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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 1h

A single-shot coffee is only falling halfway off the wagon, right? Which, if you consider the geometry of wagons, is still, technically speaking, on, rather than off. Anyway, that's my excuse. ☕

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 2h

Main bike is out of action awaiting a replacement part after last week's adventures. Still coldy so don't fancy taking the Hefty Chonk all the way to the city and back. Thameslink: £5.90 Forest (35mins, e-assist): £4.50 Usually I think of dockless as kind of expensive, but it's the winner here. 🚲✅

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Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.social · 3h

Wonderful thread on Paris....anyone who ever went there in the 70s-90s would struggle to comprehend this change...

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Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP @catherinerowett.bsky.social · 4h

Why didn't Andy Burnham address the climate and harvest crisis? He's going for fake subsidies to pretend things feel better when they're actually being made worse. Come on Andy. No new oil and gas. No more runways. No data centres. We need realism. Only the Green Party gets it.

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 5h

Historically late tropical night unknown for time of year. Still needs to be confirmed Heathrow fell just short 19.9C but seems inner London, St James’s Park stayed above 20C.

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 5h

Honestly the sooner these dead-eyed cunts and their RW mates fuck off into their AI bubble pods and stay there *forever*, the better for everyone else. For them: films with only white people and skinny women with "perfect" figures. For us: life, joy, and streets that aren't full of fucking Nazis.

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 5h

Poor Nick has not absorbed the full joy of going to a concert, seeing music performed by people, live. He has not considered how humans pour their life story, trials, triumphs, influences, and spirit into their music. Music is just slop. It is personalised to you, but has no soul, heart or mojo.

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 5h

Dinosaur Pile-Up touring the UK next Spring. 👀 www.dinosaurpileup.com/tour On-sale Friday morning. *sets alerts* Should be a quality show - one of my favourite bands lately - anyone else going?

dinosaurpileup.com

Show Dates | Tickets To Our Tour — Dinosaur Pile-Up

Check out our upcoming shows at festivals near you!

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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 6h

A toe-curlingly feeble take down of the Irish, a country that fully understands oppression from a bullying, colonising neighbour, by the Mail, a magazine with permanent residency on the wrong side of history

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Valentenya the climate policy strategy cat 🍉 🐈‍⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck the ABC for this framing. How much of what remains of the human friendly climate and the living world it supports will be destroyed as a result of this decision? How many children will die of heatstroke or have their homes washed or burned away? How many jobs will be destroyed? Fuckers.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 15h

I think as a point of pride we should not let people as inept as this triumph over us.

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 19h

Spotify's having an outage here, so it's flipped to my Offline Backup, which seems to be an algorithmically curated cache. Curious to see what's in there, but anyhow. Obvs there was Rammstein in there, and if you don't know Deutschland, it's six and a half minutes of OTT metal theatrics. But.

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 19h

Despite heading down to the plot, as per, at the tail end of the school run / beginning of the rush hour, curiously I experienced exactly 0 close passes on the bike today. Isn't that odd? 🤔

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A sweary Kubler-Ross guide for veteran software devs impacted by GenAI disruption. (Thread.)

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 20h

I'm a few days late to this, but it's worth noting as amid all the years of deeply weird discourse about low-traffic neighbourhoods this is perhaps the most unhinged thing I've ever seen. [Plus: they're not "Sadiq Khan's LTNs". They're done by councils.]

Sadiq Khan’s LTNs made me flee Britain, says millionaire philanthropist

Sir Peter Lampl claims mayor’s traffic policies make London unsuitable for ‘wealth-creating entrepreneurs’

“To do all that, I needed to be able to get about,” he wrote. “I needed to be able to meet people, make deals, go campaigning, chivvy politicians into action. I needed black cabs and roads they could get down. And I needed to be able to get home at the end of the day without spending an hour stuck in a single lane of traffic on Park Lane.

Sir Peter said the expansion of bike lanes in London and introduction of traffic calming measures, such as 20mph speed limits and low-traffic neighbourhoods, had created “a capital city in which we literally can’t get around by taxi”.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 20h

I recently pitched (over beers, and to definitely the wrong people) the idea that UK should have its own digital platform/social media. I literally don’t understand why this isn’t a thing. Today billions of pounds goes straight out of UK economy to overseas firms because of this

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 21h

OK, someone explain to me HOW exactly it can be this warm, but also feel this grey and dreary and dull? 28ºC is normally how you say "glorious blazing July sunshine". Today the sky is like:

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 22h

Finally - London-wide licensing for dockless ebikes is on the way thanks to @london.gov.uk @willnorman.co.uk www.london.gov.uk/mayor-vision... An end in sight to borough boundary BS, weird charging/parking anomalies and the messy clutter of abandoned bikes. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Bring it on!

