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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why is it that the Emmys are all being won by TV shows I've watched and the Oscars by films I haven't? Is it a getting-older thing or am I just painfully middlebrow?

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Wired earphones (a) drain a phone battery so much less (b) don't need charged themselves (c) are plug and play without having to do anything with settings or pairing (d) are so much cheaper (e) are harder to lose. I have switched back to them and regret nothing.

bbc.co.uk

Digital cameras and wired earphones are back - and 'a bit more real'

We're surrounded by more advanced tech in 2026, so why are young people going back to basics?

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I feel like I've come of age as a trail runner. After four years, today - for the first time - I experienced what I shall euphemistically call a bovine pursuit situation.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A week holidaying in Scotland and that's another thirteen Munros ticked off. Still 150 to go.

Beinn Achaladair - a big green craggy mountain and a path towards it on a lightly cloudy summer's day.

Me pointing at the summit of Ben Avon. Apparently 'yer da climbs Ben Avon'.

Ruins of Geldie Lodge, Deeside. Now a popular bike shelter.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hello from a very pleasantly temperate Sutherland.

A big pointy Scottish mountain - Ben Klibreck. It's brown.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

New Scottish regional layout proposal soft-launched by YouGov, I see.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

100th Munro by public transport today - a very windy An Socach. Currently 51 by train; 37 by bus; 9 by train and bike; 3 by train and ferry; 1 by train, ferry and bike. Many more still very reachable.

Map of Scotland with 111 of 282 pins, corresponding to Munros, marked blue or done.

Me at a cloudy An Socach summit, waving at the camera, with full weather gear, including face cover. It was cold.

A less stormy view of the Cairngorms, taken today. Hills, with a path leading off into the distance, snow on the sides of the distant peaks.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I just suddenly remembered Beanscene and felt every one of my [redacted] years. At least some of the 38-year-olds of Bluesky must remember them, surely. Also - is this how being in one of those neighbourhood nostalgia facebook groups feels? (Without far-right-bait AI images, obviously.)

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I crested on to this view just as my LOTR playlist hit the section as they run out of the east gate of Khazad-dûm. Appropriate. I stood for a moment and let the music and mountain combine. Fortunately, I don't think that, by nightfall, these hills will be swarming with Orcs.

A mountain, made of rock unusually white for Scotland, with a loch nearly two thousand feet up, on a clear moment on a spring day.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

SNP 41 seats ahead of Labour. It'd have been a brave person who put money on that result on the morning of 5th July 2024.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

It is 2032. President Cumming is invested at Holyrood Palace in an independent Scotland. Yet people still huddle round, watching a livestream of the Highland count that has entered its sixth year. Thought has left them. All they can hear is the music. Hear it, but also see it, feel it, taste it.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just voted. Six a-boards at the polling station, three featuring bar charts: 2021 result on the SNP board, @ballotbox.scot projection on Green, @electionmaps.uk projection on Labour. Being a tactical voter must be so confusing these days.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Well, no one can accuse the pollsters in Scotland of herding, that's for sure.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

There are apparently 300 of me. What a terrifying prospect.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Labour doth protest too much about this evening's revelation of Sarwar sidling up to Offord. It's believable because they have clearly been briefing that they planned to do exactly that.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Regret to say I have been on my shizzle again.

A Strava page showing Marco ran 43.84 miles in 8 hours and 7 minutes this morning. He is pictured with a clubmate at the start. He is clearly trying to show off and should not be rewarded for doing so.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Growing up I was a kid in one of those 80s/90s households that only ever had a handful of videos, generally watched over and over. This was one, picked up from a bargain bin. It was watched precisely once. To this day it is my goto when someone asks me what my least favourite film is.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

A very Edinburgh problem. Repeatedly seeing a "wee gay hiking club" on Instagram and thinking it looks like a nice crowd and you should join, not getting round to it before its founder ends up on #theTraitors, now worrying if you do try to join you'll seem like a groupie. *sigh*

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My take on #theTraitors is that the secret Traitor is great. It bottles a little of that speculated twist of one series just not telling the viewers who the Traitors are. We now get to play the game along with the contestants, though probably with extra red herrings thrown in by the edit.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Came into Morrisons with earphones on. Turned them off when I realised the store music was stuff I'd actually listen to. Not sure how I feel about this, a lot to unpack.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I had a joke about Downsian theory but it's a bit middle-of-the-road.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Nearly 70 hours spent listening to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack in 2025 is totally normal, right? Right?

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Don't ask whether Die Hard is a Christmas film, just drop it in a list of them without comment. I think YouGov is trolling.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I see they made a second season of The Torment Nexus.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

At the start of this week I found myself thinking "the weather is unseasonably mild, I wonder if I can squeeze in a Munro or two at the weekend"...

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I know it's shallow, but sometimes you do just want people to ask you on Monday what you got up to at the weekend.

Strava map of Marco running from Stirling to Perth, a course that should have taken 51 miles but took him 57 because he was a very silly boy and accidentally took the wrong turn. Twice. In his defence, the second time someone had turned round the direction sign.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

When you show up for a race and realise you're in over your head.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

How, in the year 2025, is the easiest way to get something from your computer to your phone *still* to email it to yourself?

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Total: 85 Achievement unlocked: 30% Progress: 🟦🟦🟦🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

A map of Scotland, with pins in each mountain classed as. Munro. 85 are coloured blue, indicating they have been climbed by the person the map belongs to. 197 are in red, indicating they have not been.

Marco leaning over the camera and doing the exhausted equivalent of a smile. A small cairn is visible in the background, indicating this is a mountain summit. There is fog so about as little view past the cairn as yesterday. It remains July.

A sign board documenting the battle of Glen Shiel, presumably added to indicate in an unsubtle fashion where Marco climbed the 85th Munro.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Scottish mountaintop views. Nothing can beat them.

Me with a buff over my face to protect my face from the wind, an almost total whiteout behind me on what can only be identified as a hilltop from the context of the attached wording. Please remember it is July.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

This may look cute, but trig points only do this when they're very distressed.

The broken base of a trig point near the top of Ladhar Bheinn, with a egg-shaped chunk of stone on it like an award on a plinth.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

While it was a furnace at sea level, the mountaintops were a perfect summer's day.

The top of a cairn in the foreground on the summit of Meall Bhuidhe, with the main vista looking out across Knoydart on a clear summer's day.

The summit of Luinne Bheinn. A cairn in the foreground and in the distance two lines of mountain ridges, the sea, and the isles of Rum and Skye visible in the extreme distance (sorry if that's not Skye but I think it is).

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Age verification? I still think of them as Opal Fruits.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

When the weather clears, those long Scottish summer evenings do impress.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Today I am grateful to the onlooker who flattered me by thinking I could be in the West Highland Way Race and cheered, a non-jobsworth bus driver, and clouds. Buachaille Etive Mor down and first fastpack done.

Selfie of me on a mountain ridge with other lines of mountains in the background.

Stob Dearg, the big handsome mountain at the entrance to Glencoe, looking amazing in sun and puffy clouds.

A view from the top of the mountain, down into a glen.

Stob Dearg from along the ridge. From this angle a humpy mountaintop with a clearly visible trail running along the narrow ridge towards its summit.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Are there any alternatives to Google out there that provide a better search? The last few years I've felt result quality has been sliding and now the answer-by-numbers AI response at the top is just getting too much. Time for it to go the way of AltaVista. Recommendations welcome.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Is there such a thing as too much vitamin D? Asking for a friend.

Tarmachan ridge, a line of mountains, with other lines of mountains behind, viewed from a summit, on a clear day with a blue, blue sky.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Ben Vorlich and Stùc a' Chròin. This is a hills account now.

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