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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

It's that time of year when I remember that another anagram of my name, as well as Telescoper, is El Espectro...

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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. These days you can spout any nonsense you like if you call yourself a "philosopher",

Stock photograph (by whioch I mean a photograph of Katheleen Stock.)

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

I remounted this nice watercolour of Green's Mill in Sneinton, Nottingham, home of the famous mathematician George Green (of Green's functions, etc.)

Photograph of framed watercolour showing a windmill (Green's Mill in Sneinton, Nottingham).

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

The Raphael Cartoons are quite well made, but not very funny. I couldn't see the joke in any of them!

Staircase and entrance at the Victoria and Albert Museum with the text "THE RAPHAEL CARTOONS" above.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Friends and colleagues in mainland Europe will be amused by the red warnings given by Met Éireann for temperatures of 25°C...

Screenshot of Met Éireann weather forecast showing red warnings for temperatures of 25°C and above.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

I must say the sunny weather is making a huge difference to the view from my office window...

View of a brightly illuminated brick wall with a shadow cast on it from the left.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

Here's a picture of me downloading papers from arXiv onto my tablet.

Engraving of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments from Heaven.

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

Here's a #Haiku on a theme of A.E. Housman: Loveliest of trees? Not yet, but soon there will be Bloom along the bough #Haiku on a theme by Housman

Buds of blossom on a cherry tree in my garden

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

Here's an interesting review of astrophysics papers on arXiv, including pertinent comments on the absurdity of the publishing system and this mention of @OJ_Astro arxiv.org/abs/2602.12303

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

This book looks right up my street. Not that I'm pedantic myself, of course...

Cover of "On Pedantry - A Cultural History of the Know-It-All" by Arnoud S.Q. Visser

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