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Matthew Scott

@mscottcumbria.bsky.social

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Retired. Living a blissful 2nd life of happiness in Cumbria with my wife Fiona. Interests: photography, history, books, film, space, music.

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · Nov 16

Here for photography, nature, books, music, walking, astronomy, space. All things gentle & kind. Oh, and cats, mustn't forget cats...or Coral 🐈‍⬛ will get stroppy 🐈‍⬛

Not here for politics, 'the news', or other such click-bait crap. I have a block button & I know how to use it. 😉

📷#MardaleCommon

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 1d

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (if we’re talking fiction)

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 1d

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 14d

Awake very early thanks to an annoying cough.Coral cat & I have been gazing at the Moon and the extraordinary clouds lit by it.

Simply amazing. 🌕

Can’t help but be grateful for my good fortune to be alive & happy. To be able to see such beauty.

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Tamsin Abbott @tamsintheshed.bsky.social · 20d

This was a rather wonderful conversation.

mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 21d

If you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it?

accidentalgods.life/let-the-wild...

#accidentalgods #podcast
#wildgods
#spirituality
@tamsintheshed.bsky.social

Let the Wild Gods Rise! Bridging Between the Worlds with Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott

Let the Wild Gods Rise. Easy to say and harder to do - but if you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it? ...

accidentalgods.life

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 16d

The (zoom) view from our 'gin bench' - taken on 24 September 2025.

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 16d

Three attempts to capture the light from the Moon peeking through stormy clouds last night, from our back garden.
#moonphotography #nightsky #moonlight #cumbria

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 16d

6 years ago OTD I had the privilege & fortune to meet Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social & his wife Bea for the 1st time. Jamie, generous & friendly, invited me to his talk only 3 weeks after I moved to Cumbria. How blessed I was to know him & to have been given the gift of his friendship. 🙏

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 17d

10 years ago I watched XH558 give a display at Gaydon (a former V bomber airfield).

Big, fat, & certainly dirty. But oh my, what a thing to see fly. That ‘howl’….

Love that a pigeon photo-bombed it…..😂

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 18d

“No regrettable posts”…….unlike Tyler Cowan. Who works for Anthropic - an AI firm. 🙄

As for AI actors, scripts etc. - I think not (to put it mildly). 🤬

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · 19d

“When I approach the pearly gates, I'd like to hear a champagne cork popping, an orchestra tuning up, and the sound of my mother laughing”
Patricia Routledge
17th Feb 1929 - 3rd October 2025

May your wishes come true, you wonderful woman and thank you x

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 21d

Good.

Glad assets have already been frozen. But time to remove Mone’s peerage and bring proper consequences to the politicians who helped grifters & profiteers.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21d

UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE

Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’ * VIP lanes and 25m faulty gowns: what PPE Medro trial reveals about Tory response to Covid The government has won its legal claim against a company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone for the return of millions of pounds paid for personal protective equipment during the Covid pandemic. The Department of Health and Social Care sued the company, PPE Medpro, in December 2022, arguing that it had not complied with PPE laws to ensure that 25m surgical gowns it provided under a June 2020 government contract were sterile. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 27d

Today’s minute of peace. Another lovely morning. Jackdaws swooping and the sound of robin ‘morse code’ clicking all around the garden.

The meadow had its 1st cut yesterday. Ready for a closer crop before the rain arrives next week.

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 28d

@bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social I hope the government & journalists are asking Jaguar Landrover whether it has cyber attack insurance cover that should reimburse costs of staff wages & system recovery? If not, why not?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jaguar Land Rover shutdown extended again after cyber attack

The business secretary will also meet suppliers of the car maker who are at risk of closure.

www.bbc.co.uk

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 29d

The International Space Station high above Burton-in-Kendal just now.

3 second photo with my iPhone showing the movement of the Station in orbit. It’ll be visible again in Cumbria at 19:42 tomorrow.

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · Sep 21

At last the rain has stopped. A minute of peace in our garden, with Sun shine. Robins singing & butterflies still visiting the remaining flowers.

There are plenty of jobs to do, including a ladder climb to unblock a gutter and more tree branches to cut back.

But not today. 💚

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · Sep 17

They will also have to prove that projecting beams of light = ‘electronic communication’ - a debatable point. That the images were ‘sent to another person’ (specifically). Added to which they will have to show the images or words are ‘indecent’ or ‘grossly offensive’ in English law. Seems unlikely.

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · Sep 17

@thamesvalleypolice.bsky.social explain who told you that projecting this image = either a) malicious or indeed b) communication under the terms of the 1988 Act

Are you saying a real photo of Trump is ‘indecent’ or ‘grossly offensive’? 🤔

Light projection = ‘electronic form”?🤔

#TrumpedUpCharges

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · Sep 17

“Police said four people were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications after an “unauthorised projection” at Windsor Castle, which police described as a “public stunt”.”

Unauthorised projection.

Malicious communication.

Public stunt.

Magna Carta.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit

Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles

www.theguardian.com

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · Aug 18

4 shots of the #nightsky at 1am or so this morning (UK time). Cassiopeia and the Andromeda Galaxy, and the 'Summer Triangle' with the darker centre of our own galaxy running through it. #astronomyphotographs. Not brillant, but my best effort.

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · Aug 18

Well, Starmer at the ‘summit’ was a shambling, waffling, twat.

Also, why did he try to pretend the UK is not part of the continent of Europe? Europe is NOT the same as the EU!

@primeministeruk.bsky.social - what an f’ing embarrassment 🤬🤬🤬

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Fiona Dolman @fionadolman.bsky.social · Aug 17

❤️

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · Aug 17

We know the stones as engines of story, but they are also generators of awe. Within their boundaries a sense of the persisting ancient, our shared continuity with the long dead. They are lithic time machines, living in both the then and the evolving now. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · Aug 17

Another great fallen. 😞

Such presence. Time to re-watch Sergeant Troy, Bernadette, and Wilson.

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · Aug 15

Keith Richards??

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · Aug 9

What is the world coming to? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · Aug 9

My evening view….