Russ Swan
@russs.bsky.social
Recovering journalist, universe/UK/Notts. Geek, nerd, dweeb. Fixer. Author of popular science book. Columnist @ Lab News. Motorcycles. Spaniels. Science. Engineering. Screaming into the void
You can tell it's August because Sainsbury has started using the C-word.
It's raining here in Nottinghamshire. Repeat, it's raining. #rain
I know somebody who knows somebody who used to date Amy Hunt. I feel like I'm finally moving in exalted circles. Go me. Go Amy.
Have I got this right? The Count was at the count but the c*nt chickened out?
Have I got this right? The Count was at the count but the c*nt chickened out?
Fair play to Danny León, the Spanish Olympic skateboarder. This shot may never be eclipsed.
Today's pointless AI invention is this smart birdfeeder (that might actually be a surveillance cam), which removes the joy of learning about your avian visitors by identifying them for you, for only 220 of your English pounds. Yeah, fuck off.
You've all enjoyed my Eclips-o-scope images; this is what my phone saw through the #eclipse glasses at about maximum.
Seems the #BBC has a new dumbing-down policy. Wednesday's celestial event is now a 'sun eclipse', not solar. This follows railway stations becoming train stations. Bah.
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#NASAWebb imaged the Lion Nebula in near- and mid-infrared light just in time for #WorldLionDay. The stellar core, looking like the lion’s “nose,” is responsible for sculpting the nebula’s complex gas and dust structures: https://news.stsci.edu/4x639kM
It's International Cat Day, apparently. I'm afraid I don't have an international cat, just this local apex predator.
Ra, the sun god, has staged a takeover of the Christian church in England. Here sun worshippers escape the heat of the midday, er, sun to view Luke Jerram's latest work, Helios, at Southwell Minster. Pics by me, today. #Helios #Ra #LukeJerram #Southwell #Nottinghamshire
Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.
To the 35th anniversary event at Triumph's Hinckley factory. I inadvertently registered my 32 year old Trident Sprint for the exhibition. Did not win any prizes.
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Gunther von Hagens has died. I went to his Body Works exhibition in London around 2000 or 2001. Human cadavers reduced to constituent structures. Fascinating, and surprisingly not very macabre. Can't help wondering what he had in mind for his own corpse.
My hot take on The Odyssey: very loud, unnecessarily violent, glad I watched Dan Snow's primer on TV beforehand or the 'plot' would have been incoherent. Also, the dog was a spaniel as a puppy but a sort of terrier at the end. Altogether epic, happy to have seen it, won't buy the t-shirt. #Odyssey
BBC website doing its usual breathless live reporting of the wildfires threatening Bordeaux. Top headline as of now? "British tourists could lose thousands from aborted Gironde holiday". Never mind the French people losing their homes and businesses, let's check on our holidaymakers. Fuck sake.
Who's eaten all the seafood? Bull shark jaws and sawfish saw frame fresh prawns at a fishmonger in Whitby, Yorkshire. Nom nom nom.
