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Gavin Lingiah 🧬⚖️ @gav1nx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andy Burnham: We shall improve society a little bit. Conservatives:

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Probably one of the greatest speeches on kindness and intelligence ever given! 👏👏👏 [SOUND ON 🔊]

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 06/09/2026

My shredder was running more slowly than usual. I see its motor sparks quite a lot, and presume this is because the motor’s brushes are worn out. But where to obtain brushes measuring 5.4 x 3.9 mm (prob about 10mm long when new)?

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 03/09/2026

Nature herself proving that "Hexagons are the Bestagons" :)

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 02/09/2026

Welcome to Harrow! (Exit from station car park, Station Rd) @harrowonline.org

Behind some buildings a row of bins has rubbish overflowing and piled on top of them and spilling out into the roadway

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 31/08/2026

Yesterday I was sorting through my teetering reading-pile. Much of it is magazines, incl from my employer and from Cycling UK. It's telling that both backlogs start at June 2020 — a physical manifestation of insufficient headspace / mental wellness / or time since then to do much reading.

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Hastings Diesels Ltd @hastingsdiesels.co.uk · 25/08/2026

👀 New railtour alert! 📅 Saturday 19 September 2026: HDL ‘Megawatt Valley Venturer’ railtour to Nottingham, and the High Marnham Test Track near Tuxford. For details and bookings, please visit our website: www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/tuxford

Screenshot of fare table, which also exists as a more accessible HTML table at the web-link given in the same Bluesky posting.

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 23/08/2026

Something odd happening at Heathrow, a whole slew of consecutive missed approaches (well, at least 3 just now plus others a few mins ago) to runway 27-L. And now the landings are diverted to 27-R.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Museums pro tip: Want to know if there's a bat flying around your galleries? Simply listen to all the visitors saying "there is a bat flying around the galleries."

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 14/08/2026

I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.

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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Bluesky yesterday and tomorrow - why are so many people so stupid? Bluesky today - why does the government have to send an alert to people telling them not to be stupid?

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Paul Whitewick @paulwhitewick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Well...now its in the media I can share that this was indeed my sister that drew the... erm... bin in the sky. Legend!

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wow. Just wow.

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 11/08/2026

If you were on a Met Line train earlier at 22:00ish that was on its way to Chesham, yes that was me who allowed 90 seconds' delay to accrue while a smoker was persuadedto step back out onto the platform... ..and to stub out the lit cigarette that he'd flicked out of my doors as they closed.

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 08/08/2026

An unusual situation which amused me – to have closed all three of my Apple Watch activity rings by 1 minute past noon! (By exceeding 500 kCal of activity, 30 mins of exercise, and to have stood up & moved around during each of 12 hours.) How did I do it? Night-shift then parkrun! 🤭😂

Screenshot from my Apple Watch at one minute past noon, showing that I had already closed all three Activity Rings.

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Kat Knight @katkni.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

As someone wading through this right now with our parents’ house, a small but heartfelt plea to consider hugely decluttering your home if/when you have the ability to do that and ideally long before your offspring have to do it instead (when they are weighed down by extra things like grief).

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Joe Brown @joebrownlondon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#OnThisDay 179 years ago one of the most elegant station buildings in the country opened at Huddersfield, Grade I listed and designed by James Pigott Pritchett. Described by Sir John Betjeman as "the most splendid in England"... hard to disagree. Tim Green buff.ly/h3ND83I

Front elevantion of Huddersfield station: using the neo-classical style, the station is well known in architectural circles for its classical-style facade, with a portico of the Corinthian order, consisting of six columns in width and two in depth. In the square in front are fountains and a statue of Huddersfield-born Harold Wilson.

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 19/07/2026

Carl Richards writes: “Risk is what’s left over when you think you’ve thought of everything.”

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 19/07/2026

“The most important part of every plan is planning on your plan not going according to plan.” — Morgan Housel

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 13/07/2026

Yet again the Tube Status proves to be utterly meaningless. I just missed an Uxbridge train from Harrow at about 10:09. The next one came at 10:30ish but then curtailed at Ruislip. The one behind that curtailed at Rayners. I’m now on a Picc. I can see the next UXB left Harrow at 10:50.

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 08/07/2026

At terminus stations (back in the old days of loco-hauled trains), the arriving train's loco would be uncoupled. When the train departed, the light engine would then follow the train out. 2 trains in 1 section. I never thought about this at the time, but what signalling arrangements were used?

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 08/07/2026

Here's a 1985 video tour I found of Liverpool Street mainline station. I grew up in Cambridge, for which "the Liverpool Street Line" was *the quick* way to London in those days (i.e. before the OHLE came north from Bishops Stortford and Royston to King's Lynn). www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrJn...

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A walk round Liverpool Street (BR) station, 1985

YouTube video by Nick Mitchell

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 27/06/2026

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Our @hastingsdiesels.co.uk English Riviera trip was a success! See some fantastic footage here.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KjU...

