And the FIFA Academy Award for best Motion Picture 2026 goes to .... Melania.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Not been to gigs for a long time by eldest son has developed exceptional music taste and dragged me to Superheaven tonight. Midlife crisis moment spending the whole gig in the moshpit. It's been a while.

As much as I've enjoyed the gym this year today is the day I get my goto bike fixed so I can get back out on the trails/road. Still not quite got my head round how the gear cable managed to wrap itself a full rotation round the bottom bracket from a loose branch on the path.

Something appears to have shrunk in the wash.

Social media companies are publishers. They edit the feed and take broad rights over content; the law should recognise them as editors, not carriers, and prosecute as appropriate.

Pulls up the bbc iplayer. "Would I Lie To You" with guest David Walliams could be interesting.

Today I learnt about hover flies after an invasion that I can only assume came in with the Christmas Tree.

BBC News - Man jailed for killing pensioner with off-road bike www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Riddle me this. Why is the language around bikes/bicycles/e-bikes and motorbikes being so badly handled by journalists?

Used to love football but between big money owners and scumbags on the train F'ing and C'ing when young kids are around it's killed it.

Halloween is tomorrow! A friendly reminder to motorists. 📷 @tomflood.bsky.social

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

The Cool Bike Art account is one of the best cycling accounts on here. If you're not already following them, go rectify that right now.

i don't think this is an unpopular opinion. the issue is that this article, and MANY MANY others have continued to miscategorize e-motos as e-bikes. e-bikes have not "evolved" into e-motos, they've both existed for along but media outlets have refused to note the difference.

Reform gobbling colleague starts spouting about protecting this Christian Nation. Ask him if he goes to church? NOPE What percentage of this Christian Nation attends church? BLANK FACE (1% for CofE) Does he know what the Church's views on immigration are? Again NOPE. Sorry mate you're just racist

"Over 40,000 people die in car crashes in the US every year...neighborhoods are carved up by high-speed traffic. Kids can’t walk to school safely. But someone saw a teenager run a stop sign on an e-bike, so the real crisis must be those darn batteries on two wheels." electrek.co/2025/07/20/i...

Biffy reminding me why messy noisy intense live music means so much more to me. it's rough round the edges but it touches something that the more polished can't. #glastonbury #biffy

In today's episode of dystopian fly-tipping. Cycling near Limerigg and the amount of fly-tipping on country lanes is off the scale.

Ketamine v. Adderall the showdown.

April in Scotland? Gravel and trails round Kirkmichael taking in bits of the #CateranTrail. Even time for a quick dip in the hot tub before a day out with the family. Lots of off-road routes if you want to avoid mixing with the cars. Will be back to do more trials when time allows.

'Merica sneezes and the world catches bubonic plague.

And next to the dangerous Redford Rd is Dreghorn Link, another uncontrolled space. And again residents have to resort to homebrew signs. A vacuum of action from @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social @policescotland.bsky.social Drivers exciting the 70mph bypass given no to minimal clues of 30mph limit.

Roses are red Violets are blue

BBC News - Meta stops ex-director from promoting critical memoir www.bbc.com/news/article... Have a sudden urge to listen to some Streisand.

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

Please support the campaign for Presumed Liability which shifts the burden of proof to the insurance company in a collision, and is intended to compensate vulnerable road users more quickly and effectively petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... @edinburghgravel.cc

Finally broke my 2025 inertia. #mywoosh great "free" alternative to zwift. Some gremlins with cadence displaying but back on the horse and now need to get my fitness back.

Edinburgh vehicle whose driver was very comfortable attempting to drive into me. I assume unhappy at having to drive within the 20 speed limit along Grange Rd. @policescotland.bsky.social it’s why cyclists ride with cameras and why you need a portal.

Actions speak louder than words. Chief superintendent Lynn Ratcliff - Police Scotland: “What's really important for us is that incidents involving cyclists are reported to us”. Reality: Currently no online reporting portal provided by Police Scotland. road.cc/content/news...

What people want is to be able to pick and choose what they watch and not be forced to subsidise their football channel that is no doubt losing money hand over fist

Cancelling my Discovery plus subscription. £30.99 a month!! What a joke! No more live cycling for me. Gutted is an understatement!

I miss GCN+ more and more every day. Forcing cycling behind a bigger paywall where you are primarily paying for dross is only going to harm the sport in the UK. Eurosport was fantastic and unique, TNT Sports and Discovery+ are £32 for almost exclusively terrible content.

www.cyclingweekly.com/news/eurospo... So Cycling, Skiing and other sports fans in UK and Ireland fcked over by the Yanks again. Greedy fckers.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted www.cyclingweekly.com/news/eurospo...

Looks like discovery plus are stuffing cycling even deeper into the paywall. Will be cancelling. I just can't justify paying £30+ a month. That alongside itv dropping TDF coverage means I'm lost.

Wow. For some reason, right-wing pro-reform, racist posts have vanished from my tictok feed. It's almost like it wasn't originating in the UK??

My sons school are still using Twitter, so dipped in for a look, but oh my days!, it's getting worse.

If only there was a way to collect finance collectively to protect ourselves as a society.

“Bluesky is an echo chamber!” Our Reply: Echo chamber? Nah, we prefer to call it surround sound for facts.

Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.

Took the ol' train to a meeting this morning and got to do the funniest thing ever: blow the train whistle at a car stopped in the bike lane

Pumpkin done and ready for tonight.

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So what's 2024s pumpkin going to be. This is the last few years efforts. #Halloween #pumpkin

Bike needing some maintenance before I can get out so here's some #mushrooms instead.

Gravel trail through the wind farm had this concerning sign. What could go wrong?!