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Stuart Swales

@taynappe.bsky.social

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Botherer of the rocks of Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Open University Geological Society Chairperson (and Webmaster) For OUGS Social Media follow: https://bsky.app/profile/ougeolsoc.bsky.social

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Elizabeth H @elizabethh.bsky.social · 8h

How can you not vote for #Ilmenite?

"Along enabling Bob Ross's happy little clouds to be non-toxic instead of laced with the lead of prior white pigments, titanium dioxide is a whitening agent used to colour plastics, paper and even food."

#OreCup

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 9h

#OreCup R1M3: It’s a battle of black and white as titanium ore #Ilmenite is pitted against lithium and boron ore #Jadarite.

vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
results:

www.mineralcup.org

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Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 10h

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, usually overlooked and folk head to Prado. Train to Toledo for a day out.

Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 11h

Aha! Already had another joyride overhead earlier on.

Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 12h

Mines? The baryte mine?

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · Jul 25

A little cartoon cat with an award ribbon on it that says "I have never used chatGPT and never will"

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Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 16h

I stopped after adding support for grapheme clusters. Are emojis terrible?

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Mike Kling @mikekling9.bsky.social · 18h

Vote for Molybdenite
1. So many Copper ores in the Ore Cup!
2. Molybdenite is SO Beautiful, esp. in polished section.
3. Its the source for the very rare Element Rhenium

#MinCup #OreCup #Geology ⚒️

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 1d

#OreCup R1M2 is a matchup of extremely shiny and geometrically-distinctive ore minerals for #Molybdenite vs #Tetrahedrite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:

www.mineralcup.org

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Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 18h

Am that old that I remember the 'ageing Los Angeles-class submarines' as new.

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Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 18h

The Inbox of the Beast

"666 (subtitled The Apocalypse of John, 13/18) is the third and final studio album and only double album by Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child"

Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 18h

Fireworkz' approach to this was to load the Unicode character class data in blocks covering a) the BMP and then b) 256 code points at a time beyond that. Or it would be, if I got round to releasing a Unicode build. I only did this work nearly twenty years ago...

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 23h

21.00 FILM: CON RYANAIR
Action thriller starring Nicolas Cage who must stop a group of insane criminals from charging passengers extra for jus about everything on a flight.

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t believe this beauty - and gateway drug to mineral collecting - #galena, is losing to something that isn’t a modern ore mineral #copper

#orecup

Native #copper is a real hazard in crushing circuits because it is malleable and gums things up.

Wolfgang Büttner @wbuett.bsky.social · 2d

Remember, Galena is not only the principal ore for lead, but also an important ore for silver. Vote Galena.

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 2d

Subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs

I AM allergic to peaches, so
imagine my delight when
Coca Cola announced the launch of
their new Zero Peach drink. Finally,
a Coca Cola I can enjoy, I thought.
However, it actually tasted peachier
than any of their other products.
Marc Griffiths, Liverpool

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Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 2d

For firepath etc see Sophie's talk to ROUGOL rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/202...

ROUGOL | Previous Meetings | April 2021

rougol.jellybaby.net

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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 3d

It’s almost time!

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 3d

#OreCup starts in just 30 hours, ahhhh!!

Remember to please limit yourself to ONE vote per player per match. Yes, you can have multiple players using the same device. We love when families gather to debate minerals and whole classrooms of students vote and don't want to hinder that.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 4d

What kind of variable type do programmer's ghosts like to use?

Blinky, the red ghost from Pacman, with the word BOO-lean superimposed.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 7d

With Halloween approaching, I thought I’d share a few spine-chilling poems.

Today’s is called ‘The Heebie Bee Gees’.

The Heebie Bee Gees

He danced
like a man possessed
one fevered Saturday night.

He gave me
the heebie bee gees
so I left the floor in fright.

Some blamed it
on the Boogieman
but it was a John Travoltageist.

Brian Bilston

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Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 8d

The Version Number of the Beast

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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 11d

My spidey sense was right about waiting to order the RISC OS developer tools. They just released a new version yesterday. I placed my upgrade order so I should be getting a USB stick in the mail with the DDE in a week or two. Bug fixes and a new Fortran compiler. www.riscosopen.org/content/sale...

RISC OS Open: Desktop Development Environment

www.riscosopen.org

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Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 10d

Have sent them some money! But I'll just get a link. Hopefully ;-)

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Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 11d

There'd be a bigger 'thunk' if you bumped into Nordrhein-Westfalen though (as bumped into in Bergen this summer)

Nordrhein-Westfalen (F223). A Baden-Württemberg-class frigate. In Bergen harbour. Too soon?

Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 12d

And it's still in use. I released an update of a commercial bit of software (for RISC OS) using the Norcroft compiler just last week! Looking at you, Fireworkz Pro 2.33.

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Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 12d

Bit niche, but want to know how ARM1&2 got an ANSI C compiler back in the 1980s? Listen to Arthur Norman and Lee Smith... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwUo...

"The ARM... kind of needed compilers" - Lee Smith and Arthur Norman - ARM at 40 anniversary

YouTube video by The Centre for Computing History

www.youtube.com

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Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 12d

Hey, at least that appears to be a convergent sequence!

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Stuart Swales @taynappe.bsky.social · 12d

Emptied Recycling Bin on a development system.
'Do you want to delete these 37 items?'
Yes.
'Deleting 25,128 items.'

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