Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Bob Harvey @brunnian.bsky.social · 1d

@jesszafarris.bsky.social

Look what our local bookshop is advertising!

( linktr.ee/bournebooksh... )

Photo © Bob Harvey (cc-by-sa/2.0) geograph.org.uk/p/6826106
"Shopping again", taken Saturday, 1 May, 2021

Screen grab of page from local bookshop showing 6 books about words.

2 4 25

Bob Harvey @brunnian.bsky.social · 2d

I can't cope with window cleaning any more, so I have engaged the services of a window cleaner 4 times a year.. He came last week. Two days ago We had an owl strike on the window, leaving the characteristic outline pattern.

1 1

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.bsky.social · 6d

On today's episode of Words Unravelled, @robwords.bsky.social and I celebrated 100K YouTube subscribers ✨ in person ✨ with 100 quick-fire word facts.

Thank you to everyone who tunes in each week, and major thanks to our editor @martynmnw.bsky.social.

Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPfb...

100 quick-fire word facts

YouTube video by Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris

www.youtube.com

13 17 79

Bob Harvey @brunnian.bsky.social · 4d

@robwords.bsky.social

Was listening to a time team podcast audioboom.com/posts/877877... where they talk about the etymology of sherd/shard. Thought you would enjoy it, as an example of language developing.

They do go down an etymology rabbit hole in some episodes. Dr Geake is rather prone.

Mick Aston's Time Team legacy

In this question and answers edition of the podcast Helen Geake and Martyn Williams reflect on Mick Aston's legacy on Time Team. There are also questions on the rules around metal detecting and th...

audioboom.com

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 20d

30/9/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

night people - look up
red alert for aurora

this drawing anticipates our findings
shimmer, wobble, solar boogie

12 91

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 21d

29/9/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

chopped up star fields of black paint and scribbles
glued the down in three divisions

repeat the process every night
for a minimum of five years

13 98

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 29d

21/9/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

there is Saturn - south east - over that chimney
later on - Jupiter appears, left of the barrows

the arrival of Venus means morning is close
and 200 geese appear - full voice, headed west

2 28 150

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Rob Watts (RobWords) @robwords.bsky.social · Sep 18

W[h]AT [p)SYC[h]O DESI[g]NED OUR TONG[ue]??

English has a major silent letter problem.

How did it end up this way?

Wa[t]ch my new video to find out: youtu.be/NXVqZpHY5R8

Why English is full of silent letters

YouTube video by RobWords

youtu.be

8 8 49

Bob Harvey @brunnian.bsky.social · 25d

@robwords.bsky.social

Came across this
www.quora.com/Why-in-the-E...

About Yes, No, Yea, Nay.

Is it true?

Why in the English parliament they always say "yeah, yeah" not "yes, yes"?

Mark Harrison's answer: They don’t. They say “yea, yea”, which sounds like “yay”, not “yeah.” It’s historical - there used to be four different words - yes, no, yea and nay. * Will they not go? — ...

www.quora.com

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · Aug 23

23/8/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

driving across Lincolnshire at night
with Karlheinz Stockhausen

full beam
headed east

7 73

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · Aug 27

27/8/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

an electric storm passes
grinding toward North Sea

after - stars - occasional eastern flashes
one final bolt - an absolute banger

1 19 100

Bob Harvey @brunnian.bsky.social · Aug 30

@robwords.bsky.social
Now then!

Just caught up with #WordsUnravelled about #Games, saying Whist is named for silence.

Have you come across the song "The Lambton Worm"? About a famous dragon from #Sunderland. The first word in the chorus is "Whist"...

wp.sunderland.ac.uk/seagullcity/...

Ballad of the Lambton Worm – Seagull City

wp.sunderland.ac.uk

1

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · Aug 21

21/8/25

drawing on foot
out between marsh settlements

flat - stubble - fallow
straight lines of drainage

the landscape around Saltfleet
is one of drama and tension

1 8 69

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · Aug 22

22/8/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

a long weekend of nights - a memo to all staff
"Tarot cards are not to be used on shift"

the Rider-Waites Death in gothic armour looks east
waiting for the sun ( expected 0555hrs )

1 10 66

Bob Harvey @brunnian.bsky.social · Aug 23

More #AI horror. This is worse than slop. A YouTube "video" of static AI scenes, and a pastiche script read by an AI with unnatural phrasing

Suddenly there are hundreds of these bits of dross.

youtu.be/zLSHvpcbPHg

#AIinside @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @paris.nyc

Sherlock Holmes Cracks the Mystery of the Vanishing Astronomer!

YouTube video by Mystery At 221B

youtu.be

1

Bob Harvey @brunnian.bsky.social · Jul 8

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social @leolaporte.me @paris.nyc

you might enjoy this. emeritus astronomer Mike Merifield builds a doppelganger with AI

youtu.be/k1tOhSIfpQ0

Real Astronomer v Virtual Astronomer - Sixty Symbols

YouTube video by Sixty Symbols

youtu.be

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · Jul 6

6/7/25

Sunday / more bloody walking
proper rain though

massive cloud dump on bypass
seen from Cow Pastures

slate grey / thick air / very green
weird pressure on bridleway to Elkington

17 120

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · Jul 7

7/7/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

first night of five and
95% moon over the brambles - it'll be busy

a bunch of opiliones throwing shapes
in the green glow of the fire exit

6 66

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · Jul 8

8/7/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

moon's phoning it in tonight but
Venus and the house angles is where it's at

3am - noctilucent clouds over Humber
and Capella visible beyond them

2 15 110

Bob Harvey @brunnian.bsky.social · Jul 8

I think I dated his mother...

Bob Harvey @brunnian.bsky.social · Jul 8

@richcampbell.bsky.social

whisky.
item 3 here is fat-washed whiskey.

youtu.be/WNIMectAN8Q

is this summat you know of?

Testing WORLD Cooking Methods We’ve NEVER Heard Of!

YouTube video by Sorted Food

youtu.be

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · Jun 21

21/6/25

up all night and
here for sunrise

half four
still / hot

observe your rituals
Turner was right

1 20 100

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · Jun 19

19/6/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

a night with weight behind it
thick, eerie, restless - uh oh

a division of fret rolls in at 3am
the hill in the window vanishes

6 59

Reposted by Bob Harvey

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · Jun 20

20/6/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

it's late - you're still up, still going
yes, stars - then - bloody hell

first light
before two

1 6 77

Bob Harvey @brunnian.bsky.social · Jun 21

#Geograph Now showing: Richard's close-up of weathered stonework at Newark Castle dovecote in Fife.
#stonework #masonry #photography #weathered #dovecote #doocot #Scotland
Find out more about dovecotes/doocots at geograph.org.uk/p/7882719

Free to share – please credit Richard Sutcliffe/Geograph

Mainly sandstone, in the walls of the 16th century dovecot [[6162579]] at Newark Castle.

geograph.org.uk

2