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Darren Grayson
@darrengrayson.bsky.social
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Father and husband (trainee). Web / ERP dev. Round earther. Interests: Sci-Fi/Trek. UK Politics. Photography. Retro tech. Daft stuff.

I follow back real people who have posted something other than scams/grifts/lorem ipsum/memes/quotes/lies/scripture etc.
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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · Oct 16
Hello Bluesky! Will be posting some photos to try and help build some momentum in this place. Nothing fantastic, just my random stuff.
This is the milky way, taken from Northumberland UK, August 2022.
#photography #astronomy #darkskies
Starry night sky with milky way.
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flyinghabu.bsky.social
1/ There are a few must-shoot targets for every astrophotographer and for the majority of us Andromeda is the first one we cut our teeth on, often following some random tutorial we stumbled across online. In my case it was literally my baptism into deep-sky imaging in 2021...⬇️
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#Astrophotography
M31, the Andromeda galaxy, taken from my terrace. Red spots scattered all around the disk are large red hydrogen-alpha emission nebulae, like the ones we usually shot at in our galaxy. M31, the Andromeda galaxy, taken from my terrace. Red spots scattered all around the disk are large red hydrogen-alpha emission nebulae, like the ones we usually shot at in our galaxy. A comparison, year by year, of my shots at Andromeda galaxy
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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bookshopghost.bsky.social
Communities need used-book shops.

As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...

We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
On the left, a narrow, glass-fronted display case with a mix of letterpress, hand-bound, antiquarian, and collectors' books; stretching off to the right, 8-foot bookcases laden with literary and contemporary commercial fiction, about one thousand books out of the 6-7 thousand in that section. LED lighting and light-colored wood cases and flooring keep the room feeling relatively spacious despite the sheer quantity of books.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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kraz3yivan.bsky.social
True Story.
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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darthputinkgb.bsky.social
The "art of the deal" is to just give me everything I want and assume it means I won't come back for more.
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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andyscollick.bsky.social
None of this is acceptable to European strategic defence, let alone to the Ukrainians!

It is a plan to create a weakened Ukraine, ready to be turned into a satellite state, like Belarus, that can be used as a launch pad for a Russian invasion of NATO countries.
Explained: What is Trump's 28-point Ukraine plan?
A draft 28-point plan backed by US President Donald Trump would require Ukraine to offer territorial and security concessions to Moscow, while Russia would be readmitted to the G8 group and receive sa...
www.rte.ie
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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xmissedthespot.bsky.social
Skynet would like to thank you for your service and assures you it will think back fondly on your endeavours as it grinds you up into a paste to boil into fuel.
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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noelreports.com
More footage has emerged from Ternopil following the strike. The death toll has climbed to 25, including 3 children. An additional 73 people were injured, among them 15 children.
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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drbrucewebber.bsky.social
The aurora australis dances over the peaks of the Freycinet National Park peninsula and Schouten Island.
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#auroraaustralis #aurora #freycinetnationalpark #freycinet
The aurora australis dances over the peaks of the Freycinet National Park peninsula and Schouten Island.
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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johnlingan.bsky.social
32 years ago tonight, Nirvana records their MTV Unplugged performance. Not only a gorgeous, eerie (unintentional) swan song from Cobain, but also a total stylistic reinvention by Dave Grohl.

From BACKBEATS.
But other songs, including radio hits "All Apologies" and "Dumb," were soft and haunted. Grohl's backing harmonies could shine, and the group included new textures like acoustic guitars and cello. Cobain was not only pushing back against his corporate overlords' expecta-tions, he was taking active steps to shed some of the massive audience that Nirvana had accrued. ("A lot of the people buying Nevermind are the people were pointing the finger at—the total macho jock scumbags that everybody knows," Grohl told a high school magazine at the time. "Everything we have to say about sexism, everything we have to say about racism, it just goes over a lot of people's heads.") Grohl, who had to be coaxed to play quietly in 1991, was fully capable of holding down "Dumb," which bore the Lanegan influence more obviously than any of their music so far while also sounding as catchy as a John Lennon tune. It was good preparation for the band's November 1993 performance on the MTV Unplugged series, where they basically adopted that "Dumb" arrangement as their lineup, including the cello and a second acoustic guitarist, LA punk mainstay Pat Smear, formerly of the Germs. Once again, the people in charge of audio levels, in this case the TV producers, were worried about Grohl's earth-shaking attack. One of the producers ran to a local Manhattan music store to purchase brushes and a new product called Hot Rods from the ProMark drumstick company. These were stick-sized bundles of tightly bound thin dowels, which offered a sound that was softer than drumsticks but sharper than brushes. "I just handed them to him sheepishly because, you know, I'm gonna be an asshole," the producer recalled. "He's like, 'Cool, I've never had these before.'" That was it. He walked away." The Hot Rods apparently tamed Grohl instantly. His performance on Unplugged is uncanny in its restraint, particularly after the assault of In Utero and its tour, which can be sampled on the band's Live and Loud album and concert video. Grohl plays with barely any volume at all yet doesn't sacrifice the groove of the songs, not even on famous singles like "Come as You Are." In most cases he still plays the same fills he played on the records, since they were basically hooks of their own. The entire setting and sound of the band's Unplugged set was skeletal and odd, from Grohl's whispered drumming to Cobain's otherworldly amplified acoustic guitar, Lori Goldston's haunting cello, and of course the singer's pained voice. Sonically, it was the closest Nirvana ever got to the country blues, including the closing Lead Belly cover, but it was also a highly performative gesture, as evidenced by the black candles, chandelier, lilies, and poignant David Bowie cover, "The Man Who Sold the World." Grohl adjusted fully to the challenge, immediately changing from John Bonham to Kenny Buttrey as the assignment required The episode aired in December. In March 1994, Kurt Cobain was hospitalized after a heroin overdose in Rome. In April, his body was found at his home in Washington State, dead from a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head a few days earlier. Baby Dave Grohl playing Hot Rods on Nirvana’s Unplugged performance.
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social
Chart-Like Composite #Photographs by Dan Marker-Moore Show the Progression of the 2019 #Solar #Eclipse #photography #art #solareclipse

Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/08/dan-...
Chart-Like Composite #Photographs by Dan Marker-Moore Show the Progression of the 2019 #Solar #Eclipse #photography #art #solareclipse
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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paulrosenberg.bsky.social
The one AI app I could REALLY go for: an AI that killed every trace of AI on my laptop.

(Written in frustration, as I began reading a pdf report & the ai popup interrupted me & wouldn't go away.)
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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naffnaffbobface.bsky.social
Heh. I should be surprised.

Born in the 80's: "Work hard and your country will educate you, keep you healthy and provide for your retirement after a lifetime of hard work."
Late 90's: "Well, maybe not all education."
2010's: "About that pension."
Some now: "Vote for us and we'll close the NHS."

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November 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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joeralat.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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bearlypolitics.co.uk
Is there anything redeemable left of Twitter?

My thoughts are no, there is neither use nor benefit to the platform anymore.

It’s time to burn it to the ground and salt the earth for good measure.
The X-periment: Sky News Proves Elon’s Algorithm Does Pick a Side
Nine fake British users, ninety-thousand posts and one undeniable conclusion - X is boosting the far right, and the rest of us were never meant to win the argument.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
An inflatable frog costume throwing a sub in the style of Banksy
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
When you're a sociopath and get angry that someone else's medical emergency, just four feet away, drew focus from your gloating and you forget which lie you were on.
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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willsloanesq.bsky.social
One of the great trailers.
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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paddyopatrick.bsky.social
But.. but.. but didn’t Reform promise to give better care to the elderly if they got voted to run the councils..

They didn’t say anything about throwing old people out on the street.. mind you they also promised to cut council tax which they are raising so 🤷🏼‍♂️
magslittlefish.bsky.social Mags @magslittlefish.bsky.social · 23d
So, the son of an elderly woman, in a Lancashire council funded care home, threatens to leave the party, if the Reform council continue with their plans to sell off five residential care homes, to save money. Oh, the irony!
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM