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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

No link or mention in the print version, sadly.

Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

One of my little pleasures in life is correcting people's pronunciation of "pronunciation" when they are correcting someone's pronunciation. Even better when they misspell it as well 😉

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

I use optilabs, lots of choice. But it's better if you can visit their showroom in Croydon

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 20/06/2026

Ex school union rep here 👋 Union can certainly help but that presupposes the school has (a) union rep(s). What's needed is for staff to collectively complain to mgt. Some schools have non-gender school uniform codes due to student activism, so another approach is for men to wear dresses 😉

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 31/05/2026

The only ticket I ever got was for parking my moped on the pavement in London. Quite right too - lesson learned!

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026

Thx for the advice. Just hope it's simple enough for me to have a go as I'm a bit of a klutz with DIY

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Eco-Socialist Economic: strongly collectivist Social: progressive Sovereignty: strongly cosmopolitan Military: anti-interventionist Authority: libertarian Constitutional: reformist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

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British Political Spectrum Quiz

Find out where you sit on the British political map across six dimensions.

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 17/05/2026

This barrier was put up near me a few months ago on a permissive path. Unclear to me what it was supposed to achieve but the track that resulted on the right was predictable!

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 16/05/2026

I tried to read it once. Barely got beyond the first page.

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 26/01/2026

I used to cycle along Geen Lanes quite a bit 20-30 yrs ago, in the middle of the lane, obviously. Looks like nothing has changed!

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 01/11/2025

Richard's Bicycle Book (70s?) covers defending yourself against dogs in some depth. This book was my bible when I started cycletouring in the early 80s.

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 04/09/2025

Nellie the Elephant is a much better choice 😉

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 25/05/2025

Simple solutions often aren't as simple as they first appear. Here the issue is that if you want to claw back from taxation you would end up requiring many older people to complete tax returns who have never done so. @danneidle.bsky.social has a thread on this.

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 13/02/2025

As an old fogey I thought I would much prefer plain text. But actually I found the scrolling style very easy to read - and read quickly without skipping bits.

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 21/01/2025

Paywall. I can accept ads to read for free but not cookies Shame.

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 11/01/2025

Bad parking up there caused issues for Edale Mountain Resue today. edalemrt.co.uk (See incident 3) The train service to Edale seems to me to be underutilised by walkers. As a bonus there's 2 decents pubs nearby 😉

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Edale Mountain Rescue Team | Emergency Hillside Rescue Peak District

The Edale Mountain Rescue Team operates in the Peak District National Park. We are one of the busiest Mountain & Hillside Rescue teams in the country.

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 30/12/2024

Haven't done it yet 😟 Life, work and covid got in the way. But now I'm semi-retired I've run out of excuses. I'm also slower than I used to be so 2 weeks is probably more realistic. Early to mid May 2025 is now the target 🚲

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 30/12/2024

7. Use youth hostels or camp wherever possible. However, after a night spent wild camping, the next night may be in a good B&B or hotel. I reckon this will take me about 10 or 11 days, starting at Betws y Coed and finishing at Fort William." 3/4

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 30/12/2024

5. All mountain routes must not have been done before (but reverse routes are allowed, so I can, for example, do the reverse horseshoe for Snowdon). 6. Must be at each summit at sunrise. 2/4

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 30/12/2024

6 years ago I posted the following on fb: "JJ's 3 Peaks Challenge rules: 1. Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis in any order 2. Solo and unsupported 3. Start and finish at a train station (having arrived by train!) 4. Only walking, running(!) and cycling allowed from start to finish. 1/4

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 29/12/2024

IME it was the 3rd condition that was not well known. This was newish code that coped with leap years and incorporated your 2nd condition. So it was a y2k specific problem (assuming the code isn't still knocking around somewhere in 2400 🤔).

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 29/12/2024

I remember seeing quite a few websites displaying incorrect years on 1 Jan. 20100 instead of 2000 for example. "new" code was faulty too!

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 29/12/2024

I worked in software testing in the late 90s. We tested both old and new software for date related bugs at the time. We found plenty. It was never about just 2 digits for the date but a host of related issues that we were looking for. New bugs included coders not realising 2000 was a leap year.

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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"The Sheldon Brown of cycle touring" This is a fantastic cycling resource and if you don't already have it bookmarked then you really should.

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Jonathan Jacobs @jonathanjacobs.eurosky.social · 18/12/2024

It's a really good website that I was completely unaware of until I moved here and started following people I knew from the other place. The difference here is that it's easy for me to see posts from people such as yourself even if you're not in starter packs.

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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Thank you to Obs reader Steve for setting up this petition. ❤️

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Mike Berners-Lee @mikebernerslee.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This is important. Advertising has much more influence on us all than most of us like to admit.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. But he still needed a 45% pay rise. Like if he needs a pay cut. RP if you want the Monarchy gone. #AbolishTheMonarchy

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 23/11/2024

🚜 This week saw protests against proposed changes to inheritance tax on farms. But there’s been disagreement over how many farms might be affected. We take a look at the different figures circulating.

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How many farms will be impacted by the new inheritance tax rules? - Full Fact

Since the government announced changes to the rules around inheritance tax on farms, we’ve seen apparently contradictory figures about the number of estates impacted.

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