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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Initial thought on looking through the first post and seeing the title of the lecture - "That looks really interesting, I wonder if it'll be available online?" Then I scrolled down and saw this follow-up post. Yay!

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

(I had a quick look at Lidar stuff on the NLS maps site - the Queen's Sconce looks particularly striking! Also, I discovered a fancy new 'CVAT' rendering mode - 'Combined Visualisation for Archaeological Topography', apparently, which reveals all sorts of details...) maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 11/10/2026

#FotoVorschlag: "Heiter bis wolkig" / "Fair to partly cloudy" #silentSunday

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's flipping gorgeous, that is.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These are awesome - and if prints on things were to ever become available, I'd absolutely buy a tardigrade mug...

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 07/10/2026

If you're thinking - wasn't #bienstag yesterday? Well, it's #waspWednesday and this clearly isn't a photo of a bumblebee, it's a photo of a really tiny wasp perched on a petal at top. The bee's just there for scale. #Derbyshire, October 2026. #insects #bees #wasps #macrophotography

Close-up of a red and purple fuchsia flower hanging downwards, with a blonde, fluffy bumblebee burying its head in the purple bell of the flower, forelegs grasping it tightly, rear legs with tightly packed masses of yellow pollen. On one of the splayed-out red petals at top, a tiny bronze wasp sits in the autumnal sunshine.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tardigrades are such amazing, resilient little creatures - and I find it both impressive and a little suspicious that they keep surviving planetary extinction events. I suggest we all be nice to the tardigrades, just in case they're tempted to cause another one...

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was just reading about shark teeth (and their constant replacement!) and got distracted by the tooth-like denticles covering their skin ... perhaps human swimmers might appreciate such a side effect?

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fireplace just needs Space Hopper eyes and antennae and it will be PERFECT.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 30/09/2026

For #waspWednesday - from August, an adorable Isodontia elegans, elegant grass-carrying wasp at #Seattle's #waspHeaven in #VolunteerPark, with her (or one of her sisters) building a nest for her babies with the dried grass, between the bricks of the water tower... #insects #wasps #macrophotography

Slender, brown-yellow wasp with translucent brown wings, on unfurling yellow-green leaves - gleaming black eyes looking towards the camera, long segmented antennae downwards and together.

Similar wasp, from the side and rear showing thread-like waist and striped yellow-red-black teardrop-shaped abdomen, packing strands of pale dry grass into a gap between dark bricks.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 29/09/2026

For #FotoVorschlag "Uhren" / "Clocks / Timepieces" - shop window in #SanFrancisco, July 2014. #clocks #shops #streetPhotography

Close-up of a wide selection of quartz wall-clocks seen through a shop window, hanging loosely packed together from a grid of thick metal wire. All showing roughly the same time on their hands - ten past ten.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These are lovely! And I'm definitely the worried-looking elephantine one at lower right...

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 28/09/2026

Some autumnal #Derbyshire #butterflies for #macroMonday, from about a week ago. Vanessa atalanta, the Red Admiral, and possibly a male Celastrina argiolus, the Holly Blue? #insects #macrophotography #naturePhotography

Butterfly with wings outstretched, black-brown with red and white patterning around the edges - head, hairy body and abdomen aligned, complex eyes facing forwards, stripy white-and-black antennae leaning forwards - as it perches on an ivy flower in the autumn sunshine.

Small butterfly on green leaf in autumn sun - ragged wings partly folded, grey-white and violet blue with faded black edges, beady black compound eyes and dark, filamentous antennae with faint striping.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's always Coprolite Street in Ipswich... (I'm not obsessed, honest! This was the first username that came to mind when all the good ones seemed already taken...)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 22/09/2026

Bonus dragonfly shots from the other day. Aeshna cyanea, the Southern Hawker? #Derbyshire, September 2026. #insects #dragonflies #macrophotography #naturePhotography

Close-up of the head and thorax of a large dragonfly in autumn sun - bristly, dark legs grasping a part-shrivelled leaf. Large wrap-around eyes blue and grey-black, gleaming with optical depth - made from countless tiny lenses packed together in a hexagonal pattern. Front of head yellow with black spots - edged with short black hairs - and thorax yellow-green with thin dark stripes, with lighter curly hairs. At the centre of the thorax, four glittering, faceted, translucent wings erupt from a hollow - reaching out of view and out of focus.

