Rob Rainbolt
@rob-rainbolt.bsky.social
Hoping this place holds up under the strain.
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11th December 2025. 08.05
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
11th December 2025. 08.05
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Some more art from the birds/ravens/crows. Flight paths this morning over 1 minute. Very overcast here today but not expecting any rain or snow.
#birds
#birds
December 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Some more art from the birds/ravens/crows. Flight paths this morning over 1 minute. Very overcast here today but not expecting any rain or snow.
#birds
#birds
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fat bear week is good, but don't forget about borb season
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
fat bear week is good, but don't forget about borb season
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This is one of the many reasons I hate AI: It diminishes our emotional reactions to the REAL interesting/beautiful/horrifying/amusing things all around us. The real world is an amazing place and AI is the opposite of amazing.
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is one of the many reasons I hate AI: It diminishes our emotional reactions to the REAL interesting/beautiful/horrifying/amusing things all around us. The real world is an amazing place and AI is the opposite of amazing.
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Absolutely how the AI wars will end.
Through constant and unending discussion.
Through constant and unending discussion.
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Absolutely how the AI wars will end.
Through constant and unending discussion.
Through constant and unending discussion.
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When I painted this, I imagined an artistic wizard great enough to use the sky for his canvas and put on a display of color and light visible for hundreds of miles. 3/3
www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/no...
www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/no...
December 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
When I painted this, I imagined an artistic wizard great enough to use the sky for his canvas and put on a display of color and light visible for hundreds of miles. 3/3
www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/no...
www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/no...
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Photographer Martin Parr just passed. If you don't know his work, the Guardian has a really nice introduction here.
h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social
h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social
Martin Parr: the photographer’s career in pictures
A look back at the career of Martin Parr who has died at the age of 73
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Photographer Martin Parr just passed. If you don't know his work, the Guardian has a really nice introduction here.
h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social
h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social
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The remains of Gresham castle photographed with a regular camera and how it looks with a LiDar drone camera.
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The remains of Gresham castle photographed with a regular camera and how it looks with a LiDar drone camera.
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I know so many great people who are doing so much. If you are isolated from people who are trying their best, I can understand feeling like no one's doing anything, but really, you just need to find the people who are trying and try with them — or maybe encourage some new folks to try alongside you.
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I know so many great people who are doing so much. If you are isolated from people who are trying their best, I can understand feeling like no one's doing anything, but really, you just need to find the people who are trying and try with them — or maybe encourage some new folks to try alongside you.
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Ravens flying around over the house today = A Raven flight path video to show them flying around and the final pattern they created at the end.
#birds
#birds
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Ravens flying around over the house today = A Raven flight path video to show them flying around and the final pattern they created at the end.
#birds
#birds
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December 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The (nearly) full Moon and the early morning clouds.
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The (nearly) full Moon and the early morning clouds.
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This bird’s greed delights me
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This bird’s greed delights me
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Song Thrush with a Gobstopper! 😲😁
Taken at the weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 🐦
#birds 🪶
Lots of Christmas gift ideas for nature lovers in my shop here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
Taken at the weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 🐦
#birds 🪶
Lots of Christmas gift ideas for nature lovers in my shop here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Song Thrush with a Gobstopper! 😲😁
Taken at the weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 🐦
#birds 🪶
Lots of Christmas gift ideas for nature lovers in my shop here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
Taken at the weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 🐦
#birds 🪶
Lots of Christmas gift ideas for nature lovers in my shop here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
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my father passed away just before Thanksgiving from stage iv bladder cancer. I miss him more with every day that passes. I set up a gfm to help my mother with expenses from the medical bills that will come from it so if you could help share I would be so appreciative 🥺🕊️🕊️
gofund.me/584badccb
gofund.me/584badccb
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my father passed away just before Thanksgiving from stage iv bladder cancer. I miss him more with every day that passes. I set up a gfm to help my mother with expenses from the medical bills that will come from it so if you could help share I would be so appreciative 🥺🕊️🕊️
gofund.me/584badccb
gofund.me/584badccb
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Yolo often stands with his little back toes crossed, which I find ridiculously cute!
You can see vultures don't have bulky feet and talons built for grasping/carrying like other raptors. Their more chicken-like feet are meant for bracing on food to pull at it with their powerful beaks, instead.
You can see vultures don't have bulky feet and talons built for grasping/carrying like other raptors. Their more chicken-like feet are meant for bracing on food to pull at it with their powerful beaks, instead.
December 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Yolo often stands with his little back toes crossed, which I find ridiculously cute!
You can see vultures don't have bulky feet and talons built for grasping/carrying like other raptors. Their more chicken-like feet are meant for bracing on food to pull at it with their powerful beaks, instead.
You can see vultures don't have bulky feet and talons built for grasping/carrying like other raptors. Their more chicken-like feet are meant for bracing on food to pull at it with their powerful beaks, instead.
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#OTD 2 December 1993, Space Shuttle flight STS-61, the first Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, was launched with @esa.int astronaut Claude Nicollier on board 🧪🔭
@science.esa.int @exploration.esa.int @stsci.edu
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-61 #SpaceHistory
@science.esa.int @exploration.esa.int @stsci.edu
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-61 #SpaceHistory
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
#OTD 2 December 1993, Space Shuttle flight STS-61, the first Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, was launched with @esa.int astronaut Claude Nicollier on board 🧪🔭
@science.esa.int @exploration.esa.int @stsci.edu
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-61 #SpaceHistory
@science.esa.int @exploration.esa.int @stsci.edu
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-61 #SpaceHistory
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Raven flight paths over the house this morning, they may be getting things done now before the snow comes tonight and into tomorrow, we *could* see up to 7in. #birds
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Raven flight paths over the house this morning, they may be getting things done now before the snow comes tonight and into tomorrow, we *could* see up to 7in. #birds
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Our Cyber Monday sale is live... Today only, all customers save 20% on unframed prints in our shop!
Discount will applied automatically. No coupon code necessary. Sale ends at midnight Eastern Time on Monday December 1st.
www.michaelwhelan.com/shop/reprodu...
Discount will applied automatically. No coupon code necessary. Sale ends at midnight Eastern Time on Monday December 1st.
www.michaelwhelan.com/shop/reprodu...
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Our Cyber Monday sale is live... Today only, all customers save 20% on unframed prints in our shop!
Discount will applied automatically. No coupon code necessary. Sale ends at midnight Eastern Time on Monday December 1st.
www.michaelwhelan.com/shop/reprodu...
Discount will applied automatically. No coupon code necessary. Sale ends at midnight Eastern Time on Monday December 1st.
www.michaelwhelan.com/shop/reprodu...
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I've turned another thread into an article for easier reading.
Film review (sort of): ‘The First Great Train Robbery’ (1978)
Read it here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/30/f...
or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/film-revie...
Film review (sort of): ‘The First Great Train Robbery’ (1978)
Read it here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/30/f...
or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/film-revie...
Film review: ‘The First Great Train Robbery’ (1978)
This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Remember ‘The Firs…
fakehistoryhunter.net
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I've turned another thread into an article for easier reading.
Film review (sort of): ‘The First Great Train Robbery’ (1978)
Read it here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/30/f...
or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/film-revie...
Film review (sort of): ‘The First Great Train Robbery’ (1978)
Read it here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/30/f...
or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/film-revie...
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Richard Bober’s cover to the 1976 Dell Laurel-Leaf edition of 'A Wrinkle in Time,' by Madeleine L'Engle. Cool seeing this pop up in Stranger Things!
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Richard Bober’s cover to the 1976 Dell Laurel-Leaf edition of 'A Wrinkle in Time,' by Madeleine L'Engle. Cool seeing this pop up in Stranger Things!
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This is my third go at M45 (the Pleiades) this season, because I wasn’t happy with the other two. About half of this was taken in the presence of the 1st quarter moon. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is my third go at M45 (the Pleiades) this season, because I wasn’t happy with the other two. About half of this was taken in the presence of the 1st quarter moon. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Female Northern flicker taking off from the birdbath, in slow motion to see her amazing red/orange colors as she takes off.
#birds
It wasn't 84F yesterday, camera sits out in the sun. It was 46F.
#birds
It wasn't 84F yesterday, camera sits out in the sun. It was 46F.
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Female Northern flicker taking off from the birdbath, in slow motion to see her amazing red/orange colors as she takes off.
#birds
It wasn't 84F yesterday, camera sits out in the sun. It was 46F.
#birds
It wasn't 84F yesterday, camera sits out in the sun. It was 46F.
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Good to see emus Rodney, chicks Graham & Stanley enjoying their workout pen
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Good to see emus Rodney, chicks Graham & Stanley enjoying their workout pen