The Tyne Bridge half illuminated for show racism the red card.

I'm increasingly wondering whether #safc had awful luck in playing #ManCity when we did and they're now due for an implosion with all their troubles....

Sign spotted in Mumbai. Bravo for the enthusiasm but I'm not sure that is the correct thing to do if you want a car to move?

"Apologies for the little halt and delay on getting into Newcastle Station. This is due to us being ON TIME" Great train announcement that

Ever get the feeling maybe you shouldn't be staying in a certain hotel

Protestors at Dover today. Interestingly the radio didn't say what they were protesting. So I was curious. Stop oil? Fascists? Outside guess for Palestine related? The they said they were all men, dressed in black, wearing balaclavas. Ah. So far right it is then.

Went to the Washington Metro open event today. Some interesting bits. Like Biddick Hall was looked and and dropped due to over capacity on the NCL-Sland line, Penshaw is being looked at by a seperate GBR Leamside South project which will have mainline trains to Sunderland, transit oriented dev=yes.

Metro station announcement. "Bikes are only allowed on our trains at non peak times. This means bikes are not allowed before 10am and between 3 and 7pm" ...why bother saying peak times? Why not just say bikes are only allowed between 10 & 3 and after 7?

Today I learned. There's a Lidl pub in Northern Ireland because alcohol licensing laws over there are very different (and warrant more investigation).

Why did Lidl open a pub?

YouTube video by Chris Spargo

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Doesn't it suck when random infrastructure gets plonked on a bike lane with zero consideration.

In newcastle city centre they've a little play area for young kids over summer. I particularly noticed this fake bus stop.... As it's so much better than any real bus stops we have. Really hope the current consultation sees a proper official bus map becoming widespread. Amongst other things.

Spotted in the wild. This fellow has a 18th century union flag flying from his house. So many questions. Does he hate the Irish or love the Irish? Did he get it cheap? What are his views on the taxation of gin?

Yep. This is so much of right wing thinking and why they fail to understand people on the left. They expect things to fit into strict categories. Anything fuzzy and between strict groupings, especially binaries, flies against their world view and cannot be grasped.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Most transphobia, or so it seems to me, is about wanting culturally contingent hierarchies and identity scripts to be Inscribed in Nature in some deep way that obviates the need for reflective examination, and getting very anxious and angry about anything that makes it clear that’s a fantasy.

Didn't expect that warning quite randomly. Had forgot it was now a thing in the UK and thought my carbon monoxide alarm was going off or so.

I know a few people who are absolutely enraged whenever bats are mentioned due to the HS2 bat tunnel. I wonder what they think about elves.

Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike@gazza-d.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fxckwits. Dobby isn't a real person you morons. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So the football season starts with the League Cup... This seems bad both for the season starting with a stutter and for further entrenching the Cup being treat as a pseudo friendly until the final rounds.

Brilliant. Woke has always been a nonsense word that just means "thing that is different to when I was young therefore bad". Here it is being shown in expert fashion. Deform are woke.

Kemi Badenoch calls Reform a ‘woke party’ as she rules out election pact

Conservative leader slams Nigel Farage’s party for using a ‘victim narrative’ and for not offering ‘proper solutions’

independent.co.uk

It's amazing it's not until I was in my 30s that streets named e.g. Durham Road were so named because they were the main road to that locally major place. Such common sense. But missed.

Needing a new phone soonish. Considering a move away from Samsung to.... Sony. Hmm...

When I was a kid it was the rule that if beans were not Heinz then they weren't to be touched. They would be horrid. Now it is the rule that Heinz isn't to be touched. They cost 2-3 times as much for the same thing. Did Heinz imitators just get better or have my standards dropped?

So Burnham and ending rough sleeping.... A very cunning promise? It sounds like an impossible prob.. But you're actually only talking 5000 people (5000 too many) and LAs have had 0 rough sleep policies. Trouble is numbers vs. vibes. Even if sleeping in a shelter people will beg with sleeping bag.

Well this is a new map projection

Books+ Maps= Yes. Pretty cool little site showing on a map the journey followed across a range of classic literature. peter-guillam123.github.io/plotlines/

PlotLines - the classics, mapped

Every journey in the book, played out on a genuine period map - out-of-copyright novels and plays, followed stop by stop from Frankenstein to Shakespeare.

peter-guillam123.github.io

Aye. Argentina is definitely going to be punished for pushing imperialist claims at world cup. Just imagine any other country did something like this... Oh no wait. You don't have to imagine. Just look at what happened with Albania and Serbia. Stadium closures, games forfeited, heavy fines.

World Cup 2026: Argentina could face disciplinary action for displaying Falklands banner after beating England

Argentina face the prospect of disciplinary action from Fifa after their players celebrate the World Cup semi-final win against England with a banner in support of their country's claims to the Falkla...

bbc.co.uk

To fix problems on the A1 in Northumberland the solution is using the money to.... 1: Quad track the ECML in Newcastle to allow for more local services to Northumberland 2: Add roundabouts where local roads intersect with the A1 3: Clearly signpost 2 Lane sections are short over taking stretches.

ChronicleLive - The Chronicle@chroniclelive.co.uk · 3mo ago

Berwick MP David Smith led a adjournment debate about the road's appalling safety record

Thinking about it. Argentina are the footballing equivalent of Reform. Bizare nationalist vitrol is the norm. Constant cheating and minor attacks on the opposition. Just hoping for the moment they get a little back so they can cry foul and play the victim.

In a world of VAR how on earth are Argentina in the semi finals?

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A rare positive side of this heat wave. A succulent I've had for years has decided to bloom.

Back to the Future. Funny movie to modern eyes isn't it. Kid from the distant past goes back in time to an earlier period in exactly the same era where things are only slightly different.