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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@gatesvp @blogdiva @Nicovel0 I have the same reaction when right-wing conservative types are anti-cycling. Cycling ticks so many preppers' boxes: • No government paperwork • No surveillance • No big corp lock-in • Use your own power (literally 'stand on your own two feet’) • No reliance on foreign oil • It is the number one freedom tool.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 2mo ago

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@BicycleBen@mas.to @Susan_calvin@mastodon.social And when will we see illegal vehicles seized and crushed with the same expedition? For information, every time the DVLA and police do random roadside stops, they find 25% of vehicles to be non-compliant.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @cstross@wandering.shop I was going to say something similar: the best way to prevent homeless people from sleeping on benches is not anti-social encumbrances on the bench but to give them homes.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

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@CiaraNi@mastodon.green Related: I was fascinated to learn that the war time listening stations were able to detect the operator's ‘hand’, a skilled listener could tell one operator from another. Like handwriting.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@fesshole@mastodon.social Don’t worry Enid Blyton has you covered. One of her short stories, I remember reading as a 7yo, was about a boy who cleverly answered: ‘I wish every wish I ever wish, comes true’.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 3mo ago

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@ccferrie@mastodon.ie RTÉ are serious offenders here. Every warning of dangerous heat is illustrated by a library pic of happy kids jumping into the forty foot. It's long past time the public were made aware people die from this heat, people die in a lot of distress. It is not fun for everyone.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@dec23k/116366282784343985

Interesting but still doesn't solve the problem that 50% of pedestrians want you to sound your bell, and the other 50% don't want it.

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Dec [{(:no_ai:)}]: "Skoda developed (with the University of Salford) …" - mastodon.ie

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@tante@tldr.nettime.org @Nicovel0@mastodon.social @preinheimer@phpc.social I don't think the ‘market' has yet understood if it fires swathes of staff to save their salaries ‘because AI can do their jobs’, they are evermore hostages to the future AI pricing model. Which is only going to go one way.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@carnage4life oh we are fully aware, and furious no one in USA is doing anything about it. This isn’t just generational reputation harm, it’s empire ending harm.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@clickhere You can't win. It’s why I've taken bells off all my bikes. I rarely use shared paths but if I do, I shout out a cheery ‘good morning’.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@korrok@neopaquita.es @fesshole@mastodon.social Hope it's backed-up!

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Free_Press A MAGA man, doubtless anti-trans, anti-woke, anti-pronouns, who identifies as a blond woman. Figures.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@GeofCox I’ve always wondered what the cost of fares collection is. Systems, apps, account management, back office, ticket machines, readers, maintenance, inspectors, updates, fare negotiations teams, press releases, explanatory documents. It’s quite a cost. I'm in Chamonix at the moment, and I’m driving and cycling rather than using the bus because this is just too complicated for me.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @KimSJ@mastodon.social Looking at how USA institutions have been cancelling European judges whom they don't like, it is not inconceivable Musk would switch off his bits of the UK in a fit of pique.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 5mo ago

One of my cycling buddies is a senior surgeon in the NHS nearing retirement.

