Dr Joanne Williams

Does that include kids?

Day 2 of #BODCDataAdvent and of course there's only one thing on our minds... Christmas (Island)!🎄🎅🎁🌟
Check out these Christmas🎅 Island sea level datasets, dating all the way back to 1955!
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The Unbearable Torment of Bear Bear Bear Concerning an unexpected window, an unchristmassy fuhrer, an unlucky publisher, and an unaware bear.

Like everyone else caught up in the Unbound “drama”, John Finnemore is working out what to do with a book that was terminated with incompetent prejudice by people who vanished.

If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here!

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Quorn mince is fine in bolognese and chilli. It's low in fat and salt so needs a bit of help to get as good as beef, a good stock and a knob of butter.

Calving

Where is the grounding line in the image? I'm not familiar with watching these.

Silhouette of a skateboarder in a mid-air grab with a cloudy blue sky as the background

Going through old photos and found this gem from when I was into skateboard photography. I think this might be Steve Caballero, circa 1998 @vanswarpedtour.bsky.social @transworldskate.bsky.social #ShotOnFilm

The Cotton Claudius map of Britain, drawn by Matthew Paris in the 1250s. It shows the island as somewhat distorted, and much more straight up and down than we'd expect. North is at the top, and Scotland appears to be its own separate island. Britain is cut by lovely blue rivers, and is surrounded by a pale green sea. There are many cities and legends spread cross the map, and there are notations all around the outside of it. The map tells many stories. As they all do, really.

It's Matthew Paris time!

That's right: 13th century England's premier mapmaker and monk! A friend to kings, & the kind of man who could draw an elephant right.

He drew the first maps of England (like the one below) and he's the subject my December bonus newsletter:
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A blue nuthatch made of felt looking at a book about nuthatches

#artadventcalendar #bird #felt #bluetue #nuthatch #coloraday

For making targeted disinformation. Like a video of your local councillor saying something. Not very convincing if they use a Manchester accent or the wrong slang.

kermit the frog is looking at a green object Alt: nervous kermit the frog gif

I developed a habit of getting on *anything* heading in the right direction that has proved quite hard to break over the years. Standing at Euston waiting for a platform announcement for a fast Glasgow train when there's a Manchester or Birmingham stopping service RIGHT THERE

(I could first afford train travel in the era of Oh Fuck Hatfield We Have Urgent Repairs when for good reason nothing ran on time anywhere, so I've never really trusted in timetables, deep down. I hate finding I can't get on whatever train is available).

As with every train promise from Skelmersdale Station to a simple 09:03 to Euston, I'll believe it when I see it!

With the addition that we should scrap the nonsense of tickets that are specific to operators. Pay an point-point fixed price and from then on it's everyone's job to get you there as simply as possible.
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Dependency

Perfect use of that illustration (the original is here, if anyone hasn't seen it). xkcd.com/2347/

A grid of light blue patches, mostly getting lighter towards the top. There is (deliberately) no explanatory legend.

Here's some water for it to swim in, courtesy of one of my plots this week:

And still no feckin' POCKETS ARGGHHH

It shouldn't need saying, but for the avoidance of doubt: plenty of white British people do not "share her values". DIsgusting behaviour and I hope that all parties unite in defending MPs being attacked like this.

Nice, looks like an advent calendar. We could put the spring/neap tides (not so big in December, but still relevant if it's stormy), latest sunset at a couple of cities, shortest day, fill the gaps with less date-tied things like "has it snowed yet?"
Next year?

Urgh. Annoying when you get an injury doing some tedious chore. Are you sure it wasn't when you leapt between the rooftops whilst chasing a malcreant at midnight?

Illustrated with what I think is an AI picture, because despairing women are in short supply 🤦‍♀️

extra: so, don't get too lost when the news talk about costs during an storm in a developed or in development country, that is due to the infrastructure cost (we should be asking why we do not take steps to avoid it). And ask more about the death toll in poor areas too and what can be done there...

(With apologies to original poster, no shade intended. The bone needles are lovely and some designs are indeed *nearly* perfect!)

Packet of selfthreading needles, german: patentnadlen, french: aiguilles vue fatigues (needles for tired sight!)

I have this argument with my mum. With the cost difference of one less bedroom she could put us all up in a nice hotel for the two days a year it would actually be a problem.

I had to buy needles to mend something while on holiday and made a great discovery.
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The backstory is largely invented, as I understand. But you'll never hear about all the illustrations with less meme-able stories...

The use of "u-turn" is very much annoying me. A u-turn is a change in direction of travel. It would be *worsening* employment rights from what was attempted. This is not being able to proceed as fast as wanted, a better analogy is hit rough road.

I could do quite a lot with the ai funding directed at calibrating instruments too. If we stopped trying to cut corners we wouldn't *need* clever techniques to interpolate.

Looking at the people sharing this, I can tell these biscuits are universally popular