selfindulgenttwaddle
Self-Indulgent Twaddle
Psychiatrist, Traveller, Writer, not always in that order.https://twaddle.blog
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Firmly on Terra Firma
Here is a list of reasons to abandon human spaceflight:
It is expensive
The NASA programme to return humans to the Moon (Artemis) is expected to cost $93billion by 2025. It might have landed the first astronauts back on the Moon by 2027.
It is dangerous
Around 4% of launches result in failure, you can survive no more than a minute or two in a vacuum, radiation levels are vastly higher outside…
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Care to take a leaflet?
We’ve all been there. You are walking down the street, minding your own business, and a clinically cheerful chugger with a bolt-on grin moves to block your path asking for “just a moment of your time”. If you are lucky, your averted gaze and mumbled “no thank you” sees them seeking out their next victim. If you are unlucky, you end up taking away a leaflet, or worse.
I tend to be very good at…
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#AI#Future#Futurology#Idealist#Politics#Positivity#Pragmatist#Predictions#Prophecy#Religion#Science#Space#The Economy#The Environment
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Baby on Board
🎶I’m telling you it’s mighty nice. Each trip’s a trip to paradise. With my baby on board!🎵
The Be Sharps, The Simpsons, Season 5, Episode 1
I am increasingly coming to believe there is a relevant Simpsons quote for any occasion or situation. When you have over 15 days’ worth of content (at the time of writing), I guess it is sort of inevitable most topics will have come up at least once.
The other…
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Jigsaws 🧩 with Jamie is back!
Surprise!
After a brief (…) 13 month hiatus, Jigsaws 🧩 with Jamie is back. This time, we return to The Library, I try not to talk about baby things, and I have a cold 🤧.
Episode 7 Part 3 premieres today (17th March 2024) at 5pm GMT. Click the link below to watch the premiere “live”, but don’t worry if you miss it, the video will be available straight away afterwards at the same link.
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But why would you do that?
But why would you do that? My latest blog post
#blog #blogging #blogger #blogpost #newblogpost
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where someone has done something you cannot find any rational explanation for? Have you ever found yourself looking at the person and saying “huh”?
Of course you have. We all have, probably multiple times. It happened to me again recently. On this occasion it happened online so I did not get the chance to say “huh” to their face, but I am still left…
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I’ve found the dunny!
I’ve found the dunny! My latest blog post.
#Blog #BlogPost #Blogger #Toilet #Dunny #Outhouse #Lavatory #WC #Latrine
I have a running joke with my Dad whenever either of us visits a stately home, castle or other historic attraction. We will try and find the toilet (often given the age of the buildings a more primitive affair than we would tolerate today) and get a picture of it to send to each other. I cannot for the life of me remember how this started, but as we send the pictures on our family group chat, it…
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Is a cow a human?
Is a cow a human?; my latest blog post
#ethics #philosophy #AnimalRights #veganism #blog #BlogPost #blogging
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Lunar > Gregorian
Lunar > Gregorian: my latest blog post
#GongHeiFatChoi #恭喜发财 #LunarNewYear #HappyLunarNewYear #YearOfTheDragon #BlogPost #NewBlogPost
Gong Hei Fat Choi 恭喜发财!
It’s that time of year again (give or take a week at the end of January) when my family and I have our own little celebration of Lunar New Year. I’ll be honest, this mostly means we find new ways each year to eat East Asian inspired food, and the year of the dragon has been no exception.
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🎵Walk away, walk away, walk away… 🎶
#beach#coast#ocean#sea#seashore#pebble beach#sandy beach#pier#beach huts#sunrise#blue skies#Yorkshire#northumberland#yorkshire coast#Northumberland coast
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Goodbye Christmas tree, hello mini forest
Goodbye Christmas tree, hello mini forest
#ChristmasTree #FirTree #Gardening #NewYear #NewStart #Blog #BlogPost
As I posted on Mastodon on Christmas Eve, every January the previous year’s Christmas tree is cut up, with the trunk store in the shed during the year to dry out. Come the next Christmas Eve and it is burned on the log burner. Today was the day the 2023 tree finally met its fate (I’d like to say this is a Twelfth Night/Epiphany thing, but our decorations came down on New Year’s Day and the tree…
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Happy New Gregorian Year
Happy New Year to all of you observing the Gregorian calendar. I hope heads are not too sore this morning/afternoon. For the first time since I was a child, I did not make it to midnight and slept through the fireworks. With a wee bouncing babby in the house, sleep is always going to take priority!
As I have written before, I do not make New Year resolutions. Once more I continue my annual…
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Working 9 to 5?
Despite evidence to the contrary (hello Christmas belly!), I have a gym membership. I joined the gym over a year ago now, with a view to lose weight and also improve my physical fitness. While I do like to get out for regular walks (at a pace the wife describes as just slower than sprinting), I otherwise live a fairly sedentary life, especially when I am at work.
When I first started my…
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Frost on a pear tree
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Mushrooms. Moss. Tree. What more could a guy want?
#mushroom#mushrooms#mushroom photography#mushroom photo#fungi#fungi photography#fungi photo#moss#mosses#moss photography#tree#trees#tree photography
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Fungi
#mushroom#mushrooms#mushroom photography#mushroom photo#fungus#fungi#fungi photography#fungi photo#autumn#fall
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Autumn in the park
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