Ilya
@amanfromuncle.bsky.social
Open source geospatial - analysis, development & cartography. Shitposting, Cats and Climbing. Opinions my own.
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
I've made an interactive map for exploring the terrain of the world! It uses @mapterhorn.com data and tiles, and WebGL for dynamic colors and animations. relief.bertspaan.nl/world?lang=en
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
As a country we are drifting into the realms of the unwell, making an enemy of our own future.
Nicola Kelly@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 3w agoI have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
Bravo Bristol. The ban covers advertising of petrol, diesel and hybrid-electric vehicles and SUV’s, flights, airports, cruise holidays and travel agents, firms and lobbying related to the fossil fuel industry, and marketing that encourages excessive consumption of fashion products or trends.
Council bans advertising of fast fashion, flights and cars
Adverts for high carbon products will no longer appear on council-owned ad spaces
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This animated map shows the population change in Germany (current boundaries) over the last 150 years. Source: buff.ly/EOivcbP
#ThisWeek in 2007, the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft took this close-up of saturnian moon Iapetus on 10 September. This mountainous terrain reaches 10 km in height along the unique equatorial ridge of the moon 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @science.esa.int @carolynporco.bsky.social @esa.int
A ring built from the Julia sets found along the main cardioid of the Mandelbrot set. one of my favourite mathematical objects
NEW | On fascism on the streets and the front-pages… STOP THE BLOKES With fascism on the streets of England again, The Times uses its front-page to deliver the same message beneath a thin veneer of respectability. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/stop-the-b...
Stop The Blokes
With fascism on the streets of England again, The Times uses its front-page to deliver the same message beneath a thin veneer of respectability.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
La Astronomy Picture of the Day de la NASA es hoy, como no podía ser de otra manera, del eclipse. Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain Image Credit & Copyright: Ruiyu Zhang
I am bereft of fucks, this is all so clearly for a buck. A cheap lowly buck. What an absolute cunt.
Matt@itsmattagain.bsky.social · 2mo agoMan without ADHD tries uppers for the first time: I mean honestly we're scraping the barrel on this now surely. I'm not diabetic. If I took insulin the affects would be far worse.
I decided to click on Acrobat’s ‘generate podcast’ option for an invoice I just opened.
MꙬse Allain@mooseallain.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt does make me laugh when I open a pdf invoice from, say, the window cleaner and I'm offered this option by Acrobat
I really grappled with this thread, really thrown me. In review I find it oddly depressing.
John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat mundane token of modern life have you never done? I’ve never had a takeaway delivered.
In 2018, Arron Banks, financier of Farage + Leave EU campaign, testified before the UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee regarding allegations that his insurance company staff worked on the Brexit campaign and misused data. As you can see, he wears asbestos underpants.
IMO it’d help to call 'AI' centres *compute* farms, not data centres. It better conveys the issues with them. Using the older, generic term ‘data centre’ hides that there are different kinds of these things, and the 'AI' service kind has very different demands. 1/n
Explainer: What is a data centre and why is everyone freaking out now?
Explainer - Data centres have existed for decades, so what's the big deal now?
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Anyway I'm glad he's looking up at us from all that piss and wasps, humanity is a tiny bit safer.
Here are loads of steps that millions of people must make every single day so we can avoid the one simplest step of stopping rampant profiteering
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Energy bills now are about 79% higher than they were in the winter of 2020.. turn those devices off of standby, unplug things at the wall, these really little simple steps do start to add up"
I'm hiring 👀🐙⚡ This is a rare opportunity to join the Data Visualisation team at Octopus Energy, the largest (and most exciting) energy supplier in Britain. jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/b...
Wow, that was truly amazing, the Strawberry Full Moon rising over Ely Cathedral this evening. Seen from Little Downham outside of Ely, Cambridgeshire 😍🌝 I didn’t think it was going to shine through the clouds, but it certainly did 🙏🏻🥰 #Fullmoon #strawberrymoon #ElyCathedral #amazing #Wonderful
Just one possible outcome... but the GFS weather forecast model is suggesting 40-41°C is possible in the UK around 7th July. This is a long-range forecast with significant uncertainty, but the fact that we are even seeing such values fairly regularly in the forecasts is extraordinary.
Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.
