Mark 🔶
@tundrastyle.bsky.social
Pro: active travel, rail & public transport, geography, LTNs, 15m cities, EU, maps, bogs, woodland ecology, boreal forests
Anti: crypto, Musk, climate change deniers, xenophobes, MAGA
Looking to set up pro-Active Travel group in Hampshire.
DM me.
#resist
Anti: crypto, Musk, climate change deniers, xenophobes, MAGA
Looking to set up pro-Active Travel group in Hampshire.
DM me.
#resist
Never again can Europe trust the USA.
Never again.
Never again.
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Never again can Europe trust the USA.
Never again.
Never again.
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New LIFE AFTER CARS live show outfit just dropped.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New LIFE AFTER CARS live show outfit just dropped.
While I have been generally very pleased with the results of different AI services while researching a variety of topics, this morning I asked @anthropic.com Claude to compile a short walking tour that would illustrate AT infrastructure.
The results were dire and the directions simply wrong. Odd.
The results were dire and the directions simply wrong. Odd.
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
While I have been generally very pleased with the results of different AI services while researching a variety of topics, this morning I asked @anthropic.com Claude to compile a short walking tour that would illustrate AT infrastructure.
The results were dire and the directions simply wrong. Odd.
The results were dire and the directions simply wrong. Odd.
Joey Barton in court *again*?!
Isn’t it time the Ministry of Justice starts charging him rent?
Isn’t it time the Ministry of Justice starts charging him rent?
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Joey Barton in court *again*?!
Isn’t it time the Ministry of Justice starts charging him rent?
Isn’t it time the Ministry of Justice starts charging him rent?
One would be blessed to receive a fraction of the affection shown to the wonderful Manchán Magan as his ashes were scattered in the rain.
Slán leat.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Slán leat.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
At the sacred centre of Ireland, thousands gather as Manchán Magan’s ashes are scattered
Month’s memorial hears world will be a less kind, generous, curious and gentle place with the writer’s passing
www.irishtimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
One would be blessed to receive a fraction of the affection shown to the wonderful Manchán Magan as his ashes were scattered in the rain.
Slán leat.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Slán leat.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
RIP Prunella Scales
I met her and Tim one evening at the Wigmore Hall while we queued for drinks at the interval. Absolutely charming.
We have lost such a wonderful actress.
I met her and Tim one evening at the Wigmore Hall while we queued for drinks at the interval. Absolutely charming.
We have lost such a wonderful actress.
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
RIP Prunella Scales
I met her and Tim one evening at the Wigmore Hall while we queued for drinks at the interval. Absolutely charming.
We have lost such a wonderful actress.
I met her and Tim one evening at the Wigmore Hall while we queued for drinks at the interval. Absolutely charming.
We have lost such a wonderful actress.
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The car industry has spent hundreds of millions of pounds/dollars on using advertising to promote cars.
Unfortunately it has been very very successful and today the majority believe the adverts and do love their cars.
This is despite the huge problems that cars cause - crashes, deaths, pollution..
Unfortunately it has been very very successful and today the majority believe the adverts and do love their cars.
This is despite the huge problems that cars cause - crashes, deaths, pollution..
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The car industry has spent hundreds of millions of pounds/dollars on using advertising to promote cars.
Unfortunately it has been very very successful and today the majority believe the adverts and do love their cars.
This is despite the huge problems that cars cause - crashes, deaths, pollution..
Unfortunately it has been very very successful and today the majority believe the adverts and do love their cars.
This is despite the huge problems that cars cause - crashes, deaths, pollution..
Microsoft is “reimagining” Outlook with integrated AI.
I look forward to being able to say “Yeh bro. A pint sounds good” in 17,000 words, including quotes from Plato and Descartes and explaining the relevance of the Poincaré conjecture to the event.
I look forward to being able to say “Yeh bro. A pint sounds good” in 17,000 words, including quotes from Plato and Descartes and explaining the relevance of the Poincaré conjecture to the event.
October 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Microsoft is “reimagining” Outlook with integrated AI.
I look forward to being able to say “Yeh bro. A pint sounds good” in 17,000 words, including quotes from Plato and Descartes and explaining the relevance of the Poincaré conjecture to the event.
I look forward to being able to say “Yeh bro. A pint sounds good” in 17,000 words, including quotes from Plato and Descartes and explaining the relevance of the Poincaré conjecture to the event.
One of the political dilemmas of our time is the politicians promise less and less tax, less and less spend.
While people want a quality of life that is inconsistent with rock bottom taxes.
We want good infrastructure, safe places, public health, justice, emergency services, and education.
While people want a quality of life that is inconsistent with rock bottom taxes.
We want good infrastructure, safe places, public health, justice, emergency services, and education.
October 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
One of the political dilemmas of our time is the politicians promise less and less tax, less and less spend.
While people want a quality of life that is inconsistent with rock bottom taxes.
We want good infrastructure, safe places, public health, justice, emergency services, and education.
While people want a quality of life that is inconsistent with rock bottom taxes.
We want good infrastructure, safe places, public health, justice, emergency services, and education.
I shared a stage with Dame Jane Goodall 20 yrs ago. She was a star; I was embarrassed to even be in her shadow, but so honoured.
But she was gracious, treated me as an equal and behind the scenes was kind, friendly, interested.
Humanity and the world’s environment have both lost a superstar. ❤️
But she was gracious, treated me as an equal and behind the scenes was kind, friendly, interested.
Humanity and the world’s environment have both lost a superstar. ❤️
October 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I shared a stage with Dame Jane Goodall 20 yrs ago. She was a star; I was embarrassed to even be in her shadow, but so honoured.
But she was gracious, treated me as an equal and behind the scenes was kind, friendly, interested.
Humanity and the world’s environment have both lost a superstar. ❤️
But she was gracious, treated me as an equal and behind the scenes was kind, friendly, interested.
Humanity and the world’s environment have both lost a superstar. ❤️
Binge-listening to the Talking Headways podcasts of @usa.streetsblog.org.
Very American but still much of relevance to the rest of the world.
Very American but still much of relevance to the rest of the world.
October 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Binge-listening to the Talking Headways podcasts of @usa.streetsblog.org.
Very American but still much of relevance to the rest of the world.
Very American but still much of relevance to the rest of the world.
Saddened to hear of the death of Manchán Magan.
Ireland has lost a passionate and dedicated chronicler and lexicographer.
Ireland has lost a passionate and dedicated chronicler and lexicographer.
October 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Saddened to hear of the death of Manchán Magan.
Ireland has lost a passionate and dedicated chronicler and lexicographer.
Ireland has lost a passionate and dedicated chronicler and lexicographer.
Never tire of watching Rick Stein’s programmes. Such emotion, such joy.
October 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Never tire of watching Rick Stein’s programmes. Such emotion, such joy.
Just watched a YouTube podcast in which @jeffspeck.bsky.social heroically and with the utmost patience refutes the absurd arguments of pro-AV Musk bros.
They pitted their “trust me bro” evidence against Speck’s *decades* of real-world experience and real data.
They pitted their “trust me bro” evidence against Speck’s *decades* of real-world experience and real data.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Just watched a YouTube podcast in which @jeffspeck.bsky.social heroically and with the utmost patience refutes the absurd arguments of pro-AV Musk bros.
They pitted their “trust me bro” evidence against Speck’s *decades* of real-world experience and real data.
They pitted their “trust me bro” evidence against Speck’s *decades* of real-world experience and real data.
Why in the name of God is @microsoft.com Word so staggeringly difficult to format properly?!
A task is taking 4 times as long to format because every single fucking time - despite setting an indent as a default for the document - it ignores it.
I cannot overstate how much I despise this product.
A task is taking 4 times as long to format because every single fucking time - despite setting an indent as a default for the document - it ignores it.
I cannot overstate how much I despise this product.
October 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Why in the name of God is @microsoft.com Word so staggeringly difficult to format properly?!
A task is taking 4 times as long to format because every single fucking time - despite setting an indent as a default for the document - it ignores it.
I cannot overstate how much I despise this product.
A task is taking 4 times as long to format because every single fucking time - despite setting an indent as a default for the document - it ignores it.
I cannot overstate how much I despise this product.
You can’t even escape people playing TV programmes loudly in the open on Trenitalia Frecciarossa trains by paying an extra €200 to go in Executive class.
Wtf is wrong with people?
Buy some fucking headphones.
ffs.
Wtf is wrong with people?
Buy some fucking headphones.
ffs.
August 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
You can’t even escape people playing TV programmes loudly in the open on Trenitalia Frecciarossa trains by paying an extra €200 to go in Executive class.
Wtf is wrong with people?
Buy some fucking headphones.
ffs.
Wtf is wrong with people?
Buy some fucking headphones.
ffs.
Genuinely surprised how many Sicilian vineyards/wineries have website that are simply broken.
Three out of three now which say they have English versions and don’t. And then the Italian site doesn’t work anyway.
Three out of three now which say they have English versions and don’t. And then the Italian site doesn’t work anyway.
August 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Genuinely surprised how many Sicilian vineyards/wineries have website that are simply broken.
Three out of three now which say they have English versions and don’t. And then the Italian site doesn’t work anyway.
Three out of three now which say they have English versions and don’t. And then the Italian site doesn’t work anyway.
The level of seatbelt use in Italy (Sicily specifically) is astonishingly low.
I thought it was about 1 in 20 drivers, but standing at a bus stop for 30 minutes, I now believe it’s no more than 1 in 50.
😳🤦🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
I thought it was about 1 in 20 drivers, but standing at a bus stop for 30 minutes, I now believe it’s no more than 1 in 50.
😳🤦🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
August 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The level of seatbelt use in Italy (Sicily specifically) is astonishingly low.
I thought it was about 1 in 20 drivers, but standing at a bus stop for 30 minutes, I now believe it’s no more than 1 in 50.
😳🤦🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
I thought it was about 1 in 20 drivers, but standing at a bus stop for 30 minutes, I now believe it’s no more than 1 in 50.
😳🤦🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
Interesting graphic of the Ferrovia Circumetnea (FCE) system, looping round Mount Etna.
The map shows then rail route but also the parallel bus route.
Does this suggest that long-term the railway will disappear? Its’s already lost 20km at the Catania end.
#sicily #rail #FCE #circumetnea
The map shows then rail route but also the parallel bus route.
Does this suggest that long-term the railway will disappear? Its’s already lost 20km at the Catania end.
#sicily #rail #FCE #circumetnea
August 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Interesting graphic of the Ferrovia Circumetnea (FCE) system, looping round Mount Etna.
The map shows then rail route but also the parallel bus route.
Does this suggest that long-term the railway will disappear? Its’s already lost 20km at the Catania end.
#sicily #rail #FCE #circumetnea
The map shows then rail route but also the parallel bus route.
Does this suggest that long-term the railway will disappear? Its’s already lost 20km at the Catania end.
#sicily #rail #FCE #circumetnea
Setting off on my holiday this morning.
3 weeks in Sicily. Travelling by train to Catania from Hampshire.
Well first a bus, then the ferry to Le Havre.
Guide book at my side.
#rail #nofly #sustainabletravel
3 weeks in Sicily. Travelling by train to Catania from Hampshire.
Well first a bus, then the ferry to Le Havre.
Guide book at my side.
#rail #nofly #sustainabletravel
August 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Setting off on my holiday this morning.
3 weeks in Sicily. Travelling by train to Catania from Hampshire.
Well first a bus, then the ferry to Le Havre.
Guide book at my side.
#rail #nofly #sustainabletravel
3 weeks in Sicily. Travelling by train to Catania from Hampshire.
Well first a bus, then the ferry to Le Havre.
Guide book at my side.
#rail #nofly #sustainabletravel
To lady on 1503 Waterloo to Windsor train: wearing headphones does not silence your fart.
August 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
To lady on 1503 Waterloo to Windsor train: wearing headphones does not silence your fart.
To reiterate.
People calling for peace are being designated as terrorists by the UK government.
People calling for peace are being designated as terrorists by the UK government.
July 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
To reiterate.
People calling for peace are being designated as terrorists by the UK government.
People calling for peace are being designated as terrorists by the UK government.
Remember that authoritarians ALWAYS claim to speak for the silent majority.
Every time.
Every time.
July 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Remember that authoritarians ALWAYS claim to speak for the silent majority.
Every time.
Every time.
Once again, a technical problem has caused incredible transport disruption with 14 of the 24 platforms at Waterloo out of action.
It would seem that resilience is almost totally absent in the UK.
Where did it all go so wrong? How (specifically)? Why?
It would seem that resilience is almost totally absent in the UK.
Where did it all go so wrong? How (specifically)? Why?
July 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Once again, a technical problem has caused incredible transport disruption with 14 of the 24 platforms at Waterloo out of action.
It would seem that resilience is almost totally absent in the UK.
Where did it all go so wrong? How (specifically)? Why?
It would seem that resilience is almost totally absent in the UK.
Where did it all go so wrong? How (specifically)? Why?