Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionSteve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 14hI saw the light (or lack thereof) yesterday, and grabbed my camera and stepped outside, pretty sure I'd see the mother of all rainbows. But there was none. There was however, the darkest and brightest 'at the same time' moment I think I've ever seen. Extraordinary. 417323
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionKen Shirriff @righto.com · 23hI opened up a mystery chip; it turned out to be a "switched capacitor filter" from 1984. Filters are important circuits, for example, adjusting the bass or treble in an audio signal. This chip, the MF10, was popular because it combined two filters into an easy-to-use chip. Let's take a closer look… 415830
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This guy has been and still is my ‘human university’. By that I mean he’s taught, inspired and echoed my inner thoughts & theories more than any other human I’ve ever come across. Here he is talking about humanity’s “circling the drain”. His name — GEORGE CARLIN. 21942331041
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionAndrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 23hSpotlight on Buttermere 423528
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Three thousand years ago, a Greek potter looked at a bowl and thought: ‘You know what this needs? A leg!’ Clay bowl with leg-shaped handle!🦵😆 Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology 551443333
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionPam McInnes @pammcinnes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026#FungiFriday Found my first Ballerina Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis) of the year in North Lancashire. 3302
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionAndrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026View from Fleetwith Pike 714715
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionPhil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Counterpoint: what's causing it is abundantly clear. 125164
Reposted by Barry Centricsubdivisionderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Love these photos of a gansey sweater over at Highland Threads. Such great knitting. A gansey is a type of fisherman sweater with identical front and back sides. Last photo shows one from Flamborough Marine, my favorite contemporary maker for this style. highlandthreads.co.uk/wick-museum 783026181
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionThe Garden Jungle @thegardenjungle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Grey Wagtail with its lunch for the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme today of #Eating #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography 622828
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026More scribblings for #Inktober 102749
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionSteve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Cuillin Hills on Skye, as seen from the Applecross coast road. 218117
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionFiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Beautiful fan vaulting over the South Door at Tewkesbury Abbey. It's a reconstruction dating from the late 19thC on the site of what would have been the cloisters and uses the fan vaulting at Gloucester Cathedral as a template. #TraceryTuesday 117129
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Very sad to hear that Margaret Hamilton has passed away. Here's a short thread about her role in the Apollo mission, and her lesser-known work on the simulations that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. 7985446
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Over to you…. 📖 #BookSky 68358
Barry Centricsubdivision @rhinocratic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. With apologies to anyone who loved this, the whole magical realism genre just leaves me cold. Regular fiction ruined by a liberal larding of sham science and mystical cobblers. 150
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionAndrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Early morning mist at the head of Crummock Water today 313815
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionKevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 06/10/2026An altar dedicated to Jupiter from the Roman fort at Maryport in Cumbria which was set up by Marcus Maenius Agrippa, Tribune and Commander of the First Cohort of Spaniards. Now part of the collections at Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday 319537
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionBoo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 05/10/2026The entirety of conservatism basically boils down to the accumulation, consolidation, and preservation of multi-generational hereditary wealth by any means necessary and one of the chief tools is rentier capitalism. It divides society into landlords and tenants. 083
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionDavid Stevens 🇺🇦 @davidst999.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Larch bolete (Suillus grevillei) seen today in Selm Muir Forest, West Lothian, Scotland. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #OMSystem #Scotland 2888
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionHelen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A reminder from nature to pause, breathe, and appreciate the beauty that surrounds us while seeking a perfect balance in life... like this gorgeous male Southern Hawker! 💙🫶📷 Happy Monday everyone. Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead. 🕊️🌿 #MacroMonday #Nature #Invert #Dragonflies #UKWildlife #ECK 3540779
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Not only was Jeffrey Archer a perjurer, insider trader, thief, plagiariser, coup financer and racist, it’s important to remember he was also a shit novelist Read all about it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey...en.wikipedia.orgJeffrey Archer - Wikipedia 1325252
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionRick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Having a greenhouse, even a small plastic one, really opens up your options for late and early season gardening. I keep my cacti in one spring to autumn then put my potted dahlias in there when I bring my succulents in for the winter 🌱🌵🪴 #GardensHour #Succulents #Bloomscrolling #MagentaMonday 524024
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionMichelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Atelopus barbotini the purple pink toads: #AGoodPlace 391115165
Barry Centricsubdivision @rhinocratic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026So many problems can be solved by improvising a rudimentary lathe. 🤔 010
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionAbilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Climate change is speeding up four kinds of risk at once: • climatological (heat, drought, fire weather) • hydrological (floods, water scarcity) • biological (disease, ecosystem collapse) • geomorphological (landslides, erosion, thaw) They do not arrive one by one. They stack. 312456
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionAndrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Fountains Abbey 0817
Reposted by Barry Centricsubdivision🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Pauridia pygmaea, of the Cape Region, is just a few cm tall & grows from a summer-dormant corm. The flowers are white & fragrant. Remarkably, as the fruits mature, the stalk bends & pushes the capsule onto the ground. 📷: Martine Robinson CCBYNC4 #Hypoxidaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 16412
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionClaire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 03/10/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Exactly! It’s theft!theguardian.comShould we refuse to give the Bayeux tapestry back to France? Of course not! So why are we keeping the Parthenon marbles? | Simon JenkinsIt is simply wrong for the British Museum to hoard what doesn’t belong to Britain. Let the squabbling end and the sculptures be returned to Greece, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins 2294
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionCranberry Bog Witch @yeoldebogwitch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Cooking together is not romantic. In fact gtfo of my kitchen. 9292564
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊bestforbritain.orgFarage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain 39968509
Barry Centricsubdivision @rhinocratic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Zebedee from "The Magic Roundabout". 000
Barry Centricsubdivision @rhinocratic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Waking Up" by Sam Harris, which introduced me to meditation and secular spirituality. Also, an honourable mention for Iain McGilchrist's "The Matter With Things" (but I'm still making my way through this 2-volume epic!). 020
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools. 47857290
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionBoo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 02/10/2026"Resident Weevil" isn't a game, but if it were, I would try it. 051
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Trouble at the farm 462287330
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionBrown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026<Groan> 863352463
Barry Centricsubdivision @rhinocratic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Quite right. A crime to rank alongside annotations, underlinings and use of a highlighter. Mind you, I'm not so particular as my other half. She refuses to buy signed copies of books, considering the author's autograph a defacement. 🤔 010
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Absolutely…. #BookSky 3437159
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is like the discovery that all the tests to see how much microplastics are in the environment were all contaminated by the microplastics present on the nitrile gloves used to avoid contamination. 29418
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Naomi Klein Is Spot On....... 15687873406
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionArachtober @arachtober.bsky.social · 30/09/2026October 1st marks the start of the 20th year of #Arachtober! Join the celebration throughout October by sharing your photos of #spiders, scorpions, and other #arachnids using #Arachtober. Explore the hashtag and connect with other enthusiasts around the world. Learn more at Arachtober.com 14318
Reposted by Barry Centricsubdivision@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026UK people, I hope you will protest this! 1198
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionCobie Cipher Triangulation Agency @cobieef.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This article is fascinating because it actually proposes two key reasons why fascist parties come to power which are vital to what is happening today: (1) Conservatives only win from the centre ground. (2) Fascists win when they promise violence.theguardian.com‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrongIn a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt... 152
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionEsheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” - James Baldwin. @theguardian.com you reported gleefully that Ed Millburn said the UK Labour government fell short, this is nothing to be gleeful about. This also isn’t falling short, it’s a derelection of duty 1214597
Reposted by Barry CentricsubdivisionLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026I'm researching the previous owners of a pub from the late 1800s and have ended up reading about Lord Darnley, who "eschewed all romantic and intimate relationships, as he believe he was a teapot and it might damage his 'spout'" 1113318