@jimfraeerskine
Independent #computing/#technology specialist & #programmer in #Kilmacolm, #Scotland. #Sceptic, #empiricist, lover of #electronicmusic, #science, all things #philosophy. Please also check out some of my #music as 'LAGRANGE POINT 6' on #Spotify etc.
NEW RELEASE: Observation of Transcendence is the second album by the San Francisco-based #ambientmusic music project Celestial Trails. Inspired by the Pacific Ocean and its shores, the album captures the essence of a sunny and calm day by the ocean. flutteryrecords.com/celestialtra...
This is Bandcamp Friday! Listen to our latest #ambientmusic release on #Bandcamp. #SanFrancisco based ambient artist Celestial Trails has just released his latest album Observation of Transcendence. celestialtrails.bandcamp.com/album/observ...
I have a couple of thoughts about the new paper the finds a candidate Planet Nine in some old data. First, it is difficult to tell how seriously to take this because a false alarm probability is never discussed, and second, if it is real, it is not Planet Nine. Read on:
🧵🔭🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2504.17288
Four Seasons Total Landscaping is once again ready to host the circus!
If and when Trump comes on the state visit, can we all agree to show him the #MoonsOfBritain? I’ve got one to show him. You bring yours.
I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
ICYMI: In this week's Elephant in the Room, Rick details the constitutional tipping point we find ourselves in as a democratic republic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNKa...
With a touch of a button, the Gilbert Scott building turns rainbow! 🏳️🌈
Students & colleagues came together last night to watch as our historic main building was illuminated in rainbow colours to mark #LGBTplusHM25.
#OneTeamUofG ❤️
Event by LGBTQ+ Staff Network
Excited to announce that I have de-extincted the Dire Doodle.
I don’t do this often and promise not to make a habit of it, but just this once: WE TRIED TO WARN YOU!!!!!
Mozilla Thunderbird 137 Open-Source Email Client Released, Here’s What’s Changed 9to5linux.com/mozilla-thun...
#OpenSource #Linux
PostgreSQL Lands Batch Mode & Other Async I/O Improvements - https://www.phoronix.com/news/PostgreSQL-AIO-Batch-Mode
Tiling Shell #GNOME extension can now show window suggestions when you use the tiling assistant, and adds a hotkey to hide all windows apart the one in focus
www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/tili...
Remember it well before BBC1's daily programme in Welsh. Very nice, especially accompanied with John Baker's Radiophonic music, though I thought the one that succeeded it was even better. Psychedelic!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C63F...
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
Living alone with 73 cats and walks around saying “I’m a lady!”
I wonder if there are enough songs with goat bleats in them for me to post one every Friday
GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New 9to5linux.com/gnome-48-ben...
#Linux #OpenSource
Soul music art: Joss Stone
6pm Monday - Saturday is time for Soul Sounds
Broadly soul music, with some R&B & blues mixed in
#Soul #BroadlySoul #Blues #RandB
Radio Jammor is on the air...
Broadcasting from #Scotland
radiojammor.com/
#ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
#Music #Radio #SoulMusic #SoulSky
I think I can say you heard it here first! Anyhow, whoever it was said it, go! Listen! Buy! kimhalliday.bandcamp.com/album/dream
80s music art: Michael Jackson
10am every day: The Awesome 80s
#80s #Eighties
Radio Jammor is on the air...
Broadcasting from #Scotland
https://radiojammor.com
#ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
#music #radio
FAO all you old telly nerds
People are losing their jobs. Prices keep climbing. Measles continues to spread. Bird flu is raging. Veterans are getting fired. The stock market is a roller coaster. Our alliances are being shattered. Ukrainian civilians are getting bombed by Russia.
Donald Trump is golfing.
Table 1 ("Notation an terminology"). Pretty much most of the Greek alphabet is represented, with "k"s liberally machine-gunned throughout.
Who says popgen is confusing?!? 🧪
Table 1 from Waples (2025) The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size. This has "print me out and tape me to the wall" written all over it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Soul music art: Al Green
6pm Monday - Saturday is time for Soul Sounds
Broadly soul music, with some R&B & blues mixed in
#Soul #BroadlySoul #Blues #RandB
Radio Jammor is on the air...
Broadcasting from #Scotland
radiojammor.com/
#ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
#Music #Radio #SoulMusic #SoulSky
. @middleageriot.bsky.social 🏆
Why wait when you can do things faster'er!
We made a⚡TurboLoad⚡ for the Commodore VIC20 and added it to the Penutlimate+3👌
And it works with SD2IEC & real Disk Drives, which is nice 😎
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNyV...
#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Commodore #VIC20
