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Dash

@dash@social.coop

He/him. Gloucestershire, UK.

Chartered Mechanical Engineer - electro-mechanical drivetrains, #RenewableEnergy. On indefinite hiatus to focus on...

Parent of two kids, #HomeEducation, #Unschooling, and a generous sprinkling of #Neurodiversity / #ADHD / #AuDHD.

Imperfect #Vegan.

Hashtag soup of other interests*:

#Cycling #ActiveTravel #Sustainability #Urbanism #IntentionalCommunities #Cooperatives #PassivHaus #enerPHit #Sailing #Permaculture

* interest != expertise

#noindex #nobots

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Dash @dash@social.coop · May 24, 2026

Replying to @susankayequinn@wandering.shop

@susankayequinn@wandering.shop I have just spent the last hour or two reading The Serviceberry while sat under a tree in the park. Thank you for your recommendation.

Dash @dash@social.coop · May 10, 2026

Replying to @keyboardpipette@genomic.social

@keyboardpipette@genomic.social As long as you can open a pdf file on your phone in some way you are fine.

Dash @dash@social.coop · May 10, 2026

Replying to @keyboardpipette@genomic.social

@keyboardpipette@genomic.social Do you want it to be an app? Or are you just assuming that it is only possible with an app? I always use Transport for Wales, precisely because it was the first/only ticket seller I found that *doesn't* force you into an app or account. Book on website. No booking fee. Guest checkout. Tickets arrive by email as pdf attachment.

Dash @dash@social.coop · May 08, 2026

So after all the anticipation for the #LocalElections, the fear and hope, and the ongoing upheaval elsewhere, #Cheltenham just goes "nope, almost exactly the same as before" (massive LD majority and a handful of Green)...

...Except the one ward where I leafleted for the Greens, which went from LD to Reform.

FFS.

Dash @dash@social.coop · May 07, 2026

Replying to @webidebi@mastodon.social

@webidebi@mastodon.social That's beautiful. Am I right in assuming that's a deliberate millstone in the foreground? It immediately made me think of Derbyshire, and coming across incongruous millstones in the middle of nowhere while walking in some parts of the county. Then I clicked through to your profile and saw that is where you are.

Dash @dash@social.coop · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @Cycling_Liz@mastodon.social

@Cycling_Liz@mastodon.social @pete@masto.hypertelia.com Annoying people are annoying, but this is being explicitly touted by Skoda as a response to "more ped/cycle collisions".

Dash @dash@social.coop · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @nickzoic@aus.social

@nickzoic@aus.social @pete@masto.hypertelia.com This is being explicitly touted as a response to "more ped/bike collisions".

Dash @dash@social.coop · Apr 01, 2026

Replying to @ideogram@social.coop

@ideogram@social.coop Probably slightly more reading required ;-) Can elaborate if you'd like. But I think you probably suspect it's not quite as simple as that already.

Dash @dash@social.coop · Mar 28, 2026

Replying to @KatS@chaosfem.tw

@KatS@chaosfem.tw @anildash@me.dm Yeah. Not where I expected that to go. And then to just stop there without making any attempt to expand on that. I actually refreshed the page to see if there was some further content that hadn't loaded the first time, but no.

Dash @dash@social.coop · Mar 26, 2026

Replying to @epilepticrabbit@social.coop

@epilepticrabbit Some interesting data there, but seems to go to great length to dance around the obvious point: Your (Western) country can't feed you because Everything Is Cattle and Sheep. And for all they say the UK could be self-sufficient in meat and dairy, I'm sceptical given the sheer amount of overseas land use shown here:

Dash @dash@social.coop · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org

@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org This feels like a competition between the two Houses for the most ill-thought-out ideas.

Dash @dash@social.coop · Feb 27, 2026

Replying to @afewbugs@social.coop

@afewbugs@social.coop That's a lovely story.

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