Samuel Langlois

@squell.bsky.social

85 Followers 210 Following

Yet another French in the UK, enjoying life in #rdguk, working @ecmwf.int 🚴‍♂️💻💚

Video of a Red Kite (the bird!) dropping close to the ground, in front of my bike, next to a row of cars stalled by a Red Light.
A band playing near Canal St Martin in Paris: guitar, bass, drums
Me in a T-shirt saying « I was cycling before it was COOL »
My bike, loaded with groceries at the back in a wooden crate and at the front in a bag, in front of the Reading Bike Hub
A platter of fancy sandwiches and even fancier petits fours, with a glass of bubbly at the front.
Kids on bikes, in the Palmer Park in Reading, with bubbles flying around
A stupid red car driver denying me the priority on my bike on a rainy day in the UK
People on bikes looking happy surrounded by bubbles
2 huge artichoke flowers, with bees having a feast on them, plus one not open yet in the background
My bike, having a wooden crate of wine fixed as a pannier at the back. The box is empty though, I drank it all… It was Bordeaux Tutiac, if you must know.
Bikers riding on a street, one with a raised fist
Rain falling on a street. Sad.
2 door bells next to each other on a wall, forming the shape of a face
A mural painting with Diego Maradona in a small street
The canal Saint Martin in Paris under a setting sun, with people walking everywhere and a few bikes on the street. No car in sight.
Map of a trip with stops in: London, Paris, Nice, 5 Terre, Napoli, Firenze, Venice, Paris, London
Sign saying: CLOUD NATIVE COMPUTING FOUNDATION DOES NOT ALLOW FIREARMS OR OTHER WEAPONS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY ARE PERMITTED OR NOT, OR WHETHER THEY ARE CONCEALED OR NOT, TO BE BROUGHT INTO OUR EVENTS.
A few dozen cyclists, half of them kids, on a street blocked by a big concrete block. Behind the block, two little hands of a kid who just fell onto the ground.
Screenshot from a conversation with a bot from Virgin Media. At 3:56pm, it annouced 42 minutes of waiting. At 4:04pm it was 46 minutes. At 4:14pm, 47 minutes.
View of Henley-on-Thames at dusk, from the path along the Thames
View from the camera on my bike's handlebar. A van (branded Actavo) overtakes me, and then cut my path to enter a car park. With no indicator.
Screenshot of a solar panel monitoring app, showing Watts flowing from the panels into the house and the battery
Form item asking the question: "I believe I am a CompanyY type of person", with answers ranging from "Very inaccurate" to "Very Accurate"
Open, old-fashioned, 2-rotor electric shaver
Extract of the movie The Blues Brothers, where a bunch of Nazis escape from a car by jumping down a bridge into a river, and then look wet and miserable
Screenshot of an interrail global pass adult - 1 month of unlimited train travel - costing £585
Pieces of a broken Bluetooth speaker scattered on a table
Comic strip by Jen Sorensen mocking cars becoming humongous
Boris Johnson’s book « Indomptable » at the bottom of the Psychology & Psychoanalysis section of a book store
Calvin and Hobbes strip. Calvin asks his dad if he has any ideas for his traffic safety poster. Dad replies: Sure! "Cyclists have a right to the road too, you polluting maniacs! I hope gas goes up to 8 bucks a gallon!". Calvin says he'll ask mom.