Tingenek
@tingenek.bsky.social
A semi-retired IT duffer living by Loch Tay in #Scotland. Used to wrangle #XML, now writes flash fiction instead of finishing anything longer. Owns several venerable #alpacas and forty years of #notebooks.
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This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Trip out to Crieff, stopped in at Innerpeffray Craft Fair. The Library was closed, but they had a stall :-)
#innerpeffray #library #scotland
#innerpeffray #library #scotland
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Trip out to Crieff, stopped in at Innerpeffray Craft Fair. The Library was closed, but they had a stall :-)
#innerpeffray #library #scotland
#innerpeffray #library #scotland
Coal-tit being rather laid back about the whole cat's-mouth and catflap business. Remarkably unharmed and flight-worthy.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Coal-tit being rather laid back about the whole cat's-mouth and catflap business. Remarkably unharmed and flight-worthy.
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In Tsavo, the vibrant red earth takes centre stage – a rich hue that makes its red-tinted elephants stand out from their cousins across the country. Kainuk is a member of this distinctive herd. Orphaned in 2011, she grew up in our care and is now 15 years old and living wild: swt.bio/kainuk
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In Tsavo, the vibrant red earth takes centre stage – a rich hue that makes its red-tinted elephants stand out from their cousins across the country. Kainuk is a member of this distinctive herd. Orphaned in 2011, she grew up in our care and is now 15 years old and living wild: swt.bio/kainuk
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
So that's anothet beanbag lost to humanity. #catsofbluesky
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
So that's anothet beanbag lost to humanity. #catsofbluesky
Every neglected vegetable in the fridge has been turned into soup.
October 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Every neglected vegetable in the fridge has been turned into soup.
October 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
As fortold, the Apocalypse has begun in the biscuit industry.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit … look away now
Club and Penguin bars are now ‘chocolate flavour’ after owner McVitie’s cuts cocoa content amid soaring prices
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
As fortold, the Apocalypse has begun in the biscuit industry.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Some real, in-your-hand, books, courtesy of #worldofbooks, part of a drive to be less #kindle and not a jot more expensive.
October 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Some real, in-your-hand, books, courtesy of #worldofbooks, part of a drive to be less #kindle and not a jot more expensive.
Taking the first steps of retirement, so goodbye LinkedIn; never visited except to update my bio when I was lookng for work.
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Taking the first steps of retirement, so goodbye LinkedIn; never visited except to update my bio when I was lookng for work.
The Tay is quite feisty at the moment. If you stand on the bridge you can feel it vibrate.
#stormagnes #scotland #killin
#stormagnes #scotland #killin
October 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The Tay is quite feisty at the moment. If you stand on the bridge you can feel it vibrate.
#stormagnes #scotland #killin
#stormagnes #scotland #killin
Experienced some giraffes at Blair Drummond Safari Park; a belated birthday treat. Fantastic.
#giraffesofbluesky
#giraffesofbluesky
September 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Experienced some giraffes at Blair Drummond Safari Park; a belated birthday treat. Fantastic.
#giraffesofbluesky
#giraffesofbluesky
September 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Owning a cat means a parade of angry rodents wandering about your kitchen now their kidnapper has been distracted by a bee.
August 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Owning a cat means a parade of angry rodents wandering about your kitchen now their kidnapper has been distracted by a bee.
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💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000.
The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.
The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.
July 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000.
The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.
The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.
