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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 3h

Sounds like it’ll go well with the porridge that The Hound used to advertise

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026

I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings

The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scam

The cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.

A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 02/10/2026

It would be nice to be able to configure the secure link defaults, so that I don’t have to set my preferred “Link expires after” and “Maximum views” settings every single time. It already takes so many taps to airdrop a secure link, it would be great to reduce it a bit.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 28/09/2026

The song I used to sing in school instead of what I was meant to be singing might see me up on terrorism charges these days

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What's LGBTQ stand for? wrong answers only LaForge, Guinan, Beverly, Troy, and, well, Q

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Andrew Carter @cartoir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

LNER going for an ad strategy that is localised enough to name the correct city but not localised enough to realise the phrasing is going to annoy the city in question.

LNER YouTube advert saying 'From Edinburgh to the capital just like that...'

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 10/09/2026

Modern podcasters often refer to their podcast as “the pod”, despite being very much the “cast” side of the equation.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 04/09/2026

Also thinking about the time the taps stopped running. Immediately went out and bought several huge bottles of water to ride it out. The water was off for half an hour

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 04/09/2026

I’m in the opposite situation, moving house this month and currently trying to eat all the food in the kitchen rather than have to bring it with me

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 02/09/2026

I laugh out loud every time I see his face because apparently no normal photo of him exists. He looked like fucking Max Headroom in the latest one.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 25/08/2026

This is part of France’s renewable energy strategy

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 14/08/2026

My mum’s in Scotland and she got it, but she’s pretty close to the border. Less than 5 miles away as the crow flies.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 13/08/2026

No they say we’re a shaded people

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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 · 20/07/2026

All of Lancashire, and all of Yorkshire, are closer to the south coast of England than they are to the north coast of the Scottish mainland.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 20/07/2026

Manchester Piccadilly is also closer to London Euston than it is to the northernmost point of England. Just.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 20/07/2026

There are loads of different ways of looking at this. My personal favourite is that, as the crow flies, Manchester Piccadilly is closer to the south coast of the Isle of Wight than it is to Dundee.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 14/07/2026

Alex Mack, Constable Odo and a T-1000 walk into a bar…

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 10/07/2026

Was the pint of milk standing for parliament?

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 10/07/2026

No ticket? Just turn up in the middle of the night claiming to be a Scottish laird.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 05/07/2026

Reminds me of a former colleague tbh

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 03/07/2026

I tried to do something with the help of Claude Code that to be fair was impossible, and I did enjoy its assessment of its performance: “…every time … the result has been a different flavour of wrong”

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 26/06/2026

I’m convinced this is still the correct way to transcribe ‘u’. It works the other way too. My wife introduced me to the word ‘szörpi’ without writing it down, and I just started saying ‘surpy’ and she never noticed anything wrong.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 19/06/2026

I wonder how much she spends on salt and pepper grinders

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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland is one of the hardest hit regions w ~9% GVA loss by 2023 The biggest sectors (whisky & food, oil & chemicals, professional services) make up 44% of its EU exports. Brexit erected barriers across all of them. And Scotland didn’t vote for this... brexitcost.org/itl1/TLM.htm... 4/...

brexitcost.org

Brexit Cost Explorer — Scotland

Brexit cost estimate for Scotland: −£27,357m GVA gap in 2023 (−14% vs. no-Brexit path). Synthetic control analysis — Brexit Cost Project.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 16/06/2026

Musk could probably afford to turn Washington into his own Tracy Island at this point. Demolish the East Wing and build a circular gallery, with a rocket launching out the middle Thunderbird 3 style. Make the Reflecting Pool retract to reveal another rocket. Retractable trees.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/06/2026

jesus this is so sad www.france24.com/en/culture/2...

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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 · 01/06/2026

Is that a promotion from ensign or what

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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 · 27/05/2026

If we use up all the oil and gas for things where alternatives are available (electricity generation, heat pumps, EVs), then we’re bringing forward the date when we run out for things where alternatives *don’t* exist.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 25/05/2026

Fair enough if you spend more than 5500 £ of embezzled money on high-end coffee machines. But then spending a further 81.16 £ on Nescafé Gold Blend? Straight to jail.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations

Panel 1
A figure addresses an audience from a lectern:
"Welcome to the IWAS*! Today I'm Going to talk about ARPs* in our communications."

Notes
*1 Institute-Wide Abbreviation seminar
*2 Abbreviation-Related Problems

Panel 2
She continues "These fall into two categories:" gesturing to a screen wshich reads:
1. ROAs*
2.WUAs*

Notes
*3 Ridiculously Obscure Abbreviations
*4 Wrongly-Used Abbreviations

Panel 3
She says:
"...In conclusion: Stick to WRAs* and use them correctly and sparingly."
One of the audience thinks "WTF!"

Notes
*5 widely-recognised Abbreviations
*6 Well, that's fascinating.

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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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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I look forward to how all the "but he's so good at foreign policy" Starmtroopers rationalise "loosening sanctions on Russia because doing anything to reduce fuel consumption is too scary and hard". Grim we still have to have this weak, visionless idiot in power for at least a few more months

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

bbc.co.uk

UK loosens Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices rise

The waiver reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 19/05/2026

I grew up in a household with a hard-of-hearing parent. In this small way, I am Prepared for this timeline.

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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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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 14/05/2026

BBS Open Letter on Improving Scottish Parliament Results Reporting An open letter from Ballot Box Scotland urging significant improvements to reporting on Scottish Parliament elections; or, why does a hobbyist publish more data on the regional vote than the BBC?

ballotbox.scot

BBS Open Letter on Improving Scottish Parliament Results Reporting

An open letter from Ballot Box Scotland urging significant improvements to reporting on Scottish Parliament elections; or, why does a hobbyist publish more data than the BBC?

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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 · 08/05/2026

It makes me wonder what would happen if I phoned up the MOD and told them I had the robot that they lost. Just, you know, speculatively. To find out if they’d lost any robots at that particular time.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 08/05/2026

I’m just thinking about how Stephanie Speck phoned up and asked, “I'd like to speak to one of your head warmongers, please” and actually got through to one of them.

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Chris @chriswalker.scot · 08/05/2026

The party led by Six Boats Offord came third in a contest that was all about boats.

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