Peter Percival

Digital artist/photographer/musician who believes creativity/expression equals identity. Images: Music:

[Peter Percival @Autonomy1Art]

Autonomy1 music can be heard @ https://t.co/ENzbYrNeVZ
Autonomy1 images can be viewed @ https://t.co/bDb6C2f4OF

[SaveOurChurchesUK @SaveukChurches]

This tiny church on the Isle of Wight dates back to the 13th century.

And it’s the smallest church on the island.

Would you visit?

[The Emilia Show @Latenitemusic1]

Getting a bit drunk now on my Smirnoff and diet coke

Breaking out the Pearl and Dean 😂

Pearl and Dean Cinema intro ❤️

[The Emilia Show @Latenitemusic1]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - 1981

The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

[Bygone Britain @BygoneBritain]

The village carnival of Soham in 1960s Britain looked to be a charming sight to behold. ⏳️

[District Community Science Centre-Navsari @DistrictNavsari]

🕯️ Remembering Alan Turing on his Death Anniversary (7 June 1954)

Today we honor Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist whose ideas helped shape the modern digital world.

💻 Father of Computer Science
🔐 Codebreaker of the Enigma Machine during World War II
🤖 Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence
🧠 Creator of the Turing Machine and the Turing Test

Every smartphone, computer, and AI system owes something to the foundations he helped build.

"Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible." — Alan Turing

His life reminds us that curiosity, courage, and intellect can change the course of history.

Thank you, Alan Turing. Your legacy continues to inspire generations of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and innovators.

#AlanTuring #AlanTuringDay #Turing #ComputerScience #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning #Mathematics #Math #Science #Technology #Engineering #STEM #Innovation #Programming #Coding #DataScience #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #ScienceCommunication #ScientificLegacy #DigitalRevolution #Computing #TechHistory #Physics #Research #Scientists #Inventors #FutureOfAI #Education

@OpenAI @DeepMind @GoogleAI @Microsoft @NVIDIA @Intel @IBM @MIT @Stanford @Harvard @CambridgeUniversity @OxfordUniversity @NASA @CERN @UNESCO @IEEE @ACM @Nature @ScienceMagazine @NewScientist

[Karen Ievers @karenievers]

Alan Turing’s mother was Ethel Sara Stoney. ‘His maternal grandparents hailed from counties Tipperary and Longford. His mother, Ethel Stoney, spent her childhood years in Co Clare, with the family later moving to Dublin in 1891.’ (IT, An Irishman’s Diary, June 23, 2012)

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

On this day June 7, 1954, British mathematician, logician, and computer scientist Alan Turing died at age 41 in Wilmslow, England. He is widely regarded as the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence for his work on the Turing machine - a foundational model of computation that defined what it means for a machine to compute anything.

His groundbreaking contributions helped break the German Enigma code during World War II, shortening the war and saving countless lives. Turing’s visionary ideas also gave us the Turing Test, a foundational concept for evaluating machine intelligence that continues to shape the field of artificial intelligence today.

A true genius whose work laid the groundwork for modern computing, Turing’s life was tragically cut short. Yet his legacy endures as one of the most influential minds of the 20th century; a man whose ideas still power the digital world we live in.

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

7 June 1954. Alan Turing died (aged 41). He was a key influence on theoretical computer science and computation with the Turing machine considered a model of a general-purpose computer. He was not fully recognised during his lifetime.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

You were told mathematics began with the Greeks or the Arabs. 🤔

Three carved chalk drums from a Yorkshire grave might prove otherwise. 🥁🇬🇧

In 1889 they were found buried with a five year old child. For 130 years nobody knew what they were for. ⏳

Then in 2018 researchers measured them. The proportions appear to encode a standard unit of length. 📏

Wind a cord ten times around the smallest drum and you get the “long foot”, about 32cm. The same unit researchers believe was used to lay out Stonehenge. 🪨

A fourth drum later turned up over 200 miles south in Sussex. Same measurements. The chalk ones were likely replicas of working tools carved in wood. 🪵

Not in a king’s grave. Not in a treasury. Buried with a small child, so the knowledge would be remembered. 🕯️

British people were measuring the world before England had a name. 🇬🇧

Long before we had a name, this island was measuring the world.

Help us make sure that our history is never forgotten again. 👇🙏

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Sarah Thomas is 74 today, Happy Birthday Sarah 🎁🎂

[English Cottages @englandcottages]

The Bridge House, Ambleside

[Lost London @Lost___London]

The work gates of 1800s London

[Classic Horror Films @HorrorHammer1]

1965

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

⏳️ 1960s: This fascinating footage is of a "Totter" (rag-and-bone man) traversing London in the 1960s. Seeing the sights and hearing their accents is a heartwarming and heartbreaking experience.

Rag-and-bone men were self-employed scavengers who travelled the streets with a sack, handcart, or horse and cart, collecting unwanted household items to resell for a living. Though they had a lot less than people today, they also had a lot less to worry about compared to the corporate, unsafe world that we currently call home.

I wonder how many of our relatives did this job or simply dealt with these polite roughians as they strode through lost London. Their kind are seen no more. 🐎

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Remembering the late Actress, Billie Whitelaw CBE (6 June 1932 – 21 December 2014)

[ReNature🦋 @Natursee]

Robin Hood, Derbyshire 🇬🇧

[Karen McKellar | Dev Editor | Fiction @KarenMMcKellar]

I loved Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. ♥️

[Lost London @Lost___London]

Billingsgate Fish Market, 1930.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Did you know that the first women to land on the Normandy beachhead in June 1944 were nurses of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service?

Their task was to establish a field hospital for 600 wounded soldiers.

They succeeded.

Please remember these heroines who saved lives: