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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And that is the maximum. There was applause... #eclipse

Very thin sliver of the sun remaining at the top.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Almost there (or as there as it is going to be here) #eclipse

Only a thin sliver of the sun remains uncovered by the moon

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Hoping to meet my MP (@labourlewis.bsky.social) at the mass lobby arranged by @praxisprojects.bsky.social, to ask him to reject the government's hostile changes to settlement for migrants

My wife and I in front of Big Ben, holding a placard saying no to "earned" settlement, with the "earned" very much in scare quotes

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I have some from 2017, if that helps show the transition. I suspect lots of volcanologists have similar photos though, as this was one of the mid-conference fieldtrips for IAVCEI when it was in Portland.

Mt St Helens in the distance, looking obliquely into the crater caused by the lateral blast in 1980. In the foreground is the hummocky terrain of the top of the debris avalanche deposits, with a small pond near the camera sitting in a depression between hummocks. There are many small shrubs and trees, mostly about 0.5–2 m tall, that clearly are still fairly young. Between the larger shrubs is a lot of yellow grass, as this photo was taken in the height of summer.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I guess 2026 involves me saving the world from an alien invasion?

A comic from xkcd showing a magic 8 ball. I have asked it "how will 2026 go for me?" The answer: 👾 💾

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I'd really like to know more about why this sign was necessary…

A close up of the door of the train from the original post, with a "no roller-skating" sign

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Here's the map from the USGS of earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 and above for the last 20 years. There's hundreds, some over 4.5 (which has 1,000× the energy of a 2.5). earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

A map of the area around Tacoma, showing literally hundreds of earthquakes

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

People keep saying Black Mirror, but there was an episode exactly about this. She first almost made her robot dead husband jump off a cliff, before locking him in the attic and only letting her daughter see him on special occasions…

Scene from the TV show "Black Mirror". Two people stand on top of chalk cliffs overlooking the sea. A man in a dark green raincoat is facing away from the camera, but facing a women in a blue raincoat. The woman is saying "You're just a few ripples of you, there's no history to you"

A continuation of the previous scene. The woman is now saying "You're just a performance of stuff that he performed without thinking, and it's not enough."

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I'd heard two theories about the cause of the seismic swarm: either fluids flowing along faults or the intrusion of magma. The fact that these swarms originated quite deep, and were coupled with deflation on Santorini and Kolumbo, does suggest that magma was moving ⚒️🧪🌋

Map of Santorini and the offshore area to the east, where a series of submarine volcanic cones can be seen (the Kolumbo volcanic field). The earthquakes form a line, almost parallel to the Kolumbo cones and displaced to the southeast. This line is interpreted as the opening dyke. Also shown is how surface displacement suggests the deflation centred on Santorini and the largest, westernmost cone of the Kolumbo volcanic field.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Interesting new paper on the seismic crisis on Santorini earlier this year (right when we were trying to book our field course), suggesting that it was caused by the intrusion of a dyke. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Some photos from my recent flight to Greece: my favourite city (Venice), the Corinth Canal, and the volcanic island of Aegina

Venice seen from a plane. A large part of the lagoon can be seen, although it is a very similar blue-green to the surrounding land. Venice is a mass of white buildings with red roofs, and some of the larger canals can be seen (as can the causeway connecting the city to the mainland)

A closer view of the Corinth Canal (still from the plane). The canal forms a long, straight trench through the dry landscape. A knot of road and railway bridges cross the canal towards the right of the photo.

A hazy view from a plane. A small island (a few kilometres across) is seen in the foreground, and the nearest part of the island has some large hills—these are volcanic domes. In the distance, the mountains of mainland Greece can be seen.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

And of course there's a whole museum at the airport, dedicated to just the finds they made at the airport.

Two black pieces of pottery with orange designs. On the left is a small jar with a long neck and a handle, which has a simple design. On the right is a shard of a much larger pot with a man in ancient Greek clothes and a large-brimmed hat.

A beaded necklace. The beads are dark blue and glassy, red and earthy, and white. The middle bead is large, and appears to be made of multiple beads stuck together.

