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Dr Ailsa Boyd @ailsaboyd.bsky.social · 5h

Last few days of ‘Rubbing Spittle into Cuts’: An Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture by Gregory Rankine & Daniela Ironside. 🎨 Pop into Glasgow Art Club by 5pm Sat 17 Oct to see tenements, shoes, the sea, portraits, bees, peregrines, the moon, moody cityscapes, powerful patterns popping with colour.

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Glasgow Science Centre @glasgowscience.bsky.social · 6h

Hello! The new wetland island joins our three previous islands in the Canting Basin at the rear of the science centre (just behind the IMAX!)

Four wetland islands float in the Canting Basin behind the Glasgow Science Centre. The rear of the science centre building and the Glasgow Tower are in view.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 6h

Ah. Thank you so much! And, what a nice vista. Will come and have a look at some point soon. 'Mon the watery wildlife!

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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 8h

STUPID SEXY RAMSAY MACDONALD

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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Movie posters that could only be put up in British railway stations, one of a series of probably one.

An ad for a ghost movie with the tagline "See it. Séance. Haunted."; a reference to the British Transport Police's long-running "See it. Say it. Sorted." ads encouraging the public to report anything vaguely suspicious.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 21h

I loved Digger! The movie is all about how perception, and how the stories people want to believe are better than reality, and why art - like Hollywood movies - won't shift the dial of public opinion with catastrophising at, hectoring, or patronising audiences. #Digger

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 21h

I thought quite a lot of the play stuff was funny - the vet with the cat, the John Goodman and cabinet stuff, including the Al Gore reference 👌, and some of Digger's sly, outrageous statements - though I think I was the only one doing so in the small audience. So just me then....?!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I thought it was near the SECC, off the north bank of the river, downstream a bit from Bells Bridge. But I guess as it floats it *may* get towed to another location? Prob best to ask Glasgow Science Centre, RSE, or Biomatrix for the exact point. I'm hoping to just spot it next time I walk that way!

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

How lovely! A new River Clyde island - set afloat during the International Water Congress - as a home for wildlife which naturally filters and cleans water. Along with the wee archipelago added to the Canting Basin in 2023 www.biomatrixwater.com/news/increas... #RiverClyde #Rivers #Nature #Water

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Glasgow Times @glasgowtimes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🌿🐟 A new floating island has arrived on the River Clyde - and it's designed to help clean the water and create habitats for wildlife.

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New floating island installed on River Clyde to boost water quality and biodiversity

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

New documentary coming - 5 Nov on BBC World Service - about daylighting urban rivers and the benefits this brings for human - and non-human - residents of towns and cities worldwide. Popping it in the diary! #rivers #nature #daylighting

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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was in George Square in the rain 33 (gulp!) years ago to hear Nelson Mandela thank Glasgow citizens for their staunch support, and see him break into dance on stage. A happy day! And a memory that should urge us to confront similar injustices today #Glasgow #BlackHistoryMonthUK #FreePalestine

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I find something terribly sad (& ironic) about immortalizing an animal on a bank note whose population has been decimated by habitat loss, vehicles, etc. There were 30 million hedgehogs in 1950s Britain. There are fewer than 1 million now. Hedgehogs are going extinct. So we stick them on our money.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It didn't understand what was meant by branding, nor what social marketing meant in the context of global family planning issues. So it just repeated the misleading phrases used by GF. And I see this all the time! AI will usually use the media story itself to say the media story is true!

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So no, we didn't spend £100m, £74m, or even £88m on condoms or even "promoting branded condoms" for Pakistan. We spent just under £100 million over 10 years, paying NGOs and businesses, including UK organisations that pay UK taxes, wages, rent and bills to help predominantly women and children.

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Population Service International
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Palladium International Ltd (UK).
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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Back from limbo! the relaunch of Hosprec, the Hospital Records Database, with which I was involved for so many years www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional... 1/2

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Re-launching HOSPREC, the Hospital Records database

Researchers Giorgia Tolfo and Laura Robson-Mainwaring reflect on the usefulness of the Hospital Records database and how we are making it more accessible.

