Duncan Waldron

Planetarium astronomer • Feckless dillettante • Scot-ish • Signatory to the Subject-Verb Agreement • Book: •

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

I plunge people into darkness, take them far from the familiar safety of home, make spots move before their eyes, and show them how utterly insignificant they are. They might feel like throwing up.

[VRV @WatchVRV]

make your jobs TERRIFY me 🎃

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@DrPhiltill Oh, fun and joy. Sending thoughts and pralines.

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@DrPhiltill don't know if you'll see this, but has your blog been hacked? I wanted to send a colleague to your thoughts about Pluto's planetary status, and saw this.

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@justrena So, tell me what you want, what you really really want...

@rob_heighton

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@STEcopywriting I was killed in a car wreck, on the way to a construction site, where I was also killed. Do I get twice the compensation? And can you look into insurance cover against being killed a third time?

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@KevinAstrokev @elonmusk See https://t.co/GxD7eCWeqo and/or below.

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@KevinAstrokev @elonmusk ...have to sign up for to be able to post there, and others are open to all. Have a look, and let me know if you have any questions. It's still a work in progress, but will be pretty familiar to any Twitter user.

Here's the feeds I subscribe to. "Following" is the folk u follow.

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@SpencerHowson It's thinking about things like only one more orbit of Saturn, or probably never seeing Uranus return to the starfield I observed it in, in my youth, or how many more solar sunspot cycles I'll have. Seeing Halley again is a long shot: I'll be 102 next time.

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@toomanyspectra There's Alan Heavens at UCL. And Charlie Telesco, who I assume doesn't do PE...

On the other hand, I knew of two different sets of Holmes and Watson that shared offices, but none was in the business of criminal detection.

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@GraellsiaMoon I feel your pain. My wife shriek sneezes. Apparently, she gets no warning it's coming, whereas I'll usually have a fully orchestrated overture combined on occasion with interpretive dance.

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@carlyfindlay My sis-in-law reportedly had to confirm, at multiple NDIS reviews, that her daughter still had Down Syndrome.

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@MarcDavenant I'd be thinking something like a wooden doorknob, drilled out to hold the pin loosely.

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@rob_heighton Look, just stop right there, before we get to "met Prince Albert once, in Greggs".

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@rob_heighton "My place, next Saturday. Bring own axes, trebuchets, dressings, etc. We'll be waiting.

Please bring your own boiling oil.

Paratus."

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@DrEmmaBeckett Yes, but judgy people...

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@DrEmmaBeckett Presumably she suspected you of public inebriation.

I tripped once, while jogging across a road. By pure good fortune I was able to turn it into a perfect rolling tumble, and continued my jog as if nothing had happened. A round of applause would have been nice 😄

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@martintype That's odd: I've got a notification that someone else has joined with it. Maybe they saw it above, and just swiped it, which is shitty. You'd better follow me here, so I can DM another one, which I did donate to a list, but seems unused yet.

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@martintype Hi Andy. I believe you'd like a blue invite?

[Duncan Waldron @ozalba]

@martintype Here you go: bsky-social-vsi6t-op3tn