Reposted by Bob GoodayCodify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MLB UK expansion team just dropped 71398
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Sky Goddess has blessed us this Equinox morning with the first roof leak since we moved in. 120
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026For everyone west of Iceland, the September equinox happens today – so blessed equinox-day, American friends. For us in the UK, it occurs at 01:06 tomorrow so we need to wait a whole extra day for spooky season to officially begin. 000
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is a brilliant thread on why it's important to check company websites when you see big headlines. 0102
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Absolutely inhumane that the Orioles, last place in AL and cannot end with a winning season, are still not technically eliminated from playoff contention. Utterly devastated to wake up to a win against the Blue Jays this morning. 100
Reposted by Bob Gooday👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep 251821533
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Home renovation is spending £25 on some specific component every day until you die. 040
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I remember approximately one hundred years ago when Cowser made that catch, the Orioles were .500, and the world seemed bright and new. 000
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I do generally fear that, although the surface-level acceptance of neurodiversity is increasing, the increased corporatisation of the workplace in heritage and academia is pushing these people out. 030
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 17/08/2026One of the best score summary team name combinations out there. 010
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Very cloudy in Edinburgh but a few glimpses of the sun not long after maximum. Too dim for the slotted spoon but pretty impressed with the image of the chimneys using the binocular method. 050
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Blessed eclipse day! I was very lucky to see the 2017 eclipse from the mountains of central Idaho. Not looking quite so promising for Edinburgh this evening. 060
Reposted by Bob GoodayProspect Union @prospectunion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026There is a funding crisis in heritage. Our General Secretary on Times Radio as Prospect members at the Royal Museums Greenwich take their second day of strike action, including members at the Royal Observatory on the day of the solar eclipse. 042
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Took my four-month-old to an early morning screening. He loved it, although he thought leaving out the Polyphemus "I am no-one" gag really undermined the wittiness of the Homeric Odysseus. (they obviously turn the volume down and lights up for baby showings) 040
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Odyssey was very good. Really enjoyed first visit to baby cinema. Recommend it if you can borrow a baby for a few hours. 130
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Teaching magma mingling to a group of American geologists on Drumadoon point in the blazing sunshine. Geology is pretty neat. 0265
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I did not, in fact, take a day off from the NYT crossword. I can still stop any time I like, though. 110
Reposted by Bob GoodayClaire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 06/07/2026for the first time in almost a thousand years, the universe has called upon Norway to crush the English 842725337
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The whole thing is clearly ridiculous, but YouTube?! It's not as though 14-year-olds have ever wanted to learn to fix bikes, ice cakes, or play the guitar... 010
Reposted by Bob GoodayProspect Union @prospectunion.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Delegates from across our union at Prospect National Conference showing solidarity with colleagues in the heritage sector. Value the workers who bring heritage to life 💚 177
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Happy 300th birthday James Hutton!🎉🎂⛏️ Our NMS birthday party was complete with Arran granite trifle and unconformity cake. 1173
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Video of me looking for asteroids and finding a dead snail. ☄️🐚youtube.comDoes this rock show evidence of the meteorite that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs?YouTube video by NationalMuseumsScotland 110
Reposted by Bob GoodayChris @chrsphr.uk · 22/05/2026at least you can be as trans as you want on a hovercraft 2163
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Unless I'm mistaken, a bathroom with a symbol of a man on the door isn't automatically a 'single-sex service'. So providers/employers will have to make it explicit that their facilities are not for the use of trans people before even beginning to think about enforcement. 111
Reposted by Bob GoodayEuan @euan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026it’s still not illegal to just ignore trans exclusionary policies by the way 0456
