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Terry Coaker

@hist0man.bsky.social
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Husband and dad. Cycling enthusiast. Retired Biomedical Scientist Keen on Lean Komorebi Umarell Ataraxia

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Terry Coaker @hist0man.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How can a country that loves @dollyparton.bsky.social also support @donaldtrumpposts.bsky.social
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Terry Coaker @hist0man.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Surely nobody just becomes a CNUT? Are there any publications where it has been ascertained where the transition point is between either being elected by the people or making millions or being in charge of a water company?
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Terry Coaker @hist0man.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
@nedboulting.bsky.social loved the new NSF Ned 🙏 #fortheloveofcycling #nsf Surprisingly few photobomb intrusions! Tango’ed in Barcelona
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uppaalaska.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @uppaalaska.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Examples of striking Dutch bike-lane and urban biking infrastructure via Modacity Life.
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either: a. Incompetent b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't c. a & b
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
An important reminder
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We still don't know how the £37 Billion?! was spent on test and trace. Dido Harding needs to be held to account to. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/comm...
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Gaps in policy, not just operational failings, are the problem with Covid test and trace | Institute for Government
However much the government spends on test and trace, the cash cannot make up for gaps in policy
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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/02/2026
1. Interesting to see Reform abandon its flirtation with nativism / birth rate boosterism in favour of the policy of the last Tory government 2. “Starve a kid for a cheaper pint” is quite the policy. Be interested to see how that performed in focus groups (especially all male versus mixed).
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25
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Terry Coaker @hist0man.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
@timharford.ft.com @brianbilston.bsky.social penned this. Thought you might be interested?
Less is More (More or Less)
While it may be hopelessly optimistic to think we can get an accurate estimate of how common oxymorons are these days, we can be almost certain
that in a world of fake news and alternative facts, it's a figure which isn't growing smaller.
And while some may be awfully good, critically acclaimed or have real potential, others are often clearly confused
or essentially useless, with pretty horrible results.
Even those which claim to be 'new and improved' are nearly always extremely average.
It's an open secret that some oxymorons are nothing more than meaningful nonsense.
My impartial advice would be to treat them with either reckless caution or utter silence.
And the same goes for tautologies, too, if past history is to be believed.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment. This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
New study suggests that metastatic cancer cells may evade the immune system by stealing mitochondria from immune cells and setting up a ‘shield’ that protects them from being killed by immune cells. Wiley little bastards. #Science 🧪
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Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria
Hijacking the energy-producing organelles from immune cells seems to help tumours in mice to infiltrate lymph nodes.
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Terry Coaker @hist0man.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
There’s a big field behind our house for the Seals Blackhawk to come and extradite me cause …
Janey Godley holding a poster expressing a shared view regarding @potus
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Dr. Alexandria Brangwin 🇦🇺 @alexbrangwin.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Irony just fell out of a tenth storey window. #putin
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Terry Coaker @hist0man.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social Due to inclement conditions, North Tyneside Education are advising that for drop offs parents wear two pairs of pyjamas this week! 😉
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Kirsten de Vos 🚶🏻‍♀️💚🚲🍃 @kirstendevos.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
When parents are afraid to let their children cycle, that’s not “choice” - it’s policy failure. Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence. Children deserve safe streets. @solveschoolrun.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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West Midlands councils struggling to deliver bike safety training
More than half of councils in the West Midlands are seeing a fall in the number of children taking part.
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Terry Coaker @hist0man.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
@POTUS copying Putin #welcometo2016 😢
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Let’s go back to 2010! We didn’t need cancer pathways as urgent referrals were seen in 2-3 weeks, routine in 2-3 months Recruitment was rising, jobs were good. It wasn’t perfect but in 4 decades of NHS work it was the best it had been THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED ….
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Cyclegranny @cyclegranny.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
If you have any doubt who you are voting for let this remind you. The rich are not your friends.
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Karl-on-Sea @karlonsea.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Huzzah! Northumberland’s Council has solved its housing waiting list by simply deleting half the people on the list - those whose need for housing is least. People. Who. Don’t. Need. Housing. When did we leave the path of Santa so completely? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Northumberland council house list to have thousands axed
A Northumberland councillor says the change removes people with
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Who says right wingers are all selfish twats who don't give a shit about anyone else?
