Mr Richards
@mrrichards.bsky.social
Bicyclist who occasionally runs ultras, married to an ultra runner who cycles. Dad to one rock climber and one footballer.
Computer Science teacher (KS3 - KS5)
Computer Science teacher (KS3 - KS5)
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Anyone heard of the Filton 18? No, me neither. How is this not news?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Sally Rooney says UK prisoners linked to Palestine Action face ‘shocking mistreatment’
Exclusive: author urges ministers to engage with those on hunger strike, who want better conditions, bail and lifting of ban
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Anyone heard of the Filton 18? No, me neither. How is this not news?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
My worn chain has now gotten so bad that it only connects properly with about 4 teeth on chain ring. When move into a high gear it jumps off completely!
Got some big hills on my commute which I will now have to attempt in low gear 💪 🥵
New cassette finally arrived but that will have to wait to wkend
Got some big hills on my commute which I will now have to attempt in low gear 💪 🥵
New cassette finally arrived but that will have to wait to wkend
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
My worn chain has now gotten so bad that it only connects properly with about 4 teeth on chain ring. When move into a high gear it jumps off completely!
Got some big hills on my commute which I will now have to attempt in low gear 💪 🥵
New cassette finally arrived but that will have to wait to wkend
Got some big hills on my commute which I will now have to attempt in low gear 💪 🥵
New cassette finally arrived but that will have to wait to wkend
Cheers for that US 😬
[Sits in the living room into the dead of night with everything switched off, rocking backwards and forwards, watching my tree. Teeth gritted.]
[Sits in the living room into the dead of night with everything switched off, rocking backwards and forwards, watching my tree. Teeth gritted.]
December 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Cheers for that US 😬
[Sits in the living room into the dead of night with everything switched off, rocking backwards and forwards, watching my tree. Teeth gritted.]
[Sits in the living room into the dead of night with everything switched off, rocking backwards and forwards, watching my tree. Teeth gritted.]
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Holding FFWD down on an Alba "Walkman" clone for exactly long enough to get to the tune you really want to listen to.
And for @williamnb.bsky.social , you're only ever at most 2 weeks away from a potential social revolution 💥
Holding FFWD down on an Alba "Walkman" clone for exactly long enough to get to the tune you really want to listen to.
And for @williamnb.bsky.social , you're only ever at most 2 weeks away from a potential social revolution 💥
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Honestly I think you'd be surprised how every so often an odd skill resurfaces (possibly/hopefully with the exception of @williamnb.bsky.social's shaped charges)
Least likely - stripping a 2 stroke outboard carburettor.
Honestly I think you'd be surprised how every so often an odd skill resurfaces (possibly/hopefully with the exception of @williamnb.bsky.social's shaped charges)
Least likely - stripping a 2 stroke outboard carburettor.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
In my case, using plastic explosives to make shaped charges, to direct a blast in a certain direction.
In my case, using plastic explosives to make shaped charges, to direct a blast in a certain direction.
December 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Holding FFWD down on an Alba "Walkman" clone for exactly long enough to get to the tune you really want to listen to.
And for @williamnb.bsky.social , you're only ever at most 2 weeks away from a potential social revolution 💥
Holding FFWD down on an Alba "Walkman" clone for exactly long enough to get to the tune you really want to listen to.
And for @williamnb.bsky.social , you're only ever at most 2 weeks away from a potential social revolution 💥
Yep same. Also Mrs Richards is up for it too.
Subject to other life events; I am signed up
Be there or be square!
Who's coming?
Who's coming?
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Yep same. Also Mrs Richards is up for it too.
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4/6. Using snow to envision a better community.
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
4/6. Using snow to envision a better community.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
December 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
Once all the hubris dies down I think it'll be quite fun to build LLMs of our own.
I'd quite like to have one on my bike that I can chat to on long rides a bit like KITT.
I'd quite like to have one on my bike that I can chat to on long rides a bit like KITT.
Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
December 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Once all the hubris dies down I think it'll be quite fun to build LLMs of our own.
