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John Kilbride

@karnag.bsky.social
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Author, digital content producer, journalist. Glasgow, Scotland. Views my own. MDANT just moved here from the other place

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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 8h
Wonder if anyone in the mid ‘70s predicted that Saturday night TV in 50 years time would essentially be the Tom Jones Show and Come Dancing?
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 17h
Have witnessed Border Collies doing exactly this kind of dance
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can confirm.
cover of Daevid Allen (from the band Gong) & Euterpe album 'Good Morning' featuring a green pixie on a flying carpet with a pot of tea, saying 'Good morning' in a speech bubble.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This image should probably have a low Factory Records catalogue number and a Peter Saville credit.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today I learned that the brother of Cronos from Venom played drums with Prefab Sprout.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Three unions to strike at same time over job cuts at Glasgow Caledonian University
Lecturers and support staff say the action by the UCU, the EIS and Unison on Thursday will effectively close the university.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have a copy of John Coltrane’s Blue Train on CD in my car. It’s been in the player for months and while it might not be his best, I can’t think of anything better to replace it.
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Mairi-Claire Kilbride @mairiclaire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Gorbals Vampire day to all who celebrate.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I would just like to point out that I saw Ed Sheeran coming and this is just one among many reasons that @theartsdesk.bsky.social archive is a thing of immense value and you should support us. (correct link this time lol)
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CD: Ed Sheeran - +
When I lived in Brighton in the mid-Nineties, a certain type was 10 a penny. Young, stoned, middle-class buskers, acoustic guitar strummers who were au fait with hip hop and able to improvise endless ...
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran would probably have played Sun City in the ‘80s.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have been up north, and returned to discover I have to do a double shift at the biscuit factory to catch up.
Close picture of a black and white cat sitting on my chest ‘making biscuits’. Biscuits are apparently visible to cats only and are not pictured.
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Gàidheal Gèidh @grumps2772.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wee Glasgow women gets racist off the bus
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@davidmckenna.bsky.social drop me a message where your likely to be around 5
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Months ago I planted onions. They grew and I harvested and chopped the onions. They’re now in the freezer, where they’ll probably stay until they’re completely forgotten about.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
August, is apparently time for Tesco to open the long range Advent calendar
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
File under “photographs you can hear”
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: you can be an oligarch and spend your money on spaceships. Or be a Dollygarch and spend your money giving over 300 million books to kids. #dollyparton
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Jerry, Donna Jean and the boys play some Dolly Parton. youtu.be/P1YnrqAHcqQ
youtu.be
Grateful Dead - Tomorrow Is Forever 9/26/72
YouTube video by Bill Gray
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm pretty sure the robot olympics featured in a Judge Dredd story back in the olden days future.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Trying to remember if the @glasgowtimes.bsky.social slogan is ‘Nobody knows our city better’ or ‘nobody knows Glasgow better’… #riddy www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...
News article showing image of the University of Aberdeen main building. Not university of Glasgow as reported in the article News article showing image of the University of Aberdeen main building. Not university of Glasgow as reported in the article News article showing image of the University of Aberdeen main building. Not university of Glasgow as reported in the article
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CiCi @cici6923.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm not sure if this is the BBC trying to campaign for Reform or against Scottish Independence or both. But I live in this city and the selective narrative and strap line is nothing but bad faith.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Might just watch Tarkovsky, Herzog and some random Nouvelle Vague instead and take my chances.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Nothing is real
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Nice find Johnnie. Cumbernauld apparently “the safest town in Britain but also one of the bleakest” 😳
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“…and everything under the sun is out loud, but the sun is eclipsed by the cloud”
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Honestly amazed Sleaford Mods have never put dodgy Harry Potter shops in a song as emblematic of Shit Britain
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’m not exactly the biggest football fan, but I love a good headline.
Headline from Herald newspaper feed announcing ‘Celtic monitoring Pope’
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Are fungal storms the same as mushroom clouds?
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Katarina is too busy chilling in an old shoe box to follow social media trends #intetnationslcatday
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Covers that are better than the original youtu.be/xBKyBlJ_JN8
youtu.be
Husker Du - Eight Miles High
YouTube video by Drfeesh
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
So finally using the new Scotrail app. But wondering why the stylised Scottish flag logo (blue background, white saltire) seems to have been replaced by a stylised Russian naval ensign logo (white background, blue saltire) 🤔
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If you’re in Scotland and concerned about the sudden proliferation of data centre planning applications, this petition to the Scottish Parliament calling for a moratorium is worth signing: petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
petitions.parliament.scot
Petition: Moratorium on planning applications for all hyperscale data centres until their environmental impacts have been fully assessed
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce a moratorium to prohibit planning permission from being granted for any hyperscale data centres, until it has carried ou...
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Yesterday I learned that during appeasement French journalists mockingly called Chamberlain Monseur J'aime Berlin, which is exceptional work. Well done France.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Attention goths: it’s now the season for shopping in TK Maxx.
Goth style products on the shelves of TK Maxx for Halloween. Seen in July 3026.
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sonicbondpub.bsky.social @sonicbondpub.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Did you know that you can buy The Golden Road as an Ebook? For those of you who prefer to read from a screen, the Ebook version is available now from Amazon or wherever you buy your books! #gratefuldead #bluesforallah #helpontheway #70srock #60srock #bluesrock #ebook #musicbook
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Needing a portrait of Lenin? Or a NATO ammo box? Try Debenhams. It’s certainly changed a bit since it went online only…
Portrait of VI Lenin on sale at Debenhams NATO ammunition box on sale at Debenhams
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but they grind relentlessly. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
theguardian.com
Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami on UK charges of rape and sex trafficking
Britain to seek extradition over alleged sexual exploitation, ‘extreme pornography’, assault and indecent images of a child
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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Good Morning fellow #MDANT people! I haven't done this before- I'm asking for your help to make a book and exhibition. "IT'S a SIGN!" will be a journey through notices, hoardings and public messages- debased, deranged, altered and inexplicable. More here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-sign THANKS!
A road sign at Skiag Bridge, Assynt, in 1993. It has been altered and re-written. Someone has taken the letter s out of the word WEST so that It says WET- and someone else has written the S back in again, badly. The other direction, NORTH has had 'is shit' added underneath. also rather badly. In the picture it's a beautiful day, with sunlight on Quinag.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Allez Allez Allez 🇫🇷
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
You know when you’ve been tangoed! #engarg
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
El Mano de dios!
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Santa Maradona!
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hydration break #engarg
Large bag of Mate with Argentina gourd
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Maradona, 19 años, Calle de Esperanza, Glasgow, Escocia. 1979. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇷
Diego Maradona, overlooking Hope Street from a window in the Central Hotel in Glasgow. Image from 1979, the player’s debut appearance for Argentina.
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Bof. *shrugs in French* #fraesp
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
youtu.be/9ku9s0CKbpY?... 🇫🇷
youtu.be
Johnny Hallyday - Tous ensemble
YouTube video by JohnnyHallydayVEVO
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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Gaelic is an official language in Scotland, so I doubt this can stand.
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