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Does that mean Sinead O'Connor goes in the C section?

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Erm, wearable food challenge and NOBODY made a pork pie hat? #GBBO

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And yet only one chemistry. Poor chemistry. Also biology.

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My favourite two thousand year old joke. Dog is clearly in play posture and visitors likely to be savaged with licks and demands for the ball to be thrown.

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I'm more concerned with the single parent earning 20k with little job security and an extortionate rental market.

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A single parent earning 100k is doing pretty nicely thank you very much.

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Any truth in the rumour that the inaugural Ferring Kite Festival starts tomorrow?

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is no such thing as a synthetic AI focus group, just a machine that tells you what you want to hear

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Swarming *and* endangered? That's quite a trick.

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I guess many of us have been cut up on the road by an Audi. Today on the A1 I was cut up by car transporter loaded with Audis. Do I win a prize?

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I guess many of us have been cut up on the road by an Audi. Today on the A1 I was cut up by car transporter loaded with Audis. Do I win a prize?

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Has autocorrect been fixed? I just left a comment on a FB post criticising the use of an AI image. I wrote 'fecking', the machine corrected it to 'fucking'. Probably says more about my vocabulary.

Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Perhaps I wasn't paying attention, but why TF have we even allowed Fairford to be used to bomb Iran? Trump and Netanyahu's illegal war shouldn't be conducted from UK soil. #fairford #iran

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Those things were lethal. I saw one bolted to a Laverda with L plates (learners could ride a 250 legally, the 125 limit was later).

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Truth is cheaper than fiction

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a new Top Trumps Superbikes deck and I can wait to get my hands on it. Cue furious arguments over which machines are incuded and which not. #motosky

Two of the cards from the new Top Trumps Superbikes deck, showing the 2024 Suzuki GSX 1300R Hayabusa and the 2024 Norton V4SV. I've always wanted a Busa...

Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nothing like a bit of citizen science on a Sunday. Just taken part in the #UKWaterBlitz organised by @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social . Simple colorimetric tests for nitrate and phosphate using samples from local stream. Looks like nitrates up but phosphates down cf last year.

Concerned looking spaniel considers the meaning of the colorimetric test chart, specifically whether she's still allowed to swim in these waters and whether there might be a biscuit reward for posing for me. The answer to both questions is yes.

Colorimetry test chart with my two sample tubes. A critical part of the test is accurate timing for the reagents in the tubes, and it was interesting to see the NO3 tube (nitrate) continuing to darken after the three minute test was complete. The PO4 tube (phosphate) registered virtually no colour, suggesting that few if any phosphates have been applied to nearby agricultural fields this year (because of weather?) it perhaps that the test was faulty or inexpertly performed by me. This is of course very unlikely.

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Or what the fuck Gail's is.

Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh dear how sad what a shame never mind

Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nice weather though, unlike the last time I did it. Such a great ride, if you keep your wits about you.

Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The most joyful thing you will see today.

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you all for being so considerate and not dropping any spoilers. I'm all caught up with the Sewing Bee now so please speak freely.

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lovely bit of pareidolia here

Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lovely bit of pareidolia here

Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just let the AI have the meeting and then tell you what happened. And then ignore it.

Simply use the equal area projection based on a local meridian! The distorted shapes are only created because these nations are near the 'edge' on a Greenwich-centred projection.

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Mach is a relative number dependant on the medium, not just the mph at sea level on Earth. It's not a meaningful measure for anybody in Jupiter's atmosphere, any more than it would be for a spacecraft or a submarine.

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To be fair, it's about five pages in each of half a dozen languages, but still.

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

New power tool day, hurrah. It comes with safety goggles, hurrah. The safety goggles have their own instruction book, running to 32 pages. Hurr...ah?

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So sorry to learn this. Had hoped/assumed your talents had enriched you. They should have.

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"I wUz OnLy FollOwInG tHe SaTnAV"

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Poor Spain, the only one not all in upper case.

Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Eat the one on the right, which provides little stopping power. The one in the left provides little nutrition or satisfaction and so should be fitted to your bike. Years of experience, me.

Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A brief moment of excitement today when a letter on House of Commons stationery arrives. Quickly followed by underwhelment when it is merely our MP inviting us to a meeting at a local pub. I was hoping for canapés on the HoC terrace at least.

Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What's wrong with 'twice'?

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Russ Swan @russs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BBC News just showed a weatherwatchers image of the sunset over the sea at Tynemouth. Tynemouth faces east.