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Rob Vaughan

@coffee-cat.bsky.social
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An engineer in Bristol, UK. I like cats and coffee That's plenty enough info for a search engine Profile pic really is me insta/threads=@coffeecat_photo @coffeecatdotorg@mastodonapp.uk Signal: TLMJLQDYBN.72 (X=@coffeecatdotorg) - out of use, obv...

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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
September Wednesdays are weird. One minute you're a fresh faced graduate starting out on a career, the next minute you've passed 39 years' service and the new grad intake looks rather young. Lucky that this gig is still a lot of fun after all this time 😁
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Denmark
View of shop front in Meat Packing district of Copenhagen called Butchers and Bicycles
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Shot the eclipse. Not as sharp a pic as I managed with the smaller partial eclipse last year tho. Should have used my old manual focus 1970s Canon 300mm f/4 but its front element is HUGE compared to my 46mm filters.
Picture of the partial solar eclipse taken in SW England on 12th Aug 2026. Used stack of ND8, ND1000 and circular polariser filters, held on camera with cardboard and sellotape. Olympus O-MD E-M10ii, 286mm, f22, 1/1600, ISO 200
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
One day last week I found myself standing at Hannover station, because Deutsche Bahn had cancelled our booked train. We were not expecting to even go through here, let alone get off. But we had to replan on different trains to get from A to B. Fun times 😁
View of railway tracks, overhead cable etc looking Ng off the end of a platform at Hannover station in Germany.
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
TFW you get home from 2 weeks Interrailing after frequently complaining that you have to empty your (borrowed) rucksack to find stuff at the bottom... and discover it has a zip to open a flap at the bottom 🤣
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Repeatedly telling "those stories" at work, which always start with "...when I first worked here..." Eg. People smoked at their desks, we all had to book a slot on shared mainframe terminals, went to the pub Friday lunchtimes, yada yada
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My employer was working on two competing programs. My small specialist team had to literally send ourselves an RFI to use info from one program on the other one, which took about 2 months after it had gone there and back through all the higher levels of companies we were subcontracted to.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Today I bought an Interrail pass. Last time I did that was 1991. I wonder if train travel on the continent will seem much different... Sadly no overnight sleeper trains this time
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And just three old men are responsible for 90% of the world’s problems.
bbc.co.uk
Just 104 shoplifters carried out thousands of offences
All but three of 104 repeat shoplifters continued offending after they had been charged, the Met says.
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is a classic Father Ted scene: "small.... Far away...."
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Apparently the latest Apple Intelligence models won't run on anything less than an M3 with 12GB RAM. So that's me safe from that threat 😁
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Really is the end of a loooong era. theaviationist.com/2026/06/03/e...
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End of an Era: U.S. Marine Corps Celebrates AV-8B Harrier II Sundown
The U.S. Marine Corps honored the legacy of the AV-8B Harrier II and the Marines who served with it in a ‘Sundown Ceremony’ at MCAS Cherry Point, home to
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Car Service+MoT today. So I dropped it off and came into work by bus. Services are really good if you commute from nowhere near where I live😂 It was a nicer journey than yesterday's tropical cycle ride...
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Being able to run the 100m in under 13 secs (or at all 😂)
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I noticed this on my MacBook in Nov last year, so I just uninstalled Chrome, which did the trick 😁
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This is a particularly stupid headline. Imagine the scene - yes, Manchester has taken a couple of tactical nukes so it's gone, NHS has collapsed, food supply is gone. Oh BTW you might get a smaller pension rise next year
I paper front page 4th March 2026, "State pension triple lock under threat if UK goes to war with Putin" headline
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Just realised I should have uploaded multiple pics to show off the new carousel thingy
Sun backlit flowers at NT Tyntesfield Inside a greenhouse at NT Tyntesfield Row of trees in late afternoon sun, blue sky at NT Tyntesfield Big pot with flowers in it
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
To celebrate the increase in picture upload resolution in Bluesky, here's a random pic off my phone
View of the Everyman Cinema in Whiteladies Road in Bristol UK. Blue sky in background
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Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"
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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Happy National Library Week! 💙📚
Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball
Headline: 
Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Woohoo. Apple has age verified me on my iPad because I've had an account for more than 18 years - that was painless!
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Hard to believe the Light Festival was a month ago
An illuminated neon sign on College Green in Bristol says "Bristol is always a good idea" with illuminated model hot air balloons visible in the background. It's nighttime so mostly dark
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Chat Control thing - wow! Close tho...
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Alexa+ is free for Prime subscribers=yay! But it'll remember loads of personal info like your Mum's birthday=boo! It Doesn't work on older hardware=phew! TBF, our Alexas are powered off most of the time.
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Trev Ellis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 #YES @gingertrevtrev.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The tribes of Britain c. 540 in the time of Gildas.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
97% of Britons work jobs which force them to pay all the tax they should. 3% of Britons who get 50% of the money can choose to dodge almost all the tax if they want. That 3% of tax dodging wankers is who Reform work for.
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/03/2026
An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools. www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements
An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar…
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/03/2026
Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
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shardcore @shardcore.org · 12/03/2026
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
nigel farage tweet:

The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes.
This is the definition of woke.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Today is the 90th anniversary of the first flight of the Supermarine Spitfire. 😁
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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
There's a lot of mean-spiritedness about people who have gone to live in Dubai. We need to help, and ensure they have secure accommodation in the UK for 91 days of the next tax year.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I have been denied entry to the SIS Building, Porton Down & GCHQ by the UK government.
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Kercle @kercle1.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Matt Goodwin wants all white women to have as many babies as possible but Farage will only allow two of them to thrive, because he wants cheaper beer. I don't think they've thought this through 🤪
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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Since a handful of hate filled people protested outside RNLI HQ yesterday because they're angry that crews don't discriminate in their rescues and work to save all lives at sea you might want to show your support with a one off or regular donation. rnli.org/pages/ig/new...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 15/02/2026
I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Always impressed by OM Systems in-body image stabilisation. This shot was 1.3secs handheld, standing on the Clifton Suspension Bridge & I could strongly feel the bridge moving under me due to passing cars. Pic looks very sharp.
Dusk view of traffic and light trails on the Portway, Bristol. Looking down from Clifton Suspension Bridge. 1.3 second exposure, shot with OM5ii.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.
Mnemonic
 
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November.
Unless a leap year is its fate,
February hath twenty-eight.
All the rest hath three days more,
excepting January,
which hath six thousand,
one hundred and eighty-four.


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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I was shooting a Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 pancake lens on an Olympus E-PM2 in 2014. I was a decade ahead of the curve! My 20mm now mostly lives on an E-PL8, and it's fantastic. Most definitely "pocketable" www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/lens...
digitalcameraworld.com
Pancake lenses make fantastic point-and-shoot alternatives – if you’re OK with these 3 things
A mirrorless camera with a pancake lens is becoming a popular alternative to the trendy point-and-shoot
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The madness in the World this morning is getting so pervasive, you can't even easily avoid it by just having a few blocked words. Time to get off social media for a while...
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The news is just full-time depressing now. Here's a robin in my garden recently.
A robin perched in a branch in the sunshine
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Two Men on a Bench, bronze sculpture from 1995 by Penny Giles. Sited in Cabot Square, Canary Wharf London. Woman nearby is photographing it. Sun is low in the sky in background - kind've "contre jour"
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Posted a pic on Instagram recently. It's been viewed by zero accounts who don't follow me, compared to nearer 50/50 in the past. I guess due to the death of hashtags. Oh well - trying out the "foto" app instead. Meta stuff is all going downhill. Shame I can't get my contacts off of WhatsApp...
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Brilliant
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Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
First day back at work today. Going pretty well. But on our internal "social media" network the chess playing pigeons are really out in force. Obviously I can just ignore it and get on, but I made the mistake of commenting on a thread before Xmas so I'm getting frequent Teams notifications
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