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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 5d

Given that our local River Learning Trust primary has got through five heads in five years, I’m not convinced they need any help from the congestion charge for staff to start leaving

Whiny article from the Oxford Mail in which the RLT CEO claims all his staff are going to leave because they might have to drive a slightly different way to work or something

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 9d

The New Yorker wrote about the app I’ve spent most time in over the last 20 years: TextEdit, Apple’s bare-bones WYSIWYG text editor. Always works, never gets in the way. Less nonsense than Word 5.1, less nonsense than ChatGPT. Thank you, whoever maintains it. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software

The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions.

www.newyorker.com

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 11d

Red lines on this map (which I drew)! systemed.net/atlas/

Leicester to Burton should be a real no-brainer…

The New Adlestrop Railway Atlas - historical UK railway map

systemed.net

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 12d

Salter Brothers

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 12d

Amazingly the permanent signs on the approaches to the Botley Road rail bridge have never been patched…

Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 13d

KOM MAAR OP

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 13d

Oxfordshire’s street design should be influenced by best practice in Amsterdam and Oslo, according to a new commission by the County Council. A revised Oxfordshire Street Design Code is being drawn up with the support of consultants Create Streets.

Amsterdam street. Photo by Jocelyn Allen on Unsplash.

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 14d

15 would be a quinceañera

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 15d

It is, very much (and on to Berinsfield).

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 15d

They went into liquidation the other year I think – they did get bought out, but who knows what the new owners' attitude to honouring previous customers will be. Fingers crossed!

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cycle.travel @cycle.travel · 19d

Café ride to test the upcoming version of the cycle.travel app ☕️

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 25d

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 25d

Headed out on the Bike Friday to explore some bridleways around Oxford.

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 26d

Indeed it isn’t! There are routinely three Terns on the school run here every morning, three miles of moderately hilly unlit Cotswold roads. (We were one of them until changing schools the other year, but one of the other parents still routinely borrows our GSD.)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Oct 3

The Bluesky theory of moderation is one of those “I’d really like to believe in this, but I am dubious”, but I will put that aside for the iconic reply to “people who have convinced themselves that they are the boss of people they don’t give any money to“, a curse of social media.

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · Oct 3

Even after 35+ years of Providing Free Stuff To Strangers Using Computers (late 1980s public domain software for the Amstrad 8-bits ftw), the sheer entitlement of 5% of those strangers never ceases to amaze me

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cycle.travel @cycle.travel · Sep 30

In one of those wonderful coincidences, the code to display cycle.travel’s app map yn Gymraeg was finished today just as the Welsh Government announced a project to crowdsource Welsh placenames for OpenStreetMap https://media.service.gov.wales/news/new-priorities-to-help-protect-welsh-place-names

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madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · Sep 30

just bored and thinking about how Freud's, the cocktail bar in a defunct Grade II listed church in Oxford, has been closed since 2023 'for renovations' but they haven't applied for any listed building consent and now it's the last remaining real estate in Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · Sep 28

“Get in, loser, we're founding a college”

Iconic Mean Girls image mirrored to more accurately fit the sculpture

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · Sep 26

Dobrinka Tabakova’s Truro Canticles are just full of gorgeous harmonies and you should listen to them, very very loud listeningproject.blog/2024/01/22/t...

Tabakova – Truro Canticles (2016)

Dobrinka Tabakova (b. 1980), a contemporary Bulgarian-British composer, has emerged as a distinctive voice in the classical music scene of the 21st century. Active during the same period as other c…

listeningproject.blog

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · Sep 25

neatly illustrating w3w’s complete unsuitability for anything at all

A completely different location that sounds the same!

Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · Sep 21

AI instant answers have their uses but “is it safe to cycle across Sudan right now” is probably not one of them

Facebook group query asking “how safe is it to cross Sudan”

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · Sep 20

Wait. The editor of Cotswold Life magazine was also lead vocalist in Inkubus Sukkubus? www.linkedin.com/posts/candia...

This isn’t the happiest of posts to write, but it’s just to let you all know I’ve handed in my notice as editor of Cotswold Life magazine. After working for 23 years (this month!) on the magazine –… ...

This isn’t the happiest of posts to write, but it’s just to let you all know I’ve handed in my notice as editor of Cotswold Life magazine. After working for 23 years (this month!) on the magazine – f...

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · Sep 19

Lol. How well did the last govt insulting load-bearing parts of their electoral coalition work out for them? Like they watched what the Lib Dems did to the home counties and wondered what it'd be like if the Greens did that to the two dozen largest university towns.

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · Sep 19

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · Sep 17

Now if they could do a Saturday service and extend it to Beale Park…

(Brilliant little zoo/wildlife park on the Berks/Oxon border. But really hard to get to by public transport. There’s no bus so you have to walk ~1.5mi from Pangbourne station on a narrow footpath by a busy road. With kids.)

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · Sep 12

what3words is pivoting to AI to save their floundering business model and it makes NO SENSE. If "AI voice chat" can book you an Uber to "///frog.eats.donuts", it can also book you an Uber to "my mate Darren's house" and cut out the intermediate step of w3w coordinates what3words.com/products/pro

"Book me an uber from index home raft to above dock shrimp". NO ONE IS EVER GOING TO DO THIS, HAVE YOU GONE ABSOLUTELY MAD

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