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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 · 1h
That's the sign its Radio 2 for you now.
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Brilliant work by @mackinnonart.bsky.social
A reimagining of/homage to M. C. Escher's "Drawing Hands" showing a realistic human hand emerging from the paper drawing a robotic/AI hand which is also emerging from the paper... and that robotic hand, having turned the pencil around, is erasing the human hand. By Bruce MacKinnon
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Geoffrey Boycott, for running out Derek Randall.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Can't wait until the AI bros start jumping off cliffs because they are convinced AI will invent anti-gravity.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Those two are dead links now as well. BBC? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Oxford lecturer denies possessing indecent child images
Dr Lola Salem is a lecturer in French and music at University of Oxford's Oriel College.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Is it elbow breaking season? A mappy contact on Mastodon fell off his bike and broke his! I broke my right elbow about 25 years ago, I'll be careful with my left at this time! Swift recovery!
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Some assistance from Boney M for today's maptap.gg
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I thought he famously didn't own a home, in which case this is probably one of his lackeys'?
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This took me a second.. 😅
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New indispensable AI app just dropped.
A  button that says "Chat with yourself"
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Its ironically tatty?
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I use this which I made based on the old nuclear power badges. I should get some made up with it...
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Try the fork handles shop.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Musk will stream it as the X-ecution.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Natalie trying to smush all the bits back together into a vaguely head-shaped form.
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8bitnorthxstitch @8bitnorthxstitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(Greater) Manchester music cards available at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch With more to come soon…
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Don't they have a rule about "cruel and unusual punishment"?
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Paul Young's backing band have just finished their shifts at Kwik Fit. #totp
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"They live near here" "Who do?" "The Whams". #totp
Map showing Whams Lane, Whams Court, and Whams Farm, and The Whams
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Permits are not valid in this car park" would probably be best.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Its some horror powered by a mulitnational gov service company called "Granicus" if you want to look yourselves, lancastercc-self.achieveservice.com/en/service/C...
lancastercc-self.achieveservice.com
Car Parks - Average Occupancy - My Account
This site is powered by Granicus.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They're also an accessibility fail on a local government web site, because they're just images - oh and red-green colour palette fail as a cherry on top.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This car park has about 100 spaces but the occupancy stats are given to the nearest 1/100th of a car...
Table of hours vs days of week with colour-coded percentage cells to two decimal places.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The shooter is paraplegic after being shot by law enforcement, so are they going to roll him out in a wheelchair?
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2024
Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can anyone explain this sentence?
Permits are NOT allowed to use this car park.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I bet Musk is desperate to stream it - the "X-ecution".
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love the line "There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Milletts" from National Shite Day.
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Sarah Brand @drsarahbrand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Would love to write a book for children but I don’t think I have what it takes to be an actor.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Glad to be a blank slate to Amazon. You don't know me, Jeff.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Postman Wally and his black and white Collie.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I should wear my Number 6 badge more. People keep asking me why I resigned.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In theory you can use a different banking app and link your NW account, in practice that's probably also a ballache and no guarantee that the app will give you ISO 8601 format dates anyway. [NW customer avoiding ballache since 1984]
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I heard Englishness defined as 'people who have been here for centuries' on Radio 4 this morning, and it went completely unchallenged
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been here for two centuries, just not all of two centuries...
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And why did those men take their dogs to mow the meadow? Dogs can't operate grass-cutting machinery and can't obtain the necessary Category K driving license.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Next doors fluff ball was curled up by my front door, one eye watching...
Brown and black fluff
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You didn't say "across the R-universe" to get another Beatles reference in :)
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm going to wilfully misinterpret "AI" as meaning "Artificial Insemination" unless the speaker says otherwise. "So, do you use AI with your students?" "Well, if they consent, I suppose, and with a doctor present"
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think the plate tectonics have covered a bit more up since this point...
A half-buried star destroyer from star wars
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"gave me"
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bike ride have me this view of one of my favourite buildings.
Motorway with a mushroom shaped tower on one side
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Is it red bins today?"
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"No, I said *pawn* broker"
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Someone paid £190 for a sculpture of "a dog or something" www.railtons.co.uk/auction/400/...
railtons.co.uk
Railtons Antiques Auctioneers & Valuers
Antiques Auctioneers & Valuers
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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another café doing an AI flyer that looks like all of the others. People saying they won't eat there, others saying why blame small businesses for using AI? Yes, of course, the environmental cost, but mainly, it looks shit. How much for the ball bearings on an armadillo, topped with matchsticks?
A scaly jacket potato with perfectly spherical baked beans and unnaturally straight grated cheese.
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Any excuse to relisten to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=zynF...
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Frank Zappa - Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk
YouTube video by YoKey
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Barry R @geospacedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mathsgear has cookie cutters... mathsgear.co.uk/collections/...
mathsgear.co.uk
Aperiodic Spectre Tile Cookie Cutter
Are your biscuits too periodic? Do you wish they could tile an infinite plane without ever repeating? ...then you need a spectre cookie cutter. This aperiodic monotile both solves the 'einstein proble...
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
My photo shows detail from an ancient Greek red-figure kylix (drinking cup) of a young man shown in profile seated on a stool facing right. He wears a knee length cloak (himation) over his left shoulder, which is shown in folds around his waist and upper legs. His right shoulder, chest, and arms are bare. His dark hair is short, and he wears a band around his head. He is looking down at an open rectangular wax writing tablet which he is supporting in his left hand above his lap. In his right hand he holds a metal stylus pen poised over the writing tablet. The wooden writing tablet is hinged like a book and, from this angle, resembles a modern laptop. The figure is part of a scene depicting school lessons in ancient Athens, painted by Douris around 480 BC. On display at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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