Simon
@uncriticalsimon.bsky.social
I am a Simon who doesn’t matter.
I am only on here for backup but grateful that the username actually resolves into a URL.
I am only on here for backup but grateful that the username actually resolves into a URL.
Consecutive posts on my X feed - is it really the UK right wing who are lost, not the BBC?
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Consecutive posts on my X feed - is it really the UK right wing who are lost, not the BBC?
Were the producers deliberately introducing this to have a laugh? www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5lA...
I'm going to fight for £15 after a shoddy car valet [LBC Legal Hour]
YouTube video by Daniel Barnett, Barrister
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Were the producers deliberately introducing this to have a laugh? www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5lA...
Is this Doug Ritter knife actually legal for everyday carry? After all it has a locking blade and could be used as a weapon. www.dougritter.com/dr_rsk_mk1-g...
Doug Ritter RSK Mk1-G2 and Mini-RSK Mk1-G2 Utility/Survival Knife - a knife you can bet your life on (tm)
Doug Ritter RSK Mk1-G2 and Mini-RSK Mk1-G2 - a knife you can bet your life on (tm)
www.dougritter.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Is this Doug Ritter knife actually legal for everyday carry? After all it has a locking blade and could be used as a weapon. www.dougritter.com/dr_rsk_mk1-g...
Unusual luxury of a double decker bus this morning even if it was over 10 minutes late and there are about two people on it. Of course I went upstairs.
November 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Unusual luxury of a double decker bus this morning even if it was over 10 minutes late and there are about two people on it. Of course I went upstairs.
This is awful. While UK-style Delay Repay 15 may be unrealistic, airlines should do better than a shrug.
www.afar.com/magazine/air...
www.afar.com/magazine/air...
Airlines Will No Longer Be Required to Compensate Passengers for Flight Delays Under New Administration Plan
Without regulatory oversight, airlines will get to decide for themselves what to offer travelers when flights are significantly delayed.
www.afar.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is awful. While UK-style Delay Repay 15 may be unrealistic, airlines should do better than a shrug.
www.afar.com/magazine/air...
www.afar.com/magazine/air...
Why is the Amtrak NEC network generally awful? And why in particular is the last train from Boston to DC at 1845, and gets in well into the morning morning, when the last day train from Euston to Glasgow Central leaves Euston at 1930 and arrives at 0008 despite the distance not being much longer?
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Why is the Amtrak NEC network generally awful? And why in particular is the last train from Boston to DC at 1845, and gets in well into the morning morning, when the last day train from Euston to Glasgow Central leaves Euston at 1930 and arrives at 0008 despite the distance not being much longer?
Why did Virgin provide only five standard class cars on each nine-car Pendolino set? This was a massive mistake, the ones lengthened to eleven have two extra standard class cars, and one of the first class cars is now redesignated as "standard premium" (you get the seat, not the soft product).
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Why did Virgin provide only five standard class cars on each nine-car Pendolino set? This was a massive mistake, the ones lengthened to eleven have two extra standard class cars, and one of the first class cars is now redesignated as "standard premium" (you get the seat, not the soft product).
How do people who move to countries like Japan cope with officialdom when they get letters in kanji and they can’t even read them to get an explanation in English over the phone?
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
How do people who move to countries like Japan cope with officialdom when they get letters in kanji and they can’t even read them to get an explanation in English over the phone?
This seems to be excessive cheek, otherwise Liz Truss would have lasted longer than 50 days!
October 31, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This seems to be excessive cheek, otherwise Liz Truss would have lasted longer than 50 days!
I keep thinking that the USA should be treated about the same as Nazi Germany.
I keep thinking that the Trump administration's ultimate goal is a network of paramilitaries.
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I keep thinking that the USA should be treated about the same as Nazi Germany.
I prefer to stay in the Square Mile than the West End as it is a bit cheaper and can have a very swift service to/from Paddington.
www.whitbread.co.uk/whitbread-ce...
www.whitbread.co.uk/whitbread-ce...
Whitbread Celebrates Topping Out of Premier Inn Snow Hill in the Heart of the City of London - Whitbread PLC
Flagship 212-bedroom hub by Premier Inn hotel is Whitbread's third development project currently underway in the Capital.
www.whitbread.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I prefer to stay in the Square Mile than the West End as it is a bit cheaper and can have a very swift service to/from Paddington.
www.whitbread.co.uk/whitbread-ce...
www.whitbread.co.uk/whitbread-ce...
People moaning that UK bus franchising means subsidies - yes, this is actually the point. Buses are socially necessary and need to be subsidised. Not everyone has a car and not everyone can drive.
October 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
People moaning that UK bus franchising means subsidies - yes, this is actually the point. Buses are socially necessary and need to be subsidised. Not everyone has a car and not everyone can drive.
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✅ Start reading book
✅ Open phone to check if something in book is accurate
✅ Go down rabbit hole of information on the topic
✅ Get distracted by breaking news alert
✅ Read into detail of that
✅ Wonder why I have a book open on my lap
✅ Start reading book again
✅ Repeat five minutes later
✅ Open phone to check if something in book is accurate
✅ Go down rabbit hole of information on the topic
✅ Get distracted by breaking news alert
✅ Read into detail of that
✅ Wonder why I have a book open on my lap
✅ Start reading book again
✅ Repeat five minutes later
October 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
✅ Start reading book
✅ Open phone to check if something in book is accurate
✅ Go down rabbit hole of information on the topic
✅ Get distracted by breaking news alert
✅ Read into detail of that
✅ Wonder why I have a book open on my lap
✅ Start reading book again
✅ Repeat five minutes later
✅ Open phone to check if something in book is accurate
✅ Go down rabbit hole of information on the topic
✅ Get distracted by breaking news alert
✅ Read into detail of that
✅ Wonder why I have a book open on my lap
✅ Start reading book again
✅ Repeat five minutes later
TIL that the Marches line will eventually be electrified, but "beyond 2035". At least @transportforwales.bsky.social are showing willing. As long as Reform don't get in, as they want to turn us into Trumpland.
tfw.wales/projects/net...
tfw.wales/projects/net...
Network North Wales | Transport for Wales
Transport for Wales | Buy Cheap Train Tickets and Check Train Times
tfw.wales
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
TIL that the Marches line will eventually be electrified, but "beyond 2035". At least @transportforwales.bsky.social are showing willing. As long as Reform don't get in, as they want to turn us into Trumpland.
tfw.wales/projects/net...
tfw.wales/projects/net...
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Why does no one take God seriously? I said “thou shalt not kill” and I meant it.
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Why does no one take God seriously? I said “thou shalt not kill” and I meant it.
Why do some British applications refuse to accept extenuating circumstances for resits? They say "you should have got special consideration from the exam board" but this doesn't help if the issue was poor teaching.
October 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Why do some British applications refuse to accept extenuating circumstances for resits? They say "you should have got special consideration from the exam board" but this doesn't help if the issue was poor teaching.
The attitude of the UK Methodist Church on local churches not accepting same-sex marriage seems very different from that of the US United Methodist Church! media.methodist.org.uk/media/docume...
media.methodist.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The attitude of the UK Methodist Church on local churches not accepting same-sex marriage seems very different from that of the US United Methodist Church! media.methodist.org.uk/media/docume...
Can't say I have a lot of sympathy - if you take £666k out of a company which goes bust, don't be surprised when asked to pay it back. www.legalcheek.com/2025/10/lawf...
Lawfluencer declared bankrupt - Legal Cheek
Alice Stephenson criticises liquidators after £666k director’s loan leads to bankruptcy
www.legalcheek.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Can't say I have a lot of sympathy - if you take £666k out of a company which goes bust, don't be surprised when asked to pay it back. www.legalcheek.com/2025/10/lawf...
Why is Starlink so expensive? (I actually have two more conventional Internet lines, one is 5G and one is fibre.)
October 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Why is Starlink so expensive? (I actually have two more conventional Internet lines, one is 5G and one is fibre.)
Modest proposal - the Home Nations (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) should leave FIFA (after all they only reluctantly joined in the first place). I don't know if they can stay in UEFA unless UEFA also leaves FIFA.
October 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Modest proposal - the Home Nations (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) should leave FIFA (after all they only reluctantly joined in the first place). I don't know if they can stay in UEFA unless UEFA also leaves FIFA.
I didn't expect The New World to be delivered via a local newsagent (and I don't know which) with no label, rather than by post. I have had at least two random other newspapers delivered without label.
October 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I didn't expect The New World to be delivered via a local newsagent (and I don't know which) with no label, rather than by post. I have had at least two random other newspapers delivered without label.
Why do @officialgrammarly.bsky.social persist in offering their services to university students, and even suggest that using them can improve grades? Using Grammarly means getting a zero and having to appear before a University court to explain why you shouldn't be kicked out of the university.
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Why do @officialgrammarly.bsky.social persist in offering their services to university students, and even suggest that using them can improve grades? Using Grammarly means getting a zero and having to appear before a University court to explain why you shouldn't be kicked out of the university.
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I did once see a video, I think since deleted, claiming that an interval in Seattle was under two minutes, from train being fully left to next stopping. It was deleted maybe in part because the Victoria line in London can be 90 seconds from door opening to the next train door opening.
October 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I did once see a video, I think since deleted, claiming that an interval in Seattle was under two minutes, from train being fully left to next stopping. It was deleted maybe in part because the Victoria line in London can be 90 seconds from door opening to the next train door opening.
Why don’t UK prisoners get National Insurance credits? Prisoners on long sentences would find themselves impoverished on release.
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Why don’t UK prisoners get National Insurance credits? Prisoners on long sentences would find themselves impoverished on release.
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The thing about people who support Trump's policies of extrajudicial killings and ignoring habeus corpus is that they believe those policies would never affect them, while ignoring that without the rule of law and fair trials they can absolutely affect everyone. The same goes for human rights laws.
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The thing about people who support Trump's policies of extrajudicial killings and ignoring habeus corpus is that they believe those policies would never affect them, while ignoring that without the rule of law and fair trials they can absolutely affect everyone. The same goes for human rights laws.