Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026September 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 😁 010
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Shot 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. 040
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026One 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 😁 000
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026TFW 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 🤣 020
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Repeatedly 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 010
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026My 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. 020
Reposted by Rob VaughanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?" 468320896925
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Today 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 010
Reposted by Rob VaughanMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026And just three old men are responsible for 90% of the world’s problems.bbc.co.ukJust 104 shoplifters carried out thousands of offencesAll but three of 104 repeat shoplifters continued offending after they had been charged, the Met says. 331204283
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026This is a classic Father Ted scene: "small.... Far away...." 000
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Apparently 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 😁 010
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Really is the end of a loooong era. theaviationist.com/2026/06/03/e...theaviationist.comEnd of an Era: U.S. Marine Corps Celebrates AV-8B Harrier II SundownThe 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 000
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Car 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... 000
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Being able to run the 100m in under 13 secs (or at all 😂) 120
Reposted by Rob VaughanDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026A 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? 15975213
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I noticed this on my MacBook in Nov last year, so I just uninstalled Chrome, which did the trick 😁 010
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 04/05/2026This 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 110
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Just realised I should have uploaded multiple pics to show off the new carousel thingy 100
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026To celebrate the increase in picture upload resolution in Bluesky, here's a random pic off my phone 100
Reposted by Rob VaughanArmchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026 328219054262
Reposted by Rob VaughanValorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Happy National Library Week! 💙📚 95117893254
Reposted by Rob VaughanTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball 140145823490
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Woohoo. Apple has age verified me on my iPad because I've had an account for more than 18 years - that was painless! 021
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Hard to believe the Light Festival was a month ago 010
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Alexa+ 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. 000
Reposted by Rob VaughanTrev Ellis 🏴 🇪🇺 #YES @gingertrevtrev.bsky.social · 19/03/2026The tribes of Britain c. 540 in the time of Gildas. 811738414
Reposted by Rob VaughanBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/03/202697% 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. 23385159
Reposted by Rob Vaughan404 Media @404media.co · 14/03/2026An 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...404media.coCBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ MovementsAn 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… 7569309
Reposted by Rob VaughanRamin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/03/2026Another day, another stupid Excel chart. 142092458
Reposted by Rob Vaughanshardcore @shardcore.org · 12/03/2026i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke” 41188051542
Reposted by Rob VaughanDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Just 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? 2794213778
Reposted by Rob VaughanParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage... 1481775563
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Today is the 90th anniversary of the first flight of the Supermarine Spitfire. 😁 000
Reposted by Rob VaughanDavid Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 02/03/2026There'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. 250598
Reposted by Rob VaughanJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I have been denied entry to the SIS Building, Porton Down & GCHQ by the UK government. 2471990385
Reposted by Rob VaughanKercle @kercle1.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Matt 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 🤪 2419759
Reposted by Rob VaughanPetra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Since 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...rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 9194134
Reposted by Rob VaughanKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 15/02/2026I'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. 501770371
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Always 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. 150
Reposted by Rob VaughanBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month. 201195361
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I 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.comPancake lenses make fantastic point-and-shoot alternatives – if you’re OK with these 3 thingsA mirrorless camera with a pancake lens is becoming a popular alternative to the trendy point-and-shoot 100
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 19/01/2026The 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... 020
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026The news is just full-time depressing now. Here's a robin in my garden recently. 0344
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Posted 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... 000
Rob Vaughan @coffee-cat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026First 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 100