Simon Hawthorn
@simon
Public transport major infrastructure sponsor (for my sins), mountain walker and lapsed archer, ex-charity director, Autistic & ADHD. Unreformed kayaker. Atypical podcaster. Democracy author. Might try and do some more travel soon! He/They 🏳️🌈
Ah, well there goes the power. Quite a large area as well, two postcode areas. Slightly surprised it's taken this long
Morning @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @jay.bsky.team Not sure if you might need to tweak your algorithms but this is not actually true. Farage has not won the seat. It may not quite breach S66a Representation of the Peoples Act 1983 (maybe check with your own legal team) but it doesn't look great.
I'm unsure whether this was written by an LLM or someone who has a slight misunderstanding of history and the passage of time but I'm reasonably sure the oldest a Victorian thing can be is about 189 years give or take...
Went on a short (ok, 28.4km) amble in the Surrey Hills earlier. Always good to get outside, have some time and space to decompress and enjoy some fresh air. Plus listen to an audiobook.
I've been fairly quiet on here the last couple of weeks. I spent two weeks building, helping to run and now tearing down the fabulous biennial @emfcamp.bsky.social Saw some awesome talks, worked with the most amazing people and eventually I might even catch up on some sleep. So very worth it.
Off the RE1315 at Zernez and now the queue for the festival. I've had places to queue.
More trains (I missed a couple because short changes and busy). Well into the land of red trains now.
There were trains. It was hot. Now I need coffee and a croissant and to gird myself against more.
It's a beautiful day and I've gone for a short* walk. Am 17km in and stopped for a quick refreshment before I scale the heights of Leith Hill.
No SWR. A train due to leave at 2053 is not "on time" if it doesn't even have a platform at 2054.
I cannot begin to express how much I do NOT want agentic AI anywhere near my work. Last thing I need is some random bot deleting years of documents, files and briefings with an "oops never mind". Talk about adding cost, risk and danger to a project...
Some insanely binary questions in this "National Conversation" thing. And only a few free-text boxes to really give views. www.thenationalconversation.org.uk
Everyone else has gone in or gone to bed. So I am sat here on the terrace with the fire, my book and a glass. Not bad for gone 0100.
Not sure Wes has the best of intentions or ability to pick supporters and friends... Plus he was an odious little prig even in NUS days and since has decided to chuck trans people, disabled people and most leftists under various busses
Anyway, back to some proper transport and jumping aboard RE20 (18515) towards the centre.
Been a while since I disembarked via stairs. Anyway, I made it to Berlin Brandenburg airport. So that's good.
Not even 6am and I'm waiting for transport. With a bag. Could I be about the shenan, again?
So a quick jaunt on an AM08 (L4866) and then a one minute cross platform at Jurbise to pick up an AM96 (IC3717) with the rubber ring front that I am told by the lively @traindrivertom.trains.blue are a pleasure to drive.
Oh good. Eurail B.V. had a data breach and let criminals wander off with such fripperies as full name, address, passport numbers and date of birth. That surely won't have any consequences... And it's clear they really care about data. Top notch. /s
More unusual finds in the loft included this copy of the Daily Mail (sorry) from Friday 14th June 1940 And lo and behold the patriarch of a certain well known American family. Just a little time before he resigned his post for reasons I would probably leave to better historians than I to elucidate