Ken Matheson
@kenem.bsky.social
Long time cyclist and coach - been there done that - 🥱 / Trust has not always served me well / Always out of place, now running out of time / Traditional left leaning
In other, better, news. Quite a story.
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Krizevac Project: 2025 Round-up and not quite goodbye -
Well… what a year 2025 turned out to be! Not exactly the one any of us would have ordered, but here we are, still standing, still grateful, and still full of stories. In May we faced a loss that shook...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In other, better, news. Quite a story.
www.krizevac.org/general/the-...
www.krizevac.org/general/the-...
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It's 2029, and a Reform government has sworn in its first batch of politically appointed judges. Suddenly, the Labour Party remembers why jury trials mattered.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It's 2029, and a Reform government has sworn in its first batch of politically appointed judges. Suddenly, the Labour Party remembers why jury trials mattered.
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That's terrifying shit
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
That's terrifying shit
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I should like to see several former Tory government ministers in prison. Not for incompetence, because that isn't a crime, but for misconduct in public office associated with turning the pandemic into an enrichment opportunity and for gross negligence manslaughter.
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I should like to see several former Tory government ministers in prison. Not for incompetence, because that isn't a crime, but for misconduct in public office associated with turning the pandemic into an enrichment opportunity and for gross negligence manslaughter.
“…. over reliance on earth.” Ah, so that’s the problem. Let me guess what the solution might be…..
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“…. over reliance on earth.” Ah, so that’s the problem. Let me guess what the solution might be…..
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Cycling has come a long way.
And with cargo bikes offering more transport capability plus the option of extra power from electric batteries, the fun and benefits are great
Matthew O'Connor Lomas tells all...
And with cargo bikes offering more transport capability plus the option of extra power from electric batteries, the fun and benefits are great
Matthew O'Connor Lomas tells all...
From cars to cargo bikes: How families found freedom
A new study shows that households using cargo bikes can halve their car miles – and a scheme is helping Norwich residents make the shift
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Cycling has come a long way.
And with cargo bikes offering more transport capability plus the option of extra power from electric batteries, the fun and benefits are great
Matthew O'Connor Lomas tells all...
And with cargo bikes offering more transport capability plus the option of extra power from electric batteries, the fun and benefits are great
Matthew O'Connor Lomas tells all...
But Frogface escapes?
A criminal court in Brussels on Wednesday convicted two Polish nationals – including a current European Parliament assistant – of misusing EU funds tied to political entities associated with Brexit-backer Nigel Farage.
https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R
https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R
Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv
Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner
www.euractiv.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
But Frogface escapes?
Just stumbled on this in my archive, an extract from “Speed Trap” by Charlie Francis, Ben Johnson’s coach.
November 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Just stumbled on this in my archive, an extract from “Speed Trap” by Charlie Francis, Ben Johnson’s coach.
Today I did an e-bimble 😬
October 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Today I did an e-bimble 😬
I've just realised where it all went wrong: -
- using electronic calculators
- not learning times tables by rote
Apologies for taking so long.
- using electronic calculators
- not learning times tables by rote
Apologies for taking so long.
October 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I've just realised where it all went wrong: -
- using electronic calculators
- not learning times tables by rote
Apologies for taking so long.
- using electronic calculators
- not learning times tables by rote
Apologies for taking so long.
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Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK public institutions including, the NHS, the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the DLUHC, and Coventry City Council. goodlawproject.org/case/were-ta...
October 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK public institutions including, the NHS, the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the DLUHC, and Coventry City Council. goodlawproject.org/case/were-ta...
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences.
They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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October 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
Maybe we should call the time we're in the Nihil Era.
But then I thought; hang on, most of the people I know, especially those over ~40 years of age, live in the real world and act as such.
So it's really just the usual suspects and those too young to know better who are the nihilists.
But then I thought; hang on, most of the people I know, especially those over ~40 years of age, live in the real world and act as such.
So it's really just the usual suspects and those too young to know better who are the nihilists.
September 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Maybe we should call the time we're in the Nihil Era.
But then I thought; hang on, most of the people I know, especially those over ~40 years of age, live in the real world and act as such.
So it's really just the usual suspects and those too young to know better who are the nihilists.
But then I thought; hang on, most of the people I know, especially those over ~40 years of age, live in the real world and act as such.
So it's really just the usual suspects and those too young to know better who are the nihilists.
I'll say this for Trump: he still has the ability and conceit to lie and brag without flinching whilst his audience squirm with embarrassment and can't wait to get out of the room.
Define psychopath.
Define psychopath.
September 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I'll say this for Trump: he still has the ability and conceit to lie and brag without flinching whilst his audience squirm with embarrassment and can't wait to get out of the room.
Define psychopath.
Define psychopath.
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Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally.
Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially.
Via @us.theconversation.com
Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially.
Via @us.theconversation.com
Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed
Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.
theconversation.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally.
Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially.
Via @us.theconversation.com
Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially.
Via @us.theconversation.com
Tomorrow We Ride, by Jean Bobet — The era that got me into cycling, the 1950s
Cycling Books: Tomorrow We Ride, by Jean Bobet
A chamois memoir from the brother of Louison Bobet that is part memoir, part biography and partly a love letter to a decade in cycling history that will always stand apart
cycologies.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Tomorrow We Ride, by Jean Bobet — The era that got me into cycling, the 1950s
When I first rode in France, in the early 1960s, people shouted "Allez Bobet".
When I first rode in Spain, in the 1990s, people shouted "¡venga! Indurain".
The commensurate shouts I heard in the UK are "Get off and milk it" and "Oi, your back wheel's following your front".
Encouragement vs insult.
When I first rode in Spain, in the 1990s, people shouted "¡venga! Indurain".
The commensurate shouts I heard in the UK are "Get off and milk it" and "Oi, your back wheel's following your front".
Encouragement vs insult.
September 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
When I first rode in France, in the early 1960s, people shouted "Allez Bobet".
When I first rode in Spain, in the 1990s, people shouted "¡venga! Indurain".
The commensurate shouts I heard in the UK are "Get off and milk it" and "Oi, your back wheel's following your front".
Encouragement vs insult.
When I first rode in Spain, in the 1990s, people shouted "¡venga! Indurain".
The commensurate shouts I heard in the UK are "Get off and milk it" and "Oi, your back wheel's following your front".
Encouragement vs insult.
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Do you want to know what I think about Charlie Kirk?
Here.
If you have a problem with it, fine.
I’ll sleep just fine tonight.
Here.
If you have a problem with it, fine.
I’ll sleep just fine tonight.
I will never extend any humanity to a person who would never, no matter how much evidence he was presented with, view me as a person worthy of dignity and equal rights.
Ever.
End of story.
Ever.
End of story.
September 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Do you want to know what I think about Charlie Kirk?
Here.
If you have a problem with it, fine.
I’ll sleep just fine tonight.
Here.
If you have a problem with it, fine.
I’ll sleep just fine tonight.
If Russian athletes can be banned from Olympic sport because their govt. has invaded Ukraine surely Israeli funded teams can be banned because their govt. is obliterating the entire nation of Palestine and its people. But money......
September 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If Russian athletes can be banned from Olympic sport because their govt. has invaded Ukraine surely Israeli funded teams can be banned because their govt. is obliterating the entire nation of Palestine and its people. But money......
Things I never expected to see #8993
TV ads showing people (various genders) sniffing arses and genitalia (all male) to promote deodorant.
TV ads showing people (various genders) sniffing arses and genitalia (all male) to promote deodorant.
August 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Things I never expected to see #8993
TV ads showing people (various genders) sniffing arses and genitalia (all male) to promote deodorant.
TV ads showing people (various genders) sniffing arses and genitalia (all male) to promote deodorant.
I've just come upon a byway "closed for line painting". It's so broken it could barely be called paved.
It's like re-floating the Titanic to re-paint the Plimsoll Line, then leaving it to sink again.
It's like re-floating the Titanic to re-paint the Plimsoll Line, then leaving it to sink again.
August 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I've just come upon a byway "closed for line painting". It's so broken it could barely be called paved.
It's like re-floating the Titanic to re-paint the Plimsoll Line, then leaving it to sink again.
It's like re-floating the Titanic to re-paint the Plimsoll Line, then leaving it to sink again.
😂 Yes, but they only have shit to send.
The penguins on Heard Island are still shipping then.
August 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
😂 Yes, but they only have shit to send.