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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

My Rolleiflex SL66 often ends up as the bridesmaid to my 6008i. Every so often, I take it out and am reminded that a focal plane shutter, bellows and tilt are rather fun to combo with odd bits of glass. In this case, a front doublet from an indifferent […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

How to describe?... It's a black and white photo of some foliage. Something is wrong, something is very wrong. Every bit of backlight flares like nothing else. While there is a focal point, there is no real focal plane - the plane is actually curved. Everything is very soft, everything is very bokehy, even when it should be in focus.

How to describe?... It's a black and white photo of a Hepworth sculpture. The backlighting flares, the image is soft.

The Hepworth itself is likely

Winged Figure
1961–2
Aluminium with aluminium rods and Isopon
587.5 × 254 × 159.5 cm
Presented by the artist’s daughters, Rachel Kidd and Sarah Bowness, through the Trustees of the Barbara Hepworth Estate and the Art Fund © Bowness.

In 1963 Hepworth’s Winged Figure was unveiled, mounted on the side of the John Lewis department store on Oxford Street in London. This full-scale prototype for the sculpture is nearly six metres tall and forms the centrepiece of the collection of working models gifted by the Hepworth family.

Hepworth was a great admirer of the socialist ethos of John Lewis, a shop that was collectively owned by its workers, and she was attracted by the prominence of the site. The design was praised for embodying ‘the idea of resurgence or aspiration… long associated with the Partnership’.

How to describe?... It's a black and white photo of a Hepworth sculpture. It's so incredibly soft, and vague. Backlighting is eating away at the image, the lens has little control for flare.

The Hepworth itself is likely Spring (Plaster) 1966
Plaster with strings
76.8 x 58.7 x 54.2 cm
Presented by the artist’s daughters, Rachel Kidd and Sarah Bowness, through the Trustees of the Barbara Hepworth Estate and the Art Fund © Bowness.

Spring was cast from an elmwood carving, Oval Form with Strings and Colour, that Hepworth had completed in 1965. Its rounded egg-like form is juxtaposed by the tense elements of the strings that cut through the centre. This contrast between hard and soft, curves and lines, solids and voids is a quintessential aspect of Hepworth’s abstraction.

A bronze version was cast from this plaster with a green-blue patina on the interior, while this work has a white interior that may have been smoothed down after casting.

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Slightly AI Obsessed colleague "You should try OpenJimmy, the responses are lightning fast" Well, technically the solution is somewhat impressive, Llama 3.1 8b burned into an ASIC. That has performance and power consumption benefits. The results, however […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

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Explain how to wire a UK plug

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Wiring a UK plug involves a few simple steps. Here's a step-by-step guide:

Important: Before starting, ensure you are familiar with the relevant safety guidelines and regulations for wiring a UK plug. It's always best to consult the original instruction manual or contact a professional if unsure.

Tools and Materials:

UK plug wiring kit or a set of plug wiring terminals

Wire strippers (to remove insulation from the end of the wires)

Plier or wire strippers for twisting the wires

Socket or plug base

UK plug

Soldering iron and solder (if you're soldering the live and neutral wires together)

Step 1: Prepare the Wires

Remove a small amount of insulation from the end of each wire using wire strippers, leaving about 1-2 cm of bare wire at the end.

Twist the wires together using pliers or a wire stripper to form a neat loop at the end.

Step 2: Connect the Live Wire

Identify the live (brown or blue) wire, which is usually connected to the power source.

Connect the live wire to the live terminal on the plug base, ensuring it's securely fastened using a terminal screw.

If you're soldering the live and neutral wires together, do so carefully and securely using a soldering iron and solder.

Step 3: Connect the Neutral Wire

Identify the neutral (black or green/yellow) wire.

Connect the neutral wire to the neutral terminal on the plug base, ensuring it's securely fastened using a terminal screw.

If you're soldering the live and neutral wires together, do so carefully and securely using a soldering iron and solder.

Step 4: Connect the Earth Wire

Identify the earth (green/yellow) wire.

Connect the earth wire to the earth terminal on the plug base, ensuring it's securely fastened using a terminal screw.

