Almost 135,000km of track electrified. Meanwhile the electrification on the MML from London to Nottingham/Sheffield stops in the Leicester suburbs before even reaching the cities station 🤪

Today in Totally Foreseen Unforeseeable Consequences.

My Google Drive is full, so was looking to buy more from them. Alas, by foisting unwanted AI slop on the next tier it made me go elsewhere. In the same week Disney+ & Xbox jack up their prices they decide to remove,thankfully unused, features from my plan with the dearer AI plan as the replacement🤪

BBC One doing it's best impression of ITV and crashing into programmes with adverts... 🤦

"The fleet was originally expected in 2022 [...] Some [of the new] fleet are now set to be put into use on services in the coming weeks [and] through 2026." www.bbc.com/news/article... Will EMR be nationalised before they've finished the refurbs and new trains they promised at franchise award?

You Sank my Battleship by Bankriver - Banksea's lesser know cousin!

My mute list working so effectively my first thought on reading this was "didn't Rapture (the 1990s music TV & extreme sports channel) close before Evanescence were a (mainstream) thing? Still not sure what's going on but now know it's one of those things happening the other side of the puddle.

youtu.be/fuwaOiTHl7U?... Very coincidentally posted the very day we take delivery of bin number 4!

Am I the only one that had more issues with the 3.5mm jack than Bluetooth? Cable constantly snagging, one earphone stopping working, Walkman/MP3 player dangling on the end of the cable and getting pulled out the pocket etc?

I see from the F1/F2 coverage Baku (in the Petrostate of Azerbaijan) has now got some, erm, interesting cycle lanes - bidirectional lanes painted on one side of the road (and a quick Google suggests they stay like this - i.e. no wands etc - all year round e.g. monkeystale.ca/2025/07/08/a... ) 👀

There should be at least a year of my Adult life where we aren't doing at least one of being in a recession, doing austerity, or bombing the shit out of a foreign land...

youtu.be/jcPpgiK4-T8?... The car with the built in chauffeur - coming in the not too distant future, in erm, 1969. The more things change the more things stay the same!

Found it - the view of Nottingham that must het protected at all costs! 🤩

The annoying thing with this is a fridge is one device where network connectivity would be useful to alert when the temp starts rising rather than the janky garden thermometers, lithium battery, SDR Dongle, RTL433, Home Assistant setup I have... But this definitely isn't the solution!

Rubbish, Cycle Infrastructure

My home towns Twinned towns signs have seen better days. Growing up seeing these (well, the pre City versions) every time I returned home did spark an interest in the wider world though!

"But now the a50 smashes it way into Stoke-on-Trent with absolute zero f***s given" So not just me that thinks that then 🙈 - really does have that vibe doesn't it? youtu.be/aqkZVOUVWmg?...

Are there 420 ducks in this lake? 😒 "I have tried rice, oats peas and chopped up apples. Mum is sure they are all good for us. Best of all is weed, that is my natural food and there is plenty in this lake"

"The bold eat Dr Nik & vibe" Wonder what's on the menu here 😬

www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/20... Didn't realise the signal on the MML was this good! The company’s simulated passenger on each mobile network spent the following amount of time WITHOUT a dependable internet connection on the [2hr 23m] journey: Vodafone – 1h42, EE – 1h46, Three – 1h56, O2 – 1h59.

How is an email written entirely in the Latin alphabet possibly Greek? The enshitification of Google continues...

A party that doesn't want to be scrutinised doesn't deserve to be in power in a democracy. www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

You've spent the day alongside Robin Hood and his Merry Man stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, and you have finally escaped from the Sherrif of Nottingham and ended up right outside Nottingham Castle. Where do you go next?

Removing the cars has also provided plenty of space in areas that might have just accommodated turning vehicles or a tiny of car parking for dozens of customers/residents/visitors to park up - pending a full street improvement (lots of which seemed to be ongoing).

www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting... I see drivers have stopped driving into trams for long enough the normal timetable can be resumed!

