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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 35m

They're dead handy down in Willington Gut late at night. It's *dark* down there. It's cold, too. Spooky.

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Signe Aaboe @signeaaboe.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve seen moon halos and sun dogs, but this must be my first moon dog 🤩🌖✨

Night picture showing clear starry sky and moon with moon dog. In background is seen a city and mountains.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 13h

Many of the problems I'm experiencing in life are due to a minority; just not a vulnerable one. It's the ones sitting on all the hoarded GDP.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 29/09/2026

Seven such notable signatures on one piece of paper. Just that page alone should be framed. It's chilling.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 29/09/2026

It's so close to all men that the difference is less than a rounding error. Assuming that it's all men, regardless, is an effective heuristic for women to use. I don't take offence. A woman, giving the benefit of the doubt, is taking an unnecessary risk.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 29/09/2026

I don't think we have frats in the UK, thankfully.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 29/09/2026

What a great use of energy. Also, no alt text.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 29/09/2026

That's obviously a hundred fish eggs.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 29/09/2026

Brits still vote for their favourite party, even if they make a total mess of the country. Anything the media says against the party they were brought up to support must be lies; the only alternative is cognitive dissonance, and nobody wants that.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 27/09/2026

Quick fact check here; it's also had membership as an option since 2021, and it's registered with the Electoral Commission as a political party. It's unique in UK party political history in that it's a company as well.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 27/09/2026

Good luck, have fun, don't die. I imagine your costs are about to rise, so I've jumped on your Patreon.

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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As I’ve said before, I prefer the term “language researcher”

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 26/09/2026

Social media is its content.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 25/09/2026

It's inconvenient whilst also trivial to overcome, so moaning is appropriate.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 25/09/2026

I am not planning to donate organs *this* week.

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North East PTUG @northeastptug.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haven't had your say on the future of the North East's buses yet? It's now or never! Please fill in the consultation to call for public control, integration with other public transport modes, simpler fares, and more bus priority! The consultation closes at 9am on Monday. Important links below⬇️

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 25/09/2026

Designed to what? There are a bunch of better ways to do that.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 25/09/2026

There's literally no other way!

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 25/09/2026

Honestly, if I continued playing it really would be dumb luck.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 25/09/2026

Well, in this difficult economy we need to find extra money from *somewhere* to divert to the rich.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This tiny fix solves a problem you never realized you had, and once you see it, it makes perfect sense.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 25/09/2026

I'm missing a whole load of context here, so my current reaction is, "what is this 'this' that I might not need to know about?"

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 24/09/2026

It only informs why Braverman might not think of her ethnicity as English. Only one of the government's ethnicity pigeon holes has the word. My personal opinion is that it's an arbitrary mess.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 24/09/2026

Take a peek at the UK government's ethnicity classifications. We use this *everywhere*. You can be categorised as white English, but no other type of English. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Annex C: Government Statistical Service harmonised categories for ethnicity

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 24/09/2026

Love them or loathe them, nobody should be terrified of the furry community.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 21/09/2026

Manchester? That's half way to the Bristol from here.

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

100 years ago today: A cyclist replies to a motorist's complaint that cyclists don't pay road tax and cycle two or more abreast, holding up drivers. How things have changed.

MOTORISTS AND ROADS
MAY I humbly point out to your correspon-dent, Colin M. G. Ross, that were in existence before motoring commenced, and if only cyclists had used them they would probably have lasted for ever? It was the ad-

vent of motor-cars that made a tax neces-sary owing to their destructiveness.
With regard to cyclists riding three and four abreast, this is the exception, not the rule; and the practice is usually confined to irresponsible local youths.
Cyclists as a rule never ride more than two abreast and are quite willing to ride single file where the road is narrow, but they cannot fade away for every motor-horn.
С. Т. С.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 20/09/2026

I don't think "being liked" is all that high among their priorities.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 20/09/2026

Triumphal arches are rendered silly by encircling them with a thoroughfare, rather than passing through it. Just makes them all redundant as a symbolic gateway for returning armies. Yes, the Arc de Triomphe is silly.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 20/09/2026

Leaving the car "on the parking," like drivers did when parking was still just a noun that described the road boundary, like fencing, paving, or railing.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 20/09/2026

No. There is no understanding here.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 19/09/2026

This is why they're buying, cutting up and scanning old paper books.

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So my grubby little urbanist secret is that I used to work at a car factory. And ever since this occurred to me, I have been unable to get over the fact that the safety standards to which we hold car production all but disappear the second those cars turn a wheel on public roads. And we accept that.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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Mark On A Bike @mtonabike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 17/09/2026

I hate that this is also funny

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 17/09/2026

My favourite thing about Steam OS is that messing around with it is basically optional. I say that as a Linux user of more than 30 years.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 17/09/2026

You've been assigning XP to your diaphragm?

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 17/09/2026

Bought The Rose Field by Phillip Pullman. Unfortunately, what with all the illustrations, this #ebook is more than my venerable BeBook can handle! It just reboots when I try to open it. It works on more modern hardware. #TheSecretCommonwealth #eBooks #booksky

2009 vintage BeBook e-reader showing a folder full of Philip Pullman books. There's a folder for His Dark Materials (contents not visible), and the three books in the Book of Dust trilogy. The Secret Commonwealth is 5MB. La Belle Sauvage is 607KB. The Rose Field is 106MB.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 15/09/2026

Sometimes when I'm on my ebike I think about the 1.8 megajoules of electrochemistry right near my bum.

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

4 things that made me far less scared of cyclists as a pedestrian: 1. Thinking "did they 'nearly hit me' or did they just surprise me?" 2. If neither, "was there any credible risk of harm to anyone or was I just being a cop about it?" 3. Being aware that hitting me would very likely hurt them.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 15/09/2026

To be fair to the cartoonist, when I do stop my bicycle at a Zebra the pedestrians waiting to cross often look surprised.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 14/09/2026

I imagine he struggles with the idea of phones that have buttons instead of a dial.

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