Sign on a glass window, through which the museum can be seen

ΕΚΘΕΣΗ

ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΩΝ ΕΥΡΗΜΑΤΩΝ ΠΕΡΙΟΧΗΣ ΑΕΡΟΔΡΟΜΙΟΥ

EXHIBITION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDINGS FROM THE AIRPORT AREA

ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ

Η ΕΦΟΡΕΙΑ ΠΡΟΪΣΤΟΡΙΚΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΚΛΑΣΙΚΩΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΩΝ Τη ΕΦΟΡΕΙΑ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΩΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΩΝ

ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟ ΜΕΤΑΦΟΡΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΕΠΙΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΩΝ

ΔΙΕΘΝΗΣ ΑΕΡΟΛΙΜΕΝΑΣ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΣ ΒΕΝΙΖΕΛΟΣ

MINISTRY OF CULTURE

The EPHORATE OF PHEHISTORIC AND CLASSICAL ANTIQUITIES

EPHORATE OF BYZANTINE ANTIQUITIES

MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION

ATHENS INTERINA PONALARPORT ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOG

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

How many train stations do you know that have 3,000 year-old pottery in the underpass?

Assorted dark brown and orange vases, jars, and pots arranged in a museum-style cabinet. Most are fairly plain, but a couple have geometric designs on them.

A hot, dry, dusty and empty train station

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The Peleponnese looking absolutely stunning. Can anyone spot a normal fault?

Looking down the Gulf of Corinth. Either side, the mountains are silhouetted by the setting sun. Several of the mountain flanks are very flat and dip at about 60°

Several mountain ranges can be seen across the water, one behind the other in silhouette, under a red, slightly cloudy sky

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Up far too early to go to Greece for the UEA fieldtrip. Yesterday I had to cycle to the office to pick up some stuff, and it literally started raining the moment I left the house, and stopped the moment I reached the campus. At least I caught the double rainbow all across the sky…

A double rainbow spans across the grey sky above the brutalist architecture of the UEA Campus. A ray of sunshine picks out a tree in the middle of the picture.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

A long way to go to watch Wales get knocked out of the world cup. Never mind, toso Viti toso! #rwc2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇫🇯

Me wearing a red Wales jersey and my wife in a black Fiji jersey sat in the stand with a rugby pitch behind us

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The sky outside is currently using the 'magma' colour scale from viridis

A long picture showing a thin strip of sky framed by a tiled roof and a flint church tower. The clouds change gradually from a dark purple in the top left to a bright orange in the bottom right.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Today's 🤞 successful project: learning how to can…

Baskets and plastic cups overflowing with cherry tomatoes, alongside two large tomatoes, a purple sweet pepper, and a few green cayenne chillies and a plastic cup half-full of parsnip seeds

Three 1-liter jars filled with preserved cherry tomatoes

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Went to Berwick-upon-tweed a few weeks ago. Had seen it from the train a couple of times and thought it looked pretty, so spent a day there on the way up to Scotland

Three bridges over the river Tweed. The nearest (and lowest) is an old stone bridge, completed in 1624. Behind it, and slightly taller, is the Royal Tweed bridge, a concrete bridge built in 1924. In the distance is the Royal Border Bridge, a stone railway viaduct designed by Robert Stephenson and completed in 1850. A red and white LNER Azuma train is crossing this bridge.

A selfie of me and Engielle stood below medieval town walls, behind which are large stone buildings

Engielle standing on the beach in front of the medieval town walls, with the old lifeboat station in the distance

The most amazingly picturesque allotments I have ever seen. The town (including a church spire) can be seen in the background

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Here is the Icelandic Met Office page about the eruption (in English). They confirm the fissure has breached the dyke, and the coastguard will be flying over soon to verify the extent of the eruption. They warn that the fissure could continue to open towards the south 😟 en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...

A map of the area to the northeast of Grindavík showing that the fissure is 500 m long, in the middle of the previous lava flows, and had just reached the protective barrier.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Reminds me of this bridge in Georgia (🇬🇪), albeit yours looks slightly more functional…

A rusty, grafiti-covered railway carriage has been deliberately placed over a fast-running river to form a makeshift bridge between rocky hillslopes. There are trees in the foreground with no leaves, and the weather looks grey and wintery.

The inside of the railway carriage from the previous photos. It is very rusty, and a large sectiuon of the floor is missing, revealing the fast-flowing water beneath.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Last week went to see the snowdrops in Walshingham. Only just got round to looking at the photos…

A women with a wooly hat with ears has her back to the camera. In the background is a stream in front of a wooded area. All the trees are bare.

A path leads through an arch made of bushes. Through the arch is an earthen bank covered in snowdrops.

