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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste? 18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!

The Dunmore House Pineapple. It’s a Georgian building that looks like, well, a pineapple. It was made in 1761 when pineapples were some of the most fashionable objects on the planet, and, honestly, there isn’t much more to it than that.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Don't normally process my #AmperSand shots to black and white, but without the sun shining this was almost there already. And I liked the dog and their human.

A black and white photo. A white ampersand made of shells is on a sandy beach. Some dark rocks behind the ampersand point off towards the sea, where a labrador and their human are silhouetted against the water's edge.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Been a while. Here’s an quick #AmperSand formed of only broken shells, and put together at Gullane Bents in East Lothian. #lettering

An ampersand formed of bits of broken white shells, on a plain sandy beach.

A zoomed-in cropped view of part of an ampersand, formed of bits of broken white shells, on a plain sandy beach.

An ampersand formed of bits of broken white shells, on a plain sandy beach. Some rocks and the blue water of the Firth Of Forth are visible in the background.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

It’s my birthday so, as the tradition seems to be developing, I grabbed my camera and headed off to have a little explore by myself in the dawn light. Down by the docks in Leith, this time. I’m really going to miss those visiting yellow giants when they’re gone. #photography #leith

A huge shed sits on the dockside. Behind it, towering over everything else, are four enormous yellow structures. They’re jacket foundations, soon to be shipped off and submerged under the North Sea to support wind turbines.

A crane cabin and part of its dark grey structure. Behind it is a little of angled yellow steel tubing, forming parts of some enormous tapering towers. They’re jacket foundations, soon to be shipped off and submerged under the North Sea to support wind turbines.

A shiny black metal-clad tower sits on the leith dockside. It’s the Port Of Leith distillery, and its cladding reflects the golden light of the sunrise, behind us.

Part of an old, rusting crane. You can see the name Stothert & Pitt, Bath, England formed as part of the structure. Clearly none of these elements have moved, in years.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I see it’s 30 years to the day since Jeru The Damaja released Wrath Of The Math. album.link/s/7jvuTIYaBYqbTcLZZwXlIZ Honestly this guy’s flow and delivery on here (and everything else he’s done) is just the stuff of absolute classic hip hop. A […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

The cover of the album Wrath Of The Math, by Jeru The Damaja.

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

[Food / salad] Tonight’s #Coleslaw in progress reminds me of New Orleans.

A metal bowl filled with finely sliced purple cabbage, leeks, carrots, and some herbs all tossed together. There is no dressing yet.

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

No beach or #AmperSand action from me, today, but my sister and her son sent me these, which they made on the shore in Portishead! Whoop! In the words of the mighty Arlo Guthrie: “…And friends, they may think it’s a movement!”

An ampersand made of beach glass, on what looks like maybe a concrete slab.

An ampersand formed by arranging reddish stones on a pebbled beach.

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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

...I think the Forth Road Bridge probably often misses out on peoples' attention because of its older and younger siblings on either side. But it's a handsome thing, actually, and I really like looking up under that veritable spaceframe of a deck from Port Edgar.

Looking up at the pale grey Forth Road Bridge against darker grey cloudy skies, from the south west. It's a classic suspension bridge design with quite an open road deck that admits a lot of sunlight in amongst the sea of structural members, at least when it's coming from the right angle!

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

...By the way, if any of you would ever like to take on a gargantuan task which will give you incredible pleasure every damn day after you've done it, I honestly can't recommend laying your own reclaimed parquet floor enough. More pictures […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A stack of old maple parquet blocks, extracted from an old school hall floor somewhere in England. The bottom edges are coated in bitumin, and the tops are dinged, scratched, stained, and full of more than a few staples.

A woman sat on a stair as it winds its way up a white-walled stairwell. The treads of the stair are all covered in freshly-oiled maple parquet flooring.

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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

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 · 27/09/2026

It was also nice to swing by a couple of projects by the practice where I used to work, back in a previous life, Richard Murphy Architects. The Dublin Street housing project is 25 years old now, but I think it’s aging quite nicely, and it’s always felt like a […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A building with a couple of staircases up the outside, to access the front doors of a couple of the flats. Designed into the handrail are holes for filling with plant pots, and people have occupied the stairs with other plants, too.

A quiet residential street of housing with facades of white render and cedar cladding. A ginger and white cat sits upon a low wall, ignoring us.

An unusual looking contemporary house on a street in Edinburgh’s New Town. People are lining up in the start for an opportunity to go in and look around. Well worth it, too!

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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

Finally got around to labelling the jars, and now we need to find a dark place in which to store them! 31 jars of things, all told. Should keep us going!

Four jars of crabapple jelly, on a windowsill so the daylight behind gives the jellies a glowing quality and reveals their variety of colour.

From left to right they fade from a deep red to a pale orange, and the additional ingredients are labelled in white pen on the glass jars: Rowan, cinnamon, chilli, and mint.

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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 · 24/09/2026

…and happy 30th birthday to this one, too! #Music #OTD #HipHop

The album art for Illadelph Halflife, by The Roots. A sepia-tone greyscale photo of the group on a street corner, shot with a wide-angle lens from a low level, looking up at them all.

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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 · 21/09/2026

Here we go, then... What a very happy way to spend a morning! If you ever find yourselves driving up towards Edinburgh on the A1, I do highly recommend hopping off the road for half an hour and wandering around the sea wall which loops behind Torness Nuclear […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Several sea birds - mostly gulls and cormorants - are sat on a couple of rust-stained concrete piers in a harbour. Between them you can see a white lighthouse shining in the sun, in the distance.

A series of very sharp-looking barbed wire enclosures, keeping people out of a nuclear power plant complex. They're quite shiny in the sun.

A big cylindrical concrete form, rust-stained and weathered, rising from the water. A stripe of sunlight is cast across the surface and reflected in the rippling water.

A big pale building formed by many interlocking boxy forms. It catches the ambient colours of the adjacent sky and towers high over the adjacent grassy foreground.

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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 · 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

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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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 · 13/09/2026

Second complete batch is crabapple & mint. These had been the palest pink juice on the right in the photo earlier today, but they’ve come out a lovely sort of orange as a jelly. Tasty, too. A decent hit of mint in this.

Five jars of crabapple & mint jelly. They’re a lovely clear orange colour.

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

…first completed jellies coming out of the kitchen now. Love the colour of this crabapple & cinnamon one!

Five jars of crabapple & cinnamon jelly, held aloft on a wooden board in a garden. The jelly is a lovely clear red.

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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 · 13/09/2026

So, day 2 on this batch and so far we have: Cooked and strained 1kg of damsons Poached about 750g of pears Juiced and strained 6kg of crabapples in three batches: - Crabapple & rowan - Crabapple & cinnamon - Crabapple & mint I like the subtle differences in […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Three plastic tubs of crabapple juice varieties. They’re all reddish pinkish.

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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

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.

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02:56 13
02:57 19
02:58 18
02:59 19
03:00 34
03:01 26
03:02 18
03:03 21
03:04 22
03:05 24

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

I've said it before and I'll say it again: By and large, I think New York City is probably the best thing humanity has done, so far. 25 years. A quarter of a century since that day... Honestly I still can't really process it. I've tried to explain it to my […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

A lot of 'I love NY' merchandise for sale, in New York City. T-shirts, mugs, shot glasses, that kind of thing...

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

@WiteWulf I honestly did, too. I mean here's something they said in 2013: I reiterate my immediate reaction, I guess: Sigh.

A screen capture from an interview. It reads:

Speaking from rehearsals for the tour Charlie Reid explained: “I support equality, and equality in marriage is part of that. It’s vital that gay people be given the same rights as straight people.”

Craig Reid added: “If you believe in equality, and you know that something is unequal, then you want to do something about it. It’s not doing anybody harm, it’s not lessening rights; it’s extending rights and that’s why we support it. We’re progressive people; we think that Scotland has to move forward, and equal marriage for gay and transgender people is part of that."

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

[Telegraph / Transphobia / Proclaimers] Sigh.

A screen capture of a news story in The Telegraph. The headline and sub-heading read:

The Proclaimers: The trans lobby are truth-phobic

Ahead of a provocative new album, Craig and Charlie Reid on their anger at the SNP, Western warmongering and the imperilment of free speech

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

We got six of these, many years ago, and Wifebot has been very carefully restoring them. www.flickr.com/gp/davemorris/9g543u…

A mid-century teak and plywood chair, freshly restored and rejuvenated.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

This one definitely had me excited and everybody else I was with completely uninterested.

A hallway with a weird sort of c-shaped leather bench in it. Dave is sat on it looking very happy. Because it’s not just seat! No, this is a Cray-1 supercomputer! In fact, it’s the first one that was ever ordered!

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

RE: mendeddrum.org/@DJDarren/1172308237… Just gonna share some of my favourite chairs, now. Because topical! Tune in to #ThePlaylist for the correct sound track, shortly.

A frankly weird wooden chair which has been expertly carved to look like, well, a bison.

It doesn’t look at all comfortable.

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Sounds like a challenging and competitive competition for the Stone Skimming World Championships in Easdale, over the weekend. One day I must try to go along to this brilliant event, but I can't imagine I'll ever be good enough to reliably compete! Results […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Somebody (ahem!) has a rranged an ampersand from small slate stones, perfect for skimming, on a large, square, flat stone on the edge of the water in a flooded quarry.

This is Easdale Island, home for the Stone Skimming World Championships, and this is the stone on which all skimmers must stand.

A man stands on a large, square, flat stone on the edge of the water in a flooded quarry. They're about to launch a small stone skipping across the water.

This is Easdale Island, home for the Stone Skimming World Championships, and it is a wonderful place.

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