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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

have some self-respect, humans

Screenshot from Bluesky app settings, muting the word "tommo" forever

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

somewhere in the heavens poco the postcode elephant proudly gazes down, knowing that his work on earth was done

A rather scary looking colour photograph from the 1970s of Poco's human twin wearing a full-size Poco the postcode elephant costume, standing in front of Poco's postcode bus, a battle bus encouraging the good citizens of the UK to pass on their postcode because they're not properly addressed without it.

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

pretty much snap! (really need to try and dive back into hungarian but then again maybe i really don't)

Results for a test on the same words translated into European language. Got all right on Dutch, German, French and Swedish, did OK on other Romance languages, wasn't great at Slavics and Ugrics

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

sweden remaining peerless at swedening (i'm just saying)

The front entrance to a tiny Swedish stuga. The panels are painted red. There are pine needles arranged about and a glacial rock rising in the background

A picnic table in a wood on a Swedish island, with a blue sky and a blue sea visible through the trees

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

reading one of those books that does this kind of thing

Some text on an e-reader, as follows:

Seeing what Castillo was trying to do, Brown calculated the correct angle needed for the truck to hit the barrier and land in the closed lanes on the other side. "Thirty degrees," he told Castillo. But he knew that selecting an angle was not an RZ option, so he calculated the sine of 30 degrees and yelled out the hypotenuse: "42 feet!"

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

bsod on the stockholm t-bana, compliments of the season

Windows blue screen of death on the platform sign at Universitetet T-bana station in Stockholm

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

crossed over that rad new non-car bridge in helsinki

At the start of the bridge. I'm taking the photo from the pedestrian pavement. There is a marked out cycle lane to the left, then a couple of tram tracks on the middle of the bridge. It sweeps out over some water. There is the visible mainstay of the bridge further out

The other side of the bridge from Helsinki. The city's standard welcome sign is in the foreground, and the bridge sweeps on. A cyclist in black is on the cycle path.

Coming back down the bridge on the Helsinki side. I'm riding a scooter and the handlebars are in view

Uncle Fester here, yours truly, wearing a raincoat I put on too late, and sunglasses I likewise took off too late

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

silverburn had several series of airport style queuing lines set up over the last days, plus a photobooth at the end past the store where i guess you can show off your purchases inside a branded box with all this cringe dross like "what a belter!" and "no scotland no party!" printed all over it

airport style queuing lines inside Silverburn shopping centre, Glasgow on Saturday 15th August. the Sephora shop that opened is along to the right. there is a further set of lines behind the shot

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

wait but steve albini's d.... oh every time

A Glasgow subway poster advertising St Enoch shopping centre. There are three main stripes each with a different word starting with 'S' - "Sambas", "Shellac", and "Shawarma". The Shellac band is superset in the corner by a hand with shellacked nails.

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

bird in the eclipse panicked and shat everywhere including on my shirt

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

wearing my @peggyflanagan.bsky.social t-shirt this evening for, you know, no real reason

it's a mirror picture of me at home wearing a Peggy Flanagan for US Senate t-shirt, which depicts Peggy with her arms in the air on the slide at the Minnesota State Fair. i'm not smiling because selfies are difficult and i have no patience

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

i'm down from scotland for the weekend visiting family where i grew up and oh my god this place is a dustbowl, it's pretty shocking

A field of 99.9% brown grass and dust, with stones in the foreground and a row of trees and hedges in the background

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

sue 😭😭😭😭😭

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

no no no you have it wrong amy it's actually just like the electricity gremlin from gremlins 2

it's a picture of the electricity gremlin from gremlins 2. he's in some kind of scientific lab, he's cleared made of solely electricity and he appears to be flipping the bird with both hands

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

spotted myself on street view tee hee

Front shot of me waking along a street behind a small grey Volkswagen. I'm wearing a green-grey looking cap and a black and red checked overshirt

Side to rear shot in more or less the same position as the first

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

rather unnecessary disclaimer there irwin allen

A note in the end titles for The Swarm (1978) that says:

The African killer bee portrayed in this film bears absolutely no relationship to the industrious, hard-working American honey bee to which we are indebted for pollinating vital crops that feed our nation.

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

have come for a summer scottish seaside stop at inverkip bay, whose slogan seems to be "pure delight, pure terror"???

A bench with a picture on it of a sailboat, and the writing "Inverkip Bay" and underneath "Pure delight, pure terror"

A bright beach scene. My feet in trainers are visible at the bottom of the shot. It's mostly sandy but there are rocks. The water looks blue and tranquil. There are hills across the water.

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

at the buchanan st steps, glasgow

A crowd assembled, one sign reading "Racism is weird - have you tried hobbies?"

Tops of the Buchanan Street steps protest. There are union flags to the right but they are very much outnumbered.

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

just when you thought kim jong un had the monopoly on outré methods of execution

A BBC news article headline:

"Scotland's papers: Murrell faces court and Edinburgh tram collision"

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

prompted by some north americans on some kind of historical scavenger hunt to look up rolland street in maryhill, glasgow, which turns out to have been 200m from my house www.trove.scot/place/170260. there's a famous photograph taken there in 1953 during coronation celebrations

A black and white, clearly long exposure (as all the lights are casting persistent auras), of Rolland Street in Maryhill, Glasgow, from 1953. The street is crowded with people and stalls. The chimneys of the tenements are standing right at the front of the buildings, which isn't typical for Glasgow tenements.

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

late night wikipedia spelunk on the greyhound racing stadia of scotland, and the chaotic history of powderhall stadium in edinburgh

A screenshot from Wikipedia showing a snippet of the Wikipedia article for Powderhall Stadium in Edinburgh. It says:

"William Lapsley died on 28 February 1903 as a result of an accident in a horse drawn cab on his way to a rugby union international between Scotland and Ireland. The driver of the cab lost control of it on a steep hill and the house bolted and crashed into the basement of a nearby house. Lapsley died at the scene and his wife, though seriously injured, survived. The lease of the Powderhall..."

and then it's cut off, because it's just a snippet. There's crazy stuff in there about how it was a venue for professional "pedestrianism" for the longest time, and also how they tried to stage "horse trotting" races in the 1870s but had to stop because this was too dangerous even for the 1870s.

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

i guess live in glasgow long enough that a building you used to work in goes on fire

A picture taken at Blythswood Square in Glasgow at about 8:45pm on Sunday 8th March. There is a pall of grey-white smoke emerging into the air behind buildings, which is from a fire in buildings adjoining Glasgow Central station

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

well if you don't ski then that is not a hill you will die on, is it

The top of a Guardian article in the series "The hill I will die on" saying "People who ski have more money than sense" - "Extortionate costs, queuing in the cold and potentially life altering injuries? No thanks. And don't get me started on the EDM après-ski hell"

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

not a 90s picture, but 2011, on a bright weekend when i was trying to get over a breakup and took myself to cowal for the weekend, and ended up spelunking through a 1970s workers' village that was never occupied

yours truly in 2011 on a bright day in the belly of the now demolished never-occupied village of pollphaill. i'm clearly doing an urban explore

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

yo dawg i heard you liked cranes so i put cranes on your crane so you can crane while you crane

two cranes in a nest atop a maritime crane

one of the cranes (bird) on its nest on top of a metal crane. in the harbour in portimão, portugal

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

this is who runs this account

me aged nine months dressed as a fallen angel for the queen's silver jubilee. 1977 baby

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

ok the guardian this "the hill i will die on" ongoing series is getting silly now

It's a Guardian article in the 'The hill I will die on' series, written by General Woundwort, titled Watership Down. The standfirst is "Embreer Frith! I'll blind him. I'LL BLIND HIM!" The article's picture is several rabbits on top of Watership Down. Kehaar the seagull has just landed awkwardly, on his face

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

pretty lame, honestly. needs more mitteleuropa!

A map of all the countries in Europe I've visited. Mostly western Europe for me. Bummed Gibraltar isn't on there. I have a Europe level of 62. Make of that what you will.

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

i have found the most haunted reduced-to-clear christmas snack

It's a packet of "Ginger Bread" Doritos sitting on the shelf at a Tesco's, reduced to 73p

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

i found this in windsor, england (TJ Maxx is called TK Maxx here because of a naming rights thing!) - ofc it's not actually a satanism section but some buyer was having fun, there was an h.p. lovecraft compendium right by it :)

A shelf in a UK TK Maxx store showing a book "H.P. Lovecraft: Tales of Horror"

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

oh yeah discovered there's a satanism section in the local tk maxx

a book of 'The Aleister Crowley Collection' sitting on a shelf in the local tk maxx

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

absolutely ecstatic about getting to soon watch THE MAD DEATH, a Scottish short TV series from the early 80s where rabid animals terrorise East Kilbride shopping centre (ty @suesmith.lol !)

A still from the 1980s Scottish short TV series The Mad Death. A fellow in his fifties wearing a stylish brown corduroy jacket tells a woman in her thirties wearing a protean shell suit "it'll have to be destroyed, I'm afraid" (there are subtitles)

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

that red pedestrian signal does not mean what you think it means because somebody has changed the direction of a chunk of the pedestrian lights in glasgow so they refer to the street at right angles to the one suggested by established visual language and i'm surprised people aren't dying as a result

A photo of a cross street in central Glasgow (St Vincent Street and Wellington Street). It's nighttime and there is a red pedestrian signal visible across the street. The red means go because it's actually for the main street to the right ninety degrees to the direction you are crossing, because some public authority (Glasgow? Scotland?) has decided to change the street language we've been familiar with for decades and make pedestrian signals be right next to where you are, at low height, more often than not completely invisible, and it has to be killing people

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

already got it out for ya!

It's a photo of a very large clog, as in the Dutch shoe. Maybe four metres long? It's yellow and cartoonishly shapely and it's in the garden of some mid century American house

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

1994 in venice california, was running this wee hostel for food and board and had a faraway crush on a girl who worked at a skate shop down on the beach who looked like tank girl

your writer aged 17 sat on a balcony of an apartment in Venice, CA in the summer of 1994. david hasselhoff used to take time out from filming baywatch to drive around the boardwalk like he was a real lifeguard. i didn't hassle the hoff, but did almost run him over on my bike

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

just got on this bus am i going to be okay

An electronic sign on a bus that says "Next stop CEMETERY - hello.... welcome aboard"

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

in "glasgow bus drivers will walk off rather than tell you anything" news, i just had to tell this bus driver he should maybe announce what's happened to all the rest of the passengers after he managed to skewer his own bus with a bus stop

It's a Glasgow bus, speared by a metal strip from a bus stop. It's late in the evening. I just yeet-signalled the folk in front off after the bus driver muttered to himself and phoned back to base telling me and me only they probably weren't going to be going anyplace for a while.

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

reminiscing about visiting the UK theme park Thorpe Park in 1985

A WhatsApp message that says:

"In fact possibly the best "ride" was the cinema 360 that was like a 180 degree dome that POV video of being on roller coasters was projected onto and you just had to stand there in this shit concrete dome looking at the cool roller coasters they had in America xx"

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

hey happy finally nae more peak rail fares in scotland day FINALLY

Photo taken out of a window of a train hurtling through the Scottish Central Belt. It's a rural looking scene.

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Dughoulas @dgls.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

in case y'all in scotland thought the current flag meme was england only, here is balmore road in possil today where the saltire has been raised halfway up every single lamppost all the way out of town. real ballard shit

A picture of Balmore Road, Glasgow, today. There are visible saltires (the flag of St Andrew) halfway up the lampposts.

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