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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This weekend @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social of @thewaroncars.bsky.social were speaking at a cute bookstore in Oxford, and it felt like such a unique opportunity so I made the trip! Wonderful to feel part of a movement rather than like an oddball for once 😅. So glad I went!

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Quinn Simmons wearing a trans ally jersey??!! Awesome to see the jerseys on display, but isn't Simmons a Trump-supporting, Joe Rogan-listening piece of work?

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Waitrose essentials muesli has too much nice stuff in it, (in a bad way) balance is way off. Eating an entire breakfast bowl of sultanas, coconut flakes, and hazelnuts, and getting an occasional rolled oat every other spoonful... have some modesty for goodness sake, Waitrose.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Got a new e-reader and was excited to use it but wth is with the pricing of some e-books?! Is this a case of "Some publishers trawl through university reading lists, find the commonly used titles, classify these as e-textbooks rather than ebooks and raise the price" that I read about?? #ebooksos

Screenshot of a book, The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup, available to buy as an e-book on the Kobo store for £74.99.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I do not want to watch the orca ram the sunfish so hard it explodes

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

20 days since I suffered my stroke and just been out for a decent bike ride. was brilliant to get out but still felt slightly detached, like when you try to run in a dream. I really hope it will come back with time and I can get back to the fitness I once had. #youngstroke #TIA #cycling

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Originally planned to buy this as an e-book, but realised this is one book I'd really want to be loaning out to friends and family #thewaroncars #lifeaftercars

Photo of a hardback copy of Life After Cars by Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon on a brown upholstered chair.

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Eryk @peregrinecoast.press · 17/11/2025

train worker waking me up to check my ticket

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Sometimes I see artists do little tutorial sketches for how to properly draw folds in clothes and stuff. I'd love to see one for how to faithfully reproduce the way Trump's soft, doughy neck is pulled taught and gathered at the knot of his tie.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Cycling home from work I passed a field of cows and the young ones watched me and I said "hey!" to them like you might to a dog and they stopped chewing to think about what I'd said and I guess that isn't really anything at all but I'm glad I wasn't in a car.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I'm getting some absolutely stellar customer service from @galibiervelo.bsky.social at the moment. Their kit is some of the best performing I've used, and easily the best value. What a cool company.

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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

My wife actually suggested to ME that we watch the new Tour de France: Unchained season! Then a few minutes in the monkeys paw curls as she insists we keep it on dubbed...

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

At midnight, Palestine Action will be proscribed under the Terrorism Act. Their real “crime”? Exposing the UK’s role in arming Israel’s genocide. This is a dark day for our democracy. Criminalising non-violent resistance won’t silence the truth. We are all Palestine Action 🇵🇸

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Thank you @beetlemoses.bsky.social for the finishing touches to my office room! Monkey quadfecta 👌

An office room with wooden desk. On the desk are speakers, a monitor, keyboard & mouse, synthesizers, midi keyboard, a lamp, a small globe, a BMO figure, and gamepad. To the left of the desk is a corner shelving unit with house plants. On the wall above the desk are four, framed art prints by artist Beetle Moses.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Journalist speaking to a Trump supporter who is becoming concerned about the economy. "You voted for Trump?" "I did... I did..." "And what do you think now? Do you still support him?" "Well I'm not a quitter..." Fuck sake dude. Change your mind. What is this attitude?

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Enjoying #MHWilds but still not crash-free. Probably averaging a crash every two hours or so. Super annoying mid-hunt 😡

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Asking "willst though grant me succor?" to my colleague when I want to borrow their USB-C charging cable.

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Ailantd Sikowsky @ailantd.com · 02/02/2025

Today thing that you are likely not going to see in your usual news channel:

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Did a big Audax today and had to navigate this. Water came up to the wheel axles.

A muddy farm road that is severely flooded. The entire width of the road is underwater. A red bicycle is leaning against a telephone pole in the foreground.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Heard on the news this morning that some guy killed his daughter by withholding her insulin, and he was acquitted of murder (got manslaughter instead) because he "believed god would save her". What the fuck. Where does that argument end?

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"How the fuck do I turn off the AI assistant" is a phrase that is coming to define my existence. I'll be saying this every hour or so, every day, for the rest of my life.

