Samhchair
@samhchair.com
Petrophysicist/geologist from Aberdeen and Strathy. Mines a strong Earl Grey thanks👬🌍🏢🏞🏡⚒🏳️🌈🏴🐕🚘
He/Him
Passing interests in metrology, advanced driving, data visualisation, Lego, Ealing films and crosswords.
www.samhchair.com/strathy-cam
He/Him
Passing interests in metrology, advanced driving, data visualisation, Lego, Ealing films and crosswords.
www.samhchair.com/strathy-cam
We are at that point of the festive period #lego #sherlockholmes
December 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We are at that point of the festive period #lego #sherlockholmes
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Robin Ince is a legend, I hope this isn't the end of his career.
I stopped using the BBC after the Brexit vote (2016).
The airtime they gave to Farage & legitimacy they give to biggotry.
If you haven't already stopped using the BBC do.
Show them there are consequences for narrative of hate.
I stopped using the BBC after the Brexit vote (2016).
The airtime they gave to Farage & legitimacy they give to biggotry.
If you haven't already stopped using the BBC do.
Show them there are consequences for narrative of hate.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Robin Ince is a legend, I hope this isn't the end of his career.
I stopped using the BBC after the Brexit vote (2016).
The airtime they gave to Farage & legitimacy they give to biggotry.
If you haven't already stopped using the BBC do.
Show them there are consequences for narrative of hate.
I stopped using the BBC after the Brexit vote (2016).
The airtime they gave to Farage & legitimacy they give to biggotry.
If you haven't already stopped using the BBC do.
Show them there are consequences for narrative of hate.
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Please repost and share this petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy.
We must do everything in our power to keep the spotlight on Farage's links to Russia and work for Putin. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
We must do everything in our power to keep the spotlight on Farage's links to Russia and work for Putin. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Please repost and share this petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy.
We must do everything in our power to keep the spotlight on Farage's links to Russia and work for Putin. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
We must do everything in our power to keep the spotlight on Farage's links to Russia and work for Putin. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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323 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Oligoclase:
- A plagioclase feldspar mineral
- Sometimes classed as a variety of albite
- An important component of igneous rocks
- Its name comes from the Greek words "όλίγος/oligos" (little) and "κλάσις/klasis" (fracture) because of its cleavage #minerals
Oligoclase:
- A plagioclase feldspar mineral
- Sometimes classed as a variety of albite
- An important component of igneous rocks
- Its name comes from the Greek words "όλίγος/oligos" (little) and "κλάσις/klasis" (fracture) because of its cleavage #minerals
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
323 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Oligoclase:
- A plagioclase feldspar mineral
- Sometimes classed as a variety of albite
- An important component of igneous rocks
- Its name comes from the Greek words "όλίγος/oligos" (little) and "κλάσις/klasis" (fracture) because of its cleavage #minerals
Oligoclase:
- A plagioclase feldspar mineral
- Sometimes classed as a variety of albite
- An important component of igneous rocks
- Its name comes from the Greek words "όλίγος/oligos" (little) and "κλάσις/klasis" (fracture) because of its cleavage #minerals
This should be taught in all schools
For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This should be taught in all schools
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Billion year old shallow water stromatolitic carbonates contact metamorphosed. Green layers with diopside and occasional grossular garnet. Sedimentary layers are preserved, including ripples! Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas.
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Billion year old shallow water stromatolitic carbonates contact metamorphosed. Green layers with diopside and occasional grossular garnet. Sedimentary layers are preserved, including ripples! Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas.
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In case you missed it: *of course* the guy who wrote the BBC memo was a paid lobbyist.
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In case you missed it: *of course* the guy who wrote the BBC memo was a paid lobbyist.
Now got a dog in his safe space (fully enclosed cage in the bedroom due to the squibs going off……need to try this:
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open.spotify.com/playlist/4LO...
Calming Classical For Dogs By Battersea
open.spotify.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Now got a dog in his safe space (fully enclosed cage in the bedroom due to the squibs going off……need to try this:
open.spotify.com/playlist/4LO...
open.spotify.com/playlist/4LO...
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God i miss a president who can talk in complete coherent sentences
Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
God i miss a president who can talk in complete coherent sentences
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Pedantic me would say “how the continents moved”, not “that the continents moved”. Continents moving had been proposed in early 1900’s with supporting evidence, it’s just that those ideas couldn’t provide a mechanism for movement and thus weren’t widely accepted.
![Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicp2ka5asjgkmgfdfj33vnjb5bbvk3vnyao6ju5kipxcdc23pqasm@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Pedantic me would say “how the continents moved”, not “that the continents moved”. Continents moving had been proposed in early 1900’s with supporting evidence, it’s just that those ideas couldn’t provide a mechanism for movement and thus weren’t widely accepted.
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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October 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."
Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018
Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018
October 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."
Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018
Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018
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Can I just add a British perspective. Reform are in trouble. Despite being massively under reported the Gill / Russian money scandal is huge. Remember he pleaded guilty. I suspect MI5 are all over RefUK's accounts and sooner or later this is going to blow up. Timeline 👇🏽
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Can I just add a British perspective. Reform are in trouble. Despite being massively under reported the Gill / Russian money scandal is huge. Remember he pleaded guilty. I suspect MI5 are all over RefUK's accounts and sooner or later this is going to blow up. Timeline 👇🏽
Bit windy with #stormamy at #samhchair
October 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Bit windy with #stormamy at #samhchair
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Spectacular concentric zoning and twinning of large titanaugite in essexite (nepheline monzogabbro) from Lennoxtown, Scotland. Plagioclase inclusions within the phenocryst align with zoning just as proximal groundmass plagioclase align with its edge. #ThinSectionThursday 🧪⚒️
October 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Spectacular concentric zoning and twinning of large titanaugite in essexite (nepheline monzogabbro) from Lennoxtown, Scotland. Plagioclase inclusions within the phenocryst align with zoning just as proximal groundmass plagioclase align with its edge. #ThinSectionThursday 🧪⚒️
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Happy #ThinSectionThursday ! These are photos I took in (early) 2020. Have some garnets and a gabbro under XPL. My notes on the specifics are almost completely lost to me and I remember nothing about thin section mineral ID, so everything I have comes from my tweets from that time.
October 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Happy #ThinSectionThursday ! These are photos I took in (early) 2020. Have some garnets and a gabbro under XPL. My notes on the specifics are almost completely lost to me and I remember nothing about thin section mineral ID, so everything I have comes from my tweets from that time.
…he is so in Putins pay….because Putin has Slovakia and Hungary they wont stop buying his oil and so Trump can use it as an excuse to not apply sanctions….does he really think people cant see it?
Trump: “If Russia is not ready to make a deal to end the war. We are fully prepared to impose massive tariffs that would stop the bloodshed.
“But Europe has to join us with this.”
“But Europe has to join us with this.”
September 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
…he is so in Putins pay….because Putin has Slovakia and Hungary they wont stop buying his oil and so Trump can use it as an excuse to not apply sanctions….does he really think people cant see it?
…happy to make a contribution to any fines…just saying
Police said four people were arrested following a projection of images of Trump alongside late sex offender Epstein onto one of Windsor Castle's towers. Trump was not in Windsor at the time. The arrests were for malicious communications following an 'unauthorised projection'
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
…happy to make a contribution to any fines…just saying
@millhouse.bsky.social this is your christmas present sorted
September 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
@millhouse.bsky.social this is your christmas present sorted
Think I will watch this - should be funny & alarming!
My 1st thought: FANTASTIC.
My 2nd thought: .....only over 100?
My 2nd thought: .....only over 100?
A British TV station will air a special cataloguing over 100 of Trump’s lies and falsehoods, with “brief text-based fact-checks, offering viewers the truth behind the tweets, speeches and soundbites.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Think I will watch this - should be funny & alarming!
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Beyond migrant boats and some fantasy plan to stop them…
What on earth is Reform offering?
How will they help YOU?
Some harsh truths…
What on earth is Reform offering?
How will they help YOU?
Some harsh truths…
September 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Beyond migrant boats and some fantasy plan to stop them…
What on earth is Reform offering?
How will they help YOU?
Some harsh truths…
What on earth is Reform offering?
How will they help YOU?
Some harsh truths…
I may* have pre-ordered this (* I def have pre-ordered this)
#MinCup25 fans: A #minerals themed Lego set is coming out in October! Featuring pyrite, tourmaline, amethyst, rhodochrosite, fluorite and tangerine quartz. It's based on a Lego Ideas design which was submitted back in 2023! ⚒️🧪 #geology
www.lego.com/en-gb/catego...
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Build a Striking Geological Display with LEGO® Ideas Mineral Collection
Immerse yourself in the world of geology with this colorful LEGO® Ideas Mineral Collection, which also makes a striking addition to your home décor!
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September 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I may* have pre-ordered this (* I def have pre-ordered this)