The Dreaded Lurgy
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Cobblers. Sometimes found in Ecclefechan.
The Crash Detectives on BBC2 in a minu....now.
This is not about your computer suddenly freezing, or people solving crimes committed by a Bandicoot.
This is not about your computer suddenly freezing, or people solving crimes committed by a Bandicoot.
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Crash Detectives on BBC2 in a minu....now.
This is not about your computer suddenly freezing, or people solving crimes committed by a Bandicoot.
This is not about your computer suddenly freezing, or people solving crimes committed by a Bandicoot.
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The view from my classroom just before 9 am yesterday. I think every century from the seventeenth to the twenty-first is represented in there somewhere.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The view from my classroom just before 9 am yesterday. I think every century from the seventeenth to the twenty-first is represented in there somewhere.
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My wife sometimes reluctantly poses in shots for me and I didn't want to waste the opportunity of a unique view of Edinburgh with cloud building along the Forth estuary behind it.
Moody - the sky that is.
#MoodyWifePhoto #Edinburgh
Moody - the sky that is.
#MoodyWifePhoto #Edinburgh
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My wife sometimes reluctantly poses in shots for me and I didn't want to waste the opportunity of a unique view of Edinburgh with cloud building along the Forth estuary behind it.
Moody - the sky that is.
#MoodyWifePhoto #Edinburgh
Moody - the sky that is.
#MoodyWifePhoto #Edinburgh
Good god. The replies are really quite something. Are they special "well actually"-bots?
The most tedious people in the world have outed themselves by replying to this.
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Good god. The replies are really quite something. Are they special "well actually"-bots?
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Young bookworm at the window of John Smith & Son bookshop, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, 1962, photo by Oscar Marzaroli.
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Young bookworm at the window of John Smith & Son bookshop, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, 1962, photo by Oscar Marzaroli.
Glen and Chris do need a pardon for that awful record but it's HODDLE, not Gobble, you stupid old man.
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Glen and Chris do need a pardon for that awful record but it's HODDLE, not Gobble, you stupid old man.
Haunted content
Love this C-Listed late 19th Century Villa on Maxwell Drive on the Southside of Glasgow. It's a really nice building, and a very unusual style for the city.
#glasgow #architecture #maxwelldrive #architecturephotography
#glasgow #architecture #maxwelldrive #architecturephotography
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Haunted content
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The Roseisle goose is the greatest of all the Pictish symbols. I don't even have a second favourite: it's Roseisle goose or nothing.
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The Roseisle goose is the greatest of all the Pictish symbols. I don't even have a second favourite: it's Roseisle goose or nothing.
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IT LEGO ME!
📚 @quantick.bsky.social builds worlds at Into Books.
David's first collection of short stories, And Other Stories, is available at all good bookshops or directly from our website.
David's first collection of short stories, And Other Stories, is available at all good bookshops or directly from our website.
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
IT LEGO ME!
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Moving back from the country due to a previously undiagnosed peach allergy
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Moving back from the country due to a previously undiagnosed peach allergy
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Quick, loose watercolour of Barclay Church on the edge of Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh. One of many Edinburgh buildings I sketched when I first picked up watercolours. I thought I'd revisit a few with a more relaxed approach...
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Quick, loose watercolour of Barclay Church on the edge of Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh. One of many Edinburgh buildings I sketched when I first picked up watercolours. I thought I'd revisit a few with a more relaxed approach...
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This is one of my favourite poems of all time
Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is one of my favourite poems of all time
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It's a centuries-old British trait. Instinctively, people punch down, and sneer, at the less well off, rather than wonder why people with wealth get away with so much.
Britain is by nature (C)conservative, and it's literally what conservatism is: entrenching wealth/class/privilege by design.
Britain is by nature (C)conservative, and it's literally what conservatism is: entrenching wealth/class/privilege by design.
So much of our politics revolves around catering to the emotions of people who become furious when someone else isn't suffering as much as they think they should
The restriction on car makes in Motability is a perfect and horrible example of Government By Vibes. it saves no money, it helps absolutely nobody, all it does is makes a few cruel and angry people feel better while disadvantaging people with mobility needs.
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It's a centuries-old British trait. Instinctively, people punch down, and sneer, at the less well off, rather than wonder why people with wealth get away with so much.
Britain is by nature (C)conservative, and it's literally what conservatism is: entrenching wealth/class/privilege by design.
Britain is by nature (C)conservative, and it's literally what conservatism is: entrenching wealth/class/privilege by design.
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So much of our politics revolves around catering to the emotions of people who become furious when someone else isn't suffering as much as they think they should
The restriction on car makes in Motability is a perfect and horrible example of Government By Vibes. it saves no money, it helps absolutely nobody, all it does is makes a few cruel and angry people feel better while disadvantaging people with mobility needs.
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So much of our politics revolves around catering to the emotions of people who become furious when someone else isn't suffering as much as they think they should
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Oh, bravo.
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Oh, bravo.
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What will the new road tax be on these?
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
What will the new road tax be on these?
My primary school was on an estate that backed on to the East Coast Main Line, around the time that section was being electrified, so this (and other PIFs) were shown in assembly once a year or so.
There was a legend that kids from the nearby comprehensive trespassed, and one died. Truth unknown.
There was a legend that kids from the nearby comprehensive trespassed, and one died. Truth unknown.
KEEP OUT (1972): A masterclass in shocking minimalism, this 15 second PIF warning kids of the dangers of messing about by train tracks leaves its horrors to the imagination. I have vivid memories of this one popping up during kid's shows on ITV!
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
My primary school was on an estate that backed on to the East Coast Main Line, around the time that section was being electrified, so this (and other PIFs) were shown in assembly once a year or so.
There was a legend that kids from the nearby comprehensive trespassed, and one died. Truth unknown.
There was a legend that kids from the nearby comprehensive trespassed, and one died. Truth unknown.
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"It's amazing what people get so angry about and on that side it's lifting children out of poverty," says Rachel Reeves as Conservative MPs try to shout down her announcement that she is scrapping the two child benefit cap which has pushed hundreds of thousands of children below the poverty line
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"It's amazing what people get so angry about and on that side it's lifting children out of poverty," says Rachel Reeves as Conservative MPs try to shout down her announcement that she is scrapping the two child benefit cap which has pushed hundreds of thousands of children below the poverty line
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Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
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Arthur Street Planter update: We have a new sign!
Listing the 20 plant varieties we're growing. 🌱🌿🪴
Find us on Google Maps too...
@leithcentralcc.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social @lgspace.bsky.social @secretedinburgh.bsky.social
#biodiversity #urbangardening #greensky #gardening #Leith #Leithlife
Listing the 20 plant varieties we're growing. 🌱🌿🪴
Find us on Google Maps too...
@leithcentralcc.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social @lgspace.bsky.social @secretedinburgh.bsky.social
#biodiversity #urbangardening #greensky #gardening #Leith #Leithlife
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Arthur Street Planter update: We have a new sign!
Listing the 20 plant varieties we're growing. 🌱🌿🪴
Find us on Google Maps too...
@leithcentralcc.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social @lgspace.bsky.social @secretedinburgh.bsky.social
#biodiversity #urbangardening #greensky #gardening #Leith #Leithlife
Listing the 20 plant varieties we're growing. 🌱🌿🪴
Find us on Google Maps too...
@leithcentralcc.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social @lgspace.bsky.social @secretedinburgh.bsky.social
#biodiversity #urbangardening #greensky #gardening #Leith #Leithlife
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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2 members of my team have put in transfer requests since I started making them rewrite everything they’d hurriedly used Co-Pilot to create.
a woman in a black dress is standing next to another woman in a black dress in a room .
ALT: a woman in a black dress is standing next to another woman in a black dress in a room .
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
2 members of my team have put in transfer requests since I started making them rewrite everything they’d hurriedly used Co-Pilot to create.
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A progressive society is not one which demands that people in receipt of government support experience the minimum possible leisure, convenience and pleasure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A progressive society is not one which demands that people in receipt of government support experience the minimum possible leisure, convenience and pleasure.