Greg Wesson
@gregwtravels.bsky.social
Occasional traveller, more frequent (though slow) runner, cyclist and walker. Hammersmith and West London. Canadian by birth, British by ancestry and naturalisation. 🇨🇦🇬🇧
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Greg Wesson
@gregwtravels.bsky.social
· Oct 26
Transporting one of my threads over from the other place, on interesting articles I have found about how the "digital world" has an impact on the physical one we are living in.
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“The world, we are told, was made especially for men - a presumption not supported by all the facts.”
- John Muir
#mammals #imageandverse #EastCoastKin
- John Muir
#mammals #imageandverse #EastCoastKin
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“The world, we are told, was made especially for men - a presumption not supported by all the facts.”
- John Muir
#mammals #imageandverse #EastCoastKin
- John Muir
#mammals #imageandverse #EastCoastKin
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Right. Erm. The sky is on fire.
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Right. Erm. The sky is on fire.
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I’m at one of London’s numerous Christmas markets (no entry charge, unlike Seattle).
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I’m at one of London’s numerous Christmas markets (no entry charge, unlike Seattle).
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What it looks like when a Blue Tit flies straight at you! 😳😁😍🐦
Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
Please browse my shop for great Christmas present ideas for nature lovers, including calendars, books, jigsaw puzzles, tea-towels and more.. here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
Please browse my shop for great Christmas present ideas for nature lovers, including calendars, books, jigsaw puzzles, tea-towels and more.. here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What it looks like when a Blue Tit flies straight at you! 😳😁😍🐦
Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
Please browse my shop for great Christmas present ideas for nature lovers, including calendars, books, jigsaw puzzles, tea-towels and more.. here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
Please browse my shop for great Christmas present ideas for nature lovers, including calendars, books, jigsaw puzzles, tea-towels and more.. here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
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Cows on the slopes eating grass and making milk which I turn into cheese. In winter, when the cows have been moved down to lower pastures, my farm is conveniently right beside a slope of a world-class ski resort.
Workers somehow paid for to tend to the cows and all the cheese making of course.
Workers somehow paid for to tend to the cows and all the cheese making of course.
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Cows on the slopes eating grass and making milk which I turn into cheese. In winter, when the cows have been moved down to lower pastures, my farm is conveniently right beside a slope of a world-class ski resort.
Workers somehow paid for to tend to the cows and all the cheese making of course.
Workers somehow paid for to tend to the cows and all the cheese making of course.
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Move to the French alps, become a ski guide for winter, hike all summer, make money by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Move to the French alps, become a ski guide for winter, hike all summer, make money by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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What's your absolutely unworkable plan to drop out of your current life (or at least work life) and do something completely different?
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
What's your absolutely unworkable plan to drop out of your current life (or at least work life) and do something completely different?
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Join us to ride the first weekend GO Train Kitchener to Toronto! Help us mark a major milestone.
Toronto activities: TTCriders Streetcar Summit, Santa Claus Parade, or just enjoy the city.
Return via 4:48pm train or train to Bramalea + bus. Weekend GO Passes are $10, kids under 12 ride free.
Toronto activities: TTCriders Streetcar Summit, Santa Claus Parade, or just enjoy the city.
Return via 4:48pm train or train to Bramalea + bus. Weekend GO Passes are $10, kids under 12 ride free.
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Join us to ride the first weekend GO Train Kitchener to Toronto! Help us mark a major milestone.
Toronto activities: TTCriders Streetcar Summit, Santa Claus Parade, or just enjoy the city.
Return via 4:48pm train or train to Bramalea + bus. Weekend GO Passes are $10, kids under 12 ride free.
Toronto activities: TTCriders Streetcar Summit, Santa Claus Parade, or just enjoy the city.
Return via 4:48pm train or train to Bramalea + bus. Weekend GO Passes are $10, kids under 12 ride free.
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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🎶The names Sophy-C and I'm here to say, I don't use cash in the usual way, I use some code and electric tokens, I know you're thinking "what the hell's he smokin'". But don't be fooled by all these words, I'm a conman out to get some nerds🎶
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🎶The names Sophy-C and I'm here to say, I don't use cash in the usual way, I use some code and electric tokens, I know you're thinking "what the hell's he smokin'". But don't be fooled by all these words, I'm a conman out to get some nerds🎶
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This, from the Guardian, is Ryanair at its very worst.
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This, from the Guardian, is Ryanair at its very worst.
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
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It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Breaking news - November 1963
BBC History recalls one of the first truly global news stories of the modern multi-media age
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.
I'm quite pleased with this one...
www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
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1831:
All regions opt back to the network for the national weather forecast.
As they do, thousands of miles away in Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy is shot and fatally wounded as he travels in a motorcade through the city in an open-top car.
All regions opt back to the network for the national weather forecast.
As they do, thousands of miles away in Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy is shot and fatally wounded as he travels in a motorcade through the city in an open-top car.
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
1831:
All regions opt back to the network for the national weather forecast.
As they do, thousands of miles away in Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy is shot and fatally wounded as he travels in a motorcade through the city in an open-top car.
All regions opt back to the network for the national weather forecast.
As they do, thousands of miles away in Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy is shot and fatally wounded as he travels in a motorcade through the city in an open-top car.
Interesting article on charge back fraud.
"Safaei has now stopped accepting contactless card payments at his restaurant. He accepts Chip and PIN or Apple and Google Pay, as they require a PIN code or biometric identification, making it harder for customers to claim they are fraudulent."
"Safaei has now stopped accepting contactless card payments at his restaurant. He accepts Chip and PIN or Apple and Google Pay, as they require a PIN code or biometric identification, making it harder for customers to claim they are fraudulent."
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www.telegraph.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Interesting article on charge back fraud.
"Safaei has now stopped accepting contactless card payments at his restaurant. He accepts Chip and PIN or Apple and Google Pay, as they require a PIN code or biometric identification, making it harder for customers to claim they are fraudulent."
"Safaei has now stopped accepting contactless card payments at his restaurant. He accepts Chip and PIN or Apple and Google Pay, as they require a PIN code or biometric identification, making it harder for customers to claim they are fraudulent."
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I don't believe any bird feeder is truly squirrel proof. Unless you had one hovering on a drone at 100 metres above the ground.
Even then
Even then
a cartoon of a squirrel wearing a hat and pointing up
Alt: Rocky the flying squirrel from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons standing on a stage in her trademark aviator goggles and flying cap.
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I don't believe any bird feeder is truly squirrel proof. Unless you had one hovering on a drone at 100 metres above the ground.
Even then
Even then
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Nothing helps with my bird feeder purchasing decisions so much as the tears of a squirrel.
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Nothing helps with my bird feeder purchasing decisions so much as the tears of a squirrel.
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Quick pint and then off to set fire to Edward Woodward on the bowling green
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Quick pint and then off to set fire to Edward Woodward on the bowling green
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We could have just pulled a couple of sauna boats up and docked them at Ontario Place and saved a whole bunch of hassle.
I’m one of many who believe our Vancouver waterfront should have more things to go to. Here’s one I’ve been advising & helping with— HAVN now has a proposed site in Vancouver for a floating sauna boat. They have one in Victoria already. I’ve experienced similar in Helsinki & Oslo! www.havnsaunas.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We could have just pulled a couple of sauna boats up and docked them at Ontario Place and saved a whole bunch of hassle.
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I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
nickmaini.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
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An old lady steps from the queue. “it’s a carrot,” she says. Glares defiantly at the assistant. The assistant wilts. Enters the radish as a carrot. The elderly Polish gentleman leaves triumphant. Life resumes.
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
An old lady steps from the queue. “it’s a carrot,” she says. Glares defiantly at the assistant. The assistant wilts. Enters the radish as a carrot. The elderly Polish gentleman leaves triumphant. Life resumes.
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Ha. Good crypto snark here from @katie0martin.ft.com .
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Ha. Good crypto snark here from @katie0martin.ft.com .
Someday the postie will arrive to pick up from the box, and they won't be able to find it.
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Someday the postie will arrive to pick up from the box, and they won't be able to find it.
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When I wrote about the ancient Zanclean megaflood filling the Mediterranean in as little as 12-18 months (!), it was wistfully.
I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
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I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
1/
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
When I wrote about the ancient Zanclean megaflood filling the Mediterranean in as little as 12-18 months (!), it was wistfully.
I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
1/
I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
1/