grin." share.google/I8xMvD3o8VsK...

Have listened to a few of these, and IMO Blood Relatives much more deserving of the top spot than Wisecrack www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

En route to Farnham and you'll never guess who comes on the radio...

Second-hand herd for the niece 🎁

Finally we've considered the lobster, very good news www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

View from the bin

Read Jacqueline Rose's latest and then had a terrible dream in which I had to present Netanyahu with gifts (two packets of already-opened dried food and a very cheap bottle of wine – as some kind of desperate, impotent protest) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Happy solstice – with special salutations to fellow nyctalopes, we connoisseurs in darkness-loathing ☀️

The inside story of the Vuelta podium – a car park celebration hastily organised by Tom Pidcock's mum – is the heartwarmer of the year 🎖️ Superbly told by @cmbreports.bsky.social

110 pages, eight original features, and an interview with Tom Pidcock’s mum (courtesy of @cmbreports.bsky.social) - all for under a fiver. Out today!

Cycling Weekly's review of the year issue is excellent reading. We should cherish and support the print magazines that we still have. Proud to have contributed to this issue. My favourite article is the inside (and comical) story of the Vuelta podium. Buy here: www.magazine.co.uk/magazines/cy...

What a net-curtain-twitching frenzy of a front page

This is the most incredible true story, and has me in tears before breakfast! A must-read

A few weeks ago I visited Lizzie Deignan for the final of four feature interviews over 11 years. Read it in @cyclingweekly.com magazine out today.

"Crowborough Patrol" – this is a ready-made sit com 😂 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Very cheering story on WATO about a visually impaired man able to watch football for the first time thanks to a specially designed headset www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I'm sorry to hear that Martin Parr has died. This is good on him and his work... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Quote with your model of masculinity

Has anyone switched from Spotify to, say, Tidal? Was it much of a chore copying over playlists, finding a new podcast platform, etc etc?

Found it hard to believe a runner as successful as GHB did the majority of her training on the bike – so we sent @t-davidson.bsky.social to meet her 🚴🏃‍♀️

Dear BBC, please follow suit

Our awards special edition of @cyclingweekly.com magazine is out today 🏆 I had the pleasure of interviewing our male Rider of the Year, Matthew Brennan, and our Rising Star, Erin Boothman

Just the concept - a parody New Yorker profile - is brilliant. But the execution also very funny open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now. Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers. Shameful.

Joe Brainard advent day 2: *I remember being disappointed the first time I got my teeth cleaned that they didn't turn out real white."

Pedal pumped to have From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads featured in this week's @cyclingweekly.com Christmas gift guide. Perfect for that Bowie, cycling, Percy Pig and midlife crisis fan in your life... #DavidBowie #Cycling #Christmasgifts @dbfreelance.co.uk

🚨BREAKING: Greenpeace Luxembourg activists have delivered a message to Amazon on their European headquarters.⁣ ⁣ Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡

Denton Welch explains the John Lewis ad: "I thought of all the Christmases of my childhood the sheer delight in presents, food and festive decorations. Surely no one could hate Christmas who remembered this past joyfulness!... 1/2

Anyone celebrating my second cousin 12x removed Will and his crew for having pestered the locals for far more than their allotted cup of sugar, thank you for your courtesy, but we find him rather an embarrassment

Sympathies with colleagues on Prime Day duty Envious curses to the lucky few tittering behind their paywalls 😂 escapecollective.com/wont-someone...