I'd quite like to have one on my bike that I can chat to on long rides a bit like KITT.
I'd quite like to have one on my bike that I can chat to on long rides a bit like KITT.
If you told me in 1995 that you could walk into a high street supermarket in 2025 and buy 32 GB of storage for under £10 I would have called for the men in green coats to come and take you away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If you told me in 1995 that you could walk into a high street supermarket in 2025 and buy 32 GB of storage for under £10 I would have called for the men in green coats to come and take you away.
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Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
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What evidence is there that uplands like this were once covered by temperate rainforest, and would return to such a state naturally but for sheep?
Loads... 🧵
Loads... 🧵
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
What evidence is there that uplands like this were once covered by temperate rainforest, and would return to such a state naturally but for sheep?
Loads... 🧵
Loads... 🧵
The world can sometimes seem grim but here is a picture of something nice and furry to cheer you up 😊
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The world can sometimes seem grim but here is a picture of something nice and furry to cheer you up 😊
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Toby Perkins, Labour MP and fervent Digital ID booster, posted this racist nonsense then deleted it in shame. Later calling it ”clumsy”. Not clumsy. Racist. Go join Reform.
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Toby Perkins, Labour MP and fervent Digital ID booster, posted this racist nonsense then deleted it in shame. Later calling it ”clumsy”. Not clumsy. Racist. Go join Reform.
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The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.
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“A speeding driver killed my parents - there needs to be a cultural change”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A driver killed my parents - attitudes to speeding need to change
Claire Corker wants cultural change on road safety after her parents were killed by a speeding driver.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“A speeding driver killed my parents - there needs to be a cultural change”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I'm pinching this Animals idea for a test question 🤓
December 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I'm pinching this Animals idea for a test question 🤓
It's not the O2, it's the Millennium Dome!
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It's not the O2, it's the Millennium Dome!
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There are now twice as many bikes as cars on City of London streets during the day, and people cycling make up 56% of all road users during peak commuting hours. Motor traffic is down 5% since the last count, which continues its downward trend having fallen by a quarter in the five years since 2019.
December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
There are now twice as many bikes as cars on City of London streets during the day, and people cycling make up 56% of all road users during peak commuting hours. Motor traffic is down 5% since the last count, which continues its downward trend having fallen by a quarter in the five years since 2019.
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Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔
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1. A speech I give to every class before I give back assessments.
"I know how much you want to know what you got and how you did compared to everyone else. That's natural. However we are absolutely not going to share scores in this lesson. I expect absolute silence when I give them back to you..
"I know how much you want to know what you got and how you did compared to everyone else. That's natural. However we are absolutely not going to share scores in this lesson. I expect absolute silence when I give them back to you..
December 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
1. A speech I give to every class before I give back assessments.
"I know how much you want to know what you got and how you did compared to everyone else. That's natural. However we are absolutely not going to share scores in this lesson. I expect absolute silence when I give them back to you..
"I know how much you want to know what you got and how you did compared to everyone else. That's natural. However we are absolutely not going to share scores in this lesson. I expect absolute silence when I give them back to you..
Ooh look, British Cycling is celebrating making a profit, even though its membership is dripping off a cliff.... Mabye they should just change their name or something.
road.cc/content/news...
road.cc/content/news...
British Cycling loses 11,000 members, but governing body insists 2024/5 still a “positive year” with first financial surplus in five years
The financial surplus is largely a result of £2.8m in sponsorship and rights fees, with Lloyds Bank stepping in as the new lead partner, alongside £1.1m in partnership income, much of it generated by ...
road.cc
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Ooh look, British Cycling is celebrating making a profit, even though its membership is dripping off a cliff.... Mabye they should just change their name or something.
road.cc/content/news...
road.cc/content/news...
I went looking for an old book, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy but instead I found this absolute gem. I haven't opened this book since I was about 14
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I went looking for an old book, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy but instead I found this absolute gem. I haven't opened this book since I was about 14