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re-up on bad dreams // glasgow

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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 1h
glasgow subway map has the 'connections to local bus services' symbol next to st enoch, a station that is not immediately adjacent to any bus routes, but not next to bridge street, a station that as soon as you exit there is a bus stop with loads of routes going south. they're laughing at us
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 19h
footage in the traitors of hannah fry using an abacus in her room is very funny, should have been her struggling with a LaTeX compiling error or wondering that the intellectual project she's dedicated her life to is suddenly going to be drained of meaning by the rapid improvements in LLMs
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 19h
like someone at the very start of their ventriloquism journey
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
anne carson can't speak to the nobel committee because she's in iceland listening to the wind, helen dewitt can't do any windham-campbell prize promo because she can't work public library wifi, bet the person who does the comms for the richard and judy book club doesn't have to put up with this shit
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
can't help thinking that the second platform sign that just displays a static "when we said it was approaching we didn't say from what distance" was money that could've been better spent?
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
they're not real beasties, it's just little figures
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
working up some driving content for when I become a motorist. scariest thing you'll see this october is the ghosts of glasgow's road markings! things of that nature.
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
honk louder, me and my dog are watching 'the innocents' (1961) starring deborah kerr
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if there is any free stuff with the byrne/euclid logo, you know what to do (get some for me) (also talk sounds so good!!)
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"the 9 video games that shaped me"? "best TV shows of the 21st century"? think some children are sneaking past the minimum age requirements for this website!
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
tried to open the report from silas's behaviourist but it's just a pdf of this book?
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
[johnny cash voice:]
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the single bad (?) thing about the rise of gender neutral toilets in venues is that it makes it a lot harder to make factually accurate "no queues for the women's toilets at the [band name] gig, eh!" remarks. anyway had a good time at the tubs gig tonight
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"lord, make me an independent nation, but not yet"
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
spotted: swedish minimalist composer ellen arkbro getting a glasgow cathedral festival tote bag without providing a filled in festival feedback form, the stated prerequisite for receiving the tote
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
an artist being described as "constantly searching for new accordion timbres" is as much a threat as it is a promise
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
yes, I did think it was odd that he'd invite someone who at most inexpertly prods at a synthesiser every few months, but I guess ed has greater appreciation for bad electronic music than any of us thought. looking forward to hitting the road!
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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 14/09/2026
Mufasa explains the circle of life but it's the Lotka-Volterra equations
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
if you want to stink up the room with the smell of a ratting dog, you know where one is...
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
new album by the rock band "the tubs" is v v good thetubs.bandcamp.com/track/heaven...
thetubs.bandcamp.com
Heaven or London, by The Tubs
from the album Hard Life
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
the only two support bands I have ever seen invite themselves to do an encore are the just joans (supporting martha this week) and milky wimpshake (who were not supporting martha when I saw them do this but are of course also supporting martha this week). further study is needed
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
is there a german word for the sense that when you are hanging out with multiple people who share a common first language that isn't english, the polite thing to do is leave to enable them to converse in it? I would ask the four german speakers I have been in the pub with but,,,
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
yeah, really great. if AGI blows up the planet but before doing so markedly increases the number of people doing philosophy of mathematics then the technology has been a net neutral
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
get paid £££ to be depressed with this one trick (take a week off work, be depressed)
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
what if my friend gets annoyed by all the story likes vs what if they incorrectly think I enjoyed the seventeenth photo of a european train station less than each that preceded it
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
free socks with wind turbines on to make having a job worthwhile
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ruined two minutes of the more eaze set at the otherwise incredibly good more eaze and wendy eisenberg gig by having this intrusive thought
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
harry potter lightning scar cybersigilism tattoo
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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You got Tennessee tendencies And chemical dependencies
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
paternoster lift? I barely know her!
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
people on here will tweet anything. 'dolly parton was a fundamental inspiration to blue labour' no she wasn't. that isn’t true
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
UK Quakers commit to continued, explicit trans inclusion. "...toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience."
quaker.org.uk
Quakers reaffirm commitment to trans inclusion in the wake of EHRC Code of Practice
Quakers in Britain has refreshed and reaffirmed its commitment to providing trans-inclusive facilities across its buildings.
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
stop booing I'm allowed to say this
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
not an analytic philosopher saying that autism disqualifies you from scholarly life
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
seems an oversight that the platform for recommending me short form content that needles at my various fears and anxieties and the platform that tells me that ellen arkbro is performing at glasgow cathedral festival is the same. hope this gets patched
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm at the driving lesson, I'm at the pakistan independence day history lesson, I'm at the combination driving and pakistan independence day history lesson
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"except for viewers in scotland"-ass eclipse
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
systems down in the co-op the last two days... linked to angular distance between sun and moon? surely one for someone to look into
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
arriving at my friend's birthday dinner later as the only one who has spent the afternoon at the real ale festival
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
yeah don't listen to any in their entirety other than songs for pierre chauvin and bleed out. if they didn't want me to like the '10 songs in 10 days because it's march 2020 and there's nothing else to do' album loads more than the ones they expended effort on, they should've made those ones better
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
imo no earlier than goths and no later than in league with dragons. beat the champ is like a season eight simpsons episode where they start doing a little bit of the stuff that makes the later ones much worse
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
no mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.linus and charlie brown walk outside in the rain, linus says "that's a good system!"
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
mass email, "please accept my apologies"
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
bsky.app/profile/plea...
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
that video of lil wayne reacting with disbelief at gucci mane being listed as one of the five best rappers of all time, except it's me reacting to the doublet being listed as scotland's best pub
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"except for viewers in scotland"-ass weather
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
left his wife for an infinitely old, evil, one
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
who up adapting their preferences
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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
me texting LC: feeling really anxious in the pub for some reason, okay should probably put my phone down now and read my book for a bit me five minutes later: bsky.app/profile/heli...
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