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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 18h

Could you redraw the diagram with USA as a separate slice, not as part of NATO?

Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 21h

Pa fath o dwpsin eisiau codi gorsaf betrol newydd heddiw? Ac yn bendant does dim angen DWY orsaf o fewn milltir mewn pentref.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 22h

Good one. My immediate thought was "Nymph, in thy orisons, be all my sins remembered"

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

#OTD in 1818, Maria Mitchell was born. She was the first professional female astronomer in the U.S. On 1 Oct 1847 she discovered a comet, later known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her honor (today named C/1847 T1). Image: H. B. Dassel portrait of Maria Mitchell, ca. 1851 Public D. 🔭 🧪 #HistSci

Portrait of Maria Mitchell by Herminia Borchard Dassel (1821-1857), ca. 1851. Maria wears a dark dress with a white collar, and probably scans the sky through a telescope.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like Landmark Trust did at Astley Castle? www.landmarktrust.org.uk/properties/a...

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love the idea of a flying bishop! Sort of like the Flying Doctor, arrives in his private helicopter? What happens when a real bishop meets an anti-Bishop*? Do they explode and annihilate each other in a massive burst of energy? * I'm sure that's not the technical term

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Are there still any of those around? An awful* lot of bishops (and Archbishop) seem to be female these days. * as in "inspiring great awe, in a good way ",

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To be fair, there are an awful lot of horses kept as pets these days. I often see the mobile farrier down the lane. Don't understand it myself, cats can keep you warm at night, but generally you can only get a part of a horse in bed with you.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh come on, there's loads of ghostly Victorian ladies in white drifting around.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My parents met a man in Lincolnshire call "Original Bug" (or possibly Bugge)

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My father, poor lad, was George Geoffrey, G G. You can image school and giddy-up, horsey!

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, yes. They called it "infant paralysis" until the mid? 1800s so technically "polio" didn't exist.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rope culture? Like lassos n stuff? Well, it's all traditional culture, I suppose, like wrastling a steer. We're grown-ups, so please call a digging implement a digging implement. They're (allegedly) rapists. Trump is a convicted rapist.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

... Not until someone invents fabric conditioner. Wool itches!

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Harold was in many ways the ideal suitor: old and very, very rich. His blindness, which meant that he always missed when trying to grope Lucretia's knee, was a bonus.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Years back, some company decided to reward developers based on the number of lines of code they wrote. another based bonuses on the number of bugs you found and fixed in your own code. Ho hum.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And how does a massive AI dáta centre compare in vulnerability to, say, a Wildberries warehouse in Moscow?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As an aside, Varsity seems to have a larger staff than most national newspapers!

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That too... And hostile forces don't even need to damage the reactors - just the non-radioactive bits that let the electricity out into the world.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This goes deeper. Government are still desperately keen to build more nuclear power stations. Forget the cost arguments, strategically bad. A few hostile missiles and we've lost 10% of our electricity supply. Distributed power - solar PV, small turbines, + batteries is almost invulnerable.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"mid" doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Possibly no weirder than those setups where a bathroom is shared by 2 bedrooms, each with a door.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They were Israeli military. They were heavily armed. How can they have been overwhelmed? Couldn't they just call in a missile strike? Or run over the #Zionist terrorists in a tank? And if the terrorists were 'violent' no question. Bomb them to dust. Palestinian kids are shot for holding a stone.

Israeli forces overwhelmed by violent settlers in ‘terrorist attack’ on Palestinian family

Settler violence in West Bank makes everyday life ‘untenable’ for Palestinians, says ICRC after assault on family trying to return home in Jalud

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Faint yw gwobr yr Eurolottery yr wythnos 'ma?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How many are sanctioned Russian tankers?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A simple start is taxing/banning their water wastage. There is no technical reason for data centres to need to use lots of water. They use it for cooling and lose 80% through evaporation. Which is cheap. Require a closed system, recover all the vapour for re-use. £50/cu.m. after that.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I need three months holiday to work through these...

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Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Flipping through old editions of the New Shetlander. They really knew their readership.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Given electricity prices these days I assume you've renewed the connection to the nearby business?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How about just re-running Wooster and the Spode episodes?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

€1.1 million in losses? Pah, British politicians cost the Treasury tens of billions in fraud and corruption and no-one* bats an eyelid. * well, no-one with any power to prosecute

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe time for a remake with wee Danno Thomo Spodo Thugo in the lead, and his Mum as the live-in help. They had to move there when she became homeless

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nice, but if you wear one might not people assume you are an off-duty member of an RNLI crew? Do they do an I 🩷 RNLI version?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How are IT 'professionals' so incompetent? New designs, new code, great. But only if it makes a better system than before. And ALWAYS make sure that old urls redirect smoothly to the new one (at detailed record level) and return a 301 response. And how complicated is an image viewer?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

<howls of derisive laughter> That's the whole point of setting it up!

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

RCAHMW have actual prints! But digital is easier...

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, why were they arrested and charged then? Lesson: be very, very careful about how you draft legislation. Think of ALL the possibilities and cover them. Be very, very precise. But words are worthless until some action is taken to undo the damage, and compensate those arrested.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, apparently there is actually a 'sausage tree' - grows in Africa (Kigelia africana)

fruit like white puddings hanging on a tree

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Perhaps the world should do a crowdfunder to offer $1 billion for Putin's head? Much cheaper than fighting this criminal war.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you live in a neighbourhood where nutters grab cats off the street to torture them, you really need to move to a safer neighborhood. What do they do to people?

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If its not safe for the cats to go out, maybe people should move to somewhere where it is? Or just keep a hamster.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Never mind the cat, I think you really need to move.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I only visited Glasgow a couple of times. What impressed me was that the Students Union had a disco for the dentists on, midweek, middle of term, and they had a 4am licence! We used to get one a year, for the Union Ball! Very laid back council in Glasgow!

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Really relaxed! Because everyone at St A was doing philosophy, lectures were at 5pm every day, which pissed people off. And when they got on to Kierkegaad it was terrible to see 500 depressed bejants around the place!

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Interestingly, when I started at the university of St Andrews in Scotland back in the seventies, a pass at GCE (exams at 15) in a language was a entry requirement and a pass in first year Philosophy was mandatory for any degree in the Arts Faculty.

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Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, my first degree was in Astronomy, my career has been in IT, and my masters was in Welsh Social History. If I ever get round to it, my PhD will also be on C19 Welsh history. Meanwhile I'm still cutting code. Tbf, people do say I seem to live in my own little universe!

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