Kelvyn Taylor
@vibroseis.bsky.social
Ex-seismic layabout. Former editor of Personal Computer World magazine (UK). Copywriter, guitarist, grandad. Coach parties welcome.
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Kelvyn Taylor
@vibroseis.bsky.social
· Nov 15
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Yep, I'm new here. Don't have a lot to offer except some gentle guitar music, if you like that kind of thing.
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www.youtube.com/@KelvynTaylor
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www.youtube.com/@KelvynTaylor
You can feel the bite in the damp air
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 2
No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like
artist Rowland Hilder
No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like
artist Rowland Hilder
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
You can feel the bite in the damp air
Who needs lost civilisations or alien technology? Humans have always been smart*
*well, perhaps until now...
*well, perhaps until now...
In ancient Mesopotamia, astronomers needed to know the moon’s position, even on a cloudy night.
So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days.
📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner
So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days.
📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner
December 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Who needs lost civilisations or alien technology? Humans have always been smart*
*well, perhaps until now...
*well, perhaps until now...
Reposted by Kelvyn Taylor
Reposted by Kelvyn Taylor
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
Started watching Bosch for the first time, and still laughing that there's a character named Rick O'Shea 🔫
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Started watching Bosch for the first time, and still laughing that there's a character named Rick O'Shea 🔫
When I was working in seismic in Australia in the 80s, we did some work around Menindee, NSW, for Elf who were using this bunch of scammers. We all just laughed at the idea, but Elf was convinced to the tune of millions of dollars. Nobody was ever prosecuted.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The Great Oil Sniffer Hoax
PDF | On Aug 1, 2018, Jorge Navarro published The Great Oil Sniffer Hoax | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
www.researchgate.net
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
When I was working in seismic in Australia in the 80s, we did some work around Menindee, NSW, for Elf who were using this bunch of scammers. We all just laughed at the idea, but Elf was convinced to the tune of millions of dollars. Nobody was ever prosecuted.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
It's weird how you can find yourself on almost any old primary school class photograph, even from schools you never went to 🤣
December 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It's weird how you can find yourself on almost any old primary school class photograph, even from schools you never went to 🤣
Surprised an enterprising Chinese company hasn't made a dummy Shure SM7 clip-on body for podcasters to hide their cheapo mics in.
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Surprised an enterprising Chinese company hasn't made a dummy Shure SM7 clip-on body for podcasters to hide their cheapo mics in.
Enjoy a bit of Sona Jobarteh on a Sunday evening
youtu.be/fRB06MjfecU?...
youtu.be/fRB06MjfecU?...
dJarabi - Sona Jobarteh & Band
YouTube video by looy rosa
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Enjoy a bit of Sona Jobarteh on a Sunday evening
youtu.be/fRB06MjfecU?...
youtu.be/fRB06MjfecU?...
40 years ago today, this happened (twice - once in Jakarta, once in Yorkshire!)
Happy Ruby anniversary to the love of my life!
Happy Ruby anniversary to the love of my life!
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
40 years ago today, this happened (twice - once in Jakarta, once in Yorkshire!)
Happy Ruby anniversary to the love of my life!
Happy Ruby anniversary to the love of my life!
Although I can remember lots of fairly detailed childhood memories, I can't visualize one single meal I ever had as a kid apart from the salad we used to have on Saturday evenings. Bizarre.
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Although I can remember lots of fairly detailed childhood memories, I can't visualize one single meal I ever had as a kid apart from the salad we used to have on Saturday evenings. Bizarre.
Well, Miller's certainly recreating the horrors that made his great-grandparents flee their homeland
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Well, Miller's certainly recreating the horrors that made his great-grandparents flee their homeland
Reposted by Kelvyn Taylor
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
The River Thames at Runnymede, December 23, 2019
📷me
📷me
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The River Thames at Runnymede, December 23, 2019
📷me
📷me
You can control my hob via an app, as long as you're within touching distance of it. Welcome to the future!
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
You can control my hob via an app, as long as you're within touching distance of it. Welcome to the future!
Also back in the day!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWN...
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Also back in the day!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWN...
There's also currently a 50% off promo code FIFTY until 30th November. Bargain!
It's time to be thinking about Christmas presents, and what could be a finer gift than the set of beautiful books Quarto Press has created with me? First, and most recently, this illustrated history of alchemy.
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Alchemy - Yale University Press London
Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy “Ph...
yalebooks.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
There's also currently a 50% off promo code FIFTY until 30th November. Bargain!
Trilobite!
500-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Fossils With Soft Tissues So Intact, They're Blowing Paleontologists' Minds
dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/500-...
FYI - @johnmoffitt.bsky.social
dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/500-...
FYI - @johnmoffitt.bsky.social
500-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Fossils With Soft Tissues So Intact, They're Blowing Paleontologists' Minds
A prehistoric discovery in Morocco is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about Earth’s most iconic sea creature. Hidden beneath volcanic ash for over 500 million years, these fossils reveal ...
dailygalaxy.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Trilobite!
Such an evocative image
On this day in 1922 archaeologist Howard Carter entered the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Tut tomb, unbroken seal, 1922
Photo by Harry Burton
Knotted cord accompanied by a clay seal featuring Anubis, the ancient Egyptians’ jackal god entrusted w/ the protection of the cemetery. ~ Rare Historical Photos
Tut tomb, unbroken seal, 1922
Photo by Harry Burton
Knotted cord accompanied by a clay seal featuring Anubis, the ancient Egyptians’ jackal god entrusted w/ the protection of the cemetery. ~ Rare Historical Photos
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Such an evocative image
It's nearly time for us Brits to sit and wonder at the alien culture of Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's nearly time for us Brits to sit and wonder at the alien culture of Thanksgiving
Reposted by Kelvyn Taylor
My usual experiment to find out how bad LLMs are at technical instructions (wiring a UK plug) as applied to grok. It's just as bad as any other LLM out there:
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
My usual experiment to find out how bad LLMs are at technical instructions (wiring a UK plug) as applied to grok. It's just as bad as any other LLM out there:
So all those folks whose company just went through complicated arrangements to move to a salary sacrifice pension scheme are gonna be happy
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
So all those folks whose company just went through complicated arrangements to move to a salary sacrifice pension scheme are gonna be happy
Reposted by Kelvyn Taylor
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.