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 23h

A game for UK food growers and the idly curious. For those who haven't been paying attention, there's an absolute monster El Niño brewing. And on the basis of "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade", "When life gives you an absolute monster El Niño, grow..." Lemons, of course, but what else?

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am, apparently, "making a spreadsheet of my freezers" years old. ❄️👨🏼‍🦳

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How about considering the voters of today - in hospitality and creative industries and education and the wider services sector and the gig economy - who actually exist and are the working class we actually have rather than trying to bring back the fantasy working class voters of the past?

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This, but instead of coral it’s your brain and your friends’ brains and your children’s brains…

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A sweary Kubler-Ross guide for veteran software devs impacted by GenAI disruption. (Thread.)

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Eye of Anaklia," a 40-meter-tall, futuristic abandoned observation tower located on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. IG: @abandoned.berlin www.instagram.com/abandoned.be...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/09/2026

‘What underlies the sense of affront is the assumption that the “people of England” are, as it were, a settled question, that the days of large-scale movements belong to the past, or ought to.’ Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers

In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...

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Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That last skeet - why was I awake at 02:30? An hr before World Service had an eye-opening explanation of what to expect from the building Super El Niño:

bbc.co.uk

BBC World Service - The Global Story, The Super El Nino: what happens when it hits us?

Climate scientists say this year’s El Niño could be the worst on record. Are we prepared?

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We scream into the void. We stare blankly into the abyss. We post into the ether

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Deep in their evolutionary history, gastropods underwent a process called 'torsion' in which their digestive track folded back in on itself such that the anus exits directly above the head in nearly all snails. For this reason, I am afraid most snails identify with the Rationalist community.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

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Jimmywim @jimmywim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

" It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world." ... that also happens to be recording people. Fuck's sake.

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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sheer crap from Burnham. If you say "immigration needs to be dealt with" and talk about small boar crossings in this context, you -are- equivocating. Call them what they are - fascists, terrorists, scum. Nothing short of that will do.

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whatever else might be going on, the Weather Gods are kind today.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I honestly think ecstasy improved society. Cocaine is Tory

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here follows an Extremely Niche Visual Gag, as I head home from the synth cave with a couple of bits & bobs I'm selling off. Who wants to play? A small bottle of the Old Gods' Tears, or an evening in an alcoholic venue of your choice, to the winner.

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tories' unlawful conduct putting Croydon on highway to hell insidecroydon.com/2026/09/25/t... #Croydon @croydoncyclists.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk @christianwolmar.bsky.social

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sure thing, Google, "magic". It's OK, just tell me you had the Shit Machine read my private emails, and used them to train it on how to shit bigger, stinkier shits than ever before. (Not that it'll be much help, my inbox is mostly very, very boring.)

"Important according to Google magic."

"Click to teach Gmail that this conversation is not important."

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Two more horrific crashes. A cyclist killed (seemingly at a crossing) in North Pole Road. Then today a huge crash (right by a bus stop bypass) on Tollington Road. All supposed to be 20mph zones. Urgent action is needed. www.london-now.co.uk/news/2658256... www.london-now.co.uk/news/2658194...

london-now.co.uk

LIVE as 'serious' crash blocks north London road causing bus chaos

A north London road is blocked due to a crash causing congestion to Finsbury Park.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hadn't read it -- thank you! Looks like it's available to borrow on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/fant...

Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Leaving this one here for any road safety / active travel folks who aren't aware of it. Not the best quality transcription, I think there's a PDF of the original with illustrations and typesetting floating around out there somewhere. (If anyone has it, send my way!)

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 25/09/2026

While many drivers are careful and considerate, I see a huge amount of dangerous and aggressive driving on London's roads - and very little enforcement. Drivers aren't worse than other road users. But motor vehicles do far more damage than other machines when poorly controlled or recklessly driven.

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Of bloody course they did 😠😭 It's mid-century car manufacturers and city streetcar networks all over again. * quiet rage *

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 25/09/2026

Inside of you there are two wolves. One makes you a slobbery Lab and one makes you an especially unpleasant Chihuahua.

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 25/09/2026

I know I shouldn't be taking the bait here but I cannot believe that reactionary Christians are apparently offended that Aslan will be voiced by a woman in the new Narnia films. HE'S ALREADY BEING REPRESENTED AS A FUCKING LION, DON'T YOU PEOPLE UNDERSTAND ALLEGORY

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Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pigeons, seemingly eating mortar out of a wall. Never seen that before. (Nunhead Cemetery ish).

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is marvellous. High art for low income families. What an enlightened politician. Compare and contrast to the barbarians in command of Britain

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