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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean, if "they" are the bears, then this is indeed a mystery.

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Larkin Francis, PhD, MSW @mwfrancis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

PLEASE ask me for my article! It's always a thrill to know that someone wants to read it, and I hate that knowledge is gatekept like this. Not only do we not get paid if you pay the fee, but we have to pay the journal thousands of dollars for the "privilege" of making it open-access (not paywalled)

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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'll repost this. The triple lock is being weaponised, using it as an issue to divide the generations. If it's dropped, the real losers will be the future pensioners. For a currency issuing government keeping any cohort in poverty is is a political choice.

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Mike @mike-0568.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have one of the lowest state pension provisions in Europe, and no, private pensions don't bridge the gap for most of us. You'll be old one day, use your f**king brains, you're being manipulated.

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My son and I went to the Camanachd Cup Final in Oban on Saturday, Kingussie V Newtonmore. A grand day out, and we managed to escape most of the rain too which was a bonus! I took a tiny compact camera & made the most of its ease of use & unobtrusiveness as we wandered about. 1/4

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#humor The Norwegian consumer protection agency made another funny Enshitificator ad - about #enshitificstion - six months ago. They're really on a (funny) roll www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up... (This is the more recent ad : www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6SP... )

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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Really well explained. Worth a watch.

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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations. 🙌🪶 nativenewsonline.net/education/na...

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Native Forward Dedicates Entire $50 Million MacKenzie Scott Gift to Native Students, Future Generations

Overview: Native Forward Scholars Fund announced it will invest the full $50 million unrestricted gift it received from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott into Native higher education, allocating $10 mill...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump has been redirecting tens of millions of National Park Service money to wasteful projects in Washington, D.C., while blocking more than 130 planned projects at national parks across the country, putting more than $25 million in already secured funding on hold.

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Mick Houghton @mickh5.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Flight lines

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's #ScottishArchaeologyMonth so why not combine a walk with a little archaeology? Our top picks are: Ledmore and Migdale, St Ronans, Moncreiffe Hill, Glen Finglas and Huntly Wood. See what stories you can uncover and take in some spectacular views! 🥾🌲 Happy exploring! buff.ly/cUzXrOF

View from St Ronans summit. Credit: Jillian Donnachie/WTML

Dumore Hill Fort excavations next to Glen finglas. Credit: Gwen Raes/WTML

Ariel view of Huntly Wood showing circular cairn. Credit Robin Miller/WTML

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Kenny Muir @kennymuir.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Finally, after many years putting it off, I have managed to get my website updated. All Scotland’s Caledonian forest for now, and a few new shots mixed into the 4 galleries, including this one a couple winters back www.kennymuir.com

Scots pine and birch at the waters edge in the Caledonian forest

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As an add to Tuesday's Portsmouth 'young men of cricket-playing age' farrago, I was sent a recording of two live feeds from the hotel filmed by activists/vigilantes, and they are fascinating in what they show about this weird and aggressive sort of monetised conspiracism. A few thoughts:

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Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com · 06/09/2026

Twenty-five years after I photographed Ground Zero, The Philadelphia Inquirer gave my images, and my new essay about living with the trauma, extraordinary space in today’s Sunday paper. I’m enormously grateful for their care and attention, @inquirer.com. | Online: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

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Sam Johnson @analoguelass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Solitude - photograph of a Belted Galloway taken with my Nikon F2 and Tri-X 400 developed with DD-X and printed onto mulberry paper #believeinfilm #lakedistrict

A 4x4 black and white photograph of a Belted Galloway printed onto delicate mulberry paper. The cow has a striking black coat with a distinct white belt around its middle.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Needed saying.

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Got home from a harvestman survey at Calthorpe Broad, Norfolk yesterday only to find I had a hitchhiker! Lipoptena cervi, the 'delightful' Deer Ked... note that it has broken off its wings, having found a suitable host... One for @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

A very squat fly with broken-off wings and very sturdy legs that end in claws, head down in a glass specimen tube. It is a pale buff colour with darker tawny markings on the thorax and a tawny head. The abdomen is thin and quite bristly. The head is broad with large eyes.

A very squat fly with broken-off wings and very sturdy legs that end in claws, head on in a glass specimen tube. It is a pale buff colour with darker tawny markings on the thorax and a tawny head. The abdomen is thin and quite bristly. The thorax has several dark bristles on it. The head is broad with large eyes.

A very squat fly with very sturdy legs that end in claws, upside down in a glass specimen tube. It is a pale buff colour. The head is broad with large eyes.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Amid all the anger at what’s going on with the Anthopic settlement, a bit of peaceful joy for book lovers.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh dear

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is such an important point. These universities have already completely dismantled their outreach and diversity programs, closed entire academic units, and scrubbed every webpage. Thinking you can appease people committed to your destruction is utterly foolish, but they’re still trying…

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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 03/09/2026

So delighted that my dear friend Constable Sukhvinder Singh Sunger of the Vancouver Police Department has made global headlines for a historic appearance at the prestigious Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland.

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today in Weird Scotland Broke a tooth end of July. Dentist patched it and "will contact you in 2-3 weeks to confirm appointment". 2.5 weeks later, email confirms apppointment for 7th Sept. This week another email asks me to update medical info. Oddly the portal wont accept my D.O.B. Hmm.... 1/2

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Imagine going to a job interview and having to explain the AI refuses to work with you Holy shit

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 01/09/2026

If Democrats pulled a stunt like this two months before an election, Republicans would literally be burning stuff down

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Matt Parker @theworldofmattp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A photograph that doesn’t look like a photograph Sunscrawls An experiment shooting directly into the sunlight Does this work for you? What’s your opinion of abstract photography? Please share in the comments 👇 #blackandwhitephotography #classicmono #eastcoastkin #thephotohour

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Lord Salfordlad67 @salfordlad67.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Have you been hit with a Rhythm Stick ?? You could be entitled to compensation with a personal IAN DURY claim.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Bernie's social security bill needs to be signed into law 👇

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JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org · 31/08/2026

As i deeply love #sikh community and the way they treated me through the years, this is making me happy! Sukvinder is an awesome guy! #scotland #edinburgh #bagpipes #tartan #moments

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Karen Knight @karenknight1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Beyond disgusting 🤬

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One time while he was on tour in Australia Sinatra called a woman journalist a whore and her union got all the others to sympathy strike so he couldn't stay in his hotel, travel anywhere or leave the country until he apologized, I can't remember why I thought of this

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This was posted by the US department of Interior. It shows the deranged viciousness of the administration on our border. We are staring down a klepto psychopath who is being egged on at every level by the power structure of the USA. They aren't joking. Canada we stand on guard for thee.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp

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1r0n51d3.bsky.social @1r0n51d3.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

They must have started as grasshopers and evolved the second p in 210 million years .

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Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Do not fear mistakes. There are none. - Miles Davis Beautiful shot. Birdland New York, 1958 #DennisStock bit.ly/k41Nye youtu.be/zqNTltOGh5c #MilesDavis #Jazz #FilmNoir #music #film #noir #jazznoir #photo

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 28/08/2026

AI is part of a class war. The rich are buying art made by artists, putting their kids in private schools with excellent teacher/pupil ratios, not allowing their own kids to use smart phones etc . They want us stupider, surrounded by slop - pigs at the trough. Stop giving them what they want.

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

⚖️ With three weeks still to go, the litigation crowdfunder seeking support to sue Tommy Robinson for defamation in Scotland has attracted just over £41,500 from 2,300 people. Looks well on its way now to hitting its target. www.crowdjustice.com/case/tommy-r...

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HOLDING TOMMY ROBINSON TO ACCOUNT

I never expected to end up here. Tommy Robinson's accusation about me, a Glaswegian dad, went viral before it was ever checked - and I'm not willing to just let that stand, or let him do it again.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As if you needed anymore reasons to love her

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dolly Parton ''Look Alike'' competition. Phoenix, Arizona USA 1979. Photographer David Hurn.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach

Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.

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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I captured the Andromeda Galaxy with an 8-hour integration time using my Askar FRA500 telescope, ASI2600MC Duo camera, and ZWO AM5N mount. High-resolution: app.astrobin.com/i/xz1nem #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #andromeda #galaxy #eastcoastkin #photography

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