Adam Smith
@adamnr1.bsky.social
East Anglian. Interested in policy, transport, politics and history. Anglo-Catholic, generalist, tighthead prop, Rover Metro driver. EN / RU / DE / NL
Azerbaijani Wikipedia: voluntary evacuation
Armenian Wikipedia: ethnic cleansing
Russian Wikipedia: sounds a lot like ethnic cleansing
English Wikipedia: mass evacuation
Armenian Wikipedia: ethnic cleansing
Russian Wikipedia: sounds a lot like ethnic cleansing
English Wikipedia: mass evacuation
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Azerbaijani Wikipedia: voluntary evacuation
Armenian Wikipedia: ethnic cleansing
Russian Wikipedia: sounds a lot like ethnic cleansing
English Wikipedia: mass evacuation
Armenian Wikipedia: ethnic cleansing
Russian Wikipedia: sounds a lot like ethnic cleansing
English Wikipedia: mass evacuation
Slightly blown away by reading the WIkipedia articles on the 2023 Azerbaijani invasion of Artsakh translated from both Armenian and Azerbaijani.
Can you guess which is which?
Spend enough time on Russian / Caucasus Wikipedia and you'll realise there is no impartiality.
Can you guess which is which?
Spend enough time on Russian / Caucasus Wikipedia and you'll realise there is no impartiality.
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Slightly blown away by reading the WIkipedia articles on the 2023 Azerbaijani invasion of Artsakh translated from both Armenian and Azerbaijani.
Can you guess which is which?
Spend enough time on Russian / Caucasus Wikipedia and you'll realise there is no impartiality.
Can you guess which is which?
Spend enough time on Russian / Caucasus Wikipedia and you'll realise there is no impartiality.
I accidentally had my Cyrillic keyboard on today and went to search for 'delivery' on Google.
Turns out Russian and Ukranian delivery companies squat the nonsense Cyrillic that turns up when you type 'deliver' on a QWERTY keyboard with Cyrillic settings on.
Turns out Russian and Ukranian delivery companies squat the nonsense Cyrillic that turns up when you type 'deliver' on a QWERTY keyboard with Cyrillic settings on.
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I accidentally had my Cyrillic keyboard on today and went to search for 'delivery' on Google.
Turns out Russian and Ukranian delivery companies squat the nonsense Cyrillic that turns up when you type 'deliver' on a QWERTY keyboard with Cyrillic settings on.
Turns out Russian and Ukranian delivery companies squat the nonsense Cyrillic that turns up when you type 'deliver' on a QWERTY keyboard with Cyrillic settings on.
Книги Азбука-Классика выглядят очень хорошо. Я видел это в Стамбуле.
Rare Russia W.
Rare Russia W.
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Книги Азбука-Классика выглядят очень хорошо. Я видел это в Стамбуле.
Rare Russia W.
Rare Russia W.
В магазине Фойлс хороший выбор русских книг.
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
В магазине Фойлс хороший выбор русских книг.
Cracking autumnal day down in London. 🍂
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Cracking autumnal day down in London. 🍂
I just love an airport departure board. Always makes the world feel like such a small place.
Could end up in Tehran or Seoul or Teeside.
Could end up in Tehran or Seoul or Teeside.
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I just love an airport departure board. Always makes the world feel like such a small place.
Could end up in Tehran or Seoul or Teeside.
Could end up in Tehran or Seoul or Teeside.
This is the area where I work - only 250 LSOAs (out of 33,755) are more deprived.
Coastal deprivation is its own flavour of poverty and I don’t think I could point to evidence on the ground that the government is meaningfully alleviating it.
Coastal deprivation is its own flavour of poverty and I don’t think I could point to evidence on the ground that the government is meaningfully alleviating it.
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is the area where I work - only 250 LSOAs (out of 33,755) are more deprived.
Coastal deprivation is its own flavour of poverty and I don’t think I could point to evidence on the ground that the government is meaningfully alleviating it.
Coastal deprivation is its own flavour of poverty and I don’t think I could point to evidence on the ground that the government is meaningfully alleviating it.
Hab versucht, mich einzulesen, aber es ist echt schwer zu verstehen, warum die DB so komplett darin versagt, ein pünktliches IC-Netz zu betreiben. Jeder Zug ist zu spät. Es ist längst mehr als nur ein Meme.
October 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Hab versucht, mich einzulesen, aber es ist echt schwer zu verstehen, warum die DB so komplett darin versagt, ein pünktliches IC-Netz zu betreiben. Jeder Zug ist zu spät. Es ist längst mehr als nur ein Meme.
I just spent a week on DB and it definitely lived up to its reputation. Every IC train 30+ minutes delayed. DB Regio stranded me at Königs Wusterhausen.
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I just spent a week on DB and it definitely lived up to its reputation. Every IC train 30+ minutes delayed. DB Regio stranded me at Königs Wusterhausen.
It’s so strange that the UK (apart from NI) doesn’t have lantaarnpaalposter and verkiezingsbord culture. I’d like to know how we avoided it.
Please don’t talk to me about my crush on the LP candidate. It’s not a good look.
Please don’t talk to me about my crush on the LP candidate. It’s not a good look.
October 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It’s so strange that the UK (apart from NI) doesn’t have lantaarnpaalposter and verkiezingsbord culture. I’d like to know how we avoided it.
Please don’t talk to me about my crush on the LP candidate. It’s not a good look.
Please don’t talk to me about my crush on the LP candidate. It’s not a good look.
Dug out my Canon Powershot G9 to take to the Caucasus next week and found these photos of Lowestoft that I took back in February 2024.
These old digicam sensors do a fantastic job of atmosphere it has to be said.
These old digicam sensors do a fantastic job of atmosphere it has to be said.
July 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Dug out my Canon Powershot G9 to take to the Caucasus next week and found these photos of Lowestoft that I took back in February 2024.
These old digicam sensors do a fantastic job of atmosphere it has to be said.
These old digicam sensors do a fantastic job of atmosphere it has to be said.
Couldn’t resist these ‘Shell Nature Studies’ books in Oxfam. Published in 1957 in Norwich. 🌿
March 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Couldn’t resist these ‘Shell Nature Studies’ books in Oxfam. Published in 1957 in Norwich. 🌿
I love the New Adlestrop Rail Atlas but I'm especially grateful for it at the moment as I'm building a counterfactual anti-Beeching rail network in NIMBY rails and using it a lot for reference.
February 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I love the New Adlestrop Rail Atlas but I'm especially grateful for it at the moment as I'm building a counterfactual anti-Beeching rail network in NIMBY rails and using it a lot for reference.
Lincoln Cathedral has an incredible west front but the inside leaves me feeling a bit cold.
Having to pay to go in doesn’t help.
Having to pay to go in doesn’t help.
February 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Lincoln Cathedral has an incredible west front but the inside leaves me feeling a bit cold.
Having to pay to go in doesn’t help.
Having to pay to go in doesn’t help.
Whitby was good too. I thought there would be more goths.
February 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Whitby was good too. I thought there would be more goths.
Of course it’s home to an enormous, once grand, Victorian hotel being run into the ground by Britannia Hotels.
February 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Of course it’s home to an enormous, once grand, Victorian hotel being run into the ground by Britannia Hotels.
Have thoroughly enjoyed a little half-term trip to Scarborough with its Georgian terraces and bracing bay.
February 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Have thoroughly enjoyed a little half-term trip to Scarborough with its Georgian terraces and bracing bay.
Folk horror at Reedham ferry today.
The high water stopped the ferry and stranded us at the pub for the afternoon.
The high water stopped the ferry and stranded us at the pub for the afternoon.
December 8, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Folk horror at Reedham ferry today.
The high water stopped the ferry and stranded us at the pub for the afternoon.
The high water stopped the ferry and stranded us at the pub for the afternoon.
November 21, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Incredibly rare YIMBY W from the great folk of Bacton, Norfolk.
October 26, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Incredibly rare YIMBY W from the great folk of Bacton, Norfolk.
Westminster City Council blanking out its commitment to build affordable homes also up there I would say.
October 25, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Westminster City Council blanking out its commitment to build affordable homes also up there I would say.
Now you’re talking my language. Radical incrementalism.
September 1, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Now you’re talking my language. Radical incrementalism.
Reading @torstenbell.bsky.social this morning.
“This is not what we expected the 2020s to look like”.
“This is not what we expected the 2020s to look like”.
September 1, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Reading @torstenbell.bsky.social this morning.
“This is not what we expected the 2020s to look like”.
“This is not what we expected the 2020s to look like”.