Do you know what one of the biggest seasonal culture shock was here in the Netherlands Vs back in the UK. Public transport is work today. The UK tends to shut down all public transport sometime on Christmas eve and not restart it until early on the 27th. Cos noone needs to use public transport […]

It's wet, windy and unseasonably warm. Dark, dreich and depressing. Scenes from better winter days on Ilkley Moor.

You can’t see me, right? From: @BirdPerHour https://mas.to/@BirdPerHour/115708370121960202

@jorkussmellington.bsky.social On coffee (and really, I would say most other food-related questions OTHER than unchecked consumption of red meat, which the biggest single food-related source of emissions and unsustainable use of land/water resources), this post makes an excellent point!

Some colleagues think I’m “very brave” for cycling 45 minutes to work – “even in winter”! 😅 Please admire my bravery as I cope with this cityscape on my daily way to work… 😇 #koeln #cycling

Random unrelated thought, but i wonder what Dara Ó’Briain and Frankie Boyle are up to these days?

RE: https://mastodon.online/@Geri/115575688120895959 but the official UK terror threat level is a mid-range ‘Substantial’. Despite the sudden surge in ‘terrorists’ arrested, the actual threat of terrorism has never been this low for so long.

When Labour won with a massive majority everyone expected they would follow through on their pre election promise to make things better. What we have got instead is this Reform lite hatred, and even the environmental promises seem tos be turning to dust. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING! Blogger's long term plan to get the EU to put rules in place against scraping trains is to become law in 2027 😂 My 2021 blog post: https://jonworth.eu/the-eu-should-place-a-blanket-ban-on-trains-being-scrapped/ Today's plan "The Commission will propose, in 2027, measures to ban […]

It’s been non stop banging of fireworks for three hours now and the air stinks

Good morning, sir, to you and your sandwich

For those wondering why Dutch trains are so substantially built, this is why. Yesterday, a lorry got stuck on a level crossing, and the train (a VIRM) went right through it like it was made of butter. Even so, it's fortunate that nobody died. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvL...

Always write your alt-text, otherwise the robots will do it and you won’t like it

I forgot to mention that the gas cap was full of wasps also I found that out when I gave the car a quick once-over after Spiders-Man texted me the first time, saw a big wasp going under the gas cap flap, opened it up and a hundred wasps flew out He was like hey is this available, I was like […]

So the curse is, two guys have gone out and bought radiators and batteries for this car intending to buy it and fix it up. The first guy, we got all the way to the AAA, he handed me the cash, I handed him the keys and we took a seat and waited, we got chatting, I remembered oh, when you swap […]

I think this will always be my favourite bsky.app/profile/sand...

This might be last week’s news cycle, but: calling it a ‘Digital ID Card’ gives it a seriousness and credibility and permanence that it doesn’t deserve. What is being proposed is an ‘App’.

Just had a preview ride in Experiment, the replica passenger carriage, pulled by Locomotion ahead of tomorrow’s 200 year anniversary of opening of world-first Stockton & Darlington railway.

CAPTCHA difficulty level: nightmare

In early September we had to retreat unexpectedly from a backpack trip in the #WindRiverRange of #Wyoming due to #wildfire smoke from the nearby #DollarLakeFire. Check out more photos and stories from this unique and surreal trek here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/smok...

For the past 120 years, the U.S. National Audubon Society has worked on bird conservation and for the past 16, it's run a contest to find the most stunning imagery of our feathered friends. @[email protected] shares some of the winning photos, from a royal tern feeding its chick a fish to a […]

Apparently, it's bad luck to mention a "MacBook" in a software company. You have to call it "the Scottish laptop".

I’ve paid for Microsoft 365 Personal for a few years now, to get the full Office apps (but only really use Excel, and the OneDrive storage). I just logged in and it was showing a 40% price hike at my renewal, with no cheaper options shown. ‘Change plan’ just shows the option to switch between […]

what’s the ifixit repairability score of a lobster? you need all these specialized tools just to get in there and you can’t put the lobster back together after

Great British Steel

Now that Amazon has taken control of the Bond franchise, I look forward to the special edition Ring doorbell that goes Dong, Ding Dong

Yeh! Now the Redheugh bridge over the Tyne is starting to fall apart too. Tyneside infra is literally falling apart. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The @teamlabouruk.bsky.social simply doesn't care about the North East anymore. They only give a stuff about the shiny South East. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

3 for the price of one. #bridge #scotland #forth #mypjoto#forth#scotland#bridgerom: @aru https://hachyderm.io/@aru/113898318772187383

I honestly thought a new hatchback couldn’t be much more than £15k? I guess I was wrong. https://open.substack.com/pub/martinrobbins/p/britains-car-market-is-a-complete

I love the Metro but like everything else in the north east it's been badly starved of money and maintenance and is creaking. Getting new trains (slowly) but lifts and escalators keep breaking down. Signalling needs replacing. Expansion to cover more areas like Durham coast & Tyne valley is needed.

Protected cycle lanes are not a transport policy, they're a public health policy. Everything else is a bonus.

What's your sliding door parallel not-alive-universe? I have two: one where I disconnected a 25000 volt live line test instrument from earth while it was still in-circuit and we were testing it live, not dead (50/50 chance); and the other where a friend wasn't there to pull drunken-me out of […]

Temperamental, Isle of Harris 2023. A dramatic take on the stunning North Harris hills. There were northerly winds bringing rain and atmosphere - always a great set up for afternoon rainbows if you get a break in the clouds! This image was a commended finalist in […] [Original post on mas.to]

I was humming the Thunderbirds theme whilst descending. This is several shades of awesomeness😍👍😀

Nice light. Improvised take off location. Quick drone flight in Ravières before the snow starts to melt

Look at this round boi! #birdsofmastodon