Duncan Waldron
@ozalba.bsky.social
Planetarium astronomer • Feckless dillettante • Scot-ish • Signatory to the Subject-Verb Agreement • Book: http://blurb.com/b/2211254-from… • Skinflint, First Class • Eukaryote • Slightly above just below average
A fine-looking bum-rest, one that I reckon the late Tim Stead would have appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
A fine-looking bum-rest, one that I reckon the late Tim Stead would have appreciated.
Oh, hang on a minute - the penny's just dropped: it's an AI image. The mosaic version of too many AI fingers.
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Oh, hang on a minute - the penny's just dropped: it's an AI image. The mosaic version of too many AI fingers.
Knit one, purl one, drop two...
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Knit one, purl one, drop two...
Surprises me not.
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Surprises me not.
*Resists temptation to download and go to work on it* 😆
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
*Resists temptation to download and go to work on it* 😆
Yer not wrong. But then that's not my style.
Talking of clatter though: you should have heard the noise when I dropped one on the cobblestones near Edinburgh Castle, one quiet night. No damage, of course, but I didn't check the stones 😆
Talking of clatter though: you should have heard the noise when I dropped one on the cobblestones near Edinburgh Castle, one quiet night. No damage, of course, but I didn't check the stones 😆
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Yer not wrong. But then that's not my style.
Talking of clatter though: you should have heard the noise when I dropped one on the cobblestones near Edinburgh Castle, one quiet night. No damage, of course, but I didn't check the stones 😆
Talking of clatter though: you should have heard the noise when I dropped one on the cobblestones near Edinburgh Castle, one quiet night. No damage, of course, but I didn't check the stones 😆
Never mind. Here's one of the best.
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Never mind. Here's one of the best.
I've always thought of it as ka-thwacket. Very satisfying.
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I've always thought of it as ka-thwacket. Very satisfying.
I don't like the look of half of them. But then again I don't like the look of all of Musk.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I don't like the look of half of them. But then again I don't like the look of all of Musk.
Whichever it is, they're still a total waste of DNA.
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Whichever it is, they're still a total waste of DNA.
S'OK, I was just running with your jokey response.
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
S'OK, I was just running with your jokey response.
Hang on... is that related to Marvin, the paranoid android...?
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Hang on... is that related to Marvin, the paranoid android...?
Ha! I know a trick when I see one: the orientation is different. You used your iphone, didn't you?
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Ha! I know a trick when I see one: the orientation is different. You used your iphone, didn't you?
Oh, you lucky thing. I would if I could.
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Oh, you lucky thing. I would if I could.
Ever so slightly. Might have been a fingerprint on the lens.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Ever so slightly. Might have been a fingerprint on the lens.
I was in the driver's seat when I took this self-portrait. I'll let the jury decide 🤪
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I was in the driver's seat when I took this self-portrait. I'll let the jury decide 🤪
Did Sharon Begley cover the first one? bsky.app/profile/brit...
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Did Sharon Begley cover the first one? bsky.app/profile/brit...