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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 03/10/2026

PSA: if you're wondering why your YouTube shares now link to your profile and irreversibility add you to other people's quick share lists on their phones, it's because of this new bastard setting. Fuck you Google.

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 23/09/2026

Found a nazi for your reporting and blocking pleasure

Guardian post about arrests at a far right action yesterday. A far right hate speech account with the display name Sheogorath and handle @sheogorath6.bsky.social has replied complaining "it's amazing how indigenous people can't even protest against their own genocide" which is typical neo nazi rhetoric

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 20/09/2026

No dryer here either. We have the classic Scottish solution for drying laundry when it's wet outside (this is in a utility room with an extractor fan but when we first moved in it was next to the stairs)

Clothes hanging from a drying rack that's pulled up to the ceiling by a pulley system

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 18/09/2026

I found a clue as to what might have happened

Screenshot of the page at archive.org

Scottish Challenge to the Proscription of Palestine Action
by Craig Murray
Human rights
Lawyers: Halliday Campbell
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
3
days to go
£155,708
donated of £240,000 stretch target from 1769 pledges

I've highlighted and circled Craig Murray's name on the screenshot

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 16/09/2026

This killer driver was found not guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, because we let people serve on juries who think driving on the pavement is no big deal. Esme Weir was four years old when Peter Williams killed her.

Williams said he drove down the road — double parked with cars on both sides — at 10mph looking for a space to pull in near the house where he was delivering timber.

He said he mounted the pavement so as not to block the road and had not seen the girl.

He told the jury: “I slowed to a stop, indicated and checked my mirrors and drove onto the pavement.

“I heard a lady screaming and I got out the van to see what had happened and there was little girl on the floor.

“I went to help her. I had blood all over my hands and the mother picked the little girl up and carried her across the road and took her into somebody’s house.”

Paramedics and hospital medics tried in vain to save Esme, who had suffered “fatal traumatic multiple injuries”.

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 11/09/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest...

[Wikipedia screenshot]
[Image of protestors with placards]
Protests against the war in Afghanistan
The proposed invasion of Afghanistan prompted protests with mass demonstrations in the days leading up to the official launch of the war on October 7, 2001. The continuation of the war in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021 led to further protest and opposition to hostilities.

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 30/08/2026

It does stop you appearing on section leaderboards but your section efforts and PRs are still available to you, and still count towards Challenges

Screenshot of Strava privacy settings for activities:

Activities

Activities are workouts, races, or events you record or upload to Strava. What you choose below will be your default, but you can change settings for each individual activity. You will appear in group activities or Flybys unless you adjust those controls.

Learn More about Activities

Everyone

Anyone on Strava can view your activities. Your activities will be visible on segment and challenge leaderboards, and other Strava features.

Followers

Only your followers will be able to see your activity details. Your activities will not appear on segment or challenge leaderboards, and may not count toward some challenge goals. Members who do not follow you may be able to view your activity summaries depending on your other privacy settings.

Only You [selected]

Your activities are private. Only you can view them. If they count toward a challenge, your followers may see updates on your progress. No one will see your activity pages, and your activities won't show up on leaderboards or elsewhere on Strava, including group activities or Flybys.

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 26/08/2026

Well now I'm even less motivated to follow any links to X. Thanks Elon!

On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.
The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.
We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now.
Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 25/08/2026

This is the latest one that's specifically of sky rather than just having the sky in

A herring gull soars over the top of a rainbow at sunset. The rainbow is very bright so multiple successively narrower spectra are seen stacked within the main primary arc like an infinity tunnel. Because it's at sunset the rainbow is tinted pink

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 25/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll

A brightly lit blue sky with scattered cumulus clouds. Below it is the view from Achaladair south across Loch na Tulla to the hills of the Blackmount and beyond. The air is slightly hazy giving a layered effect to the mountain ranges

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 23/08/2026

Academic freedom only pertains to the academic's liberty within their area of research. Cofnas was not employed to research "a heriditarian revolution". If UGhent had intefered with Cofnas's research in the future of liberalism, that would have been an actual breach of academic freedom.

During a recent podcast interview with Winston Marshall published on 9 August 2026, you explicitly stated that you are currently continuing your work on 'race realism' and the 'hereditarian revolution' at Ghent University. These public claims, and the activities you describe, are fundamentally inconsistent with the contractual scope of your employment and constitute a manifest violation of your professional obligations towards this University.
Your employment contract (article 1) and the vacancy for which you were recruited (ref. LW01) define your research mandate as a study of 'the future of liberalism', specifically focusing on liberalism as a political doctrine emphasizing individual freedom and equality. The projects you publicly and repeatedly associate with your ffiliation at Ghent Universitv y, most notably you
'Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution' which advocates for racial barriers and segregation, fall entirely outside the scope of your official research mandate

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 23/08/2026

Racists frequently use the cover of jokes to state their true views. Satre explained how that worked, eighty years ago:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 21/08/2026

This was pretty awesome yesterday evening

A photo of a very bright rainbow over south Glasgow at sunset. Inside the primary arc everything looks spectacularly pink. Outside the main arc is a gap of clear sky then a fainter secondary bow.

Close up on the top of the main bow of the sunset rainbow. A single herring gull flies above multiple rings of spectra

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 21/08/2026

www.gov.uk/government/c...

TfL’s monitoring shows that the segregated cycle lanes at Blackfriars Bridge are able to move 5 times as many people as the adjacent carriageway lane. After only 2 weeks of the Cycle Superhighway routes opening, 5% more people were moving across the bridge than before construction of the segregated lanes.

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 19/08/2026

The Labour government publishing this just two weeks after bringing in a nationwide toilet ban for trans people and two weeks before their trans section 28 comes into effect in English schools was certainly a fucking choice petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

The government recognises the devastating impact of Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988) on LGBT+ people in the UK. There is no place for discriminatory legislation in the UK, where all people, no matter their background or LGBT+ identity, deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and to enjoy full inclusion in society.

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 16/08/2026

The cutlery rack is at the very top, and the middle rack has adjustable height to accommodate big plates or pans on the bottom if needed

Photo of the dishwasher with the racks pulled out, full of clean stuff ready to be unloaded. The cutlery rack is at the very top and for once my chaos goblin partner has loaded the cutlery neatly (or maybe teenage child did it). Assorted bowls and cups fill the middle rack and there's pans and more bowls and plates on the bottom

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 13/08/2026

Pretty sure it is unlawful in the UK, but they've fixed it now (at least for UK users)

2. Polls open in Clacton by-election

Clacton voters go to the polls in by-election; Reform UK's Nigel Farage stands amid scrutiny over Kremlin ties

2.1K posts

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 30/07/2026

And searching by station code (in the Scotrail app for trains in Scotland) still has Gloucester above Glasgow Central (the third busiest station in the UK outside London) despite 'GLC' being an exact match for the Glasgow Central station code and not for anything in 'Gloucester'/'GCR'

Departures from...

GLC

Gloucester [GCR]

Glasgow Central [GLC]

Ty Glas [TGS]

Glossop [GLO]

Glynde [GLY]

Glenfinnan [GLF]

Gleneagles [GLE]

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 30/07/2026

If I start typing GL for Glasgow then Glasgow stations are 5th and 6th in the list after English stations, two of which don't even have GL in their names or codes. In the Scotrail app, for trains in Scotland.

Departures from...

Gl

Gloucester [GCR]

Stroud (Glos) [STD]

Winnersh Triangle [WTI]

Langley (Berks) [LNY]

Glasgow Central [GLC]

Glasgow Queen Street [GLQ]

Bugle [BGL]

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 28/07/2026

The genocidal criminal Netanyahu needs to be arrested and tried in the Hague, and should never know a moment's piece until he's in custody. However, WTF were the protesters doing allowing *this* sign to be held anywhere near them?

From the video in the QP, a large sign saying "expose Israel's control of Washington", with a looming shadowed hand with puppet strings running from the fingers to the word Washington

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 27/07/2026

The broken windows theory given credibility by a famously unclownish mayor of NYC whose name I forget, something like Gudy Ruliani (picture unrelated)

Guiliani in a hotel room with actor Maria Bakalova playing a 15 year old girl. They are clinking tumblers together in a toast and guiliani is grinning

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 25/07/2026

Oh I went to the basketball this morning (and saw Scotland win)

The Commonwealth Games fan zone outside the SEC. The sun is out, there's lots of people, colourful flags of lots of countries and sporting federations are flying, and the camera is looking almost end on at the concentric pointy shells of the Armadillo

The 3x3 basketball arena seen from hallway up one of the stands, with the court at the the centre. It's a wheelchair match between Scotland and South Africa. The score on the big screen shows 15-9 to Scotland

A non wheelchair 3x3 women's basketball match between Scotland (in white) and Tonga (in red). On the right a Tongan player is dribbling the ball around a Scotland player. The other four players are marking each other to the left of the hoop. Under the hoop the possession clock shows 12 seconds as Tonga have only just gained possession

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 25/07/2026

"Wildfires are a new thing in the UK"

Table from Wildfire statistics for England: Report to 2020-21 (Forestry Commission England). This is Table 1: Wildfire incidents summary for England, twelve years 2009-10 to
2020-21. It shows in 2009-10 there were 44,488 recorded wildfires attended by Fire and Rescue services in England. In total from 2009 to 2021 there were 362,466 wildfires recorded.

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 23/07/2026

Just remembered I took some pictures of happy bees out the front yesterday

Honeybee on yellow ragwort flower head. There's another ragwort plant to the right and some out of focus grass seed heads behind

A patch of veronica with purple flower spikes. Two carder bees (I think) are enjoying the flowers, one to the left of the frame and one in the lower right. There's ragwort flower heads on the right too

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 23/07/2026

I'm sure our neighbours hate our gardens but I've been deliberately cultivating wee wildflower meadows front and back and I love them. It's not rained here for three weeks but there's no sign of anything drying out yet because the soil is shaded. I saw at least 6 bee species yesterday in the front

My back garden. Small but mighty meadow areas (visually dominated by heaps of meadow pea) with a mown strip between where pale porcelain flags are laid forming a path

A bit of a front garden meadow patch, with yellow rattle seed heads, and betony, ragwort, and birds foot trefoil in flower. Behind are various shrubs and a recently trimmed conifer hedge which I dislike but it's on the neighbour's side

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 15/07/2026

Ahead of the game tonight, if anyone needs it (h/t @simonpegg.bsky.social, this one has alt text)

National Domestic Abuse Helpline

0808 2000 247

You can call REFUGE, for free and in confidence, 24-hours a day.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 14/07/2026

When they look at you like this and click loudly it means they want you to fuck off now please or the attacking will commence. Amazing birds, I loved them maybe even more than the puffins

An arctic tern sat on a wooden fence post facing the camera with its mouth open

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 14/07/2026

Anyway you've all got approx two more weeks to get to the Farne Islands and hang out with lots of gorgeous birds before the puffins and terns start heading off

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 14/07/2026

Oh I forgot to post any pictures of what I saw on my holiday in Northumberland last week

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 04/07/2026

Best crowd singalong I've heard all week

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 25/06/2026

How do I put an aircon in this please

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 24/06/2026

This is my HP. It's an 11kW unit under 430mm wide (only a couple of cm wider than I am tbh). You might need to go elsewhere than octopus to get one but there will definitely be a model on the market that fits through your house

An 11kW Warmflow heat pump unit on a scruffy patio by a wall. Watering can next to it for scale - it's about 2 watering cans wide (430mm)

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 18/06/2026

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right

Overhead shot of Amber Midthunder in the swamp pit in Prey. Just her face and arms are visible on the surface of the stinking mud and algae

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 13/06/2026

Oh yeah, that would be him

Two fascists, one in red with grey hair and a megaphone, the other bald and wearing a grotty green jacket and with a face like a dug just pissed on his chips

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 13/06/2026

These rangers fans on Buchanan Street earlier were setting themselves up for a truly miserable night

Two far right scum against the barrier of the pen the police had corraled them in. One's a white man with his face partially covered with a union flag scarf. The other is a white woman with a pale top. They are both very angrily pointing at happy people in the massive crowd that showed up to tell them to get tae fuck. There's an older white guy fascist with a white baseball cap next to them, and some cops are standing around

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 13/06/2026

This specimen was very happy to give Hitler salutes with his face uncovered

A bald nazi guy in a white top, shortly after doing some fascist salutes

Bald nazi in a white hoodie trying to look relaxed but actually shitting himself because he's seriously outnumbered

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 09/06/2026

Must be summer time, the rain is frozen

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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 22/05/2026

The council have been building a good quality cycle lane and resurfacing the adjacent pavement on the main road near my house and it's almost finished!

New smooth tarmac laid on a footway and a kerb separated bidirectional cycle track. There are cones in the main carriageway keeping a lane clear for the works. The new cycle facility only needs to be painted and bollards to be installed before it is complete. Varied trees along the road are in full late spring leaf and the sky is blue

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