@markannand.bsky.social
Born at 313ppm. If you're nearby, enjoy www.twotunnels.org.uk. "Ghostbusters" 'cos, that clarinet on the sidewalk. Profile photo credit @confluentious
Thought @ebiketips.bsky.social would enjoy this e-bike image. Not sure what's gone on there...
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The other cool thing about the regional trains is that during the summer they as open air carriages. Look for them at the back of this train. Hard to overstate how much fun it is to enjoy the countryside like this.
30.10.2025 13:28 — 👍 99 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 2
New from me: Everything is awful, so treat yourself to a timeline cleanse by hopping on the best train ride in the world, the Bernina Express.
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Raindrops on scaffolding refract sunlight.
The scaffolding of four long months standing
Now departed
The week it left
Low sunlight through pendant raindrops made autumn jewels.
🚨 NEW: The rapid spread of Active Clubs, a network of fascist martial arts groups, is among the most concerning trends on the British extreme right.
We can now expose the figures behind AC Midlands - one of the best established chapters in the country.
Lovely brown and white cow on Port Meadow.
Had writers block. Walked over the meadow and had a conversation with this cow. Now back at my desk. Words are coming.
30.10.2025 10:38 — 👍 347 🔁 33 💬 23 📌 4Juntos vamos a construir la ciudad que merecemos!
Y con tu ayuda, voy a seguir aprendiendo español 😉
Excerpt of "The Shutdown" https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
29.10.2025 18:40 — 👍 211 🔁 104 💬 14 📌 7I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
"The reforms would give more people access to domestic electricity rates, enabling families to run their EVs for as little as 2p per mile – the equivalent of London to Birmingham for £2.50."
An Anytime Single to get the train from London to Birmingham is £98.50.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Safety barriers have been erected on the bridge and the footway has been closed. www.bathecho.co.uk/news/communi...
29.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Heartbroken to read today’s National Audit Office report describing the postcode lottery of care faced by palliative care patients.
Two thirds of hospices are in debt.
Hospices are being forced to cut their staff & beds.
300 beds closed in 2024 alone. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
28.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 856 🔁 521 💬 24 📌 120
Somerton Deep Lock on the Oxford Canal (Paul Huntley at geograph.org.uk CC-BY-SA 2.0)
The Oxford Canal through Banbury and north Oxfordshire has reopened after a summer blighted by water shortages. The Canal & River Trust says it hopes to keep the canal open at least this week for boats to pass through, but warns “we could need to close again”. canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/0198...
29.10.2025 11:32 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
28.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 609 🔁 298 💬 26 📌 57
A screenshot of a tweet by Elon Musk (@elonmusk). The tweet reads: “When Tolkien wrote about the hobbits, he was referring to the gentlefolk of the English shires, who don’t realize the horrors that take place far away. They were able to live their lives in peace and tranquility, but only because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor. What happened to the nice man who was brutally murdered while walking his dog will happen to all of England if the tide of illegal immigration is not turned. It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die.” Below the tweet is a grey box that says: “This post is unavailable" indicating that the Tommy Robinson tweet he's QT'ing is missing. The timestamp reads: “8:02 AM · Oct 29, 2025 · 1.9M Views”.
The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
I've been seeing these garbage stories in the Google feed - they're really egregious bollocks, with headlines saying things like "State pension rising to £20k a year" etc, and they look like legit news stories. I report them each time but they keep cropping up pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/go...
29.10.2025 10:58 — 👍 26 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0Elon Musk is once again inciting violence on British streets because the government has taught him there are literally no consequences for doing so.
They even carry on using his far-right social network to promote government policy as he does it. The absence of backbone is *astounding*.
'Parcelforce is part of the Royal Mail Group, which has confirmed to The Oldham Times that the mishap was due to a problem with the sat nav'
Nah, the problem lies squarely with any driver stupid enough to even _think_they are following a satnav/app onto _that_.
We need to do ultra-masculine fascism, like in J.R.R Tolkien's famous book, "Lord of the here's why Ultra-Masculine Fascism is evil, stupid and self defeating. Under no circumstances do it you fucking clowns."
29.10.2025 10:37 — 👍 641 🔁 93 💬 10 📌 1
Cosy Club chain branding is of interest. Driving a bulldozer through all culture, history and meaning in tune with our conjuncture
28.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0
Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
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Day turns into night, waiting for the steamer to unload.
Papay - Orkney - Boat day
50 years from now:
"I wonder where the phrase, 'Like an truck-load of herpes-infected monkeys' came from?
I spent the summer engrossed in media reports on sentencing for causing death offences. Yesterday I was given the opportunity to present my findings at the Houses of Parliament.
I hope that my report is helpful to those interested in the law relating to road death:
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Now you'd think that when a bus route is diverted, FirstBus's app would know about the diversion, but you'd be wrong.
You'd also think that, once on the bus, the audio announcements of the stops would be informed of the diversion - or at least turned off for the duration, but noooooooh.
28.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Ship Of The Fens can be seen from Essex at Chrishall.. 25 Miles in s straight line.
#elycathedral
Yup, think that's it - it looks as though the people who are contracted to run the city's sports centre are responsible for its external fabric and environs. It's all a bit opaque as to who has what there.
28.10.2025 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@noeldolphin.bsky.social - the feed to the GWR electrification that currently ends east of Chippenham - does that come from the substation built around ten years back at Thingley Junction?
28.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
