Robyn Veitch
@oddert.bsky.social
Lead Software Engineer @ redacted | She/Her | Glasgow, Scotland | Active / Sustainable Travel propagandist | Regional branch member of the Trans Mafia | Neach-labhairt Beag Gàidhlig
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January 1, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Reports just comming in now of the first Upsy Downey of 2026
January 1, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Reports just comming in now of the first Upsy Downey of 2026
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If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.
I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.
I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.
We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech
Getting off US tech led me to a wider questioning of digital convenience
disconnect.blog
December 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.
I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.
I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.
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The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
‘Biological male’ is a pseudoscientific dogwhistle
The BBC should be better than this.
oolong.medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
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A 'bumper year' for cyclists in Glasgow 🚴
Glasgow sees big rise in cycling trips in first half of this year
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
A 'bumper year' for cyclists in Glasgow 🚴
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Changes to two busy centre streets, including new bus gates, will be put in place early next year, aimed at creating a pedestrian friendly zone.
New bus gates to be installed on two city centre streets within weeks
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Changes to two busy centre streets, including new bus gates, will be put in place early next year, aimed at creating a pedestrian friendly zone.
Let's fuckin goooo
so it happened - greens just met labour in the polling average
December 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Let's fuckin goooo
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The M1 if it was designed like part of the NCN...
December 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The M1 if it was designed like part of the NCN...
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The strategic road network is managed by a charity and relies on the goodwill of land owners for access. Some motorways will be muddy and flooded each winter.
Also
The strategic road network stops randomly at council boundaries and investment is where councils are willing.
(UK edition).
Also
The strategic road network stops randomly at council boundaries and investment is where councils are willing.
(UK edition).
December 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The strategic road network is managed by a charity and relies on the goodwill of land owners for access. Some motorways will be muddy and flooded each winter.
Also
The strategic road network stops randomly at council boundaries and investment is where councils are willing.
(UK edition).
Also
The strategic road network stops randomly at council boundaries and investment is where councils are willing.
(UK edition).
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What are the specific pain points that prevent you from switching to Linux or have forced you back to Windows? Trying to collect as many as possible. Specific productivity software, etc.
Living with Windows has always been a calculus of how useful it is professionally vs. the amount of unbearable shit you gotta disable with a script and I think we reached a tipping point where it’s majority unbearable shit.
December 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What are the specific pain points that prevent you from switching to Linux or have forced you back to Windows? Trying to collect as many as possible. Specific productivity software, etc.
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Glasgow has 15 subway stations. Just look at the land use around these two! It's shocking.
Should be dense housing and commerce, or dense employment. Instead we have a huge motorway junction and like a car dealership and some warehouses that could just as happily be on the outskirts.
Should be dense housing and commerce, or dense employment. Instead we have a huge motorway junction and like a car dealership and some warehouses that could just as happily be on the outskirts.
December 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Glasgow has 15 subway stations. Just look at the land use around these two! It's shocking.
Should be dense housing and commerce, or dense employment. Instead we have a huge motorway junction and like a car dealership and some warehouses that could just as happily be on the outskirts.
Should be dense housing and commerce, or dense employment. Instead we have a huge motorway junction and like a car dealership and some warehouses that could just as happily be on the outskirts.
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By comparison, here's Houten, a commuter town on the edge of Utrecht. Similar profile.
• 3 to 4 storey housing on the doorstep of the rail station
• Pedestrianised street perpendicular to the station, supporting heavy footfall for...
• Mixed use development around the station
• 3 to 4 storey housing on the doorstep of the rail station
• Pedestrianised street perpendicular to the station, supporting heavy footfall for...
• Mixed use development around the station
December 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
By comparison, here's Houten, a commuter town on the edge of Utrecht. Similar profile.
• 3 to 4 storey housing on the doorstep of the rail station
• Pedestrianised street perpendicular to the station, supporting heavy footfall for...
• Mixed use development around the station
• 3 to 4 storey housing on the doorstep of the rail station
• Pedestrianised street perpendicular to the station, supporting heavy footfall for...
• Mixed use development around the station
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This, but also for far too many suburban rail stations <15mins by train from the city centre.
Glasgow has 15 subway stations. Just look at the land use around these two! It's shocking.
Should be dense housing and commerce, or dense employment. Instead we have a huge motorway junction and like a car dealership and some warehouses that could just as happily be on the outskirts.
Should be dense housing and commerce, or dense employment. Instead we have a huge motorway junction and like a car dealership and some warehouses that could just as happily be on the outskirts.
December 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This, but also for far too many suburban rail stations <15mins by train from the city centre.
