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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 01/10/2026

Riding an e-cargo bike around Edinburgh on a crisp autumn morning has gotta be one of the top 10 human experiences #bikesky

An e cargo bike rests against some railings under a stone colonnade. Bright morning sun illuminates green umbrellas and outdoor tables further down the collonade

Looking down on a quiet cobbled street winding away from us. We're up a height on a raised stone colonnade, looking down at colourful bunting strung over the street. Morning sun warms the mellow sandstone of Edinburgh tenement buildings looming over the street in the distance.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 01/10/2026

Riding an e-cargo bike around Edinburgh on a crisp autumn morning has gotta be one of the top 10 human experiences #bikesky

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 28/09/2026

*Extreme narrowcasting warning* Y'all ever spent an evening preloading the bearing stacks in a 1970s BMW wheel hub, juggling a blow torch, a freezer, tubs of grease, 1.2m of string, a fish scale, & a pile of tiny 0.05mm shims, and think "y'know what, maybe this DID belong on the scrapheap"? #motosky

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 28/09/2026

Views from an evening run out in the Pentlands, including an unexpected forest doorbridge / floordoor

A green front door with gilt letterbox, laid flat on a forest floor, bridging a small gully. My legs are in shot, standing on the door. I'm wearing bright orange trail running shoes

An arching autumnal beech tree frames the gentle rolling hills of the Pentlands, kissed by the evening sunlight

A road disappears in a straight line away from us towards the horizon, overhung by green trees just turning to autumnal yellows and browns

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 27/09/2026

I'm from a small pit village on the Tyne, and there's this huge building in the middle called 'The Institute'. It's a reading room, library, studio & cultural centre, run by & for the miners, still going after 130 years. Baffled as a child when I learnt other posher non-pit towns didn't have one!

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 24/09/2026

*Deposition* Lawyer: so you're an experienced cycle commuter, then? Me: oh absolutely L: How often might you forget to pack an essential item? Say, for example, your work shoes? M: *mumbling* L: For the tape, please. M: *visibly flustered* about once a week, OK? Happy? Goddammit.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 23/09/2026

Providing judicious and sensitive feedback to my colleagues

A screenshot of a teams message. It reads 'I feel like that map should be accompanied by one of these'. Below the text is a picture of a triangular yellow warning sign, depicting a hand getting mangled in some gears.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 23/09/2026

🚨 What's that? My Kessler Syndrome alarm is going off again. Linking to this good exploration by @jonkelvey.bsky.social aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/und...

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Understanding the misunderstood Kessler Syndrome

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 21/09/2026

Ooh a price update! I wonder if it's going down.

A screenshot of an email header. From Netflix, the title reads 'Price update coming soon'. The body extract reads 'We're here if you have any questions'

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 21/09/2026

Great turnout at #GovCamp Scotland this morning. Time to queue up and build a conference...

A wide, high-ceilinged and well lit room full of people and chairs set up theatre style, with four large projected screens at the front.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 20/09/2026

Morning views at the edge of Edinburgh

Three people sit or stand beneath an arching beech tree, amidst high grass. A sheep path leads through the grass towards them

Vibrant lime-green lines of newly geminated winter wheat in sunlit field

A dog looks towards the viewer from the other side of a long stone tunnel

A small bright red fly agaric mushroom emerges from a tangle of dry grass and leaves

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 18/09/2026

Being energy savvy and having a bunch of price-sensitive automations running on your home server makes you Cool and Popular, actually, contrary to what my wife and children think

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 18/09/2026

Problem: I got paid money to charge my car earlier in the week when it was windy. Solution: I've got the (non-agile) neighbours' car over and am gonna spend the next 7 hours charging theirs. They get a free 300 mile charge, i make £s, and we all help balance the grid.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 18/09/2026

Snail & the whale fucken SLAPS

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Inflation hits 3.1%. Energy price cap about to go up to £1723. And some scary predictions of where energy costs might go next year (see next tweet). Foodbanks already see too many people pushed to the brink. We’ll need targeted support to protect people already facing hunger.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 15/09/2026

You may not like it, but this is what innovation looks like

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 15/09/2026

Bad news. It doesn't get less sweaty. You just go faster and further.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 14/09/2026

I don't know why more people don't just do what I did: spend six months consulting inside a large UK life savings firm redesigning assets, journeys, and communications around their investment portfolios! Honestly; it's the easiest simplest way to learn how pensions work. Everyone should do it🙏

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 14/09/2026

The urge to post 'sickos.jpg' is strong. But then I remember that you and I live in this economy, and this is millions of people's pensions going down the toilet. Screenshot from my current UK company pension (Aviva). This is the *standard option* when joining, not even some tech-focused portfolio.

A screenshot of a 'holdings' table from a pension provider. The top ten holdings are Nvidia Corporation, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, TWSC, Broadcom, Alphabet (again?) Meta Platforms, Jpmorgan Chase & Co.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 14/09/2026

Reviewing some user stories

A screenshot of text in a table. A portion is highlighted, which reads: "As a user I prefer the second prototype tested"

A still from the Disney animated film 'Alice in Wonderland'. A blond girl in a blue dress and white apron leans on a wooden counter, with her palm over her face.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 13/09/2026

This is vintage Coldicutt?! Nice

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 13/09/2026

Recently I've been struggling to help a couple of internal research teams communicate recommendations clearly. Today I finally read the old doteveryone guide @jukes.ie recommends and... Damn. It's the best thing I've ever read. Tempted to print off 20 copies and scatter them around the office...

doteveryone.org.uk

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 13/09/2026

About time I got rid of those 12-year-old tyres and tried some fresh rubber on this thing #motosky

A front-on view of a white vintage BMW motorcycle sitting in a garage. Both the front and rear wheels are removed, and the front axle rests on a red axle stand.

A three-quarters rear view of a white vintage BMW motorcycle sitting in a garage. The front and rear wheels are removed, and the rear bevel drive and drum brake internals are exposed

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 12/09/2026

Here's Cookie finding out her snoot fits perfectly into those large yoghurt tubs

A large white curly dog lies in a sofa, snout-deep in a large blue tub

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 11/09/2026

I was today years old when I found out @danhon.com is secretly English (complimentary)

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 09/09/2026

People embarking on a journey of revenge don't understand scale. Use your upgraded shovel to dig ten graves. In six months, you'll have a 30-person waiting list. Dig them graves. Now you have a mini cemetery. Use your grave contacts to hostile takeover the local graveyard. 250 graves. Now d

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 07/09/2026

Climbed Calton Hill to see out Emii Alrai's 'Guardian'. A colossal fragmented relic of maybe an ancient Sumerian Lamassu. It's good, actually.

Emii Alrai's 'Guardian' sculpture. A collection of large fragmented blue-green chunks are attached to a metal framework, raised atop a large plinth. They are loosely aligned to give the impression of an archeological reconstruction of the colossal barrel-chest of a bull. The central sculpture is surrounded by six urns, made of similar material, raised alongside it on pillars.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 06/09/2026

Spending Sunday afternoon picking up groceries and corrupting the citizenry with questions like 'what if bikes were long'

A blue Larry Vs Harry e-Bullitt cargo bike parked against a dark grey wall. Two large panniers are bulging on the back.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 05/09/2026

As-tu commandé un Orangina dans un café sur le Vieux-Port?

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 04/09/2026

Still got it baybee

A screenshot from https://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/ : So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz complete! 19/20. Excellent! You really know your fonts!

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 04/09/2026

One day I will find the ideal environment, and then I'll show em

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 01/09/2026

Genuinely kinda thrilled Swan Boy and I wear the same kicks

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 31/08/2026

Just started listening, on this recommendation. It IS good!

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 30/08/2026

"Restore vintage motorcycles" they said. "It'll be fun and won't even give you a hernia" they said.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 30/08/2026

That's a completely seized transmission filler plug. 😮‍💨 Not to worry, easy fix; just strip the bike, drain all the fluids, lie the 200kg machine on its back, and inject fresh transmission fluid through the drain plug. Like a gearbox enema. Simple. Just a whole afternoon's work.

A close up of a motorcycle engine still in the frame, with a large black oil syringe and pipe snaking into a hole in the underside of the transmission.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 30/08/2026

Huh. That's not the bit I wanted to move.

A chunky 8mm L-shaped hex key, with a noticeable twist in the end.

Detail of an engine. A rusted filler plug, indicated with a long screwdriver, in the side of an aluminium motorcycle gearbox. It's a 1980 BMW R80/7 airhead motorcycle transmission.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 30/08/2026

Source: you're looking at the winner of the 2018 interdepartmental 'Is it Helvetica?' competition at my old design studio

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 30/08/2026

That's regular Helvetica. You can tell by the flicked tail / terminal on the lowercase a, and the finial on the e ending parallel to the eye.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 29/08/2026

It's wisteria summer pruning day! 🌱 Here's your annual update on the two overgrown pea-mutants that climb up my house. We had loads of flowers this year, and explosive growth in the summer. The hot weather suited them, it seems. Now they're tidied up a little, ready for autumn.

A blooming wisteria growing across a house frontage, around a front door a front window. The cascading racimes are white or light purple, and grow down from bunches of lime-green leaves just coming in

A house frontage with two verdant green wisterias climbing up the front wall, surrounding a front window. The wisteria are overgrown, with thin whippy tendrils climbing up the front wall.

A house frontage with two verdant green wisterias climbing up the front wall, surrounding a front window. The wisteria in this photo are a little neater, with most of the overgrown bits pruned off and tidied up.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 28/09/2024

nobody will remember: - your salary - how busy you were - how many hours you worked people will remember: - that one time you signed off an email 'Jongy' - the team group chat that was renamed 'Jongy' for like a month - the birthday cake that had 'Happy Birthday Jongy' written on it, 2 years later

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 28/08/2026

Imagine an archeologist. Now look at the fit on Archeologist Ernesto Olazo from Lima. Tony Robinson and Time Team could have put in a little more effort, huh.

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Remains of 16th-century hospital that treated sailors discovered in Peru

YouTube video by euronews

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Most British thing ever is for the day it becomes legal to fit solar extremely easily to your home is the day the sun finally disappears after three months.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 26/08/2026

Oh no way, it's #internationaldogday?! I've got one of those. Look at it.

A large white poodle-looking dog with short-cropped curly hair sleeps on her back on a grey sofa. Her head hangs off the sofa.

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