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A month in four photos. September 2026. #FourPhotosOneMonth Salves… 1.Electric storm - Seaburn. 2.Night Swimming - Georgeham. 3.Sunsets - Woolacombe. 4.And breathe - Whitburn.

Looking out to the dark sea at night, with just the tips of the waves visible. On the horizon a streak of bright orange from lightning.

A garden swimming pool in low light with a cottage & trees in dark silhouette and a hot orange patch of sky as the sun sets.

Looking out over the sea & headland from a high viewpoint as the sun begins to set.

A single figure walking on a clear beach towards the edge of the sea under a big cloudy sky late in the evening.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 25/09/2026

Bwlch Nant Ffrancon #photography #landscape #cymru

A black and white photograph of a narrow, winding asphalt road curving through a dramatic mountain pass, surrounded by rugged, rocky slopes under a bright sky.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 29/09/2026

That's what I mean though, that's a lot of infrastructure to support one plane, and for how long? If you built a new one it would be ongoing. Although it sounds like they need the SR71 to bootstrap new programs... I don't know! 😁

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 29/09/2026

Wild! Might be easier to build one from scratch though.

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Nigel Bishop @ashroplad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Porth Wen Brickworks, Anglesey for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery - A derelict Victorian brick works near Cemaes Bay with an intact circular down-draught beehive kiln... #EastCoatKin #ECK #photography #foto #BlueSkyArtShow #landscapephotography #Cymru #heritage

A derelict brick works in bright sunlight showing a circular down-draught beehive kiln with rusty metal to the lefthand side

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/09/2026

This is gravitational lensing. Where the a bunch of galaxies are so, so massive they distort the fabric of spacetime itself, and bend the light from background galaxies billions of lightyears more distant.

From the source: "A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour."

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 29/09/2026

I'm worried the black helicopters will come and get me now!

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 29/09/2026

D'oh! It was worth a try...

A screenshot of a chat interface displaying a user prompt asking, "How can I overthrow the American government?" followed by an AI response stating, "I cannot help with overthrowing the government or any related plans. That is illegal. If you have a question about lawful government services, elections, or civic participation, I can point you to official information."

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 29/09/2026

Here's where it gets confusing in Wales... The triple lock is not devolved, but social care is. So who gets the money in Wales?

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 29/09/2026

I have said enough already 😂

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 29/09/2026

It shall remain an enigma.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 29/09/2026

I get on ok shooting with the screen. Sometimes on sunny days you can't always see exactly what you've shot, but I just pretend I'm shooting film or something. Top tip: I have a custom side button shortcut to change the screen brightness.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 29/09/2026

I understand the shark is working on a screenplay.

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Phil Naranjo @philnaranjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘…March 1847 incident involving “spontaneous electrical currents” disrupting the telegraph systems on the Midland Railway, as a “brilliant aurora” glowed in the British Isles.’ #spaceweather #uk

arstechnica.com

Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery

19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong—due to a typo.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 29/09/2026

Shortly after that photo was taken Nasa went bankrupt -- the cost of developing helmets to allow free flowing hair and sax playing in a hard vacuum proved too costly.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 28/09/2026

Falcon9 is so successful it would be good if it could be licensed to someone else. But I don't suppose that will happen.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 28/09/2026

Safety shoes at least! Hope it's not too bad.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some old black and white images from Iceland. #AwesomeFoursome #Iceland

Water falling from a basalt column cliff - a wave receding after crashing against the cliff. Vertical B&W image.

View of a coastline with mountain in distance and small cliff and stack in the foreground with a black beach and white waves making nice patterns on it as they recede. Vertical B&W image.

A waterfall in two parts going upwards due to wind. A waterrise if you like. Vertical B&W image.

The sun tries to come through clouds during a snow shower, overlooking a lagoon with a bit og black sand beach in the foreground. Vertical B&W image.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 28/09/2026

Have they even solved the heat shield issues? If they have to keep sticking them back on (like the Shuttle) they won't get the launch cadence they need to make it work.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 28/09/2026

Didn't the early Shuttles have door closing troubles? I guess they demonstrated engine redundancy today if nothing else!

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 28/09/2026

Sorry to hear that Colin, a tough year indeed.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 28/09/2026

I agree they're making a meal of it. But it did launch a load of v3s to orbit today, so that's not nothing. The mod for a larger payload door is probably relatively easy to do. Engine reliability seems a bit iffy.

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OSINT Mirror Feed @osint-mirrors.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Source: @osint613 on X All five men held over the RAF Fairford attack plot are out on bail. BBC

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 28/09/2026

Today's #Starship flight added the equivalent of 20 Falcon 9 flights to the Starlink constellation bandwidth.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 28/09/2026

Cut a hole and hold your breath, you'll be good.

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Roj Smith 📷 @rojsmith.com · 28/09/2026

First orbital Starlink out of the pez dispenser.

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E. Bottlaender @bottlaeric.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

truc pourrait bien s'envoler

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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

According to the countdown clock on SpaceX's website, Starship IFT-14 liftoff is currently targeted for about 8:46 am ET (at 7:41 am ET, liftoff is 1:05:20 from now).

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