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Tricky Dicky

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Middle-aged wannabe athlete with weak intellect & 8yo instincts. Proud European, taking history seriously. Feminist intentions. Why're we burning this place up? Currently battling to delay brain cancer.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 16/08/2025
Kids often respond to "How was school?" with "Fine." Here's why that happens and how parents can spark more meaningful conversations with their children about their day:
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Getting beyond answers like ‘fine’ and ‘nothing’: 5 simple ways to spark real talk with kids
Kids have a lot to say. Sometimes they just need a little help to feel confident speaking up.
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Matthew James Didier @3rdyork.ca · 09/08/2025
Wow! When did this comic strip artist visit my office?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
RFK Jr announces US is scrapping $500m of vaccine projects "I don't think l've seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business," said one health expert news.sky.com/story/rfk-jr...
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RFK Jr announces US is scrapping $500m of vaccine projects
"I don't think I've seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business," said one health expert.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This is purely anecdotal, all artisanal data from yours truly, but kids today seem way overscheduled and yet are often not allowed to just... hang out with friends and be bored and whatever. It feels like kids are more controlled and wrangled and kept "protected." So this kinda tracks? YMMV.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
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Tricky Dicky @trickydickybe.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Tour de France finishing line race officials are now getting over enthusiastic about tackling people at the end of the stage. We've had two legit rugby tackles but today's incident was too much - nearly knocking the yellow jersey and world champion off his bike!!
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Dominic McGrath @dominicmcgrath.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
swedish chef - vurt. de. furk.
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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
(Repost w alt text) American billionaires: 607 Americans in poverty: 38M CEO/worker pay ratio: 278:1 Wealth of 3 richest Americans: $345B Wealth of bottom 50%: $250B Top 1% wealth since 1989: +$21T Bottom 50% wealth since 1989: -$900B The billionaire class is crushing everything in its path.
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@Public_Citizen

American billionaires: 607

Americans in poverty: 38M

CEO/worker pay ratio: 278:1

Wealth of 3 richest Americans: $345B

Wealth of bottom 50%: $250B

Top 1% wealth since 1989: +$21T

Bottom 50% wealth since 1989: -$900B

The billionaire class is crushing everything in its path.
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A Chronic Voice @achronicvoice.com · 06/06/2025
CW: #mortality . " #DisabledPeople tend to know that #health is not earned, nor irrevocable, that it is fragile..I respected #COVID19 because I knew my #body was no different from the bodies of the dead being thrown in mass grave.": buff.ly/hNHAEWo by @juliadoubleday.bsky.social
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
It's been a year since I contracted COVID-19 and developed Long COVID. I've had to face my worst fears, but I'm still here.
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ETSC - European Transport Safety Council @etsc.eu · 03/06/2025
Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
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20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Child casualties almost halved, child deaths down by 3/4… All the other stats don’t really matter
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Tricky Dicky @trickydickybe.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It's so fabulously amazing what humans can do when they collaborate. Brutalizing immigrants is the dumbest stuff I could expect to see, loved by simple men with dark hearts. This scientific endeavour fills me with hope that one day, we might even understand ourselves and how/why we are manipulated
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This is awesome. I participated in a climate-comedy event a few weeks ago and can confirm: foul-mouthed comedians can be incredibly effective climate communicators.
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batski @babski.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Moms on e-cargo-bikes every time a PBL is built
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a group of people standing in a field of corn at night
Alt: gif of a group of people emerge from a field of corn at night, into a baseball field. a scene from A Field Or Dreams
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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
There’s gotta be a German word for when you’ve been collecting too much brain anatomy data and realize that when you’re talking to someone, this is basically what you’re dealing with:
A realistic 3d model of a brain and eyes.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Spanish intelligence says Russia pumped out misinformation to exploit the floods in Valencia in 2024 in a bid to destabilise public order. Russia is now looking to take advantage of any sudden crisis anywhere. This is asymmetric war.
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We are serious about building a movement of people to hold politicians to account about what they’re doing to the NHS (turning it into a cash cow for private companies), but I need to reach more people. If you’re worried about the NHS could you possibly follow me+share this? 💥💙🥰🌟
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Tricky Dicky @trickydickybe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Guys. Want to be friends with women? The central advice in the article is really sound. Talk to them, ask questions, offer pleasant and sincere compliments. Be kind. I've seen so many ladies almost weeping into their drinks glasses, at another guy banging on about how great he is. Listen, care more.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Enemies of the people.
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 19/04/2025
As some might wonder if the Easter truce 'on humanitarian considerations' announced by Putin from 18:00 today to midnight on Monday will indeed take effect, as opposed to all other similar announcements by the agressor, Kyiv & Kyiv regions are under kamikaze drones attack & air defense is working.
Map of Ukraine highlighting air raid alerts on a number of regions.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.” Carl Jung
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Oppositionista @oppositionista.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Never again is right now.
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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Hey RFK I will save you a lot of time: do you know what is actually causing the autism epidemic? Autistic people are incredibly sexy and keep finding each other and keep procreating. Hope that helps! I regret to inform you that there is no “cure” for our rizz.
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Tricky Dicky @trickydickybe.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Question for #SciFi TV & Movie fans. I've been sick a lot recently bouncing around hospitals. Which SciFi show offered the best healthcare treatment from rapid identification of problem causes, miraculous curing of illnesses/diseases/injuries and phenomenally attractive staff leading the curing? Thx
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taxi heute @taxi-heute.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Neue Studie Verkehrsministerium: Tempolimit hat Klimaeffekt www.taxi-heute.de/de/news/umwe... #Taxi
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Neue Studie Verkehrsministerium: Tempolimit hat Klimaeffekt
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"Emissions from cycling can be more than 30x lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about 10x lower than driving an electric one."
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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Call me Ishmaboo @billjank.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
No. Jesus Christ, what the f$ck is wrong with some people?
Apple News phone notification:

