Brownhills Bob
@brownhillsbob.bsky.social
Telling the truth, but telling it bent.
Ranty, hyperactive, in love with everything.
Local pariah, occasional blogger, amateur historian and lover of music, geeky things, old tech and the outdoors.
https://brownhillsbob.com/
Ranty, hyperactive, in love with everything.
Local pariah, occasional blogger, amateur historian and lover of music, geeky things, old tech and the outdoors.
https://brownhillsbob.com/
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A colourful Persian way of describing someone who’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic is سرش به کنش پنالتی میزنه. It means “their head is taking penalties against their arse.”
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A colourful Persian way of describing someone who’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic is سرش به کنش پنالتی میزنه. It means “their head is taking penalties against their arse.”
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🧪 My latest climate-related video looks at the rapid development of geothermal energy as relatively clean source of electric energy. Please watch and comment. Thanks! #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
youtu.be/VToc1VXGuTI
youtu.be/VToc1VXGuTI
Has The Time For Geothermal Arrived?
YouTube video by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
🧪 My latest climate-related video looks at the rapid development of geothermal energy as relatively clean source of electric energy. Please watch and comment. Thanks! #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
youtu.be/VToc1VXGuTI
youtu.be/VToc1VXGuTI
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very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
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It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.
December 11, 2024 at 9:03 AM
It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.
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Happy Goth toblerone seems very specific
December 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Happy Goth toblerone seems very specific
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It's a brilliant photo perfectly summing up the misery that is Dubai
This is what true patriotism looks like!
A sad middle aged man, puffed up to look like Rod Stewart & an immigrant himself, eating ‘English’ grub in an Islamic country whilst slagging off the UK, Islam and migrants.
Charlie Muggins:
Our Fluff
Our Stain
Our Belch
Our Stray Pube.
🇬🇧
A sad middle aged man, puffed up to look like Rod Stewart & an immigrant himself, eating ‘English’ grub in an Islamic country whilst slagging off the UK, Islam and migrants.
Charlie Muggins:
Our Fluff
Our Stain
Our Belch
Our Stray Pube.
🇬🇧
December 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It's a brilliant photo perfectly summing up the misery that is Dubai
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Excellent interview with the fabulous Toni Basil in today's Guardian. Some of the videos mentioned are in the thread below
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
December 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Excellent interview with the fabulous Toni Basil in today's Guardian. Some of the videos mentioned are in the thread below
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Is it time to redraw our maps?
From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Is it time to redraw our maps?
From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Is it time to redraw our maps?
From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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Trying to work out where ‘The Dead Man’s Lane’ was, a corpse road leading from Great Barr to Aldridge churchyard.
December 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Trying to work out where ‘The Dead Man’s Lane’ was, a corpse road leading from Great Barr to Aldridge churchyard.
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Earth’s age wasn’t solved with satellites or lasers.
It was figured out first with rocks, fossils, notebooks, and maps… long before anyone knew the number.
How geologists built a reliable timeline before they had a clock
Join the Newsletter for more!
🧪 #SciComm
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It was figured out first with rocks, fossils, notebooks, and maps… long before anyone knew the number.
How geologists built a reliable timeline before they had a clock
Join the Newsletter for more!
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/iS3KVYM
How Scientists Discovered Earth’s Age With Nothing But Rocks, Fossils, and Physics
The long road from relative time to a 4.5-billion-year-old planet If you look at the geologic timescale today, with its Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras...
climateages.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Earth’s age wasn’t solved with satellites or lasers.
It was figured out first with rocks, fossils, notebooks, and maps… long before anyone knew the number.
How geologists built a reliable timeline before they had a clock
Join the Newsletter for more!
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/iS3KVYM
It was figured out first with rocks, fossils, notebooks, and maps… long before anyone knew the number.
How geologists built a reliable timeline before they had a clock
Join the Newsletter for more!
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/iS3KVYM
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He says he is suing the BBC.
