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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Massive turn out for #TransPride London.

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

It's Trans Pride, and Pride is a protest - so here's my protest

Poster for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, with me raising my middle finger to it

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Thanks everyone, some great suggestions there

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

got a trip coming up, will have a couple of days in the #Netherlands. Any suggestions for fun geeky things to do/visit?

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

A hill that I will die on is that the plural of "learning" is "learning"

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

I have a friend who is very fond of this mindmelting example of wayfinding at West Ham station. To the extent that she takes family and friends there to take selfies. So come on the internet, what other examples of mad signage are there out there?

A station sign with a white arrow on a blue background, oriented to point to the right. Inexplicably, it is accompanied by white text on a blue background which says "keep left"

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

What's that? You want to use the internet? On a TRAIN?

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

Too many Henry vacuum cleaner live in cramped, appalling conditions. Good to see this guy taking his for a walk #freeTheHenries

A man walking down the street pulling a Henry vacuum cleaner by the end of the hose

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

More #OLEBook updates as I fly through the Lune Valley...

A first class table on a class 390. A tablet with keyboard is on the table, with latex text showing. Out of the window lie hills and a river valley

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

For the love of god will the current crop of web designers please learn that not everyone has their font size set to "medium", fgs test your websites in ways that people actually use them. I would estimate that 1 I'm 6 sites render like this on my phone

A website. The text is extending beyond the viewport on the right hand side, rendering the words unreadable

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

RAILWAY KLAXON 📢 NEW CUTE DEPARTMENTAL VEHICLE JUST DROPPED #IrishRail

A very short bogie inspection car in yellow, with raked ends

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

Shades of Hot Fuzz at Bray this morning, the line is fowled #swan #cockit

A platform information screen showing "trains may be delayed due to a swan on the line"

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

Another day out by rail, so having yet another go at getting the new Discontinuous Electrification (DE) and battery trains section of the #OLEBook right. I think I'm on the home stretch now! #thiswritinglife

A table on a train with a tablet and keyboard. The tablet has a latex script on it, and there is a paper copy on the table with redlining on it

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

Update: we've spotted it at reading depot. Dammit

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

Does anyone know if the class 230 battery train is running today? RTT is saying it's not

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

@anandphilipc it would, but I don't want to do that because I don't want anyone else pretending to be me

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Does anyone have any recommendations for a tweet deletion service that doesn't expect me to pay an absurd amount of money to delete all tweets or expect me to sit at my pc for the next 3 weeks doing one month a time?

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

Anyone know of a heating engineer in the Bristol (UK) area with specific experience of storage heaters?

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

Having a day out meandering down to Cornwall - a good opportunity to get stuck in to the next version of the #OLEbook and a big new section on discontinuous electrification and battery trains. #ThisWritingLife

Interior view of a train carriage table with biscuits, water and an android tablet with text related to batter trains. Out of the window a blue and pink sunrise is happening

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

Looks like GWR have reformed their nine car class 800s overnight, with four carriages of first class instead of two, in the middle instead of the end

A station departure indicator showing a nine carriage train with first class in the middle. The train was in fact 2x5 cars

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

Train arrives in plenty of time, due to depart at 1900, gets the right away from signaller at 1900, leaves at... 1904. This is the sort of casual tardiness that the industry needs to clamp down on, it is endemic

Signal diagram showing 2C89 with clearance to depart the platform

Real time trains website showing 2C89 departing 3 3/4 mins late

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

Super strong lede from this month's edition of Modern Railways. Bravo! 👏

According to the boffins at CERN, much of the universe is made of dark matter, which outweighs visible matter roughly six to one and accounts for around 27% of it. A whopping 68% is postulated to be formed of dark energy, which is distributed evenly across the universe and exerts a global effect on it as a whole. Neither can presently be detected and their nature is unknown, yet the most popular and credible scientific theories depend on the existence of something undiscovered to make them work.

Something similar could be said of the Railways Bill, published...

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

I can't express how disappointed I am to find out that this man did not, in fact, put a pair of trousers on a hedgehog statue

BBC news headline "Man sought over trousering of hedgehog statue"

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

My mum has dug out my old school reports. Found this... definitely a high water mark for my life skills 😆

A certificate for a life skills exam. Score 85%

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

It's official: I'm Back on my Bullshit, drafting the isolation section for the next version of the #OLEbook while on a day out on the train.

