@robinince.bsky.social Just wanted to say your EMF talk was amazing. Your kindness, compassion, love and rage really shone through. An amazing coda to the festival.
James Fowkes
@fowkc.bsky.social
Glider pilot. Embedded software puncher and PCB wrestler. Remains overweight. 40 ± 2.
What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"
With Palantir embedded with Network Rail and now with SpaceX being positioned as the primary train WiFi provider, we must ask the question: how much control is the US tech industry going to get over our railways?
The Ghost Geek: Everybody Wants Their Own Enfield In this essay I explore what it means if your ghost hunting legacy is built on another person’s most vulnerable moments. www.theghostgeek.com/p/everybody-...
Everybody Wants Their Own Enfield
and I'm not sure that's okay actually...
theghostgeek.com
The centrist who sneers "populist" is inviting you to believe that there is no difference between "you are worse off because of the swarming hordes of islamic transgenders" and "you are worse off because the rich have used their wealth and power to amass more wealth and power."
exciting news: there’s a profile of me out in The Needle by @marleywrites.bsky.social if you want to find out why I’m like this theneedlenews.com/2026/05/nove...
November Reign
“I’m trans in part because I believe in the hope of a better future. It’s why I do this. It’s why I do anything.”
theneedlenews.com
Why can't the govt insist that rail lines like HS2 and the northern powerhouse improvements are "built at pace". The dept for cars strikes again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lower Thames Crossing features in King's Speech
The £10bn Lower Thames Crossing project features in the King's Speech, announced at Westminster.
bbc.co.uk
Important announcement: a staycation is where you have time off and stay at home. It is not a holiday away from home in the UK. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
You want to get rid of speed cameras so that you can speed without getting fined. I want to get rid of speed cameras and instead fill up the road lanes with so much impedimenta that it's impossible to get up a lick of speed and speed cameras would be redundant. We are not the same.
Cross Country "run the Birmingham - Stansted service to time" challenge (impossible)
⚠️ Video ⚠️ East West Rail 2026 Consultation, Major Marston Vale Line Upgrades (Bletchley to Bedford) youtu.be/AZow0WZdwcw #Bletchley #Bedford #EastWestRail
One good thing about useless AI chatbots is that you can vent at them without guilt. You can't (or, you shouldn't) yell and scream and swear at a human but a chatbot doesn't care if you call it a thick cunt. It's very cathartic despite being ultimately pointless.
Always like to come see this plaque when changing at Peterborough to remind myself that we can build good things sometimes.
Hilarious that MBDA, a defence company, have jobs posted on a climate change jobs website. Unless the point of the site is to make climate change worse. climatechangejobs.com/companies/mb...
MBDA Jobs
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every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
In Christmases past I would spend Xmas day wishing a Merry Christmas to people I follow on twitter... But obviously that's not happening anymore, so here's a thread I shall add to through the day in no particular order...
Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In this article someone calls Bedfordshire "a little slice of Eden". Didn't know Eden had so many logistics warehouses.
Universal UK theme park could rival Disneyland Paris in size
Within its first 20 years, Universal is expecting more annual visitors than any park gets in Europe.
bbc.co.uk
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Some BODY Once told me, this wafer's kind of holy, It ain't a piece of regular bread
Hi @25kv.bsky.social , ever seen dual contact wires before? This is in Japan, I just noticed it while waiting for a train. It wasn't on all the lines so I'm assuming there's quite a specific reason it was used here.