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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Alt text so visually disabled people can read it too.

The image shows a verified BBC News graphic from the Holborn and St Pancras by-election held on October 8, 2026.

Key Election Results

• Labour (Sagal Abdi-Wali): 12,292 votes (won the seat)
• Green Party (Zack Polanski): 8,928 votes (second place)
• Conservative (Ewan Cameron): 1,922 votes (third place)
• Reform UK (Pete Newman): 1,612 votes (fourth place)
• Liberal Democrats (Patrick Stillman): 924 votes (fifth place)
• Restore Britain (Tyler Johnson): 692 votes (sixth place)
• Turnout: 39% (38.7% officially recorded)

Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

@aiannucci.bsky.social inspired by Stewart Lee's idea of using Hegseth's No Fanny speech as a sample, I knocked this together.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Added alt-text so that blind people can read the screenshot of text too.

Suella Braverman too proud for benefits...

Went to university for free Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years Millions of pounds in expenses claims

She just doesn't call them benefits

Suella Braverman: My immigrant family was too proud for benefits

Reform's education champion on Islamism 'bullying' the Left, schools ignoring British culture and motherhood forging her inner steel

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Ukrainian is nuts. Different versions of plurals depending on how many things there are!

The image shows Ukrainian counting phrases with different noun forms depending on the number: одна (one) takes the nominative singular feminine (машина), три (three) takes the genitive singular feminine (машини), and п'ять (five) takes the genitive plural (машин).

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Essential notification setting eBay live notifications OFF

The notifications configuration for eBay, with eBay live ones turned off.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Alt text added so that visually disabled people can also read it.

THE

TIMES

Post

Sir, When the Dunbar lifeboat launched on December 21, 1971 in a force 10 gale to help a young man who had been face down in the water for several minutes, its crew did not know and did not ask whether the person was black, white, Christian, Muslim or a refugee. He was simply a human being in trouble. In setting out to save me the RNLI honoured one of the most admirable philosophies in human history. The fact that their action granted me a wonderful life I would otherwise not have had is a minor point. The important point is that in dedicating itself to the saving of human life the crew members of the RNLI restored my faith in humanity. Greater love hath no person than to risk their life for someone they do not know. Greater hate hath no person than to accuse those who put their lives on the line for others of being traitors.

Dr Martin Stephen

Great Shelford, Cambs

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

I remember when the fountain froze in 2018.

The fountain with frozen water coming out of the lion's mouth.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026

We wondered when this door was last opened on the underground at Paddington.

A green wooden door on the far side of the track of an underground station, set into the wall opposite the platform. There are 7 horizontal cables mainly going across the middle and bottom of the door. It's padlocked shut with what looks like a very old and rusty lock.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

A pub toilet in Fremington, where the walls are covered in AstroTurf.

The upper half of the walls are covered in AstroTurf. The lower are tiled.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

@pegdeg.bsky.social it's happening... All the kit delivered, old rads off.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Cool: The Velvet Underground Not Cool: Zuckerberg

The Velvet Underground, with Nico. Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison are all wearing black shades and looking intensely cool.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

My eclipse video. I'll fix the juddering when I'm near my Mac:-)

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

I've just finished this, what a marvelous book. A fantastic read.

The cover of a book. It's a picture of small red stones on red ground, covered in spider webs soaked in dew.

'A genuinely striking debut' Mike McCormack

WATER IN THE DESERT,

FIRE IN THE NIGHT

GETHAN DICK

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

I've taken a test photo from my chosen vantage point. Hopefully clear on the day, as I'm hoping to do a time lapse.

The sun, orange, almost red, with a black background and a small sunspot at 3 o'clock.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

My electricity bill so far this year. The hatched part of the graph is the standing charge, the pink bit is consumption. The trick. Solar and battery storage. The electricity savings, plus exporting excess to the grid, plus virtual power plant exports (dump the battery to the grid when the....

A bar graph showing decreasing usage from January to March and almost zero usage from April onwards. The bill for the year is £245.17

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026

I'm reading a great book about Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon. In it Linnaeus explained that it worked the other way around and that some rocks were made from sand that had aggregated together:-) It's such a good book, I highly recommend it.

This book is Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts.It is a dual biography focusing on the 18th-century rivalry between scientists Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon as they competed to catalogue Earth's species.The hardcover edition was published in April 2024 by Riverrun.The book was recognized as the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

Today's listening. I went to town on the alt text.

John Grant, with a teaspoon spoon in his hand, sitting in cool café. In his other hand is a book. On the table is a wide coffee mug. Browns are the predominant colour in the photo; the table and walls are wooden, and he's wearing a dark brown suit with a light green tie.

He's bearded with short, but thick, slightly curly hair and looking at the camera on a not quite menacing, but almost, way.

