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We've come to Derry this weekend to celebrate our friends' 25th wedding anniversary. It's been an absolute blast. It's a mad city that we've visited again and again, with a wild history, and the most lovely people you could wish to meet. Love it.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 4h

Fux ache. Thistle and Scotland winning (and scoring) on the same day. That's sweet. I shall leave the country more often when they're playing if that's what it takes.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 12h

Spent a fantastic morning in the company of Seamus Breslin on a tour of Derry City Cemetery. He was telling the stories of Dambuster pilots, the author "All Things Bright and Beautiful", Republican soldiers and hunger strikers, and Jimmy McShane who fronted the song "Tarzan Boy". A fascinating tour.

Views towards Derry City from the cemetery

Gravestone erected by the Republican Movement to Republicans killed in the 1920s

The older part of Derry City Cemetery that overlooks the floodlights of Celtic Park

The grave of Cecil Francis Alexander who wrote many hymns, including All Things Bright and Beautiful

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lovely to see this film. Dunnes strikers Mary Manning and Cathy O'Reilly stayed with us in Maryhill whenever they came to speak to Trade Unionists in Scotland. Such ordinary, thoughtful people who took a stand against something they knew was wrong.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can you guess where I am? I'll give you some clues.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He is the walking, talking dictionary definition of the word 'confabulation'.

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 02/10/2026

A very special lady is celebrating her 80th birthday today. 80 years ago today, on 2 October 1946, the paddle steamer Waverley was launched at the A. & J. Inglis Pointhouse shipyard in Glasgow, where the River Kelvin meets the Clyde. 📷 Bob Dougans #Glasgow #history #waverley

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lovely evening of Philip Glass music from the @rsno.bsky.social at Sonic-a tonight. Great start to the night with one of his piano études as the orchestra took to the stage (I was at the concert with my eldest child, who ALWAYS plays that on our piano when they visit).

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 30/09/2026

In February 1972, 20 students from Glasgow School of Art greeted Gordon Campbell, the Scottish Secretary of State, as he opened the Charing Cross section of the M8. They waved banners that are as relevant now as they were then as Campbell passed beneath in the Lord Provost's car. 📷 Newqsquest

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a Patrick Thistle and Scotland supporter, I'm beginning to forget what it's like to celebrate a goal. That was another long night at Hampden (unless you were Swiss).

Players hanging about waiting for VAR to make a penalty into a goal and a red card.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sunny AND a public holiday on the same day, so jumped on the ferry to the Isle of Bute. First visit for me to Mount Stuart, the preposterous building that's the ancestral home to the Marquess of Bute.

Ludicrous ceiling of the marble hall at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute

A badger playing the bagpipes on a bedstead

The mosaic and marble urinals of the public toilets in Rothesay, a listed building.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's a nice wee exhibition at Glasgow Tramway about history of Govanhill Baths, and the campaign to keep it open. As someone who grew up in a house with no bath, where we bathed as a family in the big baths at Whiteinch it's funny to see the rules and regulations about using the council baths.

Sign on an old wooden door which says "BYE-LAW No. 18.
No person shall remain in a Bathroom longer than HALF-AN-HOUR. He shall, when quitting the room, leave the door thereof open. In the event of assistance being required by a bather, such bather should call out the number of the room occupied".

To lessen the risk of Accident the Attendant has instructions to knock at the Bathroom door from time to time. Bathers are requested to reply when he knocks.

Bathers are further requested to dry themselves partially before stepping out of the Bath."

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Walked along the canal today from Falkirk to Maryhill. Best bit was seeing a wee kingfisher, perched on a blue rope to accentuate his highlights.

The tunnel on the Union Canal that approaches the Falkirk Wheel, with colourful lighting on its grey walls.

The Falkirk Wheel standing tall above the basin that leads to the Forth and Clyde Canal

Prow of a boat with an inclusive selection of flags.

A ship called Maryhill.
Which was berthed at Bishopbriggs.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The wee automated voice man on the Subway in Glasgow loves Cowcaddens. Other stations get a flat "The train is approaching Kinning Park. We're all doomed". Cowcaddens brings him some happy memory, and is said with a distracted lilt.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Audiovisual art and experimental music on in Glasgow for the next couple of weeks. Some interesting free installations on at Pollock House (which is otherwise closed at present), and Buchanan Galleries. Performances at Tramway and other venues. More info here sonic-a.co.uk

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John Lister - johnlisterwriting.com @johnlister.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The tuition fees are £9,000 a year but you get a free 2:1.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nice to see some sunshine this morning. In Fife for the East Neuk 10k run. Anstruther is a bonnie wee town.

Two runners run Al Ng a wee road through some fields

Anstruther harbour underground blue skies, a lighthouse at one side, the RNLI lifeboat at the other side

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A morning's walk up Broad Law, the highest point in the Scottish Borders. At 2755 feet it's classed as a Corbett, but the summit is cluttered with weird air traffic control paraphernalia for Edinburgh Airport. If I was counting Corbetts (I'm not) this would be number 30/222. #hillwalkingscotland

Air traffic control things silhouetted atop a hill

The grassy top of Broad Law with assorted antennae at the flat top

Mushrooms, not air traffic control detritus

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt on display at Tramway in Glasgow just now is an impressively moving reminder of the individual people behind the statistics. A sad reminder too of the harms that stigma and prejudice can bring.

The main hall at Tramway with hundreds of memorial quilts along the floor and walls.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As I visited Jura this year, and Barnhill where Orwell wrote much of 1984, I reread it, and much more about him these past months. Tonight we saw the Citizens play of 1984 that's on just now, and unfortunately disliked it in so many different ways. I'm done with Orwell.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Picked this up at random when I was browsing @lighthousebks.bsky.social recently. Medea visits modern day Mexico and reflects upon how complicated motherhood is (she should know). Punchy stuff.

Cover of Medea Sang Me a Corrido by Mexican author Dahlia de la Cerda.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My wife hates Solaris, and always has. She's fallen asleep twice when we've watched it, then fell asleep again when we watched the remake with George Clooney in it.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Haven't been record shop browsing for a while, so I got carried away in Mono this afternoon.

Albums by Funkadelic, Arab Strap, Julia Holter and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Ayrshire Coastal Path is probably not the prettiest long distance path in Scotland, but every turn is filled with nostalgia when you've grown up in Glasgow. Walked from Largs to Irvine yesterday in all the weathers.

Portencross harbour with Great Cumbrae and Millport in the distance.

Hunterson power station, being decommissioned but still a prominent landmark. There are plans in place to convert the former nuclear reactor into an energy storage facility.

Ardrossan greets you with a "The Home of Oor Billy" sign, birthplace of Scotland and Napoli player Billy Gilmour.

Waves crashing against the groynes at Stevenson, that protect the railway line.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The attack on World Trade Centre 25 yrs ago was utterly unreal to those of us watching in real time from afar. In 1993 I visited the towers, 5 months after a car bomb in the underground car park had killed 6 people. The added security checks then were cursorary compared to what we live with nowadays

View of Manhattan skyline in 1993 from the Staten Island ferry, with the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre prominent

My ticket for the observation deck of the aWorld Trade Centre observation deck, where you were allowed out on the open roof.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I find choosing new glasses unnecessarily stressful. You're buying specs because you can't see without them. Then you make a choice on your appearance with the new ones, which you can only assess without your glasses on.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sorry to hear that The Skinny is no more. We desperately need magazines/websites/people trying to tell you there's stuff out there that you've not noticed. It might be great, it might be shite, but look. Here's a thing somebody is doing.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026

Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In two weeks, I'm appearing at the Byres Road Book Festival for the first time - can't wait! Info and tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/doug-johns... @orendabooks.bsky.social

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm delighted that the Bayeux Tapestry is proving very popular, even if I'm unconvinced by the idea of moving such a delicate artefact. However, were these eager people not aware that it has been on display for years in a museum in Bayeux, a few hours away from London? (Feeling grumpy, may delete)

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

With the news this week that the legendary Stevie Wonder is to play the Hydro, let's hope he gets on better than he did on his first visit, during the Tamla Motown tour in March/April 1965.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As someone who drinks too much too hot coffee, sadly this confirms smaller scale research that had been done previously in China, Iran, Turkey and South America. The South American research was quite interesting, comparing people who drink hot or cold maté, showing it was the heat not maté doing it.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Look. For £48 you can gift a friend or family member a year's membership of the RNLI. I know several people that would appreciate that. rnli.org/support-us/b...

rnli.org

Gift RNLI Membership To Your Loved One

Give a special gift with RNLI membership. There’s something for all ages, from little lifesavers to grown-up lifeboats fans.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Class has stormed back into the language of both the left and right. I've written for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the return of political appeals to class. They raise pertinent questions over who the working class are, how they mobilise and who politically represents them?

tribunemag.co.uk

Return of the Working Class?

The rhetoric of class politics is everywhere, but only workers can make it a reality.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's been a joy this week having a new IT system installed at work, particularly one that was seemingly written on Windows 95. Who says progress always has to move forwards?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th anniversary to the brilliant universe of Star Trek, and all who made it possible. Live long and prosper. 🖖

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We never imagined how far that dream would travel, into homes, into hearts, into the way generations imagined what we could still become. In a world that often feels as divided as ever, maybe that's exactly why we need it now: a reminder that unity was always the point.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

60 years to the day since Star Trek first aired, 40 years since this film was released, enjoyed going back to the pictures to see Star Trek IV, the one where they go back to 1986 to get a whale.

Poster for Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Half-expecting government to announce VAT cut on balaclavas to help with cost of living.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sunday morning running route around the six Glasgow police boxes. #who

Five blue and one red police box, in the style of Doctor Who's TARDIS.

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Anti-apartheid protesters climb the goalposts during South Africa's rugby match against a North of Scotland District side in Aberdeen in 1969. 96 protesters were each charged £15, with their fines being paid by John Lennon.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Partick Thistle undefeated at home in the league for 19 months, ever since I started coming to an Albanian cafe on my way to the ground for a coffee and trileçe cake. Partick Thistle 1-0 Ayr United today, so I've got to keep doing it.

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Early morning meanderings in Glasgow because the sun made a rare appearance. Wee bit of George Square is finally opened, but it looks like they've loads still to do.

The big tree on Argyle Street abutting a block of tenements in Glasgow

A junction box painted with Billy Connelly's big banana boots

Under the Hielanman's Umbrella at Glasgow Central Station

A wee bit of George Square outside Queen Street station has opened (finally)

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