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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Back in the 1980s Tudor Griffiths taught Computer Science in the local school. Two maxims he repeated almost every class have stuck with me for decades. "A computer is exactly as smart as the person telling it what to do" and "A computer can and will make mistakes, and it'll do it a million […]

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Donald R Noble @drnoble.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Sitting in the square in Amersfoort enjoying a nice beer, with 2 clocks chiming every 1/4 hour—I can see why the hotel came with a pair of ear plugs on the towels😁

A glass of Leffe blond beer, with part of a city square at night behind, with the illuminated clock tower out of focus amongst the other lights

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

This is why I bang on so much about level access. Noone who have to depend on railway staff and the correct alignment of the train to the platform to be able to use a train. This also highlights another common problem with train design. The sole single wheelchair space on the train. Cos of […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

When people ask why it matters if species go extinct, when most of us have never even heard of them and they don't seem to do anything for us, here's a way to answer. Point out that there are plenty of components in their computer, or their car, that they've never heard of and don't know what […]

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Donald R Noble @drnoble.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Got through security so quickly we’ve got to wait until they start boarding the ferry. Took about 5 minutes, and half of that was waiting for the guy in front after he set off the metal detector with his big boots. Net drop Hoek van Holland 🇳🇱

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot

A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

🖊️🚫 Wrong answers only! What is this huge mysterious machine? A large ring surrounds it, connected to a maze of pipes. Share your creative story! PSA - I know what it is, but I am bored and feeling silly. Have some fun, go wild 😉 #StoryTelling #Photography #Creativity

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Donald R Noble @drnoble.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Goodbye Scotland, see you in 2 weeks. For now I’m on the first train of many , to explore another slice of Europe. Bonus beer, it is Friday after all.

View out of a train window of the coastline of South-east Scotland. There is rough grass above a rocky coastline and the great sea beyond. The sky is grey with various layers of clouds.

A small glass of beer next to the can. It is Hop on Board Golden Ale for LNER, and the can says Celebrating 10 years on board.

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 01/10/2026

What happens when you create a high-traffic neighbourhood by removing the modal filters on the Braid Estate… SUVs end up on their side Junction of Braid Rd and Hermitage Dr. Around school pick up time, Thursday 1st Oct

A black SUV on its side with the underside visible. A police car in the foreground and an ambulance in the background. A police officer stands in hi viz beside the SUV. The pole of a zebra crossing can be seen in the foreground

The same as the first picture, but zoomed in on the overturned SUV

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Donald R Noble @drnoble.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Packing lightly for a 2 week trip around Europe. Nagging feeling I’ve missed something important, but not sure what. Passport ✅ chargers & cables ✅ clothes ✅ toiletries & medication ✅ some € cash (not sure I’ll need it) ✅

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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

And here are a handful more photos from yesterday's ride! Also, contrary to what was mentioned earlier, our next ride will be this Friday evening 7.30pm starting from Middle Meadow Walk. After the experiment phase over the summer, Friday evening rides are here to stay!

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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Saturday's Critical Mass ride was outstanding. Lots of folk really savouring a beautiful day as the year turns to autumn. Looking forward to seeing you all next ride on October 31st at 2pm

A large group of cyclists riding through Bruntsfield Place in Edinburgh

A crowd of cyclists riding up Bruntsfield Place in Edinburgh on a sunny day

A group of cyclists riding along a tree lined path in the Meadows in Edinburgh

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Donald R Noble @drnoble.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Solved something that's been bugging me for a while this morning: confirmed that the Beatrice Demonstration turbines have not yet been decommissioned, despite the Moray West windfarm being built around them. Was able to find them on @CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A slightly blurry satellite image of open sea with white smudges that are actually offshore wind turbines. A yellow marker pin in the middle sits between the locations of Beatrice Demonstration turbines A and B, while to the north of them at the top of the image is the rectangular blob of the decommissioned Beatrice AD oil platform. The other wind turbines just visible are part of the Moray West wind farm.
It is not very interesting visually, but the information in the image is useful.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 21/09/2026

The long view of North sea licenses: A short story with some fascinating historical details 🧵 How often are we told that new licenses can guarantee UK energy security, amid another energy crisis? But hang on: licenses for the much-discussed Jackdaw gas field were issued as long ago as 1970 (pic)

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Riding bikes is - by itself - an extremely safe activity. It's the cars that are dangerous.

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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

New Critical Mass this very Saturday, 2pm from middle meadow walk. This time we will ride towards Cluny Gardens and King's Building. A route used by many students daily but that could be made a lot safer for cycling. If you've never taken part in a Critical […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Critical Mass route, going to Kings Building and back. 2pm middle meadow walk saturday 26th of September

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

The all-purpose 2026 Venn diagram #WTF

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

More pictures of the Big camera later, I’m sure, but for now I think we can safely say that your old pal Daveybot is very much in his happy place. #Concrete #Architecture #MondaysAreBrutal

A concrete walkway lined with rusty metal railings. A dank concrete wall looms over us, on the right.

An in-situ cast concrete wall with a chamfered angled top edge. Years of stains dripping down the wall give it an almost barcode-like striped quality.

