ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026And still the Republican Party in Congress worships him and stands (in silence) behind everything he does. Watch how they vote; that's where their beliefs lie. 130
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I guess this is the State of the Union message that matters to everyone on the planet except the Republican States in what was once a union. 000
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026It's spring in Sonoma County. Time to bike over to one of my favorite local wineries, a 27 mile round trip involving two massive climbs over Sonoma Mountain. (Well, they seem massive at my age. 🥴) 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Sunset-lit reception at Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley last Thursday 000
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Stopped my bike ride to take this photo of a highly unusual sky for California (Sonoma County in this case), late afternoon on January 6. 030
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Rural Sonoma County. I love it. No, that's not a truck; it's the front end of a truck turned into a garden ornament. Snapped this shot on my morning walk on a recent misty morning. I love the mist. It reminds me of English countryside and makes for great Pinot Noir. 151
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025... so I refocused and zoomed (those terms seem archaic for a modern iPhone) to capture a wonderful Scene of Greens. What a spectrum! I pass it on before the Republicans ban beautiful scenes. (Just wait; the regular folk like it, so Republicans will want to ban it, together with democracy.) 000
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025I was captivated by the evening sky (over the Pacific Ocean 10 miles away from my Sonoma home), and took an iPhone pic before the moment passed. But as I did, I noticed something else. ... [to be continued] 110
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025I pulled up behind this Tesla today. Three nice disclaimers. 000
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025The golden rule when dealing with a cover-up scandal: anything other than releasing everything will make the situation worse. Those of us who remember Watergate have seen this show play out. open.substack.com/pub/robertre... 000
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Californian poppies will spring up with the flimsiest of opportunities; in this case, cracks in the concrete in a corner of our driveway where I unload and store garden materials 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025The Economist tracker. Seems the Republicans know their voters. These are our fellow citizens. They are in the minority, but their numbers are growing. Hard to know what to make of this. 000
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Spectacular Sonoma County sunset from our back patio this evening. Untouched photo from my iPhone 181
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Here's two from last May to whet your appetite. This is the small park across the street from our front door. I walk over the little bridge to get the tram to the uni each day. The guy on the pedestal is Hans Christian Anderson, local boy who made good. 110
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I'm looking forward to spending May in Denmark, an advanced society that's an example to the world. My US friends envy my having such an opportunity. It will be my third visit as a Visiting Prof at SDU. As a native of Yorkshire, I may be descended from this guy, a short distance from my apartment. 120
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Just like that. It was summer in Sonoma Valley. 120
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Got this from @jjn1.bsky.social 's email column 041
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Poster at a London bus stop, H/T @jjn1.bsky.social 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Biden clearly screwed up with regard to having a finger on the pulse of the voters (as did pretty well all Democrats), but he did one hell of a job with running the country at a difficult time. 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Trump is winning the propaganda war because he can fake being a smart man of action that fools half the voters and the GOP House and Senate supplicants. Good advice for patriots here: open.substack.com/pub/contrari... 182
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Nothing unusual here. Just the present day #GOP behaving as we have come to expect. Why would you not want this clown as Attorney General? It's what a majority of electors voted for. 020
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 08/12/2024iPhone cameras are amazing. I took this early this morning to see if it could capture the low early morning sunlight and the mist. Other than using the tree for some shade, I just point-and-clicked (one handed with dog on leash in the other hand). Photo shows what I saw! 020
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 05/12/20247.3 earthquake just hit west of Eureka. Tsunami warning for northern CA and southern OR coasts 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024"Quantum leap"? I do not think it means what you think it means. (Thanks, Inigo.) Unless you really do mean this is the tiniest advance possible. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 020
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024When we moved to the US in 1987, and were invited to Thanksgivings, we found they had no meaning to us. It lives on childhood memories. So we created our own tradition. Our annual Thanksgiving Dinner takes us back to life in early postwar Britain. (Fine wine from our own cellar is an addition!) 1160
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024So my motel in Sunnyvale was is the middle of Silicon Valley corporate sprawl, with a major freeway interchange next door, and little chance to walk to a restaurant. The only no-drive option was a Turkish BBQ place sitting on the edge of the motel parking lot. 🙁 But I was hungry. What a gem!!! 040
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 10/11/2024At this time of year, the Golden State is just plain brown. But soon it will be bright green with golden poppies. Sonoma County's Chileno Valley on my regular 25 miles loop a few days ago. 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 20/10/2024Huh. This photo is in the #WashingtonPost on Oct 19! Something sure is fake. The photo itself, if real and current, belies reports that his rallies draw small crowds. What gives, WaPo? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 19/10/2024Oh, #Florida. You keep making an ass of yourself. Read the Constitution, FFS. Great response by the judge. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2024Given the source, this has to be viewed as a call for an assassination. The Republicans are taking the election into extemely dangerous territory 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 16/08/2024Regardless of who wins in November, a nation for whom these poll-averages (WaPo, today) reflect the rationality and basic observational skills of the population (if they do) is, quite frankly, f***ed. 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 13/06/2024Misty, early morning, 25-mile ride around 17 Mile Drive from Pacific Grove this morning. Brief photo stops at Sunset Point and the famous Lone Cypress tree, both empty of the crowds of tourists there'd be later in the day. #cycling 120
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 10/06/2024My way or the highway? Take your pick. Traffic streaming down Hwy 101 from the Sonoma County wine country to San Francisco this sunny afternoon #cycling 040
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 07/05/2024My home in Denmark for the month of May. Not the whole house; it's divided into four apartments. It's a nice change to be a short walk from a cafe-rich city center that's pedestrian only. Scandinavia is advanced civilization; but for this kid from Hull, on balance the Bay Area is still my #1 060
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 23/04/2024A gorgeous place to stop briefly on my ride through Sonoma County's Chileno Valley on Sunday. #cycling #Sonoma 020
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 20/03/2024When your digital life hangs by a thread. This is the #Comcast cable that feeds the district where I live. It's been like that since a storm back in January took down two power poles and all that they carried, and the repair crew put in a patch cable 🙄 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 17/03/2024My 77th birthday plan (today) was a 77 mile ride w 7,700ft of climbing, but illness and lots of rain this year meant I did not get enough fitness. So I settled for a local loop of 16miles and 1,600ft upwards for March 16, followed by lunch at Francis Ford Coppola Winery. Gorgeous weather. #cycling 130
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 13/03/2024You know you are living in Silicon Valley when your regional daily newspaper sends this out. #PiDay 000
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 11/03/2024Today's NYT. Surely the motive is obvious: the driver may have been armed. Or did the writer intend to say something else? 🙄 000
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 08/03/2024This didn't fare well when it came up against reality. From the NYT 010
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 06/03/2024Voting in yesterday's Senate race shows how California is now two very different political entities with a clear dividing line 100
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 29/02/2024The ride back from the summit of Sonoma Mtn is a lot easier and much faster than the long, undulating, 12-mile climb out. Home is down below me in the #Petaluma valley. The colors are like CGI in the spring #cycling 120
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Sonoma County wine country at the start of the year. The ride out on my 25m out-n-back to the summit of Sonoma Mtn. My 77-yr-old body needs a new 32/32 bottom ratio to do this ride, and I'm slowing down, but so far no #ebike #cycling 140
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Maybe not so different, except we had two big trees fall & they took down over 100 meters of powerline, killing power to around 400 homes. So ours was more of an equal opportunity hit rather than a targeted strike. Different solution though. Locals cleared the trees; a PG&E platoon arrives tomorrow 310
ProfKeithDevlin @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social · 30/01/2024Antonio's Nut House was part of my local Palo Alto neighborhood for much of my Stanford career. It closed in 2020. I walked past it tonight, and this is what's left. The site's future looks bright in a Silicon Valley sort of way, but the old NH is gone. www.paloaltoonline.com/2022/01/05/n... 110