MidgePhoto

Mostly retired from other stuff.
Long-term FLOSS user.
Photographer.
Exeter, UK

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2024-12-08 23:01:53

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And apparently Israel has invaded. Well, why wouldn't they open another front.

2024-12-04 02:19:29

Stair into the #abyss, abyss staring back.
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2024-11-28 13:35:43

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it wasn't??

2024-11-28 11:04:53

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They'd re-image it, assuming they don't just shred it.

2024-11-27 13:59:25

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Too complicated for me, but I wonder if the arguments are actually over the relevant things, or about what they are presented as being about.
Declaring somewhere a penis-free zone seems straightforward and to solve at least one aspect of worry.
Offering cervical smears to anyone with a cervix, and nobody without, seems easy.
Designing toilet facilities probably isn't a supreme court job.
Deciding on a legal definition probably isn't a job for the OED editors.

2024-11-26 22:23:20

From some years ago, a very young #Tasmanian #Devil
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2024-11-26 21:07:02

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;)

2024-11-23 20:37:21

#Rebecca #Tun (and Yorick).
#art #obscure #masked #mono
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2024-11-21 22:19:31

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I would. Chemistry lab elements??

2024-11-21 01:35:37

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Please don't include me in this conversation.

2024-11-20 21:23:09

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For races I hang a couple of Canon 7 series cameras on each side of a Black Rapid harness, with a 70-200 on one and a 24-105 or 17-50 + flash on the other.
Balance is useful.

2024-11-20 20:47:31

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Well, I'm retired, and have not seen the patient, but I suspect that after examination and asking what that bit of body gets used for ("what do you do?") I'd tend toward a smear of Diclofenac or Ibuprofen gel over the sore bit and lump, a hot water bottle and some stretches for the muscle, and some thoughts about webbing or harnesses for carrying...
And more often than many colleagues, an injection of a drop of local anaesthetic and some weak steroid into the pain/lump.
YMMV

2024-11-20 20:43:18

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A television programme, Grand Designs.
A recurrent problem is that the build is held up by the supplier of the windows not having them ready as soon as the builders wanted, hoped, expected, or contracted for.
One of the grand things about the designs tends to be the specification of non-standard size windows in triple glazing with a special high tech heat reflective coating on, or similar, which only one company in the world, probably in Sweden, can make.

2024-11-20 20:32:14

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One of the earliest #granddesigns still holding the record for waiting for the glass.

2024-11-20 20:31:01

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Do you carry a camera on a strap a lot?
The steroid was a small dose injected at the tender point, yes?

2024-11-20 20:25:11

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If Russia wins that war there will be a pause while they prepare to invade the next neighbour.
#iterate
#territorial
#ambitions in
#europe

2024-11-18 20:24:46

A rather new #kitten in the family.
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2024-11-18 18:28:34

#leaves and #drawings
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2024-11-06 17:16:52

Limited applause? A #butterfly
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2024-11-03 23:17:49

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After this long, rather a lot of people are descended from them, and vice versa.
Are you reckoning in Scotland? Did they go that far?

2024-10-25 14:50:11

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......I beg leave to doubt that the truck will be automatic, and the unloading will likewise be free of human hand.
The purpose is to make electricity.
Trucking in a large battery or several, and a load of solar panels, gives a lasting and self-recharging system.
To have virtue, the Hydrogen must be made using energy not from burning oil etc.
Given that, with its wasteful energetics, it is probably more sensible if you are not fuelling space rockets, to use the electricity.

2024-10-25 14:47:43

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Only fairly well, and next century may have survivors to remark further.
Hydrogen is more expensive than gasoline, in immediate costs although perhaps not in future debts.
The containment of Hydrogen, as a cryogenic liquid or as a high pressure gas is more difficult than petroleum, accordingly the energy content of a truck loaded with Hydrogen will be less, and therefore more trucking will be needed.
...

2024-10-25 09:58:18

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That obviously, but the other things, to integrate it and take advantage of what else is available, would make sense. Or just plug it into a controlling hub.
Catering for a remote site by regularly delivering expensive fuel in heavy containers is dubious.
And if there were low pressure hydrogen storage it could be used to absorb spare solar/wind production. Batteries likely simpler though.

2024-10-25 00:52:12

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Perhaps the most impressive of the surviving works in Rome.
I rather like it.

2024-10-20 19:23:32

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I suppose like jobs, workers, EV chargers and hospital beds, there need to be a few empty in any area at any time.
If the sales/purchasing/conveyancing process was made noticeably quicker that would produce an effective increase in privately owned accomodation.

2024-10-18 02:55:00

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The energetics must be ... interesting.
Does it have a plug in for a battery, set of solar cells, etc?

2024-10-10 18:23:34

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Web of Trust, as with PGP might be one piece.

2024-10-07 18:24:14

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fog?

2024-10-07 16:14:08

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Odd place, America. Bizarre.
#Lysistrata

2024-10-03 10:49:53

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This may apply in some areas, where I've not been.
It doesn't apply in Exeter, most of Devon at least, Cornwall, or England overall.
Scotland exports electricity, and would send more South in daylight if the wires at the border were thicker, but is a good source for night time electricity right down to here.
France has a lot of fission, and also can provide it at night, across the channel and within the EU.
We don't really do air conditioning - one room for 12 h per y!

2024-10-03 10:46:10

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There isn't an EV push.
Formula 1 and others adopted electric recovery and deployment because it makes the vehicles more effective - faster or cheaper.
There's a push against people burning stuff in the streets.
As long as you stop doing that, excellent.
If you don't want an EV, super. Don't have one.

2024-10-03 10:42:31

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s/largely/entirely/
This is the late stage of denialism after "it isn't happening", and "it is natural" (so accept extinction as long as it is natural??) comes "we can't do anything about it".
All are climate change denialism.

2024-10-01 21:48:44

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No, feel free not to.
Your company car, if you have that arrangement, might be one one, they like the lower costs, maintenance etc.
But really, people who compare something we must discard to minimise gigadeaths with something that moves people around comfortably have severely missed the point, and the process.

2024-10-01 18:42:37

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I like mine well enough.
And nobody asks anyone to buy one. What you are being asked to do is stop burning stuff to get around.
Walk, cycle, take the bus, tram and train by all means.
But don't buy or continue to drive an oil-burning vehicle.
There's a while, it should have started in 1974, but nobody believes we can manage it instantly this year.
(If you mean we need sockets where cars are parked now, well, yes. Add sockets.)

2024-09-17 14:25:21

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Is Petworth House a gallery, though?
I expect they'll get around to it.
I like the NPG offshoot at Montacute, and the restoration of a ceiling at Lanhydrock is interesting. Take a macro-ish lens.

2024-09-17 11:44:51

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The gallery up the road in town has interesting exhibitions, from time to time.

2024-09-17 11:42:44

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A nice round temple, also.

2024-09-06 20:02:29

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always nice, these.

2024-08-31 09:03:51

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I've seen it in aircraft ground operations, where the workers are mobile as to job, but like to live somewhere.
Going a long way to work for 4 days is better than for 5 days.

2024-08-29 09:38:02

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Are there any coins featuring your core subject?

2024-08-21 08:38:58

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There is no reason to believe anything _else_ the people involved say now, or in the future, ever, or have ever said in the past.
In particular, the declarations they make in relation to being (fit and proper people to be) company officers and board members and the like

2024-08-18 17:23:54

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A lot of our constitution is written.
But not in one place in one document.

2024-08-17 22:24:52

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Their reported argument that whatever the law is, doctors must obey it is risky, also invalid.
Once upon a time they were elected by the profession and could represent what doctors viewed as proper, but they are now appointed by government.

2024-08-14 14:01:14

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And spectators and impresarios who urge you not to stop, to hit harder and more often with bigger hammers, may not be your friends.

2024-08-11 08:33:14

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A pessimist looking East might think we should have no less than two, and perhaps five, widely separated.
Utility, redundancy, and the majestic beauty of empty unused moors and countryside are in tension.

2024-08-06 12:31:32

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That's 6 arrests so far.

2024-07-04 23:09:35

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I remember the relief in 1997.
But elation would have been an exaggeration I think, it looked like a long hard scramble to repair the damage.
And then it was not to be impeded by Faragists.