The Economist
Is it ever right to pay disabled workers pennies per hour?
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Dr. James H. Gundlach @pecanjim.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Evangelicals new born two and a half times as likely to die in their first month as non-Evangelical babies. The basic fact that their prayers do not cure them makes them the main cause of the USA ranking 39th in death rates while paying the most for health care. read more by clicking ALT.🧪💡☠️
Over the last four years Evangelicals have suffered almost two million extra deaths during the COVID epidemic than they would have if they had gotten COVID vaccinations. A lot of Evangelicals out there know people. who died from COVID and died when prayer did not keep them alive. 
And a lot of them plan to vote Republican in special Congressional elections very very soon. 
I am working on a more detailed post that I should be able to get out tomorrow. 
The main thing they should know is that big hump in their death rates at the end are cause by using prayer to cure illness.  For the first 16 centuries after Jesus was born and healed the ill, the death rate did NOT GO DOWN in the Christian  part of the world until science started learning the real causes of death and how to tr4eat and prevent a lot of them with vaccination. 
The only thing about vaccinations that kill people is there are evil lairs out there that keep people from getting vaccinated.  
For 2021, the first year with COVID vaccination, the correlation, r, between percent Evangelical and the COVID death rate was r=0.6097321616!  Any Evan ministers telling their followers not to get vaccinated are  murders, pure and simple.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I wrote about the goblins in charge, an old boss who bit me on the arm, and the use and abuse of contempt. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
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Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector
The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Arresting Quaker women for non-violent protest and breaking into a meeting house to do so. The first time anyone has been arrested in a meeting house in living memory. Despicable behaviour from a Labour government’s Home Office/the Met Police.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
CNN put together a collection of clips of various Trump officials who were on the signal chat criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email server
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Mr Gimlet @skstct.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Thought this was a neat summary defector.com/neither-elon...
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Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Not for nothing, but "the Russians, in 2013" was really fucking close.
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CJ @notapodcaster.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
So if they can run at 40 mph and swim at 5 mph, you're saying I'm going to need a really strong bike leg to beat them in a triathlon?
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tomasu67.bsky.social @tomasu67.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness,” wrote John Kenneth Galbraith.
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Tricky Dicky @trickydickybe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This was the smell of my childhood. Blood on clothing, ridiculously dangerous ramps, everything to grab a girl's attention.
Young boy, probably 4-5 years old, colours and clothing suggest early 1970s, riding a bike over a ramp in front of a group of slightly older boys. The risk of failure and being laughed at are palpable but in this kid's head, there is glory to be attained.
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Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
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Tricky Dicky @trickydickybe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Criminal Masterminds, #Belgium stylee 🤭 Here's a case that would have Inspector Poirot reaching for his waxed moustache vrtnws.be/p.Ra839Bqjd
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44-year-old burglar falls asleep on the job after helping himself to several bottles of spirits
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
If the last week has taught me anything it's that Vladimir Putin's millions spent on Russia Today and Sputnik was certainly well invested. An awful lot of awfully gullible people have bought his disinformation crook, lies and stinker.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
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1. A common mistake is to look for ideological consistency on the far right, and to become confused when some of the things it claims to stand for sound positive and even progressive. Here’s a thread ...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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