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DaveHenniker

@davehenniker.bsky.social
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82 years old, widower since 2016. Website since 1999. Visit henniker.scot for unusual photography including infrared.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21h
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Erroneous Error Messages Captured from customers' PCs when I worked as a technician in PC World's in-store PC Clinic at Kinnaird Park. All dialogue boxes are genuine except for the one with the wee dog.
Windows dialogue boxes / error messages
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#OTD in 2009, the view down the zigzag path up Arthur's Seat.
The tree covered hill in the distance is Corstorphine Hill. Edinburgh Castle is just visible beyond Salisbury Crags.
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#OTD in 2015, patterns on the sand at Aberlady Bay.
Low tide reveals ripple patterns in the sand. The horizon is misty.
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most of Burnham's promises were for policies to be introduced after the next GE, the national care service, reform of the voting system, closer ties with the EU, all put off until after the next GE - political code for ‘never’. It was a very traditional Labour speech, the jam is always tomorrow.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A member of the House of Lords has been branded 'pathetic' after stealing a journalist’s microphone and putting it in the bin
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Lord steals and throws Owen Jones's microphone in the bin during agonising interview
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#OTD in 2020 the view towards Edinburgh Castle from the tramline near Carrick Knowe.
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 28/09/2026
For sale. Highland moonbase. Moonrover not included. Buyer to provide own space suit. search.savills.com/property-det...
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Druim Na Cracaig Portfolio, Drimnin, Oban, Highland, PA80 5XZ | Property for sale | Savills
Property details for Druim Na Cracaig Portfolio. One of many properties for sale in Drimnin, Oban, Highland, PA80 5XZ from Savills, world leading estate agents.
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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.
Rainbow sea slug on a rockRainbow sea slug on a rockRainbow sea slug on a rock from aboveRainbow sea slug on a rock
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Read the full story here: www.thenational.scot/news/2658880...
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Pro-independence groups from Scotland, Wales and Ireland hold 'historic' meeting
Pro-independence groups from Scotland, Wales and the island of Ireland have met to discuss how they can work together
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: SNP members have launched a new internal pressure group demanding the party 'reprioritise its core mission' of Scottish independence Named 'Independence', the group has been formed ahead of next month’s SNP conference
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SNP members launch ‘Independence’ group to pressure party leadership
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Ian Mackie 🌱 @ian4mackie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.globaltimes.cn/page/202609/...
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Bai Yulu reclaims women’s snooker world No.1 with eyes on the Crucible
For 23-year-old Chinese snooker player Bai Yulu, reclaiming the world No.1 ranking was not quite the celebration it might have been the first time around.
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Arthur's Seat this afternoon. It's my favourite bike ride at car-free weekends.
On the High Road approaching Dunsapie Loch.
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#OTD in 2003, a paraglider soars over the Pentland Hills.
The Firth of Forth and Arthur's Seat can be seen behind the red paraglider.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Far-right activist Danny Tommo has pleaded not guilty to criminal damage after he allegedly slashed a migrant dinghy in the English Channel👇
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Far-right activist Danny Tommo pleads not guilty after 'slashing Channel dinghy'
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Campaigners who believe Scotland should declare a 'unilateral declaration of independence' from the UK have gathered in Glasgow
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Activists urge 'unilateral declaration of independence' at Glasgow protest
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#OTD in 2005 Goodbye to Mulhearn and Brotchie garden centre, Hello to Tesco.
Looking across Holy Corner from the Eric Liddell Centre to the Bank of Scotland on the right (now McLaren's restaurant) and the former garden centre on the left, behind the white fence.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.
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Edinburgh Images 📷 @colognuh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The famous ‘Red Phone Boxes’ on The Royal Mile, survived the Edinburgh Festival, almost 😎
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The comments section is predictably full of patronising Guardianista Anglo-splaining Scotland, Wales, and Ireland to Scottish, Welsh, and Irish people, because we depend upon the English to explain our own countries to us. Our pretty little Celtic heads can't manage by themselves.
