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Ubi crustulam ibi gaudium est.
Ubi crustulam ibi gaudium est.
On grey winter mornings I often think how fortunate I am, & what a privilege it is to be alive at this moment in the whole approx. 13.8 billion years of the universe, & wander around chez #OhMG with a mug of coffee like Arthur Dent waiting for something to happen.
Is that the bin lorry I hear?
Is that the bin lorry I hear?
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
On grey winter mornings I often think how fortunate I am, & what a privilege it is to be alive at this moment in the whole approx. 13.8 billion years of the universe, & wander around chez #OhMG with a mug of coffee like Arthur Dent waiting for something to happen.
Is that the bin lorry I hear?
Is that the bin lorry I hear?
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For the reading list! great new paper on the impact of satellite megaconstellations. 🔭
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
For the reading list! great new paper on the impact of satellite megaconstellations. 🔭
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A touch of #NorthernLights over #Orkney earlier this evening.
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A touch of #NorthernLights over #Orkney earlier this evening.
Not another BBC scandal. How many more?
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Not another BBC scandal. How many more?
Someone, sometime, somewhere is going to write a dissertation on the physics behind the fact that (more often than not) a duvet cover will swallow the pillowcases at some point during the wash cycle.
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Someone, sometime, somewhere is going to write a dissertation on the physics behind the fact that (more often than not) a duvet cover will swallow the pillowcases at some point during the wash cycle.
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The staff at Stromness Library are getting all set for #Christmas with this brilliantly snowy Spot's Magical Christmas window which was painted by Stephanie. ❄️🌨🎿🐕
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The staff at Stromness Library are getting all set for #Christmas with this brilliantly snowy Spot's Magical Christmas window which was painted by Stephanie. ❄️🌨🎿🐕
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
#LoveLibraries #Christmas 🎄❤️
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This evening I attended my second lecture at the Stratford upon Avon Astronomical Society. My takeaway is that Stonehenge is a wonderful engineering/architectural/cultural achievement, but is pants when it comes to being an astronomical/religious calendar.
So f*** the druids.
So f*** the druids.
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This evening I attended my second lecture at the Stratford upon Avon Astronomical Society. My takeaway is that Stonehenge is a wonderful engineering/architectural/cultural achievement, but is pants when it comes to being an astronomical/religious calendar.
So f*** the druids.
So f*** the druids.
Che gelida manina!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Italian town freezes Pavarotti statue knee-deep in Christmas ice rink, angering widow
The opera legend's widow said the town had made an
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Che gelida manina!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Absorption spectrum reveals that cranberry juice is absorbed at short wavelengths in the atmosphere of the planet Sainos. 🔭
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Absorption spectrum reveals that cranberry juice is absorbed at short wavelengths in the atmosphere of the planet Sainos. 🔭
People who believe in phrenology need their heads feeling.
December 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
People who believe in phrenology need their heads feeling.
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THE GREAT DRUG WAR CON: WHY TRUMP’S “WAR ON DRUGS” SMELLS LIKE CRUDE OIL AND BULLSHIT
By The Unredacted Bastard — The Bastard • The Scourge • The Problem You Should’ve Foreseen
open.substack.com/pub/theunred...
By The Unredacted Bastard — The Bastard • The Scourge • The Problem You Should’ve Foreseen
open.substack.com/pub/theunred...
THE GREAT DRUG WAR CON: WHY TRUMP’S “WAR ON DRUGS” SMELLS LIKE CRUDE OIL AND BULLSHIT
By The Unredacted Bastard — The Bastard • The Scourge • The Problem You Should’ve Foreseen
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
THE GREAT DRUG WAR CON: WHY TRUMP’S “WAR ON DRUGS” SMELLS LIKE CRUDE OIL AND BULLSHIT
By The Unredacted Bastard — The Bastard • The Scourge • The Problem You Should’ve Foreseen
open.substack.com/pub/theunred...
By The Unredacted Bastard — The Bastard • The Scourge • The Problem You Should’ve Foreseen
open.substack.com/pub/theunred...
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I just bought a Jehovah’s Witness advent calendar. Every time you open a door someone tells you to go away.
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I just bought a Jehovah’s Witness advent calendar. Every time you open a door someone tells you to go away.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Guide to Dream Interpretation:
Flying - Hungry. Time to get up for breakfast.
Wading though thick mud - As above.
Insulted by a talking badger - Ditto.
Night of passion with old school friend you bumped into at recycling centre - Ibid.
Trying to find a working toilet - Same (but need to pee first).
Flying - Hungry. Time to get up for breakfast.
Wading though thick mud - As above.
Insulted by a talking badger - Ditto.
Night of passion with old school friend you bumped into at recycling centre - Ibid.
Trying to find a working toilet - Same (but need to pee first).
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Guide to Dream Interpretation:
Flying - Hungry. Time to get up for breakfast.
Wading though thick mud - As above.
Insulted by a talking badger - Ditto.
Night of passion with old school friend you bumped into at recycling centre - Ibid.
Trying to find a working toilet - Same (but need to pee first).
Flying - Hungry. Time to get up for breakfast.
Wading though thick mud - As above.
Insulted by a talking badger - Ditto.
Night of passion with old school friend you bumped into at recycling centre - Ibid.
Trying to find a working toilet - Same (but need to pee first).
ICYMI (I did!) 🚀 🧪
Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forgot to secure a 20-ton service platform - Ars Technica share.google/WBJmqu0UY941...
Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forgot to secure a 20-ton service platform - Ars Technica share.google/WBJmqu0UY941...
Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forgot to secure a 20-ton service platform
“We are going to learn just how important the ISS is to leadership.”…
share.google
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
ICYMI (I did!) 🚀 🧪
Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forgot to secure a 20-ton service platform - Ars Technica share.google/WBJmqu0UY941...
Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forgot to secure a 20-ton service platform - Ars Technica share.google/WBJmqu0UY941...
👏Bravo👏
BBC News - Warwick District Council quits X over misinformation concerns.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Warwick District Council quits X over misinformation concerns.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Warwick District Council quits X over misinformation concerns
The council's cabinet votes to immediately suspend its use of X due to concerns over content shared.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
👏Bravo👏
BBC News - Warwick District Council quits X over misinformation concerns.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Warwick District Council quits X over misinformation concerns.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
TRUTH BOMB #3 applicable here (UK) too.
THE POVERTY BAN: TRUMP’S NEW “PLAN” IS JUST CLASS WARFARE FOR DUMBASSES
By The Unredacted Bastard — The Bastard • The Scourge • The Problem You Should’ve Foreseen
open.substack.com/pub/theunred...
By The Unredacted Bastard — The Bastard • The Scourge • The Problem You Should’ve Foreseen
open.substack.com/pub/theunred...
THE POVERTY BAN: TRUMP’S NEW “PLAN” IS JUST CLASS WARFARE FOR DUMBASSES
By The Unredacted Bastard — The Bastard • The Scourge • The Problem You Should’ve Foreseen
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
TRUTH BOMB #3 applicable here (UK) too.
By all means think me a miserable git of a heathen, but it's still November FFS. Enough of Xmas jingles, carols, & Jesus already.
It totally undermines the brief midwinter* holiday itself.
(*Not currently available in the southern hemisphere.)
It totally undermines the brief midwinter* holiday itself.
(*Not currently available in the southern hemisphere.)
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
By all means think me a miserable git of a heathen, but it's still November FFS. Enough of Xmas jingles, carols, & Jesus already.
It totally undermines the brief midwinter* holiday itself.
(*Not currently available in the southern hemisphere.)
It totally undermines the brief midwinter* holiday itself.
(*Not currently available in the southern hemisphere.)
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I love this so much. Almost irrationally.
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I love this so much. Almost irrationally.
Progress after 7 bedtimes: 173/445pp
A slow reader (internalised voice artists (fiction), Radio 4 announcer (non-fiction)), last night was particularly tense as 3 Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus massacred by Germanic tribes at the Teutoburg Pass.
Bit of a setback.
Augustus howling 💙📚💡
A slow reader (internalised voice artists (fiction), Radio 4 announcer (non-fiction)), last night was particularly tense as 3 Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus massacred by Germanic tribes at the Teutoburg Pass.
Bit of a setback.
Augustus howling 💙📚💡
Next off the shelf is🥁
Dynasty - The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar, by Tom Holland (2015). Picks up where Rubicon (2003) left off. Featuring Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero. Expect violence & scenes of a sexual nature. A 24 hour help line is available, blah, blah, blah...
💙📚💡
Dynasty - The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar, by Tom Holland (2015). Picks up where Rubicon (2003) left off. Featuring Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero. Expect violence & scenes of a sexual nature. A 24 hour help line is available, blah, blah, blah...
💙📚💡
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Progress after 7 bedtimes: 173/445pp
A slow reader (internalised voice artists (fiction), Radio 4 announcer (non-fiction)), last night was particularly tense as 3 Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus massacred by Germanic tribes at the Teutoburg Pass.
Bit of a setback.
Augustus howling 💙📚💡
A slow reader (internalised voice artists (fiction), Radio 4 announcer (non-fiction)), last night was particularly tense as 3 Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus massacred by Germanic tribes at the Teutoburg Pass.
Bit of a setback.
Augustus howling 💙📚💡
Well, let me tell you... I bought zero 'bargains' on Black Friday. Furthermore, I expect to purchase zero 'bargains' on Grey Saturday as well.
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Well, let me tell you... I bought zero 'bargains' on Black Friday. Furthermore, I expect to purchase zero 'bargains' on Grey Saturday as well.
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“Get out of my fucking seat.”
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
“Get out of my fucking seat.”
I knew it!
I said Simon Cowell was a jellyfish, but did you believe me? Oh no... you accused me of being on the little mushrooms again.
I said Simon Cowell was a jellyfish, but did you believe me? Oh no... you accused me of being on the little mushrooms again.
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I knew it!
I said Simon Cowell was a jellyfish, but did you believe me? Oh no... you accused me of being on the little mushrooms again.
I said Simon Cowell was a jellyfish, but did you believe me? Oh no... you accused me of being on the little mushrooms again.