Marvin. (Paranoid Android)

@ukcsi

Sometimes photography, Sometimes IT. Sometimes 'flying'. Definitely not going to Trump-ton anytime soon! In the deepest, darkest shire. "Making it up? Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to make anything up"

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Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· 12d

A Robin at the Severn Valley Country Park's 'reflection pool'. Looking just how I feel and look at 6am in the morning 🙂 #Birds #Wildlife #Shropshire #Photography #Nature #Birding

A Robin looking quite bedraggled sitting on a partly submerged log. A pool reflecting the surroundings in the ripples is the background

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· 14d

A shield bug on the bonnet of my car. May be a hairy shield bug or a stink bug, who knows.. Little bugger was scurrying around like a thing possessed, I'm surprised to get this pic with the phone! #bug #nature #wildlife #macro

A tiny shield bug, brown, in the shape of a shield, sitting on the bonnet of a red car. faint shadows of the overhead clouds can be seen on the rather unclean red paintwork.

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· 21d

Here's a gull, a couple of years ago at #Blyth beach in #Northumberland for #BirdOfTheDay. #Photography #Wildlife #Beach #Bird #Seagull #Nature

A flying seagull, almost in silhouette against a bright summer sky with clouds and patches of blue between

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· 22d

A bit of 'tilt/shift' effect (using GIMP) of the original site of AJHackett's bungy jump just outside of Queenstown New Zealand in 2016.with someone dangling above the boat used to retrieve the mad people doing it! #Photography #NewZealand #Bungy #Queenstown #Tilt/Shift #Model #Toy

A tilt/shift effect applied to a photo of a small rubber dinghy waiting to pick up a bungy jumper dangling above the river.
The effect blurs the outside of the photo, leaving the boat and people in focus, resembling a model, or toy photograph

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· 24d

We're apparently at BUTTFEST 😂 at the Button Oak near #Bewdley in #Worcestershire

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· 26d

Meanwhile, in a sleepy little Shropshire town... This has appeared in the window of the local hardware shop 😱 (Still, it appears that the Trump Bible is no longer on display in the window, so that's an improvement of sorts!) #Shropshire #UK #WTF

A sign in a shop window that says "We are Charlie Kirk xx"
It is stuck to the inside of a window with a cream coloured frame. A plastic Union Flag can be seen above it.

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· 28d

A short video from Saturday, of some Morris Dancers with rather big sticks being rather dangerous :) ! #MorrisDancing #Folk #Bewdley #Worcestershire

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jul 11

In #Bewdley museum, waiting to see lots of morris dancing! #morrisdancing #worcestershire

View of the terrace at the museum in bewdley. Waiting for breakfast.
Sun is shining under a blue sky. Trees can be seem over the wall

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jul 7

Incoming! A Mallard landing in a canal in #Leicestershire a couple of years ago. #Photography #Birds #Ducks #Wildlife

A Mallard landing on a canal, it's wings outstretched and its feet on the surface of the water as if it was standing on it.
The surface of the water is rippled and reflecting the green of the trees and bushes on the opposite side of the canal

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jul 4

Here's a #Panorama from quite a few years ago, 3 or 4 photos stitched together with #Hugin of a scene of Barmouth and the estuary of Afon Mawddach on the Welsh coast. #BlueSkyArtShow #Wide #Photography #Landscape

A wide view of the estuary at Barmouth in Wales with several boats in the water. There is a beach in the foreground and mountains on the far side of the water. The old railway bridge can be seen crossing the water in the distance. There is a light blue sky with a few fluffy clouds.

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jul 4

A complete dandelion seed head, by the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal in Wolverley, just on the outskirts of Kidderminster. #Photography #Macro #Dandelion #WildFlowers #Weeds

A complete dandelion seed head (or clock) in the sunshine. A perfect circle of white seeds against a background of green leaves

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jul 4

So, I made a comment of the BBC news "Burnham says there is some room for movement on tax" It was removed by the moderators for breaking the house rules. I can't see anything that is provocative, homophobic, sexist, disruptive, abusive, objectionable or any of the other random reasons they quoted 😠

BBC's 'house rules':

Amazon in the UK paid no Corporation tax from 2020-24 (thanks to a Rishi deal), while my (now closed) small business with a turnover < £60K paid Corporation tax at the standard rate.
The rich, and the big corporations need to pay *their* fair share

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jul 1

A Poppy in the garden, with added small fly. #Photography #Wildflower #Poppy

A single light pink coloured poppy with a small fly sitting on its petals.
There's a crimson cross in the centre of the poppy, background is a lot of out of focus weeds!

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 29

Macro shot of a housefly (I think!) #Macro #Photography #Nature #Insect

A very close up photo of a housefly's head. One large eye on each side of it's head, a number of short hairs on its head between them. Its body and legs are out of focus . The background is a light green

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 27

Stanley the cat is pleased that it's a little cooler today. After eating 3 (THREE) breakfasts(*) he decided to lie, exhausted, at the top of the stairs under the open Velux window. * in reality it was 3 small pouches of food, but he didn't eat anything yesterday after breakfast #Caturday #RescueCats

A cat, lying rather grumpily at the top of some stairs, peering down the stairs. A pale blue carpet covering the stairs

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 24

A Ringlet butterfly resting on a leaf in the June sunshine. #Photography #Macro #Insect #Butterfly #Shropshire #Wildlife #Nature

A predominantly brown butterfly with lighter tips around the edges of its wings. 2 darker spots on its 2 rear wings and one darker spot on each of its front wings. it is sitting on a green leaf with its wings outstretched.
Background is a few out of focus leaves with the edge of an out of focus daisy seen in the top left corner of the image.

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 23

Apparently Lebara seems to think that archive.ph and archive.is are adult sites and want me to 'verify my age' 😡 They can go and do one 😡

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 21

A Speckled Bush Cricket resting on the petals of an OX Eye Daisy in #Shropshire #Photography #Macro #Insect #nature #Wildlife

A green Speckled Bush Cricket sitting on the white petals of an Ox Eye Daisy. About 10mm long its body covered in tiny speckles and its long antennae reaching the sides of the photo

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 19

A Jackdaw giving the evil eye whilst stealing some hedgehog food. As viewed from a wildlife cam setup to watch the hedgehogs a couple of years ago. #wildlife #bird #jackdaw

A jackdaw with several pieces of hedgehog food in its beak staring at the wildlife camera. Background is small stones with a small, square dish with some hedgehog food still remaining.

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 18

Here's a bee about to land on a yellow water lily. The lily, Nuphar lutea, apparently smells like the dregs of wine. Lovely 😀 Taken with a Sony A6300 with 210mm lens and 2 extension tubes! #Bee #WaterLily #pond #Wildlife #Insect #Photography

A yellow water lily with it's flower sticking up from the leaves with an approaching bee already carrying a large amount of pollen

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 17

A Marigold in the garden, Taken with my old, trusty Sony A58 and Tamron lens. #Photo #Flower #Macro

A single orange and yellow Marigold flower with a couple of drops of rain on the petals.
Background is blurred green leaves and blurred blue Alyssum flowers

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 17

Strong resemblance to when the world thought the exact same thing about Boris Johnson.

Boris Johnson being ignored at a NATO meeting with the words:
Today I am mostly being called Billy No Mates

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 16

Trump's Refection Pool revamp has turned out well then... #ReflectionPool #Trump #Algae #Shrek

A photo of the algae filled reflecting pool in Washington DC, from https://www.asppoolco.com/blog/2026/may/what-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-renova/
With the addition of Shrek, feeling at home in the 'swamp'

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 13

What's going on at the Whitehouse??? Damn big baby gym they've built there.

A mockup of a baby in a babygro with Donald Trumps head and a long red tie, lying on it's back, under the UFC thing on the whitehouse lawn.
There's a bar of gold, a wad of money and a Nobel Peace medal hanging from the baby gym instead of brighlty colored toys

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 13

Here's one in the middle of nowhere. Just as well they didn't attempt to attach it to the other pole in the pic.

A torn and tattered Union flag forlornly attached to a telephone pole. In the background is a HV electric pole with wires

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 7

Some of the stones at #Avebury in Wiltshire taken a few years ago. I much prefer this to Stonehenge, far larger, fewer visitors, and a village in the middle of it! #StandingstoneSunday

A line of standing stones, part of the Avebury stone circle, 5 large stones nearly in a line standing on short grass with a raised 'structure behind, several stones can be seen in the distance heading off to the right of the picture.
Green trees can be seen behind them and a blue but somewhat cloudy sky above

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· Jun 5

A strange monolith has appeared down the bottom of the town. (spoiler: someone's dumped a fridge freezer... on the footpath FFS!) Now it's all gone a bit Stanley Kubrick / Arthur C. Clarke! #scifi #Shropshire #dumping #flytipping

A fly-tipped upright fridge freezer on the footpath at the side of a road next to a wall and lamp post, some buildings visible at the far end of the wall.
A few apes have been added to the scene touching it and leaping in the air holding bones as in the opening scenes of 2001 :A Space Odyssey

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· May 29

Big dishes on opposite sides of the world. Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, UK today, Deep Space Station 43 near Canberra, Australia in 2016 #Space #Radio #RadioTelescope #SpaceCommunications #SpaceExploration #UK #Australia #JodrellBank

The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, the dish is pointing upwards towards a rather cloudy sky with patches of blue. A complicated arrangement of struts and girders that enables it to be 'steered' to point anywhere in the sky can be seen underneath. Some trees behind, and grass with a couple of paths in the foreground

The big dish of DSS43, Deep Space Station 43, pointing vertically upwards on top of a white base. The equipment to enable to steer it is directly under the dish, on top of the base.
Hills with native bush can be seen behind it, grass and a footpath can be seen in front of it.
The sky is a bright blue.

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· May 28

Seen at the side of a country road in #Shropshire (Middle of nowhere, at least a mile from any village) Makes you feel kinda proud eh? 😠 Shame they didn't try and hang it from the other pole next to it...

A picture of a telegraph pole at the side of a country road. There's a cheap Union Flag that has been tied to the top which is now all wrapped around the telephone wires.
Next to it is a power pole which would have been kind of fatal to the people had they tried to hand it from there

Marvin. (Paranoid Android)@ukcsi· May 26

Stanley the cat is not impressed that humans appear to have made May quite a bit hotter than it should be. #cat #grumpycat #heatwave