Garry Keenor
@25kv.bsky.social
UK-based rail electrification engineer with AtkinsRéalis | Electrification Junkie, Catenary Shagger | #electrifyAllTheThings | Want to know how overhead line electrification works? Get my FREE book at http://ocs4rail.com/downloads
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Garry Keenor
@25kv.bsky.social
· Nov 18
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Hi new followers! For the time being I'm going to continue posting all my #railwaysExplained and other original content on Mastodon. So if you want to get that sweet sweet content you need to follow my bridged account at @25kV.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
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do you think we could ask them to start early
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
do you think we could ask them to start early
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This why you need people with practical life experience in positions of power. If you've had a white collar job you'll know the purpose of bureaucracy. From file naming conventions to good databases. It is the oil in the machine
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This why you need people with practical life experience in positions of power. If you've had a white collar job you'll know the purpose of bureaucracy. From file naming conventions to good databases. It is the oil in the machine
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obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
October 8, 2024 at 5:23 PM
obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
Bluesky project to list all the ironic -bados and -vegas portmanteau place names in the UK.
I'll start:
Scarbados (Scarborough)
Derbados (Derby)
Trowvegas (Trowbridge)
Go!
I'll start:
Scarbados (Scarborough)
Derbados (Derby)
Trowvegas (Trowbridge)
Go!
Just got tickets to see Garbage and Skunk Anansie with @dreadships.bsky.social in Scarbados next year and am excited!
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Bluesky project to list all the ironic -bados and -vegas portmanteau place names in the UK.
I'll start:
Scarbados (Scarborough)
Derbados (Derby)
Trowvegas (Trowbridge)
Go!
I'll start:
Scarbados (Scarborough)
Derbados (Derby)
Trowvegas (Trowbridge)
Go!
Age yourself with gaming.
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Age yourself with gaming.
Bluesky hive mind: I'm staying in Birmingham city centre tonight, and I want to go somewhere nearby by rail or bus that has a dark, flat north horizon in case the aurora hits. Any ideas?
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Bluesky hive mind: I'm staying in Birmingham city centre tonight, and I want to go somewhere nearby by rail or bus that has a dark, flat north horizon in case the aurora hits. Any ideas?
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Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
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“Crucially these are our assumptions for how rail will decarbonize. Electrification is a very mature technology in rail unlike for road vehicles. We assume 66% network electrification by 2050 and phase-out of pure diesel trains by 2040. Concerning to hear govt briefing against rail electrification”
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“Crucially these are our assumptions for how rail will decarbonize. Electrification is a very mature technology in rail unlike for road vehicles. We assume 66% network electrification by 2050 and phase-out of pure diesel trains by 2040. Concerning to hear govt briefing against rail electrification”
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“As you can see the key themes are electrify everything we can, and increase low carbon electricity supply in line with this. In doing this we move from an opex based energy system to a capex based one. These investments start paying back nationally through much higher efficiency by 2040 and on”
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“As you can see the key themes are electrify everything we can, and increase low carbon electricity supply in line with this. In doing this we move from an opex based energy system to a capex based one. These investments start paying back nationally through much higher efficiency by 2040 and on”
(bond movie opening credits)
Scene (ext): a Bondulance pulls up
Scene (ext): a Bondulance pulls up
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
(bond movie opening credits)
Scene (ext): a Bondulance pulls up
Scene (ext): a Bondulance pulls up
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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
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Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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Just knocked up a wee thing for Blackpool council
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just knocked up a wee thing for Blackpool council
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Tim flagged that London Gateway (the UK’s largest container port) can’t increase its rail freight share - or decarbonise it fully - without electrifying a few short miles of branch into the port. But there is still no funding for this, so we are left with diesel locos chugging through London.
More:
More:
£1 billion London Gateway investment announced but more needed for Rail
Global logistics giant DP World has unveiled a significant £1 billion investment to expand London Gateway, solidifying its position as the UK's largest container port.
www.railmagazine.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Tim flagged that London Gateway (the UK’s largest container port) can’t increase its rail freight share - or decarbonise it fully - without electrifying a few short miles of branch into the port. But there is still no funding for this, so we are left with diesel locos chugging through London.
More:
More:
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[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
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Is there anything that Caltrain did recently that might be instructive to other agencies? Something about wires?
Caltrain popularity among riders at all time high: https://blog.bayareametro.gov/posts/caltrain-popularity-among-riders-all-time-high!
Caltrain popularity among riders at all time high
Caltrain released the results of its 2025 customer satisfaction survey last week, with the rail agency receiving a record high satisfaction rating of 4.41 out of 5, up from 4.02 in 2024.
blog.bayareametro.gov
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Is there anything that Caltrain did recently that might be instructive to other agencies? Something about wires?
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It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
Well, that was a very weird deputy PMQs. James Cartlidge asking the same question five times – could David Lammy guarantee no other jailed asylum seekers have been accidentally released rather than deported – and Lammy each time instead condemning the Tories' record on prisons and justice.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
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Mamdani won and the Railway Bill is finally published... truly our cups runneth over
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Mamdani won and the Railway Bill is finally published... truly our cups runneth over
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
November 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
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Normalise calling people who are obsessed with bringing trans people up in every argument “weirdos” and “perverts” instead of debating them
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Normalise calling people who are obsessed with bringing trans people up in every argument “weirdos” and “perverts” instead of debating them
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Reposting for the morning crowd.
If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.
If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Reposting for the morning crowd.
If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.
If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1692
November 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1692
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This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.
Hundreds of hospice beds and staff cut in England amid funding crisis
Hundreds of hospice beds and staff cut in England amid funding crisis
National Audit Office reports nearly two-thirds of independent hospices in deficit in 2023-24 as demand increases
Hospices in England are cutting hundreds of beds and staff because of a funding crisis, despite a sharp rise in demand for palliative care, a damning report warns.
People needing end of life care faced a postcode lottery because access to services was so patchy, the National Audit Office (NAO) reported. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.