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orladg.bsky.social
@orladg.bsky.social
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Bit worried about the bees.
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neilmackay.bsky.social
It was 22 years ago that I unmasked the highest placed spy for British military intelligence inside the IRA

This week, the British state tried to say it was all over

It’s not. Justice will remain denied until the army is forced to reveal exactly what it did

My story in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
The Squinty Bridge in Glasgow at night.

#glasgow #glasgowatnight #nightphotography #squintybridge #reflection #reflections
December 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
orladg.bsky.social
Victor has already knocked it down twice. And we’ve not even decorated yet.
A black cat looks out from one of the top branches of an undecorated Christmas tree.
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
orladg.bsky.social
Jack and Victor earlier.
#caturday
Two black cats sit on the back of a pink sofa. One is gazing out of the window. Perhaps a seagull has caught his eye. The cat in front has turned and is looking past the camera. She’s not worried, that’s just her face.
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
orladg.bsky.social
A cygnet having a wee preen
One of this spring’s cygnets tidies its feathers in a swirly grey sea. Its neck is folded back over its body as it grooms its tail. Almost all white now, some feathers are still grey and brown. Its bill is a little open.
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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asls.org.uk
When King Haakon IV blundered by using a flat 3000–5000-2000 formation instead of the tried & tested 4000-3000-3000
bellacaledonia.bsky.social Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 21d
Writing tomorrow on how the victory at Hampden was a 'luminous moment' and the most important victory against Scandic forces since the Battle of Largs in 1263
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
orladg.bsky.social
The hardest thing about supporting Scotland? When you have hope. #ScoDen
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
orladg.bsky.social
Jack and Victor relaxing
#caturday
Two black cats relax on a light pink sofa. Jack is in front; his tail hangs down on the left. He’s very sleepy, green eyes barely open. Victor is lying behind him, head almost resting on a PS5 controller. She’s more alert. She looks frightened but that’s just her face.
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Without asylum:

Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist

Queen would have been without a front man

The other queen wouldn't have had a husband

Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea

And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
The lads this morning, fresh as a daisy and ready for more
Carved Swede and Pumpkin
November 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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asls.org.uk
Stop looking like a purse. How could a purse
squeeze under the rickety door and sit,
full of satisfaction, in a man’s house?

—Norman MacCaig, “Toad”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)
#poem #poetry #BookWormSat
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Toad by Norman MacCaig Stop looking like a purse. How could a purse squeeze under the rickety door and sit, full of satisfaction, in a man’s house? You clamber towards me on your four corners – right hand, left foot, left hand, right foot. I love you for being a toad, for crawling like a Japanese wrestler, and for not being frightened. I put you in my purse hand, not shutting it, and set you down outside directly under every star. A jewel in your head? Toad, you’ve put one in mine, a tiny radiance in a dark place.
October 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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fd-scotland.bsky.social
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison addressed a public meeting in Greenock. No newspaper report of this meeting has come to light, but in his letters Garrison left an account of it. www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Greenock: 22 September 1846
On public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass on 22 September 1846.
www.bulldozia.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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fd-scotland.bsky.social
According to Colin MacDonald’s research on Frederick Douglass in Greenock, it probably took place at the Mid-Kirk on Cathcart Square – close by Melvin’s Temperance Hotel, a site now occupied by local government offices. sonofskye.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/f...
Frederick Douglass in Greenock
Frederick Douglass is a towering figure of American History. Escaping slavery in 1838, he became one of the great social reformers, passionately advocating for the end of slavery and the emancipati…
sonofskye.wordpress.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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number10cat.bsky.social
The most important news from today's reshuffle:
September 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
The main entrance to Kelvingrove Art Gallery in the West End of Glasgow just as night is falling. Is it just me, or do those towers look a bit more sinister in silhouette than they normally do?

#glasgow #kelvingroveartgallery #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowatnight #nightphotography
August 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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justrena.bsky.social
I like this very much.
www.sapiens.org/biology/indi...
Scientists Uplift Indigenous Human-Horse Histories
An archaeologist and Lakota scientist combine archaeology, DNA, and Indigenous knowledge to help revise colonial U.S. human-horse narratives.
www.sapiens.org
August 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
orladg.bsky.social
The esplanade cygnets are getting big
Two swans and their four cygnets are resting. The are in the corner of the esplanade shore, under a curved wall with sky blue railings. There are grey pebbles at the bottom left corner. With green plants further up. One cygnet is sitting along here. The others are at the wall, near the straw that used to be their nest.
August 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
People who enjoy the work of Mark Rothko may also enjoy this morning’s view from the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay ferry
View of the sea from a ferry window. The sea is dark grey and the sky is light grey and they meet in a sort of bleak Rothko painting
August 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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pennyred.bsky.social
So they’ll arrest 474 people for holding signs opposing genocide, but the people trying to burn down immigration centres have legitimate concerns? Is that right? Have I missed something?
August 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
orladg.bsky.social
Jack’s found a comfy spot
#Caturday
A black cat is curled up in a rectangular woven basket. He’s looking up. The basket is on a an old wooded chair for a child, in a corner that’s painted light blue.
August 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
orladg.bsky.social
Jack is helping with some furniture building.
A black cat lies on his side while holding a front paw up to clean. He’s helpfully lying on the assembly instructions that we need to read.
July 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
orladg.bsky.social
Helped a bee today. It flew off just after I took this photo.
An exhausted bee drinks sugar water while resting on scrunched up kitchen roll that’s soaked in it. It’s in a wee white dish out on some plants. The bee had a fuzzy brown back and a sleek rump.
July 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
orladg.bsky.social
Just don’t.
#blackcat
A black cat stands on top of a white door. He’s too high up and hasn’t thought about how he’s getting down.
July 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
orladg.bsky.social
#flyingants

Just no. There’s no need for them.
July 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM