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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’ve got thousands of parasitic wasps – the sort that lay eggs near paralysed prey and their young devour it – queueing up to see if they can learn a few things. “OK, form a neat line please.”

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Welcome to the future that’s here now. Worth watching even if you are not technically minded – the implications posed towards the end are a little alarming. (Description: AI agents manage to collaborate to bypass initial security boundaries. How and why). www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...

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Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

LOL

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

One comment I saw elsewhere… “Outsiders threaten their centuries old inbreeding programme…”

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The clean and jerk section… The first four images show the progression of the lift stages. The third phot shows the step back after raising the barbel to collar-bone level. This enables the competitor to dip underneath the barbel and raise to the final position. Two injurTheies occured doing this!

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

2026 Commonwealth Games 94kg category weightlifting. Interesting to see how tactical the contest was. Each competitor has three lifts, and pitching them at the most optimum weight, dependant on what your competitors perform, is a real skill in itself, never mind the lifts.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Been raining on and off for two days up here. I’d gladly loan some if I could!

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

2/2 He explained he wasn’t feeling well and has missed the last train to Hull because of this. They put him in the tour bus and dropped him off right outside his house in Hull. He got postcards from all over the world from them after that. This is just one reason why I had the crush on Annie Lennox.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

1/2 This is a now sadly deceased friend of mine who was a massive Eurythmics fan, and went to as many concerts as he could, despite having treatment for testicular cancer. They found him on the steps outside a Sheffield gig after the concert and asked if he was OK.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Old LUMIX camera with 30x optical zoom and a Leica lense. Gets a little soft around the edges at maximum optical zoom, but not too bad.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A few images from the recent 2026 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow. The event was for the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, with pommel horse, still rings, high bar, parallel bars and floor area exercises.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Got a good few photos of the Commonwealth Games Mens’ Artistic Gymnastics and the 94kg category weightlifting. The Gymnastics involved pommel horse, ring work, parallel and horizontal bar and floor exercises. My wife seemed very, very pleased by the procession of fit young men. No idea why. 🤔🤣

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

All’s well thanks Jacqui. A little re-grounding reset as well as having loads of photos I was going to post but filling in all the Alt text properly was going to take an age!

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Had a bit of a break from posting, but I thought these two photos summed up Scottish weather at the moment. Sunshine and rain clouds, gold, green and grey.

Looking toward the Campsie hills from a track near Endrick Water. Polly the Podenco cross stands facing the camera, on the left side of the track, which curves around to the right and disappears from view behind trackside bushes. A harvested field is in the midground, with a stand of tall trees and rising ground behind.

A harvested barley field dominates the foreground in the sunshine. Trees along the hidden riverbank traverse across the image and beyond the dark bulk of the Campsie hills lie under overcast grey sky.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Really hoping all is well and the test results are indicative of this.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This idiotic tech failure is just taking the… oh.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A standing wave in this water feature lid has created concentric rings in the rusting process of this Corten steel cylinder. The pump forces water gently out around the central LED light, and ripple reflections off the outer lip of the lid have left this pattern.

A water feature sits in a gap in a low wall at the side of a garden. The wall is around 300mm high and faced with anthracite coloured tiles. A rear wall behind the feature is taller at twice the height and features Mediterranean style patterned tiles in orange, light and dark grey. The water feature sits on a bed of pebbles, with the front edge cutting into the patio edging.

