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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 17h

Here we are in the year 2026 incapable of just the simplest of mobile phone calls in Bristol without it being a glitchy dropped out VoLTE mess. Bring back GSM FFS.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Everything about EI is quite wonky. But not in quite the same adorable way that it was with BD/bmi. With EI it's just all a bit....off...

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah, the other side of the veritable London Borough of Lewisham.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Upper Sydenham's finest slightly-down-at-heel boozer? My goodness...

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The Obvious"? Is this a new show I've missed? If it isn't, please have it commissioned immediately, it sounds amazing. Peter Serafinowicz to star.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The route to G gates from landside takes you straight from security through eGates into the non-schengen zone. I try to avoid AMS with my UK passport, but KL fly 5x daily from BRS, so sometimes it's ... unavoidable ☹️.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you went the usual route to D1-57/E/F/G gates you would have cleared Departures 2 security, then straight to the eGates to exit the EU into the non-schengen area of the airport. Then you went back/forth thru the transit eGates at the bottom of the D pier between non-schengen & Schengen areas.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Star lounge is in Schengen, so you left the EU, came back in, and then left again. Something that would have taken me, previously an EU Citizen, around 3 hours. 🤦‍♂️ (See also: Transferring A to B piers via the tunnel at FRA).

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dammit... Everyone but me has a burgundy passport ☹️

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dodging AMS was a smart move. It may be slow at BRU, but AMS last week was a nightmare. 3 officers checking passports for all non-EU travellers for the entire evening's departures. 🤦‍♂️

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is the 'Bangkok Airways' addition to the SQ and TG flights indicating codeshare or operated by?

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Seems like they were listening to a different South Bristol Neighborhood to this one. Can't find many people who asked for any kind of modal filters (physical or cameras).

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's a system fault that started a week ago. But no information on what caused it or who's supposed to fix it. Just much much longer queues.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#ams #schiphol on dismal form as usual. Three passport control desks open for departing passengers. Just three. eGates not working for UK passports, for unexplained reasons.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Upside, the kiosk recognised my existing EES registration, and raised my hopes raised of a quick entry. Downside - eGates don't recognise British passports?!? WTAF??

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#EES fiasco. At #AMS, queue to get to a kiosk+ photo+prints. Tells me to use eGates. Queue again to the eGates, which reject me, to back of the manual queue. The border officer tells me 'British passports aren't working in the eGates'. 🤦‍♂️

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

See also - radio. Apparently dying since the 50s. (And The Buggles, obvs).

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This hotel is like some radio stations I know. It's trying it's very hardest to hotel properly, but just not managing it.

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Mixmag @mixmag.net · 24/08/2026

From today, after more than a decade showcasing underground dance music, the station now has large radio coverage area across Bristol

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Bristol’s Noods Radio joins D.A.B+ for the first time

Noods will now be broadcast across radio channels in Bristol, which the team says “feels surreal”

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Bristol Digital Radio CIC @bristoldigitalradio.org · 24/08/2026

We are so gassed that NOODS Radio are back on DAB+ with Underground Music & Culture - and we 💕 this reel... www.instagram.com/reel/DcanwtM...

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And a very good morning 🌞 to everyone except Virgin Media (again)...

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I am ¾ of the way through a 'coffee flight' at a very good coffee roastery, and it's possible I now won't sleep for approximately two decades. ☕☕☕☕🫨

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Credit where credit is due, a pretty much flawless EES entry process at OPO this evening. Kiosks working, previous EES registration recognised, questions asked and answered, and directed to use the eGates. 5 minutes through. 👌

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Oh, national alarm time 😬 Danger of wildfires, so fair enough. 🔥🔥

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Radio World @radio-world.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

When assessing the strategic mix of broadcast and IP, it’s important to not let the familiarity of broadcast breed contempt for its strengths, both technological and strategic, @nickpiggott.bsky.social of RadioDNS writes.

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Broadcast or IP? It’s Not a Binary Choice - Radio World

Radio’s future lies in combining broadcast and IP while keeping the user experience simple, argues RadioDNS Project Manager Nick Piggott.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Currently editing some audio for a theatre show, and the director's run order is a level of chaos that's making my skin itch. Every number should have a number, not a vague 'title as intent' naming convention. 😬

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Taunton and Yeovil are being worked on, so hopefully ready for the next interesting pop-up stations 👍

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Really pleased to have wrangled this into being. Getting SSDAB working together to provide true regional coverage at scale.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Radio WOMAD is a festival radio station running from a cabin in a field. They're DAB encoding at source + accurate PAD + accurate Traffic Announcements. And it sounds banging. A real passion to getting it 💯 that quite a lot of 'proper' stations just done have. 🙄 radiotoday.co.uk/2026/07/radi...

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Radio WOMAD adds DAB to festival broadcasts – RadioToday

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Almost everything on the Bristol Post is now paywalled at £5/month. The appalling UX degradation has seriously tainted my view of their content. I'll probably subscribe, because I value local journalism, but it sticks in the craw...

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Appreciating the deft use of The Smiths lyrics there...

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Good to hear #chloeslater getting playlisted at #bbc6music. Live session with #Lamacq this afternoon. It's really good ...

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

AI: using vast amounts of computing resources to shift work from the unskilled to the skilled. 🤦‍♂️

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

And this, kids, is why we never put notes in the Title field of the playout system. 🙄 (Excuse the dust, it's a work radio).

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The sheer variety of f**kups that Virgin Media can inflict would be awe inspiring if it wasn't so disruptive / annoying / frustrating...

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Intrigued to see what this amazing Gigwatt broadband looks like? Delivered on 2.5mm² solid copper cables?

Extract from an article that refers to Gigwatt broadband

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Absolutely like clockwork. Someone should do a data visualisation of 'number of days between planning permission granted and the developer saying the number of affordable housing units is not sustainable'.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

If the BBC pulls the plug on terrestrial TV, will broadcast radio become collateral damage? Is this the domino that topples the whole 'high tower, high power' broadcast stack in the UK? (Small Scale DAB would be much less affected - but could it take up the slack?)

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Boring tech reply - check your ventilation inlets. They often get blocked by fluff and lint so the fans go wild and the laptop gets very hot. Have a Google to find out where they are on your laptop model.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Have you been watching Twenty Twenty Six again?

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Just arrived into Frankfurt Airport #FRA Terminal 1/B. Lots of helpers, but every single EES machine was turned off/roped off. Really frustrating. In contrast, Munich T2 seems to have an excellent EES setup. 🤷‍♂️

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Or, and hear me out, we don't allow the private equity owned monopoly provider of TV infrastructure (created by privatising state assets in the 90s) to endlessly gouge money out the BBC? inews.co.uk/news/fight-s...

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The fight to stop online-only TV as BBC prepares for switch off

MPs warn voters will punish Labour if free digital TV is switched off in move to streaming

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Also - don't get me started on the English version of Falco, Der Kommissar.... Alptraum...

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Listening to iHeart 80s this evening, I can't believe how they butcher the intros to songs?! Was this how they were always broadcast on radio in the US? Bruce Hornsby & The Range, The Way It Is - slashed to ONE bar of piano intro. Hall and Oates, Maneater, just two bars of sax. Weird.

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I think the idea of micro mobility is interesting, but I think it needs to be managed as part of a complete public transport plan - not as a commercial sideline. 6/end

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Which means it's not a public transport solution at all. It's serving Dott's shareholders, and as a side effect, offering some transport options to some people. 5/

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

But the micro mobility is also inefficient. By leaving all those assets sat all day in the city, they're helping noone. Clearly Dott, the operator, doesn't want the hassle of ferrying 'empties' around. 4/

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Nick Piggott @nickpiggott.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

In contrast, the buses go into the city full, then they come back out empty, then go back in again and so on. An economist might say they're only 50% efficient. 3/

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