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Bob Harvey
@brunnian.bsky.social
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Electronic Engineer (rtd), Santa look-alike

Lives in Bourne LIncolnshire.

see also https://twit.social/@BobHarvey
see also https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8272
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Try visiting this page on a phone. It made me smile

www.evanshalshaw.com/blog/history...

#cars #photography #distortion #weird #webDesign
Photograph of a car. Displayed in vertical format it has been squashed to fit the screen, making it improbably narrow
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
@robwords.bsky.social I live near a place called Pode Hole, essentially a place built to house fen drainage engines.

"Pode" is said locally to mean "Toad". But I can't find any other instance .

Now I hear the Dutch for Toad is Pad. Can you throw any light on this?

/Cont.
Map showing the location of Pode Hole and all the artificial rivers in the area
October 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
@jesszafarris.bsky.social

Look what our local bookshop is advertising!

( linktr.ee/bournebooksh... )

Photo © Bob Harvey (cc-by-sa/2.0) geograph.org.uk/p/6826106
"Shopping again", taken Saturday, 1 May, 2021
Screen grab of page from local bookshop showing 6 books about words.
October 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Orchids and cowslips
Between Morton and Edenham, Lincolnshire
Orchis mascula, the early purple orchid.
Primula veris, the cowslip

#WildFlowers #Orchid #Cowslip #Lincolnshire #Spring #roadside
Road verge with wildflowers Orchids in the grass Orchids and cowslips in the grass Cowslips in the grass
April 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This is fun
April 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
@leolaporte.me @jeffjarvis.bsky.social  #AI #TWIT #IntelligentMachines

Podcast from 2019, the 200th edition of "the life scientific" (generally recommended).
This one is Demis Hassabis, whose life history is fascinating.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
April 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dog, owner
A small dog, lying looking miserable on the carpet. Dog owner. Bearded man with a nasal cannula and Yorkshire clothing
March 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This sort of nonsense makes me so angry.

Some years ago I christened our current cultural era "the Unenligtenment". This was in my Google news feed, curated off the things it thinks I am interested in from the links I have followed.

#mythology #unenlightenment #nonsense #fake #archaeology
Screen grab of Google news item suggesting a hilltop is "the fossilised remains of Noah's Ark"
March 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social @thurrott.bsky.social @leolaporte.me

I keep hearing, from #PaulThurrot in particular, how astonishingly good #Copilot is for software - but every time I try it it makes stuff up. Here is today's little gem

#AI #hallucinations #laughable
CoPilot: 3. Configuration File: If you prefer, you can create a configuration file to store the custom host and other settings. Check the documentation for details on where to place the file and its format. CP: This flexibility allows you to use your own hosting server for better control and privacy. Let me know if you'd like more help with this! RH: Cn point me to the documentation you mention in item 3 CP You can find the documentation for ffsend and its configuration options on its GitHub repository. This is a great resource for exploring how to customize settings, including using a configuration file. Let me know if you need help navigating it! RH: | have been there. There is a section called "Configuration and environment”. It says "At this time, no configuration or dotfile file support is available. This will be something added in a later release.” so where did you get the idea there is a configuration file? CP: You're absolutely right—thank you for pointing that out! It seems | misspoke. If the official documentation states that configuration or dotfile support is currently unavailable, then my earlier mention of a configuration file was incorrect. My apologies for the confusion! As it stands, the only way to customize the hosting server or other settings in ffsend is through command-line options or by setting environment variables directly. | appreciate your patience and sharp eye! Let me know if you'd like further assistance with those methods.
March 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social @leolaporte.me @paris.nyc

You were talking about egg prices. In the UK we have had 4 years of bird flu precautions, and egg prices have been more or less stable. I can buy eggs from a roadside honesty box for £1.20 for half a dozen, and retailers are reasonable
March 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Web link is blocked from Europe, because the provider objects to the GPDR
March 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This is Pie Week!
www.britishpieawards.co.uk/british-pie-... (weird URL)

#Pie #Celebration #awards
Logo of British pie week A stylised pie in a union jack dish, with the date superimposed
March 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#Geograph Picture of the Day from #Cambridgeshire, January #POTD #countryside #landscapephotography
#walking #track #hedgerow #mistletoe geograph.org.uk/p/7966860 Free to share – please credit Hugh Venables/Geograph
A field-edge track, lined with trees on the left and in the distance. Under a blue sky
February 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
February 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#WordOfTheDay - thing I learned today

A Gull is "A deliberately engineered shimmy in a watercourse to overcome unstable soil conditions
and/or repair a bank collapse"

From www.fensbiosphere.org.uk/wp-content/u...

#Fenland #Drainage #Lincolnshire #ord #definition #meaning
A screen grab from the document mentioned showing the sort of bent riverbank mentioned
February 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Beach huts on West Wittering Beach, taken Saturday, 21 February, 2015
cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Ian Capper - geograph.org.uk/p/4364592

#Geograph #Sussex #photograhy #coast #seaside
a view of the coast with the ide out, and wet sandflats. Behind are rows of colourful shacks. Between dark clouds a small sunlit patch of sky produces a golden glow across the middle of the image.
February 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
February 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery
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#Bridge #chain #photography #MarketDeeoing #Geograph

A three-arch bridge, taken Saturday, 25 June, 2022
cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Bob Harvey - geograph.org.uk/p/7209823
Medieval 3 arch stone bridge over a river, with long grass on either bank and a oak tree beyond
January 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
@susiedent.com

My chum @fasgadh.bsky.social has a question. He asked it on Mastodon

I thought it might appeal to you!
#Words #Procrastination #Query
January 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
That's pretty much the one orificianal function it DOESN'T exhibit

I have never seen a better infographic than this
Infographic about norovirus showing a crawling figure with foul ejections from both ends at once
January 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I do like the weather app called Windy
The "fresh snow" page: if you move the cursor across it it says 5cm around Warwick and 10cm on the Welsh border.

The display at the bottom says I will get around 7cm overnight.

#Weather #Android #App #UK
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Screen grab of the weather app. A pale blue blush shows the snowball, and a time sequence below gives weather stats for the selected location
January 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM