Adam Gripton
@dradam676.bsky.social
Norfolk-bred Scot, software engineer, passionate about maths, maps, better public transport, and xkcd references. Bluesky now my main source of witterings, with occasional drip-feed of migrated content such as maps I'm pleased with.
Petrol and diesel in the UK are currently cheaper, in real terms, than they've been since (at least) 2003.
January 29, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Petrol and diesel in the UK are currently cheaper, in real terms, than they've been since (at least) 2003.
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AI Lobby: go all in on our shit product that steals from people & wrecks industries!
Gvt: k!
AI lobby: nobody’s using it 😡
Gvt: why?
AI Lobby: everyone knows people only don't like our product because they're TOO STUPID to understand how great it is.
Gvt: k!
Gvt: k!
AI lobby: nobody’s using it 😡
Gvt: why?
AI Lobby: everyone knows people only don't like our product because they're TOO STUPID to understand how great it is.
Gvt: k!
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:52 AM
AI Lobby: go all in on our shit product that steals from people & wrecks industries!
Gvt: k!
AI lobby: nobody’s using it 😡
Gvt: why?
AI Lobby: everyone knows people only don't like our product because they're TOO STUPID to understand how great it is.
Gvt: k!
Gvt: k!
AI lobby: nobody’s using it 😡
Gvt: why?
AI Lobby: everyone knows people only don't like our product because they're TOO STUPID to understand how great it is.
Gvt: k!
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It's a cold dark heart that does not laugh at how suddenly everyone's on the dEbAsEmEnT trade, silver has gone batshit, gold is on fire and bitcoin is like
January 26, 2026 at 5:31 PM
It's a cold dark heart that does not laugh at how suddenly everyone's on the dEbAsEmEnT trade, silver has gone batshit, gold is on fire and bitcoin is like
Jenrick AND Braverman both gone now?
Careful, Tories, if you keep going on like this, you might risk making yourselves electable again.
Careful, Tories, if you keep going on like this, you might risk making yourselves electable again.
January 26, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Jenrick AND Braverman both gone now?
Careful, Tories, if you keep going on like this, you might risk making yourselves electable again.
Careful, Tories, if you keep going on like this, you might risk making yourselves electable again.
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#AngryFactCheck Fifteen-minute cities aren’t Stalinist, aren’t sinister, and are most certainly not an attempt by the WEP to control and monitor our behaviour, you barrow-full of bellends. This is mainstreaming half-baked conspiracy theories, and I’m sick of patiently explaining this to people.
January 25, 2026 at 7:29 PM
#AngryFactCheck Fifteen-minute cities aren’t Stalinist, aren’t sinister, and are most certainly not an attempt by the WEP to control and monitor our behaviour, you barrow-full of bellends. This is mainstreaming half-baked conspiracy theories, and I’m sick of patiently explaining this to people.
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It was the fourth anniversary of my Daddy’s death yesterday. Fairly late on when he was living in a care home he wrote this in a card to my Mum. The ‘lots of love’ was written by a care worker but he improvised ‘Lots of love… is the best reply to a difficult world’
January 25, 2026 at 12:21 PM
It was the fourth anniversary of my Daddy’s death yesterday. Fairly late on when he was living in a care home he wrote this in a card to my Mum. The ‘lots of love’ was written by a care worker but he improvised ‘Lots of love… is the best reply to a difficult world’
*opens phone*
*checks bsky*
... so, um, about that meteor becoming crayshed into us, uh, is that offer still open or
*checks bsky*
... so, um, about that meteor becoming crayshed into us, uh, is that offer still open or
January 25, 2026 at 1:34 PM
*opens phone*
*checks bsky*
... so, um, about that meteor becoming crayshed into us, uh, is that offer still open or
*checks bsky*
... so, um, about that meteor becoming crayshed into us, uh, is that offer still open or
Ew. Just accidentally found out I was still logged in to the other place in another browser. Logged out immediately, but now I feel unclean. Ew. Ew.
January 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Ew. Just accidentally found out I was still logged in to the other place in another browser. Logged out immediately, but now I feel unclean. Ew. Ew.
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There’s another graphic video of someone dying at the hands of US ICE agents doing the rounds.
You might want to prevent videos from auto playing: Settings > Content & Media
To activate content warnings: Settings > Moderation
And if you’re sharing, add a damned label.
You might want to prevent videos from auto playing: Settings > Content & Media
To activate content warnings: Settings > Moderation
And if you’re sharing, add a damned label.
January 24, 2026 at 4:47 PM
There’s another graphic video of someone dying at the hands of US ICE agents doing the rounds.
You might want to prevent videos from auto playing: Settings > Content & Media
To activate content warnings: Settings > Moderation
And if you’re sharing, add a damned label.
