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Owler Nook

@owlernook.bsky.social

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When wanting to safely cycle to work gets really out of hand. Stockport and Manchester.

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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 2h

Tiles bagged!

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 2h

Hannah Ingram-Moore?

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 4h

Back at Bollington. Bike thinks it has 13 miles left in the battery on eco mode, but also 2/5 bars (nominal range over 100 miles). Less than 10 miles home.

The bike's screen displaying information about the battery and speed.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 4h

The River Bollin, supposedly on a shared path between Prestbury and Tytherington, but the multiple kissing gates on the route suggest otherwise.

The bike next to a small river with clear water and steep but shallow banks.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 4h

Prestbury: here be SUVs. Very pretty, but difficult to believe it's on the NCN. Not many footways either.

The bike next to a train timetable and a railway sign for Prestbury.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 4h

The Silk Road. So many awful drivers. As you can imagine, it takes a while to cross.

A dual carriageway with a Toucan crossing.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 4h

I rarely go south of Bollington. I wonder why?

A dreadful switchback ramp, narrow, linking two disconnected parts of the Middlewood Way.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 4h

Ride #8 and it's time to bag some tiles in darkest Cheshire.

The bike on Bollington Viaduct, which once carried trains but is now a shared path on the Middlewood Way.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 8h

It's just polite (and also in the site T&Cs) to label NSFW stuff so people's settings can work as intended. Anything else and I'm going to assume bad intent.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 8h

You'll be asking for my mother's maiden name next.

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 9h

Manchester half marathon tomorrow.

I quite like these events coming through our area, but I don’t like them closing the main cycle route to Manchester for 2 days each time, with no safe alternative route provided.

More car-brained thinking, as people on bikes don’t count.

Talbot Road closed the day before the event

Cycle route barriered off

Barriers and the finish line going up

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 12h

"A man who cut down a ULEZ camera before it was destroyed in an explosion said he has lost his job and caused his children embarrassment."

www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/2552170...

a young boy is riding on the back of an elephant in the water .

Alt: Short Round from Temple of Doom is riding on the back of an elephant in the water saying "ha ha, very funny! Ha ha ha ha ha!

media.tenor.com

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 9h

FAFO.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 10h

Bluesky still has the juice, if by 'juice' I mean 'horrifying NSFW kink stuff lurking in a trending topic'.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 11h

What kind of monster grips their records over the grooves?

Oh, wait.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 11h

Surely only a matter of time until code explicitly designed to be a data leak is included in an LLM for precisely this purpose.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 11h

Baffles me that anyone with an understanding of the risks would allow this to happen.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 23h

DIY is Praxis.

A Praxis DIY shop in the Netherlands.

Yes, it's a joke.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 23h

Both more recent than the Fela Kuti song!

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 1d

Philomena Cunk will be along any moment.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 1d

[Note: What's the best way to add alt text to something when you don't want it to be searchable?]

@stuartb*nd.bsky.social

Substitute the * for an o if you must.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 1d

One for the blocklist, @coldwarcliff.bsky.social

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 1d

Ah fuck it, I'm blocking him. He's resorted to petty name-calling. Waste of time.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 1d

Because it could be a real hipster name for a porter.

Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 1d

To watch or to drink?