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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@robertwoolley.bsky.social
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Cynical mid-50 something -Gen X'er. British/English/Irish 48er. Personal politics complex. Undiagnosed Aspergers. Transport person who became a software dev in late 40s. Brent, London/Dublin/Kilkenny/ASEAN. (But mainly Brent). Blocks arseholes.

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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Sucks to be me"
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"they keep drugging me. And then give me Dreamies."
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Quick Google of "Elaine Yates" and "AgeUK" revealed this lot. Looks as if they drag her out when they need a quote. Articles on her include: * heating at 13 degrees (2025/26) * fears as a carer when the triple lock was abandoned in 2021 * social care funding 2019
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My founding fathers.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Er, ok:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Somewhere up north.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Proposal to lock younger people out of social media after 2030:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Good example of heritage pointlessness. Dead phone box in Roe Green, NW9. No phone service but has been left presumably to keep some people happy.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
@seatsixtyone.bsky.social Good morning from Padang Besar where I am most of the way through a train trip from Beijing to KL. There are now through electric services from here to KL. Timetables attached along with Kommuter tomes. KL to Padang electric to follow
KTM KommuterKTM KommutetPadang to KL via electric train
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"We need proper motivation..."
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
(If you know, you know)
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight, and we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement communi who have chosen to join us here at the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time..." @josefoshea.bsky.social
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
So is there parking enforcement or not? @showmeasign.online
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
@helenbarrett.bsky.social has kindly pointed out that Margaret Calvert, designer of a slew of transport things including the Tyne and Wear Metro font which bears her name is 90 today. Here's one of her works. The girl is based on her and the boy her brother.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"I stand ready. Well, if my arthritis lets me."
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Here's what they put through my letterbox. They are charmers. Happy AI people on one side, frothing hate on the other. (I live in a ward with a rather lovely Hindu temple. So their Christian rhetoric is uh...)
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Sam is aged 15 on Sunday and wants to hear about Daphne's plans for triple-locked kitty benefits...
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Harrow Town Centre aka Priti Patel country. Yeah, er no
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Starting with this:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Also includes:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Good morning from Brent where it is borough election day. Only canvasser at the polling station. Candidates from all the main parties plus one independent plus one UKIP who have gone full fash/BNP:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Unlikely. Probably Unionists talking about Londonderry are speaking of:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Lists I'm on. Categories: 1. Upset right-on individuals 2. Irish people tagging me in England (hello all!) 3. Transport 4. WTF?
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"I would like to point out as a British shorthair I have support humans. Several of them. Or as I call them: staff."
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Here's a library pic from the footbridge at Reigate. Oh - and the signal box in the foreground is in use *and* locally listed.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Seeing as Pam Bondi is unemployed, she could always find work as a Tamzin Outhwaite impersonator:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Slightly odd focus in Labour literature- vape shops and gambling. Market in every constituency?
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Clearly an ITV presentation enthusiast. Viz:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
France getting it in the neck too?
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"Quite."
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS CATTER.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Before the Euro, Ireland had rather lovely animals on its coins:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I can see why the Bank of England has decided to use wildlife rather than people. Here's what happened last time:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
"It's why being self-domesticated is a good idea..."
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
In the land of my ancestors. Nottingham rather than Dublin although both have trams and a Phoenix Park.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Currently in a very noisy Spice of Life off Cambridge Circus. Still, beer is AK so that's OK.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Writing is on the floor.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Through our letterbox. The Mayoral elections aren't for another 24 months. Borough elections this time. Reform is gaslighting on crime and it focusing on the London Mayoral elections in 2028.
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"I would like to lead that session. I am equally qualified."
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
@katie0martin.ft.com Fair enough:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Fair:
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Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @robertwoolley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Funny, because cats are Tories
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