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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, cheers.

A glass of red wine, described as an "AI curated blend" on the bottle.

Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 1d

Was today at yet another lecture telling me how good AI is, and how it can make things easier for me at work. I was also out with my friend at the weekend who has been offered redundancy because his job of 20 years is soon to be done by AI. It's totally unregulated and all about profit just now. No?

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 1d

Hippos crossing. You were warned.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 1d

You have to get up early to see the traffic moving at Charing Cross, Glasgow.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 3d

Arvo Pärt's music in Glasgow tonight from the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Absolutely glorious.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 4d

Great Scottish Run Glasgow half marathon today. Over bridges and under bridges. Thankfully the storm of recent days cleared away so we were able to enjoy that today.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 5d

I've accidentally managed to take a photo of 1930s Glasgow in a passing rain shower this afternoon.

The silhouetted skyline of Glasgow in the distance, a man in a bonnet walks towards you across a bridge on the canal at Maryhill, Glasgow.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 5d

En route to the football this afternoon via Maya Rose Edwards's film Of Us & Others, on at Civic House today. Proving that walls do have ears, Louise McVey's "graffiti ceramics". "THEN/NOW", literally reflecting upon the canal. Alasdair Gray's texts linking the Claypits nature reserve to Firhill.

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 5d

📣 TODAY! Don’t miss Of Us & Others – a powerful new film by Maya Rose Edwards 🎬 Screening 12–5pm at Civic House (drop in anytime!). One day only – Sat 4 Oct! AGA’s first visual art commission supported by @creativescots.bsky.social & the Edwin Morgan Trust

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 5d

You'd have to imagine the driver passed out/took unwell.

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walkhighlands @walkhighlands.co.uk · 6d

Met Office says there will be 122mph wind, gusting to 134mph on the Ben later on.

Screenshot of Met Office weather forecast for Ben Nevis

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 6d

Another in the Dark land Tales series of Scottish novellas based on mythical or historical events. This time Graeme Macrae Burnet deals with a murderous MacPhee in Benbecula. I've enjoyed all the other books in the series, so am looking forward to this one.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 6d

I never thought that I would see the day, but someone has been clearing up the piles of books in Voltaire and Rousseau's and putting them on an eBay shop. You can even see bits of the carpet. They might still find a petrified corpse behind the remaining stacks.

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The Jags Foundation @thejagsfoundation.bsky.social · 6d

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 8d

Ellen E Jones had a good piece in The Guardian that chimed with my own misgivings about the film.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 10d

I changed my plans due to heavy rain in the west, and followed the blue skies for a wander around Cairn Gorm and its northern corries this frosty morning.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 10d

There are two rope bridges over this river, you stand on the tight bottom wire, holding the top one at chest height. This specific one DOESN'T work as the top rope is too slack and moves away from you mid-crossing, as the person that fell in ahead of my attempt revealed to me.

Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 11d

Took advantage of a gap in the rainy weather to tick off a few remote Munros today. Maoile Lunndaidh, Sgùrr Chòinnich and Sgùrr a'Chaorachain.

Pyramidal ridge towards Sgùrr Chòinnich, reflected in a pool halfway up.

A rope bridge over a river, with a sign saying "you use this bridge at your own risk". As the top rope is so slack, anyone using it is guaranteed a swimming lesson.

Rocky ridge towards one of today's summits

Three lochans in the corrie below Maoile Lunndaidh, with mountains all around.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 12d

Looking forward to reading the latest book from @peteralanross.bsky.social who manages to create a Platonic dialogue between people of the present day and the past in his writing.

Peter Ross reading from his book at Byres Road book festival, his name on the screen behind him.

The cover of the latest book from Peter Ross, called "Upon A White Horse". The cover has an illustration with a hillside chalk horse, rather than a fine lady on her way to Banbury Cross. The conkers that are lying beside the book are some that I picked up today, and will imminently put some string through.

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Clydeside Wild (Dean) @clydesidewild.bsky.social · 14d

Wednesday 24th Sept
Took a walk along the Kelvin Walkway and found a few #fungifriends
Collared Earthstar, Stump Puffball, Glistening Inkcap & Sessile Earthstar.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 14d

It was Love and Money what did it.
youtu.be/EvCQRq_mGoI?...

Love and Money - Up Escalator

YouTube video by ohnoitisnathan52

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 14d

Looks like it's hi-vis and lights on for cycling to work from here until April.

Tall ship by the river Clyde at sunrise this morning.

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WIRED @wired.com · 15d

A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23.

A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 18d

Was out cycling with my dad along the canal this sunny Sunday morning. It's been a while since we did that.

A family trip to Ostend in the 1980s where me and my dad are cycling a four wheeled contraption along the seafront, my mother and brother taking a back seat (although to be fair my brother did have a broken leg at the time).

A hi-vis clad cyclist goes past the canal basin at Maryhill under a blue sky. My dad on his electric bike flying off into the distance

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 17d

The above photo yesterday of my dad cycling away from me under clear blue skies was beside the canal basins at Maryhill Locks. I've an old photo of me and my family at that exact spot in the late 1970s, when we lived up there, accompanied by an East German couple that were staying with us.

Blue skies overhead, a cyclist is on the tow path beside a large canal basin. These basins on the canal allowed boats coming up and down the licks at Maryhill to pass each other.

This is Maryhill in the 1970s before the canal was refurbished. A group of three adults and two children (my brother and me) walk towards the person taking the photo. The canal basin is on our right and most of the old tenement buildings behind us in the photo have since been demolished.

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