Perhaps he is, with a real claim in an actual court.
Or perhaps it is an AI law suit, or something.
Perhaps he is, with a real claim in an actual court.
Or perhaps it is an AI law suit, or something.
Trump: "I'm suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth ... I guess they used AI or something"
December 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
He says he is suing the BBC.
Perhaps he is, with a real claim in an actual court.
Or perhaps it is an AI law suit, or something.
Perhaps he is, with a real claim in an actual court.
Or perhaps it is an AI law suit, or something.
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not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
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Reform UK’s Councillor Nicholas Thompson has missed 8 out of 12 meetings. Guess which Council he’s on? Staffordshire.
The same one white supremacist Ian Cooper led. In fact, guess who nominated Nicholas Thompson when he first stood? Yes, Ian Cooper.
The same one white supremacist Ian Cooper led. In fact, guess who nominated Nicholas Thompson when he first stood? Yes, Ian Cooper.
December 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Reform UK’s Councillor Nicholas Thompson has missed 8 out of 12 meetings. Guess which Council he’s on? Staffordshire.
The same one white supremacist Ian Cooper led. In fact, guess who nominated Nicholas Thompson when he first stood? Yes, Ian Cooper.
The same one white supremacist Ian Cooper led. In fact, guess who nominated Nicholas Thompson when he first stood? Yes, Ian Cooper.
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Mooooom, the cats are tessellating agaaaaain!
December 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Mooooom, the cats are tessellating agaaaaain!
Until Christmas Day, we're bringing you an 'advent calendar' of vintage buses. We've reached 15, so that means a trip to Rochdale where the 15 bus is waiting to set off to Shaw. It looks very different here now, this is the site of the town's bus and Metrolink Interchange.
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Seems a one time writing master at the Lichfield Granmar school was the author of the earliest known grammar of English for females in 1715.
Unsure why women needed their own grammar guide & why the author was described as being ‘a turbulent person’ and dismissed from his post but watch this space!
Unsure why women needed their own grammar guide & why the author was described as being ‘a turbulent person’ and dismissed from his post but watch this space!
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Seems a one time writing master at the Lichfield Granmar school was the author of the earliest known grammar of English for females in 1715.
Unsure why women needed their own grammar guide & why the author was described as being ‘a turbulent person’ and dismissed from his post but watch this space!
Unsure why women needed their own grammar guide & why the author was described as being ‘a turbulent person’ and dismissed from his post but watch this space!
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Just done the cats' flea treatment, which involves immobilising a reluctant cat, and precisely placing a drop of liquid on the back of its neck.
Leaflet: "Do not eat, drink, or smoke while applying this product." I can't help admiring the ambition of anyone who might even try such a feat.
Leaflet: "Do not eat, drink, or smoke while applying this product." I can't help admiring the ambition of anyone who might even try such a feat.
December 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Just done the cats' flea treatment, which involves immobilising a reluctant cat, and precisely placing a drop of liquid on the back of its neck.
Leaflet: "Do not eat, drink, or smoke while applying this product." I can't help admiring the ambition of anyone who might even try such a feat.
Leaflet: "Do not eat, drink, or smoke while applying this product." I can't help admiring the ambition of anyone who might even try such a feat.
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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
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I’m a single issue voter and my issue is that those busses that bend in the middle should make accordion noises
December 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I’m a single issue voter and my issue is that those busses that bend in the middle should make accordion noises
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Nature is healing.
Just saw a dog piss on one of these Uber Eats drones in Hyde Park
December 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Nature is healing.
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The black church only exists b/c of the sins the white church won’t repent for. And I’m tired of seeing women who are carrying water for white supremacist patriarchy capitalize on their belief that their proximity to power will save them from harm. #deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The black church only exists b/c of the sins the white church won’t repent for. And I’m tired of seeing women who are carrying water for white supremacist patriarchy capitalize on their belief that their proximity to power will save them from harm. #deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news
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A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud