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Marine Optics PhD Student, public transport enjoyer, Jags loyal, plankton botherer. (He/him) πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ https://ruwall-web.co.uk

A photo of a TV screen showing the title sequence of the TV show "Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age"
A horrifying looking spiky yellow abstract mascot wearing a kilt is sitting in the waiting room of a medical centre holding an Award for Excellence.
Article on BBC News website with headline: "Boy, 3, was attacked by crocodile at zoo as man bailed"
A carpenter bee on a flower.
An image of a graphical timetable for railways. The y axis is distance and the X axis is time, with lines representing services. Hand-drawn in green pen on graph paper. This one is for services which call at Glasgow Queen Street High Level.
Image of a coastal inlet on a sunny day. Taken from the innermost shore, looking out. There are trees on the left shore and bare rocks on the right. There are more rocky islands visible outside the inlet.
A video of shallow water with a rocky bottom. The water is very clear, with a slight yellow tinge. There are many many dots moving through the water, mostly lightly covered - these are mostly zooplankton.
A dark image with out of focus large shapes in the background. In the foreground there are many tiny shrimp-like creatures. Some are in focus, and most are pink or red tinted, and translucent.
Joan De La Malla photo of a young girl pointing a gun at a small monkey
Two people are dressed in high visibility jackets with life preservers and hard hats. They are handling a large plankton net suspended from a winch out of the picture. In the background there is a loch and mountains.
Epic Handshake meme: one hand says "woke lefties", the other says "angry farmers", and they have their hands clasped agreeing on "shutting down the M8"
Two tripods with electronic equipment mounted on them. They are on the roof of a building and the view behind them is of other mid-rises with patchy cloud in the sky.
The nutty putty cave diagram overlay
Staffer whispering into George W Bush's ear
Screenshot of Guardian live web page saying: 9:40pm: The dome above Sexy Coffee near Glasgow Central has collapsed. Sexy Coffee is on fire.
Footage of the giant LED billboard collapsing into the flames of the fire next to Glasgow Central Station
Screenshot of BBC News article section with following text: Later in the post, Trump says that "today Iran will be hit very hard!" "Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death," are "areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time."
A seabird flies low in the wake of a boat. In the background is a cloud covered mountain and glacier. There are icebergs in the distance.
Rory McIlroy looking glum
A photograph of the outside of the Barrowland Ballroom at dusk. The image is captured from right next to the building, looking upwards and west so the bright neon lighting of the Barrowlands sign is visible on the left, and on the centre one of the arches at the entrance to the Barras is silhouetted on the sky. The sky fades from pink at the horizon to blue at the top.
Photo of sunset looking over the river Clyde towards the BBC building and the Science Centre. The Sun is a white disc partially red where it is obscured by clouds, causing the sky to go a deep red colour, fading lighter towards the top of the image. The red colour is also visible in the reflections on the river which is calm with small ripples. The Sun is just above the horizon next to the base of the silhouette of the Glasgow Tower. The spire of Bell's Bridge is also prominent.
A Robin Redbreast perched on the arm of a wooden bench. The bench is surrounded by vegetation with leafy branches from a bush poking through the slats of the back.
A white lighthouse at dusk, with a pink and blue sky with whips of cloud behind. The chimneys of the small buildings around the lighthouse are visible. The lighthouse light is on.
Screenshot of a tweet from twitter user bsgorrie with a photo of a Chesterfield FC fan sticker with the words: "Hate Fascists Hate Scabs Love Rod Stewart's 1975 Hit Song 'Sailing'"
Screenshot of wikipedia talk page for a rugby related article. First user says: "Reading this article makes me think that only men play rugby. Every example of notable players and all the photographs are of men. Would it be possible to have some balance with exemplars from the women's game?" Second User, named PeeJay, says: "If you can think of any women who play rugby, be my guest. Most of them aren't particularly notable."
A photograph of a row of houses overlooking a sandy beach, scattered with seaweed. The houses are brightly coloured but the atmosphere is moody and dull. Behind the houses is a hillside with trees at the bottom, and more open grass and heather behind. The top half of the hill is hidden in a low, dense cloud.
An image of the calm Clyde Estuary. In the mid ground behind some floating buoys is an industrial pier with a building on it. Behind the pier is the island of Little Cumbrae with a small tower visible at the highest point. Behind that is the mountains of Arran, shrouded in clouds with sun peeking through. Above the clouds there is blue sky.
Black and white image of two seabirds flying away from the camera over choppy seas. They are in the process of taking off and are skimming over the water. The birds are possibly Red-breasted Merganser.
A screen recording of an audio visualisation. A circular object with spikes displaying frequency is snaking around the screen, seemingly moving over red waves towards the camera.
A video with a black background, and a spiral shaped visualisation of sound frequencies, emanating from the centre.
Screenshot of a tweet from twitter user @vanillaopinions saying "Being on the left means you should hate sports btw".
A photo taken from a bus stop pointing along a city street. A white delivery van is parked a few metres up the road partially on the road-markings outlining the bus stop. The van is so far from the kerb that it is almost entirely blocking the line of sight up the street. The door of the van is open and the driver is visible beside it.
A photo of a railway platform at night. Heavy rain is visible under a lamp, and commuters are getting on and off the ScotRail train in waterproof clothing, some carrying umbrellas.
A screen recording from Windows Media Player running on Windows XP. The user is listening to music and showcasing the Visualisations feature. This is showing bright, shifting colours and shapes semi-randomly pulsing and moving through space in time with the music.
An animated gif of the psychedelic Windows Media Player music "Visualisations" from the mid 2000s. Spinning shapes and changing lines pulse and appear to move through space. In the top left corner there is a label with the text "Unregistered Hypercam 2"
A photograph taken from the top of a pedestrian railway station platform bridge. There is a person walking away from the camera in outdoor gear, and the sun is setting in the distance across the Clyde Estuary.
A map of the re-opening Northumberland Rail line, sourced from Wikipedia. The line runs along the East Coast Main Line for a stretch north of Newcastle, then forks off to run parallel with the Tyne and Wear Metro until Northumberland Park, before heading north through Seaton Delavel, Newsham, Blyth Bebside, Bedlington, and Ashington.
A Raspberry Pi 4B computer with an attached Real time clock board, and a mounted CAN Bus Splitter with several attached JST-GH connectors.
4 pigeons standing on a mossy roof. A brick wall with a window is in the background.
Ryu from street fighter performing the hadouken move. Instead of a plasma fireball, a MET office precipitation map of Britain and Ireland is used, with a large splash of colour indicating heavy rain being the fireball.
A large lorry unloading while parked taking up the entire two-way physically separated bike lane on Waterloo Street.
A screenshot of Google Search results for the phrase "google translate norwegian to english". The Google translate widget has appeared but is translating the phrase "norwegian to english" from English into German.
Scientific equipment set up haphazardly on a windowsill, with several books and office stationery supporting three spectrometers for cross-calibration.