@valduskin.bsky.social
Old boater, armchair reader, armchair Lancashire cricket fan and armchair LFC fan.
Hate the Tories, always, all the time.
Hate the Tories, always, all the time.
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Good morning Blueskies! Running late because faff/work/work faff! Dark and mild in the vale this morning, but set fair for a dry and unseasonably mild day; more faff incoming, hope yours is faff free - Let’s Monday!
December 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Good morning Blueskies! Running late because faff/work/work faff! Dark and mild in the vale this morning, but set fair for a dry and unseasonably mild day; more faff incoming, hope yours is faff free - Let’s Monday!
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Born #OnThisDay in 1887 was Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Despite having almost no training in mathematics, he is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He became one of the youngest Fellows in the Royal Society's history when he was elected in 1918 at the age of 31.
December 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Born #OnThisDay in 1887 was Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Despite having almost no training in mathematics, he is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He became one of the youngest Fellows in the Royal Society's history when he was elected in 1918 at the age of 31.
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21/12/25 - nocturn
December 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
21/12/25 - nocturn
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Happy 21st December evening everyone. May the Great Veiled Bear pass over you house tonight and not present you with one of his cursed Christmas cookies.
December 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Happy 21st December evening everyone. May the Great Veiled Bear pass over you house tonight and not present you with one of his cursed Christmas cookies.
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This would go hard as an album cover ngl
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This would go hard as an album cover ngl
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Goodnight from George Pickess, fishing the canal in strained hope of legendary Blood Eels for his Christmas pie. Goodnight from Bob Warmer, raging that his electromagnetic UFO detector has been banned from future Meldon Hill skywatches for beeping too noisily. Goodnight from Hookland.
December 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Goodnight from George Pickess, fishing the canal in strained hope of legendary Blood Eels for his Christmas pie. Goodnight from Bob Warmer, raging that his electromagnetic UFO detector has been banned from future Meldon Hill skywatches for beeping too noisily. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Look at this beautiful necklace my cousin has made me! It's a cabochon ruby I bought years ago which was made into a pendant I never wore (pic on the right). My cousin specialises in remaking jewellery and I am chuffed to bits with this.
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Look at this beautiful necklace my cousin has made me! It's a cabochon ruby I bought years ago which was made into a pendant I never wore (pic on the right). My cousin specialises in remaking jewellery and I am chuffed to bits with this.
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Beiwe, the Sami goddess of the sun and spring, rides a flying sleigh made of reindeer bones during winter solstice. The Sami people of Finland put butter on their doorposts and wrap reindeer meat in wreaths to help keep her fed on her travels. #FolkyFriday
December 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Beiwe, the Sami goddess of the sun and spring, rides a flying sleigh made of reindeer bones during winter solstice. The Sami people of Finland put butter on their doorposts and wrap reindeer meat in wreaths to help keep her fed on her travels. #FolkyFriday
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I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
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Folklore walks. Not just across imagined lines on maps of nations, not just across time itself. Folklore instinctively walks towards landmarks. When stories see a ruin, a notable tomb or impressive tree, they travel towards them to tether themselves in the landscape. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Folklore walks. Not just across imagined lines on maps of nations, not just across time itself. Folklore instinctively walks towards landmarks. When stories see a ruin, a notable tomb or impressive tree, they travel towards them to tether themselves in the landscape. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore
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Manchester & Salford,
December 19th 2025
First Light: 06.53
Sunrise: 08.21
Sunset: 15.50
Nightfall: 17.19
December 19th 2025
First Light: 06.53
Sunrise: 08.21
Sunset: 15.50
Nightfall: 17.19
December 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Manchester & Salford,
December 19th 2025
First Light: 06.53
Sunrise: 08.21
Sunset: 15.50
Nightfall: 17.19
December 19th 2025
First Light: 06.53
Sunrise: 08.21
Sunset: 15.50
Nightfall: 17.19
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Portsmouth was closed in 1900 for a couple years for urgent foundational work but did not collapse.
Wells started showing signs of subsidence mid construction, so the master mason (I suspect got high and then) threw a Hail Mary in the form of this unique situation. So far it has worked.
Wells started showing signs of subsidence mid construction, so the master mason (I suspect got high and then) threw a Hail Mary in the form of this unique situation. So far it has worked.
December 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Portsmouth was closed in 1900 for a couple years for urgent foundational work but did not collapse.
Wells started showing signs of subsidence mid construction, so the master mason (I suspect got high and then) threw a Hail Mary in the form of this unique situation. So far it has worked.
Wells started showing signs of subsidence mid construction, so the master mason (I suspect got high and then) threw a Hail Mary in the form of this unique situation. So far it has worked.
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Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
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Our straw panels will find a new home (rather, be a new home or inspiring kick off) in Bonn at this nice #strawhouse project for 100 people:
rundum-nachhaltig.bonn.de/initiativen/...
rundum-nachhaltig.bonn.de/initiativen/...
December 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Our straw panels will find a new home (rather, be a new home or inspiring kick off) in Bonn at this nice #strawhouse project for 100 people:
rundum-nachhaltig.bonn.de/initiativen/...
rundum-nachhaltig.bonn.de/initiativen/...
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You’ll want to bookmark this thread, for your taste buds, your wallet, your health, and the planet
newly in the market for best big batch meal prep options for dried beans. please my family is hungry
Beans, beans, the more you eat, the more your … meals are healthier and cheaper
December 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You’ll want to bookmark this thread, for your taste buds, your wallet, your health, and the planet
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New Swingometer post! I review the preditions I made last Christmas about politics in 2025 and try and draw some lessons from my various blunders and missteps:
swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...
swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
New Swingometer post! I review the preditions I made last Christmas about politics in 2025 and try and draw some lessons from my various blunders and missteps:
swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...
swingometer.substack.com/p/my-2025-pr...
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Unfortunately it seems likely that southern Finland will see a widespread green Christmas this year. The largest temperature anomalies will occur just before the holidays.
Resembles a bit the situation in December 2020 when it was last time widely a snowless Christmas.
Resembles a bit the situation in December 2020 when it was last time widely a snowless Christmas.
December 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Unfortunately it seems likely that southern Finland will see a widespread green Christmas this year. The largest temperature anomalies will occur just before the holidays.
Resembles a bit the situation in December 2020 when it was last time widely a snowless Christmas.
Resembles a bit the situation in December 2020 when it was last time widely a snowless Christmas.
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If you (like me) need something to laugh about tonight... here you go.
December 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you (like me) need something to laugh about tonight... here you go.
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[12] Hansen died in 1880, aged 76. Boys playing Dice (nd) & The Fathers’ of the Danish Constitution (nd). The Danish neoclassical artists are wonderful & I heartily recommend their study!
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
[12] Hansen died in 1880, aged 76. Boys playing Dice (nd) & The Fathers’ of the Danish Constitution (nd). The Danish neoclassical artists are wonderful & I heartily recommend their study!
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A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky:
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky:
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
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Wow, this ancient Egyptian linen shirt is the world’s oldest known complex woven garment. Known as the Tarkhan Dress, it was cut and tailored to fit some 5,000 years ago!
📷 Petrie Museum. : antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/ste...
#Archaeology
📷 Petrie Museum. : antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/ste...
#Archaeology
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Wow, this ancient Egyptian linen shirt is the world’s oldest known complex woven garment. Known as the Tarkhan Dress, it was cut and tailored to fit some 5,000 years ago!
📷 Petrie Museum. : antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/ste...
#Archaeology
📷 Petrie Museum. : antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/ste...
#Archaeology
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Advent bird No. 17
Raven
Scientific name: Corvus corax
Alternative names: Corbie, croupy craw, great big black thing, Deathy McDeathface
Finnish name: korppi
Song: gronk, k’ack k’ack k’ack, korrrp (and much much more)
Raven
Scientific name: Corvus corax
Alternative names: Corbie, croupy craw, great big black thing, Deathy McDeathface
Finnish name: korppi
Song: gronk, k’ack k’ack k’ack, korrrp (and much much more)
December 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Advent bird No. 17
Raven
Scientific name: Corvus corax
Alternative names: Corbie, croupy craw, great big black thing, Deathy McDeathface
Finnish name: korppi
Song: gronk, k’ack k’ack k’ack, korrrp (and much much more)
Raven
Scientific name: Corvus corax
Alternative names: Corbie, croupy craw, great big black thing, Deathy McDeathface
Finnish name: korppi
Song: gronk, k’ack k’ack k’ack, korrrp (and much much more)
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Hey, @mariephillips.bsky.social and I have been given a gorgeous Roberts Rambler Max (joint Wedding/Xmas present) and are assembling cool internet-only stations. So far we have FipJazz, WFMU, Soho Radio and Dublab but need a good classical station and some other cool wider-world suggestions.
December 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Hey, @mariephillips.bsky.social and I have been given a gorgeous Roberts Rambler Max (joint Wedding/Xmas present) and are assembling cool internet-only stations. So far we have FipJazz, WFMU, Soho Radio and Dublab but need a good classical station and some other cool wider-world suggestions.
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This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is extremely important