Jonty
@fairless.xyz
Service designer, mechanic, & cargobike charity trustee. Used to work night shift. 📍Edinburgh 🏴
Me, approaching a junction as a regular cargobike rider, motorcyclist, and driver
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Me, approaching a junction as a regular cargobike rider, motorcyclist, and driver
Some follow @dasbarrett.bsky.social because he's Head of Data & AI for Citizens Advice.
I follow him because of the deranged carbohydrate experiments.
I follow him because of the deranged carbohydrate experiments.
Buckle up friend it’s time for bread made out of crisps 🍞 🥔
Full disclosure it was not a flawless first attempt.
The aim was to make a loaf of bread where the majority ingredient is crisps.
1. Buy 450g of crisps, without shame
Full disclosure it was not a flawless first attempt.
The aim was to make a loaf of bread where the majority ingredient is crisps.
1. Buy 450g of crisps, without shame
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Some follow @dasbarrett.bsky.social because he's Head of Data & AI for Citizens Advice.
I follow him because of the deranged carbohydrate experiments.
I follow him because of the deranged carbohydrate experiments.
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New favourite about page. www.vhely-hutchinson.com/about
About — Victoria Hely-Hutchinson
www.vhely-hutchinson.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
New favourite about page. www.vhely-hutchinson.com/about
Early morning squirrel patrol
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Early morning squirrel patrol
This meeting could have been a slow walk into the wine dark sea
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This meeting could have been a slow walk into the wine dark sea
Scenes from an autumn run. Definitely up there as one of the top four seasons
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Scenes from an autumn run. Definitely up there as one of the top four seasons
Is the AI bubble gong to be as bad as 2008? @dsquareddigest.bsky.social says it'll be bad, but structurally less catastrophic.
2008 collapsed the foundations. But AI assets are still held as risk assets - meaning less essential stuff relies on them.
backofmind.substack.com/p/are-we-hav...
2008 collapsed the foundations. But AI assets are still held as risk assets - meaning less essential stuff relies on them.
backofmind.substack.com/p/are-we-hav...
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Is the AI bubble gong to be as bad as 2008? @dsquareddigest.bsky.social says it'll be bad, but structurally less catastrophic.
2008 collapsed the foundations. But AI assets are still held as risk assets - meaning less essential stuff relies on them.
backofmind.substack.com/p/are-we-hav...
2008 collapsed the foundations. But AI assets are still held as risk assets - meaning less essential stuff relies on them.
backofmind.substack.com/p/are-we-hav...
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We've written about the 5 things that are needed in any scenario to create an organisation that can design and deliver services well
This is for all the people stepping into leading service design, whether it's in their title or not.
good.services/writing/comm...
This is for all the people stepping into leading service design, whether it's in their title or not.
good.services/writing/comm...
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We've written about the 5 things that are needed in any scenario to create an organisation that can design and deliver services well
This is for all the people stepping into leading service design, whether it's in their title or not.
good.services/writing/comm...
This is for all the people stepping into leading service design, whether it's in their title or not.
good.services/writing/comm...
Nobody's saying it, but bike + kids + council fireworks is one of the top 5 kinda evenings
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Nobody's saying it, but bike + kids + council fireworks is one of the top 5 kinda evenings
Absolutely sick machine. Nothing cooler than a fully loaded omnium. Will be watching out for this beast around town.
👍 "It's made so many aspects of my work easier or even possible. I really appreciate it!"
😍 We helped #AceCouriers get an #Omnium #cargobike
☝️ See our #cargobike grants to local microbusinesses
@edi.bike @laidbackbikes.bsky.social @davidfkey.bsky.social @fairless.xyz @sw20.info @edfoc.bsky.social
😍 We helped #AceCouriers get an #Omnium #cargobike
☝️ See our #cargobike grants to local microbusinesses
@edi.bike @laidbackbikes.bsky.social @davidfkey.bsky.social @fairless.xyz @sw20.info @edfoc.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Absolutely sick machine. Nothing cooler than a fully loaded omnium. Will be watching out for this beast around town.
Feeling overwhelmed? Don't be! There's a hot new solution in town: Kessler Syndrome!
Many of your problems will vanish along with GPS and comms. Total planetary lock-in is just a few Starlink collisions away ✨
Great podcast from T&R: pca.st/episode/2c13...
Many of your problems will vanish along with GPS and comms. Total planetary lock-in is just a few Starlink collisions away ✨
Great podcast from T&R: pca.st/episode/2c13...
003: The Space Trash Apocalypse You Haven’t Been Thinking About
pca.st
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Feeling overwhelmed? Don't be! There's a hot new solution in town: Kessler Syndrome!
Many of your problems will vanish along with GPS and comms. Total planetary lock-in is just a few Starlink collisions away ✨
Great podcast from T&R: pca.st/episode/2c13...
Many of your problems will vanish along with GPS and comms. Total planetary lock-in is just a few Starlink collisions away ✨
Great podcast from T&R: pca.st/episode/2c13...
I love Edward Hopper. This is 'Office in a Small City'. Go and look at some Edward Hopper paintings. They'll make you feel better. Or, at least, a little more delicate.
corporate AI hype rally got me standing around my apartment power disassociating. i’m listening to Enya and staring out my windows like this
October 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I love Edward Hopper. This is 'Office in a Small City'. Go and look at some Edward Hopper paintings. They'll make you feel better. Or, at least, a little more delicate.
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Folks, I'm looking for a huge favour.
We (Transform Wales) are making some stickers to go with the book. There is one that is screaming out for a very specific style outside of our brand. None of us are graphic designers.
Would anyone be up for helping design it? Will share details via PM.
TIA
We (Transform Wales) are making some stickers to go with the book. There is one that is screaming out for a very specific style outside of our brand. None of us are graphic designers.
Would anyone be up for helping design it? Will share details via PM.
TIA
October 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Folks, I'm looking for a huge favour.
We (Transform Wales) are making some stickers to go with the book. There is one that is screaming out for a very specific style outside of our brand. None of us are graphic designers.
Would anyone be up for helping design it? Will share details via PM.
TIA
We (Transform Wales) are making some stickers to go with the book. There is one that is screaming out for a very specific style outside of our brand. None of us are graphic designers.
Would anyone be up for helping design it? Will share details via PM.
TIA
✨🤗 A Handy Reminder 🤗✨
Perfect timing for this story to drop on the same day Amazon lays off 30,000 workers due to claims of AI efficiencies.
If companies have less work for people to do, they don’t give you Fridays off, they lay off people until everyone has a full workweek.
If companies have less work for people to do, they don’t give you Fridays off, they lay off people until everyone has a full workweek.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says AI will shorten our workweek | TechCrunch
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that, in a few years, we should be working a 3-4 day workweek because of AI.
techcrunch.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
✨🤗 A Handy Reminder 🤗✨
This is why customer research is important, y'all.
If the GM CEO had popped out on a bike, she'd see drivers catching up on work, sending emails, and watching their favourite show behind the wheel, even today!
If the GM CEO had popped out on a bike, she'd see drivers catching up on work, sending emails, and watching their favourite show behind the wheel, even today!
“Imagine you step into your vehicle, you push a button, and it drives you to the office. You catch up on work, send emails, or watch an episode of your favorite show,” said GM CEO Mary Barra.
This exists, it's called a bus
www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
This exists, it's called a bus
www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
GM will introduce eyes-off driving in 2028 | CNN Business
General Motors, the 100-year-old car company, plans to offer Americans hands-free driving and the freedom to watch a movie on the go.
share.google
October 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is why customer research is important, y'all.
If the GM CEO had popped out on a bike, she'd see drivers catching up on work, sending emails, and watching their favourite show behind the wheel, even today!
If the GM CEO had popped out on a bike, she'd see drivers catching up on work, sending emails, and watching their favourite show behind the wheel, even today!
This looks like a joke map, making fun of the UK as not a serious country - calling us "8,000 weird towns in a damp trenchcoat". Yeah we heard you.
But it's not a joke map. It's a very serious map. It reminds us to be on our guard against those 'Gramfy croojer' freaks in the next village over.
But it's not a joke map. It's a very serious map. It reminds us to be on our guard against those 'Gramfy croojer' freaks in the next village over.
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
October 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This looks like a joke map, making fun of the UK as not a serious country - calling us "8,000 weird towns in a damp trenchcoat". Yeah we heard you.
But it's not a joke map. It's a very serious map. It reminds us to be on our guard against those 'Gramfy croojer' freaks in the next village over.
But it's not a joke map. It's a very serious map. It reminds us to be on our guard against those 'Gramfy croojer' freaks in the next village over.
Happy to report the Scotland East data centre successfully received its Lego v2 architecture update while meeting 100% SLAs throughout
October 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Happy to report the Scotland East data centre successfully received its Lego v2 architecture update while meeting 100% SLAs throughout
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Clichés take hold in political language, a vicious cycle that runs through campaign speeches, through citizens’ expectations, and down into the software we build or procure by cliché, whose accordingly poor performance invites further calls for simplification. mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/design-...
Design by cliché
We reject cliché. We require true names
mechanicalsurvival.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Clichés take hold in political language, a vicious cycle that runs through campaign speeches, through citizens’ expectations, and down into the software we build or procure by cliché, whose accordingly poor performance invites further calls for simplification. mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/design-...
The intersection in the Venn diagram of people who appreciate this is the width of a human hair.
October 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The intersection in the Venn diagram of people who appreciate this is the width of a human hair.
Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
October 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Last month I spoke on a panel with Danae Shell, founder of valla.uk.
They're great at helping workers get what they're owed... unless the business directors do this One Weird Trick @mellino.bsky.social writes about, which effectively cancels a tribunal award.
Cool cool. Good system. 👍
They're great at helping workers get what they're owed... unless the business directors do this One Weird Trick @mellino.bsky.social writes about, which effectively cancels a tribunal award.
Cool cool. Good system. 👍
October 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Last month I spoke on a panel with Danae Shell, founder of valla.uk.
They're great at helping workers get what they're owed... unless the business directors do this One Weird Trick @mellino.bsky.social writes about, which effectively cancels a tribunal award.
Cool cool. Good system. 👍
They're great at helping workers get what they're owed... unless the business directors do this One Weird Trick @mellino.bsky.social writes about, which effectively cancels a tribunal award.
Cool cool. Good system. 👍
The best bit of tooling innovation I've seen this year is Phil Vandelay's seat post puller.
We need one in every bike shop please.
www.instagram.com/phil_vandela...
We need one in every bike shop please.
www.instagram.com/phil_vandela...
Instagram
6,575 likes, 191 comments - phil_vandelay on October 6, 2024: "I spent the last weeks designing and building this device to counter one of the most annoying and tricky bike repair issues - seatposts becoming so seized in their frames due to corrosion that they seem impossible to remove.
When a post doesn't want to budge using the usual methods like penetrating oil, holding it in a vise etc. sometimes a highly specialized tool like this is the last hope.
I'm happy to report that it works great and I've already been able to rescue five frames that seemed like hopeless cases with absolutely no damage to either the frame or the seatposts.
The full build video for this project is now out on my YouTube Channel, so go watch! I also offer plans for this build which you can find in the video description.
Also, if you're in or around Hamburg and you need a post removed, just send me a DM, ideally with pictures and the post diameter, and I'll see what I can do!
#cycling #bikemechanic #bikemaintenance #seatpost #stuckseatpost #bikeframe #frame #bike frame #brokenframe #tools #toolporn #machining #welding #bikes #gravelbike".
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October 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The best bit of tooling innovation I've seen this year is Phil Vandelay's seat post puller.
We need one in every bike shop please.
www.instagram.com/phil_vandela...
We need one in every bike shop please.
www.instagram.com/phil_vandela...
She only misses me cos she's not allowed to chew anyone else in the family
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
She only misses me cos she's not allowed to chew anyone else in the family
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feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
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Hello. If you would like to buy prints from your old pal Sonny, now would be an especially good time 👍
Share and tell your friends, especially if they have money and bad taste x x x
Share and tell your friends, especially if they have money and bad taste x x x
Hello new followers I am Sonny Ross. Commercial illustrator, art director and good hair haver.
📧 [email protected]
🖥️ www.sonnyross.com
🖼️ www.sonnyross.com/shop
📧 [email protected]
🖥️ www.sonnyross.com
🖼️ www.sonnyross.com/shop
October 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Hello. If you would like to buy prints from your old pal Sonny, now would be an especially good time 👍
Share and tell your friends, especially if they have money and bad taste x x x
Share and tell your friends, especially if they have money and bad taste x x x