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Declan Valters

@decvalts.bsky.social
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⛰️🏃 Hills, running, and wandering | Geomagnetism Software Engineer at @bgs.ac.uk 💻🔧 | Lapsed geomorphologist, occasional flood modeller & weather watcher ⛈️🏞️ | ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | 📍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh

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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The end of an era! The last broadcast of BBC Radio 4 on Longwave (198kHz). The transmitter will be switched off at the end of June after nearly a century of transmission from Droitwich.
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Queuing round the block to vote in Gorgie! #Holyrood2026 #ScotlandElects #GorgieElects
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
UPDATE: reunited and saved from the scrapyard, thanks to a friendly welder 💙🥹
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Finally found an excuse to ride the X40 (the bus that goes on the bypass). 45mph in a double decker!
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
RIP Leslie the Lupo 2001-2026. The salty Scottish roads finally got him.
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
near Kingussie, 19/01/26
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
stuck key is free !! No locksmith call out and saves cutting 24 tenement keys plus new barrel 🔑🔑🔑
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Very Manchester-appropriate parallel file system! 🐝🐝 #CoSEC #ciuk
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
the joys of a cable-operated clutch! 🫠
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
£15 Edinburgh - Aviemore on the Ember electric bus ! (£56 on the train, exactly same time, 2hrs59 mins)
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
who designed this thing?? Headlamp bulb behind the fuel lines...need fingers like Rachmaninov to fish it out
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
feel like I've just cracked Chesser's biggest unsolved case on a stake-out in a '50s film noir 🔊
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Escalation ! 🍴
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
reached the stage of my life where I enter vegetable competitions
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
This one's my favourite big light tho
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
5.99 sainburys home
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
joyous 🟡💛
Three yellow courgettes
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
peak academic/public sector cutlery draw no notes
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
think I have found the most expensive bus ticket in Scotland
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
gonna catch me a wild C programmer with some handy traps
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
can't park your piano there mate. 🗜️
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Retro bus this morning!
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Abandoned signage on the old Calder Road
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Might be a Baynes convert now, sorry greggs
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
greetings from Das Auto where of course you have to partially remove the front bumper and wheel liner to replace the air filter 🫣
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I've found Nirvana and it's drinking ice cold pink lemonade under an Acer tree in Chesser retail park
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
cheers google
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
how many geological core boxes can you fit in a Lupo
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Geomagnetic Storm Forecast: geomag.bgs.ac.uk/data_service...
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
storm's a-comin, Toto! (Image: NASA SDO/Helioviewer.org)
Filament eruptions from the Sun
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Amazed to find a website using the pre-1889 Scottish counties
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Geomagnetism outreach at Dynamic Earth with @britgeosurvey.bsky.social today
Geomagnetic field reversals chartAurora/Northern Lights drawingToy model of the earth with satellite
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
comes out the tiny side gate of campus...very odd feeling on a bus!
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The return of the 32! 🥰 @lothianbuses.bsky.social
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
No flat green bowling here!
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"Eat yet bread, doon yer tea". Someone has done a double page analysis...!
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I always did want to work a bit "closer to the metal", software development-wise. Didn't think it would be stripping cables in driving sleet, but a fun day at work 😂🌨️
Some batteries and a solar charger to power a moden
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
*beep boop* 🤖
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
❄️🪨⚒️🖥️ First day (again)
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Brockenspectre, Ilkley Moor
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
On the last Voyager heading south like a pound-shop Janeway
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Interested in a fully-funded PhD developing the next generation of flood forecasting models for the Exascale computing era? Have a look at this project as part of the ExaGeo PhD programme - supervised by EPCC with colleagues from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the BGS www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
Developing large scale hydrodynamic flood forecasting models for Exascale GPU systems
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A little treat since it's #BandcampFriday, bought a few more tracks from @cravenfaults.bsky.social - including "Doubler Stones", I'm guessing named after the sandstone rock formations on Addingham Moor megalithix.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/d...
Doubler Stones, Addingham Moor
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
standby from the Emley Moor transmitter
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Last lecture today 🥲
Lecture timetable
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Frosty morning in the Meadows, Edinburgh
Frosty morning with trees and a field in Edinburgh
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
finally got one of those glass offices like they have in CSI where they write equations on the glass for some reason
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🌃🌃🌃☀️☀️🌃🌃🌃
Weather symbols showing only two periods with daylight out of eight
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
no expense spared again for the Gorgie Christmas lights
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Declan Valters @decvalts.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Such Fortran and mainframe shade!
Article describing Fortran and COBOL as arcane programming languages
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