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 22/09/2026
Together w/ @crashcoalition.bsky.social & @movementyvr.bsky.social, we're calling upon the Chief Coroner, Dr. Baidwan to assess the greater fatality risk of pickups and large SUVs on road safety, and to make recommendations to address these dangers. Read more: visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/09/21/o...
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Oversized Vehicles. Oversized Danger.
British Columbia has become the latest province in Canada where the Chief Coroner is being asked to investigate the growing danger to pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable road users from pic…
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The view from my window last night looking west over Merchiston.
Slanted sunbeams. There's a glimmer of sunshine on the horizon at the right of the picture. Its location is near Ratho and Wilkieston.
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#OTD in 2014, an infrared photo of the path along Caerketton ridge in the Pentland Hills.
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#OTD in 2023 colourful characters at the bus stop
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Day’s Work Begins, Newhaven fishwives near Edinburgh, 1937, photo by Charles Trampus, French photojournalist (National Galleries Scotland).
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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
100 years ago today: A cyclist replies to a motorist's complaint that cyclists don't pay road tax and cycle two or more abreast, holding up drivers. How things have changed.
MOTORISTS AND ROADS
MAY I humbly point out to your correspon-dent, Colin M. G. Ross, that were in existence before motoring commenced, and if only cyclists had used them they would probably have lasted for ever? It was the ad-vent of motor-cars that made a tax neces-sary owing to their destructiveness.
With regard to cyclists riding three and four abreast, this is the exception, not the rule; and the practice is usually confined to irresponsible local youths.
Cyclists as a rule never ride more than two abreast and are quite willing to ride single file where the road is narrow, but they cannot fade away for every motor-horn.
С. Т. С.
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Undiscovered Scotland @undisscot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The superbly preserved Craigmillar Castle, three miles south-east of the centre of Edinburgh. Mary, Queen of Scots came here in December 1566 when the "Craigmillar Bond", a plan to kill her second husband, Lord Darnley, was agreed. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Edinburgh
Craigmillar Castle. The image shows a grassy area in the foreground with a tall grey stone wall beyond it, with a circular tower at either end. The structure has battlements on top and there are gables and other parts of buildings projecting above the wall. Three people are standing on top of the right-hand tower. The scene is in sunlight.
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#OTD in 2012, an infrared shot of the Union Canal near Dorset Place.
A canal boat approaches the Viewforth bridge having just passed under the Yeaman Place bridge. The greenery looks white because it reflects the infrared wavelengths not required for photosynthesis.
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ascottsview.bsky.social @ascottsview.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New moovable ‘Passing Place’ signs introduced in the Scottish Highlands.
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The SNP @snp.org · 18/09/2026
Scotland is energy-rich, so why are our bills so high? Because the power lies in Westminster’s hands. www.snp.org/broken-promi...
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Broken promises of Better Together leave energy-rich Scotland in the cold — Scottish National Party
Scotland is energy-rich, so why are our bills so high? Because the power lies in Westminster’s hands.
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Johnny McBob (Maigret arc) @wolfmanramirez.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I do really strongly recommend the Sandra George show at the City Art Center, the kids are joyous, the flats grotty and the unloved parts of the city are made beautiful
A band on a young communist league flat bed outside some tower blocks A march in Wolverhampton against the Nazis Hands reading braile Ladies under hairdryers, one smoking a cig
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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
One of the big crane ships was back in Leith the other day, so I hustled on down there with my camera and... got there just AFTER the golden evening sun disappeared behind the clouds on the horizon. D'oh! Still, big things by the shore... Fun anyway! […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]
An enormous crane ship, parked up on the shore by a little lighthouse. It catches the last of the warm evening sun, and the clouds behind it are beginning to turn pink in the light of the sunset.

This is the Seaway Alfa Lift, and it can sail around the world, lifting items up to 3,000 tons in weight, up to 108m into the air. An extraordinary vessel.A dockside filled with the widely-dispersed industrial bits and pieces you might expect on any modern dockside. There's a three-storey building which presumably houses some kind of control or operations centre, and then a series of lower sheds, various vehicles, a lot of flood lights...

Towering over them all are a series of three-legged bright yellow structures. They're all 'jacket foundations' and are up to 95m tall. They will all sit underwater in the north sea once they're installed, each holding a transition piece and then a tower and then a wind turbine above them. The scale of the things is quite incredible.A fisherman on a dockside, facing away from us. In the distance, across the body of water, are a couple of three-legged bright yellow structures. They're 'jacket foundations' and are up to 95m tall. They will all sit underwater in the north sea once they're installed, each holding a transition piece and then a tower and then a wind turbine above them. The scale of the things is quite incredible.A zoomed-in shot of part of the big crane on a floating crane ship. 

This is the Seaway Alfa Lift, and it can sail around the world, lifting items up to 3,000 tons in weight, up to 108m into the air. An extraordinary vessel.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Full story here: www.thenational.scot/news/2656162...
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Former MI6 spy sues Donald Trump for £800,000 in Scottish court
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is being sued for more than £800,000 by a company founded by a former MI6 spy at a Scottish court ...
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Enjoyed the Escher documentary on Amazon Prime www.imdb.com/title/tt8297...
Lizards magically emerge from a printed image and walk over a book and other objects to rejoin the page again.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A Unionist summit organised by the Orange Order has flopped after just a handful of people turned up ... 👀
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Orange Order Unionist 'summit' flops as photos show tiny turnout
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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SNP and Greens urged to unite with new Westminster strategy on indyref anniversary
The SNP and the Scottish Greens have been urged to unite with a new Westminster strategy with the sole aim of achieving independence
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#OTD in 2007: 7 photos of Niddrie
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The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The WINNER of the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing is... The Savage Landscape, @calflyn.bsky.social (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social) #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
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Reuters @reuters.com · 17/09/2026
New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century reut.rs/4yIJjwO
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New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described ​in more than a century.
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Balaclava boys on electric bikes: How to tackle the problem? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Balaclava boys on electric bikes: How to tackle the problem?
The sight of masked young men on electric bikes or motorcycles is becoming increasingly familiar - what can be done about it?
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: 'Shocking' details around royal family funding arrangements have been laid bare in a fresh report The research shows that official royal funding has increased by 565% in real terms since the late Queen Elizabeth came to the throne
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'Shocking' details on royal funding revealed in fresh report
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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A peaceful afternoon at the heart of the city of Edinburgh.
Arthur's Seat as seen from Bruntsfield Links.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tomorrow's front page 📰 SNP, Sinn Fein and Plaid Cymru sign historic self-determination declaration
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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Its #BlueskyMonday. I know. I post a lot of images of this lonely old pine snag that sits just offshore on a North Florida beach. I don't know what draws me to it. There's a certain elegance in its curves. It's a piece of nature's art. #photography #landscape #ECK #longexposure #sunrise
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
BBC News: Mass trespass staged in PM Andy Burnham's constituency "They walked on to the Winstanley Hall estate in Wigan as part of their calls for a change in the law to bring in a Scottish-style right of responsible access to land and water that is privately owned." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mass trespass staged in Prime Minister Andy Burnham's Makerfield constituency
Protestors walked on to a private estate in Wigan as part of their calls for the right to roam.
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Greg Moodie @gregmoodie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Rise and shine, wastrels. Did you know that Blighty stems from the word blight, meaning epidemic? Yes, that's how much England is loved around the world. gregmoodie.com/dear-john/
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Dear John
Prime Minister Andy Burnham appeared to lay down the conditions for a second Scottish independence referendum by saying the situation was the same as in Northern Ireland, where the Good Friday agreeme...
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You can’t park there mate, only in Welsh
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Driver wedges Kia SUV on Wales Coast Path at Mumbles
It was jammed between a concrete fence post and a bench, and had been abandoned by the driver.
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