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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026

“A man from the future”, the new album by Pet Shop Boys with Juliet Stevenson and Manchester Camerata Octet, is out on October 9th. The exclusive double coloured vinyl LP is available to pre-order only at the official Pet Shop Boys store - wmg.lnk.to/psb-amftf

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Marc Riley. @marcrileydj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Funnily enough I mention on here just a couple days ago that I was strapped coz I hadn’t gone to mass the day before. I got off lightly really… I think the Ducking School would have been more fitting…

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Vicki @vickiap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A panoramic view from the quayside at Portmeirion.

A panoramic view taken from a set of steps at a harbourside looking out over an estuary towards distant mountains on a sunny day.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Scrapbook #Collage pages from between 2003 and 2006.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top lefts is a line of black-on-white text - "eries Out of body experiences". To the right of this and slightly above are the digits "0620". Below this is, rotated to the right, is a colour photograph of the wall in a dim room with a lit lamp hanging down. On the wall behind this is a picture of an old motorbike and to the right of it, three guitars hanging on the wall. To the left of this picture is a black-and-white photograph of a man in a peaked military cap sitting at the mixing desk in a recording studio. Under this is a colour photograph of two men in front of a bookcase. The one on the left has a white shirt, black tie, red sweater, and dark jacket, and is wearing glasses. The one on the right is behind a large green book, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. The image is bordered in bright green. To the right of this, rotated to the right is a colour photograph with blurry cyclists in front of a distant pillared temple building with a blue sky.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top is a colour photograph showing a bow shaped area of snow with radial shadows. Under this on the left, and pasted in upside down, is a colour photograph of a huge jellyfish with a scuba diver in the background. To the right of this is a simple painting of leaves in purple ink on white. Under this is a tall thin orange rectangle. To the left of this is a colour photograph of a dimply lit stage with a large circle consisting of many turntables. There are two people in the centre of this circle and a projection of two screens behind them in the dark.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Scrapbook #Collage pages from between 2003 and 2006.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a tall extract from a magazine with sparsely separated black text and overlays in different directions. To the right of this, matching it in height, is a column of five solid figures made up of two different objects with differing primary colours, all on a white background. To the right of this, the entire height of the page is an abstract image of light and shade with various small squares indicating albums. There is a cropped column of text to the right. To the left of this is a 2x2 grid of black-and-white TV screens showing various pictures of a woman singer standing in front of a seated band. The gaps between images are filled with sparse and rough blue oil pastel which also separates the five solid objects.

A [age from a collage scrapbook. At the top left, rotated to the right, is a colour portrait of a bald man in a dark jacket. The background has been filled with blue oil pastel. Pasted over the top of this image is a small cartoon image of a child with their face visible in a red octopus costume. To the right of this is a small rectangular extract from a page with image and text, mostly black. Under this is a black-and-white photograph of a blonde woman wearing a dark long-sleeved dress with the text "ecstaticpeace" written over her shoulders. Under this is another small extract of a page of black diagrams and text. At the top right of the page is a rectangular image of various da-glo colours with a nude woman in the pose of Venus in the Birth of Venus. She is light green with blue shadows. This is headed "J.G. BALLARD Conversations." Under this is a chaotic image of children painted against a collage-style background. Under this is a colour double-exposure image with the face of a man and another man hunched over a control board using his hands to turn knobs. To the left of this, rotated to the right, is a colour photograph of four women dressed in light religious robes with red crosses on the front. On of them is holding an owl. There are trees in the background. Under this is a phot of an electric guitar on the ground with various electronics and items. Under everything, rotated to the left, is strip cut from a page of small ads in a magazine. The images are bordered with blue oil pastel though there is a thick column of red oil pastel on the right of the page.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/blackpo... Uniform in state schools should be plain, standard wear. The only branded items should be the badge for a blazer and a tie, both of which should be provided free of charge by the school. The policy of this school is petty, sexist, and authoritarian.

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Angry dad slams 'authoritarian & sexist' school uniform rule after daughter punished

“All for wearing a skirt missing a little bit of white cotton.”

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scrapbook #Collage pages from between 2003 and 2006.

