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Just met The New Fella and he does look too young to be in a bar let alone work in one but on the other hand he's wearing a Kneecap t-shirt so I guess The Kids Are Alright.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 2h

Barman: I told one of the new fellas about the time I worked security for Morcheeba and he was like "what's a Morcheeba".

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 2h

Incidentally I will also be like this tomorrow as a result of a very minor bit of day drinking today.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 2h

Conversation with local barman about seeing Maximo Park in their heyday and we both realise when that was and then we both be like this.

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Indiana Jones

ALT: Indiana Jones

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this

Triangular diagram labelled The Introvert
Hierarchy of Needs.

Top: Self-actualisation - A completely empty house. An arrow pointing to the house says “Nobody needs anything. Nobody is coming home for hours. Phone on silent.”

The next level is Esteem - Plans getting cancelled. An arrow here says “‘Sorry, we're going to have to rearrange.’ Oh no. That's terrible. I'm devastated.”

Next level: Belonging - One person you actually like. No group chat. No networking. No "let's go round and introduce ourselves." Just one person you can talk absolute shit with.

Fourth level: Safety - An escape route. Own car. End seat. Knowing exactly when the event finishes. A believable reason to leave early.

Bottom of pyramid: Physiological needs - Being left the fuck alone for a bit. Food. Water. Sleep. 45 minutes where nobody speaks to you.

Created by Lee Harding, @theintrovertedrecruiter

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 8h

4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 20h

I'm looking at the light glinting off that overhanging flake of pastry and I just know you'll both rise to the occasion.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 20h

This post is essentially sending up the Alison Signal over the east coast at a time when I am geographically embarrassed.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 22h

I have accumulated many, which is a PITA as I mostly live in places where there's a 15 minute gap between the abject misery of summer and several months where I can only leave the flat while dressed as the Michelin Man.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 22h

So. Slutty Jackets are slutty in and of themselves, and no aspersions are cast on the wearer. If something reminds you of Adam Ant in his prime, or just seems brazen in some way, that's a Slutty Jacket. You'll know one when you see it.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 03/10/2026

Wondering if I can finally swap out the Summer Black for the Winter Black, and break out the Slutty Jackets, or if this will trigger yet another heatwave.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 02/10/2026

I wish I'd been aware of Miss Inkpen back when I was still involved with fanzines and in need of a pseudonym.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 02/10/2026

My plane to [redacted] experiencing a close pass from an Air Brocken jet.

Image shows the Brocken Spectre of a passenger jet manifesting on thick white clouds during a descent.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 01/10/2026

I loved Dola Cothi's first album but her swerve into synthpop was just derivative nonsense.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 30/09/2026

Given how multicultural and multilingual my workplace is, I can't tell you how tickled I am that so many of us turn out to have a shared trauma. (Office kitchen whiteboard question on "what's your favourite childhood film" was answered with The Neverending Story.)

Image is of a whiteboard with a list of films on it in different hands. Five people have reacted to the inclusion of The Neverending Story by remembering Artax and sinking into their own personal Swamp of Sadness.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 30/09/2026

I was so smug about spending August in the Arctic. "Ha," I thought. "By the time I get back to [redacted] the worst of the mosquitos will be over." Nope. It's still the worst of the mosquitos.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 30/09/2026

It's literally October tomorrow and I feel very strongly that I, a northern European, should not still be having to spend half an hour every morning patiently tending to and redressing mosquito-related wounds. #Woe

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 29/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish medical history. Renowned anatomist John Goodsir announces that he's going into partnership with Thing from The Addams Family.

Image shows a white man with a lugubrious expression, seated, with hands clasped. To his left is an upturned top hat resting on a book. On top of the upturned hat is a strange-looking glove that looks a bit like Thing from The Addams Family.

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Pete @baldiepete.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish philosophy history. David Hume uses his iPad to google for the causes of Shiny Toe Syndrome.

The David Hume Statue on the High Street in Edinburgh. It has shiny toes because so many people have been rubbing them.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 28/09/2026

Could I take one of them on a bike ride in the mountains and have them give me a detailed history of the geology of the entire range? Because if not I'm not going.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 28/09/2026

I'm not feeling that any of them could talk at length about molluscs or surveying.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 28/09/2026

When I'm in meetings I monitor what I think might be happening with my face by asking myself: do I look like Ted staring at flowers right now y/n.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 28/09/2026

He's a perfect boy and I love him.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 28/09/2026

Exactly this. The complacency in this article made me yell at my laptop.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 28/09/2026

Oh it really isn't. There are far right factions who think people living two valleys away are dangerously foreign and should probably be locked up for everyone else's safety. However every poster for the UDC I've ever seen here has had a Htler moustache sharpied onto all the faces.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 28/09/2026

Imagine the referenda proposed in, say, the UK right now if direct democracy was introduced. It would be a parade of horrors.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 28/09/2026

Yes, but direct democracy probably only works in a country with good education, strong independent public service broadcasting, an informed populace, and a diverse media landscape unfouled by Rupert Murdoch. Such as, y'know, Switzerland. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Switzerland’s love of referendums keeps the far right at bay | Joseph de Weck

Brexit gave direct democracy a bad name. But the Swiss approach could be what Europe needs now, says Guardian Europe contributor Joseph de Weck

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Martin L Martens @mlmartens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A spectacular view in my neighbourhood this evening. Moonrise this evening above Crome Island, in the Salish Sea, 70km north of Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

A bright yellow moon is above distant mountains with a small island in the middle. The island has four white buildings with red roofs. The reflected light from the moon is shining in a strip below the island. The ocean is a medium blue, the mountains a slightly darker blue, and the sky is a lighter blue.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 26/09/2026

Wish I could say Ditto!

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 25/09/2026

Can't go into specifics, but someone I know (British actor) once pointed out to a director (Hollywood) that people can't walk from Northumberland to London in a day, and maybe they mean Norfolk? Was told, at top screaming volume, that only Brits will spot this, and nobody cares what Brits think.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 25/09/2026

I wasn't sure about the Messy Personal Life subplot in S2 but at least it's given that very fine actor Jamie Sives something slightly more to do than look hot and occasionally jump into the Clyde. Not that I'm complaining, you understand.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 25/09/2026

Still on my Annika bullshit: love a show where the lead gets into her boat on Loch Lomond, sails it up the Clyde to the centre of Glasgow and moors it in Greenock before getting out and going to Police HQ, which is my local arts centre. This is a commute designed by MC Escher and I love it madly.

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Calling all London #creatives! Come and grab surplus #maps for FREE the week of 5 October from the Foyle Reading Room @rgs.org . All we ask is that you show us your creations later on! #art #geography #skystorians

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 25/09/2026

When the photography shop assures you that these expired films are unused

Black and white photo. Due to a double exposure, it looks as though a racing car is about to crash through a spectral graduation ceremony

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OBVIOUSLY the underlying issue of radicalisation amd anti-social behaviour needs addressing. but one way to do that is to stop "fash agitator" being a fucking paying job.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 24/09/2026

Also, and what these rapacious thieves don't or won't understand, it wasn't "content". It was art. Great art, okay art, mediocre art or terrible art. A real person put their heart and soul and lived experience into it.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 24/09/2026

I was saying to someone the other day: we all love a man who really loved a cat.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 23/09/2026

I thought I was done with innuendo for the day but then I wasn't expecting these two magnificent shags.

Image shows a small-ish black and white 19thC beacon, known as the Perch Light, in the River Clyde. There are two black seabirds using it as a perch.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 23/09/2026

"I was took on as hammer boy, it was 'sposed to be a job for life." "I thought I was fine, but there was blood everywhere and I kent I'd fell on my chisel." "My mate was just in the wrang place, he was hit and crushed against the buffers." I love that they have this friendship and this library.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 23/09/2026

Working from a library where a group of older men are talking about their lives and it's so hard to focus on anything else. Leaving school too young, rough work, horrific industrial injuries, unemployment as the town starts to die, then the stress of seeing the unemployment become generational.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Old ladies immediately arrested and imprisoned for holding up signs to protest the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians. Far right thug uses what looks like an illegal knife to slash a boat, endangering a life. And here I am many hours later waiting for any kind of police action.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 23/09/2026

Start your day with a nice Beaver.

Image shows an absolutely gorgeous De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Mk1 sitting on a pontoon at Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories. The aurora is a shimmering green around her. Photograph: George Fischer.

Image is from a coffee table book on Canadian photography that I picked up for pennies in a local charity shop.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 22/09/2026

I'm so happy that @eddiejenks510.bsky.social is doing all this great work, it's wonderful to see!

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

Shouting you want people in distress to drown at sea when you're from a country of proud seafarers is deeply fucked.

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