Wider view of the whole dragonfly, wings outstretched - translucent facets almost grey-blue with possible age.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

These monsters look full of self-doubt - only a truly good monster would doubt their own niceness.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yes, I'm scrupulously trying to avoid posting spoilers, but could natter on for ages - at some point if you have time, please do an open thread for us all to discuss things!)

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've since been enjoying comparing the real history (well, that described by the Romans) with that in the book - I get the impression they're startlingly close! And when not, lampshaded by characters mentioning that Roman version of events, as rumours or propaganda...

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Well deserved! I finished last weekend, and hugely enjoyed it. (When's your next novel??) Not being familiar with the history beyond a broad outline, I got to read it entirely as a novel - and it really worked as such. Great fun, gloriously sweary, tempered with moments of tragedy and violence...

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

... and finished. THAT WAS AWESOME! My brain's now busy digesting it all...

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

270-ish pages in, and I'm *hugely* enjoying this. It's a little surreal reading a familiar voice in an entirely new context. Seeing an echo of the beginning of The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being, which I read in 2018 or so - back then I'd never have imagined this book existing. Such a journey!

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It arrived!! I'm one sub-chapter in already - 'vividly imagined' would be an understatement. (I'd take the book for a very brief photographic tour of Seattle, only Isis seems to have brought the rain with her...)

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Absolutely lovely. (Echoes of Machinarium and Beneath a Steel Sky - I just love to explore imagined places like these...)

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Congratulations! Can't wait to read it. (My copy arrives tomorrow, apparently. In Seattle! It's been having a very exciting world tour of distribution warehouses up the west coast...)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 29/08/2026

#FotoVorschlag - "Rückseite / Back, rear" I'm reminded of my 'Car arses' keyword in Lightroom. #SanFrancisco, June 2007...

Rear right corner of a very '70s-'80s American car - bright white paint with fine red outlining, big chrome bumper reflecting a sunny blue sky, angular rear red light (surrounded by chrome, naturally), flowing chrome-edged text reading "Grand Marquis", and rather incongruous 'GB' roundel and 'HORSE PERSON' stickers on the bumper.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There's a copy of that book lurking on my bedside table - thanks for the reminder to re-read it!

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'd been hoping for a wide-ranging, detailed and carefully imagined exploration of an ancient world, so ... all that, and more? Can't wait!

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

... ..... Ah! Cue combination of a laugh and pitying sigh. Excellent.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There's the artistic achievement - and then there's that careful construction and engineering making it all possible! (I remember photos you posted ages ago of a gorgeously tiny clasp mechanism. Makes me wonder how much overlap there was between these craftspeople and more mundane professions...)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 25/08/2026

For #textureTuesday - more from those neglected, self-processed, decade-old film negatives, newly digitised through the magic of Lego, a macro lens and a digital camera. (Many of these I'd only ever seen as tiny contact prints!) #Seattle #filmIsNotDead #blackAndWhitePhotography

Diagonal, plaster-revealing scar on old painted wall, revealing the former presence of a staircase - a dramatic shadow cast from the side, and the word 'SAVE' roughly spray-painted on a clear area.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I was just thinking that if there's any excuse for a dozen-page diversion on some interesting bit of science, history or archaeology - it *must* be taken, whether the book is for kids or grown-ups. Although probably *not* in the middle of a time-critical part of a recipe. Probably.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 24/08/2026

#FotoVorschlag - "Leuchtturm / Lighthouse" Massive chalk cliffs - and somewhat smaller lighthouse - at #BeachyHead, East Sussex. September 2007. #lighthouses #cliffs #coast

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 24/08/2026

For #monochromeMonday - shadows in Capitol Hill, #Seattle, late 2014? Digitising some old negatives with the aid of Lego, an LED area light, a macro lens and a digital camera... #blackAndWhitePhotography #filmIsNotDead

Oblique shadows from foliage on painted wall, converting to dappled shade on concrete pavement.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 24/08/2026

I remembered a stack of film negatives I took during photography courses a decade ago. Cue film holder bodged together with Lego, LED area light, digital camera with macro lens, and some scratty end-of-roll negatives. Test successful - expect more! #Seattle #filmIsNotDead #blackAndWhitePhotography

Abstract shadows on angled, smooth surface with peeling paint - grainy black and white photo.

