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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 24/09/2026

"Deliciously British Flavours"? WTF? Is ethno-nationalism infecting everything now?

Photo of a box of Thorntons chocolates, with the text Deliciously British Flavours

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 31/08/2026

Have they reverted? Or is my phone just being slow?

Screen shot of Google maps, showing Lake Ontario correctly named

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 02/08/2026

I used to imagine that I was something of a Stoic. But after reading this (which is excellent, btw), I now think maybe I'm an Epicurean

Photo of book, "Living for pleasure, an epicurean guide to life", by Emily A Austin

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 08/07/2026

Another shitty day in paradise

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 04/07/2026

Fuck you, EHCR Love, Isle of Man

Notice in Isle of Man pub saying people should use whichever bathroom they're most comfortable with

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 30/06/2026

Hey @eldaifo.bsky.social - look where I found myself, close to midnight last night...

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 26/06/2026

Everyone else seems to be doing this, so here's mine britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 08/06/2026

The Isle of Man the day after one of the most weather disrupted TTs in memory

Picture of cloudless blue sky on the Isle of Man

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 19/05/2026

I'm a progressive liberal, apparently

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 03/05/2026

One for the Bork! Bork! Bork! desk @theregister.com Seen in the window of a vape shop (I think) in France

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 12/03/2026

You should see them up close!

Picture of snowy mountain in the Swiss Alps

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 19/02/2026

Half-way through, and loving it Trivia: when the national speed limit was introduced in the UK in 1965, it didn't apply to the Isle of Man (cos we make our own laws, in our own parliament) So when we see this sign, we can still go as fast as we like

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 15/02/2026

<waves from the Isle of Man> (Yes, I know it's 2 days later, but the weather was like this Friday too)

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 09/01/2026

Joking aside, a genuinely fantastic experience. The transformation from quackery to modern medicine in 200 years is astounding

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 09/01/2026

At the London Operating Theatre museum. Very informative

Photo of text from the museum, reading "Mead was the first known westerner to suggest a tobacco smoke enema for resuscitation (do you recognise the phrase "blowing smoke up your arse"?)

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 25/12/2025

Now it feels like Christmas 🙂

Photo of the front of Motocourse 2025~2026

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 09/12/2025

This is a pretty devastating summary (for the gender critical mob) of the Peggie tribunal ruling

The arguments that work in newspaper columns and parliamentary debates often don’t survive that scrutiny. Claims about universal female experience collapse when women don’t actually complain. Safety arguments fail when asked for actual evidence. Demands for absolute priority evaporate when courts insist on balancing rights. And claims that gender critical beliefs are being “silenced” ring hollow when tribunals protect the beliefs while condemning harassing behaviour.

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 10/11/2025

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

Neal Champion riding his Kawasaki ZXR750 through the Mountain Box on the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course during the 2015 Classic TT

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 27/10/2025

I absolutely adore @januszczak.bsky.social's programmes. But I especially love him for this little bit

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 04/09/2025

Don't these guys know that (Excel)pope already has a motorbike, @excelpope.net ? "Members of the Jesus Bikers group from Germany present a customised BMW R18 to Pope Leo."

Members of the Jesus Bikers group from Germany present a customised BMW R18 to Pope Leo to sign at a general audience in St Peter’s Square

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 29/07/2025

Fantastic obit to Tom Lehrer by @theregister.com today www.theregister.com/2025/07/28/t... I particularly like this bit:

Screen snip from The Register obituary for Tom Lehrer, saying:

He remained active and engaged even later in his life. Rapper Tauheed K. Epps, who records as "2 Chainz", sampled Lehrer's song The Old Dope Peddler [PDF] for his track Dope Peddler, asking permission to use a snippet. Lehrer wrote back:

As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 23/07/2025

Sailing up river Strong Apocalypse Now vibes

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 19/05/2025

Compare and contrast with the Oasis album cover Be Here Now: www.soundofviolence.net/Reviews/orig... It was released in 1997. I'm in my 60s, and got it immediately. And Mat is a couple of years older than me

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 12/05/2025

Another Brexit benefit I know €1.5 isn't much, but it's the bloody principle

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 11/05/2025

This is the sky I'm lucky enough to be sat under. I amusingly (I thought) referred to it as a "Simpsons sky" and now I can't get the theme tune out of my head

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 11/05/2025

This appears to be a battery electric motorcycle being used by the Seville police Can Bluesky help identify the model, please?

Photo of two police motorcycles in Seville, one (obscured) being a traditional ICE petrol engine (it has a visible exhaust), the other suspected of using battery electric power.

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 29/04/2025

My ZXR and my TZ250, both at Church Bends

Yamaha TZ250 at Church Bends racing at Pre-TT Classic

Kawasaki ZXR 750 at Church Bends racing at Pre-TT Classic

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 17/04/2025

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home Uncertainty is the new certainty From @theregister.com www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/c...

That single point of failure right now is Uncle Sam. CVE has become the world's de facto system for identifying and squashing vulnerabilities in technology products, and it is reliant on federal funding at a time when the Feds are trimming costs, threatening allies, and evaporating America's soft power

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 07/04/2025

Hey, Dow, hope you had a good night's sleep...

Screenshot of opening fall of FTSE 100 index

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 02/04/2025

Today bought the freshly published paperback edition of "Everything Must Go" by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social from my local independent bookshop

Photo of book "Everything Must Go" by Dorian Lynskey

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 01/04/2025

Introducing our Essential Bath Oil, a unique and invigorating addition to your self-care routine. Infused with the unmistakable fragrance of two-stroke oil, this bath oil will transport you into a world of sensory nostalgia, combining essential oils with the deep rich scent of classic motorcycles

Picture of Blue Cloud, April Fools bath oil

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 31/03/2025

Chris Riddle on King Trump in the Guardian

Cartoon of president Trump, where everything he touches turns to shit

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 22/03/2025

Squadrons of supercharged H2s - that's what any well-equipped military needs :-) @sihbikes.bsky.social @mufga.bsky.social

Statement from chairman of Kawasaki Heavy Industries saying Japan and South Korea buying more local arms, instead of American

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 08/03/2025

Me from a different era On the Isle of Man, for TT 1985, in the garden of the cottage we used to rent at Sandygate That's me with no shirt on. I'm not fat now, but god I was skinny then! In the centre, m fabulous GPz750 turbo! And I still own one (but not that one)

Photo from TT 1985 of me with some friends in the sunshine at the cottage we used to rent at Sandygate

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 07/03/2025

We all need to be like this guy

Photograph from 1936 at Blohm+Voss shipyard, showing one man standing with his arms folded while the crowd around him all give the Nazi salute

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 23/02/2025

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the cinema

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 21/02/2025

I'm in But can't find the Paddock Pass Podcast league. Has it been set up?

View of my MotoGP Fantasy team - Bezzechi, Marquez, Quatararo, Raul Fernandez, Aprilia (manufacturer) and Ducati Lenovo (team)

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Neal Champion @champ.org.uk · 04/02/2025

At my first job I used CP/M and my boss had one of these

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