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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 6h

Hahaha! Do the flag-shaggers know they’re only licensing the rights to it from Italians?

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This is awful. It seems authors will need contracts that explicitly deny permission for "AI" to ever be used in relation to their work. With multi-million penalty clauses.

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yet another INTENDED consequence of the Thatcher regime. Lest we forgot: To end the social care crisis and renationalise social care #SocialCareShouldNotWipeOutAllOnesAssets #UncaringUK

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Friends, on the matter of dodgy men in transit vans, allow me to tell you about me, two future members of the House of Lords, and the massive suspect package.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 26/09/2026

56% Holyrood Indy majority 67% Holyrood on right to vote 68% voter referendum support 52% voter Indy support Sounds like a 'consensus' to me, Andy Burnham. (P.S. Labour's 'mandate' to govern UK was just 32%)

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I see from Talk Sport News there's a proposal to ditch the license fee that many Scots have stopped paying due to constant anti-Scotland propaganda, and add it to broadband prices. F#ck that!! We need independence and to close down BBC from broadcasting in Scotland.

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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An oil-producing nation with no refinery. An exporting nation with no shipping routes. An electricity producer forced to pay to upload to the “national” grid. Welcome to our blessed "union of equals".

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Linda Gillard's third book in the Wyngrave Women trilogy is out on Wed 16th Sept. It traces the life of the woman who left her country mansion to Jane on condition that she solves the 16th century murder of Horatio Fortune, the nicest ghost you've ever met! www.lindagillard.co.uk/times-testim...

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Time Testimony - Book Three of The Wyngrave Women by Linda Gillard

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New Dorothy Dunnett Society Website now launched at dorothydunnett.org Explore the Library, discover the many forms of Research, see upcoming Events, revisit Dorothy Dunnett and her extraordinary books, or simply drop in for the Quotation of the Day. #DorothyDunnett #DunnettContent

Image of the front page of the new website

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Probably the last real day of summer. 31C today - forecast is storms and 16C tomorrow! Autumn never seems to come gradually.

Early autumn view over Dreznica shortly before sunset

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#LYMOND IS BACK – AND HE’S THROWING A PARTY! On 1 November 2026 at 7:00 pm GMT there will be a worldwide Zoom party for DDS members. An hour and a half including readings by David Monteath and music from lutenist Jacques Carroll-Leitao. Invitation in WG 171. #DunnettContent #DorothyDunnett

Image of cup cake with scorpio decoration, unicorn horn and cornflowers.

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

☘️ First Minister of The North of Ireland Michelle O’Neill telling democracy denier Burnham exactly how it is 💪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 John Swinney take note !

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thank you for remembering Dorothy on what would have been her 103rd birthday. As long as people keep reading historical fiction her books will be revered.

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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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Dorothy Dunnett Society @dunnettcentral.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

WG 171 is in the post to members. 48 pp (8 colour). 2nd essay for Lymond’s 500th birthday; Dunnett’s own thoughts on heroes; a Tartar girl at the Tudor court; Summer Dunnett Day talk on the Lusignans; Nicholas in Iceland; and a recipient of the Dorothy Dunnett Centenary Award on King Hereafter.

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⸸ ⚧️ INAYA 🏳️‍⚧️ ⸸ @enbyrobot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Repost if if that's true 📢

It's an image that says "repost if trans people are welcome and safe with you" with the trans flag in the background

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Joy Macnaughton @joymacnaughton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I can't believe this London-based landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community - not millionaire financiers - and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Save the Glenelg - Skye ferry!

This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but it's under threat thanks to a wealthy la...

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#Dunnettcontent I've just published the latest of the Lymond Reading Notes - for the chapter called Castling. That's right, it's time to meet Don Luis Fernando de Cordoba y Avila!! www.dorothydunnett.co.uk/blog/lymond-...

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The Play for Jonathan Crouch – V: Castling | Bill's Dunnett Blog

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Horrifying thread when you put it all together. I'm sure I read load of sci-fi in the 60's and 70's warning about this stuff.

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Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I need to shift 60 last tickets for my Fringe show to break even. I’m a Scottish folksinger, performing self-penned, trad ballads and translations in Scots My shows are 21 and 23. Any support/reposts would go a long way. ❤️ 🎟️ Tickets → bit.ly/fringeif

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And possibly Johnnie Bullo too. (One for Dunnett readers)

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Please, Have to good sense to share this widely, Campaign to end subsidies to Scotland & make Britain great again.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

No lies

thatguycollo writes

YouTubers be like "wake up at 4am and run, that's alpha!" No, it's not. Look at apex predators; they're all lazy. Bears hibernate, lions sleep all day. You know who wakes up at 4am and runs? Squirrels.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Had a feeling that would happen - the eclipse was about a third across when the sun set behind the mountains. Oh well.