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Item 1 A highway that will cost billions, take 20 years and contribute to the destruc.....Approved! Item 2 A bike lane that will cost almost nothing, reduce traffic and align with our climate emerg...Do you have approval from every living and deceased resident in the city?
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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
“The entitlement of that driver’s attitude towards kids cycling to school together and safely once a week – I’d like to say is unbelievable but sadly it just isn’t” Moaning driver slams “extremely irritating” children cycling to school “chatting”, taking up the “whole road”, and holding up traffic
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Moaning “entitled” driver slams “extremely irritating” children cycling to school “chatting”, taking up the “whole road” and holding up traffic, as cyclists ask: “I assume you’re campaigning for a saf...
Still drying off from your stormy morning commute? Don’t worry, Ryan Mallon’s here to brighten up your day (kind of) with all the latest cycling news, views, and silliness on the wet and windy Tuesday...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Manic week - apologies for multiple posts, but its all in plain sight now The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech The EU is the enemy of both pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...
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The Double-Headed Eagle: Russia, America and the Authoritarian Big Tech Alliance
It’s all in plain sight: Bannon and Dugin preach a pro-Russian “Christian” civilisation, Musk and Medvedev call for the EU’s undoing, while Vance and Thiel’s network shields Kremlin-aligned Big Tech
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 07/12/2025
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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Campaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Large-scale new housing developments MUST be connected to public transport from Day 1. A new article by our Head of External Affairs:
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Embedding public transport in new developments: time to adopt a new approach? — Bus Centre of Excellence
With five major transport bills and two related ones progressing through Parliament, transport has, unusually, become the busiest area of legislative activity this session. That should be welcomed.…
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Does that mean that British journalists will finally quit the Nazi site? How about the British Government? Why is it feeding the Nazi site?
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BadgerNoble 🏳️‍🌈 @badgernoble.eurosky.social · 06/12/2025
Please sign and share
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Shut X down in the UK and EU
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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Fucking lunacy - www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
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EcoInventos @ecoinventos.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Más del 75% de los cultivos alimentarios dependen de insectos polinizadores...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
BREAKING: “The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong." Keir Starmer says that "wild promises were made" about Brexit. He adds: "The same argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
BREAKING: Former NATO Commander Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud - Trump Is Beholden To Putin, Not America open.substack.com/pub/demwinsm...
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BREAKING: Former NATO Commander Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud - Trump Is Beholden To Putin, Not America
In a stunning—and frankly, humiliating—moment on international television, a former NATO Commander made absolutely clear what so many in the global security community have been whispering for years: D...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/11/2025
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
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Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’ Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month. The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October, after two years of war. Continue reading...
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 27/11/2025
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion. This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Rachel Reeves will freeze fuel duty to dodge ‘political suicide’
The chancellor will also highlight a rise in the minimum wage and plans to cut energy bills as she tries to win over voters by focusing on cost of living
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/11/2025
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
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Freethinker @69eerrr.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Here is my peace plan for Ukraine/Russia. 1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine. 2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague. 3. Russia pays everyone for everything. 4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail. Thanks for your attention to this matter.
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 24/11/2025
💡Did you know the NHS is about to pay £21bn+ to private companies? 💸 A staggering amount that could have gone straight into hospitals and front-line care — but instead, it’s lining the pockets of private firms. ➡️ everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
Red and blue graphic that says "PFIs were 70% more expensive. EveryDoctor's new report exposes the lobbying push to bring back PFI. Chancellor Rachel Reeves could revive a financing model once branded a "catastrophic wate of taxpayers' money".
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?” “Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?” You can have those for nothing, lads.
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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Whilst the UK government is reported to be planning to cap the Cycle to Work Scheme, the Dutch government commits €1 billion to cycling infrastructure to connect new homes.
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Dutch government commits €1 billion to cycling infrastructure to connect new homes
It is part of a €2.5 billion package to create roads, cycle paths, tunnels and tram lines to residential areas
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
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