Peter
@invpete.bsky.social
Theme Parks & Railways! See it, say it, sorted.
None of this is affiliated with my employer ducky.
None of this is affiliated with my employer ducky.
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NEW XMASSY VLOG TIME!
Peter and Charles have gone to visit Alton Towers for their Christmas event 2025! With a vastly reduced offering to previous years, is it still worth it?
Check out our vlog now: youtu.be/j7sldGGXFDk?...
Peter and Charles have gone to visit Alton Towers for their Christmas event 2025! With a vastly reduced offering to previous years, is it still worth it?
Check out our vlog now: youtu.be/j7sldGGXFDk?...
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
NEW XMASSY VLOG TIME!
Peter and Charles have gone to visit Alton Towers for their Christmas event 2025! With a vastly reduced offering to previous years, is it still worth it?
Check out our vlog now: youtu.be/j7sldGGXFDk?...
Peter and Charles have gone to visit Alton Towers for their Christmas event 2025! With a vastly reduced offering to previous years, is it still worth it?
Check out our vlog now: youtu.be/j7sldGGXFDk?...
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
Good to see New Street has adopted a pigeon pen!
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Good to see New Street has adopted a pigeon pen!
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STORE: Thank you for your order!
STORE: We are preparing your order!
STORE: We put your order in a box!
STORE: Look who has a mailing label!
STORE: Your order has been shipped!
STORE: Your order is in your city!
STORE: Your order is nearby!
STORE: Your order sees you.
STORE: Turn around.
STORE: We are preparing your order!
STORE: We put your order in a box!
STORE: Look who has a mailing label!
STORE: Your order has been shipped!
STORE: Your order is in your city!
STORE: Your order is nearby!
STORE: Your order sees you.
STORE: Turn around.
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
STORE: Thank you for your order!
STORE: We are preparing your order!
STORE: We put your order in a box!
STORE: Look who has a mailing label!
STORE: Your order has been shipped!
STORE: Your order is in your city!
STORE: Your order is nearby!
STORE: Your order sees you.
STORE: Turn around.
STORE: We are preparing your order!
STORE: We put your order in a box!
STORE: Look who has a mailing label!
STORE: Your order has been shipped!
STORE: Your order is in your city!
STORE: Your order is nearby!
STORE: Your order sees you.
STORE: Turn around.
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For some reason this reminds me of the story of how the team who worked on the CGI-animated Muppet Babies reboot accidentally rendered Animal without his fur and the end result was so hilarious and disturbing they adopted it as an unofficial mascot they named “Blurph”
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
For some reason this reminds me of the story of how the team who worked on the CGI-animated Muppet Babies reboot accidentally rendered Animal without his fur and the end result was so hilarious and disturbing they adopted it as an unofficial mascot they named “Blurph”
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Anyway it's an honour the Guardian has licensed a version of a London Centric piece as today's Long Read. The pics are amazing. The fee will pay for me to hire a freelancer for a week. But mainly it means I'm freed from the alpaca... which is replaced by a snail.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time?
The long read: Terry Ball – renowned shoe salesman, friend to former mafiosi – has resolved to spend his last years finding ways to cheat authorities he feels have cheated him. His greatest ruse? A ta...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Anyway it's an honour the Guardian has licensed a version of a London Centric piece as today's Long Read. The pics are amazing. The fee will pay for me to hire a freelancer for a week. But mainly it means I'm freed from the alpaca... which is replaced by a snail.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
If you're doing nothing wrong then you've got nothing to hide...
...is all well and good until they change what is 'wrong'.
Like a calm street protest for example.
...is all well and good until they change what is 'wrong'.
Like a calm street protest for example.
ID cards, limiting trial by jury, and now "plans for a huge rollout for facial recognition cameras in cities, towns and villages across the country"
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
If you're doing nothing wrong then you've got nothing to hide...
...is all well and good until they change what is 'wrong'.
Like a calm street protest for example.
...is all well and good until they change what is 'wrong'.
Like a calm street protest for example.
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ID cards, limiting trial by jury, and now "plans for a huge rollout for facial recognition cameras in cities, towns and villages across the country"
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
ID cards, limiting trial by jury, and now "plans for a huge rollout for facial recognition cameras in cities, towns and villages across the country"
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
Just put my big boy commuter pants on and told the person next to me to use earphones for his insta reels, which he duly agreed to.
Feeling invincible now.
Feeling invincible now.
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Just put my big boy commuter pants on and told the person next to me to use earphones for his insta reels, which he duly agreed to.
Feeling invincible now.
Feeling invincible now.
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Ahahahahaha, local business that recorded themselves sticking a load of Union Jacks to lampposts all about town are currently pissing and moaning about finally Finding Out.