A fairly grim, shaded concrete staircase. Rusty white metal railings catch the limited sunlight so they shine brightly against the otherwise gloomy surroundings.

A clear blue sky over a very still, and equally blue, North Sea. In the foreground, giant precast concrete solos cascade down a slope to form a manmade shore.

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Scotland's transport secretary has blocked Glasgow's – and any Scottish city's – proposal for a London-style ULEZ (ultra-low emission zone) with a congestion charge. "The Scottish Government has been accused of undermining action on climate change after it effectively blocked councils from […]

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Donald R Noble @drnoble.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/11729799… I had forgotten they were even having a leadership contest for Labour North Britain

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

One of the big crane ships was back in Leith the other day, so I hustled on down there with my camera and... got there just AFTER the golden evening sun disappeared behind the clouds on the horizon. D'oh! Still, big things by the shore... Fun anyway! […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

An enormous crane ship, parked up on the shore by a little lighthouse. It catches the last of the warm evening sun, and the clouds behind it are beginning to turn pink in the light of the sunset.

This is the Seaway Alfa Lift, and it can sail around the world, lifting items up to 3,000 tons in weight, up to 108m into the air. An extraordinary vessel.

A dockside filled with the widely-dispersed industrial bits and pieces you might expect on any modern dockside. There's a three-storey building which presumably houses some kind of control or operations centre, and then a series of lower sheds, various vehicles, a lot of flood lights...

Towering over them all are a series of three-legged bright yellow structures. They're all 'jacket foundations' and are up to 95m tall. They will all sit underwater in the north sea once they're installed, each holding a transition piece and then a tower and then a wind turbine above them. The scale of the things is quite incredible.

A fisherman on a dockside, facing away from us. In the distance, across the body of water, are a couple of three-legged bright yellow structures. They're 'jacket foundations' and are up to 95m tall. They will all sit underwater in the north sea once they're installed, each holding a transition piece and then a tower and then a wind turbine above them. The scale of the things is quite incredible.

A zoomed-in shot of part of the big crane on a floating crane ship.

This is the Seaway Alfa Lift, and it can sail around the world, lifting items up to 3,000 tons in weight, up to 108m into the air. An extraordinary vessel.

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

If I could just have one wish it would be to never have to read anything about the royal family ever again, including headlines. Useless parasites, and a distraction from real issues.

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Who designed and approved the infrastructure, and what charges will be brought against them? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Two dead after car hits group of pedestrians in Doncaster

A vehicle hit four people before colliding with two cars on White Rose Way in Doncaster, police say.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low (SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe — neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn, when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago. What they’re picking up instead is electronic […]

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Danny Macaskill demonstrating what bike skills are, once again. #BikeTooter #WeAreNotWorthy www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdlxXM_AEGQ

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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Love the Irish. Imagine they were inspired by Celtic cousins in Scotland? tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117264797974… Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt - Protesters at the Irish Open 🇮🇪 😂 ⛳ (it's at the Orange one's international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland)

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Attached: 1 image Protesters at the Irish Open 🇮🇪 😂 ⛳ (it's at the Orange one's international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland)

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Schrödinger wakes up, groggy, no memory of the last few hours, unsure of his surroundings. He seems to be confined inside some kind of box. There is a strange mechanism at one end. His pulses quickens; from outside he hears a cat purring.

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SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info · 11/09/2026

Interesting to hear in yesterday’s tram debate an argument that trams would harm Edinburgh’s historic streetscapes - yet the status quo of parked cars, pavement parking, pollution and noise is so little objected to. Here’s a tram within 20m of the Cathédrale-Primatiale Saint-André de Bordeaux.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The year is 2026. Nobody wants a gamified experience on a website. Don’t give me a badge. Don’t even perceive me

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

“We are often put in the same category as cheese chasing down the hill or the conkers championship. But these skimmers have genuine sporting talent” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/se… #Scotland #TossMaster #Easdale […]

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

In London, the #MetropolitanPolice #MetPol have resumed their habit of arresting 84yo Rev Sue Parfitt. .This time they have also raided her home. This is to keep people safe from opponents of genocide and climate change.

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Donald R Noble @drnoble.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Decided it was suitably autumnal to make a venison stew tonight, so went to the farmers market earlier. I also found a jar of slightly crystallised blackcurrant jam, so some of that went in, along with a good glug of wine. It’s been in the oven an hour already and smells great, but struggling to […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@datarama/117214107554… I am *so* here for watching people advocate for their favourite map projections. This might be my favourite type of nerd debate. Thank you, Fediverse. (Also: xkcd.com/977)

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

While I make ampersands, by the way, WifeBot tends to make rainbows. Here's one from the weekend.

A collection of coloured stones and shells on a beach, arranged in a long wiggly line around the frame, and which gradually shifts in colour through a full rainbow spectrum.

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Yer man King Charlie3 has been working very hard, so the Labour govt has upped Charlie3 s pay from £51.8 million in 2024-25 to £99.9 million for 2027-28. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news… […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Donald R Noble @drnoble.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Why do some joggers have the mentality that if they run at you fast enough you’ll get out of the way. Worse than drivers for close passing 🤬

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