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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · Apr 22

For those who followed me for the road signs, I will be posting more about those don't worry, but events this week have transcended the line from brand-maintenance related quiet to meaning I have to speak up no matter what.

I'm sure you understand, if not please do the right thing and unfollow.

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 1d

I was 10 👀

Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 1d

It was something like 2014!

Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 1d

My only complaint is I'd have put Kings Cross and Euston on two lines.

Some might argue that given the other signs are thick blue bordered this should have been too. Blue bordered gantry signs were rare enough (some still survive on the M80) - Leeds also had a few on the ex-M1.

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 1d

Looks like they were on one of my nuke blocklists to begin with!

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 1d

Maybe he could join "Britian Frist".

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately.

No further comment necessary.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 1d

When does that stop racists? Self awareness isn't their strong point.

Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 1d

Rural "suicide lane" roads with no speed limit, poor road markings, an antiquated signage system, and cars made of pig iron and a peak of 7,000 deaths in 1966.

Yep, some real golden age of motoring we lost there.

Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 1d

Leaded petrol brain poisoning latest.

Peter McGladdery @petermcgladdery.bsky.social · 1d

'"Motorists" is a strange name for a political party (6 seats in Czech parliament)' I thought. 'Must be a wonky translation'

Nope. And each section in the wiki gets worse.

Snippet from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorists_for_Themselves

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Motorway Services Online @motorwayservices.uk · 1d

It's easy to assume being interested in service stations must mean you hate active travel.

Here are 4 reasons I disagree - but sometimes you do have to hold their feet to the fire. (Context and thoughts in alt tags.)

A rural footway with a sign directing cyclists to South Mimms services. This old road, now part of the National Cycle Network, runs around the service station and has been connected to it since it opened.

A large shared footpath, built along a rural road, paid for by Applegreen as part of a new motorway service area. Despite being primarily for motorway traffic, Dunshaughlin services was built with two pedestrian entrances, both connecting to the new path. Sadly, as local authority and/or developer weren't willing to extend it to the nearby town, the new path literally goes from nowhere to nowhere, but it's a start.

A modern, blue, cycle sign giving directions to, among others, "Services", which is in half a mile, apparently to the left. This is from the A64 at Bilbrough, a very old, busy dual carriageway with bus stops and businesses along it. It recently had its footway upgraded and turned into a shared arrangement: far from ideal, but better than nothing. This signage is probably more about urging people not to cycle across such a major road, as the service station is out-of-view to the right.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 1d

I believe so. Makes you wonder if it'd be cheaper to buy strips of land either side and just flare the carriageways out more smoothly if the central island of the roundabout is the problem.

Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 2d

Now this is a gantry sign!

When Tottenham Court Road was seen as a major radial route northwards, presumably begging for the Camden Town Bypass to connect to Ringway 1 with...

@roads.org.uk

A massive backlit gantry sign in London approaching the Euston Underpass at the top of Tottenham Court Road.

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 2d

This junction is a safety problem, it doesn't need extra capacity it just needs the pointless remnants of the roundabout removing. Essex already has the A13 (which has been widened) and A127 branching out from London.

The reason it's not been done is because of a water utility under it AIUI?

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 2d

The PM made it clear he is Zionist "without qualification"; he therefore has no interest in Jewish opinion that doesn't follow the Likud narrative.

He is happily weaponising the fear of Jews not only in Manchester but across the UK who are not ultra-Zionist to justify his anti-Palestinian bigotry.

Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 2d

"Tomorrow Belongs to Me" was a song from the anti-Nazi film Cabaret and was written by a Jewish writer. The fact they're this stupid to not realise that just shows the world why it's pointless treating them as legitimate "concerned citizens". They're just thugs who can't get into football grounds.

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 2d

Would have more impact if Labour's top brass weren't keen on similar out-Reform Reform nonsense.

Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 2d

This is where trying to out Reform Reform gets you- demanding millions of pensioners have their pensions stolen (pensions they have contributed to throughout their lives here) because you don't like their heritage.

Decent Tories should be mortified. www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

EU citizens living in UK shouldn’t be allowed welfare benefits, says Tory rising star

Katie Lam — who is earning plaudits on the Conservative right — calls for Brexit withdrawal agreement to be reopened.

www.politico.eu

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 2d

Agreed, but putting on my "how 'journos' think (sic)" hat cyclists aren't directly affected so the angry quote from Mr 1.8 mile commute in his SUV has more clout.

The same problems in Manchester of course. If people want to drive, fine, but don't moan when you're stuck in congestion you created.

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 2d

In fact, even the planners knew this, as they had already got plans to bypass the Tyne Bridge with another motorway to the east of this one, in a classic example of carbrain "let's build a big road that we know won't ever work properly so we can build a bigger one next to it" 1970s daftness.

Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 2d

Presumably as cyclists aren't on the A167(M) anyway they've decided their views are irrelevant.

Roadgeek me likes the Central M'way, it's unique and fascinating, but it has always been hamstrung by slamming into the Tyne Bridge at the south end which renders most of it pointless really.

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 3d

We need leaders that *inspire* a future vision, not invent up catnip for gammon stories and get spineless weathervanes like Starmer to do their dirty work for them.

We need to destroy the failed two party system.

Reform is the continuity Tory party, backed up by Blue Labour reactionaries.

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 3d

Starmer's polling -66% and Reform are leading in the polls.

You can't out-fash the fash, but the Starmer fan club are still banging that the political narrative should be dictated by less than 30% of the electorate - can only be because they secretly agree with it.

The Greens need to press this.

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 3d

The traffic volumes and customer base (mostly commuters) don't warrant much beyond what's there now truth be told.

I'm surprised it ever warranted the hotel, which has recently closed down anyway.

Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 3d

I'm always here for owl stories.

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 3d

The radius is 1.5sw - TSM Chapter 7 gives a good explanation of how to calculate sw - it's 25% of the x-height.

So for a 100mm x-height, 1sw is 25mm.

Bryn Buck 🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online · 3d

Yep, the background colour of the main sign determines the typeface, not the backing board.