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Roy Williams

@roydavidwilliams.bsky.social
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Edinburgh resident and identifies Scottish but also American. Data mining in astronomy. History, photography, cooking, bad jokes.

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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Also from Edinburgh
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse from #Edinburgh
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Best way to view the eclipse? Look in the opposite direction! A tree makes good shadows, also a colander.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Locals take pictures in #Edinburgh (blue/black), versus where the tourists take pictures (red/white). Adapted from brilliantmaps.com.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Exhibition at Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. I think this could never be exhibited in the USA, even with its explicit free speech protections. Perhaps the UK is the new land of the free? #trump
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
So proud of my bank here in Scotland
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Politics is dark but its Springtime in #Edinburgh!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The Rubin Observatory needs help from citizen scientists, please think of contributing, or suggesting this project to family members. We need to train the algorithm for real vs bogus images, and YOUR EYE is really good at this! www.zooniverse.org/projects/ebe...
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The good news is that the Labour government has reduced by 1/3 the number of asylum seekers waiting in hotels and forbidden from working.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
A luxury that cannot be resisted!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Being photobombed at Loch Sliphoirt, #OuterHebrides. Rain coming soon.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Callanish, 4000 year old megalith, Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Will definitely outlast the current crop of haters and fools.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Moray Place #Edinburgh
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Heroic statues appearing on North Bridge #Edinburgh. Newly painted side panels shyly on sjow. Could the endless works finally come to an end?
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Can I just say how much I like the Barony Bar #Edinburgh? Not just Cask Marque beer for me, but also dog treats!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Modern Art #Edinburgh
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We just love our devices don't we! (by Linder Sterling)
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The Palestine Museum ìn #Edinburgh is full of beautiful art about love and struggle.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Henderson Row, Stockbridge, #Edinburgh
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Circus Lane #Edinburgh in full flower
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
No Kings Day in England, 1649. The execution of Charles I. Too many capricious and self-serving Executive Orders.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Last November in Rockland County Kamala Harris got zero (0) votes. Weird huh?
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A labyrinthine island of tranquillity in the midst of the hurly burly at George Square #Edinburgh
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Drummond Place #Edinburgh on a sunny Friday afternoon
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We got a new cat 2 weeks ago!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Warriston Cemetary #Edinburgh is utterly quiet, tranquil, and green. You will be alone.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
#Scotland is in a drought. Grass is yellow. We need some serious rain.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Who remembers what humankind becomes in WALL-E?
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I have a friend and while we talk they continuously twist a rubiks cube and these lovely patterns appear and disappear
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I was Labour now I'm SNP
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
In the ancient wall of my local petrol station is inscribed "The Baxters Land 1686". They were bakers based in the Canongate and had to grind their corn at Canonmills #Edinburgh
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Super delicious contemporary art at royalscottisacademy.org in #Edinburgh. Free entry!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
At the Old Calton Graveyard in #Edinburgh. For Scottish soldiers killed in the American civil war. The freed slave reaches up to Lincoln. Paid for, in large part, by Andrew Carnegie.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Giant Sequoias at #EdinburghBotanics made me nostalgic for California. Such enormous mountains and such enormous trees.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
World's most delicious equations under Maxwell's statue at the east end of George St #Edinburgh.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Flip flop tariffs! (Private Eye)
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
In dutch spijkergat means nail hole. Do you see it? #Amsterdam
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Challenge picture! What/who is being quoted here? (Heriot Row #Edinburgh)
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Statue of Charles II in #Edinburgh. What joy there was in 1660 when the puritan dictator Oliver Cromwell died, and the exiled king returned. There was singing and dancing once again.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#Scotland is joyful today with the first really warm, sunny day. The gorse is in glorious bloom at the #RoyalObservatory
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Melville St #Edinburgh and St Mary's Cathedral
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Reminds me of Hertford College Oxford
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
A lovely fanlight window. Drummond Place #Edinburgh
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Charles II in #Edinburgh. What great joy in Britain when #dictator Oliver Cromwell died in 1658, Christmas was legal again, and the king returned from exile. The USA will feel the same when #Trumputin is gone.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Lovely sunny day at St Andrews Square #Edinburgh
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Happy to discover that the syrup for my Shrove Tuesday pancakes is CANADIAN
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The lovely Stirling Castle. Full of heraldic symbol of the ancient and deep alliance of Scotland with France.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trenchant comment from David Smith in the Guardian
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