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Bill Little
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software engineer @ metoffice | me.views(own)

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pythonmaps.bsky.social
Day three of the #30DayMapChallenge - Polygons. This map shows the earths tectonic plates. I have overlayed all of the earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 4.0 over the last 20 years, coloured according to their magnitude (blue (smallest) - red (largest).
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
british fan chat
cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows: [Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them] 1 TOWER FAN 1: Right lads, get ready. 2 TOWER FAN 1: This is our time. 3 TOWER FAN 1: The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here. 4 TOWER FAN 1: We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft, and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever. 5 TOWER FAN 1: I know what you’re thinking, lads: 6 TOWER FAN 1: Surely this will be the year they finally replace us? 7 TOWER FAN 1: Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018... 8 TOWER FAN 1: Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh… TOWER FAN 2: Cheers mate 9 TOWER FAN 1: But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists. By the time they remember, new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon. 10 TOWER FAN 1: So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out... 11 TOWER FAN 1: ...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than. 12 [The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder] PERSON: APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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crmarsh.com
Today, we're announcing our first hosted infrastructure product: pyx, a Python-native package registry.

We think of pyx as an optimized backend for uv: it’s a package registry, but it also solves problems that go beyond the scope of a traditional "package registry".
August 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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jtp.io
JupyterLite 0.7 alpha releases are now available, with already some nice new features 🎁

- Audio and video playback
- Support for JupyterLab workspaces
- Basic cell interrupt

Try it in your browser and don't hesitate to share feedback, thanks!

jupyterlite.rtfd.io/en/latest
August 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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wonderofscience.bsky.social
Earth at night viewed from space (watch fullscreen).
August 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
hottest day of the year
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian, here's the script: [SCENE: THERE ARE TWO TALKING COCKROACHES, THEY ARE BBC BREAKFAST PRESENTERS] DAVE COCKROACH: Good morning! It’s Wednesday May, 76,000,002,018 AD You’re watching BBC Breakfast with me, Dave Cockroach SELINA COCKROACH: And me, Selina Cockroach DAVE COCKROACH: Well, today is set to be the hottest day ever recorded in Britain, as the sun swallows the Earth SELINA COCKROACH: What a scorcher! DAVE COCKROACH: Here to tell us More is Matt who’s down in sunny Brighton. Hi Matt! MATT COCKROACH [REPORTING FROM WHAT REMAINS OF BRIGHTON]: Morning Dave! Well, the sea is long since evaporated down here… But that hasn’t stopped every cockroach coming out to enjoy the glorious blood-red sun hovering ten feet above the ground. Great news for Ian Cockroach here, who sells ice creams How’s business Ian? IAN COCKROACH. LEANING OUT OF AN ICE CREAM VAN: I’m on fire [IAN COCKROACH CATCHES FIRE] DAVE COCKROACH: Ha ha! Oh dear I think Ian is - [DAVE COCKROACH CATCHES ON FIRE] [THE STUDIO IS ENGULFED IN FIRE]
June 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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simongerman600.bsky.social
How great is this infographic showing the summits of the world? I’d love to have that as a poster! Source: buff.ly/v1gv2Fe
June 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
‘Combined Classics’ - my cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Title: Combined Classics: get those notable novels ticked off more quickly! Image: a line of four books 1. 'Remains of the Day of the Triffids' by Ishiguro and Wyndham 2. 'Greats: Gatsby, Expectations, Glass Elevator' by Fitzgerald, Dickens and Dahl 3. 'Watership Down and Out in Paris and London' by Adams and Orwell 4. War, Peace, Pride, Prejudice, Crime and Punishment by Tolstoy, Austen and Dostoevsky
June 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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simongerman600.bsky.social
Marvel at the beauty of nature by enjoying these 42 animated African butterflies. Source: buff.ly/5iI5d1I
May 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
🌐 Have you explored the updated Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas (C3S Atlas) yet? Version 2 is here with exciting new features! Zoom in to visualise climate data and projections based on 35 variables and newly added datasets. #C3S

atlas.climate.copernicus.eu/atlas
May 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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oliviafvane.bsky.social
This map shows the hour of sunrise globally through the year. It reveals time zones following national and, sometimes, regional boundaries, and slicing through the oceans.
May 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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simongerman600.bsky.social
I love that the Brazilian government not only publishes a Brazil-centered world map (why wouldn't they?) but also flip it around (again, why wouldn't they?).
May 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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prefix.dev
Exciting news! Our talk and tutorial at @SciPyConf have been accepted!

Learn more about the impact of Pixi on the Science community!

Special thanks to @matthewfeickert.com for the initiation of the tutorial!

Talk: cfp.scipy.org/scipy2025/t...
Tutorial:
cfp.scipy.org/scipy2025/t...
May 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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scientific-python.org
Hello friends! 👋

🔥 We’re working on ecosystem recommendations called specs to foster collaboration and shared best practices across the scientific Python ecosystem. 🤝

⭐ Support this effort by starring:

🔗
GitHub - scientific-python/specs: Scientific Python Ecosystem Coordination (SPEC) documents
Scientific Python Ecosystem Coordination (SPEC) documents - scientific-python/specs
github.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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simongerman600.bsky.social
This animated map imagines rivers standing up like trees. The link shows you an animated globe. Explore the world of river trees and see what your favourite river looks like standing upright! Source: buff.ly/Qf151Av
March 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday

Not all mosaics are Roman.
Some are Pringles.
So, basically what you have here are a load of pringles, carefully arranged so that there are no gaps between them. We know this might seem impossible for a sub-circular snack, but the natural parabolic curve of each crisp facilitates overlapping. This may be considered cheating on a mosaic, but the overall effect is rather pleasing.
February 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Two figures walk along a corridor lined with complex machinery. The worker says "Congratulations, sir! The most intelligent machine ever created is ready to change the world. Ten billion dollars well spent... What shall we ask it to do? " The billionaire replies "That's my business, not yours. Close the door on your way out." Now alone with the machine, the billionaire asteps closer and asks quietly "Can you Make people like me?" it says "No"
February 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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sofialazar.bsky.social
🌍✨ Bella #Italia in 3D! 🇮🇹

Dive into this jaw-dropping vintage map from 1967 ! From the towering Alps to the sun-soaked shores of Sicily, this is Italy like you’ve never seen before....alive with history and topographic glory 🔥

#Italy #3DMaps #VintageVibes #CartographyLovers #RGeek #HistoryNerds
January 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Scene is a SUPERMARKET, a MAN is walking past a display of CREME EGGS with his trolley. 1 MAN: Tut 2 CREME EGG [talking to him from the shelf]: Excuse me - did you just tut at us? 3 MAN: W-what? CREME EGG: Tutting because you’ve seen ‘Easter eggs’ on January 11th, is it? 4 MAN: What? Well, y-yes, I - CREME EGG: Listen, Tut boy 5 CREME EGG: We are not Easter eggs. We are Creme Eggs. 6 CREME EGG: We are the shock troops of seasonal capitalism. Eldritch simulacra of rebirth. Fondant mockery of life. 7 CREME EGG: Not for us the grand safety of a cardboard box. Oh no. They put us out here first, in our little foil uniforms, every January, to face the wrath of the nation. 8 CREME EGG: And what you gonna do about it? Tut? Snark about us on social media? 9 CREME EGG: Maybe you’ll write a little column in the Telegraph titled “It Is Sad That The Easter Eggs Are Out Already”. 10 CREME EGG: You tut because you know that unlike you, we will return, every January… …forever. 11 CREME EGG: The eternal rebirth of mammon! The endless - MAN: Oh go on then [He puts one of the Creme Eggs in his trolley] 12 CREME EGG: HA HA YOU WORM
January 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
A recent New Scientist cartoon:
A science lecture. A scientist stands on a stage holding a pointer and gesturing to a slide depicting the earth on fire. In the audience one member turns to another amd says “I prefer her earlier, funnier theories”.
September 23, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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susiedent.com
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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cartesiancaramel.bsky.social
Dragon Particles #b3d #geometrynodes
December 11, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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moon1over.bsky.social
Italian astrophotographer Marcella Julia Pace spent 10 years capturing these 48 colors of the Moon.
January 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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neilrkaye.bsky.social
Here in the UK, 2024 was the 4th warmest year on record, meaning the last 3 years have had 3 of the 4 warmest years. It was quite wet and a pretty dull year overall.

December has been pretty mild overall, dull and with average rainfall. This #dataviz shows the weather/climate summary for 2024.
Summary of temperature, rainfall and sunshine for the UK in 2024.
January 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM