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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@_thegeoff@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.6.0-nightly.2026-03-18

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour #295F78

https://thegeoff.net

~ School science technician
~ Science/Art collaboration
~ Cats: Cassie & Tia
~ Found first 3 books in π
~ Hacker: The good kind.

Personal account..

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social · 2d ago

In case you missed it, new particle just dropped. The LHC has confirmed (and in ridiculous accuracy) the existence of a heavier version of the proton.
A proton is made of 3 quarks, up/up/down. This new particle is made of charm/charm/down, where the charm quark is basically the same as the up, just heavier.
So not groundbreaking like finding supersymmetric particles, but still cool. Further confirmation that the standard model of particle physics is reasonable.
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/lhcb-collaboration-discovers-new-proton-particle

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026

Not a Eurovision fan, just a subjective music thing, not a europop person most of the time. And, yes, politics.
But a shout out to Lordi. And now to Look Mum No Computer, who I've followed on Youtube for a good few years. The UK entry being a nerd's nerd who doesn't just play, but *builds* their own instruments? And while it's pretty europoppy (which a musician mostly has to do to get a 150million audience) there's a bit of punk and it's quite funny. Might even tune in just for that track.

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

RE: @phyphox@bildung.social

Brilliant, a similar approach to my recent "can you track the concentration of a solution with the pitch you get pinging the beaker" idea 😎👍

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

Made some ferrofluid at work today. Give it a day to soak and I might get some cool video tomorrow. Fun exercise if you have access to a few grams of laser printer toner, vegetable oil, and a neodymium magnet.

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

Some fun rocks on the Easter Ross coast. Some of this is Old Red Sandstone, a pretty old type. There's differential erosion on the go, and the potholes/honeycomb structure is a result of wave action. Any small dimple is more likely to catch a grain of sand or pebble, which rolls around grinding the dimple deeper, letting it catch a larger stone, grinding more, etc etc.

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social · Jan 18, 2026
@ArchiteuthisFlux@leds.social "Canadian coastguard, this is the US Navy, we are on a collision course. Adjust your bearing 10 degrees south." "Nope." "We say again, collision course, change your bearing." "Nope." "Canadian coastguard, we are an aircraft carrier with a support fleet of two destroyers, three cruisers, a small flotilla of support craft and a classified number of submarines. If you do not change your bearing we will take appropriate action." "We're a lighthouse. Your call."
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@jon@gruene.social But please for the love of Cthulhu don't number platforms like Edinburgh! (The station building is in the middle of the station, and the platform numbering is counted *clockwise* bu
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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social

Geek: Photography, physics, comedy, computers, science fiction, astronomy, aviation, books, glass, whisky, maths, cosmology, human survival mechanisms, rock/bass, whimsy. Follower voted colour # 295F78 https:// thegeoff.net ~ School science technician ~ Science/Art collaboration ~ Cats: Cassie & Tia ~ Found first 3 books in π ~ Hacker: The good kind. Personal account..

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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social · Nov 14, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop @jon@gruene.social I used to do deliveries to Rogart in Easter Ross. Several miles of a single road, all in the same postcode, with houses/crofts numbered, as far as I can tell, in the order in which they were most recently built? Sometimes had to resort to knocking on a door in the middle and asking "is number X East or West of here, do you know?", then the same for that half etc, until I found someone who knew it.
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