Glorious Sunny Day on the Fen Edge. 10 VHF Elements waiting against a perfect blue sky in anticipation of the Spring Es propagation season and some Spring equinox F2 openings. #hamradio #magicbands #50/70MHz #VHFDX

Valentines dinner, 🥰 Greek Style!

I appreciate it's an increasingly ironic position to believe in "tech for good" especially when the phrase is co-opted by grifters and techbro philosophers, but: Absent of the thirst to spend money on crap, we have greater capability to make stuff to improve lives than ever before. We just don't.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

If you've heard me cite the Yeats poem, The Second Coming, to describe what Trump is doing then you'll enjoy this little bit of genius as much as I did...

Nice Aurora AuE opening on 6m just after 9pm. OH,LY,OZ, SM plus G/GM. Mixture of FT8 for AuE and CW for Au. ODX OH5BM in KP41PL at 2024km via AuE FT8

Today's best football-based social media post by a long chalk!

Reading the poem "Not Waving but Drowning" right now and I have no idea why but it's...it's how things are right now. Maybe with me, maybe with the world.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Fall in love with some activity and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about and it doesn't matter.

Hey, it's January!! Nearly time for Heelweg Microwave 26! Are you going? I am. www.pamicrowaves.nl

Fragrant Viburnum absolutely bossing it in the corner of my #FenEdge garden this mild winter morning. The scent is almost overpowering!

Radio engineer, amateur astronomer, and Chicagoan Grote Reber was born #OTD in 1911. After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope *in his back yard* and carried out the first radio survey of the sky. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 📡 Image: NRAO

"The policy will be not have a policy, and that will be flexible"

Auschwitz - Birkenau 16 December 2025 Oswiecim, Poland

"And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right." ― Martin Luther King Jr

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I’m so sick of stuff... Buying it, subscribing to it, replacing it, convincing ourselves it’ll spark joy Social media trained us like obedient Labradors: sit, scroll, consume And now we’re obedient little little lemmings Read my rant here... open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...

MYYYYY GOD MISS JONES

You need some lemons on that, Vlad

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Nearly the weekend! Pondering whether to have a play in CQWW CW…

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

2/2 The plot shows two feint signal tracks PE9GHZ (Goes) left and PA3GCO (Rotterdam) right, and the much stronger GB3PKT (Clacton) on the right WebSDR url trig01.ddns.net:8073

Last night's rain over the southern North Sea gave some nice 24GHz rainscatter propagation from the PE9GHZ and PA3GCO beacons on the Margate WebSDR (1/2)

Rare one just worked just now on 30m doodle mode. ZL7/LZ1GC. My only other QSO with Chatham Island was with ZL7DK in 1998 on 40m CW

Is it 'wanking'?

That was a bit too easy! 9L8MD Sierra Leone worked on 24.898MHz CW up 2 2nd Call. They're now calling CQ

The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Is AI really intelligent?

#CQWWSSB One hour of search and pounce on 15m this afternoon and I'm shattered! Just go remind me why I don't do contests.

Pleasant surprise in the post today! #gettingold

You don’t get to bankroll a genocide… Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators …and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.

Reason No. 324 why no-one should think that "AI" (artificial but certainly not intelligent) is an unmitigated Good Thing: it's mathematically inevitable that AI will hallucinate. We need far more discussion of the risks of all this and less frantic hype. I mean, really, what's the hurry?

Disgraceful

Why could I possibly want to redesign an Ali Express DCDC 3 times? I'll be talking at the RSGB Convention on the importance of switch mode power supply PCB layout in a month's time. Would be great to see you if you're around.

Love this! This absolutely gets this Month's #topbodging award, and must be in line for #bodgeroftheyear.

Engineer turned a vape into a web server

The photos previously are from the Warsaw uprising exhibition at the Wolf's Lair in Northern Poland

.....Yesterday we were at a small exhibition and came upon this exhibit. Plus this moving photo of a Polish partizan with a kitten, who could have been (but isn't) Mr Mack

When I visit Poland, I always spare a moment to remember Stefan Mackewicz. Fondly known as "Mr Mack." My School chemistry teacher, who at the end of term used to regale us with stories of his exploits in the "kanals" (sewers) during the Warsaw uprising........more....

While visiting the Jesuit monastery and pilgrimage centre at Święta Lipka Basilica in N Poland on Wednesday, I noticed this medallion of St Maximilian Kolbe SP3RN who gave his life in #Auschwitz to save a fellow prisoner. #hamradio #martyr

If you think you are smarter than the previous generation... 50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.