Husband, dad, paediatrician, ex-editor, CCIO Ride a bike too. Take your pick. Don't like these opinions? I've got plenty of others.
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Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?
This is a painful read. I mean seriously painful. But it’s also a must-read, and must-share, for everyone.
It's baffling how little they bother to actually understand isn't it? I mean, that would take, what, three seconds to figure out on Google?
Totally agree. Auto-didactism is something we should value and always celebrate!
Enquired slightly too loudly about crud-ites at a posh pub meal with a girlfriend's family. Felt burning shame then, feel proud now.
Delighted that we're going to immunise against chickenpox. Really nasty illness. And folk who say "it never harmed me" - well, go and examine your survivor bias and your skills of recall. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Totally forgot this absolutely fantastic “god forbid a man has hobbies” leaflet in the pub last week.
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok
This is rather lovely...
I read recently that horses 500 years ago were only the size of ponies so that both annoys me and makes me chuckle at the thought that the riders would almost be dragging their feet on the ground...
Nothing says I love my country more than a shitty polyester flag, bought on an American tax dodging website, made in China
It is when it rains a few days later whole you're out and you think "Oh that's nice rain on my face" and then it starts stinging your eyes and you realise you have rehydrated salt water from the sweat bands in your helmet...
Great Scott! I just depressed myself so thought I'd take a few of you with me. On phone, random scrolled a pic of Christopher Lloyd, stupidly then checked to see how old he was as Doc in first Back to Future film. 46. I'm 48 and have never felt old until now.
Danish activists have been painting their flag on roundabouts. Either that or British 'patriots' are a bunch of thick twats, which I find hard to believe.
It was when the man sitting behind me, to the apparent fascination of the woman he'd met just 10 minutes before, got to the details of his colonoscopy that I realised that mid-westerners *really* love to talk...
Not sure why it is the top news story when someone who has been jailed while lying and has nothing to lose from lying more, but plenty to gain if she says certain things says "Epstein list does not exist" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ah, thank you - this has given me a lovely laugh.
Courtesy of @rachellwithey.bsky.social ...
Looks like an @xkcd.com image - or modification of one?
How I felt after pumping up my bike tyres and spraying bike juice on the chain today
These are dark and brutal times and I’m not in a good place. But I was reminded, in something I was reading, of the political career of Samuel Danks Waddy, Liberal MP for Sheffield 1879-80, and for a moment there was relief from the gloom.
I love this comic. And feel that paediatric nurses and paediatricians might also have a better than average chance here… @zachweinersmith.bsky.social www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson
I cycled that path about 8 months ago when it was 15 cm deep in water. Except that you weren't sure if it were *just* 15 cm....
Well hello @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social !
You're much more likely to become destitute or a displaced refugee than you are a millionaire, so stop dreaming about your personal gain and start acting in the interests of a fair and equal society, devoid of kings and tyrants.
There is a Bentley Pauncefoot just south of Birmingham, near Redditch. I think this is Compton's brother, himself on the verge of being cut out of the family inheritance...
Good call. There's got to be a paper in there somewhere about chastisement and the immediacy of the punishment...
My parents did the three strikes thing - Santa's elves would visit each night and ask if we'd been good or bad. Three strikes and... Mind you, this started with advent... Perhaps do Halloween instead?
Out and round a fabulously hilly peninsula. All the sorts of scenery. And two coffee breaks - go me! Just lovely. strava.app.link/oOpRONUmAVb
The show and the book (?books?) were quite remarkable. I still have vivid recall of each of the characters...
I used it to track a New Year resolution a few years back - ride every day for a year - and then just got into the habit! Love seeing what folk are doing on their rides...
Fair. There are a couple of deeply obscure segments that I've accidentally come near the top of but otherwise I mostly get "local legend" which I tend to read as "cycle with more imagination!"
I always figure I'm winning on a segment if I'm not in the bottom hundred...