The water feature itself is cylindrical and made of Corten steel, designed to rust on the surface. The top features a separate lid with a raised lip around the circumference. A gap between it and the outer ring of the top, a central LED light and water exit around the light. The lid fills with water which then cascades over the sidewall around the lid, into the gap. The pump pulses slightly creating a standing wave between pulses and the reflection from the inner surface of the lip. This standing wave has created a pattern of concentric circles in the rusting process.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

More needs to be done to dramatically reduce oil and gas platform burn off and methane leakage throughout the petroleum chemical industry, and more research to find viable replacements for fossil fuel products derived from oil and gas.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It’s not about leaving all fossil fuels in the ground. It’s about not burning them for power generation, in aircraft, in ships and vehicles etc. some of that list is challenging but not impossible. We still need oil and gas for producing lubricants, paints, chemical synthesis, plastics etc.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Massive plot twist… now an official murder investigation. This throws a whole new light on things.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Despite being thousands of kilometres away and living in a geologically stable country, I am worried by this news due to my deep affinity with Japan and its populace. I hope my worries are completely unfounded.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Back home in Scotland now, but here are a few more photos from A stay near Dunwich in Suffolk. These are from the Walberswick and Southwold area.

A grassy bank rises in the foreground – the camera was tilted upwards, so only the crest of the bank is visible. A Cirrus strewn blue sky is behind the bank, with a patch of herringbone clouds to the right.

A path on the edge of marshland used for cattle grazing leads to Southwold from the River Blyth. A grassed earth bank is on the right of the path, and a wide verge of tall grasses is on the left, with marshland beyond. Red tiled roofs of Southwold are seen in the distance, with the top of the lighthouse protruding above the town.

A view of the River Blyth with boats moored on Beth’s lining the river. Boat masts protrude skywards like a sparse bamboo forest. The river curves around first left to right, and then right to left as it heads for the sea.

A seagull stands atop a small ventilation structure with louvred sides and painted dark blue with what looks like an apexed lead roof. This structure itself sits on the right flank of an apexed house roof. The view is of the gable end wall and the soffits, which partially hide the ventilation structure.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

モノクロ写真は非常にうまく機能します。 😊

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I do like a dose of Suffolk coastline, this time near Dunwich.

Standing on the sandy beach, which becomes babbles near the cliffs on the left, looking north towards Southwold. The beach arcs around to the right into the distance. Thin wispy clouds mute the blue sky.

Looking south east from the beach, with the sea on the left. Polly the hairy Podenco and Gillian are to the left and right of the image respectively. Polly is sniffing the sand, whilst Gillian captures Polly on her phone.

Trees on top of the cliffs are silhouetted by the sun behind them.

The view looking north east, from part way down the stairs leading from the cliff top. On the extreme top left a row of trees adorned the cliff top, with low bushes and foliage below, giving way to a pebbled band covered by patches of sea kale. A sandy strip of beach separates the pebbled band from the sea.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

優れた写真と、非常に多様な野生動物が美しく撮影されています。

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

あなたの写真は、私がそれらをご覧になると、私の気分を高揚させるのに役立ちます。彼らは本当に美しく構成されています。😊

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A walk from Fintry up and past Dunmore Fort, along the escarpment and back down to Fintry completing a loop.

The path through Fintry Wood, with a fallen tree blocking the path but easy to clamber over. A dense deciduous wood with ground foliage cover, and with glimpses of a grey cloudy sky through the tree canopy.

Having exited the wood, the path takes us up a reasonably steep incline towards Dunmore Fort, now a ruined pile of stones. The path bends upwards to the right, around a raised area covered in ferns. Beyond, the ridge line of the Campsie Fells and a grey cloudy sky is seen. Gillian in control of two dogs, Zelda on the left and Polly on the right is on the extreme right of the image, facing up the path.

The view on the descent, with the valley floor and some houses in Fintry visible in the distance at the foot of the hill which is being descended. A patch of sunlight has caught a field below the clouds in the distance. A wire fence is in the foreground.

The view on the ascent looking south east. The hills on the far side of the valley are capped by cloud, which is caught by by sunlight towards the right. Some of Fintry village can be seen on the valley floor, with steeply rising land to the right of the path, covered in grass tussocks.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

日本で私がした最も楽しいことの一つは、名古屋と長野間の列車の旅で、都市間を中泉堂トレイルを数日間走ったことです。私は時々、最後に見てから誰かが旅をYouTubeにアップロードしたかどうか、2017年以降の変化について確認します。音やアナウンス、そしてシナノ・リミテッド・エクスプレスのジングルは、とても懐かしいです。

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The shade from two Japanese maple trees is very welcome in the garden.

