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Dave Thornley

@dht6000.bsky.social
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IT and Security Manager in UK Higher Ed. Cyclist, parent, armchair worrier, insomniac, #sheffield

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Music Venue Trust @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
There's something slightly ridiculous about what a gig ticket can buy you. For the price of a takeaway, you can walk into a room with a few hundred strangers and, for the next few hours, become part of something that only exists because all of you are there.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch and share this excellent news story. Ford LIES that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Remember and share this as Ford tears out Toronto bike-lanes.
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Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes removed.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/10/2026
This is really, really cool. The URL *is* the document. So you can effectively do word processing in your browser... without it leaving your computer. Or... you can send it to others *in the URL*. This is really fantastic.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.
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headless horsegirl @tallerinperson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
the fact that we don't need a car for any daily-ish commutes probably saves us a full rent payment every month 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
New on the newsletter: restaurant industry research is more fun than it has any right being www.nerd4cities.com/the-car-as-d...
nerd4cities.com
The Car As Dining Room
If you spend any amount of time at all in American suburbs, you can't miss it: the ongoing proliferation of ever more ingeniously designed restaurant drive-thrus. Multi-lane Chick-Fil-As and In-N-Outs...
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Dave Thornley @dht6000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Different Gear in Sheffield www.adifferentgear.com
adifferentgear.com
Bike Shop & Workshop | A Different Gear
An independent, community owned, not-for-profit bike shop and workshop. Adventure, urban and e-cargo bikes and accessories.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Learning from history ... "How the East End Stopped Mosley's Blackshirts at Cable Street in 1936" via Very Brexit Problems verybrexitproblems.com/blogs/news/b...
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How the East End Stopped Mosley's Blackshirts at Cable Street in 1936
On 4 October 1936, five thousand men in black shirts assembled to march through the East End of London. It was a deliberate provocation, aimed squarely at the Jewish community living there and it had ...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
via Christopher Warner
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If these people were not so very dangerously stupid this would be very funny indeed. Jaymey McIvor of Reform insisting people from Chingford and Woodford are claiming asylum in Ongar.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles
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Dave Thornley @dht6000.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Skyrdle 458 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 13/09/2026
Two billionaires: £72 million in 24 hours. Millions of trade-union members: £200 million across two decades. Apparently these are now being presented as roughly the same thing. Just fucking marvellous the heroic amount of heavy lifting that’s happening here.
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I have given Reform £36m & don't expect anything in return
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"We're not broke, we're being robbed" #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants meme via Joshua ABD
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you live in an urban or suburban area and most or all public amenities are too far away for most people to walk, that did not happen by accident and it does not have to stay that way.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The backlash against unpatriotic thugs grows ... memes via The UK Against Hate
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For years, Stephen Lennon has asked supporters to trust him and fund him. A Channel 4 Dispatches investigation, made with HOPE not hate, has raised serious questions about his finances. I’ve added my name calling for a full investigation. Will you? secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/...
secure.hopenothate.org.uk
CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON
A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.
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Sheffield Stand Up To Racism @sheffieldsutr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨JOIN THE NATIONAL ANTIRACIST NETWORK Far right gangs are organising and mobilising on our streets. We need thousands of antiracists ready to respond wherever they organise. ✊🏽Sign up: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-national-antiracist-network-to-stop-the-far-right
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- Get alerts when the far right mobilises near you
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Jane G @janeger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This seems appropriate #R4Today act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6
Advertising for betting should go the same way as tobacco ads did. Gambling firms are very much the modern day peddlers of misery and exploitation that cigarette makers were, and should be treated as such.

anon_opin GOLD from 6th March 2023
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Seriously, why are people still calling them "protests" after this sort of thing? In what way are these expressions of "legitimate concerns"?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Congratulations to the AfD on their election result in Saxony-Anhalt, the first time a far-right party have won a state election in Germany since the Nazis. I just hope that British people haven't learned the lessons of history either.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Beer FACT: A julia hartley brewer only makes bitter.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026
Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you’re not following @urbantruth.bsky.social yet, I hope you’ll consider doing so. And help us spread the word on the #WarOnWalking and our other campaigns/messages. It’s an important mission. #UrbanTruth
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Also since Orr is an academic at Cambridge who has actually been caught lying I look forward to the month of hounding on a deeply personal level and strokey chin pontificating about whether any white men should even get to be professors
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Democrats Organizing For America @democratsofa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I get weary, I get nervous You hire a clown- we get the whole damn circus! When the vengeance of nations finally come to port You'll still be bitchin' 'bout men playing women's sports.
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The Nerd Reich
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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Nate 'The Belated' Carney @inapproprinate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When they nuke Iran and Jesus don't come back And your son's still gay and there's no cheap gas When the vengeance of nations finally comes to port Will you be bitchin' 'bout men playin' women's sports I get weary I get nervous They hired a clown we got the whole damn circus
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The Nerd Reich
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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dawneelizabeth.bsky.social @dawneelizabeth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Was it only because Google couldn’t profit enough from China🧐
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I see we are arguing about floating bus stops again. They are not perfect but are a necessary compromise because no one is brave enough to take space from cars or inconvenience drivers. That is the issue. We are fighting over scraps like starving rats.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Electricity in the UK isn't expensive because of net zero. Electricity in the UK is expensive because privatised energy companies are ripping us off.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 30/08/2026
Good morning, today is Sheffield Trans Pride - the first one we will report on with this new camera. We are already on the way.
First 36273 (BG12YKF), a high-spec Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 with tables inside, on the X3 with a diversion to Sheffield.
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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
On Monday 14th September, MPs are debating whether there should be a referendum on who owns England's water. I've just asked my MP to attend and support giving us a say. Take 2mins to email your MP: weownit.org.uk/act-now/deba... @weownit.org.uk
weownit.org.uk
Give the public a say on who owns our water - email your MP
Public ownership of water is popular. MPs must give us a say on who owns our water.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No-one should fear leaving home because of danger of thuggish racist assaults stirred up by Reform UK Police need urgent racism cleansing & focus on far -right threats "R*cism is getting more extreme & all decent people are asking for it to stop with immediate effect" via Expose Racism
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026
it's me i'm "unknown"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
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Dave Thornley @dht6000.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I found a Rarity-81 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 785 points · 10 rare words. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/7RDCNR
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OUTLIER · Day 100
player-6108 scored 785 on Day 100. Can you beat them?
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Runs on fossil fuels 🦖 IG: @ fuckjerry Minneapolis, MN
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