drnoble

BellaCaledonia, 12 days ago to random

Nuclear War, Scotland and the General Election
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/06/03/nuclear-war-scotland-and-the-general-election/

simonvarwell, 22 days ago to random Esperanto

It’s been a busy week, ending thankfully with an afternoon off enabling a wee wander round the city centre to get a few things. We moved house a month ago to the edge of town so it was nice to be in the centre for the first time since then. In a way I suspect I’ll enjoy the city centre more because I’ll plan ahead and make the most of it: visiting the spice shop, off-licence etc.

Now sitting in the garden listening to music, enjoying a beer (Aldi, sadly) and mulling over the General Election.

drnoble, 22 days ago to random

#TFIFriday!
Out of office on 👋 … and relax.

eclectech, 30 days ago to photography

Took the 360 camera out for the first time this year. Love a tiny planet sphere.

#360degree #photography #Scotland #sphere #waterfall

LordWoolamaloo, 1 month ago to random

Massive traffic tailbacks on walk to work, arrogant, dangerous drivers deciding this makes it okay to charge through a green man crossing 3 cars scattering multiple pedestrian), or drive up one way roads illegally. Grrr
Wtf is it with entitled, dangerous drivers?

darkedinburgh, 1 month ago to random

A little quiz for a sunny Friday. Where - exactly - did I take this from? It's quite a unique view...

simon_brooke, 1 month ago to random

I have spent most of the day fixing the electrics on my tractor. They are now fixed, and, in fact, significantly better than they ever have been – even a real fuse box.

Having fixed it, I hauled one log out of the wood and ran it out of diesel.

Bother.

simonvarwell, 1 month ago to random Esperanto

The joys of a rail replacement bus, and thus the loss of three and a bit hours of work time, for the final leg of my journey. Ah well, I may as well kick back and share some photos of the last few days…

simonvarwell, 1 month ago to random Esperanto

Ah the joys of Sunday train travel. I’m in West Yorkshire (photos later) heading home today, and there are two obstacles. One was solvable - a lift to an adjacent station to start my journey there - and the other is my York to Inverness LNER train terminating in Edinburgh due to repair schedules. There are replacement buses, but it loses me three hours’ work time (and also surely means the Monday morning LNER service to London will also be a bus as far as Edinburgh).

Funwithphotos, 2 months ago to random

King Charles gives himself a whopping pay rise from £86.3mn last year and to £124.8mn in 2025-26
The Crown Estate, which controls the monarchy’s legacy portfolio of assets, is set to earn more than £8bn up to 2031 from a boom in revenues from offshore wind projects. This is because since 1964 the estate owns the seabed up to 12 nautical miles from Britain’s coast. This is more money being stolen from the Scottish people! #NotMyKing #independence #scottishindependence #youyesyet

drnoble, 2 months ago to random

Broadband has gone down, and it’s not currently raining, so that seems like a good reason to go for a walk

drnoble, 2 months ago to random

I’d question whether SE England should be highlighted on either of these maps https://sfba.social/@skykiss/110248830589419690

jon, 2 months ago to random

I’ve been working on this on and off for months now, but I think my research listing the world's #EiffelTowers is for the moment complete

467 towers in my list (of which status unknown 31, and destroyed or never built 42)

Of the rest, 268 are to be found in Google Street View, 126 are not

And of the towers still likely standing today, 358 are replicas, 25 resemblances, 11 derivatives

Many but not all mapped here https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/eiffel-towers-derivatives-and-replicas_1006050#4/52.11/16.13

Next: complete the map 🙂

timrichards, 2 months ago to tv

IMO, streaming services should be banned from ending a series with a cliffhanger. We finally got around to watching Severance, two years after it first aired, and it ends with a bloody cliffhanger!

Very annoying, after you put in all that time – you feel like you've been cheated. There's still months to the second season release, and who's to say that won't also end with a cliffhanger? And there's always a danger of a cliffhanger show getting cancelled without a conclusion.

Rather than making me keen to continue, it's more likely to make me drop the series (which I did with Umbrella Academy and The Great after their first seasons ended with cliffhangers). Stop treating my time as unimportant, TV creators.

#TV

25kV, 2 months ago to Synology

Here's another #synology #photos sharing test - this time using the "share" icon. Disappointingly, this seems to upload an image rather than link to source

davidho, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

What if there was a way to look up sewage spills near you? You can in England.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/mar/27/englands-sewage-crisis-how-polluted-is-your-local-river-and-which-regions-are-worst-hit

simonvarwell, 2 months ago to random Esperanto

Smoked tofu in a sticky barbecue sauce tonight. Quite pleased with the sauce (though so much sugar…) and the tofu was perfect.

drnoble, 2 months ago to photography

Snow Capped Cairngorms

I’d say the snow line is about 800-900m. Not spring yet, but the sun feels warm and the birds are singing loudly.

#landscape #photography #CairngormNationalPark #scotland #snow

simonvarwell, 3 months ago to random Esperanto

A long time ago on a social media platform far, far away (well, October 2020 on Twitter) I began a chronological watch-through of the Star Wars canon. I am barely on Birdville now, so have moved the thread here.

Below is a link to a pdf with a very crude copy & paste job of my entire thread so far, so you can go back to the beginning and read the whole story. I will pick up the thread again below this tweet.

Happy reading, and may the force live long and shiny.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9nmjj0sd7jth1kq4e94q9/Star-Wars-tweets.pdf?rlkey=vyndd40d23y05ph7ng83dwpa3&dl=0