Garry Keenor
@25kv.bsky.social
UK-based rail electrification engineer with AtkinsRéalis | Electrification Junkie, Catenary Shagger | #electrifyAllTheThings | Want to know how overhead line electrification works? Get my FREE book at http://ocs4rail.com/downloads
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Garry Keenor
@25kv.bsky.social
· Nov 18
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Hi new followers! For the time being I'm going to continue posting all my #railwaysExplained and other original content on Mastodon. So if you want to get that sweet sweet content you need to follow my bridged account at @25kV.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
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From Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance by John Kay
![The John Kay of the 1980s, transported twenty-five years forward in time, would not be able to afford to buy the house I still live in, would have incurred substantial debt in higher education, would have to make greater provision for his own retirement and would look ahead to a tax burden inevitably rising to meet the costs of an increasingly adverse demography. When Jeff Skilling [The Enron CEO] toasted the capitalisation of energy contracts in champagne, he was celebrating the twin benefits of the prudence of his predecessors and his own imprudence in relation to his successors. And I could join him in that toast. Lucky indeed to have lived through the era of financialisation." - Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tiaodgr5mu3iyiqiwfunedxw/bafkreiemokwo53ncrvoiaqfin5rgxqlxlitrvpnf2qq6dtpginjhduzdda@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 5:59 AM
From Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance by John Kay
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There have been no good reasons for staying on Twitter for years now, but at this point you will have to follow up any of your remaining excuses with “…and I don’t care about the child pornography.”
This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
January 2, 2026 at 2:04 PM
There have been no good reasons for staying on Twitter for years now, but at this point you will have to follow up any of your remaining excuses with “…and I don’t care about the child pornography.”
I've finally found an appropriate use case for the class 8xx ride quality - the Settle to Carlisle line
January 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I've finally found an appropriate use case for the class 8xx ride quality - the Settle to Carlisle line
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Same in the UK. You can't meet racists halfway.
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
January 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Same in the UK. You can't meet racists halfway.
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What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them.
December 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them.
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Please can everyone remember the Golden Rule of fascism: if everyone isn't safe, no-one is
I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Please can everyone remember the Golden Rule of fascism: if everyone isn't safe, no-one is
Now consider how these views would be impacted if, say, Scotland were to vote for independence. My parents are Scottish, but I live in England. Am I allowed to stay? If you think that's a ridiculous scenario, I can only assume you were asleep in all those history lessons on the rise of the Nazis
New YouGov research for ippr finds that civic conceptions of being British are held by most people, with a third prioritising birthplace. Reform voters are outliers, against the general public view, weighting ancestry and ethnicity more highly
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Now consider how these views would be impacted if, say, Scotland were to vote for independence. My parents are Scottish, but I live in England. Am I allowed to stay? If you think that's a ridiculous scenario, I can only assume you were asleep in all those history lessons on the rise of the Nazis
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Enjoying this video loads, strong recommendation if you enjoy jumpers/sweaters (and not just from a knitting/crochet perspective) youtu.be/_x-_PLprz3g?...
The Only Wool Sweaters I’d Buy.*
YouTube video by The Iron Snail
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December 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Enjoying this video loads, strong recommendation if you enjoy jumpers/sweaters (and not just from a knitting/crochet perspective) youtu.be/_x-_PLprz3g?...
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This is exactly why I strongly opposed the move to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship. Plenty of Brits have dual citizenship, often through a parent, or have access to another citizenship whether they intend to take it up or not, including all Jewish people & most people born in Northern Ireland
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is exactly why I strongly opposed the move to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship. Plenty of Brits have dual citizenship, often through a parent, or have access to another citizenship whether they intend to take it up or not, including all Jewish people & most people born in Northern Ireland
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Every single project is the same and the deciding factor is if politicians can hold their nerve.
December 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Every single project is the same and the deciding factor is if politicians can hold their nerve.
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Please can everyone remember the Golden Rule of fascism: if everyone isn't safe, no-one is
I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Please can everyone remember the Golden Rule of fascism: if everyone isn't safe, no-one is
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I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.
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Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
I once gave the lead singer of the Boo Radleys advice on his domestic electrical wiring on twitter. Then thanked him for the godlike genius that is Lazarus
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I once gave the lead singer of the Boo Radleys advice on his domestic electrical wiring on twitter. Then thanked him for the godlike genius that is Lazarus
Having a day out meandering down to Cornwall - a good opportunity to get stuck in to the next version of the #OLEBook and a big new section on discontinuous electrification and battery trains. #thiswritinglife
December 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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you’re gonna need a tinier tim
December 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
you’re gonna need a tinier tim
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Santa told us that people that don’t add alt text are getting coal in their stocking this year.
December 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Santa told us that people that don’t add alt text are getting coal in their stocking this year.
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IN VALEN'S NAME, USE ALT TEXT FOR YOUR IMAGES.
You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.
You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.
December 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
IN VALEN'S NAME, USE ALT TEXT FOR YOUR IMAGES.
You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.
You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.
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Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population
December 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population
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being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic
September 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic
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Once, when I worked in the bookshop, i was asked for a book with the “fancy writing that monks do” in it. When i pressed the woman for more information (such as a title) she informed me that she had seen the book in a dream, and woke up before she could find out the title.
man i have never had as many stupid questions as when i worked at Lush, just thinking about it now and we really put retail workers Through It don't we
December 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Once, when I worked in the bookshop, i was asked for a book with the “fancy writing that monks do” in it. When i pressed the woman for more information (such as a title) she informed me that she had seen the book in a dream, and woke up before she could find out the title.
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Never forget when I did a pop up record shop and someone came in and asked "Do you have anything that Princess Diana might have listened to?"
man i have never had as many stupid questions as when i worked at Lush, just thinking about it now and we really put retail workers Through It don't we
December 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Never forget when I did a pop up record shop and someone came in and asked "Do you have anything that Princess Diana might have listened to?"