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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Heaven touching earth in Scotland's two highest villages... Wanlockhead to Leadhills (on a visit to Scotland's highest primary school)

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Currently in the online queue for the 2027 Wimbledon public ballot... fingers, toes, and eyes crossed 🎾🎾🎾🎾

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

'Will ye go, lassie, go? And we’ll all go together to pick wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather. Will ye go, lassie, go?' Leadhills on the Elvanfoot Road...

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Logging on the Crawford Treenis continues... I have a certain small melancholy about the loss of our local landmark.

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

paleography pals - the image is from presbytery of Duns and Chirnside 1703 - pretty much got it all apart from 2 words that are foxing me: 3rd last line: 'and man who was [...] to ministers' and last line: 'the presbytery should [...] therupon' my eye just can't get these - any help welcome! Thanks

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In amongst other loveliness, the delights of classic Aussie music this evening. From Daddy Cool to Midnight Oil, INXS, and even a wee dollop of Icehouse and ACDC. Marvellous. Cheers @franniemunro.bsky.social

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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's Festival Day rideout at fabulous Fisherrow in marvellous Musselburgh 😀 Good to be home! Safe out, safe in.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Maybe it's just me but I don't envisage any scenario in which I'd need toilet rolls in my bedroom, living room, or study...

picture of toilet roll holder with 'multiple use scenarios' advertised:
for a bathroom, a bedroom, a living room, a study

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

And that's it. Initially a bit of dull match that became something quite amazing. The resilience of both of them was impressive. #wimbledon

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Hehehe. Nothings says 'bringing the family together' like s'mores, toasted marshmallows, and burning heretics...

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

You've harveyed your last wallbanger... You've panicked at your last disco... You've boomtowned your last rat... You've scared your last weird little guys...

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Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Very excited to have @kiritekatawa.bsky.social coming to speak at the 1722 Lectures at the Waggonway Museum in Cockenzie! Details are here: www.1722waggonway.co.uk/product-page...

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TALK: Elizabeth Ewan - For Whatever Ales Ye | 1722waggonway

For Whatever Ales Ye: Women and Brewing in Sixteenth-Century Scotland Thursday 18th June - 7.30pm (doors open at 7pm) VENUE: 1722 Waggonway Heritage Centre, West Harbour Rd, Cockenzie, EH32 0HX Upon p...

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Oh, Lordy.... Am looking at some resources as I plan ahead in the year, and the term 'differently abled' has been used re. a potential Disability Sunday service. 🙄 Aaaaaargh. I just can't...even... *sigh*

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 07/06/2026

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

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Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Gosh, roughly two and half weeks for a 2nd class postcard to arrive in the mail today. Royal Mail really outdoing themselves...

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Thousands of Scots have signed a petition which will apparently send an automatic email to Keir Starmer demanding a second independence referendum

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Thousands of Scots 'set to bombard Keir Starmer's email inbox' demanding indyref2

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Ahhhh. Oooops!! Someone might want to let the Moderator know the CofS has had quite the change of polity... 🤣

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Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

An excellent article. 'we live in a moment of confrontation over an attempt to hold onto the largest accumulation of the proceeds of crime. Stolen land, stolen labour, stolen lives, stolen histories, stolen time, stolen knowledges.' 1/2

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