Richard Fairhurst
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Building the world’s best bike directions at cycle.travel
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Neil Fawcett
1 day ago
Unprincipled populist nonsense.
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what3words is an abomination.
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Amazing that Press Gazette keep running headlines like this and they don’t mean Newsquest, Reach or whatever the other one is called this week
pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-seo...
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The SEO parasites buying, exploiting and ultimately killing online newsbrands
Parasitical SEO companies are buying respected online news outlets to harvest their reputations before leaving behind a ruined shell.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-seo-parasites-buying-exploiting-and-ultimately-killing-online-newsbrands/
7 days ago
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The Ranty Highwayman
12 days ago
This is batshit.
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cycle.travel
20 days ago
L'application iPhone
cycle.travel
est désormais disponible en français. (Bientôt disponible sur Android!)
apps.apple.com/app/id161963...
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Mayfair Cynic
29 days ago
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cycle.travel
about 1 month ago
🇫🇷 New route guide – Saint-Malo to Nice 🇫🇷 1000 miles/1600 km across France. Stunning gorges, medieval towns, brand new voies vertes, minimal traffic… from Brittany to Provence via the Loire, Lot, Tarn and Ardèche. Full mapping, stage-by-stage guide, GPX and more:
cycle.travel/route/saint_...
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Saint Malo to Nice
The best of France, in one ride. Stunning gorges, medieval towns, riverside trails, <em>châteaux</em>, cathedrals… and km upon km of quiet country lanes. From the Channel at Saint Malo…
https://cycle.travel/route/saint_malo_to_nice
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And here’s Manchester’s finest with Everything’s Gone Green.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_gg...
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New Order - Everything's Gone Green (Live in New York City 1981)
YouTube video by New Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ggZTMi0Bs
about 1 month ago
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From Penzance to Thurso (and Marazion to Hoy)… it’s finished. After 25 years, I’m delighted to report that the New Adlestrop Railway Atlas now covers the whole of England, Scotland and Wales in one big PDF. Every* passenger line and station. Download it here:
www.systemed.net/atlas/
about 2 months ago
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And anyway, this is why
cycle.travel
doesn’t unthinkingly route over highway=track
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Amazon delivery van 'stuck on The Broomway after following GPS'
HM Coastguard Southend says the van driver had been trying to get to Foulness Island.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9e32yv9g5o
about 2 months ago
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The Green Party candidate has the right answer here (although ‘Columbia’ would have been acceptable as Oasis’s one surviving baggy song before they embarked on the Beatles>dadrock trajectory)
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about 2 months ago
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News!
streetmap.co.uk
is back up, blaming Storm Goretti for a month-long outage, and is plastered with “Donate here” ads. They have launched a crowdfunder for £16,000 annual running costs. I am not entirely convinced this is a sustainable model.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/streetmapc...
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about 2 months ago
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Jim Ratcliffe, owner of Ineos: “The UK has been colonised by immigrants” Number of British riders in Team Sky, 2018, before it was bought by Ratcliffe and rebranded: 10 Number of British riders in Ineos Grenadiers, 2026: 6
about 2 months ago
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what’s the point of that
about 2 months ago
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Jess Whitecroft (she/her)
about 2 months ago
Labour: we're banning asylum seekers from using taxis to get to medical appointments. Also Labour: Greens should stand aside in Gorton and Denton by-election to prevent the horrible racist party getting in.
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This is the correct way of dividing Oxfordshire up into three councils and I shall not be taking questions
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about 2 months ago
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Jack Thurston
about 2 months ago
With the future of the A379 / Slapton Line near Torcross in Devon uncertain following recent storm damage, here's a few other disappearing roads you may want to ride before its too late...
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This week in “maybe we should have supported proportional representation after all” news
2 months ago
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And I still have my Multimap mug! (with typo on the bottom)
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2 months ago
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streetmap.co.uk
appears to have finally keeled over and died. In the early 00s it was one of the two big online map sites in the UK, but whereas Multimap smartly sold out to Microsoft, Streetmap ploughed on with its frankly antiquated tech, at one point suing Google for market abuse (and losing).
2 months ago
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Keir Starmer’s chief secretary made a blame-the-civil-servants speech, praising “doers not talkers” and calling for “complete digital transformation”, at what3words HQ today. what3words has lost £150m in ten years and is showing no signs of ever making a profit.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer’s chief secretary reveals plans to bust ‘the sludge’ in Whitehall
Under-performing civil servants will be sacked and taskforces brought in to solve problems, says Darren Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/20/darren-jones-sack-civil-servants-rewire-whitehall
2 months ago
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Christ Church Cathedral School
2 months ago
180 pupils, 5 schools, 1 awesome concert! A little drizzle didn't dampen our thrill at hosting the Primary Schools Choir Concert in Christ Church Cathedral. Thank you to everyone who sang, listened, performed and directed - what a joyous way to spend a Monday afternoon! 🎶💙
#CCCSOxford
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Oxford Clarion
2 months ago
* “average resurfacing cycle for all types of roads in England is every 103 years” factoid actualy just statistical error. average resurfacing cycle is every 12 years. Stonesfield megalosaurus pothole, which was caused by a 700kg dinosaur 166mn yrs ago, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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This is very neat: 3D city models made from OpenStreetMap data (inter alia)
www.lichtbild-manufaktur.shop
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Lichtbild Manufaktur | Custom 3D City Models & Relief Maps
Handcrafted custom 3D city models, relief maps & 3D topographic maps. Perfect as a hometown gift, premium wall decor, or a gift for architects. Configure yours now!
https://www.lichtbild-manufaktur.shop
2 months ago
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Gareth Dennis
3 months ago
For clarity, this government has so far: - cancelled HS2 north of Birmingham (previous government hadn't actually done that formally) - cancelled electrification of the Midland Main Line - cancelled West Yorkshire mass transit - cancelled the trans-Pennine high speed line
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The Telegraph (usual fare: “The Car of the Year is the Mercedes CLA – here is why you should want one”) has an article on “Britain’s 20 prettiest streets”. _15_ of them are car-free (and 4 of the others are very quiet). Restricting cars makes for better towns.
