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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 2h

It has the advantage of never having happened before, so it is at least fresh.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 3h

When running clubs in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen look for somewhere to meet in the middle... arise, Perth.

Big group of people in running gear outdoors on a bright day around a sign marked "Perth".

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The club's scheduled run time is just at the point where we get the last of the sunset. Soon the months of unrelenting darkness.

Marco, mid-run, looking out on Edinburgh from Holyrood Park at sunset.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Scottish Parliament canteen vegan lunch option one day last week was risotto and chips.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No one is ever going to think Jerry coild be a traitor, so she will never get banished. Unless they want to take her to the final five as a mark (also reasonable), she should go. Hannah is clever but not really on their tail, the faithfuls will fear her and, at some point, do the deed themselves.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Willow is the best Tolkien adaptation."

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

Then explain Mrs Brown's Boys.

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

Hello, darkness, my old friend.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well, job-wise I only get to be "Politics Marco" on here when Holyrood is dissolved, and "Statistics Marco" is now mostly done privately at work, so that just leaves my Bluesky mostly as "Hills Marco" - sorry about that...

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'd want to see an odds ratio, starting from the baseline that the individual's friends are randomly drawn from the local area. I'd also want a robustness check for what happens if you make high income and low income locally relative. Sorry, but this has made me come over all Reviewer 2...

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My endogeneity alarm is ringing. 51.7% of friends of low income people in Aberdeenshire are high income but 38.5% in Inverclyde. Well, no wonder. There are more high income people in Aberdeenshire than Inverclyde. At individual level this is interesting, but county-level feels misleading.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

*Some* of us are single people aged 31-49 and not living in the Highlands.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Is she the one who melted in acid water? If so, feels like she already got some serious cosmic punishment.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Listening to the soundtrack album of Fellowship of the Ring, which came out a few weeks before the film was released and sensing this was going to be special.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Personally, I always find that the most interesting sort of person to read about.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Oh no, those are a thing? Have I got the last Android phone in the world that still has a 3.5mm slot?

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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 · 07/08/2026

60", strength 9, -6 saving throw modifier...

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

Didn't the monastic space warrior communists pay for that one, admittedly after blowing the first three up. Maybe "Babylon THREE?" would have been more accurate. Hmm, have I been on Bluesky too long, Will? 😆

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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

I'm struggling to work out, since it's you, whether this is a complaint.

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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 · 17/07/2026

I think them actually being ok would be the cause for concern.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Also good for migraines, I find.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

You are a creature out of time, clearly.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

How are you possibly old enough to have experienced either of those things Ben?

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Have you tried going up hills to make the thoughts go away?

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Definitely. When I was trying to explain where I grew up to people in the US I learned the 'annual days of rainfall/precipitation' statistic was the best way of conveying it. Yes, friends, it rains about two hundred days per year.

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Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I remember watching her in No Job For A Lady with my mum (my interest in politics clealry started early). I may have to dig it out amd see if it's aged well.

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