Thirty quid a month. Thirty quid, plus ads. Thirty quid plus ads and gormless idiots withering on and on and detracting from the bike racing. Thirty quid, ads, gormless idiots, and AI slop. Who's really doing women's cycling a disservice? #TdFf2026

"They’re doing a disservice to women’s racing" – Orla Chennaoui hits out at Tour de France Femmes organisers as outrage grows over limited broadcast   | BikeRadar

Calls made for end-to-end coverage of the 2027 Tour de France Femmes as key moments missed from this year's edition

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2016: SpaceX will have humans on Mars by 2022 2026: SpaceX successfully fly-tips rocket rubbish on Moon

Superhero energy in Fred Noland's new graphic nonfiction book, a biography of Major Taylor coming out next month from @dandq.bsky.social . . Meet the author/illustrator and get a signed copy, 6 p.m. Sept. 9 at the majortaylormuseum.org in Worcester

It's escaped containment... #TdFF2026

Padded bra concerns brings scrutiny at Tour de France

Riders at the Tour de France Femmes will be subject to extra clothing checks before Tuesday's stage following claims some could be using extra padding in their bras to seek an aerodynamic advantage.

rte.ie

This might tickle you if you're Irish, or know Mayo, but after @clodaghfinn.bsky.social's article at the weekend about Millie Robinson 🇮🇪 I went looking for the farm she grew up on. It's a couple of fields in the left of the red-bounded area here, about 4 kms south of Killala. #TdFF2026 #SpeirGorm

Feargal McKay@cycologies.com · 4d ago

The Tour de France Femmes rolls off today + @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has the story of Mayo's Millie Robinson 🇮🇪, 'The Greatest Woman Cyclist of Them All', who won a precursor of today's #TdFF2026, 1955's Tour Féminin aka 'the First Tour de France Femmes'. #SpeirGorm

1923. The Fête des Caf' Conc' at the Buffalo. Stars of stage and screen gathered for a day's fun and games.

Our patty-purchasing index, which turns 40 this year, makes exchange-rate theory more digestible. Explore our data to find out how your currency compares

Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across borders

Using patty-power parity to think about exchange rates

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Thanks Chris Hoy for talking so openly about living with Stage 4 prostate cancer, the quiet terror of a new scan, being warned that his leg might be amputated, riding with Miguel Induráin and a torn meniscus, his wife's MS and always looking for hope. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

‘They’re not alone’: Chris Hoy on his ambition to stop men dying of prostate cancer

Cycling legend tells Donald McRae about the reality of living with stage 4 cancer, fundraising with Miguel Induráin and why Andy Burnham could be key to his ambition of helping others with similar dia...

theguardian.com

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Seriously? A hero right out of the movies? Like Jared Leto?

Glen Hansard Was a Hero Right Out of the Movies

The late musician didn't just make films — he lived as cinema.

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Hello boys! This may become my favourite cycling scandal of all time! Wonderbra-gate! 😲 The proposed solution ...I think only a man could imagine rhe one poposed here... #TdFF2026

Wielerflits (via Smitsky)@wielerflits.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jury Tour de France Femmes opgelet: Wielrensters misbruiken hun cupmaat

With the music charts dead - seriously, have *you* heard Rein Me In? Me neither! - film charts are filling the gap. But film math is magical. Is Spidey 41 really recording the second biggest opening weekend ever?

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Soars to $355M for Second-Biggest Opening Weekend Ever

Tom Holland and his friends scored the highest-grossing debut in Sony's history and nearly swung past 2019's 'Avengers: Endgame' for the top domestic launch of all time.

hollywoodreporter.com

There ought to be a rule that says two films can't have the same title, especially when the two films are set in the same milieu. Take Kenneth Mercken's 2018 film The Racer and Kieron Walsh's 2020 film The Racer.

Someone DMed me this and I have to confess, the person who wrote it seems to be spending far more time thinking about me than I do about them. But I might just change my profile to read "the biggest c*&% who has ever written anything about cycling".

The Tour de France Femmes rolls off today + @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has the story of Mayo's Millie Robinson 🇮🇪, 'The Greatest Woman Cyclist of Them All', who won a precursor of today's #TdFF2026, 1955's Tour Féminin aka 'the First Tour de France Femmes'. #SpeirGorm

Clodagh Finn: The Mayo woman who won the first Tour de France for women

The memory of the last time the Sam Maguire went west, 75 years ago, is etched in local consciousness, yet a remarkable international win by a Ballina cyclist just a few years later remains little-kno...

irishexaminer.com

WW1 / Ernest Hemingway folk: Michael Winterbottom's long-gestating adaptation of A Farewell to Arms (announced in 2023), with Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games) as Hemingway surrogate Frederic Henry, looks to have moved out of development hell + will start shooting in - of all places! - Italy in January.