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Thousands and thousands of cancelled flights is apparently economically Bad. Am I totally insane for seeing any possible positive side-effects of millions of tonnes of kerosene not being burned in the stratosphere? Am I an out-of-touch boomer for still talking about climate change?bbc.co.ukPeople urged not to cancel flights over fuel shortage fearsAirlines have cut 13,000 flights globally in May as jet fuel prices soar due to the conflict in the Middle East. 020
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 06/05/2026When discussing pregnancy/newborn vaccines we had a nurse say (defensively) "of course it's up to you and you can do your own research" and I wanted to explain that I really couldn't because I'm not a pharmacologist. 071
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Blessed Bealtainn all 🔥 We made it to summer – may it be a fruitful one. 010
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Not to be a naysayer, but this is very clearly many tiramisus next to each other.bbc.co.ukWorld's longest tiramisu record broken in LondonOne-hundred Italian chefs gathered at Chelsea Town Hall to break the world record. 020
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Sitting in departures knowing I have at least 45 minutes to have a slightly disappointing coffee and almond croissant while reading my book brings me a certain type of calm I never experience anywhere else. 020
Reposted by Bob GoodayOlaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Recreate your own Artemis splashdown with three Tunnocks teacakes and a Nespresso pod 201081240
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 02/04/2026We've build such a stupid clunky world for ourselves. 010
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I'm always pretty fucked the Monday after the clocks go forward. Tomorrow I return to work after three weeks of paternity leave during which time has been just a social construct, man. 020
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Starting to realise that until recently, my own AI-scepticism has invoked a certain smugness. That has gone, replaced with a deep forboding dread. 120
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 25/03/2026explaining to americans that they've destroyed the only habitable planet in the universe: ok imagine a trillion dollars...theguardian.comUS has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research findsUS, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says 022
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Wishing all my Northern Hemisphere friends light and rejuvenation as the sun crosses the equator this vernal equinox. We made it through the darkness! ☀️🌱 020
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Yes! Do it! Bore through the Great Glen Fault! It would be geologically fascinating! And geomechanically inadvisable.bbc.co.ukBridge or tunnel linking Mull and mainland to be consideredThe National Islands Plan calls for 120
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Really disappointed that the BGS identified this as a crinoid, and didn't tell the press "Oh yeah, that's a Biter. They increase in numbers during times of great peril." 060
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 18/02/2026This is sort of horrifying, but in the way that I know I will never ever end up in that situation because I have a fairly well-calibrated self-preservation instinct.bbc.co.ukCaver rescued after getting stuck in Highland cave systemAssynt Mountain Rescue Team said the uninjured caver was well equipped but needed help returning to the surface. 130
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 12/02/2026In which I spread the good word of peralkaline igneous petrology to the New World, and finally get an American news corporation to print fun facts about aenigmatite. 🥌edition.cnn.comWhy do all Olympic curling stones come from one small island off Scotland’s coast? | CNNEvery single curling stone in the Winter Olympics is crafted from a special granite found only on Ailsa Craig, a small uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland. 1122
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 06/02/2026My blog post on Ailsa Craig, curling stones, and the weird minerals that make this rock unique. 🥌nms.ac.ukThe Roaring Game: Scotland's curling stone island | National Museums ScotlandCurling is a sport native to Scotland, that can be traced back to medieval times. Today, the game involves two teams taking turns to slide heavy, polished 03412
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Really cool video on curling and curling stones that I provided some info for. 🥌youtube.comWhy Everyone's Wrong About CurlingYouTube video by Cleo Abram 2133
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Olympic curling has to be the sporting highlight of the Scottish geological calendar. 🥌 All the stones come from Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde. The distinctive black spots are (mostly) the very weird and rare amphibole arfvedsonite. #ThinSectionThursday 38320
Reposted by Bob GoodaySUPERTOHOREMIX @j-e-t.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Clickbait YouTuber Reaction Thumbnail starter pack. 719536
Reposted by Bob GoodayHugh Pumphrey @hughpumphrey.bsky.social · 03/02/2026One for my geology [ex-]colleagues. Left hand: shortbread made by a retired industrial chemist. Right hand: Millstone grit, probably from the Grassington grit or Upper Howgate Edge grit formation. The photographer (another geologist) was entertained by the similar appearance. 3191
