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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 4h

I saw the first on X then read the second on 🦋

Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 4h

*looks at sky*

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you - ashamed to say I’d already come across it!

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 17h

There’s a part of me feeling wistful for being a good two decades too old for all the Taylor Swift discourse, bc it is all so weirdly fascinating.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 18h

216 hours and 45 minutes until departure.

a man standing in front of a house with the words " it 's nothing to be concerned about " below him

ALT: a man standing in front of a house with the words " it 's nothing to be concerned about " below him

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 19h

Meadhan an Dàmhair, Dùn Èideann, an feasgar. Is toil leam gu mòr flùraichean ach a bheil seo àbhaisteach ma-thà? #speurgorm

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 1d

Tickets not yet released for a train I’m hoping to catch in 9 days time. Mild panic is setting in.

garfield is looking at a calendar that says monday on it

ALT: garfield is looking at a calendar that says monday on it

media.tenor.com

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

Frog got a ladder. He put the box up on a high shelf. “There,” said Frog. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

Frog climbs a ladder and hides the cookies high on a shelf.

From "Cookies"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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🖤 Taylor Wright 🖤 @redlamp.org · 1d

The full moon made a beautifully eerie silhouette of the rooftop architectural elements in my 1800's Edinburgh neighborhood.

Photo of the full moon rising from behind the silhouette of metalwork and a architectural urn on the roof of an Edinburgh flat from the 1800's.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn’t seem that widespread rollout is planned yet. But prima facie a progressive move.

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 2d

When you erase words, you erase worlds that were, and worlds to come.

Readers resist

#BannedBooksWeek #books #livres #censorship #FreedomOfExpression
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg

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scott lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 3d

Reading MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle again. It was published 100 years ago next year. Kenneth Buthlay's annotated edition from 1987, published by @asls.org.uk, remains the best guide. The poem itself is as thrilling, ambitious and flawed as ever it was.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 2d

An interesting, and also very moving, article on the Irish Government’s Basic Income for Artists pilot.

A BAI would perhaps also help to counteract the depredations of AI?

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JDL3 @dlunsford3.bsky.social · 4d

Let It Be was the 12th Beatles released, but the 11th recorded. The actual 12th Beatles album gives us the most obvious answer to “who had the best 12th album?”

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Jes Steele @piratito.com · 10d

I've been down the most fascinating rabbit hole this evening. A charity here in the UK called Heritage Crafts are giving bursaries for people wanting to learn endangered crafts. Just some of the crafts on the list:

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 2d

Just had the that-wasn’t-at-all-tasty-but-I’m-going-to-freeze-the-leftovers-anyway microwave dinner.
Six months in the freezer did not improve it.

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WeNeedtoCalmDwn @weneededtocalmdwn.bsky.social · 2d

Me telling myself I’m going to put my phone in the other room so my screen time is less than 10 hours today 🐸

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 3d

Not going into winter without a fight!

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 4d

This is absolutely staggering.

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 4d

Record warm ocean temperatures continued in September across the North Pacific Ocean, with a number of consequential impacts (including on downstream weather patterns).

This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every September from 1854-2025 using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data.

Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each September from 1850 through 2025 for only the midlatitude region of the North Pacific Ocean. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. 2025 is a record high.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 4d

I’m a little bit taken aback by this, bc I’d accepted it as true, too. Part of me was vaguely thinking that talk of a procurement framework seemed very premature, but that vague thought didn’t crystallise enough for me to actually question the claim

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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Eddy Graham ("eddy weather") @eddywx.bsky.social · 5d

What a beauty... a terrible monstrous beauty... #StormAmy #Humberto from METEOSAT-12/ MTG water vapour 6.2micron channel: The dark area is dry, descending air. Where it forms the scorpion's tail in the final frame (dare I say "sting") is location of some of the most violent winds

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 5d

Today has been a busy day. But leaning into Storm Amy by pulling across the curtains, creating a justification for an extensive interlinked fire safety system, and cooking venison stew.

‘It’s not as good as the last one,’ sighs child, picking at a carrot. 😶

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, I guess so.

Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 6d

Good point about combo alarms. When the fitter installed my stove he told me I needed a CO2 alarm; which I do have, tho it’s not an interlinked one.

So I do have one smoke alarm 2 two CO2 detectors already. This feels sufficient to me, but they’re not interlinked, & so I’m not legally compliant.

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