Rich Alderton | 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺
@ralderton.bsky.social
Points tart. Beer enthusiast. Green, lefty, middle-class, Guardian-reading, EV-driving, snowflake Remainer wanker. Refrigerator owner.
I can’t imagine what it feels like to have someone write that about you. I’m so sorry.
What vile, worthless specks of shit these people are. I don’t imagine that helps, but it bears repeating.
What vile, worthless specks of shit these people are. I don’t imagine that helps, but it bears repeating.
December 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I can’t imagine what it feels like to have someone write that about you. I’m so sorry.
What vile, worthless specks of shit these people are. I don’t imagine that helps, but it bears repeating.
What vile, worthless specks of shit these people are. I don’t imagine that helps, but it bears repeating.
I see this all the time in press conferences, and it still shocks me every time a journalist *doesn’t* do this.
“Thank you. Before I ask my question, I’m interested to hear your full answer to the previous question “
“Thank you. Before I ask my question, I’m interested to hear your full answer to the previous question “
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I see this all the time in press conferences, and it still shocks me every time a journalist *doesn’t* do this.
“Thank you. Before I ask my question, I’m interested to hear your full answer to the previous question “
“Thank you. Before I ask my question, I’m interested to hear your full answer to the previous question “
Perhaps the unviability (given high fees charged by HS1 and the Getlink) of a Ouigo-style operation?
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Perhaps the unviability (given high fees charged by HS1 and the Getlink) of a Ouigo-style operation?
I suggested that once, and my friend - who passed on the fifth attempt - said 'God, no! I'd never pass again'.
Quite.
Quite.
October 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I suggested that once, and my friend - who passed on the fifth attempt - said 'God, no! I'd never pass again'.
Quite.
Quite.
I may have missed it, but have you ever done campus, champs, camp (tents), camp (affectation), campaign, company, Champagne?
October 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I may have missed it, but have you ever done campus, champs, camp (tents), camp (affectation), campaign, company, Champagne?
I don't understand how any of the sentences in this fess are connected to the next one.
October 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I don't understand how any of the sentences in this fess are connected to the next one.
I thought I recognised you on my way to Paris!
Glad it was uneventful. Uneventful is good
Glad it was uneventful. Uneventful is good
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I thought I recognised you on my way to Paris!
Glad it was uneventful. Uneventful is good
Glad it was uneventful. Uneventful is good
You're allowed to join in when they do this. It's the law
October 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
You're allowed to join in when they do this. It's the law
What’s mad is that you’re now eligible for 100% compensation, I think, for a >2 hour arrival.
So you end up late and annoyed, but compensated. And the train company gets no revenue.
So you end up late and annoyed, but compensated. And the train company gets no revenue.
October 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
What’s mad is that you’re now eligible for 100% compensation, I think, for a >2 hour arrival.
So you end up late and annoyed, but compensated. And the train company gets no revenue.
So you end up late and annoyed, but compensated. And the train company gets no revenue.
Public service announcement: figuring out how to drive on the other side of the road is not difficult. Same for changing gear with your wrong hand.
Difficult: learning what the road markings mean, how the bus lanes work, why signposts seem to point in the wrong direction, driver behaviour.
Difficult: learning what the road markings mean, how the bus lanes work, why signposts seem to point in the wrong direction, driver behaviour.
September 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Public service announcement: figuring out how to drive on the other side of the road is not difficult. Same for changing gear with your wrong hand.
Difficult: learning what the road markings mean, how the bus lanes work, why signposts seem to point in the wrong direction, driver behaviour.
Difficult: learning what the road markings mean, how the bus lanes work, why signposts seem to point in the wrong direction, driver behaviour.
London is also:
✅ 100% autocrat-free
✅ not trying to kill its inhabitants with actively-dangerous medical advice
✅ unlikely to start a war with Hertfordshire or invade Kent
✅ 100% autocrat-free
✅ not trying to kill its inhabitants with actively-dangerous medical advice
✅ unlikely to start a war with Hertfordshire or invade Kent
September 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
London is also:
✅ 100% autocrat-free
✅ not trying to kill its inhabitants with actively-dangerous medical advice
✅ unlikely to start a war with Hertfordshire or invade Kent
✅ 100% autocrat-free
✅ not trying to kill its inhabitants with actively-dangerous medical advice
✅ unlikely to start a war with Hertfordshire or invade Kent
I love the ‘etc etc’.
It’s like ‘meh. Usual stuff. Everybody knows their roles. Just need to key the rage topped up. No need to worry about having a decent discussion’.
It’s like ‘meh. Usual stuff. Everybody knows their roles. Just need to key the rage topped up. No need to worry about having a decent discussion’.
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I love the ‘etc etc’.
It’s like ‘meh. Usual stuff. Everybody knows their roles. Just need to key the rage topped up. No need to worry about having a decent discussion’.
It’s like ‘meh. Usual stuff. Everybody knows their roles. Just need to key the rage topped up. No need to worry about having a decent discussion’.
Also Chat GPT, if you like that sort of thing. It can correct your writing, suggest exercises, or even chat with you.
I believe it's much less likely to hallucinate on translations etc
I believe it's much less likely to hallucinate on translations etc
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Also Chat GPT, if you like that sort of thing. It can correct your writing, suggest exercises, or even chat with you.
I believe it's much less likely to hallucinate on translations etc
I believe it's much less likely to hallucinate on translations etc
I've never improved my speaking so much as when I joined a local French talking group. We meet once a week in a pub.
All the advice I've had says to practice speaking as early and as often as possible - whatever your ability.
Also narrating to yourself (preferably in the privacy of your own home).
All the advice I've had says to practice speaking as early and as often as possible - whatever your ability.
Also narrating to yourself (preferably in the privacy of your own home).
September 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I've never improved my speaking so much as when I joined a local French talking group. We meet once a week in a pub.
All the advice I've had says to practice speaking as early and as often as possible - whatever your ability.
Also narrating to yourself (preferably in the privacy of your own home).
All the advice I've had says to practice speaking as early and as often as possible - whatever your ability.
Also narrating to yourself (preferably in the privacy of your own home).
I've come across this sort of thing in various guises - on YouTube and off.
My strong preference is for the original language, with an easy click to access machine translation.
I'm not a fan of being shown the translated version as a fait accompli - often without even acknowledging the original.
My strong preference is for the original language, with an easy click to access machine translation.
I'm not a fan of being shown the translated version as a fait accompli - often without even acknowledging the original.
September 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I've come across this sort of thing in various guises - on YouTube and off.
My strong preference is for the original language, with an easy click to access machine translation.
I'm not a fan of being shown the translated version as a fait accompli - often without even acknowledging the original.
My strong preference is for the original language, with an easy click to access machine translation.
I'm not a fan of being shown the translated version as a fait accompli - often without even acknowledging the original.
Get rid of the wankpanzer, and buy a normal sized car.
September 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Get rid of the wankpanzer, and buy a normal sized car.
This can be resolved using a secretive and complex technique known as talking.
The magic phrase is 'Oh. I don't need an accessible room actually'.
The magic phrase is 'Oh. I don't need an accessible room actually'.
September 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This can be resolved using a secretive and complex technique known as talking.
The magic phrase is 'Oh. I don't need an accessible room actually'.
The magic phrase is 'Oh. I don't need an accessible room actually'.
See also 'OK, remember where we parked the car: Einbahnstrasse'.
September 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
See also 'OK, remember where we parked the car: Einbahnstrasse'.
Something is off about his posts from the very start.
They don’t read like someone who is mistaken, they read like someone who is trolling from the start. And / or has a very weird axe to grind.
They don’t read like someone who is mistaken, they read like someone who is trolling from the start. And / or has a very weird axe to grind.
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Something is off about his posts from the very start.
They don’t read like someone who is mistaken, they read like someone who is trolling from the start. And / or has a very weird axe to grind.
They don’t read like someone who is mistaken, they read like someone who is trolling from the start. And / or has a very weird axe to grind.