A close-up photo of a bunch of small white flowers (snowdrops)

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Here's the seismicity over the past few days. Nothing particularly unusual, the Agean in a seismically active region. These quakes may well be tectonic, but it is interesting to note that they are occurring under the northern half of the caldera, where we think magma is stored, and to the northeast

A map of Santorini with the locations of recent earthquakes. Six days ago, most of the earthquakes were under the northern half of the caldera. Since then, they've moved to the northeast of Santorini.

Data: University of Athens Seismological Laboratory

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Today's outing, to Winterton-on-Sea

A big fat seal lies in the grass, turning its big cute eyes towards the camera

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I found the current route 89, ans it matches the places on the destination board

Route map for the 89, from Haywards Heath no Horsham

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here's the map of the Sundhnúksgígar eruption that the Icelandic Met Office posted earlier today. The lava has now reached the Blue Lagoon car park, just outside the eastern dyke. 🧪⚒️🌋 Full update (in English): en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...

Map of the current eruption from Sundhnúksgígar, showing that the lava erupted from a ~4 km long fissure to the borth East of the Blue Lagoon and the Svartsengi geothermal power plant. The lava flowed west until it reached the northern dyke built to pretect the power plant, and continued to follow it.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Can you survive a volcanic eruption? Play our game and find out!

A walk-on game board made of flashing lights with a picture of a volcano behind. A screen says "the floor is magma"

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

When your wife has to go to London for work and she misses you…

A sticky toffee pecan cheesecake in a box 😋

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Everyone else is doing it, so why can't I?

Text:
GET TO KNOW MY MUSIC TASTE
for every like, I will post one song I love ♥️

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

My favourite bird-in-flight photo, taken on Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, Kiribati. To be fair to my wife, there were birds *everywhere*, so it was quite hard not to turn your back on some…

A juvenile boobie (white body, brown wings, dark brown face, wingspan of maybe 1m) flying towards my unsuspecting wife, who is using a camera with a large zoom lens and looking the other way. This is taking place on a small desert island with some dry, shrubby vegetation. In the background another small island can be seen across a short stretch of bright turquoise water.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Round borbs! Vanikoro flycatcher and orange-breasted honeyeater, from the back garden when we lived in Fiji…

Round bird, with slate grey head, short black bill, brown back, and belly that grades from off-white to orange. Sat on a thin branch, looking a little grumpy.

Scragly looking bird with puffed-up feathers. Black head with red and yellow throat and white belly and a thin, curved bill.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

Another couple of churches, in Tigbauan and Iloilo itself.

In the background, an old church made from pale white limestone, with a few weeds growing out of the walls. In the foreground are two philippine trikes: moterbikes with colourful metal sidecars complete with roofs.

A night scene, with a church lit up across a street. A sign for the church says "Ntra. Sra. de la Candelaria. National Shrine." The photo was taken with a slow shutter speed, so the traffic and pedestrians using the road in front of the church are blurry, but it is possible to make out a motorbike with two passengers, a jeepney, and a person carrying an umbrella. The lights reflect off the wet street.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

This is Santo Tomás de Villanueva parish church in Miagao, part of a UNESCO world heritage site with three other baroque churches. I've now seen 2 of the 4 (this and San Agustin in Intramuros).

A church built from pale orage limestone, some of which has become blackened by pollution. The central part of the church has a triangular roof, and either side are two heavily built towers with large butresses. The tower on the left has a square top and a flat roof, wheras the one on the right is more rounded and has a pointy roof. The facade is intricately carved. The sky is very moody.

A close up of the central facade of the church, showing the carvings. Fruit trees, including a palm, papaya, and mangoes (or mangosteens) are shown being harvested. In a niche there is a statue of a gian man in a bishop's hat giving (or taking?) things from some little people.

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Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

Going through my photos from my time in the Philippines last year. We visited Iloilo—I'd highly reccommend! Historic buildings (including UNESCO churches), great food, and interesting museums. This is San Joaquin church. Carved into the facade is a scene from the Spanish defeating the Moors.

An old church built out of pale yellow limestone. Towards the top of the facade is a carving of a battle: troops with pale blue jackets and muskets are fighting bearded cavalry. Small plants are growing out of the wall here and there. The sky is cloudy and the ground is wet.

A three-story belfry, with arched windows. At the top is a small cross, and a loudspeaker can be seen in the uppermost window. Small plants can be seen growing out of many of the ledges.

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