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Adam Gripton

@dradam676.bsky.social

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Norfolk-bred Scot, software engineer, passionate about maths, maps, better public transport, and xkcd references. Bluesky now my main source of witterings, with occasional drip-feed of migrated content such as maps I'm pleased with.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 14h

I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 16h

Yokel here from deep in District 12. What in the urban shit is going on here, can someone who uses public transport more than once a week please explain?

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, a genuinely useful application for national ID cards 👍

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 1d

You'll get the Nobel next year on this trajectory

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d

the people who built the trolley are never on the tracks. literally never

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 2d

*sigh* St Andrews could be a much more pleasant place to walk around if the number of cars was slashed to, say, half of what it is now.

What was the old station is now a great big car park, and it shows.

Buses don't cut it with fairweather users and tourists. They never have and they never will.

Alastair Dalton @alastairdalton.bsky.social · 3d

Exclusive in @scotsman.com: Re-opening rail line to St Andrews rejected by Scottish Government www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

Re-opening rail line to St Andrews rejected by Scottish Government

Transport Scotland favours better bus connection with Leuchars instead

www.scotsman.com

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 4d

Hacking crypto bros out of their Bitcoin now accounts for 13% of North Korea's entire GDP.

LOL.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

North Korean hackers stealing record sums, researchers say

Analysts estimate cyber-criminals linked to Pyongyang have taken more than $2bn so far in 2025.

www.bbc.co.uk

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 4d

by my calculations this leaves poor old Chathill as the *only* station on the whole ECML between Kings Cross and Edinburgh which you need to double back from one direction to access

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 4d

so, are you just a regular vanilla train nerd, or are you a "gets irrationally excited that one train per day will start calling at both Drem and Dunbar from December onwards" level nerd?

RTT screenshot showing the 2D84 0741 Dunbar to Edinburgh departing on 15th December 2025, calling at all intermediate stations including Drem

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 4d

I don't use cafés to work, but I still absolutely use this logic. Which means two things: I'll absolutely pay a premium for a café with nice ambience; but also I often balk at the prices of takeaway coffees: in general they have no right to be anywhere near that of a sit-in. ☕

John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 5d

I look at the price of each coffee as renting that table as a workspace for another hour.

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 5d

"So let's stop gabbing on about it, it's completely pointless, and it's getting us nowhere!"

Still from Monty Python's Life of Brain PFJ meeting scene

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 5d

Blimey. Hadn't noticed this before but East Linton and Reston are getting a proper glow-up of service patterns in December. Exciting for train nerrrrds like myself

source: ecmltimetable.info

East Linton grid showing service to Newcastle doubling from 4tpd to 8tpd from December

Reston grid showing services to Newcastle going from 6tpd to 9tpd from December

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 9d

"Take a breath; try these for size: 'I don't know'; 'I've changed my mind'." - Frank Turner (Get It Right)

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 10d

TIL that Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon are, in fact, different people. They were stored on the same bit of RAM in my brain heretofore

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 10d

youtu.be/V64TdrkhTqo?...

[9:32] "I have to give a warning that this next part involves looking at the world's most punchable face. Although nothing I can say can truly prepare you."

Oracle is Genuinely Far Scarier Than Blackrock

YouTube video by How Money Works

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 10d

Very cool. Will be excellent for the West Midlands.

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 10d

Sue, you're shouting at tea.

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 12d

tfl.gov.uk/info-for/med...

It bewilders me why this isn't done more routinely across the country/world to gauge interest for light rail extensions.

e.g. if there was a fully-integrated regular shuttle bus from Newbridge to Ingliston P&R, I'd be all over it!

Stock picture of the BakerLoop bus between Waterloo and Lewisham, shadowing the proposed route of the Bakerloo line extension

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13d

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 13d

Reminiscent of this (43:32 in, in case the link time doesn't work):

youtu.be/pOlSHw_y0Lw?...

Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos - 26/05/2014

YouTube video by smtm: Entertainment

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Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 13d

That's surprising. From a British perspective, to start with it seemed like it was *only* Brits on here, then US accounts have started showing up recently. So maybe that tells us something about mutual visibility of networks.

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 14d

"Put your own mask on before helping others" is actually quite excellent life advice.

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 14d

Think there may be a rail fan setting today's Codeword puzzle in the i paper 🚂💯💯 #rail200

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 14d

happy birthday trains 🚂🚂

Adam Gripton @dradam676.bsky.social · 14d

sorry but this is entirely the wrong answer in several different ways