Romeo
@romeoromeotango.bsky.social
Translator/editor and cricket follower, especially emerging/associate and county cricket
Blues, soul, Emmylou
Name is my initials
romeoromeotango.wordpress.com , mainly about cricket - email address there
Image is Polygraph XV Anys; 1980. Antoni Tàpies
Blues, soul, Emmylou
Name is my initials
romeoromeotango.wordpress.com , mainly about cricket - email address there
Image is Polygraph XV Anys; 1980. Antoni Tàpies
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Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more
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It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic, reading this from four years ago about the 'independent' expert who wrote the report into purported leftwing bias at the BBC. It's just embarrassingly amateur - but it works because the Government is awol. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...
Lobbyist at firm with close ties to Tories will help select Ofcom chair
Appointment of Michael Prescott as interviewer follows move to give Paul Dacre chance to reapply
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic, reading this from four years ago about the 'independent' expert who wrote the report into purported leftwing bias at the BBC. It's just embarrassingly amateur - but it works because the Government is awol. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...
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I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
@garius.bsky.social Have you seen/read this?
I decided to spend this remembrance day educating myself about the sacrifices we're supposed to be remembering.
I now live on the atlantic coast of France, so decided to learn something about of the second world war here.
As a result, I've been down the most amazing rabbit hole of discovery...
I now live on the atlantic coast of France, so decided to learn something about of the second world war here.
As a result, I've been down the most amazing rabbit hole of discovery...
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
@garius.bsky.social Have you seen/read this?
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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Jimmy Cook and Andrew Hudson walk out to open the batting at Eden Gardens watched by a delighted Ali Bacher, November 10th 1991. This was South Africa's return to the international fold after 21 years isolation
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Jimmy Cook and Andrew Hudson walk out to open the batting at Eden Gardens watched by a delighted Ali Bacher, November 10th 1991. This was South Africa's return to the international fold after 21 years isolation
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From an article in today's Financial Times. Such an obvious statement of fact. It's hard to understand why direct public investment in social rent housing - so successful for decades - is now unthinkable.
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
From an article in today's Financial Times. Such an obvious statement of fact. It's hard to understand why direct public investment in social rent housing - so successful for decades - is now unthinkable.
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The shortest day of the year in Iceland is 4 hours and 7 minutes of daylight on 21st December. That's still enough time for a whole T20 match or two innings of the West Indies batting in Tests.
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The shortest day of the year in Iceland is 4 hours and 7 minutes of daylight on 21st December. That's still enough time for a whole T20 match or two innings of the West Indies batting in Tests.
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I will also add:
I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.
I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.
If you're arrested in Illinois for the means by which you acquire food for your family because of the government shutdown or loss of SNAP benefits, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I will also add:
I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.
I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.
#VignettesFromTheBikeLane A Small, waving cheerily at all the bus drivers coming through Aldwych, while their dad explained where the buses were all going.
Of course the bus drivers were waving back.
Of course the bus drivers were waving back.
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Beginning to understand misanthropy, to dream of a cabin in the woods, where I see nobody, know nothing, just chop wood, domesticate an amusing raccoon, fish by a stream trying to avoid bears, and keep a lookout for the mushroom cloud, so I can put on clean pants before I die, like my Mama wanted.
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Beginning to understand misanthropy, to dream of a cabin in the woods, where I see nobody, know nothing, just chop wood, domesticate an amusing raccoon, fish by a stream trying to avoid bears, and keep a lookout for the mushroom cloud, so I can put on clean pants before I die, like my Mama wanted.
If you don't already follow Emma Monk you really ought to.
I love that. Can I have that on my grave stone?
Here lies Emma
Drivel-debunker extraordinaire
😂😂😂
Here lies Emma
Drivel-debunker extraordinaire
😂😂😂
A great thread from Emma, drivel-debunker extraordinaire
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If you don't already follow Emma Monk you really ought to.
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New video: Graham Parker goes behind Howlin’ Wind, from suburban beginnings to finding his sound with The Rumour. @thegrahamparker.bsky.social revisits the making of his debut and the drive that’s kept him writing ever since www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-rc...
Graham Parker Goes Behind Howlin' Wind
YouTube video by The Strange Brew Podcast
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
New video: Graham Parker goes behind Howlin’ Wind, from suburban beginnings to finding his sound with The Rumour. @thegrahamparker.bsky.social revisits the making of his debut and the drive that’s kept him writing ever since www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-rc...
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I had not realised the roots of “I Say a Little Prayer for You” in the Vietnam War: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Soul Music - I Say a Little Prayer for You - BBC Sounds
Stories about the Burt Bacharach classic.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I had not realised the roots of “I Say a Little Prayer for You” in the Vietnam War: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Big Jim's bike trip to Braemar.
Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett.
youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett.
youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Video of scene
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Video of scene
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#ICM is about the movement of camera and how you move it. You can just move the camera up and down and say its #Art. Through development you can pick up real natural movements. This one is just done by your breathing in and out. More in alt text. Video in comments #photography #EastCoastKIn #Stunday
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#ICM is about the movement of camera and how you move it. You can just move the camera up and down and say its #Art. Through development you can pick up real natural movements. This one is just done by your breathing in and out. More in alt text. Video in comments #photography #EastCoastKIn #Stunday
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The ICC's additional 10% funding for associate nations is welcome. For Scotland that is around $150-200K which is a helpful boost but it's already mostly been eaten up by inflation and devaluation of the US dollar over the last year.
Success of Women’s Cricket World Cup demonstrates cricket’s potential for growth: ICC Board | ICC
Media Release
www.icc-cricket.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The ICC's additional 10% funding for associate nations is welcome. For Scotland that is around $150-200K which is a helpful boost but it's already mostly been eaten up by inflation and devaluation of the US dollar over the last year.
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If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
June 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
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The drive along the mountains is spectacular, especially for someone like me who's rarely seen widespread fall colors (I've lived in FL, TX, and OK my entire adult life, and teaching doesn't allow for distant travel during the fall). Here's a few more images from this special place in OK:
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The drive along the mountains is spectacular, especially for someone like me who's rarely seen widespread fall colors (I've lived in FL, TX, and OK my entire adult life, and teaching doesn't allow for distant travel during the fall). Here's a few more images from this special place in OK:
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Peak fall foliage in Oklahoma's Ouachita mountains. Yes, this is Oklahoma! #photography
What is already one of the most beautiful parts of the state absolutely comes alive in the fall. I've been wanting this shot for years, but I either couldn't get there during peak or there were active droughts.
What is already one of the most beautiful parts of the state absolutely comes alive in the fall. I've been wanting this shot for years, but I either couldn't get there during peak or there were active droughts.
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Peak fall foliage in Oklahoma's Ouachita mountains. Yes, this is Oklahoma! #photography
What is already one of the most beautiful parts of the state absolutely comes alive in the fall. I've been wanting this shot for years, but I either couldn't get there during peak or there were active droughts.
What is already one of the most beautiful parts of the state absolutely comes alive in the fall. I've been wanting this shot for years, but I either couldn't get there during peak or there were active droughts.
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Please take a moment to appreciate this very, very small water sausage!
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Please take a moment to appreciate this very, very small water sausage!