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MacInteresting

@macinteresting.co.uk
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Author of Scottish History books (Edinburgh for Everyone, Edinburgh 10 Walks in the Historic Old Town), fan of comedy, history, languages, psychology and anything I didn't know before.

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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Grandmother in hospital: my grandson is a ghost in the Scottish Parliament. Doctor: OK, well this... Mother: sorry, but if just see this article in the Scotsman.
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I’ve never seen a meme that embodies my very essence before.
YOU TRIGGERED MY FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE
AND PM A FLIGHTLESS BIRD!
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 01/10/2026
📱 “Hands” / Photo Tunnel — By Kerry Wilson in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK 🇬🇧 Under Bridges (8 Photos) streetartutopia.com/2026/10/01/stre…
Hands by Kerry Wilson at the Napier Road underpass in Glenrothes, Scotland: two painted hands frame the real tunnel and path beyond like a phone screen.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Look, I’m gonna bang on about this until October, but it really is the most proud I’ve ever been of a project. You can have the sneakiest of peeps at some shots of the film we made below. Grab tickets and come along if you’re in London on the 3rd October. genesiscinema.co.uk/event/113852
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast.
two panels. top: nelson looking at a note someone passed him in class. "guess who's already dead."

bottom: nelson turns to see a framed photo of barney holding a dying rose, from his short film pukahontas.
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 10/09/2026
@squidgerugby.bsky.social any chance of a video explaining how on earth the new wxv format works? Keep finding the same info everywhere and none of it explains why Scotland will play Canada, Nz, then Australia 3 times.
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 05/09/2026
I worry LLMs are gonna remove human moments. Speaking to a tourist I asked where they were going on their Highland trip. They told me and I said "Oh that's pretty much the trip I'd suggest!" Their response: "ChatGpt told me!" No connection there.
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Shasta 🐦‍⬛ @shasta.corvid.dev · 03/09/2026
I’m losing it at the placement of this hole in the wall
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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026
Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection
A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)
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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Choosing to “keep politics out of sports” is a luxury only male athletes have (and not even all of them). For women, getting paid to play a sport is still a political act in and of itself.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Medusa but her hair is an anaconda
Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey chiton and stubbornly strides to the left, dragging the heavy snake, which trails sullenly along behindMedusa with a single anaconda for hair. It is completely coiled around her, leaving only her angry yellow eyes visible, and a single hand lifted to flip off the worldMedusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey towel and is scrubbing the snake. A bar of soap sits in a small puddle off to the leftMedusa with a single anaconda for hair. She sits, drumming her fingers impatiently, while in the background the anaconda digests some large prey
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 28/07/2026
When I was studying Scottish history it was clear that historians of medieval Scotland liked Rob Roy but hated Braveheart, while those studying Early Modern Scotland were the opposite. So, this tracks.
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Tom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Most folk know the daily footsteps Edinburgh's Calton Hill experiences but d'you realise how dry it is with so little rain - parched & very worn grass. From a mile away I caught dust swirling around the National Monument & a low sun casting shadows for a surreal vision #Edinburgh
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 21/07/2026
You see a mousetrap, I see free cheese and fucking challenge
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 12/07/2026
"They weren't all happy days, Marge"
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𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖞 𝕱𝖊𝖓 @danfenlon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
True! However this is hilarious so i chose to believe this
The smurfs (papa, brainy and smurfette) on a table facing mystique 

"You're not the first smurf to try and bring me back to the village dad"

Brainy: the skulls papa smurf!!


Papa: i know brainy. Dont lose your smurf


Art by Caanan Grall
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Tom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Edinburgh skyline at the start of the longest day #SummerSolstice #Edinburgh
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Essem @essem.space · 16/06/2026
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Just on a fan level, I feel like a Scotland-Haiti street party would be fucking incredible
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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 26/05/2026
Rewatching The Matrix. What a movie.
Splitting scenes of What’s he doing? He’s beginning to believe from The Matrix and two pictures of Victor Meldrew frowning then smiling One Foot In The Grave
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 24/05/2026
Only someone from Bayeux could call something a tapestry, that isn't a tapestry.
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Poor wee thing.
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 02/05/2026
Why have they chosen to make it look like he is putting his feet on the box, but he has tiny legs and baby feet?
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 25/04/2026
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a man wearing sunglasses and a blue shirt is adjusting his glasses .
Alt: Dr Grant takes off his sunglasses in surprise - Jurrasic Park
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Richard Sales @theblueacorn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A picture from the Bristol balloon festival. I am unable to name the photographer. Your sort of thing @swansonian.bsky.social ?
A large inflatable dragon looms over some suburban housing in the west of England
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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"Scotland" by palette knife painter Georgia Hart
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/04/2026
Gather, my friends, and you shall learn the esoteric history of fridge magnets, and how they function as tacky little references for human memory:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 1
Fridge magnets are more than tacky souvenirs. They're vessels for our memories.
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 11/04/2026
I hesitate to say "tag yourself" but I enjoy the different sewing styles. I am very much number 2.
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 04/04/2026
How much do you think that doggy *really* was?
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🅱️oofessor Killosk 👻🔪 @professorkiosk.wtf · 30/03/2026
please my typos they’re very [sic]
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
RICKY MARTIN: she's into superstitions, black cats and voodoo dolls ME: [staring at my Guess Who board] ok, I'm going to explain the rules one more time...
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 19/03/2026
I have an English teacher joke but first I want to know what you think it's about.
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 16/03/2026
I had an idea for a 4 limbed Pegasus. And so I've drawn one .
A pencil drawing of Pegasus. Horses head, Swan like wings half outstretched, and horse hind legs. A bit heraldic.
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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 15/03/2026
Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.
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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Bored? Why not get rid of an old loyalty card in your wallet by planting an 'inciting incident' somewhere in the wild
A series of  images showing a loyalty card for a cafe in Crystal
Palace, it being defaced with a marker reading ‘there’s no time! Tell them Anton sent you. Please help! X’ and it being hidden in a vent in a toilet
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4
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Neil @tremendaoneil.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Woah woah BBC, out of the 702 who responded definitively, 162 (that's TWENTY THREE PERCENT) said they *had* refused a fit note? Alternate headline : "NEARLY 1 IN 4 GPs REFUSE TO PROVIDE FIT NOTES FOR MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS" Sub-headline : "86% OF GPs CAN'T BE ARSED REPLYING TO OUR SHITTY SURVEY"
BBC News sent a questionnaire to more than 5,000 GPs in England asking if they had ever denied a fit note - often called a sick note - to someone who had requested one because of their mental health.

Of the 752 GPs who replied, 540 said they had never refused such a request, while 162 told us they had turned at least one down. A smaller number - 50- said they would prefer not to say.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 09/03/2026
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Heartfelt and moving 🙏
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 07/03/2026
Well, some of us were half right!
A screenshot of a text saying "Also, Scotland will win by 50 points" from 9.10am
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
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MacInteresting @macinteresting.co.uk · 04/03/2026
Baz Luhrman's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 04/03/2026
"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."
psypost.org
Broad claims about gender and behavior fall apart when studies include ethnically diverse samples
Behavioral economics relies heavily on studies of Western, educated people. A recent analysis provides evidence that ignoring racial diversity within the United States has led to flawed generalization...
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Tom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Loved getting a different view of Edinburgh today. One of my favourite wee bits of our city is the "teapot" that sits halfway down castle rock and overlooks the railway. #Edinburgh
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Emily Sore-Heart @hangryghosts.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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