PALE GREEN GHOSTS

Pale Green Ghosts

Album by John Grant

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Release date: 19 Mar 2013

Length: 1:00:46

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

Heat pump install, phase one complete. @pegdeg.bsky.social

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 18/07/2026

Oops. I never realised my Dad's old boom box still had the batteries in. Circa 1999!

Six large Duracell batteries in the back of a radio cassette CD player. They are leaking badly, in some cases they've split right open.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

I have to say this is one of the best albums ever made. And what a cover! Why's it so great? Immaculate musicianship, amazing singing, and above all, great songs. I love listening to the story each song tells, each a little snippet of history. I absolutely love it.

The album cover of Below The Salt by Steeleye Span. The band members are dressed as medieval peasants at a banquet table covered in food and tankards. The singer's feet are up on the table, as her partner leans over to grab some food.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

A repair by a Reform led county council, in Deal, Kent.

A street sign by the pavement. The bottom of the post is rusted through, see next photo for details.

The repair of the pole. The two rusted halves of the post have been cable tied together.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026

Ha, yes, that strange venue with people pretty much standing on the side of the stage. Hot, sweaty and great!

Prolapse hot and sweaty on stage, with people alongside the right of the stage.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

From a few years back. I was enrolled in the clinical trials for what became the Astra Zeneca vaccine. It was one of the most fulfilling things I've ever done.

A card on a wooden table. The card reads:

OXFORD COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial

I am enrolled in a clinical trial of a novel vac- cine being sponsored by the University of Oxford. In case of emergency please contact

24 Hr Contact Number: 0117 923 0000

Medical Research Unit Zone 8501 Bristol Royal Infirmary Bristol, 852 BHW

Medical Reseanch Unit

T: 0117 342 9200 (Office hours)

T: 0117 923 0000 (24hr; ask for COMID vacdime trial doch

Email: COV002@uhbw.nhs.uk

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

My partner's going through her singles and showed me these gems @prolapseband.bsky.social :-)

Prolapse autocade (didactic feral control ) 99p

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

I took a photo of today's culprit. Only one obvious sunspot, though you can just make out another at about 10 o'clock.

The sun, which is a red/orange circle with a sunspot just left of centre.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 23/06/2026

My rhubarb is going ballistic. 3kg from one plant. Rhubarb crumble, rhubarb yogurt, any other ideas? I bet there's a great @nigella.bsky.social recipe out there somewhere!

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 21/06/2026

My rhubarb has gone ballistic!

Very large rhubarb leaves, with my hand for scale.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 14/06/2026

Hawkwind were in great form last night. Space rock at its absolute best. An amazing gap between Dylan on drums, aged 18, and Dave Brock, at a ridiculous 85.

A shot of the whole band on stage. Left to right, Magnus on guitar, Doug on Bass, Dylan on drums, Richard on bongos and vocals, Dave Brock on guitar and vocals, Thighpaulsandra on keyboards and weird noises.

Lots of lasers lighting up the sky, with animated flames projected on to the backdrop.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026

A ladybird larva stuck to a leaf. Let the pupation begin.

A black and orange larva stuck from one end onto a leaf.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026

We inherited voodoo lilies in the garden. They look amazing but have evolved to attract flies to pollinate them. As such they stink of rotting flesh. Nice.

A large purple flower with a very phallic centre. My, very large hand is for scale next to it. It's about as wide and twice the length.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026

Found my missing Nirvana ticket inside John Lewis Carré's The Honourable School Boy. I must have been using it as a bookmark 32 years ago. I think I need to restart the book, I can't remember much about it! @nickharkaway.com

ACADEMY

7 Jun >

NIRVANA

SUNDAY

3rd APR

1994

Doors

7:00pm

£13.50 Advance

STALLS

00843

ACADEMY

RIVERMAN by arrangement with ITB Present

NIRVANA

Plus Special Guests SUNDAY 3rd APRIL 1994 Doors 7:00pm £13.50 (In Advance)

STALLS STANDING

00843

Retain This Portion

Conditions Overleaf

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026

The whirlpool galaxy and two others, taken in my back garden last night. Full description on alt text.

Here we see the Whirlpool galaxy M51 interacting with the dwarf galaxy NGC 5195. Note the stream of stars between the two.

The eagle eyed amongst you might spot another galaxy at the bottom left. This is IC 4263, and the light that hit the back of my telescope last night left that galaxy at the same time as Iguanadon roamed the earth, around 140 million years ago.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026

open.spotify.com/album/3oSAcQ... This is such a fantastic live album. If you're a fan of cosmic psychedelic space rock, ala Hawkwind Space Ritual era, this is for you. Photo from when we saw them a couple of weeks ago.

A long haired old Japanese guitarist holds his guitar high above him, back lit by blue light.

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Paul N @paulnuk.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026

Having seen a recommendation from @profaliceroberts.bsky.social about the Merlin bird recognition app, I turned it on and left it running in my pocket on a cycle from Bristol to Portishead today (up the Portway). I didn't think it would pick up anything due to the wind noise, but here we go: