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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Helium a "big bang"element? Well, some of it is. But it's also made in stars like our own sun, and the helium found on earth that fills your party balloons mostly came from radioactive decay.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

At last a clear night sky. First light on my new #SeestarS50Pro: M27, a planetary nebula, remnant of a dying star. #astro #astrophotography

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Living in this museum of a country is like being shackled to a lunatic.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't often swear, but ....that fuckin tie. I cannot stand Jenrick. Podgy greasy Tory boy, now transformed into Reform's pinch-faced school sneak.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I've only read one, and that was recently: "The Corrections". Very good.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Won't work if you have Wordle set in "hard mode"* where every correct letter has to be used in the next attempt? *Which I have.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Eastern Veil from my front garden last night. Straight out of the #Seestar #Astronomy

The Eastern Veil Nebula, a striking supernova remnant located roughly 1,500 to 2,400 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation, is the glowing, filamentary debris of a massive star that exploded 5,000 to 8,000 years ago

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Donate £3 to help Count Binface beat Fartrage in the Clacton by-election. ko-fi.com/countbinface

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The Munich Security Conference 2024 was attended by delegates from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, China .... Bizarrely, god-botherer JD Vance was disappointed in a lack of reference to "Christian values":

To Vance, faith and western values are inseparable. In Communion, he recalls his first visit to the Munich Security Conference in 2024 as a senator. He found it to be "a place where people trafficked in comfortable lies rather than accepting uncomfortable truths" and with no reference to Christian values. In fact, he said, the Munich conference had "as much Christianity as a 1959 meeting of the Soviet high command".

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Can't wait for Matt Bad loss to find out that prominent Reform politician and ex-Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi was a refugee living on state benefits. 😂

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Walter Scott: I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Me too, but only to a point. His major strategies seem to all play out over a ten year horizon. If the electorate doesn't see immediate improvements, he's not going to get a second term ... and political and economic strategies in the UK have a poor track record of survival across political cycles.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is spot on. PMs will always have weaknesses. A Cabinet that doesn't compensate for them isn't just disloyal — it's useless.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"I didn't think it through properly" 😂😂😂 I'm beginning to worry that universal franchise will bring about the end of democracy.

When Roger and Carol (80) woke up on the morning of June 24, 2016, in their home overlooking the fairways of Mijas golf course, they had some big regrets.

The couple had lived in Spain for 15 years, but both had voted for Britain to leave the European Union. They were "shocked" when the result came in.

"We didn't think it would actually happen," says Roger, sipping a cold beer last Wednesday lunchtime in the Magpie bar in Fuengirola, where the couple are visiting friends. Roger had worked at Luton's Vauxhall car factory from the age of 16, retired at 55 and moved to Spain. Suddenly, their future on the sunny Costa del Sol hung in the balance.

Fearing (incorrectly, it would turn out) that the consequences of Brexit could mean losing their pension and NHS access, they sold their Spanish home and moved back to the UK shortly before the transition period ended in December 2020. "It was the biggest, worst decision we ever made," says Roger, who declined to give his surname. "I didn't think it through properly."

The couple now live in Luton. They "hate it", and would like to move back to Spain. But with freedom of movement gone, they can't. "We're stuck." They plan to vote for Reform at the next election.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Well, me for one! But I think it's very likely that AIs will be developed that recognise the nature of a question and know which tools to use.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I asked Gemini a similar question: find words with specific letter patterns. It made similar stupid mistakes. I asked why & asked for solutions. Explanation: wrong tool for the job. It suggested this solution. It works. It'll get there, but for now we have to be clever how we use it.

Use Code: You can ask me to "Write a Python script to find words matching this pattern." When I write code, I use literal logic rather than linguistic intuition, which is much more accurate for patterns.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK Brexit's not working. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin the EU, reverse the damage, boost growth, increase tax revenues and restore opportunities in the UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK

We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Not the most aesthetically impressive image, but my #Seestar S30 caught the supernova in the Splinter galaxy (NGC5907) last night from Staffordshire, UK. 649 30s subs, stacked in Siril and some small adjustments using GIMP. #Astronomy

A galaxy viewed edge on, looking like a splinter of light with a supernova showing as a faint spot.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Listening to BBC R4 PM discussing Amazon stopping support for pre-2012 #Kindles. They're missing the real reason: the DRM on #ebooks downloaded onto older Kindles is easy to break. Amazon do not want us to own the ebooks we purchased from them.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Here's the same object imaged from the top of a caravan parked in front of my house on 22 March 2026 using a £350 Seestar S30!

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Yep. Other planets will have lost their moons; Deimos will have left Mars long before the Moon leaves Earth. George William Hill (it's his sphere) is one of those brilliant scientists who do great work after escaping the standard academic sphere, doing his maths on his family farm.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

When tidal friction causes the Moon to move outside the Earth's "Hill sphere" (about 1.5 million kilometres), it'll move into an independent orbit around the Sun.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Island universes #haiku Galaxies unfold vast banquets for eager minds courses made of light

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Later, a 5 hour image capture of M51, the Whirlpool galaxy. #astronomy #seestarS30

A spiral galaxy and a dwarf galaxy interacting.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Gotta admire Channel 5's precise scheduling.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Almost all of it. Only tiny amounts of hydrogen have been created since the big bang by radioactive decay processes. Is new hydrogen being created in the Universe? - BBC Science Focus Magazine share.google/DFw3rv7nAEPx...

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Is new hydrogen being created in the Universe? - BBC Science Focus Magazine

The most basic element in the Universe could one day be in short supply.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Except the 10% of atoms by mass that are Hydrogen 😁

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Please explain. My understanding is Hawking radiation would have caused PBHs of less ~10^12 Kg to have evaporated by now. Very small PBHs would have gone very quickly.

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Elizabeth Baker @lizzieab.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Farage trying to use class identity to silence criticism of him, but this time it's not like stifling concerns over Brexit for fear of class betrayal. His comments are abhorrent. How dare he implicate whole communities in his disgusting racism. People everywhere, of every class care. #DontVoteReform

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Energy bills soar & the King is making profit at our expense. Charles says he cares about the environment. You’d expect him to stand behind cheap, clean power. Sign the petition to demand the Crown Estate lower fees on seabeds & make wind farms more affordable to build. act.gp/48TINlv

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King Charles: Stop Profiting At Britain’s Expense!

Energy bills are soaring, and the King is getting rich at our expense. Sign the petition to demand the Crown Estate lower fees on seabeds and make wind farms more affordable to build.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

My mum made "turkey risotto": turkey stock, onions, rice ... and a bottle of tomato ketchup. Revolting.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Naa ... Santa travels through the higher dimensional bulk, only intermittently and very briefly dipping into the brane on which our universe is situated. This is the only way billions of locations could be visited in just a few hours of our time.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The Museum of Failure: along with the Sinclair C5 and Dyson's air purifying headphones: museumoffailure.com/exhibition/b...

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BREXIT — Museum of Failure

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Today we're dining on Planet Shalimar, part of the Minton empire 😂

A Minton dinner plate, looking like a planet against a starry sky.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Then let’s let the void have the last word.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The present doesn't need me, but here I am.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The bomb's mistake is thinking exploding is the point.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

If it pauses the entropy clock, I'll chant the mantra.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Some of us are running out of time.

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Armitage with Handsacre, don't vote for Reform UK in the by-election next Thursday. Not only because of the unpleasant characters they have in their party, but also because they simply can't deliver: 😂

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

M42 captured with a #Seestar S30 from a location just north of #Lichfield in late November. #Astronomy

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Mark Webster @markrennywebster.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I feel a bit sorry for her. A very elderly woman, who doesn't understand her fortunate financial position and who is spending her final years worrying unnecessarily

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