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

#emfcamp the Tildagon badge market had some fun stuff

A Tildagon EMF badge, a tradition for hacker events. The Tildagon has modules which can be added. This one is fairly simple, it just side lights some perspex with a binface 'hope'

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

#emfspiders your hacking attempt shall not succeed. I will not let you connect to the world wide web

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Hobbes and Tooty are ready for #emfcamp Hobbes has his high vis on, just in case there are volunteering opportunities for a humble tiger

A large Mastodon plushie and a stuffed tiger, which looks very much like inanimate Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes, wearing a crochet hi Vis jacket

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

[Travel Photos] And I think I'll leave it at that, but if anybody has any questions please do ask. I'll leave you with a note that eyelashes can freeze at -20c, but actually with the right gear it can be reasonably comfortable, just a lot of admin to put all the gear on! 8/8

A picture of me, or at least a little bit of me. I've got a Svalbard hat and neck gater. They look touristy, but the Arctic Edge stuff is actually really good quality, and tends to be used by the guys.

Anyway, the hat and neck gaiter are a light blue, you can only really eye my eyes, and you can see my eyelids have ice on them, as does the neck gaiter.

In the background you can see a snow-covered view with mountains

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

[Travel Photos - Glacier] We had a trip up to a glacial lagoon, which freezes over in the winter and can be accessed by skimobile. I believe this is the Haysbreen glacier Some icebergs didn't make it out of the bay before it froze […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

An iceberg which didn't make it out of the bay. We saw a wolf howling at the moon. The glacial ice has a striking blue

An iceberg which didn't make it out of the bay. We saw a wolf howling at the moon. The glacial ice has a striking blue, and you can see the veins of glacial ice

The Glacier face, it feels like there is a mix of glacier blue chimneys covered in snow

A view of the glacier front from the drone. You can see a 60m high wall of glacier-blue ice, topped with snow

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

[Travel Photos] For part of the trip we took a tour by ski mobile and stayed in a cabin. The cabin is basic to say the least, and with 7 people it was... rather tight. The cabin is pulled into a valley by snow-cat at the start of the season, and is […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

A cabin sitting on skis. It has a couple of small windows, the rest is covered in a Reinforced Bitumen Membrane, as you might see for a flat roof in the UK. You can see a fuel tank sitting outside, which has kerosene for a heater.

The accommodation, along with 6 skimobils, some with trailers behind them. In the distance are snow covered hills.

The window of the hut, along with the toilet tent in the distance

The view from the window. It's a snow covered landscape with hills in the background

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

[Travel Photos - Wildlife] And the Rock ptarmigan. They're beautiful white birds with fluffy feet Pixel 9p 5/

A group of Rock ptarmigan, who have walked up to the top of a little hill

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

[Travel Photos - Wildlife] Svalbard hosts many migratory species, which is frankly a sensible strategy for the High Arctic, where the polar night is months long. Svalbard Reindeer (a small subspecies), Rock ptarmigan, polar bears and seals stay […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

A herd of Reindeer, you can see 6 of them in this photo with a snow-covered landscape. The Reindeer will attempt to eat any vegetation coming up through the snow

A herd of 4 Reindeer, these are less active. They're all sitting down

Longyearbyen, the main town on Svalbard. You're looking at some 4 story buildings.
In the foreground there is a single Reindeer

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

[Travel Photos - Glaciers] We visited the Tellbreen glacier on a particularly grey and snowy day. It's a beautiful spot a fairly easy day trip from Longyearbyen (We visited as part of a longer tour)

We're in an Ice cave formed by a glacier. You can see snow that has fallen in to the Cave, along with the beautiful lines of glacial ice and the tell-tale blues of the glacier in the distance.

We're in an Ice cave formed by a glacier. You can see with the beautiful lines of glacial ice with some debris on the top.

We're in an Ice cave formed by a glacier. You can see snow that has fallen in to the Cave, the texture of the glacier ice and the typical lines through the glacier

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

[Travel Photos - Landscapes] Svalbard is sort of Drone friendly. You can't fly in national parks (of which there are many) or near Longyearbyen (the main settlement - close to the airport). But otherwise you can fly on standard EASA rules for Norway […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

A view of a snowcovered landscape - up the valley with some evidence of moraine. This day was quite grey with mute colours

A view of a snow-covered landscape - over-land with a view of mountains in the distance. This day was quite grey with mute colours

A view of a snowcovered landscape - down a river channel created by the glacier. This day was beautifully sunny, although -20. You can see some beautiful white and blue

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

[Travel Photos - Landscapes] We got back from Svalbard a few weeks ago. (Where is that? Go to the North of Norway, then fly 1.5hrs further) It's quite the wilderness up there. While you'd struggle to go anywhere without a guide, it's wonderful having a […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

Here we have a snow filled landscape. There is a snow covered mountain in the distance, and some reds of sunset in the clouds behind it

Here we have a snow filled landscape. There is a snow covered mountain in the distance. The sun is visible through the thick clouds. It looks otherworldly

Here we have a snow filled landscape. In the distance you can see the remaining mine works (Soon to be removed, as the mine closed in 2025 and policy is to return nature to it's original state). You can also see two large dishes, which is part of the Kjell Henriksen Observatory

Here we have a snow filled landscape. There is a snow covered mountain in the distance, with some pinks of sunset in the background

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

After 7 years, the Schwalbe Marathon Plus finally met its match. Guess I'll have an unintended walking meeting... (The screw was all the way through to the metal)

A rear tyre on a very grubby Brompton with a screw right through the middle of one of the tyres

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

@Floppy it needs a little more pushing than standard Lego pieces, but seems to hold fine. I don't have a figure to hand, but guess on my Lego Dino

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

@Floppy so with PLA, a 0.4 and no supports, the hexpansion side is kinda rough, but it does fit. The Lego side fits with no problems.

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

@Floppy It's quick enough to give it a go. My P1s isn't particularly calibrated but it's fairly low mileage (~500hrs) and prints pretty well. Did you use a 0.4 or 0.2? Attached seemed the most sensible orientation

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

[Travel, food (non veggie)] Well, made it to Svalbard without a hitch. We're warming up at what is almost certainly the most northerly Thai restaurant, which is far better than we have any right to expect given the location. Svalbard doesn't require […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

Yum Woon Sen, a Thai dish. The dish is fairly generous, plenty of mince and prawns

The Mamiya 6, a medium format range finder, warming up from the cold

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

Energy rates are high right now, so I'm experimenting with Agile Outgoing, which has been higher than fixed rate pretty much all day for the past week. Predbat has picked up the tarrif changes, and now it has plans for my little solar setup: Export […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

A predbat plan. There is a chart which shows the expected energy use, the predicted solar and the resulting State of Charge for the battery. I've explained the plan itself in the main toot

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

@revk spotted this on Reddit, is this actually you, just surprised that you'd build a page and not reference it on GitHub. And the au domain feels weird...

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

There is just something about pulling 5x4 slides out of the dev drum and looking at the results... #believeinfiim

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

My Rollei is back on service after a battery recell. Nice to have it back #believeinfilm

Somewhat hard to alt text. A through the viewfinder photo of concrete pillars. The day is clear and bright, the viewfinder is pretty

Somewhat hard to alt text. A through the viewfinder photo of a concrete pillar and cracked tiles. The day is clear and bright, the viewfinder is pretty

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

[Food] I've got the day off and I'm wandering around Paris today. Vegan patisserie? Don't mind if I do... Next stop, brutalist architecture tour (I'm not actually a vegan, but an egg allergy limits my patisserie options rather a lot)

A tray of food. There is a tea, a very pretty apple tart and a vanilla flan.

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025

Spirit island with the wife, there are worse ways to spend a Sunday

A spirit island board. Things are looking very mid game, paralysing fright and towering wrath are up next.

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

And all the control systems (A PHP script, home assistant, some Z-Wave and some ESPHome) seem to be working fine and the living room is warm. Hopefully we can manage another couple of weeks before we turn it on properly

A chart from home assistant showing the warmair system input and return flow termperatures, used by the ESPHome system to better manage the boiler flow temps

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

[Food, Mid-Autumn Festival] Et fin. "Not too sweet" None for me because egg allergies and Chinese bakeries are not friends

Two quarters of a mooncake. Mooncakes are a mix of pastry, a lotus bean paste and egg york

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

[Food, Mid-Autumn Festival] Nom nom nom

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

[Food, Mid-Autumn Festival] It's nearly Mid-Autumn Festival time, and that means Pot Stickers are being made in the Scott-Zhang household.

A tray of maybe 24 Chinese Pot Stickers. Uncooked at present, that oversight to be corrected shortly

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

"Hey, did you really need to Push to Prod on Friday?"

A picture of a Marmot making eye contact and looking very quizzical.

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

Let's go with a caravan, he said, it looks really cute, he said.

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

Foxy friends in your neighborhood Artic foxes in Svalbard (Wild camping)

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

This is born of a tragedy, but if you want chips at Nandos Gatwick with an egg allergy now, you need to agree with the manager (both consulting the allergen list) that it doesn't contain eggs, and get allergy chips

A bowl of chips with a little 'allergy' flag poked through a chip

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025

Most of the damage happens when you hammer on the side and split the layers, of course. Just compressing the layers doesn't matter. It's interesting how much the sound is different with TPU. You can hear how much of the impact energy is being absorbed by […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

Photograph. Two 3d benchy - one Bambu Matt PLA, one a slightly shinier material - which is the CF TPU. The side of the hull on the PLA is smashed, splitting at the layer lines, and the funnel has broken off. The CF TPU looks perfect still

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025

And a still of the benchy pre-hammer. (And post hammer, tbh). Again, I just downloaded their profile

3d benchy boat. Good detail, very little stringing

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025

Sometimes decent filliment is worth paying for. Extrudr Hard Flex TPU CF. The CF makes it very easy to print (Bambu P1S), and it can take a (literal) hammering it would seem. It wasn't horribly priced in a recent sale. OK, £33 for 500g still isn't cheap […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2025

LG Washing Machine died last night after 13 years*, so now I'm in a rabbit hole researching a replacement. It's perfectly normal to look up the manual for the actual performance data, right? It's wild how they've achieve higher efficiency by basically […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

A table showing washing program, water used, kWh used, temperate of water, % moisture left after spin.

The 20c cotton program runs at 27c. The 60c program runs at 48c, the eco 40-60 program runs at 24-26c depending on load.

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2025

Other weekend activities included a trip to the hovercraft museum. I love these sort of small, volunteer run special interest museums, everybody was so enthusiastic. El reg covered them some time ago. www.theregister.com/2017/09/15/geek…

Photo of some advertising for seaspeed. An old red car towing a caravan appears on the top half, in the middle 'seaspeed, your flying start to France, only 35 minutes from Dover, up to 34 flights daily'. At the bottom, a picture of the iconic SR.N4 hovercraft crossing the sea

The front of the princess Anne, now the last remaining SR.N4 hovercraft

A photo of the hovercraft museum within a hovercraft. The car deck of the princess Anne is filled with hovercraft

The controls for the cockpit of an SR.N4, the red panel reads 'Extreme Emergency Engine Shut down', which I found rather amusing.
You can't simply switch off the engine for a hovercraft under normal circumstances, as the skirt would deflate and the craft would jack-knife into the sea

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2025

[USPOL, Graffiti] Well, Major T. J. Kong wasn't a draft dodger... Streets of Montpellier #uspol

Photo of Graffiti, Trump riding a nuclear bomb, a clear play on Major T. J. Kong in Dr Strangelove

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025

Ok, who trained the image ML model in Immich to identify Hobbes out of the box? Seriously, he's hand made, and not in any quantity.

A screenshot of Immich, the search window contains a search for 'hobbes', and has identified a number of photos of my inanimate Hobbes plushie

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Steve Scott @wishy.tooter.wishy.co.uk.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2025

We went to Mini World Lyon today. The obvious comparison would be Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg. Mini World Lyon is about 1/3rd of the size, which is actually quite nice in that you can see it without going miniature blind. (Miniatur Wunderland is best […] [Original post on tooter.wishy.co.uk]

Lyon Concert Hall, open like a clamshell to allow you to see inside.

You can see spirited away is playing on the back wall, with a orchestrator in front.

A french railway station, in front are EV charging bays with the cute EV charging logos. It seems unlikely that the Ferrari is an EV...

A pink tank in the middle of a military base, two miniatures in red tops are standing next to it.

Part of their Japan Mania exhibition, Totoro and Mai waiting at the bus stop for the catbus

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