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it seems to be available in paperback here now I, uh, have twigged what it's called

thank you!

I feel like you could be a worthy peer to Pratchett and Sayers

Thank you kindly!

god that face

hey Rivers of London fans: where's the Nightingale backstory novella(?) to be found? I can't seem to track it down.

thank you friend, I appreciate it.

lol you're the one person who knows what it is! it's 10.30pm and I'm still mad about it!

I have spent most of my day UTTERLY CONSUMED BY RAGE by a thing at work that is too arcane and godawful to explain to anyone and god knows I couldn't do so on the internet.

Aww it was MCR that got you into bdsm and polyamory? That is delightful!

I just started this! It is so WEIRD!

Same! It is nice! I liked it!

omg! so glad you're into it, it's so good.

seventy million people do what I say

I think people don't understand that it's a skill of its own! I do the sort of work where you need to be able to turn it on and off, and to know when to.

(I never, ever post about politics here, but i just saw it, and. these are two things about the UK that are not only true but are also things any normal person would be proud of.)

we don't have sharia courts adjudicating law and a third of our energy comes from wind. #uspoli

there is a bus route in north London called the C11. It runs a very short route, less than 5 miles, and operates in theory every 7-10 minutes. I would like the C11 shot, please. today if you can.

I keep thinking about this and how much spending time in Gaza in 2024 really changed my visceral understanding of what war MEANS.

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at least it's always veg 😂 you assume that someone talking about rocket and asparagus is probably ok and things are fine

The first of those isn’t used in the UK, which does make life wild for us in terms of what we think might be going on at any time

People who cold-contact me and *spell my name wrong*…

thank you Steph I had not seen this! this is a very kind rec for Blood Sweat Glitter, my little f/f roller derby romance.

makes perfect sense! YOU would not have been trying to get your bike on the Northern line at TCR on a weekend through a vastly flailing tour group.

not quite so much on the outer edges of the network - like at my mum's home station at the end of the Northern line, it's a little access road and a few steps down to the platform - but absolutely. getting a bike to platform level at King's Cross would take all day.

you're very welcome!

London *is* good to cyclists though for the most part; it's very much part of the transport vision.

(deep level tube trains, like the ones I was on today, are *tiny* - imagine 6ft ppl who can only just stand upright at the highest point.)

in the latter case, the city provides spaces to leave bikes almost all stations and the idea is people then enter the ordinary London transport system at this point - tubes, more trains, buses, none of which take bikes. but crucially, they haven't had to drive to get there which is what we all want.

so, safeword out if you didn't want this sudden explanation of big-city public transport! but what we have is a) people bike-commuting in central London from the suburbs on their own or the city's bikes; or b) people biking to meet either national commuter rail or Overground commuter trains.