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andygates.bsky.social
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submitted 11 hours ago • 1399 comments

Happy snappy pincushion, sometimes the phleb is so quick it's almost an anticlimax. #MoreTests #LongCovid

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

For anyone out there working on a project like me~

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions: A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans. I would like to amend my prior statement. Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.

submitted 1 day ago • 199 comments

Got some bike rim stickers and the whole project is arghed because they're packs of 6 (3 each wheel nominal) and my spoke count is 32/28. Do I: Press on regardless you weirdo, or Buy more stickers?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Did you know that the biggest onshore #WindTurbine in the UK is here in #Bristol? How did a post-war housing estate with amongst the highest deprivation levels in the UK power every home with #CleanEnergy 🔌💡 , and what else can we learn from their story? Read more 👇 #WindSky #Renewables

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Classic rhinos shagging wheel cover. #furriesruineverything

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

If ChatGPT is used to make housing policy, normalize the idea that the best way to solve homelessness is to give people homes. Say it often. "The best way to solve homelessness is to give people homes." Do think pieces about how the best way to solve homelessness is to give people homes.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Lovely ride out, knackered now.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

My bum is trashed! Having not cycled - at all - since July 2023 I succumbed to peer pressure (gang of friends pressure) to cycle 50K+ across Somerset. It has filled my heart with happy. My bum…is not 😆 #MilesGoFasterWithFriends

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Apricot Buddha: activate! Tried great big belly breaths on tonight's run and it was okay. Got that extra sip of air. Definitely repeatable.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

#AmFettling Riff Raff (the ebike) really is a monstrous battlestar compared to my carbon roadie, just threw Basil into the ceiling 'cos I was braced for mass in the ass.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I need of funds, and also want to save for the switch 2, so might do some YCH slots, or maybe a sketch commission stream. Considered doing growth comic commissions too but i'd have to do it correctly so as not to overburden myself

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Looking at the recent techbro chopper crash and wondering if Luigi loosened the Jesus bolt?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Grumble grumble, smartbike app that I use to check charge is ironically draining my phone. #firstworldproblems

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A saliva test that analyses DNA to identify men born with the greatest risk of developing prostate cancer may help "turn the tide" on the disease. Targeting those men for biopsies & MRI scans discovered aggressive cancers that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. 🧪🧬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 1352 comments

Have been vaguely trying to avoid us-owned brands, and was halfway through a kitkat of regret when my brain nudged me to remember Tunnocks Caramel Wafers. Job done!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Nipples like glass cutters out there! #bikesky

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

adobe deleted their post so this one's for posterity

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Yay my grumpy shoulder is getting less grumpy. Vitamin I and flaps working. I think the recent big ride had tyres too hard, already tweaked down for comfort.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 7 days ago • 263 comments

Do you have questions about this "dire wolf" "de-extinction"? I am probably going to make a video tomorrow. (Note: They are not dire wolves, and it is not a de-extinction)

submitted 7 days ago • 689 comments

I'm apparently resolved to do wonky Abba lyrics for this week's Super Commuter rides.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments