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Gaffers

@gaffers.bsky.social
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He/him Aircraft Cybersecurity Principal Engineer by day, hacker of drones by night British fella in Chicago #BikeCHI #aviation #cybersecurity I'm doing my best to be an LGBTQI+ ally, always open to learn how I can improve as a human Malort enthusiast

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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Today is Christmas for Northern hemisphere rugby fans and a great start for Italy!
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Fuck cancer.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Ireland playing with 16, I see. #IREvENG #6Nations
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
While we're all at it....
A map of the globe and instead of Atlantic Ocean it's written "England's Pond" instead
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Of all the pieces to miss, Lego!
Lego Concorde model on display with a very noticeable piece missing, the extended cockpit glass.
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
From the other place :)
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Respect
Drive a driver placing a drive-through order at the window -A driver can sit in a busy drive thru for 20 minutes, but can’t wait five seconds for me to cross the street one day I hope to be as respectful as a Big Mac
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🫶🫶
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Hopefully we can now get someone who actually knows what they are doing. I won't hold my breath.
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Heath Ryan @heathryan16.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I still love this Venn diagram. The simple truth.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Great cities, large and small, prioritize people, not cars, by investing in spaces that nurture, inspire, and create vibrant, lasting character. Every step taken to reduce the sterilization caused by cars and their infrastructure brings us closer to restoring livability.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
If you lived through the pandemic and you still don't cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze, then fuck you very much. I hope you have a miserable year. Signed, a chap lying in bed, sick.
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rand0h @akacki.net · 31/12/2024
Sessions for our fundraiser for @WCKitchen @shmoocon are as follows. Can’t make one? Choose another. Want all three? Thrilled to have you. Get your tickets now! 3 mixologist stations, tasty concoctions, good company. See you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/unicorn-fu...
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Spain is awesome bc I can eat my own body weight in Iberico ham and still lose 5 lbs in less than 2 weeks.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Hola de Alicant!
A deep blue sky with scattered clouds has a setting sun peaking through them. The view is high up on to a backdrop of urban Alicante with open green spaces and apartment blocks.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Chicago could never.
Protected bike lane in Alicante with a temporary obstruction which has been thoughtfully marked with lines, dividers, and warnings. 2 way protected bike lane in AlicanteBike lane in Alicante painted in the middle of the single lane which is flanked on both sides by parked cars. Being in the middle it avoids putting cyclists in the door zone.Bike lane in Alicante painted in the middle of the single lane. Being in the middle it avoids encouraging drivers to pass dangerously
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
TW: footage from the crash site of the AZAL ERJ aircraft. Unverified footage of the fuselage of the AZAL ERJ which crashed this morning. I am unable to translate what is said. That does not look like a bird strike. Source: t.me/fighter_bomb... via the guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
This is why fighting for safe infrastructure matters. When people dismiss it as "cyclists being entitled," they ignore the life-and-death stakes families like this face. These are not just "accidents", they are preventable tragedies. Advocacy saves lives.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I hope you've all remembered to leave John some size 10 shoes and a Beretta 32 in your ducting or attic.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Bollard: oo, that tickles!
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This trip's haul. The 'cellar' is beginning to look pretty healthy.
6 bottles of Spanish Ribera del duero wine and a bottle of port sit arranged lying down in a line.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The gossip in my parent's building: there is a strange large chap walking around in shorts n t-shirt and swimming in the outdoor pool. It's not normal behavior! 😆😆😆 It's 65+ here, and almost everyone is wearing multiple layers and coats.
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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 23/12/2024
it has been brought to my attention that not everyone is aware of this. in 2009, folger's coffee ran a holiday ad that appeared to imply a pair of siblings were doin' it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQk...
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Folgers Christmas Ad 2009 - Peter
YouTube video by MrRickmercer2001
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Despite not drinking yesterday, I emerged feeling hungover from my jetlag-plus-no-sleep-during-travel induced 12.5 sleepfest.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
This sums it up, yes.
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Timothy™️ (Not Tim) @posttim.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I’ve lamented the ongoing lack of alt text—a noticeable change with the influx. Maybe some tips will help, particularly for #metalsky: 1) use links instead images of cover: helps band, shows cover, doesn’t add images to your camera roll, etc.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The Voyager modules and their journey never fail to amaze me.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This is getting absurd, and the consequences to safety are becoming real. Don't fucking do this.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I deadpan joked the new airport code for Newark was EWW, and now my colleagues believe it.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Hear me out: they could create a hotline for people whose health insurance claims were denied for no reason or through no fault of their own (and actually follow through on it).
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Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Precisely
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I was having a lovely relaxing bath, and halfway through Mrs G brings me a lighted candle. Not one of the 4 chilled beers in the fridge. It's like she doesn't know me at all.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
1/ HOW TO TRIAGE AN IMMIGRATION EMERGENCY As someone who has been defending non-citizens in deportation proceedings since 2006, I am here to tell you that we know exactly who Trump's top targets will be, & how we can try to protect them NOW. NOT LEGAL ADVICE but here's what we know about priorities
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
You laugh, but this is Elon Musk’s plan for public transit.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
“While Mayor, I was often asked ‘how have you been able to afford bike-lanes in #Copenhagen?’ I’d reply, ‘how have you been able to NOT afford it? 25 years ago we were a few days away from going bankrupt. So the city invested in the cheapest infrastructure… bicycling.” — @mortenkabell.bsky.social
People riding on a very cool Copenhagen cycle track aka bike-lane
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
If you hear a weird noise in the Chicago area it's probably sound of me rolling eyes every time I hear panic and conjecture about these drone reports. OH MY GAHHD! SONEONE IS FLYING A DRONE! AT NIGHT!
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a group of people standing in a room with the words " all hands battle stations " on the bottom
Alt: Start Trek TNG Brighe scene. Picard and Riker enter and sit in their seats. On the bottom it reads "all hands battle stations"
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Braggard moment: these are the fucking bomb! Possibly my best ever batch!
10 english mince pies sit on a cooling tray. The powdered sugar marks show 2 pies missing.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
And on Monday I definitely didn't ride home from the loop to the far north side quicker than Mrs G and her nieces even though they left 5 minutes before me and tool the L. I defo didn't have enough time to change, check the mail and start dinner before they came through the door. Imagined it mate!
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David Powe @davidpowe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Divvy is hiring a General Manager based in Chicago! Lyft is looking for someone great to run the day-to-day operations of the nation's most expansive bikeshare system. Help us find someone great and repost! app.careerpuck.com/job-board/ly...
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General Manager, Divvy
Lyft General Manager, Divvy is where you apply online to the General Manager, Divvy role.
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Silver Perry Hobart @silverhobart.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This 👇 for decades 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 13/12/2024
My friends who are trying to be good allies: this is a very good opportunity to listen and not ask questions; believe them:
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Yes, I am demolishing a Costco vanilla cup. Why is everyone staring at me?
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Alyssa Miller 🦄👩‍✈️ @alyssam-infosec.com · 11/12/2024
Please make sure Chris' face makes the rounds so women in his area know who to avoid. (Just to be clear, these were not messages sent to someone else, not me).
Facebook message threatening violence against a womanFacebook profile of Chris Ogden who sent the private FB message threatening violence against a woman.
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
You take the man out of England, but he'll definitely bring England to Chicago.
Gaffers is holding up a white English Christmas cakeWhite Christmas cake decorated with a Holly and side wrapping.Christmas cake opened up showing the fruit cake interior and the marzipan and royal icing exterior
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Gaffers @gaffers.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A view of the Chicago shoreline from above, looking out through the window of an aircraft. The outline of the wing is visible
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