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Jim Hunt
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I've been programming computers since the late 60s. In those days they didn't have computers in schools, so we had to build our own.

What can I program next? Will I have to build it first?

Editor: http://West-Devon.info

AKA: http://scicomm.xyz/@Jim_Hunt
Bobbing about out back at Northcott Mouth yesterday afternoon:
July 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I missed that news Meg, so thanks for the heads up.

However, I didn't miss this:

west-devon.info/2025/07/ofwa...
July 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This evening South West Water's #WaterFitLive map shows an ongoing #SewagePollution problem at Lynmouth on the coast of North Devon:

west-devon.info/2025/07/july...

1/n
July 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
At 04:30 this morning I thought I would be able to record a glorious sunrise for posterity.

Sadly that proved to be an idle hope, but at least the sun has come out now.

Which means we're not overcast and drizzly damp for the first time in days!
June 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We've been doing a lot of experimentation with AI down here in the wild and woolly West Country recently Meg.

Here's one ImageFX came up with earlier today. Would you care to take a guess at what my "prompt" was?
June 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Sadly as the solstice sun dropped towards the horizon it disappeared behind a distant bank of cloud.

This was recorded shortly afterwards.

3/n
June 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
What I assume to be a Kestrel, soaring effortlessly near the cliff edge.

Phone at x10 zoom!

2/n
June 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The view from the South West Coast Path in North Cornwall, shortly before the solstice sunset.

1/n
June 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
My voicemail message got cut off.

As I was explaining to Councillor Hames, I gave a presentation about all this sort of stuff at the 361 Energy CIC event in Barnstaple last Autumn:

v2g.co.uk/2024/09/v2g-...
May 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Thanks for the heads up Meg,

They should have called me first. I very much doubt that I would have recommended the #eVan #Torridge appear to have bought/leased!

As luck would have it I emailed Sir Geoffrey Cox KC MP about a similar matter only yesterday.

Time to find Peter Hames' contact details!
May 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Below a clear blue sky there is some mist in the dips this morning.

Highs around 20°C are forecast for West Devon today. There's going to plenty more sunshine over the weekend and the start of next week.

I'll be heading for the seaside!

#WestDevonWx
May 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Dawn in West Devon

Turn the sound up to 11

#WestDevonWx
May 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
May 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
What does one have to do to get the attention of an investigative journalist around here?

"The Don invading Greenland"

(c) ImageFX (2025)

Cc: @newsagents.bsky.social @jonsopel1.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social

#TeamPoirot #Arctic #ArtAI

2/n
May 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The West Devon Free Press's intrepid part time paparazzo was taking her dog for a walk around Roadford Lake when she suddenly spotted Donald Duck practising his Ig Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech 👇

Cc: @watershed-i.bsky.social @skentelbery.bsky.social

#Satire is not (yet) dead?

#ArtAI

1/n
May 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
For your Monday morning viewing pleasure here is an artificial artist's impression of The Don invading #Greenland 👇

(c) ImageFX, 2025

Cc: @skentelbery.bsky.social @tom--scott.bsky.social @kasiaturajczyk.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Here's breaking news containing further evidence of The Don's bullying 👇

bsky.app/profile/jim-...

Will his intimidation work, do you suppose?

#SignalGate #21stCenturySchizoidRedNightmare

Cc: @theatlantic.com @kasiaturajczyk.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The @metoffice.bsky.social has issued a yellow warning for scattered thunderstorms across northern parts of Devon and Cornwall tomorrow afternoon & evening.

"Spray and sudden flooding could lead to difficult driving conditions...

There is a slight chance that #PowerCuts could occur"

#WestDevonWx
May 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This morning's sunrise.

Recorded 1/2 hour before yesterday's.

Turn the volume up to 11.

#WestDevonWx
May 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This morning's sunrise, looking east from West Devon.

Turn the volume up to 11.

#WestDevonWx
May 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
March 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Barcelona, where #startups flourish.

Where will you be four years from now?

#MWC25 #4YFN #4YFN25
March 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Of course in actual fact the 💩 has been plopping into the North Atlantic at Portreath for much longer than the few hours revealed on South West Water's map.

The #WestDevonCSO data from further north at Westward Ho! is also very "interesting":

west-devon.info/projects/com...

3/n
February 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Further west along the north coast, the ongoing sewage pollution at Portreath started yesterday evening.

The Combined Sewer Overflows at Porthtowan and St. Agnes activated earlier this morning:

west-devon.info/2025/02/febr...

2/n
February 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This morning’s #WaterFitLive map of #SewagePollution around the coasts of #Devon & #Cornwall shows a sea of yellow warnings

Starting in our corner of the West Country, the ongoing sewage “spills” at Widemouth Bay and Polzeath began yesterday afternoon.

🧵 1/n
February 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM