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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 8h

Yes! I wonder if Joe noticed. If he did, he might also have clocked the other two.

Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 9h

He's going to be so terrible at this 🤣🤣🤣

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 11h

Oh blimey. Wouldn't want to stumble across that on a dark night!

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 17h

No, Matthew, you may not say so, because "objective journalists" don't, as a rule, give speeches at political party conferences. Especially when they have declared publicly that they are members of that party. That's what we call "subjective journalism".

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 18h

I am the rightful queen of Scotland!

A foot standing in the foot-shaped hollow in the rocks on top of Dunadd in Argyll, Scotland, where the kings of Scotland were crowned in olden times.

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 21h

It's such lazy, clickbait bollox, aimed at people who couldn't actually tell you what anthropology is.

Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 21h

Mad to think the Tories will probably dump Kemi to replace her with someone even worse. And think that that is the key that will revive their fortunes.

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 21h

Ah, such a lovely place. The whole of Kilmartin Glen has such a sense of *something*, doesn't it? I always find it quite an unsettling place to be. Layers and layers of history under your feet.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 7d

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 22h

(Sorry, bit of a gloomy one today).

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 22h

#31DaysOfGraves day 8: Glass. Martyrs' Monument, Stirling. Margaret (18) and Agnes (13) Wilson were sentenced to death in 1685 for their religious beliefs. Agnes was reprieved, but Margaret, and Margaret McLauchlan, in her late 60s, were drowned at the stake in the rising tide of the Solway Firth

A large glass octagonal memorial with a domed roof. Inside are the white figures of two girls. They have a lamb at their feet and an angel stands over them.

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Breadbin.

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland with the words you 're welcome

Alt: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland curtseying with the words you're welcome

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 1d

Good summary here: share.google/nCJONh36s1Gt...

Former Surgeons General Say It's Their Duty to Warn of 'Profound' Threat RFK Jr. Poses to Americans | Common Dreams

Former US surgeons general warn that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. poses a threat to public health with anti-vaccine views and misinformation.

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 1d

Such a worthwhile cause - do donate a few pounds if you can (and visit if you're here in Glasgow). The Govan Stones project is at the heart of our city and the Govan community and the stones are the most amazing things.

The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 2d

Will YOU be our 200th donor?

Please donate to our crucial fundraiser!

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 1d

As I now see you mentioned in your original post 🤪

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 1d

We chanced upon it by accident but it's such a lovely spot.

Apparently the wee stone building was a watchtower, built to allow them to keep an eye out for grave robbers!

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves day 7: angel. One of my favourite stones from one of my favourite graveyards, the remote and lovely St Cyrus Nether, which sits on the beach at the bottom of cliffs, far below the village. The stone memorialises the family of John Well(?), a weaver, and dates back to the 1750s.

A gravestone featuring a simple carving of an angel, with a heart below her. On either side are the initials IW and IF.

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 1d

The more reasonable Tory voters peeled off to the LDs after Johnson purged the sensible Tories like Grieve and Soubry, and now the hard right are peeling off to Reform because they always have their eye on their nice pay packets. Who's left?

Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 2d

This seems likely to make me as annoyed as American Winnie-the-Pooh.

Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 2d

Nature abhors a vacuum etc etc

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 2d

Have you considered that people with a high public profile may be able to raise awareness of conditions like MND and cancer to raise money that benefits research into ways of preventing or treating them better? Both Doddie Weir and Rob Burrow raised millions for MND research and treatment.

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 2d

One of my fears is that there are probably quite a lot of healthcare practitioners down that rabbit hole.

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Alison M @alisonm.bsky.social · 2d

Or older kids who are immunocompromised and can't get vaccinations. I'd think they might have a case against the government for not protecting them by insisting on at least a "no vaccine no school/nursery" policy.

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