Paul Leyland 🟦

General purpose scientist, amateur astronomer. Aspie into most anything technical.

Pedantry is something up with which I will always put.

Down, not across.

[Paul Leyland 🟦 @Brnikat]

@lemire Jill may have left the office after Joe arrived.

[Paul Leyland 🟦 @Brnikat]

@wylfcen Sorry to hear that. BTDT myself many times.

One thing that helped me was to leave Xitter and move to bluesky. This is the first time I dropped by for weeks, just to see whether it's got any better.

It hasn't.

[Paul Leyland 🟦 @Brnikat]

@NoContextBrits s/boiled/fried/

s/tomato/black pudding/

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@FWillhelmsen @astraiaintel Are you old enough to remember Operation Desert the Kurds?

Despite US & European reticence to support them, they seem to have been doing remarkably well in the last 30-ish years

[Paul Leyland 🟦 @Brnikat]

Ooh! Catty!

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

Meanwhile, Thirty Meter Telescope goes nowhere.

[Paul Leyland 🟦 @Brnikat]

@pictureladyjan @JayinKyiv Not sure they are within range. Would be happy to be proved wrong.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Russians getting kicked out of the Sarin airbase in Northern Syria this morning, a large convoy.

This probably doesnt bode well chances that Putin will be allowed to keep his bases in Tartus and Latakia, which will seriously slow Russia's ongoing takeover of Africa.

[Mandy @mandyarthur]

@elonmusk

[Paul Leyland 🟦 @Brnikat]

@efadi_LP Can't wait to get back there.

[Efadi @efadi_LP]

#LaPalma rainbow Island.

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

Chong is drawing a false equivalence between the right of self-defence and international humanitarian law. States never have a right to defend themselves by committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

[Brilliant Maps @BrilliantMaps]

Map of Venus If It Had As Much Water As Earth

More planets: https://t.co/E2PPMMvIPa

[Paul Leyland 🟦 @Brnikat]

@BoredtownBoy @RealDaveMorris 2) True, but {land,naval} minefields, gun {boats,emplacements}, and {barbed,razor} wire entanglements could reduce illegal migration enormously.

Collateral damage may be unacceptably high though.

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@Gammyp3rson @astro_jaz Grantecan, grantecan!

(An in-joke for the ORLM crowd.)

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@Ruf_Omn_Rex @astro_jaz You can NOT be Sirius!

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Looks like @vispainternet has big problems.

Been flaky for a few days and their phones are unobtainable most of the time and engaged the rest.

Unable to get any news from them so asking here.

[Paul Leyland 🟦 @Brnikat]

@BillWoo66472598 @peterrhague As in Brill in Buckinghamshire, also known Brill-on-the-Hill.

Brill is a contraction of Bre-hill and Bre is Celtic for hill.

[Paul Leyland 🟦 @Brnikat]

@cnewton_ky @peterrhague Eh?

Never heard of Sol and Luna, the "official" names?

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@wylfcen Steorrawin.

Euphony would seem to prefer Steorrwin but my Ænglisc is not yet good enough to know whether that would be considered better or just uncouth.

[Paul Leyland 🟦 @Brnikat]

@mathladyhazel The spectrum of Riemannium.