Another Iain
@anotheriain.bsky.social
Not *the* Iain MacDonald: just another Iain MacDonald.
Outer Hebridean Inner Londoner.
Harmonising with The Everly Brothers.
One man's civilisation is another man's jungle.
You might as well laugh - you won't get your money back.
Also @ukcovidghostsigns
Outer Hebridean Inner Londoner.
Harmonising with The Everly Brothers.
One man's civilisation is another man's jungle.
You might as well laugh - you won't get your money back.
Also @ukcovidghostsigns
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Another Iain
@anotheriain.bsky.social
· Oct 13
My longest-serving pinned tweet on Twitter was: "No, I don't have 'an extra i'. I have the full complement of 'i's. Those other people are lacking an 'i'. Thank you, that will be all."
(I quite liked it, but you can't pin posts here (yet).)
(I quite liked it, but you can't pin posts here (yet).)
Ominous when my OneDrive says it's processing 175k changes... Is it deleting everything again? Is it because I've updated Office? Something else? No way of knowing until it finishes its processing. I could stop it, but I'll be none the wiser when I restart it.
January 29, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Ominous when my OneDrive says it's processing 175k changes... Is it deleting everything again? Is it because I've updated Office? Something else? No way of knowing until it finishes its processing. I could stop it, but I'll be none the wiser when I restart it.
Yourself, but as a cartoon.
(Never had an easier meme to respond to.)
(Never had an easier meme to respond to.)
January 28, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Yourself, but as a cartoon.
(Never had an easier meme to respond to.)
(Never had an easier meme to respond to.)
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Morris Folk Club tonight!
Morris Folk Club for January is on Tuesday 27th, 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell. Free entry.
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... - & pic.
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... - & pic.
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
January 27, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Morris Folk Club tonight!
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This is possibly my favourite quote about politics. paw.princeton.edu/article/stil...
January 26, 2026 at 10:59 AM
This is possibly my favourite quote about politics. paw.princeton.edu/article/stil...
Reading The Last Empire by Brandon Sanderson. Reminded: how people rarely bother to change US English to UK English in UK editions any more; how US fantasy writers don't shy away from using modern words and phrases which pull you right out of the story. Still enjoying it, though.
January 26, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Reading The Last Empire by Brandon Sanderson. Reminded: how people rarely bother to change US English to UK English in UK editions any more; how US fantasy writers don't shy away from using modern words and phrases which pull you right out of the story. Still enjoying it, though.
Today's purchases. Ida Cox's first 16 recordings, from 1923, most self/co-written, including 2 versions of Graveyard Dream Blues which I've sung at folk club. And Elvis Costello's dad singing folk songs in 1972, all written by him and a couple of pals, apparently.
January 24, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Today's purchases. Ida Cox's first 16 recordings, from 1923, most self/co-written, including 2 versions of Graveyard Dream Blues which I've sung at folk club. And Elvis Costello's dad singing folk songs in 1972, all written by him and a couple of pals, apparently.
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Morris Folk Club for January is on Tuesday 27th, 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell. Free entry.
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... - & pic.
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... - & pic.
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
January 23, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Morris Folk Club for January is on Tuesday 27th, 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell. Free entry.
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... - & pic.
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.....
What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... - & pic.
Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!
Watching Dad's Army as a boy in the 70s, I completely accepted that Sergeant Wilson was Pike's Uncle Frank. Bachelor uncles being fussed over and looked after by their sisters was a normal part of life where I grew up.
Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler? We're off to Walmington-on-Sea with stupid boy @mattchorley.bsky.social to watch Dad's Army, and learn about Arnold Ridley's bayonet wound and the "trousers" clause in Arthur Lowe's contract. champ.ly/yZBp05Wb
January 24, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Watching Dad's Army as a boy in the 70s, I completely accepted that Sergeant Wilson was Pike's Uncle Frank. Bachelor uncles being fussed over and looked after by their sisters was a normal part of life where I grew up.
When googling recipes, experience has taught me to always finish my search text with "uk".
Just looked up a method for cooking turnips and got a number of results from Americans insisting you need to mash them with sugar and bacon grease.
a close up of a red parrot with a yellow beak looking at the camera
ALT: a close up of a red parrot with a yellow beak looking at the camera
media.tenor.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:38 PM
When googling recipes, experience has taught me to always finish my search text with "uk".
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Thanks to this post have discovered the Shakespeare Network Youtube channel, which among other things has playlists of various of his plays, including a 28-strong playlist for Hamlet, including five full-length productions - Olivier, Burton, Gielgud, Plummer, Branagh. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
January 22, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Thanks to this post have discovered the Shakespeare Network Youtube channel, which among other things has playlists of various of his plays, including a 28-strong playlist for Hamlet, including five full-length productions - Olivier, Burton, Gielgud, Plummer, Branagh. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Bureaucrats can make a positive, even life-saving, difference by applying the system in a bendy way without breaking the rules.
The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
January 21, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Bureaucrats can make a positive, even life-saving, difference by applying the system in a bendy way without breaking the rules.
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Letter in Times today
January 20, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Letter in Times today
Getting a notion to listen to this album, not sure why.
January 20, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Getting a notion to listen to this album, not sure why.
You wonder if things like this letter causes 'uh-oh' uncertainty and pause for thought among Trump voters and those carrying out his orders, or if they're all thinking 'yay, go, The Donald!'
January 19, 2026 at 9:15 AM
You wonder if things like this letter causes 'uh-oh' uncertainty and pause for thought among Trump voters and those carrying out his orders, or if they're all thinking 'yay, go, The Donald!'
There's a degree of truth in this. Could have omitted the alt text, for the trolling.
January 18, 2026 at 11:25 PM
There's a degree of truth in this. Could have omitted the alt text, for the trolling.
I often wonder what people who I used to see/hear and like, but haven't seen/heard for a long time, and don't seem to be doing anything publicly, are doing or living off now. eg thought about and looked up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_La...; says he 'retired' at 43; he can't have made so much, can he?
Mark Lamarr - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 17, 2026 at 11:49 PM
I often wonder what people who I used to see/hear and like, but haven't seen/heard for a long time, and don't seem to be doing anything publicly, are doing or living off now. eg thought about and looked up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_La...; says he 'retired' at 43; he can't have made so much, can he?
This excellent thing reminded me about the "angry woman pointing at cat" meme, and when I googled to find out where it came from I discovered that it has an amazingly detailed Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_y...
January 17, 2026 at 11:12 PM
This excellent thing reminded me about the "angry woman pointing at cat" meme, and when I googled to find out where it came from I discovered that it has an amazingly detailed Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_y...
I find it strange to think, though it seems to be true, that speaking of someone living 'life in the fast lane' wasn't something in common usage before The Eagles released Life In The Fast Lane in 1976.
Not many other song titles/lyrics from the last 50 years can have passed into such common usage?
Not many other song titles/lyrics from the last 50 years can have passed into such common usage?
January 17, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I find it strange to think, though it seems to be true, that speaking of someone living 'life in the fast lane' wasn't something in common usage before The Eagles released Life In The Fast Lane in 1976.
Not many other song titles/lyrics from the last 50 years can have passed into such common usage?
Not many other song titles/lyrics from the last 50 years can have passed into such common usage?
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Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
"I'm twenty-two now, but I won't be for long!"
Dreamt last night that I wrote a hit song and everywhere I went I was asked/requested/forced to shout out the chorus for fans? The chorus? I wrote it down upon awakening.
“I’M A GEOLOGIST IN A DISCORDANT THRONG!”
“I’M A GEOLOGIST IN A DISCORDANT THRONG!”
January 17, 2026 at 12:56 PM
"I'm twenty-two now, but I won't be for long!"
An underconsidered possible reason for why churches are 'full of odd people' is that many people in churches are kinder and warmer and friendlier and more accepting and patient than people in many other places, and odd people find kindness and warmth and friendship and acceptance and patience there.
January 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
An underconsidered possible reason for why churches are 'full of odd people' is that many people in churches are kinder and warmer and friendlier and more accepting and patient than people in many other places, and odd people find kindness and warmth and friendship and acceptance and patience there.
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Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
January 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
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If it was *just* the football, cricket and UK elections sections it would still be the greatest website in the world
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 5:54 PM
If it was *just* the football, cricket and UK elections sections it would still be the greatest website in the world
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Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
January 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES