@ChimeWhistle Also train companies know which routes get overcrowded. It’s not usually a massive surprise
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A Walkers Tale
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A Walkers Tale
@AWalkersTale
Walks around Britain
United Kingdom شامل ہوئے Ocak 2025
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Rail's turn up and go approach is one of its advantages over coach and air travel. If it loses that, say goodbye to a significant number of leisure travellers who don't decide until the day - having first checked the weather forecast etc.
Liam@liam43102
You cannot oversell a train. It’s like a bus. Other than advance fares which specify a particular service you must travel on, you can pick which train you want. Seat reservations are free. If people want the railways to operate like airlines they need to come out and say so.
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@davidm_allan It's not a bad walk from Sunderland to Durham (although better starting at South Hylton) - did it in winter once, to fill a day where I couldn't be more ambitious, and was surprised by how much history there was along that stretch
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Old enough to remember paying a 1d toll each way in 'old money' to cross this footbridge over the River Wear at Finchale Priory, near Durham in NE England (it's free now and well worth a visit)!
#england #durham #englishheritage #historic #countryside #landscape #photography
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I am super keen on this as well.
Please be aware that the ones I'm hoping to see are (Age 1) Romans, Carthage, Palmyra, Macedon; (Age 2) Aztecs, Mayans, Spanish, Huns, Koreans; (Age 3) Aztecs, Iroquois, Sioux.
But the others are okay too.
Red Bull Gaming@redbullgaming
ok age of empires gang - hit us with your civ tier list. who are you maining?
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How exciting to see the reducing role played by fossil gas in our grid. It's only spring..... when we have a sunny, windy day we will potentially see zero gas for a short period. Over time those periods will increase to hours, days and eventually, weeks.
National Energy System Operator@neso_energy
Yesterday #wind produced 61.2% of GB electricity followed by nuclear 12.8%, imports 8.3%, solar 7.2%, gas 7.0%, biomass 3.5%, *excl. non-renewable distributed generation
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@Hera_Aoe @redbullgaming With all respect, the Britons are great. I know this is kind of your thing and you are using knowledge rather than vibes, but who doesn’t love longbowmen 🙂
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ok age of empires gang - hit us with your civ tier list.
who are you maining?
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@JohnGorlewski @luxemiaa Monetizing this site without quality control has been a disaster. Everything good about social media gets sloppier and sloppier
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@luxemiaa Weird, this lady had the exact same experience.
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Sophia ❣️@KeruboSk
I dated a guy who had a female best friend, and I genuinely tried to be mature about it. I didn’t mind at first because I’m not the jealous type, but then I started noticing she was always there, if I called him, she was around, if we went on dates she was blowing up his phone and anytime he posted me she’d leave those weird little comments like “lol okay” as if my relationship was a joke. Eventually I asked him straight up, “Why does she hate me?” and he hit me with, “She doesn’t hate you, she’s just protective.” Protective of what exactly? A man she’s not even dating? Then one day he casually tells me, “She said you’re controlling,” and that’s when it clicked for me, so she’s not only watching us, she’s discussing me with him like I’m the enemy. He tried to downplay it with “It’s not like that,” but I didn’t argue, I didn’t beg, I didn’t compete. I just smiled and said, “Okay… date her then.” Two months later he posted them on vacation together, and honestly I didn’t even feel heartbreak, I just felt proud that I listened to my instincts before they embarrassed me.
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Walking Grindleford to Chatsworth House, then round to Bakewell, along the Monsal Trail, and on to Buxton awalkerstale.com/2026/03/monsal…
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@emergenteffects If you want to see salt still be made in England based upon old methods, just buy it from places like this droitwichsalt.com/shop. It costs more, but this is proper British salt. The salt is made with renewable power, and you can visit churchfields.farm/visit/plan-you…
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I don’t see what the problem is? Salt prices are set on the global market so there’s no point in making it ourselves.
spiked@spikedonline
The factory that produces half of Britain’s salt could soon be killed by Net Zero. For the first time in history, England is set to be a net importer of the world’s most important mineral. This will be catastrophic for UK manufacturing, says Ruari McCallion buff.ly/M8o8O6P
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@NC_Renic I’m 36, and this still feels fairly reasonable 🫣
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Kids imagining life at 40 is the most depressing thing i've ever read
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@NfinityBL If someone wants the best the UK has to offer, go to a countryside pub specialising in food. It will cost a lot more than Nandos though
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I beg: please stop going to Nandos and expecting the creme da la creme of British food.
Its like going to Taco Bell to decide whether America has good food.
Its dumb. Stop.
Lucas@Cheetowunga
Ima be so serious if this is the best the UK has to offer, the US sweeps this food 10 out of 10 times
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@AdventuringJoW @yorkshire_dales Thanks - I’ve seen that, and will import into OS Maps as a route if it doesn’t appear otherwise
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@AWalkersTale @yorkshire_dales Think you can download a GPX file of the route from National Trails website nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/c…
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Today sees the official launch of the Coast to Coast Path as a National Trail. Here in the Dales we installed nearly 3km of stone flagging across notoriously boggy peatland, upgraded 10 bridges, and installed more than 40 new fingerposts. Watch the film 👇
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@diana_blamires @chilternrailway Prettiest trains imo. Will need to hold a minutes silence when they get GBR branding (per train repainted)
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Excited to see another GWR train is due though Winslow Station tomorrow - really hoping the Gov will let GWR run the East West Rail service as @chilternrailway has failed so dismally.
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@polarbear1066 @siobhanworld @RichardPorteous Smile, gesture to the book, say “samesies”, and never say another word
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@siobhanworld @RichardPorteous Honestly I think he’d probably appreciate the social interaction. Maybe just briefly say “Gosh, what a coincidence we appear to be reading the same book! How’re you finding it?”
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@watergypsi It’s not negative because it’s a narrowboat - people are surprisingly negative about everything these days. Just mute, ignore and enjoy the positive replies, as annoying as it can be. Joy is still allowed 👍
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Monsal Trail is pretty special, definitely one that justifies the hype. Will write up tomorrow
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@McNobzy @UtdFaithfuls Tbf Arsenal will probably buy him and give him £200k/pw
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@UtdFaithfuls The difference is, we know the real Garnacho. He's not a starter, so any tantrum he throws would just be a test to see how a clueless Rosenior handles it. It's United fans who were surprised by what they got in Mason Mount
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@FayeBrownSky You needn’t worry about CfD impact - those will be handled post price formation
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@FayeBrownSky Actually it’s pretty simple. Go back to having a centrally dispatched system as in the days of the pool. Since they are paying capacity payments you can effectively think of power as a franchised system, and make power a weighted average of cost. It would work okay
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NEW: Ed Miliband has told Labour MPs he is committed to looking at decoupling electricity from gas prices, saying it is "complicated but possible". He is said to be looking at a report by Dale Vince, which warns govt's clean energy drive won't bring down bills while gas effectively sets the price of the wholesale market... news.sky.com/story/ed-milib…
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@BernoulliDefect It’s because people have realized you can get away with small crimes (literal and social). My theory is that people are fundamentally just a bit selfish but conditioning from parents and society used to keep them more in line
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We are at the point where every public transport journey in London has at least one person playing something out loud on their phone/having a speakerphone call.
Why do we seemingly lack the social technology to prevent ~5% of everyone’s time being made so much worse?
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