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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🚆 More than checking tickets. Our new website explores the work of safety-critical trained train guards through a serving guard’s testimony and first-hand accounts from across the railway. Safety. Judgement. Passenger care. Please read and share: rmtunion.org/guard

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More than checking tickets

A guard’s perspective on safety, judgement and passenger care.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I find there is a weird lack of understanding among media producers of how the public think this foundational point was settled decades ago - but a determination to amplify the niche view

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Digger is a great movie: audacious, Russian-dollish, grotesque, funny, confounding, and visually delicious! Fabulous costuming, and, on searching for this cardigan, all I got were ads for #Digger #Halloween outfits, so someone must be watching and loving it.... #FilmSky #TomCruise #MovieReviews

Men in a room with a crystal chandelier, with the man at the front - Tom Cruise - wearing a multicoloured cardigan with vertical stripes with quite an 1980s vibe.

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

20 years ago today Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists, was murdered. I found no mention of the anniversary in today's Russian newspapers. #ReadingRussia

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Russian papers silent on the 20th anniversary of journalist's murder

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think about that movie a lot but I've never met anyone else who saw it!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is amazing. And wonderful!

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Here is is. 23 June 1987.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, I just think it was a titbit thrown out to both reassure and nullify the people who have no idea what A Theory Of Growth is but feel they should know and that it must be important because other people bang on about it. ie me.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If the AI prompts leak, it could be awkward. Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer appear to help different kinds of people

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sorry, I refuse to be snide - this is the greatest moment in British political history #CPC26

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Angela Rayner looks magnificent. Get that woman a crown!

A faux Bateaux Tapestry style depiction of Angela Rayner puffing on a vape and holding a wooden tankard labelled wine. Possibly an eel on the table in front of her.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The man literally has a whole website built up over a decade where he, and his many colleagues, share! (Accessible from his bio) ukandeu.ac.uk

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Reports Archive - UK in a changing Europe

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Read her book 'A Bad, Bad Place' in practically one night! It's a great story, deeply connected to 1970s #Glasgow. And so lovely to experience two female voices from two generations, both caring for, and trying to understand, the other in hard circumstances #TartanNoir #CrimeWriting #SidVicious

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Get it now! Sure to be warm, witty and wise - and funny! - about living with love, friends and family. Plus, the joy of having beautiful shoes...! #WomensFiction #ScottishFiction #Scotkand #Books #Reading #WomenWriters #Shoes

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ok. I see. Not sure my post really supports that as I didn't comment on his authenticity, simply that emotion can definitely work to persuade, and thus advance policy and electoral chances. And am convinced that arguing Burnham is just faking / using his grief is not a winner for any opponents!

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tho not straight off, remember he lost the initial Clause 4 conference vote and had to do a tour of CLPs to win it. (Regardless, I think Blair's time is done....!) But unsure of the purpose of sharing the post to Burnham & LBC when it was obvs from the thread that I thought he had done it well... 🤔

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, was tempted to go see the house to see the bunker! The whole place looks amazing. Fabulous sinks in the utility room too.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham then said he thought Swinney didn't know of his father's death + that his father would have supported Swinney's right to speak. Totally fair, of course, to critique the speech's construction, language, effect, and perceived intention.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What phone call? The same day that the devolved leaders did the indy thing, which is where Swinney said publicly that Burnham would be the last PM of Britain www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... was the first day of Burnham's bereavement leave www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Westminster coming to an end, say Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish leaders

The leaders of Plaid Cymru, SNP and Sinn Fein say the UK government should prepare for constitutional change.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fair point! I don't like that it's necessary but I do appreciate it being done well.

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But it does work. That's why Cameron talked about his disabled son whenever the public were anxious about the NHS. Politics is about performance as well as policy, and the weepy bits will be clipped and liked and shared.

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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 29/09/2026

all benefits should be memes tested

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The obvious answer: policymakers and media should be sceptical of all such reports unless there is complete disclosure and publication of the underlying calculations, so that anyone can run it and test it.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Later in 2027 I hope to be at the Swimmable Cities Alliance conference in Ottawa–Gatineau, Canada, to hear stories of the re-enlivenment of urban waters for people, nature and communities www.swimmablecities.org An inspiring year of riverine work and play ahead! #SwimmableCities #WorldRiversDay 9/9

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Swimmable Cities

Urban Swimming Culture & Urban Waterway Restoration

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In April 2027 the Counterflows Festival will present A Sound Map of the River Clyde, an aural portrait of the river through field recordings gathered with communities along its length. Send in your recordings now! counterflows.com/a-sound-map-... 8/...

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Counterflows

Counterflows Festival is back again and can’t wait to welcome you all to Glasgow for four days of live music from some of the most interesting artists working on the fringes today.

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