You might want to prevent videos from auto playing: Settings > Content & Media
To activate content warnings: Settings > Moderation
And if you’re sharing, add a damned label.
Nobody should be surprised by this. If anyone claims otherwise, question their motives. These horrific things should have been banned before they made it to market.
Horrible use of Meta glasses to harass women by uploading creepy “dating” content. However, story also has possible implications for use of cameras in public places. Such as bike and car cams. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Women filmed in secret for TikTok content - then harassed online
So-called manfluencers wearing smart glasses approach women and then post videos to TikTok.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Nobody should be surprised by this. If anyone claims otherwise, question their motives. These horrific things should have been banned before they made it to market.
Well this is a new one on me... a URL that includes an emoji:
futuramobility.org/en/%F0%9F%93...
futuramobility.org/en/%F0%9F%93...
💡 Electric Road Systems, towards decarbonising road transport – Futura-Mobility
futuramobility.org
January 23, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Well this is a new one on me... a URL that includes an emoji:
futuramobility.org/en/%F0%9F%93...
futuramobility.org/en/%F0%9F%93...
This took me far too long.
January 22, 2026 at 12:12 PM
This took me far too long.
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TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
January 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM
TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
How's the whole "courting the Reform vote" campaign going then, Keir?
... ah.
... ah.
24% of people who voted Labour at the last general election now plan to
vote Green or Lib Dem.
0% of those who voted Reform at the last election now plan to vote Labour.
vote Green or Lib Dem.
0% of those who voted Reform at the last election now plan to vote Labour.
January 21, 2026 at 10:11 PM
How's the whole "courting the Reform vote" campaign going then, Keir?
... ah.
... ah.
Maybe Emmanuel Macron has the lurgie
January 21, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Maybe Emmanuel Macron has the lurgie
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If, like me, you are in need of an effective, cheap and quick mind-body-heart reset along the lines of "lalalala eVeRyTHiNg iS fiNe," may I recommend this thread
Having a good Father’s Day. Freed a pigeon from our living room earlier. Now there’s a cat in our bedroom. We don’t own a cat.
January 16, 2026 at 11:30 AM
If, like me, you are in need of an effective, cheap and quick mind-body-heart reset along the lines of "lalalala eVeRyTHiNg iS fiNe," may I recommend this thread
BBC furtively, tentatively, daring to be a tiny bit braver in their subheadline wording. Every journey etc.
January 20, 2026 at 9:59 AM
BBC furtively, tentatively, daring to be a tiny bit braver in their subheadline wording. Every journey etc.
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This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow.
Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 AM
This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow.
Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
As everyone's talking about the Aurora, here's one of the "Angel Wings" photos I took outside our house on 10 May 2024 (it's nowhere near as strong tonight, I've checked). Just needed an excuse to re-post this somewhere other than the other place, because I'm not logging back in any time soon.
January 19, 2026 at 10:06 PM
As everyone's talking about the Aurora, here's one of the "Angel Wings" photos I took outside our house on 10 May 2024 (it's nowhere near as strong tonight, I've checked). Just needed an excuse to re-post this somewhere other than the other place, because I'm not logging back in any time soon.
"Bowling alleys must have four and a half spaces per lane, and mini golf courses need three spaces per hole."
Fascinating piece. Something something European brain cannot comprehend etc
Fascinating piece. Something something European brain cannot comprehend etc
“We were originally just going to model real cities, but we quickly realized there were way too many parking lots in the real world,” SimCity creator Stone Librande admitted in an interview. “Our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.”
SimParkingLot is no fun
The creators of SimCity wanted to create a realistic city-building game. The absurdities of America's parking policies made that impossible.
benjaminschneider.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:17 PM
"Bowling alleys must have four and a half spaces per lane, and mini golf courses need three spaces per hole."
Fascinating piece. Something something European brain cannot comprehend etc
Fascinating piece. Something something European brain cannot comprehend etc
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Just had the “try our updated app” email from Trainline. If it wasn’t so depressing it’d be hilarious.
What’s the ONE thing you want with travel information…?
What’s the ONE thing you want with travel information…?
January 17, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Just had the “try our updated app” email from Trainline. If it wasn’t so depressing it’d be hilarious.
What’s the ONE thing you want with travel information…?
What’s the ONE thing you want with travel information…?
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Just to be clear, it's bad that Europe doesn't have enough troops in Greenland, and also bad that they sent more troops to Greenland?
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Just to be clear, it's bad that Europe doesn't have enough troops in Greenland, and also bad that they sent more troops to Greenland?
From FB, made me chuckle. One of the better examples.
January 17, 2026 at 1:19 PM
From FB, made me chuckle. One of the better examples.
this exchange in the replies is *chef's kiss* 👌💯
January 14, 2026 at 6:58 PM
this exchange in the replies is *chef's kiss* 👌💯