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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 20/09/2026

Ah yes, today is the day that somehow manages to be both national, global and regional at the same time.

Google Calendar entry for "German World Children's Day (Thuringia)"

Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 12/08/2026

This particular plate was drilled but never used in the @sdssurveys.bsky.social . So today is the first time it has been used to observe the sky.

Hundreds of projections of the solar eclipse. In each the Sun is crescent shaped due to the moon getting in the way

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 12/08/2026

These holes make it hundreds of pinhole cameras in one

A metal plate with holes projecting images of the eclipse onto a card

Hundreds of projections of the Sun with a small bite taken out of it

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 12/08/2026

Decided to take a @sdssurveys.bsky.social plate on a trip to see the eclipse

A circular metal plate with holes and a card sheet in a bike trailer

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 04/07/2026

Window needs recharged again

A vertical window with a closed shutter. In the lower 3/4 the gaps in the shutter are red

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 06/04/2026

Superb papal subsection heading there

The wikipedia page of Pope Nicholas I including the section heading "pants controversy"

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 10/01/2026

Guessing the xG calculation makes an assumption that the attacker and keeper are equally matched

Manchester City 10 - Exeter City 1
But the expected goals (xG) are 2.24 to 0.42

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 05/01/2026

Autocorrect has a new subdivision of the ancient Argo Navis Constellation

An email titled "Puppies constellation map"

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 21/12/2025

Guess the Christmas carol from the clues to a line in the lyrics

Four panels: 1. A stained glass widow of a monk standing before the words "Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity"; 2. a romaine; 3. a hinged portal; 4. sheet music for All Things Bright and Beautiful

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 01/09/2025

"I could be at home painting Abaddon the Despoiler"

James Cleverly considers his poor life choices

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 15/08/2025

Good to see the Lib Dem graphics people getting work between election cycles

A bar chart with Tories on 10, Lib Dems on 13 (but appearing over twice the size) and Labour on 30

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 01/08/2025

When your company name hints at feats that your equipment would struggle to achieve

A cherry picker vehicle with arm extended. The company name is "system lift Gagarin"

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 02/07/2025

The memes have broken my brain to the point that I see the name of a possible interstellar object and think of this #A11pl3Z

Asking happycat "how much cheezburger would you like" response "A11pl3Z"

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 21/06/2025

In the Arctic the sun doesn't set today. It just sinks towards the horizon and then appears to bounce back up into the sky Credit: Milos Obert/IAU OAE (CC BY 4.0) License: CC-BY-4.0 astro4edu.org/resources/me...

Seven images of the Sun. From the left it sinks, reaching its lowest in the centre image, before rising higher to the right.

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 21/06/2025

If you are in a temperate region of the Northern hemisphere the Sun just crossed the sky on its highest path of the year. This image from Turkey shows the Sun crossing the sky at both solstices (summer top/winter bottom) and one equinox (in the middle) Credit: Tunç Tezel/IAU OAE (CC BY 4.0)

3 paths of the Sun across the sky. The highest almost crosses the middle of the image, the lowest is one sixth of the way up

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 21/06/2025

Firstly if you live in a temperate or tropical region you've just hit the point in the year where the Sun sets at its most northerly point. Here's the sunset position every month near Manila (summer solstice in the middle) Credit: John Paul Pile/IAU OAE (CC BY 4.0) astro4edu.org/resources/me...

12 images of sunset. Sunset moves from the left at the top, to the right in the middle, and back to the left at the bottom

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 21/06/2025

For folks in the Rhein Neckar region, my friend Annemieke is running her acting courses at the Volkshochschule in Heidelberg over the summer www.vhs-hd.de/suche/kursde... www.vhs-hd.de/programm/fre... www.vhs-hd.de/suche/kursde...

Basic acting in English - Fridays 18:15 five weeks from 27th June

Improv in English - Fridays 8pm five weeks from 27th June

Time to act - Five day workshop from 18th August

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 31/05/2025

Potato Atom Masher Smasher Got to have system ain't you

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 23/04/2025

It's a bit picky on astronomical topics but it did recognise this important idiom

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 13/02/2025

Me finding out there are 89 diagrams for 88 constellations

Homer Simpson asking "Oh Serpens Caput, why can't you be more like Serpens Cauda?"

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 06/11/2024

The new leader of the free world

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 31/10/2024

None of this pumpkin nonsense

A lantern made from a turnip as it should be

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 10/10/2024

For BBC weather users, the Earth's orbital velocity around the Sun is about 66,000mph so the windspeeds the app is claiming in the UK are about 1/10 of that

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 13/09/2024

Have a human check your machine translations via @apiln.bsky.social m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/footba...

The Irish U-21s faced Latvia in a Euro 2025 qualifier earlier this week, however the match programme was immediately withdrawn from sale well before kick-off when the errors were discovered.

The FAI immediately contacted the Latvian FA to apologise after some names were printed as ‘Robert the Liar’ and ‘Dario S**t’. The visiting association said they have accepted the apology and understood there was no intention to cause offence.

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 11/09/2024

Great news, Onwurah is a superb thinker on tech and its impact in society, was disappointed she wasn't appointed as a minister

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 11/09/2024

That cherrypicked renewable stat hides the fact that Germany has the most carbon-intensive electricity in Western Europe. The grid here is 6.8x more carbon intensive than France and is more carbon intensive than the US & all but 4 EU countries. ourworldindata.org/grapher/carb...

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 10/09/2024

Signs this place is maturing, we are now getting this weird sort of engagement farming repeating 4 year old news for likes and retweets

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 26/08/2024

Hibiscus chose violence today

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 21/08/2024

Well, it's now the accurate description www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/w...

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 11/08/2024

If this is how he is framing incitement to a pogrom, wait till he starts going on about the BBC news presenter convicted of talking to someone on WhatsApp