Al Salter

@askrigg.bsky.social

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Enjoying the peace & quiet of Wensleydale. Riding the roads & trails. Depleting the wine collection. Love hills, mountains, occasional stargazing & tending the flowerbed.

Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:47 UTC

Marine le Pen? Get in the sea!

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:46 UTC

Shame… 🤣

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:45 UTC

I’d prefer it if Red Bull did a little more to encourage its (athletic?) customer base to stop making Red Bull cans the most ejected can in the western world. Red Bull #givescanswings

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

Dire weather forecast led me to ameliorate my ambitions this weekend. Turned out quite nice. 🤬 #cycling #gravel #yorkshire #wensleydale

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:46 UTC

Impressive! 😳 Disturbing now that the 21stC schizoid man might become President again. 😱

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:33 UTC

Didn’t watch. Not really bothered. But when did an England team last win on penalties? 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:32 UTC

I was a massive KC fan in the early 70’s. Fripp was amazing! Those mellotrons were fantastic!

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:57 UTC

youtu.be/k99bMtg4zRk?...

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:14 UTC

On this occasion, they are both small. But not far enough away (imo).

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:13 UTC

Brilliant! (He’s still my MP tho’🤨)

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:00 UTC

Madness! The big Dragon Ride was enough to tell me that 50km was plenty… Don’t break a leg! 👍👏

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:55 UTC

Friday night nostalgia. And why not? #soul #60s

youtu.be/gI5wjpRxKzg?...

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:25 UTC

A similar Venn

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

Shhh! No spoilers. I haven’t watched yet. But yes. C’mon Puck!

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

Bravo! 👏

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

The famous Bull Ring shopping centre in Birmingham!

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:58 UTC

Hurrah!

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:57 UTC

Couldn’t happen to a nicer person… 😉

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:47 UTC

Worse still. Some have kept their seats, as well as their heads…

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:45 UTC

Agreed. 🤨

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:59 UTC

It was Zingle.

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

I bet the opposition dismissed him too. Their bad. 🤭

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:44 UTC

Yeah, but my MP (for Rishimondshire) says it’ll be awful if we don’t let them continue to mismanage our country… 🤬

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:40 UTC

Hey, I doubted him too! 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

I see what you did there! 😉

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:38 UTC

Maybe. But it’d be worth it!

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:37 UTC

My favourite UB40 track!

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:36 UTC

I didn’t think he had a chance this year. It’s not a ‘light’ year for sprinters. Almost all of the hitters are here. Masterful navigation amidst chaos. Bravo! 👏

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

It’s a secret feature controlled by Leon Skum himself. He likes to play god. Opens his laptop, randomly picks a victim (random insomuch as they may have tweeted something he didn’t like) aaaannnnnddd… POP! Over they go. Act of god. Nothing anyone can do. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 09:46 UTC

“We’re corrupt AND incompetent. That’s why you absolutely know you can trust us more than them. After all, better the devil you know!” I cannot conceive the void which must exist in the Tories ‘ideas’ box if this is their ‘Hail Mary’ gambit.

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 09:41 UTC

Especially if they bounce!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:33 UTC

I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

The hypocrisy, it burns.

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Mrs Frog @musettedutour.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 11:48 UTC

Stage 3 Plaisance to Turin - Another corker from Bini in Italy, this time without injury #letourdepoupees #couchpeloton #letourdefrance #sbscycling #TDF2024

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:42 UTC

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. 🤔

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:04 UTC

He called it ‘a psyop’ too 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️🤨

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:04 UTC

Covid deniers/antivax make me really angry. My best friend of 35yrs got cancelled over this (plus some unacceptable alt. right nationalist Trump/Farage loving crêpe). So glad I’m not on deadbird any more.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:24 UTC

Being an adult is when you accept there are no monsters under the bed, and they're all out in the world, on the US Supreme Court, and in every far right movement that wants to sacrifice your democratic freedoms on the altar of their mean spirited, narrow minded, vicious ideology.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:58 UTC

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 12:47 UTC

Damn! I still feel like I’m not quite back after my one dose last year. ☹️ Take it easy!

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 09:27 UTC

Wizard of Oz?

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 08:04 UTC

40 years ago I could run quite fast. 3:56.9 for a mile, so just over 15 mph. You would not want to run into an immovable object at that speed. You would be going to hospital to be put back together. & that’s 15 mph! Meanwhile, on the gravel bike… 😅

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

HEDY LAMARR escaped from her Nazi husband by disguising herself as her own maid, became a top actress in Hollywood, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today’s Bluetooth and GPS technology. Helluva lady.

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 21:28 UTC

Unlike Brexit votes, which are like the law of the Medes & Persians?… 🤔

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 21:26 UTC

I just wish that their customers wouldn’t follow the mantra “Red Bull. Gives cans wings…”

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 19:57 UTC

Have some cats. They’re twins. Seems obvious once you know.

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 19:49 UTC

Is that irony? #ettucameron?

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Al Salter @askrigg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 19:47 UTC

He weighs about 22kg & puts out 400W, but that gets you nowhere on a flat road against people who weigh 75kg & put out 1200W* (*total guesswork with no scientific calculation performed).

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 20:44 UTC

The Conservatives’ chief data officer is now being investigated by the Gambling Commission. Gove says the betting scandal is as bad as Partygate for the Tories.

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Anne fait tout @annebruijne.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

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