@jimfraeerskine.bsky.social
Independent #computing/#technology specialist & #programmer in #Kilmacolm, #Scotland. #Sceptic, #empiricist, lover of #electronicmusic, #science, all things #philosophy. Please also check out some of my #music as 'LAGRANGE POINT 6' on #Spotify etc.
NEW RELEASE: Observation of Transcendence is the second album by the San Francisco-based #ambientmusic music project Celestial Trails. Inspired by the Pacific Ocean and its shores, the album captures the essence of a sunny and calm day by the ocean. flutteryrecords.com/celestialtra...
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This is Bandcamp Friday! Listen to our latest #ambientmusic release on #Bandcamp. #SanFrancisco based ambient artist Celestial Trails has just released his latest album Observation of Transcendence. celestialtrails.bandcamp.com/album/observ...
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I have a couple of thoughts about the new paper the finds a candidate Planet Nine in some old data. First, it is difficult to tell how seriously to take this because a false alarm probability is never discussed, and second, if it is real, it is not Planet Nine. Read on:
🧵🔭🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2504.17288
Four Seasons Total Landscaping is once again ready to host the circus!
24.04.2025 15:49 — 👍 15147 🔁 2669 💬 303 📌 172If and when Trump comes on the state visit, can we all agree to show him the #MoonsOfBritain? I’ve got one to show him. You bring yours.
08.03.2025 16:58 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
ICYMI: In this week's Elephant in the Room, Rick details the constitutional tipping point we find ourselves in as a democratic republic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNKa...
19.04.2025 00:08 — 👍 1724 🔁 494 💬 76 📌 21With a touch of a button, the Gilbert Scott building turns rainbow! 🏳️🌈
Students & colleagues came together last night to watch as our historic main building was illuminated in rainbow colours to mark #LGBTplusHM25.
#OneTeamUofG ❤️
Event by LGBTQ+ Staff Network
Excited to announce that I have de-extincted the Dire Doodle.
09.04.2025 18:39 — 👍 8526 🔁 515 💬 213 📌 49I don’t do this often and promise not to make a habit of it, but just this once: WE TRIED TO WARN YOU!!!!!
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Mozilla Thunderbird 137 Open-Source Email Client Released, Here’s What’s Changed 9to5linux.com/mozilla-thun...
#OpenSource #Linux
PostgreSQL Lands Batch Mode & Other Async I/O Improvements - https://www.phoronix.com/news/PostgreSQL-AIO-Batch-Mode
31.03.2025 10:47 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Tiling Shell #GNOME extension can now show window suggestions when you use the tiling assistant, and adds a hotkey to hide all windows apart the one in focus
www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/tili...
Remember it well before BBC1's daily programme in Welsh. Very nice, especially accompanied with John Baker's Radiophonic music, though I thought the one that succeeded it was even better. Psychedelic!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C63F...
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
27.03.2025 23:43 — 👍 62700 🔁 12159 💬 2962 📌 606Living alone with 73 cats and walks around saying “I’m a lady!”
27.03.2025 09:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I wonder if there are enough songs with goat bleats in them for me to post one every Friday
21.03.2025 18:48 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New 9to5linux.com/gnome-48-ben...
#Linux #OpenSource
Soul music art: Joss Stone
6pm Monday - Saturday is time for Soul Sounds
Broadly soul music, with some R&B & blues mixed in
#Soul #BroadlySoul #Blues #RandB
Radio Jammor is on the air...
Broadcasting from #Scotland
radiojammor.com/
#ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
#Music #Radio #SoulMusic #SoulSky
I think I can say you heard it here first! Anyhow, whoever it was said it, go! Listen! Buy! kimhalliday.bandcamp.com/album/dream
07.03.2025 09:04 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
80s music art: Michael Jackson
10am every day: The Awesome 80s
#80s #Eighties
Radio Jammor is on the air...
Broadcasting from #Scotland
https://radiojammor.com
#ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
#music #radio
FAO all you old telly nerds
10.03.2025 17:52 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0People are losing their jobs. Prices keep climbing. Measles continues to spread. Bird flu is raging. Veterans are getting fired. The stock market is a roller coaster. Our alliances are being shattered. Ukrainian civilians are getting bombed by Russia.
Donald Trump is golfing.
Table 1 ("Notation an terminology"). Pretty much most of the Greek alphabet is represented, with "k"s liberally machine-gunned throughout.
Who says popgen is confusing?!? 🧪
Table 1 from Waples (2025) The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size. This has "print me out and tape me to the wall" written all over it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Soul music art: Al Green
6pm Monday - Saturday is time for Soul Sounds
Broadly soul music, with some R&B & blues mixed in
#Soul #BroadlySoul #Blues #RandB
Radio Jammor is on the air...
Broadcasting from #Scotland
radiojammor.com/
#ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
#Music #Radio #SoulMusic #SoulSky
. @middleageriot.bsky.social 🏆
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Check it out here bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...
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Why wait when you can do things faster'er!
We made a⚡TurboLoad⚡ for the Commodore VIC20 and added it to the Penutlimate+3👌
And it works with SD2IEC & real Disk Drives, which is nice 😎
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNyV...
#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Commodore #VIC20
