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Professional Drone/UAV operators based in Shropshire, covering most of the UK. Mapping, Crop health, Inspections.
All manner of photography too.
Also Linux consultancy, web, security, OpenSource and a bit of radio!
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It's about time that this fact was quoted whenever leaving the ECHR is given as a reason that people are prevented from being deported.
December 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Dammit, gonna need a bigger image...
Hastily cobbled together image of 'failed' Tory MPs and other blaggards with a man saying he's never going to vote for them again. Below is the same people wearing 'ReformUK' rosettes and a man who seems to think they're the best people ever!
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Here's a copy of the letter that my MP forwarded to me regarding crypto donations after I contacted him about issues surrounding them.
Noting the "Political donations can only be accepted from permissible sources" and how difficult it can be to track the source of any crypto payments...
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Losing count now... 😂
Hastily cobbled together of the 'major' Ex-Tory MPs who despite being labelled as 'failed' by Reform UK, are actually being welcomed into their 'party' with open arms For some reason.
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Gonna need a wider graphic...
Hastily knocked up graphic with several ex-MPs wearing Tory rosettes with a middle aged man shouting 'I'm never voting for Tories again' A second row with the same ex-Tory MPs all wearing Reform UK rosettes with a similar looking middle aged man beaming in happiness saying 'Yay! Reform!" as if all the failed ex-MPs are suddenly about to fix the mess they created in the last 14 years because they're now in this 'new' party
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
What a great venue The Regal in Tenbury Wells is!
Managed to see Lindisfarne there, TWICE this year!
Still sounding wonderful after all those years.
Kudos to the staff and volunteers who provide some quality entertainment throughout the year.
#Music #Tenbury #Worcestershire #LiveMusic
A stage in The Regal, setup for a performance from the group Lindisfarne. A Hammond organ on the left and a range of guitars and drum kit fill the rest of the stage, illuminated with blue/green lighting At the end of the show, the group on stage reacting to the applause of the crowd after a fantastic show. The stage background contains quite a bit of theatrical 'smoke' illuminated by white light (The last song being appropriately 'Clear white light') A somewhat foggy shot of the outside of the venue, a gorgeous 1937 facade of the theatre/cinema with red and green neon lighting. People are exiting the building as a car drives past its headlights shining in the mist.
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Let's just leave this here. 😀
A screenshot of a Facebook post from some 'Patriots' in Worcester, UK. Complaining about 2 signs with what 'looked like Islamic writing' that had been tied to railings. A few angry posts expressing rage and claiming they should be torn down before it becomes clear that the signs are adverts for Worcester Cathedral and the 'Islamic writing' is actually musical notes!
November 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Close up of a Little Owl at Telford Exotic Zoo in Shropshire.
#Photograph #Owl #Zoo #Telford #Shropshire #UK #Wildlife
Close up photograph of the head an upper body of a Little Owl in Telford Exotic zoo. He's looking straight at the camera looking rather indignant.
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Is it because the ECHR has stopped so many deportations in the past?...

Oh.
Screen grab of a web page from Collegegreengroup.com stating that since 1980 the ECHR has halted only 13 deportations from the UK. Also stating that the ECHR interventions are rare and typically where there is a significant risk of torture or inhumane treatment upon deportation.
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Ludlow castle, the town of Ludlow and the Clee hills.
From Whitcliffe Common.
#Photography #Ludlow #Castle #Shropshire #Landscape
A view of the town of Ludlow showing the castle behind some trees with Autumn colour on the far side of the river, the tower of St Laurence's Parish Church in the middle distance with the hills of Brown Clee and Titterstone Clee visible on the horizon. A grey Autumn cloudy sky above.
October 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Had a quick trip across to Ludlow and Mortimer Forest yesterday to try and capture some of the Autumn colours.
Will probably be better later this week, if the sun comes out!
#Photography #Landscape #Shropshire #Ludlow #Forest
Ludlow Castle from the West. The outline of the castle seen under a quite cloudy sky with blue patches. The trees between the foreground and the castle in various autumn hues ranging from green to yellow. A dirt road in the forest, a variety of trees either side in various Autumn colours under a cloudy sky with a large patch of blue in the centre A dirt road through the forest with bracken on either side turning orange and brown. The trees on either side still mostly green although some orange and brown leaves can be seen The trees further away catching the sunlight, with a little sunlight being cast across the road in the foreground.
October 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
First relatively clear evening for ages, time to look for the comet.
Apparently closest to Earth so should have been the brightest...
Not incredibly bright it has to be said, and not the clearest of nights. Then there were Musk's f*%"ing satellites spoiling the view 😡
#comet #photo #Shropshire
A quite faint photo of a comet in amongst stars. The ISO was quite high so the is a lot of noise, plus it is a jpg. I have the raw image but haven't had time to see what I can pull out of it yet A night sky image with a tiny comet somewhere neat=r the centre. However, the main thing that can be seen is several trails from Musk's Starlink train, once again spoiling the view of the universe. A 30 second exposure of the night sky, the faint comet pinpointed in the centre and a line going from the bottom of the image to the top indicating multiple satellite trails from Starlink's satellite 'train' spoiling the view of the universe for profit :(
October 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Autumn in a single picture.
The bracken close to the ground is turning brown and dying off, one tree is still in full leaf whilst it's neighbour's leaves are turning yellow and slowly falling off.
