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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

looks like I picked the right day to not cycle

Blurry view through the window of a bus, outside which it is absolutely shedding it down

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bro wants nothing to do with this Örebro bro, bro

Map of a bit of Sweden north-west of Stockholm showing the town of Bro just off the E18

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You could just possibly be on to something there.

Screenshot from malus.sh with text:

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

uh oh guys who last saw the boot media for the lift

Interior of a lift with a screen which is displaying the message ‘Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key’

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Apologies to the less meme-brained, I was thinking of this

goose chasing man meme
first panel: what or who will be in those 45 cm?
second panel: WHAT OR WHO WILL BE IN THOSE 45 CM?

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OMG actual rising bollard action outside the office today. A sump-cracker! @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

A man in overalls stands in front of a truck with its front bumper utterly destroyed and a dented but unbowed rising bollard which has stopped it. The bollard and the roadway are covered in black engine oil.

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Don’t read if: you want all loose ends neatly tied up by the last page Do read if: you have any acquaintance with Scotland in the rain

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

NI currently heading the leaderboard for Top Coastline.

Shoreline at dusk with dramatic clouds above dark rocks and a pebble beach

Wide angle shot from a grassy headland connected to high cliffs by a narrow ridge with sea on either side. A footpath leads across the top and a figure in a red jacket can be seen in the middle distance. The sky is blue with high clouds.

From a grassy hillside near right a broken promontory extends leftwards into a calm blue-green sea. A streak of blue sky is visible through a thin blanket of pale grey cloud.

The tops of dark grey polygonal basalt columns at Giant’s Causeway

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Obligatory eclipse pic (stopped en route to camping hols)

A piece of white paper with the partially eclipsed Sun projected on to it through a pinhole. The paper is propped against the rear window of a car whose boot is full of camping stuff.

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

well that’s a bit on the nose frankly

A hoarding with the text ‘MODERN UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR 2026’ behind which a couple of tracked excavators climb over the rubble of a demolished building

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Also took the opportunity to use this lovely bit of infra which unless I’m imagining things automatically changed the lights for me as I approached it. Is that a thing?

A pavement with bidirectional cycle lanes leading to a Sparrow crossing, with suburban houses on the far side of the road

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The thing about living here is that 20 minutes by bike that way -> gets me in to central Manchester, but ten minutes that way <- gets me to this:

A grassy river bank with trees and blue sky in the background. Four cows of various colours have come down the bank to drink from the river, or whatever it is cows do in rivers.

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Recommendation endorsed. Although I think Suntou Susso just pipped them for most fun act.

La Sécurité in performance: two guitarists, singer and bass player in front row, drummer behind them, on a dimly lit stage with a roof with arched wooden beams

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My worries are baseless though, right?

Screenshot of Duolingo settings showing ‘Portuguese’ with a little Brazilian flag by it

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Any idea where the Greens are getting these bar chart figures from, as put through our door in Stockport?

A Green Party election leaflet for the Manchester mayoral election with a chart headed ‘Latest data: Vote Green first!’ and bars Reform 35%, ‘Green - Geraldine’ 29%, Labour 28% and Other 7%.

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Lads, I don’t think it’s turning up.

Argos order status screen showing that my order is scheduled for delivery between 07.30 and 21.00 today, but at 20.59 has not yet been delivered

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Someone has… other numbers.

Green Party leaflet for the Greater Manchester mayoral election with a bar chart showing Reform 35%, Green 29%, Labour 29% and Others 7%. Small print below the chart says ‘Graph shows voting intention of residents surveyed in Greater Manchester from 3/7/26 to 10/7/26 - 3,223 sample size, weighted to population across Greater Manchester’

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

look who I met on the way home

A residential street by night. On the far side of the road there is a parked car. On the near side, in the foreground, there is a drainage grid and next to it a small hedgehog.

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Kapoor: ooh I made a fake hole in the floor, careful and stay behind the barriers in case you “fall in” lol Wilson:

Richard Wilson’s 20:50, an art installation in which visitors come within centimetres of getting their elbows or handbags covered in used engine oil

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Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

RIGHT THEN Using constituency data from pages.mysociety.org/2025-constit... I have found the latitude for the 216th (Cheadle) and 434th (Newport West and Islwyn) most northerly constituencies, and therefore declare the North, Midlands and South by population thirdiles to be as follows: