Phragmatobia fuliginosa - ruby tiger moth caterpillar found crawling up my wall. #perthshire #nature #caterpillar #moth #scotland

Today in Trees #strathearn #perthshire #scotland #photos #autumn #trees

Things one finds… #it #geek #old #technology #tech

Another of those autumn moments :) First attempt at a photo with the Oppo Find X9 Pro. Oh yeah, hello Android... it's been a while #android #scotland #perthshire #strathearn #landscapephotography #photography #autumn #colour

That autumn feeling :) #strathearn #perthshire #scotland #autumn #colour #iphoneography #photography

Pictish standing stone up around Loch Kinord, Aberdeenshire Something a bit different - using 3D Gaussian Splats for creating art, embracing imperfections. Finished the tone processing in Luminar Neo. #art #photography #scotland #3d #gaussiansplat #aberdeenshire #standingstone #lochkinord

Momentous. Just updated ~/.zshrc to bind a variant of tab-completion to insert most-recent-file to a single keypress. insert_recent_file() { LBUFFER+='*(om[1])' zle expand-or-complete } zle -N insert_recent_file bindkey '^R' insert_recent_file It actually works :) #zsh #geek #linux

Plumber due for annual boiler checkup at 0930hr. Calls at 0920 to say it'll be 1045. Actually appears at 0954. Doesn't "hello" so much as "sorry I need to take this call" while I'm standing in front of him in the doorway. Bet he wants paid on time though? #tradespeople #badmanners #scotland

Funny how society's ideas of acceptability change over time. #perth #scotland #byelaws #bridge #cars #iphoneography #society

@pegdeg.bsky.social this is for you :)

2025-10-20 17:06:43 M3.9 Killin / Bridge of Balgie A bigger wobble than earlier today on the Tyndrum and/or Garabel faults. This looks to have been on the Killin fault, so probably a separate event. #earthquake #seismology #scotland #raspberrypi #raspberryshake #geek #citizenscience #geology

BGS SEISMIC INFORMATION: PUBIL, PERTH & KINROSS 20 OCTOBER 2025 07:25 UTC 3.3 ML The following preliminary info is available for this earthquake: DATE: 20 October 2025 ORIGIN TIME: 07:25.18s UTC LAT/LON: 56.5460° North / 4.5670° West GRID REF: 242kmE / 742kmN DEPTH: 2.6 km MAGNITUDE: 3.3 Ml

2025-10-20 07:25:18 M3.3 Pubil, Loch Lyon 07:31:37.0 M1.4 & 07:42:53.8 M1.2 Mainshock on the Tyndrum fault x north shore of Loch Lyon. The aftershocks on the Garabal fault - probably a case of stress-transfer. #earthquake #seismology #perthshire #scotland #geology #raspberrypi #raspberryshake

Couple of evenings later and that's dad's new computer set up. My hardware spec, then I plugged it all in and set up printers and scanner and Gimp and photos and music editing and stuff. Folks in the shop that built it said it'd take him a week to get everything back installed. Hahahabonk. :] #geek

Caught a fleeting glimpse of the Aurora earlier this evening (20:51hr). Not too bad for the ipHone 📷 #Aurora #auroraBorealis #perthshire #Scotland #photography #nightsky #iphoneography

A complete wifi replacement - binned £700 of Notgear shite in favour of Asus mesh network - and with less than a minute's work in the router admin UIs, the port-forward to this self-hosted PDS is back alive again. Woowoooo #selfhosting #bluesky #geek #win

Everything, Edzell, All At Once: When Continents Collide A stunning outcrop of former oceanic crust - greenstone, phyllites, serpentinites - at the Rocks of Solitude in the HBF zone, Edzell. Prints, cards and more: shiny.photo/photo/Everyt... #geology #photography #closeup #scotland #nature #HBF

Hooyeah(TM). Morning, autumn 🍂 #autumn #morning #strathearn #inversion #cloud #perthshire #iphoneography #scotland

2025-09-27 22:12:49 M5.1 off Oregon coast Think it was on the Juan de Fuca plate - not quite the Big One just yet... earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... #earthquake #seismology #geology #oregon #geek #nature #raspberrypi #raspberryshake

has bought his first ever vinyl #music #taste #audiophile #nightwish

Gotta admit, the new airpods pro noise cancellation is absolutely excellent. First airpods I've used and I'm sold already. #apple #TryingNotToBeAFanboiHonest

Bloody #DPD - sit in van outside my house for 10 min not doing anything then ding-dong-ditch me and drive off claiming I wasn't in. Bastards. #courier #delivery #fail #customerservice

The Structure of Trees (20 & 19) The series ends admiring two favoured trees in the Black Woods of Rannoch, a remnant of the old Caledonian Forest. Prints, cards and more: shiny.photo/gallery/mulb... #scotland #photography #blackandwhite #trees #nature #landscape

The Structure of Trees (18 & 17) Prints, cards etc: shiny.photo/gallery/mulb... Something a bit more recognizeable - a favoured path through some Caledonian Forest. Still all about the shapes and shadows of the trees. #scotland #trees #blackandwhite #photography #perthshire #highlands

2025-09-13 02:37:54 M7.4 Kamchatka As seen from Perthshire #seismology #earthquake #geology #raspberrypi @raspishake.bsky.social

The Structure of Trees (16 & 15) Light filters through the canopy... No dramatic weather or wide vistas here - just closeup attention to the way trees deport themselves in the quiet of the woods. Prints, etc: shiny.photo/gallery/mulb... #scotland #trees #blackandwhite #abstract #photography

TFW a #Wordpress #plugin updates itself automagically overnight and you wake up to people saying they can't log in... Nice one, WP-Honeypot. Nothing that can't be solved with a quick chmod 0 wp-content/plugins/* :P #geek #webhosting

The Structure of Trees (14 & 13) More shapes, more forms. A blurry silver birch and a small twigs growing on a lichen-covered branch. Prints, cards etc: shiny.photo/gallery/mulb... #trees #blackandwhite #photography #scotland #nature #argyll

I wrote more words - my employment history with particular regard to opinions of Manglement Conslutants and Quality Assurance eejits back in the late 90s/2000s. soc.sty.nu/2025/09/11/c... #management #idiocy #work #corporate #priorities #WorkLifeBalance

Lord of the Rings characters: screen time vs mentions in the book. The further from the dotted line, the further off trend. By reddit user austinw-8 www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

The Structure of Trees (12 & 11) Prints, cards etc: shiny.photo/gallery/mulb... Slight backlighting, young growth on older stems, narrow depth of field, filling space with nature's shapes. #nature #photography #blackandwhite #trees #scotland

The Structure of Trees (9 & 10) Oak trees, Inverawe, Argyll. Nature does not require justification. It should just be, pure, beautiful in its authentic rawness, left to do what it will. Prints etc: shiny.photo/gallery/mulb... #scotland #trees #photography #blackandwhite #nature #ecology #argyll

So last night I quit the photo-society committee after 8yr hosting their website. Freedom has its costs and feels surreal yet good. #scotland #photography

Aurora 2025-09-02 T 01:14 So the autumn aurora season has started. Not as grand a display as advertised, but I caught this red/purple glow with very subtle hints of rays, anyway. #perthshire #scotland #strathearn #nightsky #aurora #auroraborealis #photography

Flappy Things(TM) ML295, an old Spitfire dating back to the 1940s, spent the weekend based at Perth airport, so that kinda dictated the doggy-stroll route of the day. #spitfire #airplane #scotland #perthshire #photography

"What, here?!" ;) coincidental juxtaposition amusement #perthshire #scotland #airplane #funny #photography

2025-08-27 23:33:24: M1.3 Invervar, Glen Lyon, Perthshire Nice clean signal. A minor fault and a dyke nearby. #earthquake #perthshire #scotland #glenlyon #nature #geology #seismology #citizenscience #raspberrypi @raspishake.bsky.social

The Structure of Trees 7 & 8 Studies in the natural forms of trunk and branch - how limbs grow, split and stretch through space. I think one of these trees should be called "Monster in the Glen". Prints etc: shiny.photo/gallery/mulb... #perthshire #scotland #trees #photography #blackandwhite

The Structure of Trees 5 & 6 More b&w studies in the shapes and forms of trees. No dramatic weather or wide vistas here - just closeup attention to the way trees deport themselves in the quiet of the woods. Prints etc: shiny.photo/gallery/mulb... #perthshire #scotland #bw #trees #photography

The Structure of Trees 3 & 4 Available as prints, cards and more via the website: shiny.photo/gallery/mulb... No dramatic weather or wide vistas here - just closeup attention to the way trees deport themselves in the quiet of the woods. #scotland #perthshire #nature #photography #trees

The Structure of Trees 1&2 Light filters through the canopy, casting soft highlights and deep shadows that bring out the grain of the bark and the structure of the leaves. Prints etc: shiny.photo/photo/The-St... and shiny.photo/photo/The-St... #scotland #photography #blackandwhite #trees #Nature

Some photography companies are scumbags. soc.sty.nu/2025/08/23/g... #photography #copyright #scotland #commerce #deceit #dishonesty

Sometimes I wonder what a Martian would make of our advertising-driven economy... #showerthoughts

Definition of a happy day: when the evening stroll involves 3 separate hedgie 🦔 🦔 🦔 encounters - small, medium and regular-sized. So please remember to strim and drive carefully, ok? 😀 #hedgehog #awesome #perthshire #scotland #nature #iphoneography

Stormbringer Towering cumulus clouds forming above arable farmland this afternoon. Prints, cards etc: shiny.photo/photo/Stormb... #landscape #scotland #photography #drone #stormcloud #nature #clouds

Last/first dog-stroll of the day... Strathearn, 1am, lunar crepuscular rays and a dear little hedgehog 🦔 for company 😍😀 ... Oh and the real camera is hunting meteors. No promises yet. #night #nightsky #Scotland #Perths

When in Perth... A few snaps from this afternoon's stroll around the South Inch and town centre. #perth #scotland #photography #urban

Right. Let's see how long it takes to copy 12TiB of my digital life from one USB drive to the new one... #linux #geek #xfs #NAS

Home of a sort Closeup of two Amanita muscaria fungi with classic bright red cap covered in white spots. "All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." - Terry Pratchett Prints etc: shiny.photo/photo/Home--... #closeup #amanitamuscaria #flyagaric #mushroom #scotland #nature #highlands

2025-07-20 06:49:02 M7.4 off the east coast of Kamchatka USGS: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... #geology #nature #citizenscience #kamchatka #earthquake #raspberrypi #raspberryshake