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...
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Britain’s 20 prettiest streets
Our writer lays out the country’s very best alleys, avenues, crescents, cut-throughs, side roads, back streets and boulevards
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/britains-20-prettiest-streets/
3 months ago
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Oxford Clarion
3 months ago
Clarion news: We’re leaving Twitter (’X’). We can’t condone the objectionable content it now promotes, which goes against everything we believe and the Clarion tradition. Our live posting is now here on Bluesky, with all this plus much more in our email newsletter twice a week.
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This keyboard actually _is_ an entire computer because, unlike the Spectrum, it has a mass storage device included
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15ish years ago, when all the roads to Charlbury were snowed up, the one thing getting in and out was the train. But I guess the HSTs were made of sterner stuff than the current trains.
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Why don’t we have a successful mittelstand like Germany, why is Britain so bad at small/medium companies which just do what they do without fuss The Guardian: “companies which make enough money to cover their costs are zombies and must be forced out of business”
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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This is amazing. A (not very large) language model that runs on a Z80. In 40k. You could run it on an Amstrad CPC.
github.com/HarryR/z80ai
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GitHub - HarryR/z80ai: Z80-μLM is a 2-bit quantized language model small enough to run on an 8-bit Z80 processor. Train conversational models in Python, export them as CP/M .COM binaries, and chat wit...
Z80-μLM is a 2-bit quantized language model small enough to run on an 8-bit Z80 processor. Train conversational models in Python, export them as CP/M .COM binaries, and chat with your vintage compu...
https://github.com/HarryR/z80ai
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Bag of Christmas cheese
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Christmas Eve 4pm: Denis Bédard ‘In dulci jubilo’ 6pm: John Cook ‘Divinum mysterium’ 11.30pm: Dobrinka Tabakova ‘Diptych’ Christmas Day 10.30am: César Franck ‘Sortie pour Noël’ Merry Christmas!
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cycle.travel
3 months ago
cycle.travel
now has a fresh new look on iPhone and Android – clearer, easier to use, and with new features such as clickable route highlights. Take a look on your app store of choice! iPhone:
apps.apple.com/app/id161963...
Android:
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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Martyn Brunt
3 months ago
In the past month 3 transport routes have collapsed - but they aren't roads so don't make national news. All 3 have the same root causes, climate change, and Tory austerity passing responsibility for critical infrastructure on to charities and councils. This will happen more, and people will be hurt
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@rupertairbear.bsky.social
Service bus passing a Bull special this evening. Routemaster doing a three-point turn is going to be fun!
4 months ago
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First carol service of the season…
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“Reading for displeasure” is probably the most accurate description of Ian McEwan I’ve ever heard pp1-8: sad thing happens pp9-263: bad consequences of sad thing are drawn out in excruciating detail
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4 months ago
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The Coopers! Waterways World’s local, and a cracking pub for the post mortem on each issue when it came back from the printers. (It was better when they served Staffordshire oatcakes though.)
www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
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It’s the world’s best beer town — and home to my favourite pub
The pubs, the breweries, the beers — our expert has the ultimate guide for a pilgrimage to Burton upon Trent
https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/food-drink/article/burton-upon-trent-beer-town-zctn9787n
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Impressive new official UK online railway map. Appears to be vector tiles, Maplibre JS, manual selection of stations for each zoom level, hints for label placement baked into the tiles. No authorship information that I can see, but someone deserves plaudits for this.
railmap.nationalrail.co.uk
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An interactive and zoomable version of the entire National Rail network in Great Britain. Showing all lines, all stations and all Train Company routes.
https://railmap.nationalrail.co.uk/
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Jack Tindale
4 months ago
"average french person arrested 3 times a year for corruption" factoid actualy just statistical error. average french person arrested 0 times per year. Corruptions Sarko, who lives in le XVIe arrondissement & has over 10k convictions a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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Giles Wilkes
4 months ago
beginning to believe I would actually vote for a dead pigeon on a stick if it just promised to restore the fuel duty escalator
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For at least ten years, every music recommendation engine has been telling me “you should listen to Boards of Canada”. I finally listened to them and am now wondering why I didn’t do so ten years ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=St-m...
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Boards of Canada - Aquarius
YouTube video by MaxMalbi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St-mEIhvKOI
4 months ago
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Oxford Clarion
4 months ago
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.)
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College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball ...
https://oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats-of-oxford/
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cycle.travel
has a bunch of code to handle this specific elevator! (Otherwise it really wouldn’t want to route up a hill quite as steep as that…)
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5 months ago
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO
5 months ago
George Monbiot - "We should never underestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices."
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Jim Waterson
5 months ago
I really like the Oxford Clarion which doesn’t get enough mentions when people write about local news startups.
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Pshaw. It’s biased in favour of a deeply regressive set of small-C social conservative views. It doesn’t have the imagination or the coherence to be either left-wing or right-wing.
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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend
5 months ago
Everything good that's happened in UK rail in my lifetime has been stuff that's occurred despite the resistance of the Department for Roads, and the thing that the GBR structure does is to consolidate total power over rail in the hands of those bastards
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