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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 7h

Last month I spoke on a panel with Danae Shell, founder of valla.uk.

They're great at helping workers get what they're owed... unless the business directors do this One Weird Trick @mellino.bsky.social writes about, which effectively cancels a tribunal award.

Cool cool. Good system. 👍

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 23h

The global economy? But that's where I live!

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 1d

Velo Crush Zurich have one, and I could watch their extraction videos for days... www.instagram.com/reel/DGD5r_0...

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 1d

The best bit of tooling innovation I've seen this year is Phil Vandelay's seat post puller.

We need one in every bike shop please.

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6,575 likes, 191 comments - phil_vandelay on October 6, 2024: "I spent the last weeks designing and building this device to counter one of the most annoying and tricky bike repair issues - seatposts becoming so seized in their frames due to corrosion that they seem impossible to remove. When a post doesn't want to budge using the usual methods like penetrating oil, holding it in a vise etc. sometimes a highly specialized tool like this is the last hope. I'm happy to report that it works great and I've already been able to rescue five frames that seemed like hopeless cases with absolutely no damage to either the frame or the seatposts. The full build video for this project is now out on my YouTube Channel, so go watch! I also offer plans for this build which you can find in the video description. Also, if you're in or around Hamburg and you need a post removed, just send me a DM, ideally with pictures and the post diameter, and I'll see what I can do! #cycling #bikemechanic #bikemaintenance #seatpost #stuckseatpost #bikeframe #frame #bike frame #brokenframe #tools #toolporn #machining #welding #bikes #gravelbike".

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 1d

She only misses me cos she's not allowed to chew anyone else in the family

A large, white, slightly scruffy curly-haired poodle-cross lies on a sofa, head in the camera person's lap, looking up at the camera.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 1d

I need 10k words about this screenshot from @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy on my desk by 4pm

Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co · 1d

Tesla is now selling a Model 3 Turn Signal Stalk Retrofit for $595. 😳

An expensive upgrade to bring back what they removed: the classic turn signal stalk. 🫣

First create a problem, now sell the solution for a premium. 💸

Innovation is important but great UX makes users’ lives easier, not harder. 😉

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 5d

Hello. If you would like to buy prints from your old pal Sonny, now would be an especially good time 👍
Share and tell your friends, especially if they have money and bad taste x x x

🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · Apr 25

Hello new followers I am Sonny Ross. Commercial illustrator, art director and good hair haver.
📧 [email protected]
🖥️ www.sonnyross.com
🖼️ www.sonnyross.com/shop

Marching band illustration with the text “we will just have to kill him”

Decorative floral illustration featuring a severed hand

A knight and goblin looking towards a castle with the text “I’m going to poo in the kings mouth”

A medieval style illustration of a dragon being slain with the text “shut up”

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 5d

I made 16 highlights and yelled 'OMG yes' each time

A screenshot from a bookmarking app (Raindrop.io) showing 16 highlighted passages within a blog post

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 5d

A graphic by the designer Teenage Stepdad. It depicts a blue monstertruck jumping out of an explosion. Dynamic, stylised typefaces reminiscent of 80s toy packaging read (in various arrangements around the truck image): 'Fuck Modernism', 'Use more fonts', 'Make everything look cool again', 'Drop out of design school Don't use Futura Take Drugs'

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 5d

Love hearing about more people discovering @bcmerchant.bsky.social's excellent work!

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 6d

Bike struggled to rev over 5k rpm. Pulled carbs, found the issue.

36 years of vibes had abraided the CV carb slides in their holders in such a way that the front slide hit a teeny tiny friction increase halfway up.

Cleaned & swapped the slides between carbs (not the needles!): problem fixed.

A carburettor with the float bowl removed, revealing the float and jets

A top down view of a partially stripped-down motorcycle with the fuel tank removed, sitting in a messy garage. The carbs are exposed.

A white, vintage dual-sport motorcycle parked by a sunny stone wall.

Jonty @fairless.xyz · 6d

Just consistently the coolest dude

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 6d

Storm Amy may disrupt a lot of things, but it also blasted the UK grid with 20gW of wind power and made my electricity free for like two days, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not.

A piece chart of UK national grid electricity generation from today. Renewables make up 75% of the electricity generated at 21.8GW

An % area graph showing electricity generation over the day. Renewables makes up 70-80% of generation throughout most of the day.

A pie chart showing energy distribution in North Scotland. The current carbon intensity is 0gCO2/kWh. The pie chart shows 100% energy coming from wind.

A bar chart showing half-hour energy pricing. A significant number of half hour periods are below 0p.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 8d

This is 11 minutes of Matt Berry and Jermaine Clement presenting a new synthesiser thing. I think it might be one of the finest pieces of video production I've seen this year. By the team at Love+Money.
youtu.be/hbO1z13WP8o...

"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 11d

Zip ties & a drill might be easier to find tbh. Bodge it! All the best things are held together with zip ties.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 12d

They should invent a test for software to make sure it works good before they give it to people

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 12d

My video calls have dropped to like 10fps. But it's probably fine cos I only use my computer for that for about 5 hours a day, and only for important clients who I'm trying to impress

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 13d

Stressful week gone. Stressful week to come. But spending the in-between meandering through quiet autumnal forests helps a bit.

Tall pines filter pale autumnal sunlight onto a vibrant green forest floor. A boy standing on a wall in the foreground looks into the forest. A piece of distance forestry machinery is just visible between the trees in the middle distance.

A wide needle-strewn, sun dappled forest path recedes away from us. Small beech trees are illuminated by afternoon sunlight, appearing to almost glowing bright green on the right hand side of the path. On the left of the path, dark trunks of tall pines.

A woman, a dog, and two children are silhouetted and framed by trees against a bright reservoir. A distant dam wall bisects the image.

Late afternoon sunlight falls between trees onto a tangle of verdant undergrowth around a small stream.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 14d

OMG Becca's at a "drink 'n' paint" meetup and has created ART

An amateur oil painting with rich brown and orange hues. A white dog-like creature, carrying a stick, runs towards the viewer. A field gate and trees are in the distance.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 17d

OMG it's the writer's version of this:

a cartoon character is standing on top of a rock with his foot on it

Alt: a cartoon character is standing on top of a rock removes a band of training weights wrapped around their shins. They stand up, and drop the weights to the ground, creating a large dust cloud

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 17d

Yup! There's a little car park east of Lamberton, next to a bridge over the railway, and then a lovely coastal walk down to the site. Go at low tide!

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 17d

Lamberton Skerrs! Lovely spot

maps.app.goo.gl/K1XU16oHVHxM...

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 21d

It's well documented that local corruption is inversely correlated with the strength of local journalism. It's the tireless work of people like @jim.londoncentric.media, @edinburghminute.bsky.social and the broader work of the @bylinesnetwork.co.uk which gives me some hope for the future in the UK.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 21d

A little bit of navel-gazing on the last twelve months of trying to run a start-up local news organisation with no investment or plan, entirely funded by readers. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-new...

One year of London Centric

A selection of our favourite stories that you might have missed — and a quick note from Jim.

www.londoncentric.media

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