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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 29/09/2026

You could mean different things by 'ignorant nationalists', but just in case you're pointing a finger at the SNP, we accept that anyone who lives here and wants to be is Scottish.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 10/08/2026

"You know what would be a good idea? Developing innovative ways to allow AI to survive significantly beyond the extinction of humanity. That'd be just great."

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 07/08/2026

August has been a washout so far here in the Highlands. Looking forward to a little sun.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 17/07/2026

If you've just received an AWS Billing Alert, it looks like there's an issue at their end. My heart rate is slowly getting back to normal.

Screenshot of AWS Cost panel saying I owe them $280 Billion.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 13/06/2026

I've been using Claude.ai Fable 5 for the last week, and been impressed. Today the US government stopped me (and you).

Screenshot shot of the Claude.ai web interface with a message saying "Claude Fable 5 is currently unavailable. "

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 10/06/2026

It still doesn't. Here are screenshots from Google and Bing.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 10/06/2026

About 10 years ago I spotted that this 2.5 mile long Scottish Loch doesn't appear on Google Maps.

View of a calm loch beside a single track road, under a grey sky.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 20/03/2026

In the '80s Michael Moorcock wrote 'Dancers at the End of Time', where the few remaining people could magic up something trivial like a cup of tea, unaware that somewhere in the universe a star would die to pay for it.

The cover of Dancers at the End of Time. A female character rides on a flying swan.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 25/12/2025

Weird Tiktok on my account. Trump saying 'Make America Great Again', but preceded by what sounds like my first name. Could be AI personalised at source, or (even more scary) on my device.

Screenshot of Tiktok video showing Donald Trump and another smiling person.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 10/12/2025

Can anyone remember which is which?

Photo of two similarly marked buttons in a car's dashboard. They are the front and rear screen demisters. One has a rectangular shape, the other more curved.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 06/12/2025

Even if you ask them to add an arrow pointing at Shetland you get nonsense.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 06/12/2025

Today I have spent an hour trying (and failing) to get various AI models to draw a map of the UK which includes Shetland.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 23/05/2025

Watching a US stream of the Napoli match. With the air filled with smoke the system which replaces the billboards in the stream is struggling.

Screenshot of a football match with smoke from flares. The advertising hoarding at the side of the pitch is brighter than it should be and 'glitched' so that it's obvious the adverts are being added by the TV broadcasters.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 08/05/2025

2 year old grandson displaying his throwing skills at Loch Ness on this morning's walk.

Toddler throwing a stone at a log in Loch Ness. Steeply sloping hills form the sides of the Loch.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 30/03/2025

There has been a trend on TikTok recently of users tagging videos as 'message to america', explaining to US folk how crazy things there look to outsiders. TikTok are now blocking it.

Screenshot from tiktok saying "No results found" on a search for "message to america", and showing their 'hateful content' message.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 22/02/2025

Playing the 100% Club with ChatGPT is f***ING scary.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 11/01/2025

Don't think it got above -4⁰ in Dingwall today, but the south side of the church roof benefited from the sun.

A church next to a car park under a clear blue sky. One side of the roof is covered in snow, the other completely free.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 23/11/2024

Listening to BBC Out of Doors: they mentioned the superstition of having to stir your porridge clockwise to avoid bad luck. But how did you know 'clockwise' before clocks? Well, in the northern hemisphere the shadow on a sundial travels in that same direction and was known as 'sunwise' or 'deasil'.

A rounded wooden stick about an inch thick, having been turned on a lathe. It's used in Scotland for stirring porridge, and is known as a spurtle.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 26/10/2024

Don't like to pollute this place but even if you discount trolls and people voting for a laugh, there must be many on Musk's platform who really believe this.

A twitter poll initiated by Kim Dotcom asking people whether they would vote for Kamala Harris or Adolf Hitler.
Of the over 44 thousand thousand votes, 91% are for Hitler.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 24/10/2024

Mildly annoying. Collected from Markies in Inverness.

Green Marks and Spencers bag with a collection label beside an item of clothing with a security tag still on it.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 12/10/2024

Some plastic litter found in a field near Alloa, Scotland. Presumably over 53 years old as it uses pre-decimal currency. Still in near-perfect condition with the text all legible. www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/c...

Old, slightly squashed washing up liquid bottle. Has "3D off" marked on it reflecting UK pre-decimal currency which was phased out in 1971.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 27/09/2024

Whilst at the Iran (RHD) Pakistan (LHD) border, it really looks like Pakistan just doesn't care.

An aerial view of a border crossing between Iran and Pakistan. On the Iranian side is lots of infrastructure, but the Pakistani side is not much more than bare desert.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 27/09/2024

But getting back to China, here's the ludicrously complicated interchange between Hong Kong and mainland China, so complicated that Google Maps just gives up.

An aerial view of a swirling, spiralling road interchange which takes a 4 lane highway of traffic driving on the left had side and ends up with multiple off roads driving on the right.

A road map showing a road on a bridge over a river. The road just stops once it reaches the far side.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 27/09/2024

On the Thailand (LHD) Laos (RHD) border the roads split and a simple set of traffic lights let's you switch over.

Map showing where lanes in a road cross over.

Still from a video showing a crossroads with traffic lights.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 27/09/2024

The border between Angola and Namibia seems a lot less formal. It looks like you just take turns changing sides.

A 4x4 vehicle crosses the border into Namibia. There is a border post with Namibian flags.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 27/09/2024

A simpler crossover is on the border between Brazil (RHD) and Guyana (LHD) where the road splits on the Guyana side with one lane taking a bridge over the other.

Aerial view of a road bridge across a river. To the east the lanes of the road cross over each other.

A view from a car driving over a bridge. A hundred metres ahead can be seen a tunnel where one lane goes under the other.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 27/09/2024

Did you know that whilst most of China drives on the right, in Hong Kong and Macau they drive on the left? Which is why this interchange exists.

An aerial view of a complex interchange where cars entering it are on one side of the road, but exit it on the other. A straight bridge on the right splits into two 360⁰ loops which then extend under the bridge to head off to the left.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 20/09/2024

Map of places wild camping is legal in the UK. To be clear, the Uists, Orkney and Shetland are also fine.

Map of the UK showing that wild camping is legal in Dartmoor and Scotland, but nowhere else.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 18/09/2024

An impromptu afternoon off work to take advantage of the weather pays off.

A deserted single track road through Scottish Highland countryside under a blue sky.

A small Scottish loch. Steep hillsides and fir trees under a blue sky.

A view of a small Scottish river from a bridge with metal sides and a wooden floor .

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 07/09/2024

Miserable, damp day in Inverness this morning so I set off inland to escape the haar, for a cycle and a picnic. This is from the dam at Loch Vaich - not a bad spot for lunch.

A view of Loch Vaich from the south end. Blue water under a blue sky with rolling mountains around, lots of shore is visible as the water level is low.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 17/08/2024

Throughout the summer I'm guessing Dochgarroch may be the busiest freshwater passenger port in Scotland. Or maybe second to the Falkirk Wheel?

Jacobite Cruisers ship on the Caledonian Canal providing tours on Loch Ness. A few dozen tourists are boarding.

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Garve Scott-Lodge @garve.scott-lodge.com · 16/08/2024

Here's a likely example. If you click on the 'publishing company' you'll find half a dozen similar books with different covers. www.amazon.co.uk/Mushroom-Ide...

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