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John MacPherson

@johnmacpherson.bsky.social

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Mostly a photographer: https://www.john-macpherson-photography.com I sometimes write: https://www.duckrabbit.info/blog/author/j-macpherson/ Scottish Highlander, left-coast, interested in all sorts of things. I make stuff, some of it even works.

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · Nov 20

I like stories. I posted this one on The Other Place and many people liked it. So I thought I'd post it here for anyone who missed it. It's about travel, but mainly it's about trust, risk & reward and a reminder that we're all strangers to others at some point. But only temporarily... 1/12

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 9h

updates for kipnuk

several houses are gone and more continue to float away from the village

hope help arrives soon

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Gav @antihippy.bsky.social · 8h

I love this sort of thing

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 8h

Here, now I’m in Portland

I despise this stuff, but wanted to test this one to understand the harm we have coming. I also worry some people here are disengaged from it and need to see

This whole process took like ten minutes including app install

🤮 no more tests, more would waste water

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 8h

Generative video is going to destroy the world. Here I am, at a protest I never went to in a city that doesn’t exist being arrested by cops I’ve never met

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 9h

We send geese north in summer, Finland sends this lad south in winter in return.... Scotland, 2012
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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 1d

I think you'll find that being dead is wholly biased towards death.

John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 1d

Good Boy!

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 1d

I did, and chuckled, which is why I made the GB gag you might have missed!

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 1d

Get Better

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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 1d

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Meet John

John credits GB News with saving his life.
After being in a coma for 3 months, a nurse came in and turned his hospital TV to GB News. John promptly got up and chanaed the channel.

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to see someone using their loaf for a change.

John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 2d

If you can bear the excitement, I photographed some Hebridean sheep yesterday. Very cute and inquisitive.

John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 2d

You'll be pleased to learn that the shortened version of the word 'transparencies' as used by photographers is deemed "hateful conduct". Take that all you people shooting others and exposing yourselves with no thought for their welfare...

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨🚨As Rutgers professor and anti-fascist researcher @Mark__Bray and his family tried to escape death threats, they found their tickets to Spain had been cancelled at their gate at Newark airport. apple.news/At9zbVrllRta...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport — Guardian US

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

apple.news

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 4d

If you had written this as a fake news headline a year ago, you would be called hysterical.

Reuters today. Fascism.

Reuters story headlines:

Trunp calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 4d

Rhino Neil

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@gralefrit.bsky.social

I gave their floppy cloth ears a poke about this in 2022, 2023, 2024...sigh rinse...repeat.. They picked a bad example in MM!

John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 5d

Ha!

www.duckrabbit.info/blog/2015/01...

Dance of the Sewer Trout — duckrabbit

It’s been a week of major dramas. Here’s a minor one. But a drama nonetheless. I worked in Social...

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 5d

"Prawn stars can come here anytime, you're always whelkom"

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 5d

The green-lane-as-tunnel type of interdimensional portal is one of my favourites.

A beautiful tunnelled footpath in mid-Cornwall in high summer.

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 5d

You and my son would get on really well....!

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 5d

Yay!

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

While we're at it, I would also very much hope the term "creative artists" can include the category of amateur science enthusiasts with newsletters like me, so science communication can get a boost at a time when science is under assault in some places. 🙏

(everythingisamazing.substack.com)

Everything Is Amazing | Mike Sowden | Substack

A newsletter about asking better questions & a romp through science in search of a good "wow!" you can feel down to your boots. Click to read Everything Is Amazing, by Mike Sowden, a Substack publicat...

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