Merry Blood Workmas one and all
December 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Merry Blood Workmas one and all
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literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
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labour mp like @tomhayesmp.bsky.social using language like 'inclusive culture' when his government is about to introduce segregation policies bcos a bunch of whiny bigots in the press are demanding it.
you're banned from the pub?
maybe now you labour twats will get a taste of how trans ppl feel.
you're banned from the pub?
maybe now you labour twats will get a taste of how trans ppl feel.
December 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
labour mp like @tomhayesmp.bsky.social using language like 'inclusive culture' when his government is about to introduce segregation policies bcos a bunch of whiny bigots in the press are demanding it.
you're banned from the pub?
maybe now you labour twats will get a taste of how trans ppl feel.
you're banned from the pub?
maybe now you labour twats will get a taste of how trans ppl feel.
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like how does @tomhayesmp.bsky.social and other labour mps not understand that this is how businesses are currently treating trans ppl?
and not even bcos they want to exclude us but bcos labour policy demands we be excluded.
oh poor you you can't go for a fucking beer. cry me a river.
and not even bcos they want to exclude us but bcos labour policy demands we be excluded.
oh poor you you can't go for a fucking beer. cry me a river.
labour mp like @tomhayesmp.bsky.social using language like 'inclusive culture' when his government is about to introduce segregation policies bcos a bunch of whiny bigots in the press are demanding it.
you're banned from the pub?
maybe now you labour twats will get a taste of how trans ppl feel.
you're banned from the pub?
maybe now you labour twats will get a taste of how trans ppl feel.
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
like how does @tomhayesmp.bsky.social and other labour mps not understand that this is how businesses are currently treating trans ppl?
and not even bcos they want to exclude us but bcos labour policy demands we be excluded.
oh poor you you can't go for a fucking beer. cry me a river.
and not even bcos they want to exclude us but bcos labour policy demands we be excluded.
oh poor you you can't go for a fucking beer. cry me a river.
FOLDING BIKE AQUIRED - Thank you Bike For Good!
December 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
FOLDING BIKE AQUIRED - Thank you Bike For Good!
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Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language
EXCLUSIVE
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language
I regret to report that the new "we got actual permission this time" AI voice on ScotRail services is till ass
December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I regret to report that the new "we got actual permission this time" AI voice on ScotRail services is till ass
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Cars are now being programmed to violate traffic rules. What could go wrong?
Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
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Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
🧵
Tesla’s ‘Mad Max mode’ points to a big problem for self-driving cars
Mad Max mode exposes a risk for AV innovation. To stay competitive, computer-powered cars are emulating human drivers.
www.fastcompany.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Cars are now being programmed to violate traffic rules. What could go wrong?
Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
🧵
Me, in @fastcompany.com. (no paywall)
🧵
Levy: Do we simply resolve the inherent problems created by having GICs as a separate thing from main healthcare and just do informed consent? No! A hundred thousand more GICs! A GIC on every street corner! Running like factories their chimney stacks painting the sky! Efficiency!
How do we solve these mega waiting lists for the gender clinics???
Just dont do the gender clinics and just have GPs prescribe hormones and refer for surgeries
Gender clinics exist to soothe scared cis people not to help trans people transition
Just dont do the gender clinics and just have GPs prescribe hormones and refer for surgeries
Gender clinics exist to soothe scared cis people not to help trans people transition
December 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Levy: Do we simply resolve the inherent problems created by having GICs as a separate thing from main healthcare and just do informed consent? No! A hundred thousand more GICs! A GIC on every street corner! Running like factories their chimney stacks painting the sky! Efficiency!
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The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
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Our health secretary is so willfully ignorant about health in ways that are going to kill people.
Also pissed off at Steeting going off on "biological sex is immutable for screening and healthcare" in parliament, if ignoring that we very much should be treated according to our current anatomy and hormones, and that treating us as our birth assigned sex will cause serious healthcare failures.
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Our health secretary is so willfully ignorant about health in ways that are going to kill people.
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The Basque Government/Biscay provincial government have just agreed to finance the FIFTH new Bilbao metro line covering a population of roughly that of Leeds and Bradford. Every station and platform is fully accessible and the current maximum fare is 0.76€ per journey.
Remember when HS2 to Leeds was cancelled by the NIC's shitty maths and fundamental lack of expertise, and Leeds was thrown the bone of "you'll get trams" and I said those would never be delivered?
Yeah, as I was saying...
Yeah, as I was saying...
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The Basque Government/Biscay provincial government have just agreed to finance the FIFTH new Bilbao metro line covering a population of roughly that of Leeds and Bradford. Every station and platform is fully accessible and the current maximum fare is 0.76€ per journey.