Robert Falla-Louvét 🔭🪐🚀

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BBC Coverage of the world cup. The graphic shows that that the Qatar Switzerland game is on ITV.
A colour coded map, showing which countries call the sport Soccer vs Football.
You've read 4 of 100 out of the Guardian's Best Novels.
The, now famous, Artemis II image of the night side of Earth (NASA's description of the image to follow) edited with a red circle around the star τ Ceti. Original image description from NASA: A picture of a full disk image of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o’clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o’clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet’s surface. Earth is set against the black of space.
3 screenshots from The Simpsons. Subtitles read "Dad you shouldn't be jealous of Apu", "I'm not jealous, I'm envious. Jealousy is when you worry someone will take what you have. Envy is wanting what someone else has."
Today's NYT Games Connections grid. The first four clues read: "Only", "Connect", "Olive", "Branch"
A clip from University Challenge. Cardiff are playing Bristol.
A screenshot from the website posted in the previous skeet. Reads: Newest Words Autopsias. Tubbiness. Quondam. Forsignified. Insurable.
A screenshot of BBC iPlayer, showing the BBC Four schedule: 22:10 - The War Game (film). Controversial Film depicting the terrible consequences of a nuclear attack on Britain. 22:55 - Mick Jackson Remembers Threads... (Documentary) Director and producer Mick Jackson looks back on the BBC's 1984 apocalyptic drama Threads. 23:15 - Threads (Film). The story of a nuclear attack on Britain and what remains for the unlucky survivors. Each entry is accompanied with a thumbnail image, a run time and a note showing how long it is available on the iPlayer service.
A photo of a Martian tripod fighting machine above the orchestra on stage at the 80th birthday celebration of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.] Ponytail: Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars. Cueball: And quartz, of course. Ponytail: Of course. [Caption below the panel] Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field. Transcript via https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Familiarity
The front cover of May 1981's issue of "Electronics today international." It boasts over 100 pages. The cover article shows a PCB imitating a front garden and is headlined "Remote control your home!"
I’m at the ASE annual Conference 2025
A satellite image showing the UK and Ireland. There is snow cover on the highlands of Scotland. The rest of GB and Ireland are partially visible through the translucency of the cloud. The cloud band is quite sharp and well defined.
A still from the traitors, showing camera, faintly, in the shadow of the centrepiece of the table.
Screengrab from Peep Show. Robert Webb's character is looking angrily at the camera. The Impact / meme font reads "No! Not the hootenanny. Never the hootenanny."
Box art of warriors of the eternal sun for saga mega drive. A hero stands poised with sword and shield
A screenshot showing a yellow warning for snow & ice is in place across Northern England / North Midlands.
A graph showing 3 radiation sensors in the uk. The x-axis is between the 24th and 31st October. The Y-axis ranges from 90 nSV to 130 nSv. The graph shows most hourly fluctuations of around 5 nS either way of normal, with a spike on 25th October of around 30 nSv.
Most of us learn to read at an age where it is impossible to remember how such a thing happened. If you are a literate adult, then the process by which you became one Is buried so deep within you that you probably can't remember a time when It wasn't true. The very fact that you are reading this means that you are mpable of doing so, and doubtless working Ina sector that requires a high level °literacy. It almost feels like no one taught us to read - but they did. And the fact that one is a reader Is completely dislocated from the ability to teach that to others. There Is nothing about teaching literacy that is obviously true. When my first child was a toddler, I had the not-uncommon idea that I wanted her to have a head start In reading, so I, a published author and bibliophile would surely be ideally placed to Instruct her. This was not the cam. I would put test M front of her and speak loudly and slowly, hoping that she would somehow catch on by osmosis. I would put magnetic alphabets on the fridge and sound them out hwy, bee, me, dee, eff...' and so on Amazingly, none of this worked In the slightest mainly because I was doing everything wrong, and frankly after all that IM surprised she can read at all lust because I could read and write, didn't mean I could teach either, at least not at that infant stage. I was thinking like an adult expert reader, notes a novice toddler. Can there be e skill or ability more fundamenMI to later life success than being literate? is there a pleasure more portable, permanent and personal, than the ability to communicate with the silently cacophonous world of text? Stephen King called It telepathy, the device where one conscious mind could send a message to another without speaking, at anytime, anywhere In the world that the autharh worlds could be read. Litenwy marks the evolution of societies Into advanced civilisations: the Mem, levelsof Its populations map powerfully onto the health feconomk and cultural) ofite population; pers…
An XKCD comic. The following formula is shown (with the divisors below a horizontal line in the comic, rather than inside square brackets): UK total coal production (1853-present, UK DESNZ) / [(coal seam density) × (UK land area)] = 25 billion tonnes / [1.3kg/L × 240,000km²] ≈ 3 inches Cueball is standing to the right of the formula, upon a dotted line representing the prior ground level. Two arrows indicate that the dotted line is 3 inches above the solid line that is the current ground level. One arrow goes from the end of the word inches to the dotted line the other is short and goes up from below pointing at the solid line. Caption below the panel: The UK shut down their last coal power plant today, which means that over the course of the industrial revolution, they dug up and burned an average of 3 inches of their country.
Reciept for 2 tickets to day 4 of England Vs India at Edgbaston.