Distracted Dan
@distracteddan.bsky.social
I live on a boat , play the glockenspiel by choice , and believe we podiatrists are the 15th emergency service .
Pinned
As Miss Piggy unwrapped the greaseproof paper , Kermit , like generations of males before him , considered this Valentine gift a mistep.
The only thing that stopped me facing that in my teen years as a shepherd was being 40 miles from the sea . Never trust a sheep they are cunning .
January 2, 2026 at 11:52 AM
The only thing that stopped me facing that in my teen years as a shepherd was being 40 miles from the sea . Never trust a sheep they are cunning .
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I whole heartedly agree!
Science is not simple.
It is so easy to oversimplify something to a point to where it fits a narrative.
Recall that RFK Jr’s MAHA report misrepresented the conclusions of scientific papers to fit the narrative.
We have to fight back.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/r...
Science is not simple.
It is so easy to oversimplify something to a point to where it fits a narrative.
Recall that RFK Jr’s MAHA report misrepresented the conclusions of scientific papers to fit the narrative.
We have to fight back.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/r...
Researchers have a moral obligation to push back when their studies are twisted to promote false health claims
NewsGuard has collected 1,000 provably false statements in its False Claim Fingerprints database. Many involve misrepresented research.
www.statnews.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I whole heartedly agree!
Science is not simple.
It is so easy to oversimplify something to a point to where it fits a narrative.
Recall that RFK Jr’s MAHA report misrepresented the conclusions of scientific papers to fit the narrative.
We have to fight back.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/r...
Science is not simple.
It is so easy to oversimplify something to a point to where it fits a narrative.
Recall that RFK Jr’s MAHA report misrepresented the conclusions of scientific papers to fit the narrative.
We have to fight back.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/r...
A wonderful story teller , and all round good egg .
The incredible @iszi.com at the warehouse signing copies of The Domesday Cows today! Have you pre-ordered this chaotic medieval adventure for 9+ yet? Read for real history, nasty nobles, sibling schemes, and more cowpats than you can shake a spear at.🐮 DM for an extract!
amazon.co.uk/Domesday-Cow...
amazon.co.uk/Domesday-Cow...
December 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A wonderful story teller , and all round good egg .
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I've just seen an Author called " ....always stretched past the limits of possibility"
All I could see was the kid who haunted your childhood by always handing back your stuff broken .
All I could see was the kid who haunted your childhood by always handing back your stuff broken .
December 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I've just seen an Author called " ....always stretched past the limits of possibility"
All I could see was the kid who haunted your childhood by always handing back your stuff broken .
All I could see was the kid who haunted your childhood by always handing back your stuff broken .
That time of year reflecting on the Artists lost who were a real influence on me . Clem Burke a diamond of a drummer and Tom Lehrer , I treasure my 10 inch album which contains a Daily Mail article of the time tearing into him for his "lack of respect"
December 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
That time of year reflecting on the Artists lost who were a real influence on me . Clem Burke a diamond of a drummer and Tom Lehrer , I treasure my 10 inch album which contains a Daily Mail article of the time tearing into him for his "lack of respect"
Due to European Safety laws (1977) tractors on the public road require roll bars , just one of the reasons I don't think it's Saul in felt
December 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Due to European Safety laws (1977) tractors on the public road require roll bars , just one of the reasons I don't think it's Saul in felt
Is there a word for that specific disappointment you feel ,when after a minor distraction,you reach for your mug and realise you had finished that coffee .
December 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Is there a word for that specific disappointment you feel ,when after a minor distraction,you reach for your mug and realise you had finished that coffee .
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I spent five years researching colonial necropolitics and medical maleficence, kind of with the idea it was history, and while I knew it wasn't, this is still astonishing.
December 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I spent five years researching colonial necropolitics and medical maleficence, kind of with the idea it was history, and while I knew it wasn't, this is still astonishing.
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A gentle reminder to pay your freelancer invoices before Xmas.
You know how you pay your PAYE staff early in December because everyone in Finance goes away from the end of this week until January? We also need to be able to afford crackers and tinsel.
You know how you pay your PAYE staff early in December because everyone in Finance goes away from the end of this week until January? We also need to be able to afford crackers and tinsel.
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A gentle reminder to pay your freelancer invoices before Xmas.
You know how you pay your PAYE staff early in December because everyone in Finance goes away from the end of this week until January? We also need to be able to afford crackers and tinsel.
You know how you pay your PAYE staff early in December because everyone in Finance goes away from the end of this week until January? We also need to be able to afford crackers and tinsel.
@robinince.bsky.social I listened to your resignation speech and thought of a conversation we had a couple of years ago . You are one of the kindest and principaled souls I have ever been lucky enough to spend time with . I wish you strength and health . Dan
December 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
@robinince.bsky.social I listened to your resignation speech and thought of a conversation we had a couple of years ago . You are one of the kindest and principaled souls I have ever been lucky enough to spend time with . I wish you strength and health . Dan
I'm fairly sure a film magazine printed results ( early 2000s if memory serves ) on how to get folk to shut up in cinemas and this came out as the most successful at the time . Now ,who knows ?
Is it acceptable to just yell "SHUT THE FUCK UP" when people are talking during a movie? Asking in advance before this movie starts because I just have a real bad feeling these people are going to ruin my movie date for my birthday and I'll fight.
December 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I'm fairly sure a film magazine printed results ( early 2000s if memory serves ) on how to get folk to shut up in cinemas and this came out as the most successful at the time . Now ,who knows ?
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A few tickets left for Nine Lessons on 19th December - an insanely excellent bill
Delighted to have the wonderful @profaliceroberts.bsky.social back at #NineLessons this year. She'll be on stage for the Dec 19th show at Kings Place. Tickets here - www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin... CC @robinince.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A few tickets left for Nine Lessons on 19th December - an insanely excellent bill
@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social I cannot think of why I have never asked this before . Are there many images or referrals to narrow boats in your collection? Thanks Dan
December 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social I cannot think of why I have never asked this before . Are there many images or referrals to narrow boats in your collection? Thanks Dan
Somewhere on this boat resides my hearing aids and a open packet of creme crackers I can find neither .
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Somewhere on this boat resides my hearing aids and a open packet of creme crackers I can find neither .
Possibly a 50/50 day , had to go to hospital for a brain scan , but also joined the Glasgow Libraries.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Possibly a 50/50 day , had to go to hospital for a brain scan , but also joined the Glasgow Libraries.
I feel like there should be a name for the day where you're really keen to tell others of a fact you learnt the previous day and it's been playing on your mind since .
BTW it seems Hedgehogs and Elephants get the same form of ringworm.
BTW it seems Hedgehogs and Elephants get the same form of ringworm.
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I feel like there should be a name for the day where you're really keen to tell others of a fact you learnt the previous day and it's been playing on your mind since .
BTW it seems Hedgehogs and Elephants get the same form of ringworm.
BTW it seems Hedgehogs and Elephants get the same form of ringworm.
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Because I am not good at taking a night off and I am going to GLASGOW for Breaking the News - on Wednesday night I am doing a free gig with @typewronger.bsky.social - spread the word - last Scottish gig of 2025
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Because I am not good at taking a night off and I am going to GLASGOW for Breaking the News - on Wednesday night I am doing a free gig with @typewronger.bsky.social - spread the word - last Scottish gig of 2025
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Sorry but the fact that the RTE player subtitles just say "speaks Irish" instead of showing the actual Irish words really says it all, doesn't it...
#aras25
#aras25
October 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Sorry but the fact that the RTE player subtitles just say "speaks Irish" instead of showing the actual Irish words really says it all, doesn't it...
#aras25
#aras25
Me " The Certificate on this PAT course only has my surname. Please fix that incase my elderly ex midwife mother gets confused cause to her a PAT test is smacking a new born's arse"
* Far greater laughing that quip deserved followed by " my elderly mum is an ex midwife, nuf said "
* Far greater laughing that quip deserved followed by " my elderly mum is an ex midwife, nuf said "
October 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Me " The Certificate on this PAT course only has my surname. Please fix that incase my elderly ex midwife mother gets confused cause to her a PAT test is smacking a new born's arse"
* Far greater laughing that quip deserved followed by " my elderly mum is an ex midwife, nuf said "
* Far greater laughing that quip deserved followed by " my elderly mum is an ex midwife, nuf said "
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I have two fun Edinburgh shows coming up - and look, this one is free - tell your pals please
October 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I have two fun Edinburgh shows coming up - and look, this one is free - tell your pals please
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The idea that education is the same thing as job-training and no more than that is so disheartening.
Getting a job isn’t the goal. Human flourishing is the goal. Getting a job might be a step to flourishing, (or not) but to think “job” is the top of the mountain rather than base camp is so sad.
Getting a job isn’t the goal. Human flourishing is the goal. Getting a job might be a step to flourishing, (or not) but to think “job” is the top of the mountain rather than base camp is so sad.
April 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The idea that education is the same thing as job-training and no more than that is so disheartening.
Getting a job isn’t the goal. Human flourishing is the goal. Getting a job might be a step to flourishing, (or not) but to think “job” is the top of the mountain rather than base camp is so sad.
Getting a job isn’t the goal. Human flourishing is the goal. Getting a job might be a step to flourishing, (or not) but to think “job” is the top of the mountain rather than base camp is so sad.
@caimhmc.bsky.social
I have a Helmsman Instructor Course to finish next week .I promised myself to wait til I completed it , then demolish the audio version of Ring the bells .
I held out till 4:30am , enough said .
I have a Helmsman Instructor Course to finish next week .I promised myself to wait til I completed it , then demolish the audio version of Ring the bells .
I held out till 4:30am , enough said .
October 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
@caimhmc.bsky.social
I have a Helmsman Instructor Course to finish next week .I promised myself to wait til I completed it , then demolish the audio version of Ring the bells .
I held out till 4:30am , enough said .
I have a Helmsman Instructor Course to finish next week .I promised myself to wait til I completed it , then demolish the audio version of Ring the bells .
I held out till 4:30am , enough said .
@robinince.bsky.social I cannot rightly express how gutted I am to miss the Linlithgow gig ( not least as it's 2 years since we last chatted and I have a poetry book for you ) I hold onto the hope a Falkirk Library gig is in the offing . Keep well, Dan
October 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
@robinince.bsky.social I cannot rightly express how gutted I am to miss the Linlithgow gig ( not least as it's 2 years since we last chatted and I have a poetry book for you ) I hold onto the hope a Falkirk Library gig is in the offing . Keep well, Dan
Curiosity drove me recently to check out the old homestead , site of the oldsman's dream . Damp and frankly unfit for habitation. A place of misery , violence and resentment. A Celtic Ozimandias tale
October 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Curiosity drove me recently to check out the old homestead , site of the oldsman's dream . Damp and frankly unfit for habitation. A place of misery , violence and resentment. A Celtic Ozimandias tale