Matt Buck
@thenewno2.bsky.social
Mathematician, railway lover, photographer, terrible joke maker.
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Shamewashing the M66 corridor. Commuter trains are needed, not just a visitor attraction please
East Lancashire heritage railway to grow in Network Rail link-up
The East Lancashire Railway charity is partnering with Network Rail to expand its activities.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Shamewashing the M66 corridor. Commuter trains are needed, not just a visitor attraction please
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And we're back. The moment the danger passes, people rush to pretend everything is alright again. It isn't and will not be.
DAVOS - GERMANY'S MERZ: DESPITE FRUSTRATION, ANGER OF RECENT MONTHS, LET US NOT BE TOO QUICK TO WRITE OFF THE TRANSATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP
January 22, 2026 at 8:58 AM
And we're back. The moment the danger passes, people rush to pretend everything is alright again. It isn't and will not be.
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There’s going to be railway disruption in southwest London next month, which is bad news for locals, but good news for trackbashers.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/rai...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/rai...
Railway engineering works close lines, but unlock a little-used bit of track near Twickenham
There’s going to be railway disruption in southwest London next month, which is bad news for locals, but good news for trackbashers.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 2:05 PM
There’s going to be railway disruption in southwest London next month, which is bad news for locals, but good news for trackbashers.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/rai...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/rai...
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don't expect much respite, these people are gagging and dribbling
January 22, 2026 at 9:01 AM
don't expect much respite, these people are gagging and dribbling
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When I was a young trans woman, men:
found me attractive
which disgusted them
so they wanted to kill me
Now that I am an old trans woman, men:
find me unfuckable
which disgusts them
so they want to kill me
What a fun life this has been!
found me attractive
which disgusted them
so they wanted to kill me
Now that I am an old trans woman, men:
find me unfuckable
which disgusts them
so they want to kill me
What a fun life this has been!
January 21, 2026 at 10:31 PM
When I was a young trans woman, men:
found me attractive
which disgusted them
so they wanted to kill me
Now that I am an old trans woman, men:
find me unfuckable
which disgusts them
so they want to kill me
What a fun life this has been!
found me attractive
which disgusted them
so they wanted to kill me
Now that I am an old trans woman, men:
find me unfuckable
which disgusts them
so they want to kill me
What a fun life this has been!
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For my newsletter today, I went long on how American democracy and the post WWII world order stands on a knife edge today, and how this moment has been a Republican party project decades in the making. www.burnsnotice.com/how-republic...
How Republicans Killed American Democracy
The Republican project to destroy Democracy and the world order started long before Trump came on the scene
As President Trump hit Davos this week to saber rattle Europe over Greenland and ICE contin...
www.burnsnotice.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:18 PM
For my newsletter today, I went long on how American democracy and the post WWII world order stands on a knife edge today, and how this moment has been a Republican party project decades in the making. www.burnsnotice.com/how-republic...
My doctorate in maths says fuck AI. What is the point in a computer which can't do maths?
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 21, 2026 at 11:23 PM
My doctorate in maths says fuck AI. What is the point in a computer which can't do maths?
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The disease we have in this country right now is that we believe our sense of purpose is to make money.
No. You make money as a reward for doing something with purpose. Like running a hotel, or running a restaurant, or selling products.
You forget what you're in the business to do and you'll fail.
No. You make money as a reward for doing something with purpose. Like running a hotel, or running a restaurant, or selling products.
You forget what you're in the business to do and you'll fail.
January 21, 2026 at 10:47 PM
The disease we have in this country right now is that we believe our sense of purpose is to make money.
No. You make money as a reward for doing something with purpose. Like running a hotel, or running a restaurant, or selling products.
You forget what you're in the business to do and you'll fail.
No. You make money as a reward for doing something with purpose. Like running a hotel, or running a restaurant, or selling products.
You forget what you're in the business to do and you'll fail.
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This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
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Thank goodness I'm not Angela Raynor, otherwise the press would have hounded me out of office.
January 21, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Thank goodness I'm not Angela Raynor, otherwise the press would have hounded me out of office.
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I don't think the Americans, and yes, I mean all of you, are prepared for how hated you now are by everyone.
Its not going away folks. Youve lost all rights to speak to us without being told to go fuck yourselves.
Its not going away folks. Youve lost all rights to speak to us without being told to go fuck yourselves.
Lutnick heckled in Davos. FT: “The gathering on Tuesday night descended into uproar after combative remarks from Lutnick, the people said, with widespread jeering, some guests walking out and appeals for calm from Fink.”
Howard Lutnick heckled at World Economic Forum dinner
Event hosted by Larry Fink descended into uproar after combative remarks from US commerce secretary
www.ft.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I don't think the Americans, and yes, I mean all of you, are prepared for how hated you now are by everyone.
Its not going away folks. Youve lost all rights to speak to us without being told to go fuck yourselves.
Its not going away folks. Youve lost all rights to speak to us without being told to go fuck yourselves.
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This is excellent.
"The President is a writhing mass of impulses and political urges.... On Greenland, sage commentators talk of Arctic security, of critical minerals. It is all nonsense. Trump wants it because Trump wants it, and he sees no good reason why he should not have it."
And...
"The President is a writhing mass of impulses and political urges.... On Greenland, sage commentators talk of Arctic security, of critical minerals. It is all nonsense. Trump wants it because Trump wants it, and he sees no good reason why he should not have it."
And...
January 21, 2026 at 5:32 PM
This is excellent.
"The President is a writhing mass of impulses and political urges.... On Greenland, sage commentators talk of Arctic security, of critical minerals. It is all nonsense. Trump wants it because Trump wants it, and he sees no good reason why he should not have it."
And...
"The President is a writhing mass of impulses and political urges.... On Greenland, sage commentators talk of Arctic security, of critical minerals. It is all nonsense. Trump wants it because Trump wants it, and he sees no good reason why he should not have it."
And...
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Newsletter's out. This week: no, Britain never had a claim to Greenland; and an extremely irritating map. But first: why Donald Trump is like a global toothache.
Shitpost totalitarianism
This week: no, Britain never had a claim to Greenland; and an extremely irritating map. But first: why Donald Trump is like a global toothache.
jonn.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Newsletter's out. This week: no, Britain never had a claim to Greenland; and an extremely irritating map. But first: why Donald Trump is like a global toothache.
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From today, my #DailyDMU feature's changing to #BRNostalgia. This will cover a wider range of trains and subjects. Here's the first. London Bridge station in 1989. An MLV bound for #Dover being loaded from mail trollies. paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p651486993/e... #railways #nostalgia #photography
The BR gallery. | 0016. 9009. London Bridge. 02.09.1989.+
Paul Bigland Photography
PaulBigland.zenfolio.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:33 PM
From today, my #DailyDMU feature's changing to #BRNostalgia. This will cover a wider range of trains and subjects. Here's the first. London Bridge station in 1989. An MLV bound for #Dover being loaded from mail trollies. paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p651486993/e... #railways #nostalgia #photography
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I shelved a 8k+ piece I was writing on the Lakatosian intellectual hard core of the conservative project. When I laid it all out, there was a black hole at the centre, a nexus all else rotated: ‘I got mine, and if you try to stop me, I will get my goon squad to kill you and everyone you love’
The thing is, the right wing has been stark bollock naked since the French revolution and yet we've spent the intervening centuries acting like they have a disagreement about tax rates instead of profound neurological damage and we don't know what politics that recognises this would look like.
A lot of British "patriots" siding with a hostile foreign leader who has declared economic war on their country.
A hostile foreign leader who is now looking for anything he can do to damage Britain - because he wants to steal Greenland.
You have all been totally exposed.
A hostile foreign leader who is now looking for anything he can do to damage Britain - because he wants to steal Greenland.
You have all been totally exposed.
January 21, 2026 at 11:29 AM
I shelved a 8k+ piece I was writing on the Lakatosian intellectual hard core of the conservative project. When I laid it all out, there was a black hole at the centre, a nexus all else rotated: ‘I got mine, and if you try to stop me, I will get my goon squad to kill you and everyone you love’
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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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The Hatfield rail crash in the UK has many similar elements of the Adamuz disaster.
While the trigger and mechanism of derailment were quickly clear, it took six and a half years to understand the full picture of why a rail was allowed to shatter underneath a high speed train.
While the trigger and mechanism of derailment were quickly clear, it took six and a half years to understand the full picture of why a rail was allowed to shatter underneath a high speed train.
January 19, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The Hatfield rail crash in the UK has many similar elements of the Adamuz disaster.
While the trigger and mechanism of derailment were quickly clear, it took six and a half years to understand the full picture of why a rail was allowed to shatter underneath a high speed train.
While the trigger and mechanism of derailment were quickly clear, it took six and a half years to understand the full picture of why a rail was allowed to shatter underneath a high speed train.
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"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." - @radleybalko.bsky.social
Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:19 PM
"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." - @radleybalko.bsky.social
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Distressing that Canada, which has the most to lose from this change, is ready to face reality, whilst Starmer bets on Churchillian nostalgia for the 'special relationship' and actively rejects meaningfully closer economic engagement with the EU, which must be where our future lies.
‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump
In a speech at Davos, written by Carney himself, the Canadian prime minister laid out his doctrine for a world of fractured international norms
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Distressing that Canada, which has the most to lose from this change, is ready to face reality, whilst Starmer bets on Churchillian nostalgia for the 'special relationship' and actively rejects meaningfully closer economic engagement with the EU, which must be where our future lies.
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Hurrah for the Blackshirts
I think the Daily Mail is actually verging into sedition and subversion and treason.
January 21, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Hurrah for the Blackshirts
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For an idea of the timescales involved, I estimate it will have been 3.5 seconds from the front of the Iryo passing the broken rail to the secondary collision with the Renfe, and only 1.5s from the start of the derailment to the collision.
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The driver would have experienced a bang, potentially not even a significant one, after the front of the train passed the broken rail. Almost instantly there will have been a feeling of rapid deceleration, followed by either a manual or automatic brake application.
January 21, 2026 at 11:06 AM
For an idea of the timescales involved, I estimate it will have been 3.5 seconds from the front of the Iryo passing the broken rail to the secondary collision with the Renfe, and only 1.5s from the start of the derailment to the collision.
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How I love a misty #Shropshire landscape, with its eerie white silence transporting you into a world of your own. I was standing on the ramparts of Nordy Bank hill fort on Brown Clee for this shot, watching as an ethereal scene unfolded beneath me.
January 21, 2026 at 8:10 AM
How I love a misty #Shropshire landscape, with its eerie white silence transporting you into a world of your own. I was standing on the ramparts of Nordy Bank hill fort on Brown Clee for this shot, watching as an ethereal scene unfolded beneath me.
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It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
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ONS obviouslly very much a trailing indictator here but speaking as a former reporter on a provincial evening daily newpaper, the loss of ad revenue for local papers/media has had a major impact on the health of our democracies and communities
January 21, 2026 at 8:56 AM
ONS obviouslly very much a trailing indictator here but speaking as a former reporter on a provincial evening daily newpaper, the loss of ad revenue for local papers/media has had a major impact on the health of our democracies and communities