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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 12h

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Huh. About 98 of the Tube stations were opened before the 20th century began.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 20h

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Alexa, come up with as many creative Blackadderian insults about Nigel Farage.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN-I... Lol, you think this is weird? I live in a country where Toronto's streetcars constantly do this. As usual, Wien does it more competently with their trams, although I would still prefer to see a floating island here.

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Taborstraße Vienna

YouTube video by The Ranty Highwayman

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Jon Cryer was arrested at Toronto Pearson International Airport yesterday. The RCMP stated in a press release that he was arrested for having a large bag containing 80 kilogrammes of cocaine and 3 kilogrammes of Charlie Sheen.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.google.com/maps/@52.352... Oh look, 3 fietspaden, so you can cycle path while you cycle path while you are cycle pathing.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social I wonder how many stop signs there are in the UK. I know they are rare there, even though I can find one maybe 90 metres from my house. We have a stupid obsession with them here.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Puzzle time: You hike through the woods, and get bit by a snake. The antidote can be found by eating a kind of plant, if it is male. A female plant will make a distinctive sizzle. Both occur in identical numbers, the odds of being one equal, and look alike. You see areas

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social What is one thing in the gift shop that art galleries featuring 19th century works usually don't have that they should?

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social The Parliament of british columbia just dissolved. And no, the British did not obtain control of the country to the west of Venezuela, though confusion is understandable. Public transport and cycling in Vancouver would help with cheaper campaigns I'd think.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Do you happen to know of any particular documents outlining how a Dutch place should build a typical commercial district? Outside the city centre? Here is one such district where I live which you obviously deem to be inferior. www.google.com/maps/@53.628... Roads are

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfB3... Oh cool, I found a video of typical hurricane preparations in the Caribbean.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

www.google.com/maps/@53.542... @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Wow, 300 metres of actually doing something right, bordered by trash worthy of losing one's engineering license on either end. Impressive achievement for Wigan...

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social What do you think of the idea of basically all voters using postal ballots in elections and referendums? Ideally in combination with something smart to use as the voting system like single transferable vote, alternative vote (for mayor), or AMS like the London Assembly

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social I am afraid of about half of bears. The front half with the teeth, eyes, and brain are the most dangerous.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social People better not mess with you. You know how to make concrete shoes and you love near a giant estuary.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social You know the most important Polish astronomer was Copernicus. Any guess as to whom the second most important Polish astronomer was, who was also a detective?

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk2j... Local madman attempts to outdo his ancestors who once had to hunt mammoths on ice sheets by wading through water at a speed of 4 miles a day, wrestling with swans and reeds and industrial mills built quite literally a thousand years ago.

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Source to Sea down the River Thames WITHOUT Leaving it - Part 2

YouTube video by Ed Pratt

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Photograph of Keir Starmer flailing around unable to reform anything or deal adequately with the issues of the state.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Also, Trump now issues demand to issue tariffs on New Zealand unless they show him how to forge the One Ring; One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them in the Land of America where the Shadows lie.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Hum, a deep lunar eclipse, followed immediately by thunderstorms with lightning filling half the sky and wind at 61 km/h. Brilliant....

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@bicycledutch.bsky.social Some provincial prime minister where I live is mad about cycleways and is thinking about changing laws on them limiting the ability to reserve road space for bikes. I then thought about this, and remembered that Dutch infrastructure doesn't rely on laws to enforce safety.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social I think you mistranslated the German. Straßeräuber would mean an urban city street robber, Bahnräuber would be someone on the original meaning of highwaymen like Robin Hood.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social There is a total solar eclipse today. You can see it from Britain you might want to attempt it

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Being an engineer and frequently found in the Netherlands, you might be curious about some of these designs. They could get very, very intricate.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Well, at 86, my paternal grandfather died in hospital. I don't know much of what to think now, but I guess it adds another shadow on how I see most of the people I admired as a kid like you or Tom Scott or my parents are now a good deal more grey.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social A street design in the neighbouring hamlet of Sherwood Park. Not to be confused with Robin Hood's domain. And it has a hundred thousand people and refuses to upgrade from unincorporated hamlet status. I should have gotten a picture of a roundabout they have nearby.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social In 1532, Henry VIII legalized Wales. Prior to this, Wales was a baffling situation where nobody but dragons lived as memorialized by their flag, along with a bunch of coal miners who lived illegally.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Minister for labour resigns when it turns out that he accidentally forced all the snipers in the military to wear hiviz safety jackets and made their occupational health worsened

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2N... This chap is almost as good an engineer as you are. He comes highly recommended from me.

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TWO Unpickable (?) Locks for Lock Picking Lawyer!

YouTube video by Stuff Made Here

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Trump announces that his intervention in FIFA was merely an operation to make the game more interesting for those with colour blindness.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social The statistician reports that they are not the number 1 parent in England. They will settle for being somewhere around the 51,735th best parent in England. Still pretty good I'd say.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Buses, famously for the richer classes and upper orders.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social The amount of pizza you have can be remembered with the radius Z and depth A as Pi Z Z A.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social I saw a youtube cop chase video (from their dashcams) on what Germans would call a Geisterfarher. IE going down the road (especially motorway) the wrong direction. I looked at some Dutch motorway junctions. They seem to have geometries that make it harder to do this, be

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Someone asked Binface if he thought Farage was running a cunning stunt. Well, I know that Farage, based on what he thinks of women, never satisfies anyone with a respoonerized wording of cunning stunt.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social If you get hayfever, do what Alan Turing did and use your standard issue mask.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social The UK uses ring circuits for electricity. I wonder why the fuse is in the plug vs the outlet itself.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Oh, by the way, this week, the spherical geometry maths professors who are also Marxists are planning a revolution.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Huh, who would have guessed. You really can cycle with your kid.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social I wonder if there are standard Dutch tables to show how long a given thing should take to make. EG building a cycle path of the kind you made a decade ago as a shortcut between two zones for peds and bikes only. Possibly with a chart for contingent events.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Ed to become Chancellor of the Exchequer if I remember right under Burnham. I think I'll take the chaos with Milliband then.

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Don't forget to make sure any friends and family in Clacton vote for Count Binface. youtu.be/SikKBvSuEd0?...

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Baldrick's First Name (Sod Off Baldrick)

YouTube video by Pogmog

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insomniac-geek.bsky.social @insomniac-geek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Litre atmospheres are units of energy. Make of that whT you will.

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