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The Ranty Highwayman

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A highway engineer's adventures in time & space. The street is not too narrow your imagination is too narrow | Independent sustainable mobility design specialist | Better streets & places | Runs @cityinfinity.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/rantyhighwayman

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · Oct 18

#HelloBluesky, I'm Mark, a civil & highway engineer with nearly 30 years experience, with the last decade as a specialist in sustainable mobility design. I'm a freelancer at @cityinfinity.bsky.social.

I post about highways & transport, often with Opinions.

Also homebrewing, silly films and snark.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 8h

And now, Donnie Darko.

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Hourly Simpsons @hourlysimpsons.bagpuss.org · 8h

Aw, wait a minute. Jacques Strap?
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S01E06 Moaning Lisa (7G06) 11/02/1990

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 8h

Ah, the smell of *checks notes* incest and webbed feet.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 9h

this high quality gag came from someone who is also here but as he hasn’t posted it himself I assume he doesn’t want to be tagged to share in the glory

Farage is being interviewed. He says “I WAS ABOUT 14 AND IT WAS OVER THE PHOTO OF EVA BRAUN”. The interviewer says “ERM... I ASKED YOU ABOUT THE WEST BANK”

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 14h

oh boy, i hope ukgov isn't betting the farm on AI

(handed paper from offscreen)

my APES

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 21h

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 10h

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 10h

Earlier finish to cut the grass and now to the weekend and more Halloween films.

Starting with the fan-flick "Welcome to Essex" which is good fun and features my brother as one of the zombies.

More horrifically it has a Russell Brand cameo.

Going to Cyprus for my first beer.

A large bottle of Keo Beer. A yellow round label with the name sideways and vertical in red.

Held up in front of a blurred DVD rack and TV.

Welcome to Essex options screen. Play movie, scene selection, special features.

A red background with key characters with a woman front an then a solider, woman and man to her right and then a traffic policeman, woman and man to her left.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 10h

Radio killed the video star

MTV to axe its music TV channels in the UK

The broadcaster will stop showing music videos in December, but its main channel will remain on air.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 10h

Are they talking about you, @jonnelledge.bsky.social?

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 10h

I think some of us can relate to this.

Alt text:

Scene from The Thing.

Two men with beards.

Kurt Russell as MacReady says to Joel Polis (Fuchs) "I just wanna get up to my shack and get drunk."

ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 10h

Friday.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 10h

I had to look up who she is, just is my interest in religion!

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 10h

You've got to laugh at this, given who has been running this area for ages!

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 10h

Wait, what?

Extending this lovely little cycle track beyond the budget we had for the adjacent junction? Yes please.*

maps.app.goo.gl/tzjsm2nMdeP9...

*It's our location elections next year, so who's to say if this makes it to consultation before.

@cyclehavering.bsky.social

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Cycling Capital @cyclingcapital.bsky.social · 12h

Mixed traffic lanes can be great bike infrastructure when the bike measures are traffic filters and circulation plans rather than sharrows.

#Utrecht

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 12h

We're ruining (or improving) Bond posters on @b3ta.com this week

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 4d

The green cross code is the most disastrous public information campaign in history. It has made generations believe that pedestrians are responsible for avoiding crashes. Crashes are actually the responsibility of the operators of the massive motorised lumps of metal.

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Gibby @thegibbon.bsky.social · 12h

I take that back. At $400 on eBay no-one in America is getting fanny candles from me any more.

Thanks for nothing Donald.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘vagina candle’ is still burning bright – at five times the original price | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian share.google/acAvMigMWkMD...

Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘vagina candle’ is still burning bright – at five times the original price | Arwa Mahdawi

In the latest twist in the Goop candle saga, the famous creation, which retailed at $75 in 2020, is now on offer at $400 on eBay. Not bad for a product that started out as a joke, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 12h

"Though robotaxis have notched up impressive growth, they look ploddingly pedestrian compared with far zippier pedal-powered rivals. [Waymo] proudly proclaims that its cars do around 250k trips a week. Yet in NYC alone that number of trips is made every three days using the city’s bikeshare scheme."

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Hourly Simpsons @hourlysimpsons.bagpuss.org · 15h

[ Grunting ]
12:36
S04E05 Treehouse of Horror III (9F04) 29/10/1992

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe they were subsidising all of those things before!

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Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 1d

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 19h

I've no idea, although my feeling is maybe more likely where cycling is prioritised less - there's a cross just outside of Gouda which seems to take ages.

The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 19h

You'll be sent to the workhouse for jokes like that. Oh, wrong Victorians.

The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 19h

One of the engineering sound tracks to my early career!

The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 19h

"I went to the doctor & I said, Doc,

Parking should, in theory at least, be one of the simplest tasks any driver completes but having to navigate a variety of differently designed apps –and register an account, vehicle details and bank cards with each one –can be a pain

He said don't do it then"

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 19h

Don't force drivers to use parking apps, RAC says

A survey suggests three quarters of drivers had issues with parking apps.

www.bbc.com

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