Russ Swan

This is a lovely story, involving a close friend of my daughter. #dinosaurs www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office...

Trent #aofoto

Have just learned of the #aofoto thing (aesthetics of the ordinary) and finally have a reason to show some images.

Surely storm Austen should be followed by storm Brontë.

Surely storm Austen should be followed by storm Brontë.

So connected fridges are the front line of the new cold war?

So connected fridges are the front line of the new cold war?

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, full stop.

This is bonkers: latest image of (probable) supernova remnant known as Pa 30, first seen by human eyes (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic) in August 1181. Image by Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i. COSMIC FIREWORKS.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Erm, wearable food challenge and NOBODY made a pork pie hat? #GBBO

There is no such thing as a synthetic AI focus group, just a machine that tells you what you want to hear

I guess many of us have been cut up on the road by an Audi. Today on the A1 I was cut up by car transporter loaded with Audis. Do I win a prize?

I guess many of us have been cut up on the road by an Audi. Today on the A1 I was cut up by car transporter loaded with Audis. Do I win a prize?

Has autocorrect been fixed? I just left a comment on a FB post criticising the use of an AI image. I wrote 'fecking', the machine corrected it to 'fucking'. Probably says more about my vocabulary.

Perhaps I wasn't paying attention, but why TF have we even allowed Fairford to be used to bomb Iran? Trump and Netanyahu's illegal war shouldn't be conducted from UK soil. #fairford #iran

There's a new Top Trumps Superbikes deck and I can wait to get my hands on it. Cue furious arguments over which machines are incuded and which not. #motosky

Nothing like a bit of citizen science on a Sunday. Just taken part in the #UKWaterBlitz organised by @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social . Simple colorimetric tests for nitrate and phosphate using samples from local stream. Looks like nitrates up but phosphates down cf last year.

Oh dear how sad what a shame never mind

The most joyful thing you will see today.

Thank you all for being so considerate and not dropping any spoilers. I'm all caught up with the Sewing Bee now so please speak freely.

Lovely bit of pareidolia here

Lovely bit of pareidolia here

A brief moment of excitement today when a letter on House of Commons stationery arrives. Quickly followed by underwhelment when it is merely our MP inviting us to a meeting at a local pub. I was hoping for canapés on the HoC terrace at least.

BBC News just showed a weatherwatchers image of the sunset over the sea at Tynemouth. Tynemouth faces east.

Wonderful ridgeline map of Australia. The very cool interactive atlas by @habibicode allows you to download a map like this of any country on the planet! Source: buff.ly/Ctw65tx

Artist: jah-york https://b3ta.com/board/11430776 From the 'Product Placement Books' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/productplacementbooks/popular/ #ProductPlacementBooks

I'm happy to report that Coyote vs Acme is pretty damned good actually. #meepmeep

pea Artist: Ya What https://b3ta.com/board/11430543 From the 'Modern Day Greek Myths' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/moderndaygreekmyths/popular/ #ModernDayGreekMyths

Tough week to be an 80 yr-old entertainment icon. Aren't these things supposed to come in threes? Who else is 80, I wonder.

Entertaining words for “cool” or “excellent” and, per the The Historical Thesaurus of English, the approximate dates they're first recorded: 1613: topgallant 1666: spanking 1776: ripping 1802: smick-smack 1828: supernacular 1838: lummy (originally probably a variation on "Lord love me") (1/2)

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Engineer: The cup is 100 percent oversized

It's easy to make fun of Welsh place names, so let's not do that. #fingerpostfriday

You can tell it's August because Sainsbury has started using the C-word.

It's raining here in Nottinghamshire. Repeat, it's raining. #rain

I know somebody who knows somebody who used to date Amy Hunt. I feel like I'm finally moving in exalted circles. Go me. Go Amy.

Ta da! #wordle Wordle 1,884 2/6 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Have I got this right? The Count was at the count but the c*nt chickened out?

Have I got this right? The Count was at the count but the c*nt chickened out?

Fair play to Danny León, the Spanish Olympic skateboarder. This shot may never be eclipsed.

Today's pointless AI invention is this smart birdfeeder (that might actually be a surveillance cam), which removes the joy of learning about your avian visitors by identifying them for you, for only 220 of your English pounds. Yeah, fuck off.

What the #eclipse looked like from inside Southwell Minster.

You've all enjoyed my Eclips-o-scope images; this is what my phone saw through the #eclipse glasses at about maximum.

Very happy with this result. Combination of #eclipse images (time lapse) with 35 mm lens, one image per 5 minutes, from #Leiden, the Netherlands. Old Leiden Observatory bottom right.