A page from a collage scrapbook. A single collage artwork. In the centre is a black-and-white photograph of a woman with long light hair over a dark cardigan. The collar and hem has been overlayed with light-blue oil pastel which extends to an irregular border of straight vertical and horizontal lines, enclosing blocks of black, brown, and blue oil pastel as well as a black-and-white photograph of winter trees to the left of the head of the woman. The whole thing is squared up as a vertical rectangle using black oil pastel which has been blurred horizontally with lines made with a finger. At the bottom, rotated to the left are three Japanese Characters which translate as "Serving the Public in Peacetime" (or perhaps "Skilled Apprenticeship"). There is a wide unoccupied border around the whole image.

A page from a collage scrapbook. In the middle of the page is a rough line drawing of a woman showing her head looking down and to the left, wearing a sleeveless top. This is bordered with blue and then red oil pastel. The background has been filled in digitally with light blue, the woman's hair with light yellow, her face and arms with light pink, and her top with blue. The background of the image is a contorted, liquid-like, ripples of yellow, green, red, blue, and black.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For some odd reason, I receive regular emails from a US Christian college. Their last one used Odysseus tying himself to the mast in order to hear the Sirens, as an example of self-government, self-control. My view is that Odysseus basically wanted to eat the chocolate without getting fat.

A late-Roman mosaic of Ulysses tied to the mast of a ship to resist the songs of the Sirens.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Scrapbook #Collage pages from between 2003 and 2006.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a colour photograph of a leaden jar, a jar with a metal lining and round contacts connected by curved bars. To the right of this is a colour photograph of a Jaguar car outside in a dilapidated driveway with a wheel on the floor and a tarpaulin over the engine. Under this is a black-and-white photograph of three people in a sitting room with sofas and a bookcase. There is one dog in a chair and another lying at the feet of a woman in another chair. There is a man sitting in a chair in the distance smoking from a hookah which sits on a small table. A man stands behind this. To the left of this is a grid of 2x3 square colour photographs of people or persons. Under this is a red monochrome image of a man with long hair and a beard, wearing a dark top. To the right of this is a column of four adverts for various clubs, yellow, purple, blue, and white. To the right of this this rotated to the left, is the white-on-black text "DOWNLOADABLE OPPULENCE".

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The military bloat of the massive SUVs on the school run is getting ridiculous. You're there to take a child home for tea, not transport a pallet of shrinkwrapped banknotes through the fall of Basra.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Scrapbook #Collage pages from between 2003 and 2006.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a black-on-white diagram of some sort of table with a mechanism and extensive annotations. To the right of this is a black-and-white photograph of three children in Iberian outfits from the early 20th Century, a girl, a boy, and a girl standing in front of a stone wall. To the right of this, rotated to the right, is the headline "Hocus pocus mumbo jumbo". To the right of this, also rotated to the right, is the word "reviews" under which are a few more light blue Penguin book spines. Under the children, is a black-and-white photograph of an inflatable Sherman Tank used to fool aircraft observers, Under the diagram and the tank is a black-and-white images showing the freezers used to create a floating ice ship - and a picture of the ship itself. Under this are more black-and-white images of the same vessel, with the word "H A B B A K U " at the bottom above the headlines "From battlefield chaos". The strip at the right of the page is filled in a with rough blue oil pastel.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Scrapbook #Collage pages from between 2003 and 2006.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a black-and-white photograph of a man in a light suit, open-necked shirt and trilby hat, carrying an umbrella while standing on a fire escape in between industrial buildings. To the right of this is a black-and-white photograph of an Asian child in a padded jacket and conical hat, sitting in a chair and holding a piece of paper in one hand. Under this is a black-and-white photograph of two men in suits, standing in front of a large window with the curtains drawn. The one on the left has dark hair and a cigarette while the other is bald and wears glasses. Under this, rotated to the left, is a blurry black-and-white photograph of a woman and two men standing in a garden. To the left of this is a black-and-white photograph of a woman wearing a dark skirt and top with high-heel boots standing with her hands raised over her head in front of a doorway in a corridor. To the left of this, rotated to the left is a grid of 3x2 black-and-white photographs of a man seated in a rocket sled, showing the effects of g-force on his face.

A page from a collage scrapbook. On the left is a column of sixteen barcodes all lined up. To the right of this at the top is a black-and-white portrait photograph of a woman with long dark hair wearing a V-necked black top. Under this is a black-and-white portrait photograph of a woman with long, dark hair. Over the top in thick black, handwritten letters are the letters "CAST IT IS". Under this is a black-and-white portrait photo of a man in a white shirt with a group of uniformed soldiers behind him. At the top right , rotated to the right is colour photograph of a hand holding a small white box with a speaker grill. Under this, rotated to the right, is a strip of four photographs - a colour photograph of a man in a suit with a top-hat, a colour portrait photograph of a man with short dark hair, wearing glasses and a patterned jumper, a black-and-white portrait photograph of a man with a beard and a band of badges over his forehead, and a black-and-white photograph of two people mostly in silhouette in front of a very bright window.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Scrapbook #Collage pages from between 2003 and 2006.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top is a square back-and-white photograph of three people in early 1900s dress. The one on the left is a woman and she wears trousers and a baggy jumper. They are running towards the camera across a bridge. The bottom and right of the image is covered up by a plastic sleeve which contains a painting of a man in a four poster bed in an ornate room with a woman approaching him. Under this is a blue abstract of patterns and letters. To the left of this is a black-and-white photograph of a man in grey jacket with a raised hoot, photographed from low down. To the right of this but mostly concealed by the items in plastic, is a black-and-white photograph of a hill and winter tree branches.

A page from a collage scrapbook. On the left occupying most of the height is a black-and-white photograph of the top half of the Empire State building taken at night in the snow. At the bottom of the page is the black-on-white text "After many a summer dies the swan". At the top right, rotated to the right, is a three panel comic strip. All the panels are the same, a woman in a sleeveless top, with long dark hair, and a man with a shirt, and blond hair, staring across to the left of each panel. They are in a kitchen. Under this, rotated to the right is a wide, colour photograph of tree in a flood reflecting as if in a mirror.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Scrapbook #Collage pages from between 2003 and 2006.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left, a strip of film showing three different shots from a black-and-white film. There is a man in a dark plaid jacket and a blonde woman in a dark coat against a backdrop of houses and streets. In the first frame is a further man in a light jacket. To the right of this, rotated to the left, is a close-cropped, black-and-white portrait photograph of a man with untidy dark hair. Under this, rotated to the left, is a colour photograph of the back of a Japanese warrior brandishing a sword in his right hand and leaning forward. To the left of this at the top is a colour photograph of a woman in a white blouse under a red knitted cardigan. She has lone black hair and is lying back on a rock. Under this, rotated to the left, is a colour photograph of an older man in a grey suit, holding the hand of a younger woman with long dark hair, wearing a white dress as she follows him as they run through a corn field. To the left of this, rotated to the left is the text "HISTORY & CULTURE OF EUROPE" in white on top of a colour photograph of blue sky and architectural features. Above this is a small colour image of the cover of a book. It is orange with a white border and a white line which divides the cover into two squares, one above the other. In the top square it says "THE BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND". In the bottom square is a white circle with a drawing of a church front with two steeples.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top is a colour photograph of a red flower on a yellow background fading into white at the outer edge. This is surrounded by a very rough border of blue oil pastel. Under this is a plastic sleeve with several cut-out images. At the top and upside down, is a colour portrait photograph of a man with long curly hair, kissing a yellow flower. To the right of this, rotated to the left is a psychedelic drawing showing flowers and people with blue hair. Under this is a colour photograph of two people lying on a white background. At the bottom is a woman with long dark hair and glasses, wearing a blue T-Shirt with the word "moody" above a cartoon picture of a cow. She raises her right arm to touch the left arm of a man in a black Ramones T-Shirt who is rotated above her in the image. Under this, rotated to the left is a pixelated, black-and-white image of a woman with long hair, and wearing headphones. In the centre at the top of the page, rotated to the left is the text "e Funny Things". To the right of this is a black-and-white photograph of a person standing on a wooden stage in front of a microphone, with an orchestra behind them. Over this is a large "P" with smaller "NYC" under it. Under this is a black-and-white photograph of a oil tank in a desert with the word "Facts" above it. To the right of this, rotated to the left is a further strip of black-and-white images of a man in a dark plaid jacket and a woman in a dark coat. Under this is a yellow square with a colour photograph of a deflating metallic balloon with the word "Pixies" on it.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/business/202... Oh dear, what a pity, how sad, never mind! Now let's start on these sort of people for their financial immorality as well as their sexual entitlement.

