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Sue the Walnut
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Friday night, I was in #Leeds for the truly epic #Swans and #JessicaMoss;
Yesterday, I finished a book;
And
Today, I won a gold medal for my #Taekwondo patterns.
Feeling like that's a pretty good weekend!
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Sitting in Sheffield train station and the guy on the public piano is banging out Coldplay tunes.
In Liverpool, you can't move for Beatles buskers, and street musicians crank out Oasis across Manchester...
Where's the Pulp? The Arctic Monkeys? The Human League, even?
#Sheffield - do better.
November 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We were the happy catchers of the #richardbrautigan book tossed into the crowd by #thelovelyeggs at tonight's gig in #birminghamuk.
Photo taken down the road because we were just too squashed in at #thecastle&falcon -
How different from the Cob Dominoes days at the Victoria or the Wagon and Horses!
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Posted as someone who still has Prime, at least until I can own the movies I've bought differently.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In case you've ever wondered what the opposite of the French Exit is, I can now declare it to be the Mid-West Goodbye.
September 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Fellow transport people!
Please help me understand why getting through an airport (today #BHX) is so unpredictable.
Surely the airport knows how many people are expected to depart per hour and can ensure the right level of manning?
Surely!
September 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
August 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I know it's only 10am, but this has won today's internet!
August 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Toploader lives on in European airports.

Eno, all is forgiven.

#CDG
#lightlydelerious
August 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In Atlanta for ITS World Congress! I'm this picture I'm just about to speak on the hard work we've put into achieving UK data standards to help the US DOT.
Great panel with colleagues from Taiwan, Germany and mobilitydata!

#ITSWC2025
August 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Amid the general discourse about Mental Load, I've yet to hear anyone discuss the extra mind-space that trying to remember which messaging app you use for each person takes up.

WhatsApp?
FB Messenger?
In-app on LinkedIn or Insta?
Or just plain SMS?

I want that space back.
August 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In 30 years,
Rock n' Roll will be 100 years old.
July 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#Switzerland have just delivered a 21st century Jacques Brel. Curiously nice!
#eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#eurovision
I'm watching #Finland and thinking that's my kind of country!!
May 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
#eurovision
Was #Latvia not disturbingly fleshy?!
May 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I wish #SacredPaws were on Bluesky so I could tell them just how much their music is a balm for my soul.
May 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
All #Freakzones are good, but tonight's is stunningly beautiful and glorious.
(And largely un-shazammable.)
Respect.
Always respect.

@bbc6music.bsky.social
@stuartmaconie.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Taekwon Do is 70 years old today!
A core part of my life for 20 years, there's never been a better time to practice the key tenants of #Taekwon-Do:

Perseverance
Integrity
Courtesy
Self Control, and
Indomitable Spirit.

Here's to the next 20, next 70 and beyond!
🦶👊❤️

#buildingamorepeacefulworld
April 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I'm at a @lambrinigirls.bsky.social show in Brum tonight, on the edge of an epic mosh pit, and my shoulder gets yanked backwards. Someone desperate for the pit, I think. Fair enough. But the pair of bellends who come through, both well over 6', just stop directly in front of me.
#bigdickenergy
April 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
There's something elemental about the rush of people at #LondonEuston when the platform for a Midlands train is called.
It's like a liquid suddenly boiling into gas.

(I would say distillation, but no one wants a spirit that tastes of Euston.)

#fluiddynamics
#humandynamics
March 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Never too old for the joy of the front seat on a double deck bus!

#london
#travellingtowork
March 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I usually amuse myself by watching political satire.
I'm not very well atm, so decided to wallow in Raiders of the Lost Ark, a breakneck family film involving fascism, hard drinking, double crossing, objectification of women, conspiracy theories, and insults to God.
...
March 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
2025 and International Women's Day is more important than ever.
In a world where avowed misogynists are lauded and the "Feminisation" of discourse and workplaces is vilified, we need to support our sisters and fight for our equality.

#Thiswomancan
#IWD
March 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Reposted by Sue the Walnut
"Have you said thank you even once?"
March 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM