Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪

@telescoper.bsky.social

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Theoretical astrophysicist specializing in the Universe and all that surrounds it. Based in Ireland. Personal account. Call me old-fashioned but I don't like fascists. He/him/his. Blog: telescoper.blog

Proposed design for a €5 note with a likeness of Maria Callas on it.
Picture of Spain celebrating their World Cup triumph with Enoch Burke superimposed.
An assortment of Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles
Cartoon depicting a shabby private detective sitting a desk in an office with a comical pantomime dame standing beside him. The caption in the style of a crime novel is "The rain was hitting the sidewalk like the spray from a Tommy Gun. I was all out of hope and bourbon when in walked this dame..."
Cynara Cardunculus, in Kew Gardens, a large thistle plant which is very pollinator-friendly
A Molly House, portrayed by Bronstein as a proudly flamboyant Baroque building filled with playful, homoerotic imagery
View inside Tate Britain with people looking at Whistler's famous portrait of his Mother.
Entrance to The Raphael Cartoons at the V&A Museum.
The Royal Society premises at Carlton House Terrace, with a Pride Progress flag flying above the entrance..
Unite members from ICR with a banner reading WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH. POVERTY PAY.
Dublin port
A cartoon, captioned "Tóibín superfans", showing a poster on wall reading "KEEP COLM AND CARRY ON".
Pride Progress Flag
Honeysuckle (woodbine) in full flower
Ireland beat India by 34 runs in T20 cricket.
Picture of a man in a blue shirt standing in a field with the caption "I've no idea who this man is..but he's obviously out standing in his field"
The Metamorphosis of Narcissus, by Salvador Dali, with the reflecting pool died a muddy green like the algae-infested pool at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
Met Éireann weather app forecast showing temperatures up to 31°C
Rain stopped play
The reflecting pool with Enoch Burke wading in it.
"Maynooth University is one of the top public universities in Maynooth, Ireland..."
From intheweights.com, some apparently random numbers claiming that I am in the top 3% of something or other to do with AI.
Picture of Sergeant Wilson from Dad's Army with quote "Do you think that's wise, sir?"
Graphic of an arrow representing upward movement beside test saying "Your stats are booming! In the Dark is getting lots of traffic."
Grab of RTÉ website with headline 'UK to ban social media ban for under-16s'
Photograph of W.H. Auden with a very wrinkled face.
Rain raider map centred on Maynooth with thunderstorms marked.
New "Bussy" wafers products
Rainfall map centred on Maynooth, with many red markers indicating thunderstorms.
Front cover of book "Pedro Páramo" by Juan Rulfo.
A GAA pitch nestling between water and rolling hills
An apparently simple double pendulum behaving in a very complicated way...
Cover of brochire for the NCH Classical Season 2026/7 with a picture Sarah Connolly on the front cover.
Weather map centred on Maynooth with thunderstorms to the East over the Irish Sea.
View into garden through cracked glass of a patio door. I think a bird must have flown into it.
Trump and Xing, as Morecambe and Wise
Cover of "The Fallen" by Louise Brangan