This Acer tree has wine coloured leaves, some of which are caught by the sun and glow in a crimson colour. A cloudless blue sky and a corner of the house are behind.

This Acer tree has yellow green leaves with the sun directly behind the canopy, many are in direct sunlight.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Ten minutes away by car… peace and (mainly) quiet when logging is not in progress.

Looking over to Gartmore with Queen Elizabeth Forest Park beyond. In the foreground can be seen a part of a working forest with active felling and management. The cloud base is just a little higher than the far hills.

Inside the working forest – this trail links two forest roads, one with full public access and when with restricted access beyond where the trail starts. Dense banks of fir trees flank the trail.

Fir trees tower above the trail on either side. The trail bends slightly to the left.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Oh yes. I’ve no patience for such audience abuse. Similar thing with adverts now polluting YouTube shorts. If one intrudes, that video is toast. The adverts on normal videos are bad enough, and over use gets short shrift there as well.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Getting the hang of this Dutch Oven bread malarkey.

Fresh from the deep cast iron casserole dish acting as a Dutch Oven, a round loaf of bread sits on a sheet of greaseproof paper. The outside is crusty with cracks in the surface revealing glimpses of the open bread texture beneath. The crust varies from a dark tan colour to a beige colour with golden brown patches.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Public-facing professional despises public. Something not quite right there. Good luck and I hope your cardiologist finds both humility and the sort of cheery disposition that actually puts people at ease.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

音楽の表現を高めるために、あなたのタイミングが拡大・縮小される様子が好きです。その結果、音楽は美しく流れます。😊

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Natalie Anne Kyriacou OAM - an Australian environmentalist, social justice advocate & author, delivers a powerful and deeply provocative address. Opening with the question, “How do you think we will be written about in history books?”

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Spot on. Retired 3 years ago, but moved somewhere with the potential space 18 months ago. You’ve got me thinking! 🤔😊

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Thanks again Jacqui! I’d need to re-register with an assay office so I can get things hallmarked, and then find room for the workbench etc. I still have all the tools etc, so not beyond the realms of possibility!

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Thank you. I did also make some earrings, pendants and a also silver ring for myself… which I lost at Manchester airport. ☹️

A sterling silver ring hallmarked at Sheffield with my own makers mark, with a scalloped facet design.

A pair of cone shaped earrings made from sterling silver sheet bent into a cone and plugged with a circle of silver soldered as the base.

An Archeologists trowel as a pendant, made from sterling silver and Macassar ebony for the handle. 33mm in length from tip to handle end.

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Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド @ianhalst.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A few years ago I started making guitar shaped badges for musician friends and acquaintances. I was a complete beginner, so the designs were kept simple as silhouettes. Materials used were sterling silver and 14 carat gold. I’ve not made any more for a while now.

A 14 carat gold Warwick left handed bass guitar pictured positioned below a sterling silver Fender Precision, both in the form of pin-on badges. They are minimalist designs devoid of detail, giving the correct overall shape only.

The rear of the hold Warwick bass badge, showing the pin and retainer made from 14 carat gold wire.

A sterling silver badge in the form of a semi-acoustic Gibson bass guitar and highly polished.

A Fender Telecaster badge in sterling silver part way through manufacture. The basic shape has been cutout of sheet silver and filed to smooth edges. Awaiting a pin being soldered to the reverse and final polishing.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 16/05/2026

Independent creative businesses are quietly having a tough time right now. So if there’s a maker, illustrator or designer whose work you love, this is a good time to tell people about them. Buy something if you can. Share their work if you can’t. This is me www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

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Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester

Bold illustrated wall art, greeting cards and homewares designed in Manchester. Inspired by architecture, music and mid century design. Made in the UK.

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