Michael Winterbottom's Hemingway Adaptation 'A Farewell to Arms' Targets Italy Shoot with Tom Blyth Starring

One of literature's most enduring war romances is heading to the screen, and the production infrastructure is beginning to take shape. Michael Winterbottom's...

productionlist.com

Delighted to share some of my great uncle Bill’s story in this article for Cycling Weekly. 🙏🏼 @cycologies.com for the lead-out! And to @dbfreelance.co.uk for the opportunity www.cyclingweekly.com/news/think-n...

Think next year's UK Tour de France Grand Départ is historic? Discover the radical cross-Channel race that time forgot

A post-WW2 Paris-London stage race promised to revolutionise British cycling. Its founder risked everything to make it happen – only for bureaucracy, and history, to leave it behind

cyclingweekly.com

Seriously? I'm expected to post on Youtube and Reddit in order to make my website visible? I'd rather keep it as a private little secret shared among the 17 people who currently access it.

Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7d ago

Why did Andy Burnham do a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" during the Makerfield by-election, while dodging the press elsewhere? ➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHBc...

Grab the popcorn, Joyce Carol Oates has biffed Emily Wilson with the MAGA stick... "Rather than disagreeing with interpretations of Homer in a collegial manner, this person, who has benefited enormously from Nolan’s film, speaks in the crude language of MAGA folks"

Here's an interesting one: who's the Black cyclist photobombing Antonin Magne at the Critérium des As? The Dilecta jersey puts him as one of Pélissier's 12-strong pacing team. Frustratingly, L'Auto only had the names of 11 of them. Could be Ali Neffati, he would have been in his early 30s then.

Couple of peeps got interested in this pic. Francis Pélissier with a track bike. But the trees and the surface don't look like no velodrome. It wasn't. This is the road circuit in Longchamp. Pélissier was taking part in the Critérium des As in September 1927. (As = Aces)

Feargal McKay@cycologies.com · 2w ago

In 1927 - when Desgrange, in a fit of pique, turned most of the stages into team time trials - Francis Pélissier threw a sickie on the sixth stage having led from the first. The Curse? Or the fact that Desgrange had only paid him to ride five stages? The Curse, of course!

New rule: All living, retired Tour de France winners should be gagged throughout the month of July. Or maybe round them up and intern them on the Isle of Wight for the month and ban them from talking about cycling.

If you're in the UK or Ireland, a brief Now streaming sub might be worth the money if you're suffering Mads Withdrawal Syndrome. www.nowtv.com/watch/asset/... Four 44 min episodes covering Pedersen's 2024 Classics season and into the Tour.A Belgian Eurosport production.

The Race to the Sun - Paris-Nice - is finally getting an English-language biography. Due out February 2027, from the publishing house that Harry Potter built, Bloomsbury. They also publish Carlton Kirby, FWIW. #CyclingIsComingHome #TdF2027 #TheBoomIsBack

Five down. Two to go. #TdF2026

"platforms should take more responsibility to address fakes + mark AI-generated content. But all all evidence so far has shown that this is – to put it mildly – unlikely, making it all the more vital that we educate students how to identify + assess the sources for the narratives they are absorbing"

AI slop is warping our view of history – our schools need...

With historically inaccurate content swamping our feeds, it is vital that we identify and assess the sources of the narratives we are absorbing

observer.co.uk

Isn't that basically Inception already 😅 (It's absolutely The Prestige)

Honestly, you don't need the com, Christopher Nolan trying to do a rom would be hilarious in itself. It'd probably start at the end with the couple married and the woman dead and buried and then tell the story of the sad man's stoic struggle with grief.

Christopher Nolan Says He Would Be “Terrified” to Direct a Romantic Comedy

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar-winner said making 'The Odyssey' has made him interested in potentially directing a horror movie: "It very much whets my appetite for more....

hollywoodreporter.com

So you know that simple, easy to remember mnemonic I have to recall the members of the Five Times club (Ascetic Marsupials Harbour Italian Ambitions, effortlessly recalling for me Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault, Indurain + Armstrong)? Can I add Pogačar? Or do I need a whole new mnemonic? #TdF2026

Cyclingnews@cyclingnews.com · 2w ago

'I'm impatient to get there' – Tadej Pogačar closes in on fifth overall victory in Tour de France after successful yellow jersey defence on Alpe d'Huez www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...

"social media has accelerated the glorification and fetishization of the Alpe d’Huez atmosphere" #TdF2026

Cyclingnews@cyclingnews.com · 2w ago

Unpopular opinion: Alpe d'Huez is on the limit, and it wasn't even the best atmosphere at this Tour de France www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...