View of a table in the first class carriage of a GWR train. An android tablet is on the table with Latex code on the screen.

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Masto hive mind: I'm staying in Birmingham (UK) city centre tonight, and I want to go somewhere nearby by rail or bus that has a dark, flat north horizon in case the aurora hits. Any ideas?

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

Mamdani won and the Railway Bill is finally published... truly our cups runneth over

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

Day 1 of the third annual PWI Electrification Challenge: 26 people with no prior experience learning hands-on how OLE construction works. There's nothing else like this course!

A group of people in hi Viz constructing a cantilever on track

A group of people in hi Viz constructing a cantilever on track with me mugging in front of them

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

@hugh pretty easy - laser cut aluminium, drill some holes and then one 90 degree bend

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Does anyone know of a UK send-cut-send style service for fabricating an aluminium bracket? ie I send the CAD file, they send the part

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

@Reemt lol, ok. And I'm sure a survivor guilt elimination module comes free with the car as well. I'll be parked whenever I use an in-car communication, till the day I die

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Giacinto Boccia @g-boccia.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

@25kV I am so skeptical of all train technologies that don't involve electrification of lines, like: power is best used fresh! Of course I will excuse lines that see too little traffic, and therefore bymodal trains, but all other solutions look subpar to me.

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

@g_boccia "power is best used fresh" is my new branding, thank you!

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

@jon a generous interpretation would be that they have based it on the West Ealing branch, which is where the battery trial took place and for which electrification would never wash its face. But even were that true, most people will miss that subtlety and just cite the figures as a reason not […]

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

Also: I'd love to see the workings behind this claim, and I'm particular the time period that the electrification capex is spread over. I suspect an unrealistically short period!

A claim that electric train totex is over £5 per mile, while battery electric is £1.39 per mile

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

Catching up with the latest issue of Modern Railways. Great article on GWR's plans for battery trains, but sorry - this claim has to be challenged. GW Electrification was authorised in 2010, and completed in 2020. No significant work took place before then; indeed […] [Original post on mas.to]

Excerpt from magazine article: "But it's not realistic to deliver that level of infrastructure in the time available to support the fleet. The operator highlighted that the Great Western Electrification Programme took two decades from conception to completion"

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

@Reemt @acejacek um, because you don't want to cause an accident?

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

@jon even if they did serve drinks, sleeper breakfasts in Europe are a scandal. "Thank you for paying €250 for your sleeper berth. Welcome to Europe, home to a range of amazing cuisines. Here, have a bread roll and some cheap jam"

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

@Reemt @acejacek plain old speaker phone is still dangerous. Study after study has shown decreased attention to the road when drivers take a phone call. We've banned the practice at work

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

I just verified my age by inserting floppy 1/4 in the uni library 386 and running princeofpersia.exe

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025

As someone who occasionally needs to join a work call when I'm out running errands, I would welcome that option. WHILE I'M PARKED obviously. Plenty of other reasons to dunk on car manufacturers without showing you arse

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025

All the people dunking on Mercedes Benz for having Teams installed on a car... you do realise that functionality will be disabled while driving right? I mean Teslas have YouTube, but that doesn't mean you can watch Hot Ones on the autobahn

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

Thanks to everyone who responded - it was indeed an out of date version of PHP, and is now fixed.

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

@acejacek thanks - this fix got the site up and running and then I was able to update to the current version of PHP. Thanks again

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

Pleased to see my #PWI talk on discontinuous electrification from our annual conference is now available to view at youtu.be/_jlpiCCuCEI?si=WXdz5n3uQVY…. Check out the other presentations as well!

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

Wowww... GWR staff at Cheltenham Spa misdirected pax trying to get to Gloucester onto my 80 mins late and rising Cross Country service, which is not stopping at Gloucester. They are now going to have to change at Bristol Temple Meads. A 10 min journey is now going to be a couple of hours. GWR […]

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Garry Keenor @25kv.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2025

tech help needed... my self-hosted wordpress site is down (www.ocs4rail.com)... looking at the error log, its choking on this: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting '{' in /home/rwlshijo/public_html/ocs4rail/wp-includes/compat.php on line 498 the offending code is: function […]

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