November 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Ahahahahaha, local business that recorded themselves sticking a load of Union Jacks to lampposts all about town are currently pissing and moaning about finally Finding Out.
Nothing gives me more joy than reading @londoncentric.media newsletters in the morning!
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Nothing gives me more joy than reading @londoncentric.media newsletters in the morning!
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You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
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Just finished The Traitors NZ series 2.
A very good series, well worth a watch, but it really does show how good Studio Lambert are because this is so poorly edited compared (not made by SL!).
So many cliffhangers just ignored. No tension building. Racing through (to allow for adverts).
A very good series, well worth a watch, but it really does show how good Studio Lambert are because this is so poorly edited compared (not made by SL!).
So many cliffhangers just ignored. No tension building. Racing through (to allow for adverts).
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Just finished The Traitors NZ series 2.
A very good series, well worth a watch, but it really does show how good Studio Lambert are because this is so poorly edited compared (not made by SL!).
So many cliffhangers just ignored. No tension building. Racing through (to allow for adverts).
A very good series, well worth a watch, but it really does show how good Studio Lambert are because this is so poorly edited compared (not made by SL!).
So many cliffhangers just ignored. No tension building. Racing through (to allow for adverts).
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Hmm, ORRs argument doesn't really stand up if it has crew on it to work later services.
It can't be rerouted or delayed considerably as it'll fuck the rest of the day up...
Presumably AWC assumed it would get the path hence diagramming everyone to it.
It can't be rerouted or delayed considerably as it'll fuck the rest of the day up...
Presumably AWC assumed it would get the path hence diagramming everyone to it.
I don’t know how many ways there are to say “Manchester’s economy is growing, so if we’re not going to do much proactive on infrastructure, can we at least not do stuff that’s actively damaging”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Soon-to-be-axed 7am Manchester-London train will still run – but without passengers
Exclusive: Rail regulator pulls Avanti service from timetable from mid-December but it is needed for staff travel
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Hmm, ORRs argument doesn't really stand up if it has crew on it to work later services.
It can't be rerouted or delayed considerably as it'll fuck the rest of the day up...
Presumably AWC assumed it would get the path hence diagramming everyone to it.
It can't be rerouted or delayed considerably as it'll fuck the rest of the day up...
Presumably AWC assumed it would get the path hence diagramming everyone to it.
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Not really a comment on this story, but I think we should try to make it easier and more normalised to downsize in your 60s.
If left too late, moving house can be incredibly disorientating - and you don’t tend to know it’s too late until it is
If left too late, moving house can be incredibly disorientating - and you don’t tend to know it’s too late until it is
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Not really a comment on this story, but I think we should try to make it easier and more normalised to downsize in your 60s.
If left too late, moving house can be incredibly disorientating - and you don’t tend to know it’s too late until it is
If left too late, moving house can be incredibly disorientating - and you don’t tend to know it’s too late until it is
I really do hate SNCF. The wankest rail operator in Europe by a considerable margin.
Amount of hours wasted today because of SNCF
5 hours 30 minutes
Because they are doing upgrades on the line here daytimes meaning no trains between 10am and 5pm every weekday for 5 months (no nights, no weekends, oh no! And no rail replacement buses either) I had to borrow a car and drive […]
5 hours 30 minutes
Because they are doing upgrades on the line here daytimes meaning no trains between 10am and 5pm every weekday for 5 months (no nights, no weekends, oh no! And no rail replacement buses either) I had to borrow a car and drive […]
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gruene.social
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I really do hate SNCF. The wankest rail operator in Europe by a considerable margin.
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Not sure the Adam Sutler from V for Vendetta pose is helping your "not a fascist" argument, there, Nigel.
When your past finally catches up, what do you do? What do you do?
When the record shows you voted against every measure meant to help working people—what do you do? What do you do?
When stories about your ties to Russia won’t disappear, what do you do? What do you do?🤨👇
When the record shows you voted against every measure meant to help working people—what do you do? What do you do?
When stories about your ties to Russia won’t disappear, what do you do? What do you do?🤨👇
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Not sure the Adam Sutler from V for Vendetta pose is helping your "not a fascist" argument, there, Nigel.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves will freeze fuel duty to dodge ‘political suicide’
The chancellor will also highlight a rise in the minimum wage and plans to cut energy bills as she tries to win over voters by focusing on cost of living
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Eyyy 😎
CrossCountry Trains’ customer support folks on Twitter are far better than you would expect from a large company in 2025. Genuinely a pleasure to deal with them every time, and the only reason I would ever log into Twitter now.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Eyyy 😎
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