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@craiging619.bsky.social

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Hope you like Runrig / Ayr Utd / Munro fandom. Mapping expert, he/him. Creator of @runriglyrics.bsky.social, @pinklyrics.bsky.social, @taylorlyricsbot.bsky.social etc. “For ‘Personality’, he’s just put ‘Scottish’.” http://ecosia.org Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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Craig @craiging619.bsky.social · Dec 29

My 2024 Blog is here! On Bluesky and (very likely for the last time ever) on Twitter. It will cheer you up by at least 4%! #Blogmanay🥳

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2024 Review

"Nothin' really ends For things to stay the same, they have to change again Hello, my old friend You change your name, but not the wa...

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1h

'As the battle of Manchester raged, ! was in Rishi Sunak's bedroom'

He had no socks on

Chris Morris, reading tomorrow’s newspaper headlines.

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Runrig Lyrics Bot @runriglyrics.bsky.social · 9h

It's hard to believe
But memories are old ghosts
Mountains of black and gold
Sunsets falling over the moor
Oh take me there!

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 12h

Dominic Cummings has promised Scotland bigger railcards, but separation would risk this. No to divisive nationalism. Brexit means Brexit.

Dominic Cummings sitting at a wee desk in the Downing Street garden, trying to defend his inexplicable breaches of his own government's lockdown laws when he drove to Durham then Barnard Castle to 'test his eyesight'.

A train ticket from Lochwinnoch to Glasgow, with a a number of other tickets underneath.

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Runrig Lyrics Bot @runriglyrics.bsky.social · 13h

Thèid do'n chrò 's nach òl am bainne
Hillean o ro bha ho
Thèid a dh' Eirinn ris a ghealaich
He ho ho ri i ri o
Hogi o hillean o ro bha ho

They'll go to the cattle-fold - but won't drink milk!
They'll go to Ireland by the light of the moon

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Runrig Lyrics Bot @runriglyrics.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, loneliness
You're a hard earned crust
You're the night at the end of the day

Craig @craiging619.bsky.social · 9h

Also, if this was true, *how*?

Vaguely remember it saying the original studio had a load of high walkways like beams, and he fell off one of them. But that’s almost impossible to imagine in the context of the actual studio. It’s Millionaire, not Gladiators.

Craig @craiging619.bsky.social · 9h

In 1998 one of the “papers” lying around at home claimed that Chris Tarrant was injured filming his brand new show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”, and that the show had been postponed.

I’ve trawled the hated internet for any evidence of this story, but nothing, nada, zilch. Did I dream it? Why?

a man in a suit and tie says oh no in front of a crowd

Alt: Chris Tarrant shouts “OH NO!” and covers his face on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, as the audience applauds.

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Sophie Hell 😈 @sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 9h

Me the day after three mid-week gin n' tonics

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Cara is the darkness that binds them 🇵🇸 @geekpie.bsky.social · 10h

milngavie

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 14h

Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances

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Leen McBeans 🦇 @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 12h

Why do I want to throw every human I hear loudly chewing out of the nearest window but when it’s an animal it’s just the cutest sound ever

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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Craig @craiging619.bsky.social · 12h

And music legend Dolly Parton, who did NOT die…

The “and Tiny Tim, who did NOT die” scene from A Muppet Christmas Carol.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Tony @tony2times.bsky.social · 15h

Wow, they've really had to go in a different direction since the host was arrested, eh? 👀

A TV guide listing
The Repair Shop
8pm BBC One
The season finale climaxes with a helmet

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Craig @craiging619.bsky.social · 1d

Dreamt that I finally bagged an Oasis ticket, but in some big weird building in Edinburgh.

My entire family was there (even my Maw and Da). We were in a weird pen-type bit under the stage, but tickets were dirt cheap there (my child’s was £3:50). Woke up during the support. 5/10. #OurNationsCapital

a man wearing red sunglasses is holding a camera in his hand and says slip inside the eye of your mind

Alt: Noel Gallagher pretends to be a Beatle and sings, “Slip inside the eye of your mind”.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

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Runrig Lyrics Bot @runriglyrics.bsky.social · 1d

Air cùrsa deònach
Tha sinn a' seòladh
Air a' chuan, air a' chuan

On a willing course
We keep sailing
On the open seas

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Runrig Lyrics Bot @runriglyrics.bsky.social · 1d

And all I think about are Debbie and Jane
To give them some kind of chance in life
But the long road running out the strip mill gate
Has got me walking that line

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 1d

All across Our Precious Union, we are beginning to see the benefits of Brexit. But the SNP want to disrupt this progress. It's contemptible.

Pool and share.

Michael Gove holding a duster with a smile, in front of a banner that says, 'Clean For The Queen'.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 1d

When you think about titans of the political scene, you think about the likes of Allegra Stratton or Allegra Stratton. So when they warn us about the dangers of separation, we must heed their advice.

There is simply no alternative.

Allegra Stratton resigns after a video is leaked to ITV showing her laughing about the illegal Downing Street lockdown parties, which took place while the rest of the UK was banned from family funerals.

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Runrig Lyrics Bot @runriglyrics.bsky.social · 1d

So they take you down to the global stream
With the third and the fourth worlds
The world extremes
Then they home their lasers in on you
And when they hit you they stick like glue

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Runrig Lyrics Bot @runriglyrics.bsky.social · 1d

Her love was a dart
And I swore she broke my heart
The world would never turn
The same again

Craig @craiging619.bsky.social · 1d

Not going to have a second to breathe until…May at earliest? That’s without getting into my child having funny turns for the last month, or the news cycle (or AOB). Probably no hillwalks either, cause winter.

Luckily Rangers are providing me with an infinite stream of comedy podcasts, thx guys. 🤝

A bald Rangers fan sits alone in Ibrox with his arms folded, looking miffed.

Craig @craiging619.bsky.social · 1d

My team is falling apart and my only proper colleague is on sick leave (thanks to the job). Got a disturbing pile of projects up to Christmas.

My wife is doing a nursery placement, but her college has just revealed there’s going to be tonnes of bonus coursework this year, on top of the placement.

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