#Photography #Landscape #Autumn #Fall #Shropshire #England #trees
two trees against a rather cloudy but blue sky. It's autumn and the leaves of one tree are already changing colour and dropping off, the other tree is still covered in green leaves. It gives the impression of a single tree that has yellow-ish leaves on one side and green on the other. The foreground is mostly bracken, turning brown and dying off
October 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Meanwhile in ChatGPT land.
"Generate a map of the United Kingdom with all the counties named"...
A ChatGPT rendering of the counties of the UK, containing many many errors, counties in the wrong place, numerous mis-spelled counties, generally rubbish!
October 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
It seems that the original Star Trek series predicted the future with the 'Tholian web'
Anyone attempting to take photos of the night sky now has to contend with thousands of streaks from mainly starlink satellites. 😠
(Article from spaceweather.com)
An article from spaceweather.com including an image of a comet in the night sky where the image of the comet and stars is crisscrossed with trails of satellites in an image reminiscent of a star trek episode where the enterprise is held in space by a 'web' created by aliens.
October 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Now, having just returned from Israel, Richard 'stupid' Tice says that there's no famine in Gaza.
www.conservativewoman.co.uk/on-the-gaza-...
A twitter post from Richard Tice from Reform UK, stating that the 'famine in Gaza is a blatant lie' Picture attached to the post is a small black and white map of Gaza
October 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Quick trip to the nature reserve in Eardington. Took lots of pictures of the bottom of the pool, being too slow to catch anything else, a nice dragonfly sunning itself on a rock, and some not-quite-in-focus dragonfly hanky-panky. 😂
#Photography #Nature #Shropshire #Insects #Dragonfly
A dragonfly sitting on a rock in the sunshire Two mating dragonflies flying above a pond, the lower, female dragonfly laying eggs in the water.
September 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
We entered a Speedquiz thing last week with a team name of 'The Tragic Roundabout' with a team photo ('cos you can have one that displays should you be the first to correctly answer) similar to this.
Sadly we didn't have many correct answers first, so it didn't get much of an outing. 😂
A picture of a mini roundabout on a road in England that had been vandalised by someone painting a red cross on it (supposedly representing the English flag). Some characters from the old kids TV programme 'The Magic Roundabout' have been added to give it a 'Tragic Roundabout' look
September 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
This is what happens when you play about with photo editing software and you inadvertently click the wrong thing!
Apocalypse on Brown Clee Hill!
It was supposed to be a lovely white cloud against a blue sky!
#Shropshire #BrownClee #ShropshireHills #Photography #PhotoEdit #Oops #Apocalypse
An apocalyptic view of what looks like a large explosion behind a hill with telecom masts on top. Colours are mostly red, yellow and black. It was supposed to be a photo of a large white cloud in a blue sky above the green, grass covered hill, but I pressed the wrong thing in the editing software!
August 31, 2025 at 9:44 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Also, hanging flags from lamp posts is quite probably illegal under the Highways Act 1980 section 132
August 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Two Buzzards riding a thermal over the fields in Corvedale, South Shropshire UK
#Photography #Nature #Birds #buzzard #shropshire #shropshirehills #wildlife #wildlifephotography
Two buzzards riding a thermal above the fields. The birds are illuminated by the sun against a clear blue summer sky
August 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Perhaps this is why the Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB drive failed?

#hardware #harddrive #seagate #headcrash #disk #diskdrive
A platter on a Seagate 1.5TB disk drive that failed. There's a deep scoring around the centre of the platter and the disk heads appear to be missing. there's a ligh covering of very fine dust across the surface of the disk platter.
August 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
ukcsi.bsky.social
Asking ChatGPT 5 to generate a map of UK counties and label each one is a sure way to show people never to accept anything done with AI without thoroughly checking it.
Or better still, just don't do it.
#Map #maps #AI #Gibberish #UK #England #Scotland #Wales #NIreland #AISlop #ChatGPT
A 'map' of the United Kingdom rendered from ChatGPT 5 with the counties labelled. Almost all of the counties are either in the wrong place, or have gibberish names, or both! A part of Wales appears to have Devon and part of Cornwall, Durham has moved to Cumbria. it's all a complete mess!
August 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
ukcsi.bsky.social
If you can't see the data, there's no problem, obviously.
Meanwhile the ice coverage in the Arctic:
An image showing the amount of sea ice in the Arctic circle in August. In the 1980s/90s most of the sea ice can be seen at least 0.5m with Greenland's north showing 5m+ The images shows the amount, and depth reducing until 2015/24 when quite a lot of the sea show no sea ice, the north coast of Greenland showing around 2-3m thickness, quite a dramatic reduction.
August 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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External and internal views of Portchester Castle near Portsmouth in the UK.
Originally a Roman fort, later used by the Normans and throughout the medieval period.
#History #Castle #England #Portsmouth #Solent #Roman #Norman #Heritage #Photography #Photograph
The exterior of the Norman keep on the corner of Porchester castle viewed through a gap in some trees. The wall can also be seen disappearing towards the right of the picture. Numerous slits and windows can be seen in the walls of the tower, the castle wall is missing quite a lot of masonry. There is an 'English Heritage' flag flying above the keep seen behind the crenellations. The sky is quite dark with clouds, but the sun is shining brightly on the walls and the grass in the foreground. The internal view of the castle keep and internal ruins of the buildings on the interior of the castle. The grass in the foreground is very dry due to the lack of rain, the blue sky above is filled with white clouds
July 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM