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Opinions: My own. Music. Science. Engineering. Archaeology. Nature & wildlife. Security & InfoSec. Psychology. But may not post about any of these. Wülferhampton Banner photo: carvings in Heartswood Forest, photo by me.
Easter is coming and as well as our usual fossil walks and seashore safaris, we will be participating at the World Heritage Day Festival!
Join us on Saturday 18th April at the Dorset County Museum. There is a wide range of activities for all ages! See poster for details
Image of the life raft, showing the triangular shape. It is a light brown colour.
Image showing the information printed on the raft: It says C2176, then D.R.Co. Jul 1940, and Mid/30.
#NavalHistory people! Help! Our local museum has a life raft we're trying to research. Does anyone know anything about it? It is triangular, and is stamped with a 1940 date.
This is our Rural Telephone Exchange.
It used to be a fuel store many moons ago but now houses equipment from the 1940s.
It runs our internal telephone system.
And it still works when we have a power cut!
We've got lots happening at the Museum this month!
Head to our website for full details: buff.ly/o2TRNpN
Good morning - it’s Day 3 at the Rose & Crown dig! Here are a few moments from yesterday’s work, with the team in action and plenty happening at the site.
Don’t forget you can visit the dig at our free public drop‑ins:
📅 28 February or 7 March
⏰ 11am–2pm
📍 Rose & Crown, St Michael’s Street
Thank you for telling Simon the ship’s cat’s story
🤣🐑🧶 #knit #knitsky
Update: B, C, D
C, D
Chicken sitting a computer. Computer says "Absolutely! You've got this!" The computer sits smiling while, off camera, the chicken yells "AUUGH!" Caption: Don't ask A.I. if you should take up chainsaw juggling.
Encouraging. www.patreon.com/posts/encour...
fifteen picture flat books, i'm giving away to a school.
SCHOOLS!
Here are fifteen books.
I'm giving them away.
If you're a UK school and would like them, let me know.
I'll pick one of you this evening.
You can share it too, if you like.
Ta.
A young mule deer buck looks toward the camera, but his entire body is shrouded in a spooky haze, with glowing eyes most visible.
The condensation on the lens turned our mule #deer buck with the little antlers into something spectral! #cameratrap
A plea for help from Bluesky #Academia
Does anyone have a (book) copy of "Credibility Assessment (J C Yuille 1989)? I'm interested in the chapter "Recent Developments in Statement Analysis (Steller 1989) for an article I'm writing. I can't find it anywhere online.
Cartoon.
#Cartoon
A grey squirrel (roughly in the centre of the picture) sits in a tree. Being winter, the tree has no leaves, although there’s an evergreen bush in the hedge in the background. Behind the hedge is a brick wall. Overall, not a great photo of a squirrel, but it rarely sits still enough for a closer, better photo.
On a sunny winter day, a squirrel visits.
Some goats with long horns that curve backwards (I assume they are handily for scratching their backs!). The goats have black hair on their heads, faces and necks, with white hair everywhere else. The hair is quite shaggy. They are in a green field, with a tree-based hedgerow at the back. The sky is blue and there are no clouds.
The goats are enjoying the Christmas Day sun, despite the cold wind.
Merry Christmas!
This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.
Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Yey for the #NHS!
Stay well WulfHelm.
Survived getting my hair done, so still in
Scarlett sighed as Algernon started his “I’m a little teapot” routine again. Would she have no peace from his music hall rehearsals?
#GirlsOwnCC
A green parakeet with an orange beak sits on a twiggy tree branch. In the background is a tiled roof, with some moss visible on the tiles. A small bit of sky is in the upper left hand corner.
Makes a change from the usual pigeons. Don’t often get a parakeet perching here
Uggi the dog and a copy of The Night Guest
GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
Hoping for your speedy recovery
When ever I think about how we are empowering #AI agents to do the the shopping for us it reminds me of this incredible mind reader from Belgium that wasn’t so incredibly after all. #Online #fraudsters just got a super weapon.
youtu.be/F7pYHN9iC9I
Is there a native English speaking writer online that would be so kind as to let me slip into their dms and help me come up with a plausible sounding 12th century euphuism for a thing?
This is hilarious! Not seen it before 🤣
🦇 We are still receiving calls for injured and grounded bats, if you do find a bat that needs help, please contact the Bat Conservation Trust National Bat Helpline on 0345 1300 228 or report it via our website www.kentbatgroup.org.uk or simply google "help I've found a bat" for advice
Headless bird thread for Halloween 🎃
Basketwork Sutton hoo mask
Millstones!
Great exhibition photo of technology advances. Eg a bunch of machinery
Sick note
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