He believes the UK’s falling life expectancy is purely down to austerity and cuts in social care. Every other variable has improved: diet; smoking; air quality; RTC survivability.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@KimSJ@mastodon.social @baz@mastodon.scot One thing I would really miss is my email address, I've had it since they first released mac.com addresses. It's not just the legacy sign-ups - I can change them - it’s the fact in 25 years use it ‘just works’. I've set up domain name and hosting services for various friends and family over the years, and it is frustrating how often they need tinkering with. Hosts go out of business, get bought over, server addresses change, things break. Mac.com just works.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@baz@mastodon.scot @KimSJ@mastodon.social I've been feeling the same, it's come on me for a while - seeing Tim Apple licking Trump’s backside for example. I've been embedded in the ecosystem since 1991, early adopter of every flavour of .Mac, MobileMe, iCal, you name it, because they were ethical, and their stuff ‘just worked’. Both of those positions have changed. Eg the latest Contacts.app on Mac is childishly awful.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@helenczerski There are plenty of very early films on YouTube, some made from trams, of Victorian and Edwardian roads. It's fascinating to watch the crowds of people on them. It's obvious roads belonged to everyone. Not just children playing but vendors and their wares, people chatting, people strolling, crossing, cycling, delivery men, workers, people busking, all of life was there - not just motor carriages passing at speed. We have lost all this.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@clickhere @dec23k @Rubelicious I don’t get that. Just as cyclists on the roads don't like being buzzed by motors, I can fully understand pedestrians on shared paths don't like it from bikes. There is a small part of my daily route that is shared and passes through a barrier pinch point. I always slow to a stop if necessary to allow walkers priority.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@ehproque@neopaquita.es @CiaraNi@mastodon.green Thanks. My friend Paul (pictured) was a volunteer guide there for several years. 1953 Leica IIIf, FP4, home developed.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@fesshole@mastodon.social There are no traffic lights on motorways, for obvious reasons. And signal controls on slipways (on-ramps) to restrict flows onto the motorway only came in in the 2000s.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@carnage4life@mas.to I think only now we are waking up to the damage Reagan and Thatcher did in their respective countries. The dislocation, alienation and anger which drove the Brexit vote, and is in danger of putting Reform in office, is in large part a result of Thatcher's policies and Cameron's (Thatcher tribute act) austerity policies.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nantes@mastodon.ie Does admitting you've been buying Macs since System 7 also work? In fairness to Apple, they said to me ‘we can see from your iCloud account’s opening date that you are over 18’. At least that is a logical approach. And yes, I've had a .Mac, MobileMe, iTools, whatever the hell it was first called, account since it started.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@OrangeMenace @clickhere I ran over a pigeon on the Canal path near Alperton. The path is only 60 cm wide in places and I had a choice between water, pigeon, or brambles.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@jfparis Daughter's birthday soon. She has invited her friends for a raclette - her favourite meal.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@wibble@ohai.social @CiaraNi@mastodon.green Lovely to hear. Thanks. Gotta love Mastodon.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@wackJackle@norden.social @adapalmer@wandering.shop Beautifully articulated. I had considered that parallel before. What I want to know is where the parallel goes in terms of monopolies, censorship, age-verification, etc.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@christineburns I’ve been following her channel since 2020. What an inspiration.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 27mo ago

@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie They've stopped doing this in France. Two pics I took on yesterday evening's walk.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 23mo ago

Replying to

@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social @WilliamNB@toot.bike Good tip. I’m following only 193 accounts and it works will for me. I think the trick for me was selecting them carefully, many are people I know from the other place. 🐘 will reach critical mass when journalists and government/local authority bodies create accounts.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@helenczerski This is very good. Especially Chris Boardman who is really across his brief.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@nantes Agreed. Also, it's my favourite track Zep IV.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@BubblegumYeti@mastodon.social @arstechnica@mastodon.social Incredibly enough people are starting to do this. I'm just back from Chamonix (centuries old town constricted by giant mountains on all sides) and there are several monster trucks there with local number plates.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@akareilly Dutch children regularly top polls for the happiest and most well adjusted in the world. One of the main reasons for this is the country’s cycling infrastructure gives them autonomy from an early age.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Tho99 @clickhere I think a hundred years of bullying motors have skewed the pitch. Walkers now equate a cycle’s bell to a car's horn, and most drivers use their car's horn as ‘GET OUT OF MY WAY’. Especially as they have become louder and louder (my Seat Ibiza's horn is an amusing little squeak). The existence of a bell on a bike was intended to be: ‘I’m here’.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 7mo ago

@ShredderLivesOn @Susan_calvin Imagine this lot trying to find 650 candidates capable of standing for Parliament?

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 5mo ago

RE: https://swiss.social/@tobi82/116534125893456635

This is reassuring, not.

swiss.social

conscientious objector🇨🇭🪂: "@glynmoody@mastodon.social If this case is conf…" - swiss.social

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Techaltar In the same vein, UK users of Autotrader.co.uk should be aware any links to its ads will contain the postcode you searched with. As UK postcodes are very geographically specific, this is potentially a serious bit of self-doxing. Here is a random example with Buckingham Palace's postcode (SW1A 1AA).

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@drgeraint@glasgow.social @Nicovel0@mastodon.social 66% voted Left.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@james@adney.land @WilliamNB@social.vivaldi.net I have found I've done no pruning nor blocking on Masto; most here are behave sensibly.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@mjtsai@mastodon.social @davedelong@mastodon.social It's the not scrolling which kills me. Sometimes I've had to switch to Edit mode to scroll to the info I need. WTF.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain@mastodon.ie

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social @Susan_calvin@mastodon.social they seem to have no problem with Odysseus being a WASP from Boston.

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