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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 12h

For a change, the air here is deathly still (North Pennines).

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

The calm before the storm. Time to batten down the hatches.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Tipping bucket rain gauge I got cheap on Aliexpress. Had planned on building a DIY gauge using a time-of-flight water level sensor and syphon but this saves a lot of time. Using nRF52840 board and LoRa wireless protocol to transmit readings. Should get 5 year battery life on AAA cells.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

It all revolves around the Conservative leadership election process implemented by William Hague. Until that is fixed, the membership will keep electing lunatics.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Reform have been drifting down over the past year.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

The irony of democracy is that the electorate can be manipulated into voting it away. On the scale of human history, democracy has been fleeting. Enjoy it while it lasts.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

This is what I recommend to players and would-be Casanovas. Works every time.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

They remind me of those children's ride-on suitcases. When you are travelling you've got to look insouciant and cool. That's why you need an olive green pack, a beard and sunglasses, and just grunt when people talk to you so they think you are with the special forces.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

I'm trying to track down the film this clip is from. It looks like a good one.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

ASCII art ascii.rest/aurora-fjord/

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

A shepherd's delight, and mine too.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Russia didn't get so large by accident. Russia has always been hostile, and the West's error was not treating it as so after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

A wild night, and this is the windspeed in my sheltered garden.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Out of kilter with the poll aggregators:

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

All of these "I voted to Remain, but the UK can't rejoin because it can only join, blah, blah, <confected nonsense>" accounts must be going into meltdown.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Puffballs are nice when young and white all the way through. As soon as they start to change colour, are inedible. Always cut in half to distinguish from immature death caps, which are shaped like little white eggs but have a developing stem and cap inside. This picture is of a puffball cut in half.

A young common puffball mushroom cut in half, showing solid white inside and no sign of a developing stalk and cap as would be found in a dangerous Amanita mushroom.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

By calling a referendum, Cameron and Osborne legitimised what was formerly a crank position.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

So I clambered down to it and opened the door, only to realise that I was standing on top of an old mine shaft.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Later in the walk, I came across this small building. Curious, I thought.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

The Tories are a long way from recovering.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

The sun breaking through after a very wet and stormy night.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Don't knock hamsters - they are cool.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Interesting Amazon shopping profile, not all of which is true. www.fastcompany.com/91619118/ama...

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Spent some time balancing this wind vane. Quite sensitive. Got to come up with an angle sensor now.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

First frost of autumn this morning.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

MoreInCommon use online polling and their results jump around a fair amount. Take these changes with a pinch of salt.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Cases are rising sharply for the time of year.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

This all goes back to William Hague changing the leadership selection process to a final election by the membership rather than MPs. It means that potential candidates are always trying to appeal to a group of swivel-eyed lunatics.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Mean of the big 3 poll aggregators (Politico, Spectator, Economist): Labour 27 Conservative 19 Libdem 10 Green 10 Reform Party UK Ltd. 22

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Translation of a post on Telegram.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

The only European countries with a higher incarceration rate than the UK are former Iron Curtain countries. Do we really want to move towards that?

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

According to the Moscow Times story, she told medical staff that she broke a vile. I suspect that she didn't tell anyone until admitted to hospital, by which time it was too late to treat and she had exposed countless staff and patients to pneumonic plague. Hence the quarantine.

NeMoskva Reports
A "highly dangerous infection" has been detected in the Irkutsk region—it may be plague. A citywide cleanup day in Irkutsk has been cancelled. Anna Popova, the Chief State Sanitary Doctor, flew to the Irkutsk region and held an urgent meeting, the regional governor announced...
Plague in the Irkutsk region: a researcher died after breaking a test tube. Nearly 200 people hospitalized.

🔸 According to the "People of Baikal" project, the deceased researcher had been working in the Trans-Baikal region with animals infected with plague. Her name was Darya Sh., and she was 28 years old. Before her death, she told doctors she had accidentally broken a test tube containing the dangerous bacteria while collecting biological material for diagnostic testing in the laboratory. Medical professionals state that she died of pneumonic plague.

🔸 A quarantine has been declared at the hospital in the city of Shelekhov (Irkutsk region), where she spent three days; all staff and patients undergoing treatment there have been isolated. Everyone who had contact with the deceased has been placed under medical observation.

🔸 According to the Telegram channel "Ranshe Vsekh" (Sooner Than Anyone Else), 189 people are currently in hospital care. Some are exhibiting symptoms of plague, though this does not yet confirm an actual infection.

🔸 Citing Shelekhov residents, the "People of Baikal" project reports that people in protective suits, masks, and gloves are walking the streets. Masks were also distributed in kindergartens. Yesterday evening, a meeting involving heads of law enforcement and administrative agencies took place in Irkutsk. Following this, the publication notes, FSB units began escorting the ambulances used to transport people who had contact with Sh. for medical examinations. 🔸 According to a doctor who spoke with the "People of Baikal" project, the pneumonic form of plague is transmitted from person to person and is highly contagious.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

We returned to Staward Gorge where the dog sprained his paw a fortnight ago. The high narrow ridge here bears the ruins of Staward Peel, a stone fort built to defend against marauding Scots in the 14th century. It has a serene view over the gorge and is where we left Rockie's ashes.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Are you getting more decals while it is there?

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

1200 feet above sea level in the North Pennines and still have tomatoes ripening in October. Shows how extraordinary the weather has been.

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Russ Holmes @rholmes.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

The recommended low pass filter to de-bounce a magnetic reed switch on a tipping bucket rain gauge. Seems way out. Those values give a time constant of 1 microsecond - a small reed switch bounces for up to 1 millisecond.