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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 · 9h
Writing documentation is dull and difficult. Much more so if you think robot Claude will be the only reader.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 14h
Paoluzzi .... hes our guy in Edinburgh!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It uses the shielding provided by the Earth as discrimination. The over-wintering scientists. The computing building surrounded by minus 60-degree weather. My Lasair project has last week started monitoring the Icecube events, trying to find an optical counterpart in the Rubin alert stream.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Except for titanic events at the edge of the universe, where impossibly this wisp gains great energy. Like a dandelion seed moving at supersonic speed. And the Icecube neutrino observatory at the South Pole, where you can see a kilometer through the thansparent ice. 2/3
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Francis Halzen has the Nobel prize for finding powerful neutrinos. Always been fascinated with the neutrino. So close to nothing that it really is nothing. 1/3
bbc.co.uk
'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics
Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Like using national security secrets for insider trading?
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Every 100,000 immigrants lost to the UK costs the treasury £7bn, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility." Can the racist flagshaggers just shut up now?
theguardian.com
Cutting immigration to the UK means billions less for the Treasury. Can the country really afford that? | Zoe Williams
‘Taking back control’ turns out to be staggeringly expensive. That’s something to mull over as budget day approaches, writes Zoe Williams
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Damn! Wish I had known this before choosing a name for my son!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The "shits himself" line is unfair. If he were competent, it would be irrelevant. FDR was in a wheelchair.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The french king said "Le loi, c'est moi". The law -- its me.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republicans will stop 1,000,000 citizens from voting to stop 1 noncitizen voting
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If I voted today, def WUSSIES
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And China will demand US out of Venezuela, and release the prisoners in ICE detention
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Perhaps they are talking about Einsteins unification of space and time in 1916?
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kashwitna.bsky.social @kashwitna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They dont need a wage! They have Insider Trading! Guaranteed double your money every year.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How about shutting down tax havens? Jersey, BVI, Isle of Man, Bermuda. Ugh.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh no! That would take money from the Masters of the Universe!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump's efforts to disenfranchise Democrats. Trump's refusal to seat them even if they win House or Senate. How a Democrat chamber can be defanged by Trump even if sworn in. Clearly there's going to be a lot of anger in the USA. www.chathamhouse.org/publications...
chathamhouse.org
What will happen if Trump rejects the midterm results?
The administration’s efforts to undermine confidence in the US electoral system could spark a political crisis in November – with consequences for the 2028 presidential race and beyond, writes Bruce S...
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.chathamhouse.org/publications...
chathamhouse.org
What will happen if Trump rejects the midterm results?
The administration’s efforts to undermine confidence in the US electoral system could spark a political crisis in November – with consequences for the 2028 presidential race and beyond, writes Bruce S...
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The richest people emit the most CO2 pollution. Another free rider problem.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I smell insider training. Trump threatens, buys short, calls off threat, steals another 100 million from the American people.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The whole "illegal immigrant" hatred is simply a smokescreen to hide the billionaires taking all the cookies
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just as Einstein unified gravity and geometry, Maxwell unified electricity, magnetism and colour. Also this dark-sky area in Galloway would be fabulous for astronomy outreach.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you want a change theres always Hank Williams ....
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The great thing about astronomy. No matter how much things get f**ked up for me, for my country, for planet Earth, the stars and galaxies will stay just the same 🔭📡🎆🌜⭐️🪐
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We like to say "The next Einstein will be African". But I wonder if that person will achieve more with free AI, or less?
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Imagine a Beef Wellington with the crisp pastry shell sculpted to look like a politician you dislike. Then cut into it to reveal the succulent pinkish beef interior! Farage Wellington! Trump Wellington!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please add suggestions to my list of things that should have never have been invented: - Slavery - Nuclear Weapons - Artificial Intelligence - Crypto currency
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Doesnt the number 8 already do this route?
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rest of the world is trying hard to cut CO2 pollution while the Americans expand their belching. Is it any wonder the world dislikes the USA?
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform supporters can't or won't connect the dots. They simply think the donor is a "patriot" who shares their values.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Right. Could also self-restrict on long-haul flights, beef, plastic, and creation of viruses by AI. Oh yeah.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Problem with asking AI to write anything is that it puts in other peoples words, so massive risk of accusations of plagiarism.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Im sure its a good read. But I cant handle any more about the end of democracy in the USA ...
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Roosevelt crushed the Robber Barons, just 4 years after the crash of 1929. We got the crash coming soon most experts think, so maybe a new FDR in 2032?
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A third of nurses and a third of doctors were born overseas. Without immigrants the NHS would collapse. You are more likely to be treated by an immigrant than to be behind one in a queue. Massive underfunding of our NHS and lack of social housing were a political choice.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally the Labour government has grown a backbone! About time! Hooray!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I remember the bad old days of chips with everything -- "British" food. Because of immigrants we now have ramen, vindaloo, pho, arancini, sushi, churrascaria, tapas, etc etc. So there's another reason to encourage immigration.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Can we dump the fascist incels and get som hard working immigrants instead?
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Such a difference with Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I have known quite a few Dutch people. And they all like climbing mountains!
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
MAGA wants to do this to Muslims
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026
My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”
A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The boss of Tesco is an Irish resident and pays tax there.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Smoker with emphysema can't breathe but will fight like a wildcat if you take away the cigarettes.
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Problem is relying *only* on direct experience: "The Earth is flat because I myself have not measured its curvature, and I have been taught to reject experts."
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hope its not just a flash in the pan to get some easy likes ...
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Roy Williams @roydavidwilliams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nope -- climate change will shape the world of 2050.
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