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✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 9h

every day i learn something new and i hate it

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Ariel is Going Back to Space AGAIN @iodhadh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Being trans is good. And taking actions is good. So you would think that having “trans actions” coming out of your bank account would also be good. BUT ☝️watch out.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 9h

Impressive that we appear to have magically gained additional Edinburgh Castles.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 12h

I am once again asking/begging cultural, heritage and environmental groups in Edinburgh to stop using Gen AI images of a city that has been photographed from nearly every conceivable angle and for which a vast portfolio rights-free images already exist to use if you don't have a budget to pay

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 9h

Scottish holiday photos in hot countries: look how hot and different this is! Folks from hot countries holiday photos from Scotland: look how cold and different this is!

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 9h

Unusual to see a group of men in dishdashas stoating about the suburbs. They seem to be having an excellent time taking "look, I'm in Scotland!" sort of photos 😂

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 10h

But it's single glazing, they'll be awffy cauld in the winter!

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 10h

Luckily it seems to to be the same ghost, just different people seeing his front or his back. No capacity issues. Yet.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 10h

I had some colleagues come with me to help me check which window a ghost would have been visible at, and now we have a new mystery of why the only possible window is so much bigger than every other one in that building, and why it has...a lobby?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12h

I'm sorry, but the audiobook of Gromit's autobiography should be marked as "read by the author" and then just be 8hrs of silence.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 13h

I know, I know, I got overexcited there

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 13h

Maybe you might actually feel valued and supported next!

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 13h

Actual assumption that you're doing a job and that they should check in on how you're doing it? Wild!

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 13h

Sadly all we're left with is banter. Or more dreadfully.....bants.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 15h

I'm enjoying imagining that he was using a conference call approach

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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 18h

10 ratings away from the big 1k. If you haven't rated Ashes to Admin already and you're on goodreads, I would be most grateful... www.goodreads.com/book/show/76...

Goodreads page for Ashes to Admin. 4 33 stars from 990 ratings and 124 reviews.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 18h

You don't hear enough people described as raconteurs these days.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 19h

Girl on the bus has spent the last 20 mins sharing her collection of videos of schoolmates, friends and other relatives fighting. She apparently "loves it." Me, having to listen to screaming and yelling of distressed people...not so much.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 19h

They are fun though!

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think I can cope - I get seasick, even on the short hovercraft crossing trial they ran from Edinburgh to Fife 🤢

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 19h

This weekend I'll be booking my travel and accommodation for a trip to Southampton for a birthday party. Any recommendations for what to do/see for a day in Southampton in late January?

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A glorious inspiration!

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sadly (or luckily) it's not my library but it adds to the "ghosts in the building libraries" collection (think it's at 4 or 5 now).

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, one of the ghost stories RELATES TO A LIBRARY IN THE BUILDING!!!

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We find them whenever we do building works, but them appearing in the drains was unexpected. We're built on the city's medieval graveyard, so there's lots of them!

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's a fun workplace when your building history can include the line "in 2010 heavy rainfall led to bones from the graveyard underneath coming up through the drains"

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just been chatting to someone who's given me at least half a dozen more ghost stories than I had about the building, and added all sorts of building history information (we still had a 60 foot long chandelier from an 1822 banquet until it disappeared in modern times). What fun!!

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No pressure but if this gets to a million views, I'll be able to pay the mortgage this month. Thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUv...

youtube.com

Most TV is Just This Now

YouTube video by Michael Spicer

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Irish #folklore tells of lazy,clever drunkard named Stingy Jack who tricked Devil multiple times.When Jack died,he was turned away from Heaven and Hell.Devil gives Jack a burning ember to light his way in dark.Jack puts ember inside a hollowed-out turnip and wanders earth forever

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you're up and out before the sun is, it's definitely soup season.

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine going back to 2014 and telling people that there was even the possibility of jk rowling funding wings over scotland

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just a reminder, if you're seeing crochet on clothes at fast-fashion stores and you're not paying a lot for it, the person who did that crochet is not getting paid a lot either. There is no machine-made crochet, unlike knits. A human is doing that with their hands.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I feel like it's watching me.

A grublike fruit in a glass ramekin, with a black seed surrounded by fruit flesh looking like an eye.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And that's us pretty much completed putting together the presentation. We're using this image and I'll need to remember that it's not about Del Boy.

Spine of a book titled "Trotter on Children Acts, Child Adoption and Juvenile Courts"

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*to the tune of Ring my Bell* disco coo-ooo-ck, disco cock 🐔

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is it safe to share with the class?

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My cock is a thing of glory, for sure.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes you just gotta glam up your loo equipment.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do you want to see the best Teams message I've ever recieved? You do, don't you.

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Please, the errors. I want them delivered more slowly.

Screenshot of text which says "We have reviewed and improved our internal communication process so that errors of this kind reach you quickly and clearly."

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

otoh the media is ignoring the real story here which is guy was supposedly comatose for 18 days while brain died from oxygen starvation and now he's moving around saying brainless things and eating everyone else's headspace For the first time, we have officially identified a zombie

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