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Simon Varwell

@simonvarwell.bsky.social

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Loves trains, the outdoors, travel, Esperanto, ambient electronica and post-rock music, dystofic, good food and scrontous beer. Hates car-centric societies, late stage capitalism and courgette. He/him. Inverness | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🇪🇺 Work: @hisasimon.bsky.social

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@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 7:15 PM

I should!

@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:45 PM

Thank you for sharing that. I thought the Onion headline was quite funny so that’s a really helpful explanation and counter.

@evaholland.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:42 PMReposted by @simonvarwell.bsky.social

Sharing this specifically to direct folks to @ziibiing.com in the replies. Read what she has to say, and I hope The Onion listens.

@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:41 PM

Police investigating public disorder have released more photos…

@kateinkharkiv.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 4:11 PMReposted by @simonvarwell.bsky.social

Zelenskyy: "When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. Many people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, fewer provocations because there were fewer bots. It's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.

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@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:00 PM

They’re certainly a virus.

@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 5:36 PM

And I’m infuriated by the extra space after the brackets. Maybe it was put in there by a bicycle to prove my point.

@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 5:31 PM

A powerful point. Cars are indeed anti-democratic because they empower some voices (and their control of literal spaces) at the expense of others, and they require a certain level of wealth to utilise.

@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 5:27 PM

A severe cropping, but the glow on Ben Wyvis this morning was glorious.

A very grainy zoom-in on a plateau mountain that’s glowing with morning sunlight. The foreground is trees and there is a city in the middle ground.
@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 11:19 AM

Quite the mountain to climb for them.

@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:35 PM

Mi daktas.

Paketo de daktiloj.
@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:18 PM

Rounded off with a nice bike ride. Almost too warm in the sunshine.

A view across a park, city and then hills and water in the distance.
@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:14 AM

And it’s going to be a nice day, I think.

A woodland scene. The sun is bursting through and between leaves. Same again - the sun is bursting through trees.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:08 AMReposted by @simonvarwell.bsky.social

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:27 AM

The season of low sun and stretched shadows.

A portrait photo of a road. It’s dominated by a very elongated shadow of me, cast by a low sun behind me.
@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:56 AM

Agreed it will be a slower process - US support is too much of a cushion, albeit it cannot cushion all vulnerabilities.

@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:52 AM

Bob Marley so enjoyed his Gaelic lessons and found them so self-actualising. At the end he always left feeling cheery and Rasta.

@calmerfuture.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:37 AMReposted by @simonvarwell.bsky.social

I feel like turning into an enigmatic lying down boulder too today, can empathise

@soapachu.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:39 AMReposted by @simonvarwell.bsky.social

#NotAllMen

Graph showing the results of a survey of British and American people (come on, we know it's men) and the percentages of whom think they could beat various animals in a fight. At the top we have rat, then right at the bottom there's Lion, Elephant and Grizzly bear. I've written TIGER across where it says lion. 3% of Americans believed they could beat a grizzly in a fight. There's no hope for humans. Honestly. Headline from the Guardian site about a man who died after jumping into the tiger enclosure at a zoo in Yorkshire. The tiger, unsurprisingly, took issue with the invader and showed him exactly where he stood on the food chain.
@simonvarwell.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:44 AM

A weird Wordle this morning. Got there more by guesswork than anything else. Wordle 1 940 4/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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