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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

There's this set of 4-way traffic lights on my commute. Their default is all lights on red until they detect traffic. Unfortunately, they use an induction loop. On my bike at 06:00am, they don't detect me. I either have to wait several minutes until a driver arrives for my direction, or go on red.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Just tried TrainingPeaks Virtual as it's free at the moment. Found it to be... complete garbage. UI is awful on phone. It stopped changing thing resistance on my trainer part way through (could be my trainer), and it won't sync data in either direction with other apps. Account deleted after one ride

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

My Garmin is dead 😔 Was working totally fine previous ride, and now simply won't turn on. 2 years out if it seems rubbish, and would ordinarily seek a different brand now... But the thought of yet another sign up and another app... I guess that's me, a mug, stuck in the ecosystem like they wanted.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I guess I do think that people should feel some form of shame or embarrassment for choosing to drive something that takes up more of our public space and has greater destructive power. If their own conscience doesn't do that for them, imposing mild rejection towards them seems like leadership?

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Maybe the article is just cursory here, but if you want to find out if B is more effective than A, then doing a trial with groups recieving A and A+B respectively seems odd? Too much risk to those involved in removing access to the frontline charities I guess? www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Screenshot of an article from The Guardian on a study in the UK to assess whether giving homeless people cash through a scheme called Greater Change is more effective than help from traditional frontline charities. Text highlighted by the poster reads: "Half will continue to get help from frontline charities. The other half will get additional help from Greater Change".

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

At Three Trapped Tiger's farewell show at Electric Ballroom in Camden!

Photo of Three Trapped Tigers at their farewell show at Electric Ballroom Camden, 22.11.24, taken from the crowd.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Go out and live your life vs. stay home and get fed.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I'm weirdly hyped for #MHWilds despite not fully getting into Worlds, and having no other MH games in my palmares. I blame the Steam controller for ruining Worlds for me - forced myself to persevere with that controller having spent money on it, but damn, just give me regular joysticks.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Cars in the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of cars on the U.K's roads as there were 30 years ago, but the media are still running articles claiming that a handful of cycle lanes and LTNs 'cause congestion' in London...🙄

A Morris Minor parked next to a huge new SUV.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

There's been a vaccine for drowning this whole time?!

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

This is important. Years ago, while I was advising the City of Sydney Australia on various things, there was an INFAMOUS day where a particularly bad state-level minister of roads was stuck in traffic and saw bike riders zooming by his limousine in a well-used, safe, protected bike-lane. Well… 1/

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Why'd I read this as "cost of 'shat bed'"

Headline from The Guardian website that reads: "cost of bat shed to protect colony near HS2 topped £100m, chair says."

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Either the janky Wattbike app corrupted that last workout, or I have a new 25 minute power pb of ~9.2 quintillion Watts 🤔

Screenshot of a workout summary from the Wattbike Hub app. The numbers for average power are terrifically huge and obviously bogus.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Let's talk about plaster on straw. #howtostrawbalebuilding series🧵1/6

Highest directly (lime) plastered straw bale (new) building in the world, 5 storey 2014 NZNB, Verden, Germany

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Once a manufacturer demonstrates to us that they are too irresponsible to be designing something as hazardous as a car - even going as far as to celebrate their own shite, dangerous design - can we... stop them? Take away a license or something?

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 14/10/2024

The AI overview on Google is an abomination and the longer it stays in place the more destroyed the internet will be. Because this answer is complete historical gibberish:

it's a screenshot of a Google search page for "first railway" and it's Al overview result, which leads with "The first railway was the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR), which opened in 1825" - note that this is completely wrong by any historical measure

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

It was Krusty Burgers this whole time you guys.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

I stayed in the passenger seat while my wife jumped out to run a quick errand. She locked the car and I remembered about the interior scan. Reached to switch it off but the message disappeared before I got to it. That was me frozen in place, only swallowing and moving my eyes until she returned.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

🚨The UK govt has pledged £22bn for carbon capture and storage. CCS, which remains unproven at scale, is explicitly intended to extend the shelf life of fossil fuel infrastructure. Meanwhile, govt backing for heat pump incentives, which are demonstrably effective, stands at just £2bn.

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UK to pledge £22bn funding for carbon capture and storage projects

Latest efforts to develop nascent technology comes after years of delay

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Can you get food poisoning from muesli? Because I did. Can you though?

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 08/09/2024

By accident, I stumbled on this amazing exhibition of print artworks by the Yoshida family (1925–) at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Hard to believe this is all print work. Easily one of my favourite art exhibitions I've been to.

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Josh Thompson @pianofights.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Grateful that my trypophobia seems to stop short at crumpets.

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