Simon Bisson
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Simon Bisson
@sbisson.com
· Jun 19
Come for the developer journalism, stay for the long running SFF review series, photographs of inner London birding, and well, the randomness of a crapaud in the big city.
All this from an ex-engineer who found one of his cancelled projects in For All Mankind.
And if you want to chat try Signal.
All this from an ex-engineer who found one of his cancelled projects in For All Mankind.
And if you want to chat try Signal.
My plan of buying a cheap Fire TV stick and ring to my mother’s for Christmas worked out well; she got to watch her shows and we got to carry on our current binge of The Mentalist.
December 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
My plan of buying a cheap Fire TV stick and ring to my mother’s for Christmas worked out well; she got to watch her shows and we got to carry on our current binge of The Mentalist.
December 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“Oh spanning tree, oh spanning tree, how lovely are your bridges…”
December 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“Oh spanning tree, oh spanning tree, how lovely are your bridges…”
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Here is a little piece about the day of my final Monkey Cage recording - a couple of weeks ago in beautiful #manchester www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
December 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Here is a little piece about the day of my final Monkey Cage recording - a couple of weeks ago in beautiful #manchester www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
December 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MostRecent; which is a picture from last Saturday when I was out photographing steam trains and didn’t have my birding lenses with me…
A long-tailed tit in the branches at the posh end of my street.
#birds #birding #wildlifephotography #longtailedtit
A long-tailed tit in the branches at the posh end of my street.
#birds #birding #wildlifephotography #longtailedtit
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MostRecent; which is a picture from last Saturday when I was out photographing steam trains and didn’t have my birding lenses with me…
A long-tailed tit in the branches at the posh end of my street.
#birds #birding #wildlifephotography #longtailedtit
A long-tailed tit in the branches at the posh end of my street.
#birds #birding #wildlifephotography #longtailedtit
December 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
#BirdOfheDay today is of course the #HolidayRobin...
So here are four, the first two are the regular down on the Spit, the third was in the arboretum at Dunster Castle, and the fourth is in the snow near Wimbledon Park.
#birds #birding #robin #wildlifephotography
So here are four, the first two are the regular down on the Spit, the third was in the arboretum at Dunster Castle, and the fourth is in the snow near Wimbledon Park.
#birds #birding #robin #wildlifephotography
December 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#BirdOfheDay today is of course the #HolidayRobin...
So here are four, the first two are the regular down on the Spit, the third was in the arboretum at Dunster Castle, and the fourth is in the snow near Wimbledon Park.
#birds #birding #robin #wildlifephotography
So here are four, the first two are the regular down on the Spit, the third was in the arboretum at Dunster Castle, and the fourth is in the snow near Wimbledon Park.
#birds #birding #robin #wildlifephotography
December 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Contrast; one of the Wandsworth Park crows flying low over the Thames on an autumn day.
#birds #birding #wandsworthpark #thames #wildlifephotography #crows
#birds #birding #wandsworthpark #thames #wildlifephotography #crows
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Contrast; one of the Wandsworth Park crows flying low over the Thames on an autumn day.
#birds #birding #wandsworthpark #thames #wildlifephotography #crows
#birds #birding #wandsworthpark #thames #wildlifephotography #crows
When your Maine hears the feeder.
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
When your Maine hears the feeder.
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Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras
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Whatever happened to….
December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Whatever happened to….
"AI: please add stealth features to a 1960s Royal Navy County class guided missile destroyer."
Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.
December 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
"AI: please add stealth features to a 1960s Royal Navy County class guided missile destroyer."
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideProfiles. Which we're getting from this juvenile common gull (which isn't that common) on one of the old dock pilings at Point Pleasant.
#bids #birding #wandle #wandsworth #gulls
#bids #birding #wandle #wandsworth #gulls
December 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideProfiles. Which we're getting from this juvenile common gull (which isn't that common) on one of the old dock pilings at Point Pleasant.
#bids #birding #wandle #wandsworth #gulls
#bids #birding #wandle #wandsworth #gulls
Today's #HolidayRobin is being quizzical in the copse on the Spit.
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #robin
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #robin
December 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Today's #HolidayRobin is being quizzical in the copse on the Spit.
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #robin
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #robin
Why are jays and geese Canada and not Canadian?
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Why are jays and geese Canada and not Canadian?
From a while back, a gray jay sat on @marypcbuk.bsky.social's head at Paradise on Mt Ranier.
#birds #birding #mtrainier #jays
#birds #birding #mtrainier #jays
December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
From a while back, a gray jay sat on @marypcbuk.bsky.social's head at Paradise on Mt Ranier.
#birds #birding #mtrainier #jays
#birds #birding #mtrainier #jays
My first job was designing parts of over the horizon radar systems; this is categorically untrue. Windfarms are static objects that can easily be mapped out using signal processing. Your radar software is looking for fast moving objects and so even the spinning turbines would be ignored.
Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"
December 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My first job was designing parts of over the horizon radar systems; this is categorically untrue. Windfarms are static objects that can easily be mapped out using signal processing. Your radar software is looking for fast moving objects and so even the spinning turbines would be ignored.
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Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of Rivers of London, book 1 in the series, by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social; I have this book and love it.
Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one. Also #speirgorm
Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one. Also #speirgorm
December 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of Rivers of London, book 1 in the series, by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social; I have this book and love it.
Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one. Also #speirgorm
Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one. Also #speirgorm
Some more Santa Steam Special pictures, from its second run through Putney. This time P1 No 61306 Mayflower was on the fast line, so more of a head-on view, with drivers looking out around the cab.
#putney #steamlocomotives #railwayphotography
#putney #steamlocomotives #railwayphotography
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Some more Santa Steam Special pictures, from its second run through Putney. This time P1 No 61306 Mayflower was on the fast line, so more of a head-on view, with drivers looking out around the cab.
#putney #steamlocomotives #railwayphotography
#putney #steamlocomotives #railwayphotography
Walking back from the second Santa Steam Special pass of the day, I saw one of my favourite birds, one that's not particularly easy to see as they move so fast in the trees...
The long-tailed tit! A small flock was high up in the bare branches.
#birds #birding #putney #wildlifephotography
The long-tailed tit! A small flock was high up in the bare branches.
#birds #birding #putney #wildlifephotography
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Walking back from the second Santa Steam Special pass of the day, I saw one of my favourite birds, one that's not particularly easy to see as they move so fast in the trees...
The long-tailed tit! A small flock was high up in the bare branches.
#birds #birding #putney #wildlifephotography
The long-tailed tit! A small flock was high up in the bare branches.
#birds #birding #putney #wildlifephotography
Reposted by Simon Bisson
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December 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
merry christmjlmxh.,//ml
Today's #BirdOfTheDay them is #grounded; birds on the ground.
And so, here's a great grey heron standing on one leg, on the edge of the Wandle delta barge stands.
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #heron #wildlifephotography
And so, here's a great grey heron standing on one leg, on the edge of the Wandle delta barge stands.
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #heron #wildlifephotography
December 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay them is #grounded; birds on the ground.
And so, here's a great grey heron standing on one leg, on the edge of the Wandle delta barge stands.
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #heron #wildlifephotography
And so, here's a great grey heron standing on one leg, on the edge of the Wandle delta barge stands.
#birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #heron #wildlifephotography