Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 4h"Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'" "Oh do put a sock in it, Harry, your mum was in Monmouth when you were born so you're not allowed to identify as English." 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 14hMy grandparents wouldn't have one in the house, even in their 90s when the rest of the family offered to pay for it. They associated a ringing telephone with urgent bad news, because for anything else you'd just send a letter. 010
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A word to HR people: if you are advertising a job located in the Canton of Zurich, double-check that the web site hasn't automatically relocated it to Canton. 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Serial bus stop demolition in Devizes, fortunately without any deaths so far: www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/2660299...gazetteandherald.co.ukSafety bid takes step forward after bus stop repeatedly destroyedA bid has been launched to improve safety measures around a Devizes town centre bus stop after it has been repeatedly destroyed in car crashes. 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sorry, forgot to add the link: www.shropshirestar.com/news/bus-sto...shropshirestar.comBus stop demolished by straw load as council appeals for culprit to come forwardThe parish council has asked people not to use the shelter 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We aren't going to have a sensible historically informed discussion like that. What we will get is a campaign of deafening abuse led by our increasingly feral press, which will regretfully conclude that the blame for the slave trade lies with the Lib Dems. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...theguardian.comHow enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunnersTory and Whig MPs were central to funding trafficking of enslaved people and many opposed abolition of the slave trade 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Bright clothing and lights, bus passenger edition. No mention of mandatory bus helmets, but it is surely only a matter of time. www.lincolnshireworld.com/your-world/b...lincolnshireworld.comBe Seen – Lincolnshire bus passengers urged to shine phone screens at bus stop to attract drivers’ attentionBe Seen – Lincolnshire bus passengers urged to shine phone screens at bus stop to attract drivers’ attention 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Another bus stop destroyed. We don't know what the vehicle was, so technically it could have been a bicycle ridden by some farmer. 200
Reposted by AbelianJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm going to tell you a story and then, at the end, I'm going to ask you if anyone happens to have the niche knowledge I need to help... The story begins, as so many of my stories do, in an ancient church in the middle of a city. But it's not now. And it's not hundreds of years ago. It's the 1960's 718763
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It'll be something tedious like diesel, but the police should definitely keep us entertained by interviewing the idiots every week about dogging. 001
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Do they not have the budget for Cambridge graduates these days? 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026OTOH, maybe PPE students should read more history... bsky.app/profile/step... 020
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I can't speak for the engineers, but in my day postgrad scientists and mathematicians usually read history and literature for pleasure, played musical instruments, learned languages, and so on. Fewer historians had an interest in, say, differential geometry or astrophysics. Has it changed so much? 120
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Time to say goodbye... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.uk'Cheeky' fees prompts choirs to pull out of Andrea Bocelli gigChoirs say they're withdrawing from the Principality Stadium event because of the £42 per member charge. 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.theguardian.com/news/blog/20...theguardian.comA wee trip to LondonA new advert for Ryanair in a Norwegian newspaper offers flights from Oslo to "London Prestwick" airport. Prestwick international airport is located 30 miles from Glasgow, and nearly 400 miles from Lo... 120
Reposted by AbelianKatja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why I don´t talk about helmets? I lost too many wearing them. On Car-Free Day, 22 September, Nicolò, a seven-year-old child, was killed by a motorist in Turin. He was riding in the bike lane, wearing his helmet, riding to school with his father. A car driver killed him anyway. Photo Fabio Ferrari 37927
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026After the Senedd elections, I think they're expecting it. FPTP is brutal to third-placed parties. 010
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Do you believe any ethnic identities exist? If, in Japan, you had met someone of Korean ancestry with a recognisably Osakan manner, would you conclude that there is no such thing as Japanese ethnicity? 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I *think* this is referring to two separate people with the same name: 010
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think it's more that only the rescue worker was left on board, the actual migrants having been transferred and therefore not at risk from the knife crime in question. 110
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Oh, I can easily imagine Labour defining Englishness for them, with the EHRC providing helpful guidance on what to do if you spot a biological foreigner. Farage will be elsewhere, asking why NHS England is treating people who aren't English. 110
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Has anything in the last few years given you confidence that British politicians will support self-ID? 110
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We all know what the ethnonationalists are trying to do. They want the power to assert and police an exclusionary definition of Englishness. The response of the rest of us to that should not be "Here's a different exclusionary definition - let us police it for you." 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Until a few years ago I would have been confident that just about everyone would accept people born overseas to English parents as English. Now, I'm not so sure, and it isn't just the far right. Plenty on here declaring that Englishness is about the accident of where you were born. 200
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I don't think that Sunak's identity particularly stokes the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, but "army kids can't be English" might do it. 010
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We had nearly fifty years of EU freedom of movement. We sent military families abroad for many years before that. There must be thousands of English people who were born abroad; it isn't unusual and they aren't somehow French or German just because they weren't born in England. 200
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you're heading to the coast this weekend, allow me to recommend RNLI jelly babies. A bit fruitier and less sugary than the usual. I usually buy a few bags when I'm passing. 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026TLDR: the Equal Earth projection does not eliminate East/West bias, it entrenches it in a way that the Mercator projection never did. 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Here's a less Eurocentric choice of meridian, that moves the distortion away from the Pacific. I don't think the West Africans are going to like this one, though: 100
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The UN-approved Equal Earth map centred on the Greenwich meridian. The geography of the Pacific Rim has been wildly distorted to (checks Guardian) eliminate Western bias. 100
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Some people watched too many Colditz films as kids, and it shows. 100
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Summary: there's parking on one side of a busy road, and the town centre on the other side. People want to cross the road, but that isn't safe. Is the solution: a) Guard rails b) Guard dogs c) Guard towers d) A pedestrian crossing in the place where pedestrians want to cross? 100
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just put another crossing in, you absolute divots. www.expressandstar.com/news/coroner...expressandstar.comCoroner raises road safety concerns following fatal crash in StoneA coroner has asked Staffordshire County Council to look at road safety improvements following a fatal accident in Stone. 110
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Poor headline from @theguardian.com on an otherwise decent article. The Mercator projection exaggerates areas near the poles (like Siberia) at the expense of equatorial regions (e.g. Central America). That is not "western bias". www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...theguardian.com‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western biasEqual Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display 100
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026British villages will declare themselves independent rather than build a pavement along a rural road. 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Here in the UK, more than 40% of human drivers speed in 30mph zones. Even if you accept the weird idea that accuracy doesn't matter on the stretches of road where the limit isn't changing, limiters are a huge improvement on that. www.gov.uk/government/s...gov.ukVehicle speed compliance statistics for Great Britain: 2024 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Any chance we could identify the cyclists most likely to run into pedestrians, and buy them a Range Rover before it happens? Feels like this is what many people want. 040
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026(Apologies if you meant cars. I have no idea why those are still legal.) 000
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Pedestrian killed at bus stop by car driver, again. Not a floating bus stop, so we're out of ideas to stop this happening next time. #BusStopCrash www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWoman dies after car hits pedestrians at Corby bus stopA man is being questioned by police over the crash, which has also left a teenage boy injured. 100
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I knew Sir Ed Davey was a wrong 'un. The moment I spotted him bungee jumping, I said to myself "there's a man with forerunners, and I bet they backed the slave trade." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...theguardian.comHow enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunnersTory and Whig MPs were central to funding trafficking of enslaved people and many opposed abolition of the slave trade 010
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Because they are legal to use, just not on the street. See also e-scooters, most quad bikes, and fruit knives. 110
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Doesn't that create an incentive for wealthy oldies to sink even more of their money into housing? Kind of like what we've done for farmland? 010
Abelian @abelian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026About the economics of solar farms: www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comBritain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fearsTiming of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue 000