Gotta love the enshittification of Windows... First Microsoft add Copilot slop to Notepad, then it stops opening at all, and now it throws error messages... Yay! 10/10. Of course, as it's built into Windows there doesn't appear to be a way of following those instructions. 👏

We like this guy. Labour have now completely f@cked us in terms of getting to other cities reliably, at least make our region a bit less car dominated for the future 🙏 #eastmidlands Calls for 'rapid expansion' of Nottingham tram network - BBC News share.google/75mC3LfUh4fX...

westbridgfordwire.com/could-nottin... Interesting... So should 1. More councils have issued 151s 2. Nottms officer didn't need to issue it 3. Cllrs are still in denial about the choices they should have made/oversight they should have given? Guessing the answer is probably a combination of all 3!

An illustration of how bad Reach PLC sites have gotten? Articles so badly written, presented, and clickbatey are the headlines that people assume the thing that the cooling tower demolition about to happen is at the local closed power station and not the one at the other end of the county.

Are European homes so well built that people need to go out and buy some damp if they fancy the British experience? (Couldn't actually tell what this store was selling)

Nah, you can keep pictures of your nan, you just have to delete any photos that contain evidence of the "green and present land", clean rivers, or full reservoirs; and all those screenshots of the total lies AI came up with 🙈 Gotta do our duty and forget the past!

Lol, capacity is so constrained that they have to maximise passenger seating so much they can't even fit a sensible bike space in! No chance of any of these gimmicks without HS2.... www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/...

Deleting the kids baby photos so Sam Altman can make more money stealing all my work and your radicalised FB auntie can post another 7 AI sloppers of crab Jesus saying amen to a 17 fingered baby marine

I'd change Gaz' summary to "It [20 mph] should be the default limit with higher limits by exception" - with forward visibility, foot & cycle paths, lack of property functions, standard of junctions etc being criteria taken into account when raising it.

I see the "Love Locks" are soon to be removed from Wilford Suspension Bridge. 🔒🚮

Compare and contrast - the fee-free cycleparking outside a typical UK railway station - Nottingham here, a solitary Sheffield stand (next to an Escooter/ebike hire pen)...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... The UKs ticketing can be rather baffelling at times, but NMBS spring a new one on me - travelling on the Lille Flandres to Antwerpen-Centraal train required two different apps, depending on whether or not you cross the French/Belgian border 🤯.

I see @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social is putting up a good fight against the drivers of Lille but taking many casualties in the process!

Wonder how Britain's motorists would cope with signs like these? :- "Cycling Zone Cars Mandatory Behind Cyclists 18 mph"

Interesting that us Brits seem to be unable to manage this - the Germans (Berlin), the Belgians (West-Fanders), and French (Lille) all seem to be able to manage this just fine! * Even the disconcerting "turning right across the green man" works in those places.

Iconography for a new religion?

I see active travel crossings of the Thames in East London are just like buses, you wait ages for a new one and two come along... Oh wait, it IS a bus! (And good grief, the ped/cycle crossings on the Tidal Basin Roundabout take an eternity don't they?)

Can we agree that if you've got an emotional support vehicle so big that the wheels on one side are touching the kerb and the others aren't even in the bay it should be classed as a HGV & fitted with a speed limiter & tachometer?

How it started "Rushcliffe Borough Council (RBC) is continuing its investment in [...] to improve accessibility. westbridgfordwire.com/more-inclusi...

Best way to get to an event... 1. On Foot 2. Bicycle 3. Bus 4. Train 5. "Tube" (DLR & Liz) 6. Taxi 7. Car 8. Boat 9. Cable Car ... The event, only cars racing! Not often you see else betor4 directions to the car park is it?

Interesting how something so permanent can last such a little amount of time - 40 years for the Belgrave Flyover in Leicester, now a ¼ of it's lifetime has past since removal. We don't always have to repeat the mistakes of the past!

Houten has a similar population to West Bridgford, where Highways England are proposing the following "upgrades" to two roundabouts....

Wonderwall by Oasis. Even more annoying since they announced their reunion and Wembley date (on the London EPrix weekend) the week I was going to book my hotel for the Formula E, pushing the price up £100 within minutes 😭

Did not realise the old style clakerboard displays could get screen burn!

Why am I reminded of an old PIF... "If you hit me in an SUV, there's an 80% chance I'll die, hit me in a normal car there's an 80% chance I'll live" *I can't work out the actual numbers from the report.