Really interesting - Sheffield has a load of wild fig trees along the river due to a unique historical combination of locals liking fig biscuits -> occasional sewer overflows -> industry using river water to cool machinery means the river water was warm enough to germinate undigested fig seeds 😲

Spotted on my morning walk this morning 😳 #Todmoden #ThisIsNormal #IsItASign

Nice out this morning #Todmorden

A couple of photos from a lovely day out in the #LakeDistrict on Tuesday, it's been raining in the UK for so long I was forgetting what the sun actually looked like 😅 #Landscapes #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Thirlmere #Keswick

A few photos I took last night of the pretty #Lightport event in #Southport (UK) - multiple light and laser installations in the town centre (on for the next 2 nights too)

🚨The Barkley Marathons are just starting! They're usually March/April so unexpectedly early this year (the campsite is under redevelopment so there's a temporary starting gate 😅) If you've not heard of the Barkley's have a Google - and the only way you can 'spectate' is thru Keiths' updates 👇

Don't we already have enough to be worrying about at the moment? 😬 #Todmorden #CentreValePark #DayOfTheTriffids

Still my favourite Ceefaux listing - you should check them out for funny fake TV listings #ifyoufollowceefauximightwinanmug

Sometimes you look at the local Facebook groups and stumble upon a post where you really want to know the story behind it 😅

Beautiful light in the mist and frost this morning, looking across the valley. #todmorden #calderdale #yorkshire #unitedkingdom #darksatanicmills #light #landscape

A tasty sunday pub lunch further improved with a beautiful double-rainbow outside - half the pub ran outside to take it in #rainbow #todmorden #calderdale #yorkshire #unitedkingdom

Look at us being #slightlytopical

I love a joke that makes you work for the punchline 🎉

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

And you thought Teams was forever to remain the worst experience for a video call....

There's a heartbreaking amount of emboldened hate in Britain at the moment, and this is beautifully put about why all the flags going up are so problematic - everyone knows they're a proxy for racists airing their views rather than actually loving their country.

Just watched a webinar about AI use in security pen-testing, and "crapplication" (vibe-coded applications with security flaws) is now my favourite term 😂

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Glad to see Calderdale council actively posting on bluesky now 🤗🎉 #Todmorden #HebdenBridge #Mytholmroyd #SowerbyBridge #Brighouse #Elland #Halifax

Niche joke for british people of a certain age 😅

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Remember last year when people were gaming AI recruitment bots by putting hidden "hire me" messages in white text in their CVs? Well unsurprisingly, there is a very similar "zero click" cybersecurity loophole fortune.com/2025/06/11/m...

Made me laugh (tho obvs you need an appreciation both of stanley kubrick films and how people bypass AI guard-rails, so possibly a little niche!)

Bluesky right now:

The hamlet of Oldroyd on the opposite side of the valley from my house always looks super pretty at this time of year as all the Hawthorn trees flower 😍 #Todmorden #Calderdale #Yorkshire #UnitedKingdom #UK #Landscape

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

what midlife-crisis-facer among us can truly say we haven't considered similar?

A few photos I took from a day out at @yspsculpture.bsky.social yesterday (it's a world class art gallery set within a country park in Yorkshire, UK). I'm still thinking about the tasty chocolate and banana tray-bake from the cafe there - so good 🤤 #Art #Sculpture #Photography

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

Plan your visit to Walshaw Moor and nearby towns Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and Haworth this spring to catch a sight of curlews and lapwings! www.wildway.info/p/lets-explo... Britain's greatest secret national park in waiting! Be inspired like the Brontë sisters - spread the word!

Ukraine was just knifed in the back. Essential reading on yesterday's deal open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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Have you Bracket City'd yet? bracket.city Have fun before The NY Times buys it.

To say I love 5 mins down the road from it, I really should go for a walk around Hardcastle Crags more often - lovely walk this morning. #HebdenBridge #HardcastleCrags #Mill #IndustrialRevolution #MillPond #Yorkshire #UK

Stumbled upon a bit of unexpected nostalgia at the local garden centre ... #twitter #oldskool

Meta/Zuckerberg is obviously unaware of the Streisand effect.... That's 'Careless People' by Sarah Wynn-Williams, ISBN: 9781035065929 -- available at all good (and many not so good) bookshops. I'm reading it at the moment - really well written - engaging, witty, and quite the page-turner. #Booksky

Dawn views looking over to stoodley pike monument #dawn #todmorden #calderdale #stoodleypike #yorkshire #unitedkingdom #photography #landscapephotography

I'm just saying - McCartney obviously hadn't seen a real pond full of frogs, as that's more of a loud never-ending drone than a chorus? #Frogs #Ponds #FrogsInPonds #Nature #UK

I don’t think god does exist, but if he does he has serious questions to answer about his recent and ongoing lack of smiting.

This week we planned to launch Absolute Units podcast episode 1. We didn't quite get that far, so here's podcast episode 0 instead (as a treat). Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0k6a8Lg...

Stunning views out early this morning for sunrise, with a hard frost and fog in the valley-bottom 😍 📍 #Todmorden, #Calderdale, #Yorkshire, #UK

Nice lunchtime walk along the canal from #Todmorden to #HebdenBridge (and back again) today 😍 #Yorkshire #UK

Post of the day 😂 :

Always nice to see a little positive news: www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24...

This is a really good and very honest post from one of their board about blueskys approach to trying to ensure it remains user-centred (ie good) and can't be controlled by someone like musk/zuckerberg 👏

American teens are flocking to a new video app