Corner with graffiti-spattered brickwork and semi-arched sash window, above sheeting and concrete forms of deep modern construction work.

Torn insulation in wooden framing of part-demolished wall, in front of scattered, broken concrete.

Shallow depth of field oblique photo of ivy on cinderblock wall - with out-of-focus rectangular windows and doors in background.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No adaptations that I can find - it could make for an amazing comic or radio play - but I did find someone's PhD thesis dissecting the work in amazing detail. It's such an affectionate little parody of a Homeric epic. Anyway. This is the sort of rabbit-hole (mouse-hole?) my brain wanders down...

ora.ox.ac.uk

An edition with commentary of the Batrachomyomachia - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive

The thesis consists of three main sections: the Introduction, the text (with apparatus), and the Commentary. The Introduction begins with a survey of the available evidence for the poem’s date and aut...

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This (and insomnia) got me wondering about adaptations of the Batrachomyomachia - an Ancient Greek epic about an immense battle, precipitated by the accidental drowning of a prince, between ... frogs and mice. (Is this a thing people generally know about? I feel more people should know about it!)

en.wikipedia.org

Batrachomyomachia - Wikipedia

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 12/08/2026

For #waspWednesday - mystery wasp, with possible shieldbug / stinkbug prey, from the ever-bountiful #waspHeaven, #VolunteerPark #Seattle. Prionyx sp.? Sphex lucae? I'm not sure either are supposed to be preying on the pentatomidae - I need to ID this other bug! #insects #wasps #macrophotography

Muscular black wasp with fine silvery hairs and teardrop-shaped, glossy orange abdomen - wings folded, black eyes gleaming in the sun - upside-down pale insect grasped underneath its body, one if its antennae held in the wasp's jaws. On a green bramble leaf in the sunshine.

Same wasp, different angle - I inadvertently waggled the ground-level bramble around by stepping on a long trailing branch, but the wasp was absolutely staying put - no losing its prey!

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Absolutely intriguing! And I'd love to see X-rays (?) showing the precise shape of that hidden interior...

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 10/08/2026

In #Seattle for a bit - and yesterday I made it to '#waspHeaven' in #VolunteerPark (middle path around the water tower) to see if there were any wasps around. There certainly were! Grass-carrying wasp, Isodontia elegans, collecting a blade of grass... #macroMonday #insects #wasps #macrophotography

Slender, thread-waisted wasp - black and red with a golden yellow fuzz - intently chewing through a bent-over, drying grass stem, carefully grasping either side with daintily clawed feet.

Same wasp, looking away from camera, putting some effort into the grass collection - glossy red-brown transparent wings outstretched, rearmost feet curled around the grass stem,.

Same wasp, grass stem completely chewed through - all weight supported by middle legs holding on to the near-upright remaining grass stem, while jaws and other legs hold on to the newly detached section.

Wings and wasp a blur - rising upwards, grass stem payload firmly grasped.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh, what *now*, Harry Price?! Looking forwards to it!

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

* reads about de Montford's fate post-battle * Blimey. He's looking remarkably well, considering!

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 28/07/2026

For #textureTuesday and/or #sporespondence - a close-up of some curiously peeling bracket fungus I took months ago, but kept forgetting to post... #Derbyshire #fungi #macrophotography

Thin, tough, weathered brown-grey skin peeling away in lifting fragments to reveal a pure white subsurface - curving down into darkness.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

... and, very sneakily, he's reversed this one *twice*! (Or not.)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 26/07/2026

#FotoVorschlag "Gegenlicht / Backlit" - winged seeds from #Seattle, December 2021. #macrophotography

Winged, aerodynamic tree seeds, paired together to look like large moths with folded wings - on bare twigs backlit by winter sunlight, shining through the thinner parts of the wings, revealing a network of fine veins.

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