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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im

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LINAC Engineer, railway modeller, Germanophile.

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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im @duncanbourne.bsky.social · 7h
I understand why they dropped TT-zero, as there was only one team that could win. I don't understand why they don't introduce an E-superstock class though, as there's now loads of electric sports bikes that could be run without mods.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 10h
This Christmas they will be Harry Potter themed to promote the new TV show - the profits of which will line JK Rowling's pocket and, with it, her transphobic hate. Sadiq Khan says he supports trans people. But he's letting Oxford Street fund transphobia. Email him directly 👇 goodlaw.social/3440b9
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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im @duncanbourne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Marco Pantani, il Pirata.
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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 12/10/2026
Alessandra Fumagalli housing spaghetti
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh superb! Someone has got the glorious screenshot, of Russian Brexit bottery at its best. bsky.app/profile/marc...
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Miles and Chains @miles-and-chains.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
304004 Arrives at Crewe with a service from Altrincham. A unit that will forever remind me of trips to Crewe in the 80s. Slam doors, comfortable seats, bouncy ride, a joy to behold! Gone, but not forgotten. #Class304 #Crewe #BritishRail
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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im @duncanbourne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Visiting tomorrow!
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We've seen Trump do some shitty things to Ukraine since taking office (Oval Office incident; Alaska summit; Patriot U-turn) but today he's chosen to do a diesel deal with Putin that plays to Russia's economic/warchest advantage and restricts Ukraine's ability to defend itself.
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“An Overwhelming Surplus of Diggity”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Listening to Kemi Badenoch list her many supposed triumphs you wouldn't have any idea that the Conservatives just suffered their worst set of election defeats in their history and are now polling eight points lower than when she first took over as leader
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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For the sake of a slogan achieving nothing except great concern and distress to British Jews, Green members have probably destroyed any hope that a party - their party - which consistently and clearly opposes the #genocide will join the next government. Genius. 🤦‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour figures rule out working with Greens after ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
Minister says they could not see parties cooperating, while official says coalition should be formally ruled out
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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 06/10/2026
"Just ask your smart speaker..." No. The computer is a thing. I do not talk to the computer.
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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im @duncanbourne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They may have screwed up transport, but at least the Energiewende is working out great, right? bsky.app/profile/fren...
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Wraithe @wraithe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
OK, it took 30 hours to do it, but I finally managed to create Agentic systems to play all my video games for me Now if I can just create some agents to ride my motorcyle for me and drive my car through some winding Mountain roads, I can get back to my life’s work: Working myself to into a grave
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He literally set off a bomb in a UK street. If this had been the IRA Pierce would calling for them to be hung, drawn and quartered. This is domestic terrorism pure and simple. A bomb set off to terrorise with the aim of getting a government to change its policy. Literally a textbook definition.
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A retired engineer who destroyed @SadiqKhan ULEZ camera jailed for 15 years. A ridiculous sentence. No wonder our orisons are overcrowded

Readers added context they thought people might want to know

Kevin Rees was sentenced to 15 years for causing an explosion likely to endanger life after using a homemade bomb to destroy a ULEZ camera in a Sidcup residential street, damaging cars and property up to 100m away with shrapnel near a child's bedroom.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...

news.met.police.uk/news/man-jaile...

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 04/10/2026
Remember the battle of Cable Street. London, 4 October 1936. Also remember that they shall not pass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The solution (allowing asylum seekers to work) is unworkable politically because we're simply too racist to allow that
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have heard some bonkerooney from the Tories in recent years, but this is off the charts. As a sensible policy, it is up there with making it a legal requirement for people called Jacob to wear trousers while taking a shower. That level of madness. Let’s break it down.
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 03/10/2026
it's been very noticeable that whatever noises burnham has been making about changing direction, they do not include anything about fixing this horrific situation
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Starmerism was seeing the Tories promising cold puke sandwiches, and Reform promising hot puke sandwiches, and listening to consultants who said the gap was lukewarm puke sandwiches.
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
gm to David Hasselhof, the man who really reunited Germany. 💪 ☕️ 🎤 Since neither East nor West Germany wanted to risk a repeat of his twinkling 1989 performance, they have remained united ever since. Happy Reunification / Hoff Day 🎉
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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I had thought that the problem of finding petrol as garages close would be the cliff tipping point for the end of internal combustion. I hadn't considered that dealers refusing ICE cars in part exchange might be be one too.
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Elliott @elliottcb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In 1946 we started rationing bread. The national debt was two-and-a-half times the size of the economy. That generation built the NHS. Then an average of 126,000 council homes every year for 35 years. ... They weren’t richer than us. They were braver. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There is a way to look after people, the planet – and Britain’s growth. It’s what we call the ‘wellbeing economy’ | Jamie Driscoll
Imagine the UK with a 20-year investment plan, with green homes and fast transport. We already have the tools to make it happen, says Green party politician Jamie Driscoll
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There was a chance here to look more grown up and it is entirely unsurprising that Badenoch did not take it.
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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im @duncanbourne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Live free or die". Errm, are there any other options?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It only feels “radically progressive” because we’ve spent 40 years normalising radically regressive ideas. This was broadly how Britain worked from 1945–79, when average GDP growth was 2.6% a year — compared with 1.9% in the post-Thatcher years. It works www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’
PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’
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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im @duncanbourne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a Brit, seeing apple juice called cider is really weird ;-) it's not cider over here unless it's alcoholic, and it's not good cider till it's over 8%
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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im @duncanbourne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It really reminds me of how BR was treated in the 1980s. It became (unfairly) the butt of jokes, which then paved the way for the disastrous privatisation that followed. DB has problems, but if Germans keep on this path of constant denigration, much worse is to come.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
😂
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John Duffy @dubhaigh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Book cover that looks like famous five series with the title "five go dogging in Fairford with transit vans and an airfield .
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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im @duncanbourne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Should consolidate them all into one, and call it Conrail;-)
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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im @duncanbourne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Much as I love the Hbf, I miss arriving at Zoo on a night train at dawn.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
they're wasting money for the sole purpose of being cruel and that in itself will cost us even more money, while they talk about more cuts because we're apparently struggling with money
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im @duncanbourne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm sure the #NotaMetroSorter would class this as the ultimate GadgetBahn @garethdennis.uk ?
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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 27/09/2026
What this speaks of mostly is fear. These people feel abject terror at the thought of being outside among the rest us ordinary folk, so they lock themselves away in cars, behind walls and fences. The rich are cowards above everything else
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Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 27/09/2026
Today's Labour party would have supported Mosley's fascist march through Jewish areas of London and condemned the anti-fascist coalition who stood in their way.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Labour aren't winning over Reform voters by pushing for anti-immigration, anti-asylum, anti-trans, anti-disabled voters. They are reinforcing Reform's, Restore et al's arguments that marginalised groups are an "issue" and to be blamed for all the ills of the world though. That's not helping anyone.
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Mick Lynch's Fan Club @moreutterpiffle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
True dat, too.
A picture of a collection of gammon (a rack?) with the overlay "being called far right today is like being called far right in the 1930s. You're a cunt just like they were back then"
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jeez. By now even Larry the cat knows it was Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal which caused the skyrocketing number of small boat crossings in the English Channel
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Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im @duncanbourne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's a long history of people around Europe being overjoyed at the introduction of new trains from CAF, then being considerably less joyful after they've ridden on them for a while. :-(
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rayner is correct: these proposals are economically damaging and politically counterproductive. Pretty clear that view is now almost universal in the Cabinet/Labour Party and the informed public. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Angela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdown
Speaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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