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And eventually, one decided to perch in plain sight right in the middle of the river. #batchworth #rickmansworth #birding @Natures_Voice

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@Sc0ttMackay @Grayo85 I've been listening to Gomez for 25 years and it's not been wasted.

@Grayo85 @cypherspace It took me about 10 years after this to get into Gomez... what a waste of a decade not listening to Gomez.

Just got sent a pic from the past. Must have been 18ish? In Bar5 pst Tukai gig with Krueger. @cypherspace looking good!

@Grayo85 @Sc0ttMackay My favourite band. T-shirt was from the tour in 2002 when they played the Brangwyn.

@Sc0ttMackay Wait I mean 😎😎

@Sc0ttMackay 😎

@MarshallPhysics @phyphoxorg @isaacphysics @theUKESF @IOPTeaching Have you tried a FLIR or other IR camera with the chocolate? It's (one of the) same pattern observed on Chladni plates.

@realKR1S I'm trying to be gone, shall we say. Aiming for minimal interactions.

@cypherspace I did think you were gone!

Back just to post this photo of the #storm over #salem in #worcester #massachusetts. Taken from the Hawthorne Hotel overlooking the #witchmuseum. 10 sec exposure, f/3.5, ISO 50.

@miss_mcinerney @bennewmark @Soarpoints Well, quite. I don't have a way to prove this is definitely the case, but it does seem like it makes sense and fits with my experience of dealing with students with above-average absences.

@cypherspace @bennewmark @Soarpoints That makes logical sense. When your kid is sent home for a virus, the queens birthday, the queens death, the kings coronation and then repeated strikes, I can see why a few days at Center Parcs doesn’t seem unreasonable.

Worried by responses to attendance crisis that suggest or imply we should find ways to normalise lower attendance. This feels like a plunge into the unknown.

@miss_mcinerney @bennewmark @Soarpoints Anecdotally, it has felt like some parents are normalising it. The response to absences feels far more casual, and they feel more justified in children being off school for more minor things, whether regular or not. No data to back this up, though.

@bennewmark @Soarpoints Is anyone normalising persistent absence though?

@SamuelFurse Will try Mastodon more consistently.

@cypherspace Where are you going to?

Reddit Is Fun is dead. The official Reddit app is awful beyond belief. I am subscribed to over 100 subreddits; for every 3 posts of those, there is one promoted post and one algorithmically generated post. It means 40% of what I see is useless to me. How does this drive traffic?

@AhmedKhattabUK I'm not energised enough to do the maths properly but this looks like it means early babies get two extra terms of subsidised education?

I am so confused. My daughter turns three in May, but we can't get 30 hours free until she's 3 years and 4 months old. But if she was born December 20th, she could get 30 hours free 2 weeks after her third birthday?

Hovering in the breeze; meadow pipit or skylark? I think meadow pipit but there were skylarks everywhere so I'm not 100%! #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #rspb #wwt @Natures_Voice @WWTworldwide

@nationaltrust "This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer, the windows are full west!"

The lighter evenings are even more spectacular if you can gaze through a window like this. Photo: The Drawing Room at Lyme Park, Cheshire

@edmunds_dr @richrandomphys Ooh yes

@richrandomphys CC @cypherspace

Our first 3D print #FromThePrepRoom is nothing out this world, but makes optics a load easier. A lens holder for 50mm lenses. That easily clips of a metre rule. Makes practicals that required cumbersome optics benches a lot easier. #ITeachPhysics #ChatPhysics

@adamboxer1 *and golf courses *that are being used

Step 1: bulldoze a whole load of palaces that aren't being used Step 2: build loads of flats on the land Step 3: rewild all remaining space

@westwoo19 @RossMcCaff Oh fair. In the UK then.

@cypherspace @RossMcCaff It’s not. He’s got another week in Europe yet.

Meanwhile, over at Queens of the Stone Age