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Crispin Odey loses appeal against lifetime ban from UK financial services industry

Judges uphold ruling that financier tried to ‘frustrate’ investigations into harassment claims against him

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Brad and I are celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary today, September 14, 2026, in New York City. Brad and I were married on Sept 14, 2008, at the Democracy Forum of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Scrapbook #Collage pages from between 2003 and 2006.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left, rotated to the left, is a colour portrait photograph of the left side of a baby's face. To the right of this are two colour rhomboid images of symmetrical blue patterns. Under this is, fitting against the bottom diagonal edge of one of the patterns, and rotated to the left, is a rectangular colour photograph of a man in dark clothes dripping paint onto a canvas on the floor. There is a bright window behind him. To the left of this is a colour photograph of red flowers with white stalks. Under this is a colour photograph of a woman with long hair, wearing a sleeveless dress with angel wings with a man in armour kissing her hand. The gaps between the images are filled with purple oil pastel.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a cartoon image. A man sits an armchair on the right looking over at a woman walking away to the left. She is saying "With you, empathy is all me, me, me!" To the right of this is a silvery drawing of the head and shoulders of a Tudor woman looking down on the stone head and shoulders of a winged child. There is some text which starts "I am not yet born;" To the right of this is a very faded blue image, possibly one of the patterns on the previous page, cut in a rhomboid. Under this, rotated to the left, is the flag of Iran. To the left of this is a large cartoon of figures and places in a desert. AT the top is the text "HUNT THE WMD. The search continues ... Can you give Tony Blair a helping hand". To the left of this rotated to the left is a cartoon - a man leans on a counter where there is a radio on top of a coffee machines behind him. A blonde woman drinks a coffee and the man says "REMEMBER WHEN ALL THAT THE RADIO ASKED YOU TO DO WAS LISTEN?" Under this is a simple pattern of diagonally arranged yellow pots each with a cactus in it. Under this is a patten of what might be flowers or flames against a black background. To the right of this is a colour photograph of the front of an orange VW camper van. To the right of this is a colour photograph taken from above, of a computer monitor and keyboard on an untidy desk. The gaps between the images are filled with blue oil pastel.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... “.. monopolise a term that they only incorporated into their name in the first place because it was a descriptive one that everyone immediately understood, and then say that someone else using the term is going to confuse customers and damage them.” Fuck Airbnb!

theguardian.com

‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Dorset B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’

Three little letters - bnb-side’s name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossus sees threat to global brand

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Scrapbook #Collage pages from between 2003 and 2006.

A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top right is a colour aerial photo from directly above The Pentagon showing the damage after 9/11. To the right of this is a random typographical arrangement of various fonts in black on light blue. Under this is an extract from a newspaper of a poem with the text :

"Saturday Poem
By Robin Robertson

Donegal (for Ellie)

Ardent on the beach at Rossnowlagh
on the last day of summer,
you ran through the shallows
throwing off shoes, and shirt and towel
like the seasons, the city's years,
all caught in my arms
as I ploughed on behind you, guardian still
of dry clothes, of this little heart
not quite thirteen,
breasting the waves
and calling back to me
to join you, swimming in the Atlantic
on the last day of summer.
I saw a man in the shallows
with his hands full of clothes, full of
all the years,
and his daughter going
where he knew he could not follow."

To the left of this rotated to the left, is a black-and-white photograph of two men talking in front of a tall silvery robot. To the left of this is a graphic of a grid of 7x9 squares each divided into two by diagonal or more complex lines, most black and white and some dark and light green. At the bottom is the text "BUZZCOCKS - NEW PRODUCT - SINGLE ITEM - UP 36348 - WHAT DO I GET". Under this is a colour photograph of a man in a white jumper looking back over his shoulder at a woman with long dark hair, wearing a red jumper, sitting on the floor in front of a sofa. Another man to the right looks forward while appearing to adjust something out of the frame at the bottom. Under this is the headline "Beware penguins". To the right of this, upside down is the headline "PETROL". Above this is a small colour portrait painting of a child with medium length blond hair spilling out from under a dark cap. The child wears a dark blue button-up shirt. The background is flat green.

A page from a collage scrapbook. A whole-page black-and-white photograph - rotated to the right - of two children - a boy in a dark shirt with short hair looking at the camera and a girl with long hair, smiling and looking to the right. She leans on the back of the chair that the boy is sitting in.

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Rogier van der Weyden @rdeweyden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... Atrocious that we little people have to jump through hoops or pay through the nose to be guarantors for modest flats and yet these fascists can accept £72 Million without any chance of tracing the crypto back to its criminal roots. It's Government by chancers!