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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I did say I didn’t *want* to alarm anyone

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The one I didn’t get, but 4 out of 5 gives my age away!

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I thought better of the tendentious footnote I had been going to write

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And now a Chilean company quite happy to deal with the Falklands is about to start a shipping route plied by a Chilean flag ship between Punta Arenas and Stanley … via the Strait of Magellan (And routing it via the Drake Passage for a quiet life is, apparently; not seen as an acceptable option)

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Strait of Magellan are under Chilean sovereignty* and there is a treaty providing for freedom of navigation, but that has not stopped noises from Argentina recently about wanting shared sovereignty over the “bi-oceanic key” (See also shenanigans the other year about the line of a fence on TdF)

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There was a round like that on Face The Music - maybe there could be a similar round on NeverMind The Buzzcocks

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The uncropped video of the musicians performing for the camera on Playa Brava, (not Playa Blanca, that’s further down) this afternoon

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m currently at large in Iquique and there appeared to be some musicians making a promotional vido … it’s vid-e-o! on Playa Blanca this afternoon (Apologies for the obscure reference)

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Considering that the demographic in question includes members who count rivets, ensuring that there was a non-zero number of wheels would have been a wise precaution

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Labour didn’t just need to elect a new leader: it needed to elect a new right-wing press (shades of Brecht)

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The first time I did this was when someone else got the credit for the UK sex ban story during the pandemic - I think exactly one other person online noticed that what went viral was a quote tweet ;-)

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It didn’t do much here, but it went viral elsewhere (not, in all cases; with credit being given!) and became a news story It’s the second time it’s happened: I push a domino and it becomes a story www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/tec...

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Falkland y no Malvinas: foto del aeropuerto divide comentarios en redes

Un viajero captó una imagen en Pudahuel y se viralizó en muchas plataformas.

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s one way of proving that legal aid would have been the cheaper option in the long run ;-)

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It occurs to me that, although Green Parties have gravitated to being either realos or fundis, elements in the Green Parties of both Scotland and England & Wales have decided in the own ways to be neither

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For those not familiar: Framed signwritten linen panels displayed in windows corresponding to the then 13 platforms of the high level station Additional information conveyed when required by pinning signwritten linen strips across them Operated by “The Wee Man”, who was really normal sized!

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is interesting insight into design But I still remain sad about the replacement by a “digital scoreboard” of the splendid Edwardian Train Information Office at Glasgow Central It worked, it was loved … and we just can’t have nice things anymore ;-) nowletsbeclear.substack.com/p/designing-...

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Designing to inform - departure boards

A look at how effective information design can be achieved despite constraints. And also scrollbars?

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For me, it was a double take followed by a fist pump

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let’s just say that I have a vested interest in reading this particular set of tea leaves!

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To paraphrase Johnson: it was not done quite right, but I was (pleasantly) surprised it was done at all!

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Punta Arenas airport where the weekly flight from the Falklands stops en ruta to Santiago uses both names for the islands (although this works better on a landscape screen than a portrait one) (What I recall having usually seen before at SCL is them just using the airport name Mount Pleasant)

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m not saying that Chile-Argentina relations are complicated, but I didn’t expect to see *this* at Santiago airport last night! #Falkland was displayed on the monitor at the luggage conveyor in arrivals and not an M word in sight #Falklands #FalklandIslands

Monitor at a baggage conveyor at Santiago airport in Chile (3 October 2026)

RETIRO DE EQUIPAJE 12
LA 894 LATAM Falkland
LA 107 LATAM La Serena
Sabado, 3 de Octubre, 2026 Hora Local 20:33

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Retiro de Equipaje
Baggage Claim

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The boards of many “mutual” organisations have adopted variants of the system too

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think that Messrs Chibnall and Davies 2.0 may have done that without assistance from the universe itself

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve heard the Eurostar tartan is another of those ones with a small cheque

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It may be that one’s enemies’ enemies are one’s friends or just that business is business Either way, this week’s trade delegation from the Falklands to Punta Arenas in southern Chile seems to have gone well, ahead of the new shipping link en.mercopress.com/2026/10/01/p...

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No doubt old news to those not at the end of the supply chain but the rebranding of Irn Bru Extra as Zero has reached the Falklands I remember Pepsi advertising that their product was Max rather than Zero like Coca Cola’s and I thought that was a good marketing strategy … which shows what I know!

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I see Scotland are playing North Macedonia tomorrow and I just hope it doesn’t end up in a joke about it being just as well they weren’t playing the whole of Macedonia! (North Macedonia is somewhere else not allowed to have a name of its own choosing, so I do have some sympathy in that direction)

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tangential to the point you are making, but would be interested to know and think you might do - does that mean Common Commencement Dates are still a thing or was the 1 October deadline just a coincidence?

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe Canongate could do a pocket edition with a commentary at the start (genuine suggestion, because as well as the knockabout comedy, there is a timeless lesson in it) I have suggested before that there is also scope for an update in which two Glasgow rogues pitch an AI campus In Glenmutchkin …

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was looking up the Asterix character Chief Olaf Timandahaf (because reasons) and was both alarmed and amused that Google’s AI assured me that he was a character in Aytoun’s railway mania satire How We Got Up The Glenmutchkin Railway Now, in the context of the story, that is genuinely funny, but …

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is it some kind of gearing play? If it is, they do know that gearing works so well on reverse too? … don’t they?

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The theatrical background coming very much to the foreground with that design

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I took this is as a hint that God wanted me to shut up and proof that he has a sense of humour

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I once found myself havjng what I can only describe as a spiritual experience standing on the Atlantic coast and found myself extemporising a long winded prayer about the beauty and power of creation … at which point, I was soaked by a wave that was larger the rest

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even stopped Mayan calendars are right every 52 years People are complicated - there are people whom I largely respect except on one thing (as well as vice versa)

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I followed the chain of quote posts all the way to the source and now I feel as if I have been on an expedition to find the source of the M1

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another 2 mugs of Yorkshire Tea Toast and Jam this evening

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A reframing I plan to enlarge on further Rather than a “dispute” between “put upon” Argentina and the “big bad” UK, let’s call it out for what it is: an attempt by Argentina to bully a community of a few thousand people, some of whose families have been here for up to 9 generations and 188 years

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2: I agree that the UK should be consistent about the principle of self-determination for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland … and indeed for England (As I have remarked before, this puts me in a lonely spot on the Venn diagram!)

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1: I agree that the Falklands are not merely an issue between Argentina and the UN - Falkland Islanders should have a say … actually, Falkland Islanders should have *the* say

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have read the official UN translation of President Milei’s speech and - on exactly two points - I agree with things he said (though not necessarily how he meant them)

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks - I don’t pretend to understand the rules of UN debates, but I’d have thought that the UK delegation might have done The mention in the speech itself seemed awkwardly soliced,- almost like a last minute insertion someone thought needed to be made

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