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Rare Hastings DEMU at Dawlish Sea Wall

YouTube video by Coast Cams

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.

“A grieving family have asked us not to respond in the way that the leader of Reform has responded. They've asked us not to. They have lost their son in the most appalling circumstance. They make a simple plea of us as human beings to please not exploit that. That is their plea to us.
“We all need to reflect on those words of Henry's father. My response, and the response of others to be fair, has been focused on the lessons to be learned so we can deliver justice. “His response has been to appeal for rage – rage. That's his response to a father who has lost his son and asked for that not to happen.
“Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances, but to do it when the family are expressly saying please don't is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is.”

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Hastings Diesels Ltd @hastingsdiesels.co.uk · 29/05/2026

Oh, go on then! Here's our cab video of our Hastings DEMU crossing the Forth Bridge. 😊 youtu.be/v3kr8EZ9V7Y

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 26/05/2026

Went on a walk after dinner, in spite of the warmth, to reach my Exercise and Move goals (Apple Watch). On my walk I burned through more kCal than the quantity I consumed in my dinner's ice-cream. Good to do some "ice-cream offsetting" (largely because it facilitates the ice-cream!)

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Hastings Diesels Ltd @hastingsdiesels.co.uk · 25/05/2026

We're still trying to process what we just did...

Interior view of a 1950s slab-sided Hastings DEMU train saloon, with comfy sprung seating trimmed in 'Trojan' moquette, and bare tungsten light-bulbs in the off-white painted ceiling. The single-glazed window with 'draft-free ventilator' quarter-light carries a BR-era triangular 'No Smoking' sign. Through the window can be seen only too clearly at close range one of the diagonal red-painted massive tubular girders of the Forth Rail Bridge, with the Firth of Forth including the Road Bridges just visible in the distance among the rail bridge structure. Thus this photo even without context provides visual evidence that we took our Hastings DEMU to Scotland!

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Hastings Diesels Ltd @hastingsdiesels.co.uk · 22/05/2026

The GOSH Ness Monster charter by the Branch Line Society got our Hastings DEMU all the way to Edinburgh Waverley from Hastings, on time. Tickets are still available on the train for tomorrow’s run to Inverness and Aberdeen.

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 02/05/2026

Very sorry to hear that Alessando "Alex" Zanardi, former F1 driver and Paralympian, has died. Here he is, captured by my analogue camera as he signed autographs just outside the F1 paddock at Silverstone after Qualifying, on 10 July 1999; he was a Williams F1 team driver that year.

Alex Zanardi, seen against a cloudless blue sky at Silverstone, being handed programmes and a marker pen with which to sign his autograph. He is wearing the red kit of the 1999 Williams F1 team.

Alex Zanardi, seen outside the F1 paddock at Silverstone, looking down at the autographs he was signing. He is wearing the red kit of the 1999 Williams F1 team.

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Formula 1 @f1tv.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Forever in our thoughts Remembering Ayrton Senna today, and every day 💛💚

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Formula 1 @f1tv.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Remembering Roland Ratzenberger Forever in our thoughts ❤️🤍

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 15/04/2026

Just spent an hour I couldn't afford, cleaning out and descaling my coffee machine. But not doing so would ultimately cause more work and damage; and the facility to make myself nice lattes at home is not to be underestimated...

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 15/03/2026

This article on _dependency and skill fade_ by Howard Oakley, and its final sentence which I've quoted below, I found to be very powerful: eclecticlight.co/2026/03/15/l... "Like morphine, AI has great powers, but overused it can so readily become both addictive and destructive."

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Joe Brown @joebrownlondon.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

#OnThisDay 60 years ago British Rail closed the Somerset & Dorset Railway, more than 100 miles long connecting Bath, Burnham-on-Sea and Bridgwater with Bournemouth. In September 1960 a service waits to depart Bath Green Park: John Wiltshire (Peter Brabham) buff.ly/xZoVlPw

The photographer is standing between the two central sidings between the departure and arrival platforms at Bath Green Park looking towards the buffer stops, with the vaulted roof in the background. In September 1960 Loco 53804 stands at the departure platform with a rake of maroon coaches, with other coaches standing in the sidings. A semaphore signal and loading gauge are evident on the left.

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 12/02/2026

5 years ago today. www.squarewheels.org.uk/rfg/

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Richard Griffin @squarewheels.org.uk · 03/02/2026

I have (at last) scanned (in 32 tiles) an old OS Landranger map for @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk (against the day when it is out of ©opyright). Now I'd like to stitch the scans together. But the recommended application, Hugin, seems not to be available on a Mac any more. Any ideas, SABRE or others?

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

ok today in Marketing class we're going to learn about re-branding

Illustration of rebranding using images of products with an arrow pointing from the original name to the new one
Marathon became Snickers.
Jif became Cif.
The Conservatives are becoming Reform UK.

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