Visiting some old and some new Cornish roads, North Coast (sort of) to South... Damp and could have been miserable but it really wasn't - even when I couldn't even see the sea from the coast road back into St Ives. strava.app.link/JmBc9b0XwVb
Have a smashing trip...
Missed Connection: I was on the train. You were running for the train. Our eyes met. You reached out to me as the doors were closing, but the train pulled away. Please contact me. I have your left hand.
Motherfucking wind farms…
Hard relate.
Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
Don't mess with the all powerful cycling lobby. We haz powers.
Hello. I am a hero in an action movie and I've been shot or stabbed. All I need to do to fix it is make sure the entry/exit are stitched up. I never bleed to death from internal haemorrhaging, despite the likelihood that major vessels and organs have been damaged.
Book club
Mildly allergic to the word "holibobs" But I don't get why MPs get to call it a "summer recess". Feel like we should call it out as quite the break, perhaps by calling it holibobs...
Bit of rain, bit of sun, bit of coffee. Lovely. strava.app.link/rES2Pq5KjVb
One of the things about cycling is putting on sunscreen just after you've fitted the mudguards as it is raining a bit but in a couple of hours it might be a bit nicer...
Age verified on BlueSky. Process was fairly simple. I had to upload a video of me bending down and picking up something I'd dropped on the floor, and they counted the groans and rated the general huffing and puffing.
Fair. If I met a kid on this site, I'd probably suggest an intervention.
I'm here for the "Ozzy holding Paddington's hand as he walks into the sunset" picture. Don't disappoint me...
I have a million frustrations in my work but thank goodness that this immoral bulcrud isn't one...
Want to get away with murder? Hit them with a car. You might get away with claiming it was an accident, but, even if convicted, the sentence will be a fraction of that you'd get if you used ANY other weapon.
Files under "ideas for next December's front garden decoration project"...
That is a work of art...
I think he's a guy who would deliberately miss at a urinal.
I quite often hear people, usually men, saying that kids today need more discipline and that being hit by their parents never did them any harm. I dunno mate, you're wanting to inflict violence on a child, I think perhaps your parents fucked you up and you just don't realise it.
I have one of these in the garage. A deeply satisfying fold/unfold action. But the earth doesn't move...
Quite right. And as a paediatrician, I've never even been offered a hefty bribe by a child to treat them better. I mean, zero effort or initiative.
I'd bet it is a design feature to avoid folk ignoring the need to convert from feet...
the Star Tribune just called me and told me they would not be publishing the obituary I wrote for my father as it is “unfair to him” and “in poor taste” so here it is and fuck the strib ✌🏻
Plans for the extension to Longbridge are out for consultation until 28 July. Overall, they are excellent. Do go and give design feedback. www.birminghambeheard.org.uk/bcc/a38-cycl...
'Ten messages for a man who thinks children should stay off the roads and stick to the park'. [From my Diagram Club newsletter. Subscribe for more like this: diagramclub.substack.com ]
Sorry, yeah, I realise that now that I've read your post more clearly. I'd thought it was a bit like the Sci Fi "can you clean up and zoom in" nonsense they do in movies...
Feels odd that it angles the dog differently and puts the sunnies higher on the lady's head - but perhaps I'm missing the point?
It's fascinating how readily the media will run the same old "Entitled people demand free stuff" story without realising that that's the story
As the author, I’m immensely proud of this report. But mainly I hope people read it and take notice. This is about the rise in ‘fake e-bikes’, and what’s driving it appgcw.org/resources/in...
It has just started to rain, which, for about 350 days a year in this part of the world would be a "sigh" moment, but today it is a "ahhhh" moment...
It was also the closest human analog to Brownian motion I've ever seen. It was brilliantly hilarious.
As a young doctor at the John Radcliffe the League of Friends was exactly like this, but for one coffee and a toasted teacake. Never paid the same price twice, which was some feat given that in those days it was around £2 and I went 100 times.
