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Glad to see Glaswegians have chosen the @limmy.com version of Nelson Mandela
November 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In which I have a Sartrean experience in Ayrshire:

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Missed Connections, Shot from the Hip
Or, Huis Clos in Ayrshire
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November 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I assume @peteralanross.bsky.social and Anthony Seldon have the same graphic designer, otherwise someone is in trouble.
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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The artist Sophie Calle shows that in our rush to surveil and be surveilled we have overlooked the fundamental fact that the most important parts of human experience remain invisible.

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Sophie Calle and the Limits of Surveillance
The artist who made privacy her medium
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November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Saw THIS dog in front of a shop with THIS ornament.
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Gorbals from the air in the 50s, 70s and 90s from Joshua al-Najar’s presentation at the Studies in Photography conference.
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The severity of the men in the launch brochure of the M* motorway, which destroyed large parts of Glasgow city centre.
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
Elspeth King obituary
Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Glasgow's most reclusive novelist, Chris Kohler, finally has a event in his home city at the Aye Write festival. Check out the review in the post below.

www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/wate...
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Did some anthropology this morning and looked up the cover stars of GQ in Taiwan, UK, and US.
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Martin Amis is very good on why Nabokov's Ada is so bad.
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Inside beautiful, brutalist church, The Pyramid, to see some extraordinarily, self-consciously ugly posters.
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The Map and the Territory
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Why are we still waiting for Better Buses? 🚌

In Sept, SPT finally approved plans to 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 👏

But the Scottish Government are now holding things up! 😠

Watch & share our new animation and 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗦𝗣𝘀 to demand action👇
📨 betterbuses.uk/strathclyde/#email
Why are we still waiting for Better Buses?
YouTube video by Get Glasgow Moving
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October 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I like Matter, the offline reader that allows you to save web pages without the clutter, but it is funny to me that they are now encouraging you to get all your newsletters sent there directly via a custom email address.

RSS readers are back, just in a really circuitous way.
October 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
October 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A story in three parts
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Take these photos into the barbers and asking for a Nobel cut.
October 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Led astray by r/VintageLadyBoners in believing this was a photo of Ezra Pound when it's actually Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM