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@alexswilliams.co.uk
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 15h
Tonght's success: the finest of faux swedish dining
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 19h
today is a streetcomplete kinda day, too sunny to stay home
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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 23h
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll believe that fuel is too expensive when I don't routinely see people parked up in their cars with the engine running.
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 01/10/2026
I've started watching Good Boy, It's a nice harmless silly fun Korean cop show. No brain required.
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 01/10/2026
hello 02:30. this is my home now. welcome
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 30/09/2026
sleeping with a hot water bottle
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 23/09/2026
I'm not installing your app, you're a pension provider, I have no need for up-to-the-minute information about my retirement
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Swam to the shop just now, it's so humid. Air is soup.
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 19/09/2026
Ordered a gingerbread man from the Edgeley Morrison's cafe (im actually retired) and got told off for eating children's food
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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can we not fucking do this? Sometimes cycle paths come to these things called "junctions" and for them to work, we have to all stop when our light is red!
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 13/09/2026
Walked over to Sheffield. 45km, and there was nandos at the end, but my legs are defeated today. How were people doing 110k ultras around this??
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 02/09/2026
the co-op has declared christmas
I mean it's only a stack of mince pies why wouldn't it be
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 25/08/2026
in Manchester today. I was promised glorious weather. it is entirely cloud.
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 22/08/2026
Spotted while helping someone move house: Bat'leth Pizza Slicer
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 12/08/2026
Midnight in Whitechapel and people are still literally queuing round the corner for eclipse glasses
photo of a line of people queuing around the street cornerphoto of people queuing outside a shop at night
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Dave @isntdave.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
oh man it’s gonna Crash crash
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 03/08/2026
Treating myself to a peak-time train ticket. There are 8 people on this 12 car train direct to London. I have 3 carriages to myself. Almost worth the cost.
photo inside a completely empty lwmr 350 carriage
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 25/07/2026
hiked over to hope today. going over lord seat and seeing the hope valley drop away in front of you is still dramatic even when you know it's coming. and no point in taking a photo, one could never do it justice.
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 23/07/2026
I'm up a pike!
Selfie on Eccles Pike with Kraken Edge in the background
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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I want a charging congestion zone and controlled on-street parking in and around Manchester city centre. It is far too easy and cheap to drive inside the inner ring road and the result is parking chaos on the fringes and traffic jams all over.
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 20/07/2026
my oldest bet settled this weekend, that only took ~6 years
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 13/07/2026
A financial service provider just replied to my support ticket with "privacy and security are our highest priorities" followed immediately by "please upload your passport scan to zendesk" 🙃
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 02/07/2026
Did a race! That was an amazing experience
selfie in a running top with a race number pinned to the front
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 17/06/2026
I am in Ireland this week. culture shock: you can just open apps here. they don't immediately yearn for your biometric essence
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 09/06/2026
I'm sorry how did it drop from 14° to 9° in the space of an hour
trmnl showing external and internal temperatures
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jviide.iki.fi @jviide.iki.fi · 03/06/2026
Hey, psst: every line of code is still a liability. That part hasn't changed.
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 31/05/2026
After almost a year of searching, I've found the last public AED near me. There was an openstreetmap project last year to verify each AED with a survey and add them to the map, but the locations are descriptions, rather than coordinates, and so this one (on the edge of a field) was ridiculous...
Photo of defibrillator at the edge of a field, with the skyline of Manchester and Liverpool in the background, in front of an orange sunset
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 23/05/2026
Waiting for a train with a vegan carrot cake. Beautiful day to he darting between patches of shade #gingerproblems
POV photo of me eating carrot cake sat on a platform floor with my legs out
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 23/05/2026
I finally finished Banana Fish. Highly recommend, but has every content warning imaginable.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sir Chris Hoy opening Scott Burns' new shop in Whaley Bridge. Scott knows his stuff so worth a visit if you're in the area.
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Dan @d4m1n.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub and this is it
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 01/05/2026
Hiked the Pike tonight. Manchester, I see you!
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 25/04/2026
I'm so sorry. I've become one of them.
selfie sat in a gym in front of the weights rack
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 25/04/2026
Woke up dreadfully hungover. finally went out for a run and came back feeling brand new. hate that you're all correct about how good this exercise thing is.
Photo of Marple train viaduct in the distance, green fields in the middle and shady towpath trees in the foreground. the sun is being excessively bright.
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 11/04/2026
Well now I want to watch stargate. All of it. As like a hobby. Can that be my hobby.
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Michael Brown @mjibrown.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Petronormative behaviour?
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 06/04/2026
Did a little hike - the Black Brook Valley from the base of Mount Famine. "You don't need a map, just look up"
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 04/04/2026
"holidays are the quietest times on the network" is a self-fulfilling justification - the demand for travel exists, but trains are opting out of supplying it. no one books trains that don't exist.
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louis @multiplexing.eurosky.social · 26/03/2026
wish monzo had a web client cause money stuff is serious and requires to be done on a computer
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 14/02/2026
Finally a sunny day! Would he a crime not to go hiking. Found a church that had a dubious walking tour.
Photo of rolling grassy farmland taken from cock knoll overlooking a ridge of trees (taxal ridge) with a snow-covered Combs Edge in the distancePhoto of Disley housing estate behind trees, with Chinley Churn in the middle ground and a snow-covered peak of Kinder in the backgroundinterior photo of St Mary's church in Disley. wide angle, showing the deep blue roof pattern and the central naive with two later aisle extensions on either side
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 23/11/2025
Today was entirely cloud; all cloud. #highpeak #peakdistrict
Barely discernable Kraken Edge covered in cloud, with footpath style in foregroundChimney in background with an old packhorse tramway leading to it, lined with needled treesChinley Churn in the middle distance with Mount Famine in the background; on a country road.Selfie outside starbucks, wrapped up warm
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 07/09/2025
Stockport is sometimes not bad
Photo of stockport train viaduct with river mersey beneathPhoto of church with striking orange glow of setting sun being diffused through rain clouds
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 21/08/2025
I took some GPS devices for a cycle. An example: I stop at the lights then carry on south... Garmin eTrex tracks almost perfectly, Garmin Edge 25 is similar but lower res and ignores the stop, Garmin Vivoactive seems to use momentum and corrects its position at stops, Pixel 6 is off in the housing
4 GPS traces of me cycling through Levenshulme
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I think it also shows that coming after trans lives are really about coming after all of us.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I think the fact that GMB is debating the merits of pride flags is rather terrifying and reflects where we are with LGBTQ+ lives at the minute.
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 08/06/2025
Peak District problems: the nearest Greggs is a 2 hour hike across windy and rainy hills. I 100% earnt today's doughnut.
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Alex @alexswilliams.co.uk · 12/11/2024
This is pretty but also a capital city. I can stand in the centre and see the edge! London has uncalibrated my expectation of cities
Sunset over Cardiff hills
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