James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Went hiking across the Icelandic highlands. 5 days without phone reception or electricity, can recommend it. Took some nice photos. This is on the way down from Bláhnjúkur at Landmannalaugar 010
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Don’t want to be the person taking photos at gigs, but these are actually good 010
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Based on this picture I have figured out that I may be able to see your flat from my place across the other side of London. Are you visible here, I think you should be 110
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Took this one last month from Obergurgl looking south towards the Dolomites catching the setting sun 000
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 01/11/2025The article is trying to say we should be more like this 020
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Indeed, from this map it looks like the main predictor of having compulsory ID is being a former Warsaw pact country or fascist dictatorship. Or Belgium. It is simply not true that most EU countries have it 000
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Quite please with this one from Montana El Cepo on La Gomera last month 020
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 28/08/2025The galactic core last week in La Palma. There is quite a lot of detail in the dust 020
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Better to rage at the issue of Sith plots than trying to find a scapegoat in Anakin Skywalker 000
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 19/07/2025(If the British public put more money into equities the housing market wouldn't be as broken as it is) 100
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 14/07/2025It’s the political economy version of Homer Simpson suing the “All you can eat” buffet 010
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 06/06/2025CERN when it sees the web being quasi-privatised and flooded with misinformation 010
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Cool cloud burst over London right now with sunshine beyond it 130
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 24/04/2025FML I googled the famous Robert R Wilson quote in light of that NSF news and the stupid LLM has hallucinated that he became a theatre director because there was another Robert Wilson who was a director. This is straight up misinformation 100
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Americans when they see Britain remove Liz Truss after only 4 weeks of government 040
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 09/04/2025This has been the single most prescient and correct thought I have ever expressed in a public forum 210
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 03/04/2025you’ve still got the inevitable default on Treasuries to look forward to 1130
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 23/02/2025When you need to buy a single ticket to transfer across Paris by metro 100
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 09/02/2025I imagine a scene that looks like this where the Doge person is trying to shutdown the Treasury payments system 100
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 03/02/2025BBC R4 article discussing the role of Morgan McSweeney in the Labour Party leadership 000
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Pundits, market participants and voters racing to explain that the campaign talk about tariffs is just rhetorical 020
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 21/01/2025A kind of sun-dog effect caused by snow falling on the mountain top in Saalbach last week 021
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 25/12/2024characters most susceptible to the One Ring who would be destroyed and twisted beyond recognition the most quickly 000
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Little did I know how accurate this tweet of mine from the Before Times would turn out to be. Be careful what you wish for 100
James Monk @twoev.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Today was a good day. Went on the little Swiss train up the mountain in the sun 000