Barry R
@geospacedman.bsky.social
@[email protected] is my preferred work-related social media, this here is mostly personal and cultural stuff. Don't follow expecting maps.
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The 2026 Calendar from Geohipster. Geohipster highlights cartographers from all over the world to contribute to this calendar which also helps continue the mission of geohipster in Documenting the geo...
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The 2026 GeoHipster Calendar is here! www.lulu.com/shop/randal-... So brighten up your wall in January with my "Its Grim Up North" map! And many many more great maps! Look at this cover!
Introduce yourself w/ 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Enhydra lutra (Sea Otters)
Orcinus orca (Orca, Killer Whale)
Ursus arctos (Grizzly, Brown Bear)
Haliaeetus albicilla (White-tailed Eagle)
and the most dangerous animal I've seen in the wild:
Homo sapiens
Enhydra lutra (Sea Otters)
Orcinus orca (Orca, Killer Whale)
Ursus arctos (Grizzly, Brown Bear)
Haliaeetus albicilla (White-tailed Eagle)
and the most dangerous animal I've seen in the wild:
Homo sapiens
Introduce yourself w/ 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Kelip kelip synchronously flashing fireflies
a million wrinkled-lipped bats
Thousands of starling murmurating
A pair of condors giving me a fly-pass ten foot away
Monarch butterflies on a 3000 mile migration
Read my book to learn more!
Kelip kelip synchronously flashing fireflies
a million wrinkled-lipped bats
Thousands of starling murmurating
A pair of condors giving me a fly-pass ten foot away
Monarch butterflies on a 3000 mile migration
Read my book to learn more!
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Introduce yourself w/ 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Enhydra lutra (Sea Otters)
Orcinus orca (Orca, Killer Whale)
Ursus arctos (Grizzly, Brown Bear)
Haliaeetus albicilla (White-tailed Eagle)
and the most dangerous animal I've seen in the wild:
Homo sapiens
Enhydra lutra (Sea Otters)
Orcinus orca (Orca, Killer Whale)
Ursus arctos (Grizzly, Brown Bear)
Haliaeetus albicilla (White-tailed Eagle)
and the most dangerous animal I've seen in the wild:
Homo sapiens
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Steve Reich
Ultravox
The Leningrad Cowboys
The Indigo Girls
Bruce Springsteen
Steve Reich
Ultravox
The Leningrad Cowboys
The Indigo Girls
Bruce Springsteen
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Leftfield
St Vincent
Sex Pistols
The Rutles
Wu-Tang Clan
Leftfield
St Vincent
Sex Pistols
The Rutles
Wu-Tang Clan
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Terrorvision
Billy Joel
Madness
Bo Burnham
Weezer
Terrorvision
Billy Joel
Madness
Bo Burnham
Weezer
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Steve Reich
Ultravox
The Leningrad Cowboys
The Indigo Girls
Bruce Springsteen
Steve Reich
Ultravox
The Leningrad Cowboys
The Indigo Girls
Bruce Springsteen
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Our annual posting of Snoopy at the 1988 Thanksgiving parade.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Our annual posting of Snoopy at the 1988 Thanksgiving parade.
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It's awards season, so how's this for a trophy? You can keep your dainty gold statuettes or crystal urns, make ours a coarse aggregate slab! Join C20 for a visit to the rescued archives of the Concrete Society
🗓️ Sat 6 Dec 2025, 2-4pm
📍 Birmingham City Uni
🎟️ secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
🗓️ Sat 6 Dec 2025, 2-4pm
📍 Birmingham City Uni
🎟️ secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It's awards season, so how's this for a trophy? You can keep your dainty gold statuettes or crystal urns, make ours a coarse aggregate slab! Join C20 for a visit to the rescued archives of the Concrete Society
🗓️ Sat 6 Dec 2025, 2-4pm
📍 Birmingham City Uni
🎟️ secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
🗓️ Sat 6 Dec 2025, 2-4pm
📍 Birmingham City Uni
🎟️ secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
Has anyone done a spoof in the "True Crime" documentary genre yet? Something so brilliant it kills the actual genre off permanently? "Spinal Tap but for True Crime docs" is my elevator pitch.
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Has anyone done a spoof in the "True Crime" documentary genre yet? Something so brilliant it kills the actual genre off permanently? "Spinal Tap but for True Crime docs" is my elevator pitch.
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This clever Corvid I saw a couple of years ago had the perfect system figure out.
Drop a hard cracker upstream and wait for it at the little waterfall when it's nice and soft.
Drop a hard cracker upstream and wait for it at the little waterfall when it's nice and soft.
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This clever Corvid I saw a couple of years ago had the perfect system figure out.
Drop a hard cracker upstream and wait for it at the little waterfall when it's nice and soft.
Drop a hard cracker upstream and wait for it at the little waterfall when it's nice and soft.
Every Lego set is a Millennium Falcon Lego set if you Millennium Falcon Lego hard enough.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Every Lego set is a Millennium Falcon Lego set if you Millennium Falcon Lego hard enough.
Am definitely writing to Fatface to make them produce these "Otter Space" PJs in adult sizes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Am definitely writing to Fatface to make them produce these "Otter Space" PJs in adult sizes.
I'm another departure from Lancaster University - contract will be terminated at the end of March after 35 years of stats and mapping. I'll be fine, am more worried about my colleagues' increasing workload, stress and fear of the Return of the Compulsory Redundancies.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'm another departure from Lancaster University - contract will be terminated at the end of March after 35 years of stats and mapping. I'll be fine, am more worried about my colleagues' increasing workload, stress and fear of the Return of the Compulsory Redundancies.
So I've got This Corrosion by The Sisters of Mercy and the whole Rust Never Sleeps album by Neil Young on my car MOT roadworthiness playlist... any other suggestions?
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
So I've got This Corrosion by The Sisters of Mercy and the whole Rust Never Sleeps album by Neil Young on my car MOT roadworthiness playlist... any other suggestions?
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
Going to pick up my refretted and restored guitar this morning - apart from Stairway to Heaven and Smoke on the Water, what other things can I play to get a laugh out of my luthier friend? Ooh, Last Christmas...
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Going to pick up my refretted and restored guitar this morning - apart from Stairway to Heaven and Smoke on the Water, what other things can I play to get a laugh out of my luthier friend? Ooh, Last Christmas...
I like to take an autumn sequence of this Lancaster campus tree...
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I like to take an autumn sequence of this Lancaster campus tree...
Where in Lancaster town centre can I get some decent LED lamps now that Wilko's is closed? (Pic is the guts of a failed LED lamp showing an exploded yellow LED chip)
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Where in Lancaster town centre can I get some decent LED lamps now that Wilko's is closed? (Pic is the guts of a failed LED lamp showing an exploded yellow LED chip)
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oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
Deciding how to oil/varnish this mirror. From top left, down, "Dark Oak", "Red Mahogany", Danish Oil (very pale), on the cross-piece "Tawny Koate" then antique pine on the RHS. I have lots of old leftover woodstains for some reason.
November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Deciding how to oil/varnish this mirror. From top left, down, "Dark Oak", "Red Mahogany", Danish Oil (very pale), on the cross-piece "Tawny Koate" then antique pine on the RHS. I have lots of old leftover woodstains for some reason.
As a kid growing up in a working class home where "cheese" meant solid yellow bricks of cheddar, I never understood how cheese could be "a bit runny" in the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch. Fifty years on, I've just got a spoon out of the drawer to deal with some brie.
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As a kid growing up in a working class home where "cheese" meant solid yellow bricks of cheddar, I never understood how cheese could be "a bit runny" in the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch. Fifty years on, I've just got a spoon out of the drawer to deal with some brie.
