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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Listening to this more properly this morning as I was absent for significant chunks of it last night. It’s full of nice things! And thanks so much to the illustrious host for playing Maud! That got a big grin.

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Gary @witewulf.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Some pics from the Jazz Sabbath show last night. Jack Tustin on upright bass.

A black and white image of a man with curly hair, in a smart suit, playing upright bass on a small stage.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

[Sports / NFL] Sigh. Go birds, I guess.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I realise that, over the years, I’ve taken several versions of basically the same photo looking between the Forth Bridges, now. Sort of pleasing, really, but I can’t really explain why. #bridges #photography #Siblings

A view of the Forth Bridge in the distance, with part of the Forth Road bridge visible at the top of the frame in the foreground.

A view of the Queensferry Crossing and Firth Road Bridges in the distance, with part of the Forth Bridge visible at the top of the frame in the foreground.

A view of the Forth Road Bridge in the distance, with a few of the Queensferry Crossing cable stays visible at the top of the frame in the foreground.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Snaps from a quick jaunt over the Forth with the kidbots yesterday, for a little walk and a big lunch.

A bent tree trunk catches a tiny beam of sunlight falling into the otherwise shady glen in which it sits. Behind the tree, is a waterfall.

Two kids traipse along a narrow path running across a steep hillside, looking over a small glen on their left. The flat Forth Valley is just visible in the distance, stretching away from us under cloudy skies.

Looking up to the sky from under some trees, we see the sun shining out over the top of a big fluffy cloud. The cloud has a brightened edge.

A slightly abstract photo of parts of two bridges, shot against a cloudy sky. Across the top of the frame is the structure supporting the deck of the Forth Road Bridge, all grey but with strong contrast from the sunshine which shines part way through the mass of structural elements. Down at the bottom of the frame, part of the red diamand-shaped central tower of the Forth Bridge is visible, in the distance.

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Sam at BLAG @blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Am I hallucinating or was there once a Twitter hashtag like #UnintentionalAmpersand or #AmpersandInTheWild? Either way, here's one spotted in the kitchen today. cc @daveybot #Ampersand

Photo of a small piece of chain with a clasp on the end that is sitting on a black speckled marble surface such that the way it curls over itself gives the appearance of an ampersand.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Oh FFS, Olivia Dean has been copying Bill Withers, apparently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c933k3g… I'm no musician so by all means please correct me if I'm way off, but 'sounding a bit like' is an absolute horseshit argument, and these ghouls should be (IMHO) forced to eat their […]

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

No particular reason, but here's a photo I've always loved, which I see I took exactly ten years ago, today. I loved that flat. And that landing, and the stairs. And the parquet floor, gawd... that's one of the best things we've ever made. And Lyra. What a brilliant little cat she was.

A photo taken in a stairwell of a house. Sunlight shines through a doorway off frame to the left, and casts shadows onto the wall on the right of the frame. Before it gets there, though, it highlights a series of slim vertical rails and a wide balustrade on which tiptoes a small ginger and white cat, also rather beautifully highlighted by the low-angle sun. A woman is watching the cat, delighted. The landing is otherwise lit by the cool ambient daylight provided by a couple of square rooflights in the ceiling, but the warm colours of a maple parquet floor mirror the ginger tones of the little cat. It's just a glimpse of a residential landing, but it's a very happy one.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I actually prefer the way @DJDarren pronounces my name, but still: getting an ‘aww’ out of Doctor Kermode feels like some kind of achievement!

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

It's very, very rare, but every now and then I come across a Far Side comic I didn't previously know. Today, it was... www.thefarside.com/2026/09/29/0

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

To be honest, I could probably just fill nine squares with Dungeon Master. …Although if that could somehow include Gordon Freeman linking into it using some kind of magical book, that would be perfect. #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/c976ba79-d327…

A grid of covers from nine computer games.
Top row: Dungeon Master / Speedball 2 / IK+
Middle row: Lemmings / Myst / Unreal Tournament
Bottom row: Worms 2 / Half Life 2 / Portal

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1173522256138… Is it strange that I'm particularly excited to read any real news of Juice's actual mission, primarily since I enjoyed the entirely fictional accounts of how Juice and a couple of other satellites will enjoy watching American Football, in […]

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Doors Open Weekend in #Edinburgh, and I dragged Eldest Childbot out to have a look in Register House. I’d been meaning to go in here for years, as I’m a bit of a James Tytler fan. As he prepared to become the first person to fly in these islands, he inflated […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Looking up into a circular atrium. Shelves line the walls at lower levels, then arches and balconies frame the view up to an intricate plastered dome, with a small roof light at the very top.

Looking up towards an intricately plastered, domed ceiling. The perfect symmetry sought by the photographer was elusive, as a display about lighthouses was blocking the very centre of the room. Still, it makes for a pretty and quite graphical composition.

An intricate plastered ceiling, all in white.

A wood-panelled room lined with shelves opens up to an intricate plastered ceiling, high above. It’s very formal, very finely crafted.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Woke earlier than I was happy with yesterday, so just grabbed the camera and strolled around the block in the hope of seeing something interesting. Not much in terms of pictures, to be honest, but I can’t pretend my neighbourhood isn’t full of nice moments!

A view from beneath some trees, looking out across Holyrood Park, in Edinburgh. The trees under which we stand are all silhouetted, but leafy canopies in the distance are beginning to shift into autumnal colours, and the hillside of Arthur’s Seat looks slightly cool in the early morning light

A cool early-morning photograph of part of the front of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. The clear blue sky casts a very cool ambient light over everything, and water of the reflecting pool in the foreground mirrors it. What we can see of the building is a highly ornate composition of concrete forms, steel struts, wooden sticks, granite walls, and metallic frames to glazing. It’s finely crafted and very carefully composed but also incredibly informal.

A sign reflects the golden early morning light on a big square building. MEADOWBANK, THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL, it says, in the colour of the dawn.

Part of a garden in the early morning light of a day in late September. It’s mostly just shades of green right now, but the variety is still quite pleasing.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I’m almost 50, and I still can’t resist picking up the first conkers of the season. #Autumn #fall #conkers

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

[Insects / wasps] This wasp, twerking while drinking.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

[‘Parents’] Out on the web I’m seeing ads for a new horror film called Other Mommy. I’ve no power to influence anyone in their writing or titling or advertising choices, and I shouldn’t have. But, as an adoptive Dad, I would simply like to say that there are a lot of people out there for whom […]

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Happy 35th birthday to one of the greatest, or certainly one of my favourite, records in hip hop. Released September 24 in 1991 or, as Q-tip raps in the album's opening bars, 'back in the day when I was a teenager...'

The album art for The Low End Theory, by A Tribe Called Quest.

A mostly black background is interrupted by some strong red and green lines, plus the artist name and album title, painted on or around a kneeling woman whom otherwise you would not be able to see.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I have had the theme tune from Knightmare bouncing around my head all dang afternoon. Sorry / you're welcome. youtu.be/gxzKTbu-aR0 #EnterStranger

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@HitchhikersGuideQu… You know those nation-wide emergency alert systems that occasionally send give everyone in the supermarket a minor heart attack? Just once, when they're testing them, I'd like them to use this text.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I put it to the assembled luminaries that Tanya Reynolds, what is currently off of Ted Lasso but you may also recognise in various costume dramas of recent years, would make an absolutely exceptional Magrat Garlick. I mean come on, replace that impressive raptor with a wowhawk, and we are […]

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

More pictures of the Big camera later, I’m sure, but for now I think we can safely say that your old pal Daveybot is very much in his happy place. #Concrete #Architecture #MondaysAreBrutal

A concrete walkway lined with rusty metal railings. A dank concrete wall looms over us, on the right.

An in-situ cast concrete wall with a chamfered angled top edge. Years of stains dripping down the wall give it an almost barcode-like striped quality.

A fairly grim, shaded concrete staircase. Rusty white metal railings catch the limited sunlight so they shine brightly against the otherwise gloomy surroundings.

A clear blue sky over a very still, and equally blue, North Sea. In the foreground, giant precast concrete solos cascade down a slope to form a manmade shore.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

[sport / NFL] 69.4°C?!? Blimmin' eck. Being the traditional Eagles fan that I am, I was perfectly ready to complain about the O-line and the play calling and grump about not good enough, and... even though we got the win! But honestly, even just getting through that struggle at all is a hell […]

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Blimey. First time I've heard of a government report in the UK, saying something that I could actually get behind, in a very long time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqzrz0z… That this report was commissioned by the ghoulish Wes Streeting is seriously surprising. Or maybe it just […]

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

No particular reason, but here are some rooflights and/or oculi, from the archive. A cancer support centre, an old bird house, a bank, and an art gallery. Three from Scotland, one from Germany. And honestly the third one isn’t actually American. Really. #Architecture

A view of a cutout in a roof designed to bring daylight down into an interior. It’s lined by a square series of golden metallic panels to reflect of the light, but each of these is also perforated with a graphical pattern of triangular cutouts. This admits textured light through the panels into the interior but also means the reflected light becomes more textured too. Glazing below also features a series of linear frits, and the overall effect becomes a lovely series of gradually increasing graphical textures of light and colour, diffusing the view of the wooden interior.

A view of a cutout in a roof designed to bring daylight down into an interior.

A tiny open oculus at the top of this domed doocot/ dovecote admits daylight down into the interior, and that daylight catches the concentric horizontal bands which form the shelves on which birds would sleep.

It looks a bit like a slightly trippy vortex from an old black&white scifi show, perhaps.

A view of a series of cutouts in a roof designed to bring daylight down into an interior.

A neoclassical domed ceiling with a glimpse of some of the cornice and heavily decorated arches on the adjacent supporting walls. There’s a lot of ornate plasterwork all over it, and there are rich colours of red, white, blue, and gold.

The main dome, painted a deep blue, features a central circular oculus, but also a series of concentric rings of star-shaped rooflights, all admitting bright daylight.

The whole thing looks very, VERY American, but it’s actually the old main branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland, in Edinburgh.

A view of a roof designed to bring daylight down into an interior.

A modern roof structure of incredibly thin but also very deep white-painted concrete fins, in radial lines and concentric circles, under a glazed roof, all spanning over a wide circular atrium in an art gallery. It’s a cloudy day outside so the daylight is completely diffuse, but it’s flooding into the atrium all the same, and the thin lines of the window glazing or bottom edges of the structural fins form dark edges in contrast against the bright sky.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

At the Colony Of Artists festival, in Abbeyhill. www.colonyofartists.co.uk I love our little neighbourhood. #Edinburgh

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I know it’s only 10:00am on a Saturday, but this still looks pretty good!

A screengrab of the national grid live dashboard designed by Kate Morley. It shows over 80% generation from renewables at this moment.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@democratsabroad/11… It genuinely hurts to put yourself through it, I must confess, but like cleaning the toilet or emptying the compost bucket, it's something you've really gotta do if you can. ...Because honestly the alternative is probably worse […]

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Democrats Abroad @democratsabroad.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Voting from abroad? 🌍✈️ Register today and request to have your blank ballot sent to you by email. You can also check your state's overseas deadlines and return rules at votefromabroad.org today so your voice is heard. 🗳️✨ #votefromabroad #Vote #USpol #USpolitics

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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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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

A photo I took while visiting my old home in the summer. Bikes, tools, ladders, spare chairs and glasses, a washing machine, a freezer, paints and varnishes, tennis racquets, onions drying, cupboards full of preserves, beers… My dad doesn’t have a ‘shed’, but […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

An old, dark room with daylight filtering in from a small window on the left. It falls on different items all over the walls and ceiling. A bit like if Vermeer had got bored and just started painting the interior of a shed.

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Gary @witewulf.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

This Durutti Column album is still absolutely flooring me whenever I play it. I’ve had to play it less frequently because it leaves me in such a mess. It really is transcendental stuff. music.apple.com/gb/album/1894442782…

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Sargasso Sea by The Durutti Column & Caoilfhionn Rose on Apple Music

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 16/09/2026

It's a shame we can't have nice things because one operator has a monopoly on all the lowland east coast ports from which you might sail to Europe 🤷‍♂️

Map from Forth Ports' website showing it has all the Ports on the Forth plus Dundee on the upper Tay.

BBC headline "Plans for Scottish ferry to mainland Europe scrapped. Plans to resurrect a ferry service between Scotland and mainland Europe have been scrapped. Forth Ports said it had concerns over the "long-term viability" of the proposed route between Rosyth in Fife and Dunkirk in northern France."

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I appreciate that people shouldn't be judged by their outfits, but my recommendation is: Listen to the lady in the A Tribe Called Quest t-shirt, folks. And also tell Victoria Derbyshire to do one, should you get the opportunity.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The more I read this, the less it means.

Some text on a packet of walkers crisps. It reads:

Ever since Henry Walker first CRAFTeD the very first batch of Walkers Crisps, back in 1948, we've always believed that your Joy is worth it.
So that you can savour: a slice JOY in every bite

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I love this story about the Parthenon, today: www.theguardian.com/science/2026/se… His conclusion is fantastic. ...And it aligns very much with those of Mark Wilson Jones, who led our History and Theory classes for a year […]

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I'll share this news article because it delights me: theonion.com/nfl-announces-one-play… ...But it's also basically an opportunity for me to warn you all that the NFL season has started up again, and I imagine many you will want to get your mute […]

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I guess if you live in the centre of Edinburgh you shouldn’t be too surprised to pass a pipe band followed by 300 horses or so, marching up the Canongate… Still, I was! Two minutes previously I was just strolling down the road and thinking how nice it was […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Anyone got any versions of bomberman on the Nintendo Switch? Wondering if it might be fun to play with my kids, and certainly I used to love it in the 90s, but unsure of which version to seek out.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

The colour coming off these damsons is really something!

A pot full of damsons, boiling away in their deep red juices.

Some golden mush in a pan. It’s made of crabapples, boiling.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Over 7.5kg of crabapples from the tree outside Wifebot’s office window! Also a lot of damsons, too, and even some pears! A decent start to the preserving supply gathering (it can’t really be foraging if you’re in a garden in the middle of a capital city?) this year.

A metal bucket full of red/yellow crabapples is sat on an old telephone seat. Next to it is a wicker basket full of damsons and maybe a dozen pears. I think there are a few cooking apples in there, too.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

RE: twitter.com/BenRothenberg/status/20… I still say NYC is the best thing humanity has done, because its highs are so incredibly high. Gawd, giving the world hip hop alone would see it head and shoulders above most other places even without any of its other glories […]

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I don't know how anybody else went about refining their selections for next week's #ThePlaylist, but I looked again at my own method, slightly. From all my individual 'liked' songs on a music streamer, I built longlists for each song duration close to 3:00 […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A bar graph showing how many songs are in playlists I've made based purely on song length. There's a clear spike in songs at exactly 3:00 in length.

02:55 15
02:56 13
02:57 19
02:58 18
02:59 19
03:00 34
03:01 26
03:02 18
03:03 21
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