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Barry Centricsubdivision

@rhinocratic.bsky.social
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Intermittently functional programmer and aspiring Old Git. Dreams of a future where GDP is supplanted by Gross Global Wellbeing. Please join a union. 💪

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 14h
I 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.
Brightly lit trees and a dark sky.
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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 23h
I 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…
A die photo of the chip under a microscope. It is rectangular, with complicated horizontal and vertical white lines (the metal wiring layer). It has some reddish regions, in particular 72 small reddish squares in the middle (the capacitors). Underneath, the silicon is gray. Around the edges, 20 tiny bond wires are attached to pads; these wires connect the die to the external package.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This 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.
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Andrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 23h
Spotlight on Buttermere
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Three 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
My photo shows an ancient Greek pottery bowl with a rounded, deep body, wide open mouth and flared rim. It has a large handle shaped like a human leg, extending from the left side of the bowl in my photo, bending at a right angle and ending in a flat foot. The bowl has a camel-coloured surface decorated with dark brown geometric patterns, which include zigzags and meander motifs arranged in horizontal bands around the body of the bowl and along the leg. From Attica, Early Geometric period, circa 850 BC. It sits on a light stone coloured surface in a display case at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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Pam McInnes @pammcinnes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#FungiFriday Found my first Ballerina Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis) of the year in North Lancashire.
Ballerina Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis)
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Andrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
View from Fleetwith Pike
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
https://www.threads.com/@vaughantomlinson
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Counterpoint: what's causing it is abundantly clear.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Love 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
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The Garden Jungle @thegardenjungle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Grey Wagtail with its lunch for the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme today of #Eating #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography
Grey Wagtail
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
More scribblings for #Inktober
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Cuillin Hills on Skye, as seen from the Applecross coast road.
Distant mountains over a sea.
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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Beautiful 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
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very 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. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret 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.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Over to you…. 📖 #BookSky
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Barry Centricsubdivision @rhinocratic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One 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.
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Andrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Early morning mist at the head of Crummock Water today
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An 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
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 05/10/2026
The 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.
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David Stevens 🇺🇦 @davidst999.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Larch bolete (Suillus grevillei) seen today in Selm Muir Forest, West Lothian, Scotland. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #OMSystem #Scotland
Larch bolete (Suillus grevillei) seen today in Selm Muir Forest, West Lothian, Scotland. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #OMSystem #Scotland
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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 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
A close-up photograph of a vibrant male Southern Hawker dragonfly (Aeshna cyanea) resting vertically on a stalk of purple toadflax flowers. 
The dragonfly is positioned head-up, with his long, segmented abdomen extending straight down the flower stem. His thorax is a bright apple-green color, accented by two prominent yellow-green oval patches on top. His abdomen features a pattern of dark brown, black, and bright green spots, transitioning into vivid blue segments at the very tip of his tail. The Southern Hawker has large, shiny compound eyes separated by a bright golden patch on the top of his head. Four translucent, glassy wings are spread fully open and flat to the sides, revealing an incredibly dense, delicate, dark-veined net pattern across their entire surface.  The background is completely out of focus, filled with a soft, bright green and yellow bokeh effect created by sunlight filtering through garden foliage.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not 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...
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Jeffrey Archer - Wikipedia
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Having 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
Mammillaria polythele with a crown of magenta flowers
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Atelopus barbotini the purple pink toads: #AGoodPlace
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Barry Centricsubdivision @rhinocratic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So many problems can be solved by improvising a rudimentary lathe. 🤔
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Climate 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.
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Barry Centricsubdivision @rhinocratic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One shudders to imagine...
Danny John-Jules as the Cat in the Red Dwarf episode "Backwards". Here, the Cat is experiencing the effects of time reversal in an uncomfortably direct manner.
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Andrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fountains Abbey
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pauridia 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 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a finger pointing to and nearly overshadowing a tiny plant with two white, star-shaped flowers. The two flowers together are smaller than the fingernail in the photo.
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Exactly! It’s theft!
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Should we refuse to give the Bayeux tapestry back to France? Of course not! So why are we keeping the Parthenon marbles? | Simon Jenkins
It 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
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Cranberry Bog Witch @yeoldebogwitch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cooking together is not romantic. In fact gtfo of my kitchen.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
Farage 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. 📊
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Barry Centricsubdivision @rhinocratic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Zebedee from "The Magic Roundabout".
Zebedee, a spring-loaded character from The Magic Roundabout.
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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!).
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I 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.
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 02/10/2026
"Resident Weevil" isn't a game, but if it were, I would try it.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trouble at the farm
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
<Groan>
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Barry Centricsubdivision @rhinocratic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Quite 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. 🤔
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Absolutely…. #BookSky
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This 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.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Arachtober @arachtober.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
October 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
Arachtober 2026 written in spider web.
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK people, I hope you will protest this!
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Cobie Cipher Triangulation Agency @cobieef.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 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.
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‘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 wrong
In 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...
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Esheru @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
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026
I'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'"
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