Simon
@staustellsimon.bsky.social
Simon in St Austell • UK0051 & UK00C6 • Solar/storage/EV an all that eco stuff • planes/trains/cars/computers • RPi addict • Lover of Home Assistant • Slowly getting into Meshtastic • Network Engineer by trade
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Mid December, happily walking about outside in shorts and a t shirt and exporting all my solar generation, not sure this is a good thing!
December 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Mid December, happily walking about outside in shorts and a t shirt and exporting all my solar generation, not sure this is a good thing!
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Sometime between today & 12th December all parts of the UK reach their earliest sunset of the yr to nearest minute
From that point though the shortest day isn't until the 21st & mornings continue to get darker until around the turn of the yr, evening's won't get any darker 🕺
From that point though the shortest day isn't until the 21st & mornings continue to get darker until around the turn of the yr, evening's won't get any darker 🕺
December 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Sometime between today & 12th December all parts of the UK reach their earliest sunset of the yr to nearest minute
From that point though the shortest day isn't until the 21st & mornings continue to get darker until around the turn of the yr, evening's won't get any darker 🕺
From that point though the shortest day isn't until the 21st & mornings continue to get darker until around the turn of the yr, evening's won't get any darker 🕺
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
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Nearly there ladies and gents
Because of the Earth's axial tilt/ elliptical orbit, the sun will only set earlier by ~3 more mins in the evening before starting to get later again from ~mid month onwards
Despite the shortest day being 21st and latest sunrise occurring early Jan
Because of the Earth's axial tilt/ elliptical orbit, the sun will only set earlier by ~3 more mins in the evening before starting to get later again from ~mid month onwards
Despite the shortest day being 21st and latest sunrise occurring early Jan
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Nearly there ladies and gents
Because of the Earth's axial tilt/ elliptical orbit, the sun will only set earlier by ~3 more mins in the evening before starting to get later again from ~mid month onwards
Despite the shortest day being 21st and latest sunrise occurring early Jan
Because of the Earth's axial tilt/ elliptical orbit, the sun will only set earlier by ~3 more mins in the evening before starting to get later again from ~mid month onwards
Despite the shortest day being 21st and latest sunrise occurring early Jan
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Due to a quirk of the Earth's orbit (not quite circular), sunset times vary very little in December.
In the northern hemisphere, it will become slightly sooner through to 7th, then change very little through 18th, before starting to shift later (very slowly at first).
Due to a quirk of the Earth's orbit (not quite circular), sunset times vary very little in December.
In the northern hemisphere, it will become slightly sooner through to 7th, then change very little through 18th, before starting to shift later (very slowly at first).
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Due to a quirk of the Earth's orbit (not quite circular), sunset times vary very little in December.
In the northern hemisphere, it will become slightly sooner through to 7th, then change very little through 18th, before starting to shift later (very slowly at first).
Due to a quirk of the Earth's orbit (not quite circular), sunset times vary very little in December.
In the northern hemisphere, it will become slightly sooner through to 7th, then change very little through 18th, before starting to shift later (very slowly at first).
Great to see some consequences here, just need more of it!
#NEWS: A woman has been ordered to pay more than £700 in fines and court costs after dumping nine full rubbish bags by a gate near #StAustell.
🔗 www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news...
🔗 www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news...
Woman ordered to pay more than £700 in fines and costs after nine bags of rubbish dumped by gate
Woman ordered to pay more than £700 in fines and costs after nine bags of rubbish dumped by gate
www.cornwall.gov.uk
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Great to see some consequences here, just need more of it!
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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
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It is just incredible that the people who always go on about immigration and muslims and sharia law in Britain are the first to promote British immigration into a muslim country with sharia law.
Fury as Nigel Farage ally backs project to get young Brits to move to Dubai
Fury as Nigel Farage ally backs project to get young Brits to move to Dubai
Charlie Mullins has been accused of giving up on Britain after saying he is supporting a project encouraging young people to move to Dubai
www.mirror.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It is just incredible that the people who always go on about immigration and muslims and sharia law in Britain are the first to promote British immigration into a muslim country with sharia law.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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For lots of reasons, I don’t like LLMs and I don’t use them, but I know there are serious people working on ways to meaningfully incorporate them into education and I don’t doubt there are ways to do that productively. It’s probably obvious that “Have the LLM tell you the answer” isn’t one of them.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
For lots of reasons, I don’t like LLMs and I don’t use them, but I know there are serious people working on ways to meaningfully incorporate them into education and I don’t doubt there are ways to do that productively. It’s probably obvious that “Have the LLM tell you the answer” isn’t one of them.
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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There is no congruent way to look at generative AI and think “this is the future.” The most well known fact about it is that it messes up all the time, the next being that it loses lots of money.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
There is no congruent way to look at generative AI and think “this is the future.” The most well known fact about it is that it messes up all the time, the next being that it loses lots of money.
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It’s amazing how no chancellor before has thought to crack down on benefit fraud. Just incredible. We truly are ruled by the finest minds.
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It’s amazing how no chancellor before has thought to crack down on benefit fraud. Just incredible. We truly are ruled by the finest minds.
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The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
@uksnowmap.com Ok, getting even heavier #uksnow in PL25 4/10
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
@uksnowmap.com Ok, getting even heavier #uksnow in PL25 4/10
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Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on uksnowmap.com ❄️
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on uksnowmap.com ❄️
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uksnowmap.com looking good this morning! Send your #uksnow reports if it’s snowing where you are!
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
uksnowmap.com looking good this morning! Send your #uksnow reports if it’s snowing where you are!
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As a man, nothing will turn you into a radical feminist faster than the first time you're shown the twitter mentions and DM requests of literally any woman on the internet.
We don't need a Joe Rogan of the left. We need Bryan to see what his sister's LinkedIn Message Requests folder looks like.
We don't need a Joe Rogan of the left. We need Bryan to see what his sister's LinkedIn Message Requests folder looks like.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
As a man, nothing will turn you into a radical feminist faster than the first time you're shown the twitter mentions and DM requests of literally any woman on the internet.
We don't need a Joe Rogan of the left. We need Bryan to see what his sister's LinkedIn Message Requests folder looks like.
We don't need a Joe Rogan of the left. We need Bryan to see what his sister's LinkedIn Message Requests folder looks like.
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Maybe don’t put it at the top of every search result then?
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Maybe don’t put it at the top of every search result then?
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Only 3 more Mondays until the nights start drawing out #funfact
a sunset over the ocean with a palm tree in the foreground and the words monday vibes
ALT: a sunset over the ocean with a palm tree in the foreground and the words monday vibes
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Only 3 more Mondays until the nights start drawing out #funfact