(Part of one song out of a…) Great set by the Brazen Bass Band at the “We Invented the Weekend” festival this afternoon.

Do the bluesky engineers get paid by the second for how long "Uploading images..." apeears on our screens? Good [expletive] grief.

The Allison rainfall graphics were among the first that involved spreadsheet creation (Quattro Pro), one of the first done in near real time, and one of the few that involved manual plotting of datapoints back when the graphics were created in nMap/nAWIPS in 2002.

The Ordnance Survey describes their Longshaw and Padley Gorge circular walk as a “splendidly absorbing ramble.” I’ll go along with that!

Going to be a beautiful day for a stroll in the Peak District.

At Manchester Cathedral tonight, Luminescence, featuring the Collectives Gospel Choir. Telling the story of the city through light and song. Just stunning. 🥹 (video 1 of 2)

The foxglove looking great outside Manchester Cathedral this afternoon.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

The amount of quarters my parents and I fed into the Galaga machine at our hometown laundromat… probably as much as we did on clothes. 😂

June 1985: “Is the Macintosh a real business machine?” 🧐 (Flipping through archived magazines at the Northwest Computer Museum in Leigh today)

Leeds, 1970 Departure board. Every half hour or so, a BR employee would appear with a crank handle and wind it on a bit. #Leeds #Yorkshire 📷 Unknown

An easy 6 miles wandering around the Blackstone Edge and Reservoirs today. Made use of the Aiggin Stone, a 600 year old route marker. (Other than it being really windy, it was a gorgeous day.)

In this house, we say 🖕🏻 🖕🏻 to TNT and find… alternative ways to watch the #UCLfinal. (With thanks to BBC for the stats feed!) [repost for corrected network]

Have finally arrived at my symbolic home while on this trip. Statue is “Victory Over Blindness,” honoring those who were so injured in WW1.

A place like Lincoln Cathedral defies photos. Just stunning.

At the New Theatre Royal in Lincoln tonight for comedian Mark Simmons. (Pretty good seats too)

The excellent RTT (Real Time Trains) website now has an app! It shows how any British train performed up to 2 weeks ago, shows planned rolling stock for any given train, and shows the *planned* platform so you can be positioned ready, ahead of the scrum (includes Eurostar).

Not what you want on a spelling bee broadcast

My first rail replacement bus!

Disappointed than in a quick scroll of this Reddit post I didn’t immediately see a favorite Steel Magnolias line from Ouiser: “Oh! [Drum]'s a real gentleman! I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it!”

New CEEFAUX, innit.

stop writing articles about extreme heat using fun summer imagery challenge: impossible (apparently) apnews.com/article/euro...

Not bad, Haltwhistle Human Sundial.

Walking along Hadrian’s Wall requires frequent snack breaks.

The notion of a "leadership seminar" is a snake-oil rebranding of management training. Teams confer leadership. It emerges when someone behaves in an inspiring way. A true leader does not have "followers" in the conventional sense. Mindlessly obeying or mimicking someone is cult behavior. 3/5

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

Suggestus ferriviarius, to be precise.

I have been 100% a jeans-wearer while over here on holiday/vacation (ease of packing)... but honestly the wardrobe can't cut the heat any longer. Not just unfashionable but now an overheating risk.

A trio of wavy clouds on the train ride out of Edinburgh. 〰️〰️〰️

When I reported on the 15 Minute Cities protests in Oxford I was struck by the way lots of people I spoke to described themselves as a car driver in a way that really felt like an underrecognised form of identity politics. Having said that OH MY GOD

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Today’s lunch spot: the ruins of Hailes Castle, outside Edinburgh.

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Today’s picnic lunch occurs at Tantallon Castle.

Edinburgh Castle looking wonderful on this every warm morning. (I’m on the way elsewhere though…)

Spotted another one! Two in all these years. Prices for these rare plates are wild to me - on a private sales site, I found one just one character off from this one, selling for £50,000 ($65,000).

So many great options at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh today, but I’ll go with only two: this pearl bush and an almost blinding pink rhododendron.

No photos allowed inside the Surgeon’s Hall Museums but if you’re a fan of tumors, aneurysms, or chloroform, it’s the place for you.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social is very well read. I wonder has he seen this new title?

As I walked away after taking these photos of the former Donaldson’s Hospital in Haymarket, I heard someone else lining up their shot say “Well move over, you don’t want the tree in the photo.” I think it adds a little flavor, honestly! But does make the building look less distant than it is.

My accommodation in Edinburgh this weekend... 😍 (Yes really. They converted the church into a hostel in the 90s.)

Costco really understands America rn

Watching a nice heavy rain shower pass by to the north of the city.

Some days are less glamorous than others.

Ribbit.

Walked 10 miles, got hailed on, scored a new photo for class (below: glaciated anvil on left, more firm anvil plus overshooting top on right), then came home and had 2 Zoom meetings. That’s a day.

Getting hailed on while walking. This is a first.

Hello again, Peak District. You’ve been missed.

Sight you don’t want to see out your stopped train window: the driver walking along with a police officer. 😬 (There was a trespasser on the tracks)