Mark Chater🎲🖳📚

I'm on the sofa resting with a cold, though I went to the hospital for a(nother) blood test prior to starting a new immunosuppressant. Hopefully back at work tomorrow.

I do know where my degree certificate is, same folder I put it in after graduation in 1991.

Good luck with the job 🤞

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.

But did you look at the judge's order?

It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."

Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

I was stood in that rain outside the Natural History Museum at midday waiting for my London friend and we are both desperate for dry, sunny days.

Driving back to Bristol through it in the dark this evening wasn't much fun either. Roll on spring!

I'm team Jane, but Austen. Sorry various Brontes.

The Vengance by @emmanewman.bsky.social

This is on, so I'll be in front of the telly* for a couple of hours. Must be up to a dozen views, it's so good.

*projector screen

I didn't know these were a thing but have long wanted an orrery, though I don't have space in my home for one even if I could afford it!

It's the best event in the winter olympics, utterly compelling viewing!

Current read. Just finished " I who have never known men" by Jacqueline Harpman.

Yep, my beneficiaries will get free money, they (the estate) can pay some tax on anything over 325k, which my little bungalow is well over. I'll be dead, I won't need it.

Might up the percentage going to charity next time I revise it.

I'd love to be there too but hospital appts and booking "sometime or other in March, not sure yet" off work makes it ... difficult 🤣.

Might not be until I retire but one day I will see a launch!

Park Royal station, think it must be nearly 50 years since I was here, stood outside with my late gran waiting (a long time it felt like) for a bus back to Perivale.

I live on a street with no house numbers so very much been there, done that! The number of "I'm on your road and can't find you" calls I've had from delivery drivers despite the REALLY clear house name on the fence...

Fingers crossed yours arrives problem free.

I live alone so if I don't do it, it doesn't get done. There's always clean laundry, crockery and cutlery, but if dusting or hoovering are important to you, don't come to my house 😇

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call:
- 453 Britons
- 158 Canadians
- 89 French
- 59 Germans
- 53 Italians
- 44 Danes
- 17 Spaniards
“Stayed a little back, off the front lines “!
No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.

A vending machine full of lego kits next to an airport departure board.

In a break from everything that's happening today, at Firenze airport you can buy Lego from a vending machine.

I think Daphne should buy Ryanair. She'd be an improvement as CEO over the incumbent.

a black and white image of a speaker with the words run he is beside you below it Alt: Monochrome block graphics of corridors as the monster from 3d monster maze finds you and eats you.

Imagine some people will remember this as well. Not sure if I still have the tape or not, I've definitely got some of the ZX Spectrum games in the loft.

A starfield. At lower left, a bright star, and a smaller companion. Home.

See that larger white blob at lower left, and the smaller blob to its right?

That's Earth and the Moon.

Photographed from the orbit of Mercury.

Views from the plane, then views of the city, plus an obligatory gelato even though it's gennaio.

Ooh! I've never seen that and I really should. Loved "Wages of Fear" that it's based on and my favorite band did the score, so I have no excuse!

Hello! Hope you enjoy the film and yes, winter is a struggle. Less so on sunny days but when it's grey and wet every day seems about 100 hours long 🙁

Still using my behemoth of a Dell which is about 10 years older than your Brother, but when it eventually gives up (things like new fuser rollers are already unobtainum) I'll replace it with a Brother.

Covid jab jabbed 💉 (my new disease modifying therapy makes me eligible).

Hope you feel better soon!

Photo of M81 and M82 created by stacking multiple 10s exposures

Photo of NGC 271 created by stacking multiple exposures.

So I got this thing (a Seestar S30) that makes photographing galaxies and nebulae really straightforward compared to setting up all the components yourself (and importantly taking it all down when you want to go to bed). Here's a couple from tonight, Bode's galaxy (M81, with M82) and NGC 281

Oooh, I read "The last gifts of the universe" as well, which was a completely random "I'll give this one a punt" selection from one of the tables in Cribbs Waterstones.

The bookseller had read it and was really enthusiastic when I took it to the till to pay too.

James Dyson has said he may not be able to pass his business down to his children because of Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax changes..See more elctap) Sir James Dyson: Rachel Reeves has put my family business at risk

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."