Dr Peter Hoare

@phoare1963.bsky.social

STEM Outreach Officer at a UK University. Former chemistry teacher (20yrs). Sports fan, heritage railway enthusiast and volunteer. Views my own.

Darlington train shed. On my way Middlesbrough to bring the Teesport to Doncaster Railport intermodal train back to South Yorkshire. Should get back in time for the eclipse! 🌑

The victorian roof of Darlington railway station.

Keir Starmer has today ensured the 13yo will probably never vote Labour. He loves making TikTok videos. And as a special school pupil who lives a long way from classmates, Snapchat is how they communicate out of school. Yes he enjoys watching videos, but conversely he never watches TV.

Cut the mold off the cheese and ate it anyways. My kids looked at me horrified, and obviously I didn’t raise them in enough poverty to understand this is completely normal.

I know for a fact that a huge majority of people wake up wondering what other moronic, incomprehensible lie, crime, or war awaits us all today!

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We've received more than £4M funding from the Office For Students to offer more students the chance to study on our Engineering degrees. The funding will help create additional places across a range of programmes including Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. #WeAreNCL

A drone hovers in the foreground with a blurred background. Text over the image reads: "Newcastle University Get £4M Funding Boost For Engineering Degrees. Opening more places to access state-of-the-art facilities including our dedicated drone arena and flight dynamics platforms." The Newcastle University logo is in the top right corner.

Leeds, 1954 Leeds Central Black and white, but probably didn’t look much better in colour. Two old hands stand and chat for a while as younger hands sort out the mail. Sir Stanley Matthews adorns a Craven A poster, often quoted as saying “The cigarette for me!” #Leeds #Yorkshire

Leeds Central Station, 1954

Two old hands stand and chat for a while as younger hands sort out the mail.

Sir Stanley Matthews adorns a Craven A poster, often quoted as saying “The cigarette for me!”

I highly recommend taking the Amtrak Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle before all the fracking oil rigs completely blot out the terrain. They are everywhere and have no majesty to them like the wind turbines swirling the in the distance. Just rust and oil