Had not seen this painting by Constable before, Rainstorm over the Sea. (in the Tate exhibition, must go)

Welcoming our new Board members, @chira001.bsky.social, Ashley Ward, Clare Schramm, @justincormack.bsky.social, Margherita Di Cerbo, Maria Lema, @mathewlodge.com, and @mikemcquaid.com, to strengthen our existing OpenUK Board. openuk.uk/newboardmemb...

"Even after applying weights to ensure the reported demographics of respondents match up to the target population, 12 per cent of young adults in the sample declared they had a licence to operate a nuclear submarine." www.ft.com/content/1298... by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Morning walk by the vineyards

🔥✨🤩🫣⬇️ Want to get more involved in OpenUK and become a part of the team? openuk.uk/ambassadors/ #opensource #opendata #openhardware #opensourcesoftware #openuk #ambassador

"China added 240GW of solar capacity in the first nine months of this year, and 61GW of wind"

For #wildflowerhour some wild snapdragons from Spain where I was earlier this week. Back home its more shaggy inkcap weather and slime mold bsky.app/profile/just...

I was re-perusing @komorama.bsky.social organizations are like slime molds piece komoroske.com/slime-mold/ and then ran into a whole lot of the tastefully named "dog's vomit slime mold" up the road - slime molds are weird!

evening walk

sunset

The Tour de France slows rise of far right

"This is a more extreme policy position than, say, the BNP’s 2005 manifesto."

I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top? This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.

Autumn walk

"Storing beautiful things in your head is really worth doing"

First thing that comes to mind when I hear the Louvre has been robbed "Inside the air was filled with gorilla smoke. I was looking for a man who might specialise in piano robberies from the Louvre." goonshow.org/goonshow/nap...

owl

The EU wants to “help AI start-ups grow through increased demand for European-made open source AI solutions”

This autumn the UK Office for Rail and Road will decide on capacity at Temple Mills depot in east London What that is going to mean for Eurostar's rivals - and the many questions I still have! - I've written up in a new blog post jonworth.eu/constraints-...

after the roses

"The field changes arising from train leakage currents have to be added to the variations due to temperature changes, terrestrial tides and seasonal deformations of the LEP ring from the water level of the lake of Geneva and the amount of rainfall in the vicinity of CERN" cds.cern.ch/record/33409...

This sounds great on.ft.com/46vOll8

Evening walk

Goethe tells the story of the old Duke of Saxony, an original as well as stubborn man, whose advisers urge him to reflect and ponder before making an important decision. “I want neither to reflect nor to ponder,” he replies, “otherwise why would I be the Duke of Saxony?” www.ft.com/content/85ee...

“When translating Dumas’s work, for instance, he would sometimes go off on twenty-page-long digressions before returning to the text. His version of The Three Musketeers, which is some six hundred pages long in the original, weighs in at more than six thousand pages” yalereview.org/article/amir...

Saw some clouded yellows fluttering around today, very bright yellow! @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

dunno but this was his license plate

Some common soapwort for #wildflowerhour

"We dominate the world when it comes to “doing miscellaneous stuff”. Nobody can touch us when it comes to “things that don’t fit in any other category”." backofmind.substack.com/p/the-thing-...

Tour of Britain just down the road here is Remco Evenepoul just on the local "mountain" range at Mill Hill

todays newsletter is about arctic semirings, because of @kevinxu.bsky.social buttondown.com/justincormac...

Fish and fruit shop

School No 6

404

Porceleyne Blompot

Tree, Amstelpark

Morning Amsterdam

Next stop Amsterdam

Anne Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph with the baby—where Moffatt, then Technical Lead at Shirley’s company, Freelance Programmers, programmed the black box flight recorder for the Concorde

On Dunwich Heath

Common blue @bc-suffolk.bsky.social they are a lot of them this year

The latticed heath is a pretty moth @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

This is a wonderful piece

in the woods today

BBC obituary here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very sorry to read of the death of Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley. What a life she lived! Escaped the holocaust via Kindertransport, computer pioneer, philanthropist, autism activist. Amazing, amazing. www.franmonks.com/how-to-make-...

ok I wrote about this! buttondown.com/justincormac...

"Until other, more complete tablets are found that record the same myth, scholars may never know whether the fox successfully completed its mission."