LukeBMTB
@lukebmtb.bsky.social
Usual Twitter transfer. Dog walks, phone photo's, dad puns, education, some politics, some family stuff, trying to maintain a 600 year old house.
If they privatised the tunnels and then taxed the resulting profits by exactly this amount over seven years no one would bat an eyelid.
How DARE tunnel tolls be used to invest in public transport.
Mersey Tunnel tolls generated £182m surplus in seven years
Drivers are subsidising bus, rail and Mersey Ferries, a practice campaigners called 'completely unfair'
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If they privatised the tunnels and then taxed the resulting profits by exactly this amount over seven years no one would bat an eyelid.
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So far, the only outlet that has an accurate Brigitte Bardot obit headline is @aljazeera.com:
December 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So far, the only outlet that has an accurate Brigitte Bardot obit headline is @aljazeera.com:
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I’d been struggling to photograph a Black Woodpecker, so finding one quietly perched — no calls, no drumming — felt like pure luck. ✌️😊 🪶
暮れも押し迫ったこの時期にやっと登場した、キツツキ界のラスボスであらせられるクマゲラさん🦹♀️さわやか自然百景にも出てましたね😅
#nature #photography #animals #wildlife #BlackWoodpecker #クマゲラ #birds #野鳥
暮れも押し迫ったこの時期にやっと登場した、キツツキ界のラスボスであらせられるクマゲラさん🦹♀️さわやか自然百景にも出てましたね😅
#nature #photography #animals #wildlife #BlackWoodpecker #クマゲラ #birds #野鳥
December 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I’d been struggling to photograph a Black Woodpecker, so finding one quietly perched — no calls, no drumming — felt like pure luck. ✌️😊 🪶
暮れも押し迫ったこの時期にやっと登場した、キツツキ界のラスボスであらせられるクマゲラさん🦹♀️さわやか自然百景にも出てましたね😅
#nature #photography #animals #wildlife #BlackWoodpecker #クマゲラ #birds #野鳥
暮れも押し迫ったこの時期にやっと登場した、キツツキ界のラスボスであらせられるクマゲラさん🦹♀️さわやか自然百景にも出てましたね😅
#nature #photography #animals #wildlife #BlackWoodpecker #クマゲラ #birds #野鳥
Schrader"s Christmas pudding: You can only tell there's a valve core in there when your nan breaks a crown.
December 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Schrader"s Christmas pudding: You can only tell there's a valve core in there when your nan breaks a crown.
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OMG. Just read to the end of the first paragraph ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9
December 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
OMG. Just read to the end of the first paragraph ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
Kindle stats. 67 books this year.
December 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Kindle stats. 67 books this year.
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12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
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I just told the waiters and waitresses of this cafe that a Truffaut film was shot here in 1968 and they gathered round to watch the scene on my iPhone. It was like the end of It’s a Wonderful Life.
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I just told the waiters and waitresses of this cafe that a Truffaut film was shot here in 1968 and they gathered round to watch the scene on my iPhone. It was like the end of It’s a Wonderful Life.
Thread.
Festive film locations - Paris edition
Number 1 - Jules et Jim (the bridge scene)
Number 1 - Jules et Jim (the bridge scene)
December 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Thread.
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Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, dies aged 65
Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, dies aged 65
Starting as a roadie and guitar tech, Bamonte joined the band in 1990 after its breakthrough album Disintegration
Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band the Cure, has died. He was 65.
The band made the announcement on their official website on Friday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, dies aged 65
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Over 24 years, Louise Cocker has captured almost half a million Norfolk Gravestones. ‘As a result, she has produced a remarkable dataset… which experts consider one of the most comprehensive photographic records of gravestones and memorials in England.’
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research
Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestors
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Over 24 years, Louise Cocker has captured almost half a million Norfolk Gravestones. ‘As a result, she has produced a remarkable dataset… which experts consider one of the most comprehensive photographic records of gravestones and memorials in England.’
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Local intelligence sources confirmed a camel was present and are said to have got the hump when this was denied.
"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Local intelligence sources confirmed a camel was present and are said to have got the hump when this was denied.
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Long shot, does anyone have an unwanted rabbit hutch in London?
Poor thing was found abandoned on Wanstead Flats today and we are considering giving it an emergency home
Poor thing was found abandoned on Wanstead Flats today and we are considering giving it an emergency home
December 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Long shot, does anyone have an unwanted rabbit hutch in London?
Poor thing was found abandoned on Wanstead Flats today and we are considering giving it an emergency home
Poor thing was found abandoned on Wanstead Flats today and we are considering giving it an emergency home
Got to love a weathered gate post. I've been walking and cycling past this for thirty years and it's not obviously changed. Never had a gate hanging off it either.
December 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Got to love a weathered gate post. I've been walking and cycling past this for thirty years and it's not obviously changed. Never had a gate hanging off it either.
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Brilliant. Thank you for your service.
Well, it’s the day after Wallace and Gromit rode again – and it’s the 31st anniversary of the first appearance of the greatest sound effect in the history of the motion picture, so here’s the story of how (I found out how) they made it...
December 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Brilliant. Thank you for your service.
Walk in the woods at lunchtime.
December 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Walk in the woods at lunchtime.
From earlier. Driving home from the lunchtime walk, sun was heading towards the horizon.
#photography #landscape
#photography #landscape
December 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
From earlier. Driving home from the lunchtime walk, sun was heading towards the horizon.
#photography #landscape
#photography #landscape
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In addition to how deeply wrong I believe this to be, it makes clear how complex our fight for the future will be.
We all need to REALLY understand why this is wrong and dangerous. And this is not only about people with dementia.
We all need to REALLY understand why this is wrong and dangerous. And this is not only about people with dementia.
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
In addition to how deeply wrong I believe this to be, it makes clear how complex our fight for the future will be.
We all need to REALLY understand why this is wrong and dangerous. And this is not only about people with dementia.
We all need to REALLY understand why this is wrong and dangerous. And this is not only about people with dementia.
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Jesus. How big is the turkey?
December 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Jesus. How big is the turkey?
Guess who didn't get any presents.
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Guess who didn't get any presents.