Every guy with a tragic backstory (in a movie):
20mph speed limits have shown to massively reduce injuries and deaths. So isn't it time we rolled out sharply lowered speed limits and ULEZ in all urban areas? We need to stop putting the car first, they've taken up too much infrastructure space already and keep wanting more.
I hold that one of the few ways we can tell that this is reality is that lots of people *do* share a first name, in a way what would be baffling - and so carefully avoided - in fiction.
I have only just reached the age where I feel I can say, about a small fraction of the books I have, "Yeah, I'm unlikely to ever read or re-read that, so I'll let it go..." Even then, the book piles continue to grow...
The bridge is lined with many gorgeous sculptures of men and women and children, most of which are in the kind of poses that show the sculptor was a fantastic observer of real people—holding hands, carrying children, leaning against each other, all just stunning work. Then there’s this guy.
In May, 1990, Andy Lippincott, the gay attorney in "Doonesbury," was dying of AIDS -- the first and maybe only such death in an American comic strip. In his last days, he was buoyed by the release of Brian Wilson's masterpiece, "Pet Sounds," on CD. Andy's passing transpired in these three strips.
I think it was Barry Humphries who said "I'm approaching 70, but from the wrong direction..."
Car adverts show a smug man driving to the land of success on a wide open road, to his dreams come true. This is the fantasy of someone buying a new car. Manufacturers should show someone in heavy traffic with a pissed off look on their face to be realistic.
Today, the Government launches plans to fast-track driverless vehicle trials in the UK. One of the companies involved says London presents a big challenge: “It has seven times more jaywalkers than San Francisco.” Except… it doesn't. 🧵
Took me about 50 years to realise British Summer Time lasts for seven months each year, not six. I bet you just counted to check, didn't you?
Does the appointment of an anti-mayor imply the existence of an uncle-mayor too? They could wander around dispensing slightly left-field life advice and whatnot.
These things are hard to hypothecate - I've seen lots of business cases agonising over this stuff. But, in short, if you are spending money on one thing, you can't spend it on another... So, free parking has a cost.
(but I completely agree with the assertion that hospitals should not be in the free parking for all business...)
Minor correction, Karl. To keep an inpatient bedspace open, you require 24/7 nursing. So, when you factor in 37.5 hours a week, study and annual leave etc, you end up needing 6-7 nurses to keep that "1 nurse to 8 patients" ratio. Your estimate is about 6 fold inflated.
What complex roles we play in a community, a society.
"It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's Our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless." ~ LR Knost
I mean, they could even do simple stuff like objecting properly to 3 year closures of bits of the current infra...
It was a long ride today so I needed to make a second food stop... strava.app.link/KhqYou9JQTb
I think they're headed for it being closed for longer than it has been open...
I have a vivid memory of a Terry Fuckwit cartoon like this...
Responds with grump about it severing an key cycle route...
Watching #totp and reflecting that 17 yo me, watching this in 1985, would have thought that 1945 was impossibly ancient history. And yet that's the same time gap...
Is it my imagination or do the newer ones lack the tactile reminder - the spinning cone on the underside for the visual and hearing impaired?
Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!
📢 Calling Simpsons enjoyers: I made a new thing. Hourly Simpsons is a Bluesky account that posts a random frame from a random Simpsons episode (until season 15) – on the hour, every hour. I think it's quite cute.
Brilliant Haiku on this here... steemit.com/haiku/@dboos...
Island of Strangers. By Michael Rosen. What a tragedy Michael felt the need to write this. And thank you Michael for writing it. HT @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
Wrote about this sort of thing a while ago - hope you like it! blogs.bmj.com/adc/2013/06/...
From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...
There's an interesting corollary tho - that old quote "I know a lot of very lucky people. They work very hard at being lucky..." I think there is a combination, in many instances, of luck and ability to make that luck work you you.
Some people's intelligence is very focused...
It just occurred to me that there are quite a lot of people who grew up watching cartoons of Tom and Jerry and thought to themselves - "I know, I should be even more mean than Tom, that will sort it..."