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Sandra. @sandratofriends.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

And there it is, refusal proves WM is complicit in this.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#Dunnettcontent The latest of the Lymond reading notes for Game of Kings - The Play for Jonathan Crouch – IV: Several Moves by a Knight - is now up on the blog www.dorothydunnett.co.uk/blog/lymond-...

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The Play for Jonathan Crouch – IV: Several Moves by a Knight | Bill's Dunnett Blog

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is, quite literally, fabulous. Should be compulsory reading for every manager or politician who spouts about"AI".

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Dom Pedro Ricardo 🌳 Dom Pedro II Aeternum 🇧🇷 📐 💮 @newelizabethan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550. Looks to have some really beautiful art in it and a lot of very interesting thought. Paperback released recently and is affordable at around 20 pounds or so depending where you get it from.

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Uglesett @uglesett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I am generally not a fan of turning public infrastructure into advertising spaces, but I'm willing to make an exception for this ad on an Oslo bus for the world accordion championship.

Articulated buses are commonly nicknamed "accordion buses" because of the flexible, ribbed bellows connecting the two cabin sections.

The bus in the photo features a large graphic of a Roland accordion being played by a giant pair of hands. The two halves of the accordion are on either side of the flexible section, so that it looks like the bellows of the instrument. When the vehicle turns or maneuvers, the real bellows compress and stretch, making it look like the instrument is actively playing.

Above the windows is the text "VM på trekkspill, 16.-22. oktober i Asker Kulturhus" ("World accordion championship, 16th-22nd October in Asker cultural centre")

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2026

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#Dunnettcontent admin I was somewhat bemused to find a post appearing in this feed which was basically an attack on Dunnett groups on social media. I have no idea if this group was amongst the intended targets but there certainly have been no "toxic people" here and everyone I've interacted with /2

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Brandon M. Bender @brandonmbender.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

For anyone interested in Vikings, here's an interview I did with World History Encyclopedia about why the Danish Conquest of England happened, how Cnut established control, and why the Danish dynasty died out in England after just three decades. #medievalsky #vikings www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP7G...

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As a recovering former bookseller I wholeheartedly agree with this.

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Greymane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @greymane54.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We have been stitched up.... again!

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Andrew Spratt @dirleton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Cubbie Roo's Castle is the earliest documented medieval stone castle in Scotland, built around 1145 on the island of Wyre in Orkney by the Norse chieftain Kolbein Hruga. #CubbieRooCastle

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Maybe that's how Tom Erskine got the injured Lymond out of Hexham. 😉

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Cristian Vlad @cristianvlad.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Happy #WildlifeWednesday all !!!🦭🦭 Don't pet the humans...🤣

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

John Buchan wrote a sequel to The 39 Steps, called The 700 Steps featuring a character called John Bond. But Ian Fleming pinched the story, changed the name to James and used the reverse of the 700 as his code name.

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Mama Rasta @evelynelotz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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caztastrophe 🐦🦝🏳️‍🌈 @caztastrophe.gay · 22/07/2026

I fucking love this idea, like it's making me think of two sci-fi stories I love, the Utopians' shifting suits in @adapalmer.bsky.social 's Terra Ignota, & the surveillance-beating clothing in Baxter & Clarke's The Light of Other Days

Tumblr post: "I want a shirt that has a QR code on it for some kind of horrible malware so that if anyone ever tries to film me in public their phone will automatically scan the code and be reduced to a functional brick"

Response: "Modern day Medusa"

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 19/07/2026

Want yet another example of how cool AI is? 🤖 Neither of these supermarkets actually exist... 🤦‍♂️

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Google search "clothing recycling bins near me EH5"
AI Overview results "For EH5 residents, the most accessible clothing recycling bins are located at the Tesco Supermarket on Newhaven Road (EH6 5QG) and the Morrisons on Granton Road (EH5 1QB), featuring Salvation Army and charity partner bins."

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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @spiderbill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just noticed this was uploaded this evening. Anyone interested in Orkney archaeology (and I know many Dunnett readers are) will want to see it. youtube.com/watch?v=WO3l...

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The Ness of Brodgar: Uncovering the Heart of Neolithic Orkney | Time Team Special

YouTube video by Time Team Official

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