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Chris Rolland FRAS

@celtuk.eurosky.social
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Sepsis survivor/CKD/disabilities/Neurodiverse OU Student/STEM Ambassador taking Astronomy and Space (esp. meteorites) to the next generation of potential scientists. Tries to lighten stuff up where possible. Just.Look.Up.UK!

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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 3h
The catering department at the Oxford Churchill Hospital hits a new low: "Thai red curry with chicken style pieces". Be still my beating taste buds.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 3h
Packarding Bell!!
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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 6h
18.35 DIXONS OF DOCK GREEN
PC drama.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 20h
In other news, Trump's next Presidential decree is to lower the age of consent to 12, and for it to take effect retroactively in 1950. A move that will be very popular among some MAGA supporters and will save his and a lot of his friends’ collective arse's.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 21h
No one is using this word, but I will. This whole situation with Sally Rooney is censorship nothing more nothing less. What she's writing is not the cause of the offence, it is simply because of a political point of view she holds. That is wrong, irrespective of whether you agree with her or not.
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Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ITV News just described Russell Brand as 'alleged comedian'. Well done.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Hang on . . . "big , beautiful ocean" . . . Sounds like he's lining up the Atlantic Ocean for one of his hugely successful renaming announcements. I mean, where is Atlantica anyway?
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 14/10/2026
Have you looked at the night sky recently? It is ABSURD how many satellites there are, and it will get >1000× worse in our lifetimes. A few billionaires and state actors will ruin the night sky for the next few *centuries*. This ought to be a much, much bigger story than it is
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Look. If, at any time, you need help testing all the MMX merch coming your way, I'll be glad to lend a hand/head/body/fingers/brain/etc. Seriously. You look like you are overwhelmed and need help!
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 13/10/2026
📣 Launch announcement The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is set to launch on a H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center at 21:41 CEST on 19 October 2026 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪
Infographic explaining the MMX mission (part 1) in the style of a comic strip. At the top we see several logos: ESA, JAXA, NASA, DLR and CNES. Below there are three panels showing a timeline of the mission: October 2026 launch, August 2027 arrival at Mars, September 2027 arrival at Phobos. Two other panels show the mission observing Phobos from orbit and scouting for a landing site for the rover and a sample retrieval sites, and the release of the Idefix rover.Infographic explaining the MMX mission (part 2) in the style of a comic strip. Several panels show the mission collecting samples from Phobos, the return module separating from the exploration module, dropping a capsule over Australia and a scientist holding the samples. A last panel lists the scientific questions scientists hope to answer using the samples: 'Where did Mars's moons come from?', 'What can they tell us about habitability in the Solar System?', and 'How has Mars and its environment changed over time?'.
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Anybody who does this deserves the outcome
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
My typing sucks because I'm in hospital OK. Too many straps and tubes and crap.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
Some great presents. Especially the BASA Archives which should grace every space geek's coffee table.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
It's a Beigel not a Bagel.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
The Lord of the Ring: The Return of The King's Speech.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh dear Lord. I have just had an email from the NUS (National Union of Students - basically a closed shop Student Union in the UK) offering Google Gemini free for 12 months for every student in the UK. Goodbye Critical thinking and hello lazy arsed essays etc. This is a disastrous idea. 
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pour one out for Graham Chapman
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
The question is whether the Toon will have won the Premiership by then!?
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Dang must learn to read.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
I got the eclipse version just in time for Aug 12. It's very impressive but I'm curious about what you mean by cam and chip codes? Anyway here's how it handled the eclipse:
Image from Aug 12 Total Eclipse taken with Seestar S50 Pro Eclipse edition with solar filter attached.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
A neutrino walked into a bar but nobody noticed until it ordered a glass of Ice Cubes. 🧪 #NobelPrize
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Does it involved a locked room with the number 43 written on a whiteboard? #KeepyUppy
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Except when to admit it's wrong.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
The Noble prize for physical abuse to oneself in enduring crappy nights out in the open
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Hope you don't have to wait as long as I have to get seen for a full diagnosis.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Still tasty, I bet 
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Finally a clear night and even though I have Bortle 7 skies the upgraded Origin has done an impressive job. 🔭 🧪 Time for bed said Zebedee . . .
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
You better start that whip round in the pub 
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Makes me glad I'm Scottish! And it's nice to see that Question Time demonstrated its usual right wing bias by not only having Reform and the Tories but also the editor of the Spectator.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh that hashtag needs to be promoted more. It should be used every time a Republican says something dumb. And yes, the word "dumb" is superfluous in the previous sentence. #SchmidtForBrains
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
If you ever visit a Glasgow primary called St. Cadoc's please drop me a DM as I have done an online session with them for the past two years and they are just great and would go nuts for a visit from you. I've always said if I find myself heading to Scotland again I would drop in. Big ❤️ for them.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
The Origin is ready in the garden. Will see what the light pollution is like before I stick the nebula filter in. But although the sky view is limited I hope I will finally have some good skies.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Never even think about touching a woman full stop. You shouldn't even be considering that unless you are very good friends and even then you should check for permission. There is no such thing as a look that invites you. Or a gesture. If you think I am wrong then you were brought up badly.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Where the US leads . . .
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Actually it's really easy - it can be turned off for the entire organisation through a group policy. If you have you own O365just go for the classic version and all the AI slop is removed. This isn't hard for universities to achieve. Force students to think for themselves.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Quick someone go the somewhere in dumb-hick MAGAland and tell them it was all a British fake that we staged to see if Donald would take credit.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Odd. I appear to be blocked from seeing that image/page! Is there a source?
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Does it cover his love of Guinness as a drink? Because the white always settle on top of the black. #ElonIsARacist
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
No, woof, not getting crumbs as meez getting whole peece when yooz not looking.
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
And don't those boys who play with odd shaped balls have an anthem that is for a united Ireland? Well maybe the universities should have courses on reinventing wheels?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Maybe it is an anagram if you count the scrabble scores - oh wait the W and V are higher scores . . .
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
The problem this is the where they start makes me think they really don't know what they're doing. This is old school 
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So, just to be clear, Daniel Thomas was: 1- Carrying a knife contrary to section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 2- Used that knife to commit criminal damage (Criminal Damage act 1971) 3- likely engaged in the criminal offense of endangering Life at Sea (Merchant Shipping Act 1995)
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
My school had one of those, connected to a teletype with a punch tape R/W. Still remember entering the punch tape reader software via the front panel switches so we could install the carefully preserved 2" roll that was the BASIC interpreter!
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Chris Rolland FRAS @celtuk.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
And this is why we have written off Tangiers for next years eclipse
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