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Rob H&ynes

@robonabike.bsky.social

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stats. Oxford, UK

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 46m

Remember the bad old days when tap water was so rubbish you could see right through it?
Terrible times.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 2h

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

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Kat Steiner🔸 @kastrel.bsky.social · 1h

I think it's telling that by far the most positive reaction I've had at inductions this year has been telling new students our chat widget is staffed by real librarians, not AI.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 1h

Everything's a bong if you're sufficiently inventive.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 1h

Hmm, you never know.
OED has it going back to 1822, but I'd literally never seen it until the past few months, and now it's everywhere.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 1h

Great minds, etc...

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 1h

TIL

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 1h

God, there's so many Kinetons, and I swear they're all pronounced differently. (The only one I know directly is Kine Ton - town of cows.)

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 1h

More mash is good. No mash is also fine.
But that tiny, vulnerable mashlet, loomed over by those bulky threatening sausages, is very, very wrong.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 1h

Good morning.
Am pondering the unexpected surge in the use of "below" as an adjective.

("As may be seen in the below diagram.")

Yes, there's precedent, and let language be language and all that, but the sudden flood of this usage has taken me by surprise.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 2h

* "mash" chanting intensifies *

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 2h

Glad I scrolled down before also making the bong gag. But it's genuinely the first place my mind went.

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Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social · 2h

Liminal Silence

Oil and acrylic on canvas

A three tiered topiary tree in a vast flat grassy landscape.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 2h

+1. I've been wrong before, though.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 13h

Good sky earlier.

Looking southwest down a suburban street in Oxford, and the sky is pleasingly dappled with grey, blue, and orange.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 14h

I can't be the first to use it.

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Danny @mardigroan.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, you mean fall as in autumn, not as in "of civilization."

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 14h

Once shared a house with a lad from Ponte and he claimed it was "Like fuckin' Dodge City on a Friday night", but this was a long time ago.
I can imagine it's mellowed.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, those.
The kids call them "vinyls" these days, Grandfather.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 14h

I will try to exercise more tantrummery in future.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 14h

Quite. Although even when there was money in flogging records and big concerts ran at a loss, very few up-and-coming bands made much from either in their early years.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 14h

As noted in the replies, I missed one short reference to the subject, late in the article.
Leaving the OP up as an admission to being wrong on the internet.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, some ticket prices are mad, but to write this whole article without once noting that records, which were once performers' main income, are now effectively free, is some management-grade point-missing.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

The best gig I ever saw cost £4. Spiralling concert prices are a cultural disaster | John Harris

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 15h

Quite. It's an obvious point, about which a lot of articles were being written ten years ago, but I still should have hunted harder.
My bad, as the kids probably still say.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 15h

I'll hold my hand up to missing that. Thank you.

Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 16h

Tempting, but I have more bikes than space for bikes.
Thanks anyway.