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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The wind is from the south/southeast so that rain is heading in my direction...

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm pretty sure this one, a variety of Amanita, is poisonous.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I thought I'd try Google AI Assistant out on a cryptic crossword clue. It went as well as I expected...

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A big toadstool and an even bigger toadstool... (I don't know what kind they are.)

A large toadstool from above. Sort of mushroom-coloured...

An even larger toadstool, flatter and of yellow-orange colour...

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This arrived in the post. Must be because teaching is about to start...

Photo of booklet with title BE EMERGENCY READY

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In a very frightening development, a burst water main in Kerry is disrupting the water supply in Maynooth (in Co. Kildare)...

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Looking at the size of it, and the fact that only about 2 million people live there, Saxony-Anhalt must be very sparsely populated.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just to clarify: LUX-ZEPLIN is not a dirigible airship made of soap.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The traditional Irish Times First Round #CAO Offers Supplement!

Double page spread of Level 8 offers from the Irish Times.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I just remembered that Tim Curry was in "Appointment with Death", the Agatha Christie story with David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. I shall watch it again this weekend with a glass of wine.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It seems that Kathleen Stock is now the BBC's go-to bigot on any subject. Her Terfery was just a gateway into full-on rightwing propaganda.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

At yesterday's eclipse event I gave a short talk about the famous 1919 eclipse expeditions, after which a small child asked me whether I was at Sobral or Principe...

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Unfortunately it clouded over near the maximum, but i did get some reasonably convincing colander shots before that...

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The latest forecast is looking pretty good. It's very warm and sunny in Maynooth right now.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You can do this. Each hole acts as a pinhole camera, producing a separate image of the sun's disk

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Eclipse viewing kit at the ready: paper, solar viewing glasses, and, of course, colander.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There are many shocking things about the Cambridge Whistleblowing Scandal case but one of the worst concerns the Vice-Chancellor: www.theguardian.com/education/20...