Daveybot
@daveybot.bsky.social
Lighting design at Speirs Major. Occasional photography all over the place.
Pithy commentary best left here, I expect.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland
First #AmperSand of the year and I completely mis-timed it. The tide was reclaiming it within five minutes of me starting!
February 1, 2026 at 3:23 PM
First #AmperSand of the year and I completely mis-timed it. The tide was reclaiming it within five minutes of me starting!
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Golden hour at the coast. A wild and stormy day when I had to hold on to the tripod and a nearby wall to stop both of us ending up in the North Sea.
#photography #landscapephotography #photographers
#photography #landscapephotography #photographers
February 1, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Golden hour at the coast. A wild and stormy day when I had to hold on to the tripod and a nearby wall to stop both of us ending up in the North Sea.
#photography #landscapephotography #photographers
#photography #landscapephotography #photographers
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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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January 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Discover why this is my favourite photograph from the 127,000 I took making #ThePerimeterBook — at @hatchards.bsky.social, London, this Wednesday evening. 🎟️ is.gd/Xazks7
January 30, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Discover why this is my favourite photograph from the 127,000 I took making #ThePerimeterBook — at @hatchards.bsky.social, London, this Wednesday evening. 🎟️ is.gd/Xazks7
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We are looking for a new Head of Operations and Business Support.
Closing date: Friday 20 February 2026
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Closing date: Friday 20 February 2026
Find out more here: ewh.org.uk/head-of-oper...
January 30, 2026 at 4:43 PM
We are looking for a new Head of Operations and Business Support.
Closing date: Friday 20 February 2026
Find out more here: ewh.org.uk/head-of-oper...
Closing date: Friday 20 February 2026
Find out more here: ewh.org.uk/head-of-oper...
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You're telling me the previous decade of escalating conservative rhetoric and anti-trans sentiment was never going to stop at transphobia?
I'm shocked. This is my shocked face.
I'm shocked. This is my shocked face.
January 30, 2026 at 4:28 AM
You're telling me the previous decade of escalating conservative rhetoric and anti-trans sentiment was never going to stop at transphobia?
I'm shocked. This is my shocked face.
I'm shocked. This is my shocked face.
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"During the committee meeting, Cllr Campbell challenged officials on a £10.7m underspend in temporary accommodation. Council director of place Gareth Barwell said the saving represented good value for money."
Outrageous comment in a housing emergency.
www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/mil...
Outrageous comment in a housing emergency.
www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/mil...
Millions in housing funds expected to go unspent in Edinburgh
Nearly £60 million earmarked for building and purchasing new homes is forecast to go unused by the City of Edinburgh Council this year.
www.scottishhousingnews.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:52 PM
"During the committee meeting, Cllr Campbell challenged officials on a £10.7m underspend in temporary accommodation. Council director of place Gareth Barwell said the saving represented good value for money."
Outrageous comment in a housing emergency.
www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/mil...
Outrageous comment in a housing emergency.
www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/mil...
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Rough day for Sex Matters
January 29, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Rough day for Sex Matters
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Normally Radio 4 Six O'Clock News is all over anything negative for trans people. Again, not a peep about the failure of the Sex Matters litigation about Hampstead Ponds. They found time for reports on polar bears on Svalbard, a potato glut in Germany, and a tenor falling ill during Turandot. #bbcpm
Ah bless the BBC! Not a squeak so far today from Radio 4 about the failure of the Sex Matters litigation to ban trans women using the Hampstead Ladies Pond, but @evanhd.bsky.social finds some time to question the Green Party having something to say about trans rights. #bbcpm
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Normally Radio 4 Six O'Clock News is all over anything negative for trans people. Again, not a peep about the failure of the Sex Matters litigation about Hampstead Ponds. They found time for reports on polar bears on Svalbard, a potato glut in Germany, and a tenor falling ill during Turandot. #bbcpm
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Adding the first woman’s name to a list that starts at 597 AD. Does that matter? Yeah, it does.
January 29, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Adding the first woman’s name to a list that starts at 597 AD. Does that matter? Yeah, it does.
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If you're in London, and you're interested in photography or nature, you should check this out. It's an amazing story and wonderful photos.
London friends! Final Perimeter event @hatchards.bsky.social - see the photos live. 🎟️ Grab your tickets! is.gd/Xazks7
January 29, 2026 at 10:19 AM
If you're in London, and you're interested in photography or nature, you should check this out. It's an amazing story and wonderful photos.
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Reeves' argument here can be applied to literally every single public service that exists.
2026: Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to"
2020: That time Labour leader Keir Starmer said he would scrap university tuition fees
2020: That time Labour leader Keir Starmer said he would scrap university tuition fees
January 29, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Reeves' argument here can be applied to literally every single public service that exists.
I also hope it makes organisations who have already capitulated rethink. What do you reckon, @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social? Any chance?
Turns out Sex Matters aren't as expert on the law as they have been telling everyone. I hope the continued failure of anti-trans cases makes organisations who are considering capitulating to these groups rethink.
January 29, 2026 at 1:15 PM
I also hope it makes organisations who have already capitulated rethink. What do you reckon, @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social? Any chance?
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this also raises the frankly wonderful prospect of some Uruk Hai running a nice little boulangerie deep in the bowels of Isengard
much is made of "meat's back on the menu boys" but personally I'm quite compelled by the Uruk Hai complaining about days-old bread, man's been alive for at most two weeks, was grown from some revolting fleshy underground alien womb and already he yearns for a warm baguette
January 28, 2026 at 10:28 PM
this also raises the frankly wonderful prospect of some Uruk Hai running a nice little boulangerie deep in the bowels of Isengard
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Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban.
UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia.
Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.
UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia.
Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban.
UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia.
Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.
UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia.
Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.
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the supreme court ruling very explicitly stated that it does not apply to 'single-sex spaces'( a term made up by transphobes )
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is essentially ignoring the supreme court ruling by trying to segregate trans ppl out of those spaces
she will be taken to the european courts
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is essentially ignoring the supreme court ruling by trying to segregate trans ppl out of those spaces
she will be taken to the european courts
NEW: Guidance on how to implement the supreme court ruling on gender is being adapted to lessen its impact on businesses and to ensure it tries to balance single-sex spaces with the lives of transgender people, the Guardian has been told.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
EHRC’s guidance on single-sex spaces being adapted under ‘constructive’ new chair
Exclusive: Mary-Ann Stephenson said to have more pragmatic approach in trying to limit impact on trans people and on businesses
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:33 AM
the supreme court ruling very explicitly stated that it does not apply to 'single-sex spaces'( a term made up by transphobes )
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is essentially ignoring the supreme court ruling by trying to segregate trans ppl out of those spaces
she will be taken to the european courts
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is essentially ignoring the supreme court ruling by trying to segregate trans ppl out of those spaces
she will be taken to the european courts
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY format.
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY format.
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I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
January 9, 2026 at 4:20 AM
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
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And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.
January 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.
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Blue note alert: "It Takes Two" by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock, in the chorus, on the line "It takes two to make a thing go right", on the second half of the word "right", that is a very blue third www.youtube.com/watch?v=phOW...
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two (Official Video)
YouTube video by RobBaseDJEZRockVEVO
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January 16, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Blue note alert: "It Takes Two" by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock, in the chorus, on the line "It takes two to make a thing go right", on the second half of the word "right", that is a very blue third www.youtube.com/watch?v=phOW...
I grew up next to a pub at which Aunt Sally was played. I will forever associate warm summer evenings with the sound of people playing it over the wall, and I miss it dearly.
The Oxfordshire sport of Aunt Sally has been proposed as a contender for UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage inventory. Dating from the 17th century, it involves players throwing a stick at a dolly resting on a pole, and is known in France as “jeu de massacre”.
January 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I grew up next to a pub at which Aunt Sally was played. I will forever associate warm summer evenings with the sound of people playing it over the wall, and I miss it dearly.
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Some amazing outfits at the Ben Youseff Madrassa the other day
January 15, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Some amazing outfits at the Ben Youseff Madrassa the other day
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This is my go to a #StarterPack for Architecture and the Built Environment. Please take a look!
go.bsky.app/PqAqtFD
go.bsky.app/PqAqtFD
November 16, 2024 at 9:40 AM
This is my go to a #StarterPack for Architecture and the Built Environment. Please take a look!
go.bsky.app/PqAqtFD
go.bsky.app/PqAqtFD
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#SaveOurChildrensRights campaign urges Starmer not to diminish legal rights of SEND children— we’re joining our SOCR colleagues at 1pm today at Downing Street to hand in the petition that you made such a massive change by signing. - www.theguardian.com/educatio...
New campaign urges Starmer not to diminish legal rights of Send children
Backed by actor Sally Phillips and MPs across parties, group raises concerns about overhaul of provision in England
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
#SaveOurChildrensRights campaign urges Starmer not to diminish legal rights of SEND children— we’re joining our SOCR colleagues at 1pm today at Downing Street to hand in the petition that you made such a massive change by signing. - www.theguardian.com/educatio...