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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 30/07/2026

I mean it also places Great Britain somewhere between Blackburn and Clitheroe

A Google Maps screenshot that places Great Britain somewhere between Blackburn and Clitheroe

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 03/06/2026

Help, I apparently need the phone number for ‘Scotland’.

Please note the information on their website relates to England and Wales. If you require more information relating to Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can call them for further assistance.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 31/05/2026

I wasn’t expecting my Barnardos donation to attract quite this level of criticism

One of those Barnardos coin donation thingys where the coin would roll down in a spiral before falling into the hole. It’s the size of a small round table with a big plastic dome on top.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 21/05/2026

It seems that @proton.me have fundamentally degraded the usability of the Drive iOS app, and slipped out the change in a “Bug fixes and performance” update. It’s deeply frustrating as a user, and makes it difficult to recommend Drive to those wishing to de-Google themselves.

An App Store review from ScottGrant89 and its response from Proton:

No longer works with files in iOS or iPados

ScottGrant89

For the past few weeks I've been unable to save to proton drive from my iPad or iPhone or open documents within apps from proton drive as it's disappeared from the storage locations in files. Proton have said they are working on a fix but that was weeks ago now. I'm getting fed up of waiting for them to fix a services they are still charging for and if it's not fixed soon I will have to cancel my subscription and look else where.

Developer Response

The latest SDK enabled version which brings with it faster and more performant uploads/downloads does not support Files app integration yet. We are working on it and it will be released in a future version.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 19/05/2026

On the topic of the urinal, humans don’t generally mark their territory by peeing on it. Which Churchill are we talking about here?

The dog toy used as the Churchill Insurance mascot

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 12/05/2026

The noise must be unbearable

A host of angels in robes blowing vuvuzelas

A 2010 FIFA World Cup crowd blowing vuvuzelas (credit: Wikipedia user Caldwella)

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 01/05/2026

Eurasia with Europe at the top is a spoiler for a book I read once.

A screenshot from the Google Earth iOS app, showing Eurasia and oriented with Europe at the top and China at the bottom.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 18/04/2026

What THE FUCK I say THE FUCK is this

A map of Scottish Parliament constituencies, with Banff and Buchan showing up as dark blue showing significant positive variation in vote share for the far-right Reform party compared to the UK General Election 2024 vote. Foghorn Leghorn is superimposed, gesturing towards said constituency.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 07/04/2026

I’m not the only one who thought this was weird.

A letter in the Guardian that reads:

Am I the only reader who was (until very recently) puzzled by the "alien facehugger" in your "Don't miss a beat" subscription advert?
Christian Gould
Shepherds Bush, London

The Guardian’s “Don’t miss a beat” subscription advert, featuring a fleshy disembodied elongated alien hand with metal claws that is actually a whisk covered in pink whipped cream or icing

A scene from the film Arrival featuring two whisks covered in black icing that are actually the lower bodies and legs of the alien characters

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 31/10/2025

My ‘following’ timeline

Above, Carlton Reid’s dog moving its face, blurring it so much that it looks like it doesn’t have a face. Below, a post from the Star Trek Minus Content account showing a woman in a TOS uniform, without a face.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 16/10/2025

My mind had been blown by the BBC’s representation of “13.5 million litres”.

“Data centres powering artificial intelligence (Al) in Scotland are using enough tap water to fill 27 million half-litre bottles a year, according to data obtained by BBC News.”
Screengrabbed from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77zxx43x4vo

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 11/09/2025

I know country buses stop absolutely everywhere but I don’t think I’m prepared for it to stop at the Leaderfoot Roundabout and then drive right round for another go

• Ride 17 stops (35 min)
Leaderfoot Roundabout
Leaderfoot Roundabout
Eildon Road End
Council Headquarters

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 09/09/2025

There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

Link from Breath of the Wild, dressed in lightning-proof rubber clothing that makes him look a bit like a swamp monster

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 18/08/2025

It’s still there, although it’s only accessible from the desktop version of the site, not the mobile one.

A screenshot of an Ordnance Survey map of Crovie in Aberdeenshire, in Bing Maps. Safari for iOS has been forced to show the desktop version of the site.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 16/07/2025

My cargo bike is back on the road, with a new set of sliding dropouts. 35 £ for the pair. This could have been a very expensive breakage if they’d been integrated in the frame!

A pair of sliding dropouts, removed from the bike and placed on a wooden deck. The left dropout is larger than the right, with mount points for a disc brake caliper. Both dropouts show signs of use, with markings and corrosion around the wheel clamping points. Part of the right-hand dropout has snapped off at the wheel clamping point, rendering it unsafe to use. Each dropout has a part code marked on it.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 09/07/2025

Any ‘government’ email that links to a website that doesn’t end in ‘.gov.uk’ is immediately suspicious. This one happens to be real, but it makes it much harder to spot a fake email when the real ones also look fake. @aberdeencc.bsky.social @abshirecouncil.bsky.social @moraycouncil.bsky.social

This email has been sent using a
secure gov.uk messaging service
which is used by many central and
local government bodies - if you are
concerned about the authenticity of
this email, please contact our office on
01224 068400 or visit our website at
www.votegrampian.org for more
information on what we do.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 05/07/2025

The Bluesky app I use has taken this somewhat literally

A screenshot of the post that this post is replying to, showing the text “can be used quite widely” and the video. A still of the video has been stretched horizontally to fill the entire width, while the video itself is shown in the middle, in its original vertical aspect ratio.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 30/06/2025

The segregated cycle lane along Tillydrone Rd and Gordon’s Mills Rd in Aberdeen is just one gigantic bus stop island. It has four bus stops, and fifteen marked crossings at entrances to properties.

A screenshot of Google Street View showing a bus stop and two property entrances, as described in the post.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 16/06/2025

@skeetsapp.com Hi, I’m having a problem with the ‘Hide repeating posts’ feature, I’ve got it enabled but it doesn’t seem to be working for me. Is there anything that I’m missing?

A screenshot from Skeets showing the ‘Hide repeating posts’ option enabled.

A screenshot from Skeets showing the same post being repeated three times in a row, re-posted by different users.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 02/06/2025

Does anybody else see Marge Simpson on a broomstick?

Caption: “Thermal imaging cameras show the Mount Etna eruption”
From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5e7vx2pk9o

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 15/05/2025

Saving this on my phone because “Put the nestling back in the nest” is the only bit I’m going to remember.

Nicholas Cage in Con Air. His line in this scene is “Put the bunny back in the box”.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 14/05/2025

Quote post this with a picture of the aeroplane you'll accept as a bribe.

A “Caspian Sea Monster” ground effect vehicle flying just above the water.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 25/03/2025

Laughing at “Marie (@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com), you’re an expert on people going mad online”, because @skeetsapp.com has a bug where replies to deleted posts show up as regular posts and it makes the reply authors appear utterly deranged, and this is the screenshot I took to illustrate this.

A screenshot of the Bluesky app Skeets showing a post from Marie Le Conte that simple reads, “fuck off”.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 11/02/2025

Splinter taught them two-bean fighting

A screen grab from Sonic Fighters, showing the Next Match screen. The character, Bean the Dynamite, is due to fight himself.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 11/02/2025

I love the concept behind Pop! OS Shell’s window tiling, but Windows PowerToys FancyZones wins today for making it easy to just not use the broken parts of my monitor.

A broken ultrawide monitor. Roughly 10 cm on the right hand side is unusable, and several lines of pixels in the bottom 5 cm are non-functional. The FancyZones editor is open, with the part of the screen that remains functional split into six zones.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 30/01/2025

Here are the equivalent figures for Scotland, where Scottish Water is publicly owned.

Water and waste charges 2025/26.
Increases range from £36 in band A to £108 in band H.
Source: Scottish Water, published by the BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdry6zldl6ko

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 23/01/2025

Ours is still up there 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A blue sky with two contrails, giving the appearance of the flag of Scotland. Photo credit: Greg Mape, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57021974

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