the black telescope

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:43:54 +0100

A experiment in acoustics had me in a motorway underpass at 4:30am making recordings and yet the weirdest part of the exercise was finding one of the village’s barbershops opened and working at 4:45am.

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:18:14 +0100

Today I read an explanation of notated time signatures that made sense to me for the first time ever. I’m not ashamed of this, it’s more of a relief.

Burning for You.

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:36:58 +0100

Here’s a long read for a Monday morning coffee break. A researcher doing a deep-dive on the air quality in the aftermath of the January 2025 Californian wildfires uncovers exactly how alarmingly toxic the air remains in the aftermath of these sustained fires, and how the pollutants change and become worse when manmade structures replace trees as fuel.

insideclimatenews.org/news/2109…

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:27:52 +0100

“Absence is not emptiness. It is a condition for true being”

newintrigue.com/2025/03/1…

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:04:27 +0100

Tour de Achill 2025 Hard work but good fun.

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:12:22 +0100

If AI could create a blockbuster in any form, a book, movie, app, anything, they wouldn’t be shoving their marketing down our throats, they’d be gatekeeping and recouping their investments.

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:24:43 +0100

Holes may not exist. We’ve been tricked by Big Interstice.

plato.stanford.edu/entries/h…

It’s your fault, not mine.

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 17:22:11 +0100

I wrote the following on May 7th, 2015, as the UK Conservatives won the Westminster elections, ushering in the Brexit vote, the increasing pandering to far-right voices and the entrenched distraction techniques hiding austerity and the deepening wealth gap.

“I’ve awoken this morning under a government more bigoted, more insular, more self-centred than when I went to sleep. We’ve voted for the right-wing, for the crypto-fascists, for the racists and for the rich who profit off the divided and the benighted; the working people. I read that there was a voter turnout of 80% for the over 60s. I hope they don’t need the NHS as they get older.”

I’m not really surprised that I was right.

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:04:17 +0100

One from the road. I was amused by this signage while taking the country route to the Black Paths last night.

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:14:24 +0100

Why is the urge to create terribly written and awful fanfic always so close at hand?

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:38:11 +0100

Well now. That’s that. I’m quite pleased with that result. I’m still unhappy with myself about completely forgetting I’d transferred my DNS to WordPress. Rookie mistake.

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:41:22 +0100

This is what happens when you take your eye off the ball. I’d no memory of transferring my DNS to WordPress, I’d no idea this meant my registrar would repopulate their DNS settings with their own boilerplate, I wasn’t expecting my DNS to be locked without either provider indicating where/how. Gah!

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:14:26 +0100

Well this is nice. I wonder will I be able to import my wordpress site into this system then redirect my domain name? I wonder will I ever make the time to find out?

Apply to your ears, gently but firmly

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:39:26 +0100

Barry Cullen’s Fringe Tones, the 82nd

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:03:38 +0100

A present from me to me, a pre-Christmas gift, if you will.

Disruption

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:41:38 +0100

This article by Carole Cadwalladr is salient. Unfortunately it serves only to show us where we are.

New era dawns, America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power

Sun, 03 Nov 2024 23:49:12 +0100

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Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:11:36 +0100

ridewithgps #CoffeeOutside

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:16:41 +0100

Sat, 07 Sep 2024 13:42:50 +0100

Bring me the sky

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:13:39 +0100

All palm houses smell the same

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:35:40 +0100

Hand-operated chainsaw.

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:47:47 +0100

Ultimate hunting trophy