Jonty

@fairless.xyz

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Service designer for the climate emergency, mechanic, & cargobike charity trustee. Used to work night shift. šŸ“Edinburgh šŸ“󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁓ó æ

Two BMW Airhead pushrods on a wooden surface. The rods show identical abrasion patterns about half-way up the shaft, roughly at the point where the cylinder head gasket sits.
A cylinder barrel, pulled out from the crankcase of a BMW airhead motorcycle, exposing the piston skirts and conrod.
A white BMW r80/7 motorcycle, partially stripped down, standing in a garage.
A large white dog rests her head on my legs
A white dog sits looking out over golden-green rolling hills as the sun sets.
Two dogs, one large white, one small brown, sit on a paved area looking at the camera. The iconic red Forth Rail Bridge arches across the Firth of Forth in the background.
A large white fluffy dog rests her head on a laptop keyboard, looking up at the camera.
A screenshot of a bar graph showing half-hourly electricity prices over the next 30 hours. Circled in red is a high price of 80.5p per kWh of electricity, which will be charged tomorrow evening, according to the graph
A child sits on the loading platform a blue Larry vs Harry e-Bullitt cargo bike, in a forest.
A photo composite picture of Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham. Both have similar expressions and glasses and faces. Underneath the picture, a BBC headline reads "Kier Starmer resigns, as Andy Burnham confirms he will run to replace him as Labour leader and PM"
David Attenborough sits on a log in a rainforest, speaking to camera. A large speech bubble is scribbled onto the picture, indicating he is narrating the skeet quoted below.
A stylish gallery room, decked out in colourful livery and stylish plywood. Some large white display cases are in the foreground, and people mill about looking at them.
A bar graph titled 'Most of the local authorities with the highest share of heat pump installs are in Scotland and Wales.' The graph shows the top 20 UK local authorities by heat pump installations, split into nations. 14 of the 20 are in Scotland or Wales.
A screenshot of a linked in post. It's from Richard Turrin, who describes himself as: Fintech and AI from a uniquely Asian and China-centric perspective | Best-selling author of ā€œCashlessā€ and ā€œInnovation Lab Excellenceā€ | Consultant | Speaker | Top media source on Chinaā€™s digital yuan | IBM, with a practical guide on how to realize agentic AI ROI, that doesnā€™t just look at the barriers to attaining it, but asks the fundamental question: How do you define ROI? 2026 will be a make-or-break year for agentic AI, with users worldwide searching for its long-promised returns. IBM suggests that these users widen their search and acknowledge that agentic AIā€™s ROI should have many components beyond the one or two usually used. While the number one priority for most users is revenue growth, IBM prudently suggests considering productivity gains, employee and customer satisfaction, and cost reduction, along with special user-defined KPIs. IBM is on target, and the problem with the majority of surveys we saw on agentic AI returns in 2025 was that they tended to rely on revenue growth as the sole measure of return. The over-reliance on revenue in surveys and business has a simple origin. It is a quantitative metric, easy to put on a questionnaire, and is easier to assess than more subtle measures like customer satisfaction or custom KPIs. The problem is that by focusing on revenue, we are undercounting agentic AIā€™s potential benefits within the organization.
A screenshot of a LinkedIn post from IBM. It reads "Many organisations struggle to realise the full potential of agentic AI. Learn the common obstacle y to ROI and how leaders are responding". Beneath the text is a large interaction card image, with text which reads "3 reasons you're not seeing ROI on agentic AI (and what to do about it)"
A verdant garden. A large white curly haired dog lies, head on paws, on top of a raised vegetable bed, surrounded my small green shoots. Not pictured: hundreds of delicate Italian rocket seedlings gasping for light and air beneath 25kg of dog.
An Instagram post by road.cc. An image of a cyclist riding in a bike lane blocked by lorries. Overlaid is the text '"You can build the worst cycle lane in the world and still smash cycling records": Locals shocked as numbers of cyclists using "transport hell" bike path surges and pedestrian injuries fall"
A top-down view of a 1980s BMW airhead boxer motorcyle. It's sitting in a messy garage. The tank has been removed, exposing a mess of old wiring and a rusty frame.
A screenshot of a facebook marketplace listing. It shows two pictures of - what is clearly - a full-length coffin. The listing is titled 'Wooden box' and costs Ā£35. Under the description it reads 'Wooden box ideal for man cave'
A large white dog, mid stretch, lying on a grey sofa
Two boys and a large white dog beneath a flowering cherry tree. The tallest boy is reaching up and holding a branch of the tree. Pink and white blossoms are cascading down, and the dog is mid-jump, trying to bite the falling petals out of the air.
A yellow fixed gear single speed track bike with Nitto pursuit handlebars leans up against a garage door.
Two young kids, a woman, and a dog lean over the edge of verdant pond, looking in the water for newts.
A close up of pink and white apple blossoms on a small espaliered braeburn apple tree
A notification in Microsoft Teams which reads: 'Final status: Approved. For Approvals. Approvals'. It doesn't seem to be an error.
Lou Downe standing and speaking next to a large television, showing a bright turquoise screen with black text which reads "A good service encourages the right behaviour from users and service providers". A few people sit with their back to the camera, watching.
An image of two particularly gormless looking ancient megafauna, walking across a white background. One is labelled 'Arsinoitherium zitelli' and the other has only a partial label visible, but which depicts Paraentelodon macrognathus
A collection of female automotive molex connector pin connectors from an old motorbike. These should be gleaming gold. Instead they're old, corroded grey. A couple have clear high temp colouring.
A screenshot from the UK national energy service operator app, showing energy records. The wind and solar records (23,880MW and 14,414MW set on 25 March and 7 April respectively) are circled in red pen.
A view through a binoculars. Framed in a black circle, a small espaliered apple tree grows against a fence. It's dotted with buds breaking out into leaves.
A colourful graph of half-hourly electricity prices for the next 24 hours. A large 17hr chunk from 11pm until 4pm is priced negatively; meaning customers are paid to consume electricity at those times
A silver bike frame hangs against a wall cluttered with colourful artwork and postcards
A screenshot of a short list of options. Underlined in red is the option "Tell your friend about Outlook"
A screenshot of an app, showing half-hourly electricity prices per kWh for the next few hours. Prices are all below 1p / kWh - and dip into negative figures at some points. And yes: that means I get paid to use as much electricity as I can.
A view through the viewfinder of a binocular, showing a spindly leafless sapling espaliered against a fence.
A front-on view of a partially-stripped white motorcycle in a sunny white garage.
A partially stripped-down white motorcycle on a sunny brick driveway. A camp chair and a mini workbench sit in front of it.
A white motorcycle being loaded onto the back of a flat bed breakdown truck. A man wearing hi-vis checks a strap
A sleek, silver Urban Arrow cargo bike.
A screenshot of part of an article. The text reads: ā€œThe entire GDP of the world is in motion in the [banking] network at any moment in time,ā€ as Teplitzky notes. ā€œA bank turns over twice its assets every day, out and in. A clearing bank in, say, New York, it could be moreā€¦ So a huge amount of money is in motion in the network and in big backend systems that do it. They canā€™t fail! If they fail, the world ends. The world ends.ā€ COBOL is not merely fast; itā€™s also ā€œstable, stable, stableā€, as Thomas tells me. One of the processes he developed takes, every month, a file of about 2.4 million government pension and puts the proper amounts in peopleā€™s bank accounts. ā€œWe verify them and check them in 11 minutes. It hasnā€™t failed in 20 years.ā€
A screenshot of a 2021 tweet from @CALLHERDIARA that's been edited. It reads "I do not support all trains, some of you bitches are pendolinos'
Dominos toppling meme. A man is about to tip over a small domino labelled 'Buy now pay later Uber eats'. At the end of the line of increasingly large dominos is a huge slab, labelled 'Global 2032 "Burrito Crash"
A close up of a couple of wiring connections behind the front fairings of a 1987 Honda Transalp motorcycle. The front right fork stanchion shines silver in the foreground
A large white curly-haired dog sleeps in her back at full stretch on a grey sofa, tangled in cushions. A soft toy turkey lies on a cushion in the background.
The front of a LNER 4468 'Mallard' locomotive, in a large museum shed. An iron railway bridge arches over the engine.
The Water of Leith - at the point, a broad fast-flowing stream - races between overhanging trees. A pale yellow glow filters through the bare branches.
Two children sitting at a kitchen counter, writing studiously
A picture of a broadsheet newspaper comics and classifieds page. Taking up a quarter of one of the pages is a large picture of a surprised looking cat, beneath which is the text 'oh god how did this get here I am not good with computer'
A screenshot of Google street view. A cyclist (me) and a couple of cars on a wet, sunlit Edinburgh road.
A large white dog with a close-cropped curly coat sits on a grey sofa.
A cosy scene. A large curly-haired white dog lies curled up in a yellow armchair in the corner of a small room, next to a large cabinet crowded with books and junk. The walls are covered with pictures, postcards and art, alongside a polished steel bicycle frame mounted on a pair of hooks.
A long wheelbase van in a car park. The hoarding on the side shows a large woodcut-style illustration of trees and people carrying branches. The business name 'Respect your elders tree surgery' is emblazoned across the side in a weathered, old-world serif typeface.
Three smiling people - two children and an adult - hang upside-down from a pair of low level parallel bars in a forest. A white dog is entering the frame from the left hand side.
Looking up at a large, curly-haired white dog, wearing a maroon fleece warmer, standing on a ridge in a forest. Dead leaves litter the ground.
A short tree with vibrant yellow leaves stands in a dark clearing in a pine forest
A screenshot of text. It reads: "A lot of what is worrying the regulators is that this market is not transparent and has grown very fast. My perception is, though, that although there will be overlapping and circular exposures, this stuff is mainly being held institutionally on the basis that it is a risk asset, which ought to mean that capability has been allocated to manage it when it goes bad)."
A small black thin client pc, bristling with wires, is attached to a black wall with Lego blocks forming the mounting structure.
A black mechanical pencil lies on a pale wooden surface. Red text on the hexagonal barrel of the pencil reads 'rotring 600 | 0,5mm'
Three images showing photographers in a studio, standing around a black curtained area with a projector and a 'Windows' logo etched onto a glass pane. The lower image shows a version of the iconic blue windows background, with blue lasers outlining and passing through an angled Windows logos against a dark background.
A split Google maps / Google street view interface. The top half of the screen shows a surface level pedestrian passage through a dark brick building, with a bike railing on one side with bikes locked to it. The lower half of the screen shows a Google satellite view of a university campus, with the streetview viewpoint annotated.