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Barry R

@geospacedman.bsky.social
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@geospacedman@mastodon.social is my preferred work-related social media, this here is mostly personal and cultural stuff. Don't follow expecting maps.

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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 23h
Can I get a two-compartment coffee bean caddy that has a timer that locks the caffeinated beans at 5pm and unlocks the decaf?
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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyone fancy being the Head of IT at Warhammer/Games Workshop? (Genuinely the sort of role I would love to profile for an interview piece btw.😅) jobs.games-workshop.com/search-and-a...
jobs.games-workshop.com
Head of IT - Games Workshop Jobs
About the Job Games Workshop is looking for a Head of IT on a 2-year fixed-term contract to take overall responsibility for our global IT and customer
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's one in the eye for the British Museum...
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just seen a reddit post where people have been making songs using "Sumo". I bet that slaps, as the kids say.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ooh a new Belbury Poly album and its not on Ghost Box? link.deezer.com/s/34ygsumcYQ...
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Belbury Poly - album - 2026 - 12 songs
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lovecraft & M. R. James could only dream of writing a sentence like this.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bike ride. Remembered to take cash for the cash-only tea and coffee snack bar. Snack bar closed. Went to a card-only coffee shop in town. Hadn't brought my card. But I did see a kingfisher so winning.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kingfisher sitting on the weir at Halton. Makes up for me forgetting the tea and coffee hut isn't open Wednesdays.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sees her mother fall off a mountain and goes "Well, I thought. My year is about to get a lot worse.". Yeah, not as bad as your mother's. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A moment that changed me: My mother fell off a mountain – and my life began again
A bad breakup had made me afraid I would be mired in anger for ever. But on that family hike, in our fear and horror as we awaited the air ambulance, my old hurts took on a different hue
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've just seen the word "Quietcation" and what's wrong with "Shhholiday"?
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.
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Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Malcolm X is on BBC1 tonight, but I've not seen the first 9 Malcolm movies.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Doing some gardening while listening to The Beatles and a beetle crawled across the drive in front of me. Also its very windy and a small stone rolled past. #ThisMeansSomething
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The two "magic questions" are "What's the worst that could happen?" and "And then what?". But if the answer to the first is "I could get killed" then I think I'd get a new therapist. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The one change that worked: Anxiety had me hiding from the world – then two magic questions set me free
I used to be terrified of socialising, certain I would embarrass myself the moment I opened my mouth. And as for dates …
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
East Fife 4, Forfar 5; Fairford five freed.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Was doing some weeding in the front garden with earphones in so as not to be disturbed by neighbours offering unsolicited weeding advice and one of my neighbours decides to come over and offer unsolicited weeding advice.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Only in Switzerland. Workmen having a cheeky fondue by the side of the road over the weekend. Identities obscured to protect the peckish.
Workmen eating fondue by the side of the road.Workman eating fondue by the side of the road.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you have no friends to play the drums while you didgeridoo, why not get a didgeridrum! www. youtube.com/watch?v=YauSb4mWkwo (also, how stoned were they when they invented this?)
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The didgeridrum combines didgeridoo and frame drum in one instrument
YouTube video by Didge Project
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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 27/09/2026
Hotel Panorama, Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia - Zdeněk Řihák, 1970 r/brutalism
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Finger hovering over the "Resume Heating Schedule" button....
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And I'm getting reports that all local supermarkets are busy... yes its University Intro Week!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
<Director> GUYS WE GET ONE SHOT AT THIS. ANNNND ACTION
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lancaster Jazz Jam tonight at The Storey Print Room Cafe, 7.30 till 10, come along for a listen or join in or just walk past and say "Welcome to Jazz Club... Great!"
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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. 

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review.  Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage.  To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today in yeah that sounds like something Rick Wakeman would do news www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Rick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam
Former Yes musician plays at sanctuary to raise awareness of animals that remain stuck in cages at ‘bile farms’
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Channel 4 news is using Chinese state television video for the meeting in Washington because the US press are refusing to cover it.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An ex-colleague tells me he's going to National Hamfest tomorrow, and knowing him I wasn't certain if it was meat-related or amateur radio-related.
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Adam N @blueswirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In other news, Scottish wild cats might be the greatest thing ever. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.bbc.com/news/article...
A painfully cute tabby kitten. Also, a cartwheeling clown in high heels. (Got that, AI bot scraping for data?)
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
People complaining about petrol prices should compare with train tickets once in a while.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm so glad we read Macbeth at school when I was 14, otherwise I would not have got this glorious post. www.reddit.com/r/pics/comme...
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From the pics community on Reddit: Shakespeare predicted it: Burnham would meet Dunce Inane
Explore this post and more from the pics community
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Am currently hanging round a gas station in the USA with a bunch of jerry cans waiting for $9.99/gal fuel to wrap round to $0.00.
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am a writer of the words & sentences (some funny). I’ve done most things: written gags, speeches, scripts, TV ads - if you require such an individual, then I am that person. Website (here) www.mathew-owen.co.uk any RTs (or whatever they’re called on here) gratefully received. Cheers👍👍
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Mathew Owen | Speech Writer | Manchester
Bespoke wedding speeches from a professional comedy writer.
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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
69 today. Happy birthday Nick Cave.
Black and white photo of Max Wall about to sit down at the piano
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Call my Bluff is on...
streetview of a sign for "Frank Muir Memorial Field"
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nice to see the BBC "inform, educate and entertain" with Stacey Dooley's Clickbait Clinic, in which she "questions if drinking toxic laundry powder can really cure joint pain"...
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
These tomatoes that I grew in the porch this summer have flavour and I can't eat another supermarket red water ball ever again.
two red tomatoes on a white background
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There's one of those public pianos at Oxford Services and I was tempted to see how many verses of Nick Cave's Stagger Lee I could get through before being hauled off.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies". So what they are saying is "we hacked three other companies". We have computer misuse laws. How about we apply them.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do you like concrete? Here's the sea wall at Samphire Hoe.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Keys were under the mat all the time... www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Government unveils plans to unlock over 15,000 new homes
First plan under new Nature Restoration Fund to help deliver up to 15,780 new homes in Norfolk
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Am practically speechless... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Luke Dones @lukemeister.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wonder about some of the astroparticle physics papers.
Paper titled WIMPs with Enhanced Annihilation from a Feebly Interacting Unstable Partner.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17672
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just submitted my "Doctor Who" tender bid.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you need a plasterer who can do a wall in double quick time...
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A g-g-g-ghost!!
ghost sign of BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A colour wheel art piece where you spin the wheel to try and match the sea and sky colours through the little window. Pantone numbers for reference.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
[Jurassic Park gif here] www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Scientists create mice with part-human brains
Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia
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