Andrew G0MBL
@plantfamily.net
Retired IT technician, radio amateur (mainly FT8 & other digital modes) and a late convert to cruising (ships, not the other kind!). I live in Ramsgate, UK.
Intensely introvert. Loathe sarcasm and 'banter'.
I'm Socialist, Atheist and Woke.
Intensely introvert. Loathe sarcasm and 'banter'.
I'm Socialist, Atheist and Woke.
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Andrew G0MBL
@plantfamily.net
· 15d
So true, but can be misunderstood 😓
This is my first New Year since retirement, and it's a very strange feeling not to be back to work today
January 5, 2026 at 10:48 AM
This is my first New Year since retirement, and it's a very strange feeling not to be back to work today
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I wonder what part of lower bills, tax billionaires they're panicking about most?
Cry harder.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Cry harder.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I wonder what part of lower bills, tax billionaires they're panicking about most?
Cry harder.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Cry harder.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
December 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
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"The question is whether political leaders are brave enough to speak the truth?
Immigration is good for this country and that we have a clear, moral responsibility to protect those failed by global injustice and political neglect."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Immigration is good for this country and that we have a clear, moral responsibility to protect those failed by global injustice and political neglect."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Calais exposes our moral failure on migration. We can and...
A visit to the French town’s makeshift migrant encampments made it clear that we need a new vision for the new year
observer.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"The question is whether political leaders are brave enough to speak the truth?
Immigration is good for this country and that we have a clear, moral responsibility to protect those failed by global injustice and political neglect."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Immigration is good for this country and that we have a clear, moral responsibility to protect those failed by global injustice and political neglect."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Finally we have a political party willing to challange the stagnation of the last 46 years brought on by relying on the 'market' to know best and 'trickle down economics' both of which made the rich fabulously richer and the other 97٪ poorer!
No wonder Starmer's shower are scared!
No wonder Starmer's shower are scared!
If Labour were not worried about @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the increasing Green surge, it would be studiously ignoring them.
The fact that they are even attacking him on Christmas Day tells you they are getting desperate.
Lab are being replaced by Grn.
The fact that they are even attacking him on Christmas Day tells you they are getting desperate.
Lab are being replaced by Grn.
A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts.
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
December 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Finally we have a political party willing to challange the stagnation of the last 46 years brought on by relying on the 'market' to know best and 'trickle down economics' both of which made the rich fabulously richer and the other 97٪ poorer!
No wonder Starmer's shower are scared!
No wonder Starmer's shower are scared!
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Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
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A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts.
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
Exclusive: Cabinet Minister Brands Zack Polanski A 'Con Artist' In Outspoken Attack
Steve Reed also suggested the Green Party leader is immoral.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts.
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
Merry Christmas to all! I always have this Annie Lennox album on the CD player every Christmas day open.spotify.com/album/65VW9d...
A Christmas Cornucopia
open.spotify.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Merry Christmas to all! I always have this Annie Lennox album on the CD player every Christmas day open.spotify.com/album/65VW9d...
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Not like the Telegraph to mis-inform?
(Apart from they do it all the time)
(Apart from they do it all the time)
The Telegraph highlighting - yet missing - two vital points here.
1) We're not calling for £476m to be spent. It already is - this is about diverting it to actually helping.
2) Why "cruelty" in question? The £476m we're spending is part of an operation tear gassing babies.
1) We're not calling for £476m to be spent. It already is - this is about diverting it to actually helping.
2) Why "cruelty" in question? The £476m we're spending is part of an operation tear gassing babies.
December 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Not like the Telegraph to mis-inform?
(Apart from they do it all the time)
(Apart from they do it all the time)
Blue sky seems to be struggling today .
December 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Blue sky seems to be struggling today .
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Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Are WWV and WWVB ok?
Ouch! The most accurate standard of time in the USA may have gone down!
Yup, a bunch of atomic clocks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado seem to have lost power.
(1/n)
Yup, a bunch of atomic clocks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado seem to have lost power.
(1/n)
![Dear colleagues,
In short, the atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage. One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference. At time of writing the Boulder servers are still available due a standby power generator, but I will attempt to disable them to avoid disseminating incorrect time.
The affected servers are:
time-a-b.nist.gov
time-b-b.nist.gov
time-c-b.nist.gov
time-d-b.nist.gov
time-e-b.nist.gov
ntp-b.nist.gov (authenticated NTP)
No time to repair estimate is available until we regain staff access and
power. Efforts are currently focused on obtaining an alternate source of
power so the hydrogen maser clocks survive beyond their battery backups.
More details follow.
Due to prolonged high wind gusts there have been a combination of utility power line damage and preemptive utility shutdowns (in the interest of wildfire prevention) in the Boulder, CO area. NIST's campus lost utility power Wednesday (Dec. 17 2025) around 22:23 UTC. At time of writing utility power is still off to the campus. Facility operators anticipated needing to shutdown the heat-exchange infrastructure providing air cooling to many parts of the building, including some internal networking closets. [....]
At initial power loss, there was no immediate impact to the NIST atomic
time scale or distribution services because the projects are afforded
standby power generators. However, we now have strong evidence one of the crucial generators has failed. In the downstream path is the primary signal distribution chain, including to the Boulder Internet Time Service. Another campus building houses additional clocks backed up by a different power generator; if these survive it will allow us to re-align the primary time scale when site stability returns without making use of external clocks or reference signals.
Best wishes,
-Jeff Sherman](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fb5fjz7jxmbf3alhwh44ookd/bafkreicfacdabxxqyw77ujiuv2u6vow4vozmlmpgaeuemmxr422posq2ey@jpeg)
December 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Are WWV and WWVB ok?
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This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’.
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’.
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And impossible not to do the accent! 🙂
December 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
And impossible not to do the accent! 🙂
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I nominate “do more with less” as one of the most damaging corporate strategies in history.
Of course that’s not to say we should never seek to optimize, but simply restricting resources without considering what made a team or product successful is a recipe for disaster.
Of course that’s not to say we should never seek to optimize, but simply restricting resources without considering what made a team or product successful is a recipe for disaster.
December 14, 2024 at 1:30 PM
I nominate “do more with less” as one of the most damaging corporate strategies in history.
Of course that’s not to say we should never seek to optimize, but simply restricting resources without considering what made a team or product successful is a recipe for disaster.
Of course that’s not to say we should never seek to optimize, but simply restricting resources without considering what made a team or product successful is a recipe for disaster.
OMG I'm in a Tom Waits mood this afternoon...
youtu.be/7bpZjkjo3Tw?...
youtu.be/7bpZjkjo3Tw?...
Tom Waits - "Grapefruit Moon"
YouTube video by Tom Waits
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
OMG I'm in a Tom Waits mood this afternoon...
youtu.be/7bpZjkjo3Tw?...
youtu.be/7bpZjkjo3Tw?...
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Thanks to all who have reposted this thread to help get the word out. The selling of these books "as new" on Amazon is making it more difficult for Unbound authors to rebuild what we lost and move on.
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Thanks to all who have reposted this thread to help get the word out. The selling of these books "as new" on Amazon is making it more difficult for Unbound authors to rebuild what we lost and move on.
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Clothing Bans and Logic
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Clothing Bans and Logic
Walking along the river stour in Canterbury this morning and saw this kingfisher. Best photo I could get on my phone!
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Walking along the river stour in Canterbury this morning and saw this kingfisher. Best photo I could get on my phone!
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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n... great news and an intriguing story about a Scots musical genius
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n... great news and an intriguing story about a Scots musical genius
What's going on near Pegwell in Ramsgate - lost count of the number of police cars with blue lights going up and down our road in the last half hour 🤔
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What's going on near Pegwell in Ramsgate - lost count of the number of police cars with blue lights going up and down our road in the last half hour 🤔
Suddenly seeing a lot of new #hamradio stations from Belarus on 6m this evening (= new grid squares 👍). Has there been some recent change to licence conditions there I wonder 🤔
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Suddenly seeing a lot of new #hamradio stations from Belarus on 6m this evening (= new grid squares 👍). Has there been some recent change to licence conditions there I wonder 🤔
My ticket booked!
These will go quickly - if you can join me on 3rd Dec in London, then grab a free ticket quickly.
🚀 In-person tickets now open: From Mars with Love - 50 years of exploring the Red Planet 🌌
🎟️ gres.hm/mars-love
Join Prof @chrislintott.bsky.social to uncover how #Mars evolved from barren desert to a world that may once have hosted life...
@oxfordphysics.bsky.social
#astronomy
🎟️ gres.hm/mars-love
Join Prof @chrislintott.bsky.social to uncover how #Mars evolved from barren desert to a world that may once have hosted life...
@oxfordphysics.bsky.social
#astronomy
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My ticket booked!
Well I 'retired' 5 weeks ago. It was always the plan that I'd be available for cover for medical/annual leave affecting the team, but I didn't expect to be back quite so soon😀. In for 5 days: I don't mind - it's nice to see colleagues again and a bit extra money earned!
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Well I 'retired' 5 weeks ago. It was always the plan that I'd be available for cover for medical/annual leave affecting the team, but I didn't expect to be back quite so soon😀. In for 5 days: I don't mind - it's nice to see colleagues again and a bit extra money earned!