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If Labour wanted the Greens to stand down in Makerfield, then Labour should have stood down in Gorton and Denton. They didn't. They did this instead. They were happy to risk a Reform victory there. www.thenational.scot/news/2589179...

As a child, my main life ambition was to shoot a radio and say 'boring conversation anyway'

Am I the only one who mumbles, "Boring conversation anyway." the moment she puts the phone down, no matter who it was, even when there's no one around to hear it?

Restocking the UK based lab 🇬🇧 www.gaugefilm.co.uk with ORIGINAL WOLFEN Cine Film 👍🎞️✨🎥❤️🥰

📜 Historians of Paris! Huge huge long shot 📜 Is anyone at the Archives Nationales main site at any point in the next few weeks, & willing & able to take a few photographs of documents? Happy to pay for your time, whatever you can spare – pls DM me

Flt Lt DJ Gibbs, Bluebird K7’s reserve driver during Bluebird K7 The Festival. Unfortunately due to minor technical and weather issues, DJ didn’t get a powered run - I hope he gets to drive her one of these days

Did you know that Jon’s first Doctor Who story, ‘Spearhead from Space’, was the only time the show was filmed entirely on 16mm film? Here’s us discussing another one of his stories: tinyurl.com/GWDeamon

A fox painted onto a Leicester City football ticket from 2005. Available from darrenhaymanart.com

A lovely little museum in the Lake District with lots to see about local history. There is one wing devoted to Campbell’s Bluebird. #coniston #museums #bluebird #museumfromhome #lakedistrict mainlymuseums.com/post/1068/th...

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Edvard Munch's The Shining

This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.

Exhaust flame from Blue Bird K3 during a static engine run last week at Coniston

Goodness I had absolutely no idea.

Could it be that the problem isn’t that the public are too picky, finicky and impossible to please, or that they’re on their damn phones? Could it instead be that the press keep putting their huge thumbs on the scales to promote and empower awful people whom the public do not like or want.

Today’s painting. A Swallow painted onto a Welsh Beer drinks mat. Beermat painting. Watercolour. darrenhaymanart.com

With the right sunset, flowering field beans can look deeply ominous

Someone took this of me at work on the last day of Bluebird K7 The Festival

My speculative artwork of the Saab A 36 is in this month's Aeroplane, now on news stands

Evil doesn't knock. It comes with a free alarm clock. Emmy winner Richard T. Wilson on horror, grief, and the banality of the damned. #RichardTWilsonInterview #HalloweenGirl #HorrorComicshttps://gnofhorror.com/richard-t-wilson-interview-horror-of-everyday/

𝙒𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙩-𝙊𝙛𝙛 🛒Buy it here on a variety of products: tinyurl.com/WHLiftOff

Had to leave #bluebirdk7thefestival before any running happened this week but was great to see second driver DJ getting tips from Dave Warby on the slipway

Blue Bird K3's fantastic triple run on Coniston Water yesterday

she's not a neonazi obsessed teen. she's a neonazi teen.

Homer: And then Odysseus arrived on an island where everyone’s butt was a head and their head was a butt Online guy complaining 3,000 years later: I am offended by this movie’s historical inaccuracies

If you're looking for a way to pass the time during this Indy 500 rain delay, you COULD watch a YouTube video and help me get monetized!!!!!! youtube.com/@eliz_blacks...

Bluebird K7 planes!

I walked down this weird street where all the houses were numbered things like 32K, 64K, 128K, 256K, and 1MB… That was a trip down memory lane.

You might not get the history you expect with @navalairhistory.com, but by golly it will come with the appropriate receipts. I can't imagine he's ever seen a sacred cow without reaching for the burger buns and selection of relishes... Again, I mean this as a compliment.

You: Please act normal you need these people to like you. Me: Okay! People: Hi. Me: It's a Kiev II which is a Soviet licence built version of the Zeiss Contax 2 and this one was made in 1954 so the same year as Bluebird

Still some tickets left for my free talk next week in Bristol! bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=316298 #bristol #avgeek #history

I can now share that I've been awarded an @acls1919.bsky.social Project Development Grant to research the beginnings of US speculative fiction publishing! tinyurl.com/ACLSprojectd...

partner's folks were in town and we went to see the Spruce Goose (Ilford HP5 Plus 400) #filmphotographyspriceg

Pics from today’s second run. Seems so close, but they just need a little something more to get her up and skimming

A landscape built, not posed. The wall gives the fells their rhythm. #LakeDistrict #Photography #IlfordFP4 #WorkingLandscape #DryStoneWalls

In the meantime, here's K7 being manoeuvred at the jetty yesterday

Two more runs from Bluebird K7 today. Despite adjustments, she still won't plane so the team running her will be looking at everything they can adjust to see if she can get over the hump and onto her points. Will sort some pics in a bit

I have accrued a small number of the 2017 hardcopy version of my book #HuntingMonsters and will sell some of them. Buuut ... sorry, not cheap. #books #cryptozoology

This exactly mirrors my experience.

Is there a good app for learning, like, a variety of things? On memrise I learnt lots of capital cities, football grounds, physiology, medical prefixes, yadda, yadda. It's gone subscription only as Brainscape, so I'm after a similar app.

My photo at top of BBC story on Bluebird K7 The Festival www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today at Bluebird K7 The Festival

K3 runs! Two planing runs along Coniston Water from Blue Bird K3, Sir Malcolm Campbell's speed record boat from 1937

Plan today for Bluebird K7 The Festival is to put K3 on the water so if there's a suitable weather window she can go straight out. K7 will be brought down onto the shore so there should be great views of her by the lake. As usual, she will run if possible but only if weather is suitable

And here's K3 running her V12 engine on the water yesterday as a taster for what we hope to see today

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

What's got two thumbs and has a painting of Donald Campbell displayed on the stand of Don Wales, Donald's grandson

Sir Malcolm Campbell's 1937 speed record boat is afloat on Coniston Water for the first time ever. She just ran her engine, a Rolls-Royce V12, with a huge blast of flame, which I completely failed to photograph

Blue Bird K3 running her V12 earlier