tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Parades Commission - which had exactly one job - now learning, too late, exactly why the Parades Commission was established. 110
Reposted by @tagishsimon.bsky.socialMark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A very useful new CVAT lidar visualisation layer has been added to the England snd Wales coverage area on the National Library of Scotland Maps website. News and links here maps.nls.uk/additions/#205 22811
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Pascal Groß, German player for Brighton and Hove Albion, today giving what could be mistaken for a very deliberate & prolonged nazi salute to celebrate scoring a goal. 432
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Arresting RNLI volunteers and impounding their boats, is it, you walking scrotum-sack of a man? 77729193
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Seems like Heathrow has decided to be open today. Hope you can find a place to park, mate, b/c little or nothing was taking off last night. 100
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026tfw you're commissioned by Cornelius Vanderbilt to write a travalogue of his 1853 steam yacht voyage, but you're John Overton Choules, a hopeless bigot. * archive.org/details/crui... 010
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Suspect this'll be the best Dolly analysis you could watch, should you crave that sort of thing. Lindsay Ellis takes no prisoners, but in this case found she didn't have to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuK...youtube.comYes, Dolly was Actually That GreatYouTube video by Lindsay Ellis 000
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Rear-admiral Guépratte, and Admiral Carden thought much the same before sending a small fleet up the Dardanelles. 100
Reposted by @tagishsimon.bsky.socialKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet. 17455962065
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Blimpage. globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=3f232b 130
Reposted by @tagishsimon.bsky.socialwill pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026“Sometimes you must stand athwart history, yelling Are you fucking serious?” 1143
Reposted by @tagishsimon.bsky.socialElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Brilliant work here. Takes the code of practice apart with a scalpel. 29834
Reposted by @tagishsimon.bsky.socialKittie 🖤🦝 @tenredpencils1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026citizen! to deal with you accordingly we must know - are you holding the firebomb of legitimate concerns, or the placard of illegal opinions? 1258128
Reposted by @tagishsimon.bsky.socialAkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom 4932771072
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Fuck's sake. This font change is not an improvement. Does not HES have more important fish to fry, such as reimplementing functionality it removed as a result of the transition from Canmore to Trove? * www.trove.scot/place/41326 020
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026So a thing I learn is that printers of old, not having a superscript c, instead inverted a comma when dealing with your Scots person. (Also known as a turned comma or "6-quote" ... I did wonder why so many Scots I encountered were M'Leods and M'Kenzies.) * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostro... 140
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 30/05/2026The Met moved out of that building in 2016, and it was demolished in the 2016-2017 period, but other than that, BBC, finger on the pulse for a 2026 crime / investigation. 100
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026In which the Wikimedia Foundation fires union organisers on its staff, so that it has more time available to it to count its money. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...medium.comBig Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for WikipediaTLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire… 111
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Shall we listen to The Toy Matinee again? Probably time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j69D...youtube.comThe Toy MatineeYouTube video by Toy Matinee - Topic 020
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Kame of Isbister: not monastic; martial. Probably. 010
Reposted by @tagishsimon.bsky.socialKenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 19/05/2026My new #UrbanPrehistory blog post reporting on the horrible fate of the Bogleys Stone of Fife - Barn Storm. This contains a trigger warning for anyone who thinks our heritage - and megaliths - matter. With thanks to Sam McKeand theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/b...theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.comBarn StormIt is not often I get angry, but a recent encounter with a standing stone has really annoyed – and shocked me. I am pretty used to prehistory being badly treated, and indeed a whole chapter o… 1412560
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Down the Nick Drake rabbithole, and finding this; 52 minutes very well spent: Wenlock Priory, Louis de Wet, memento mori, haunting music by Gavin Bush. vimeo.com/688568657vimeo.comIn The Gaze of Medusa - Full LengthThis is "In The Gaze of Medusa - Full Length" by Louis de Wet Foundation on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 200
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Hi @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social. Why have you not sacked Arif Ahmed yet? Why have you not resigned? The High Court is clear that the OfS's actions were a travesty, politically motivated and a fundamental breach of academic freedom. 130
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Christ on a fucking bike; the state of this. Meandering river meanders. 110
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026No two ways about it: if you scan/steal a historic photo - someone else's work - and watermark it so as to claim ownership, then you're a bad person with a broken moral compass. 250
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Wikipedia daily pageviews for Avignon Papacy, for the 30 days ending 8 April 2026. Truly unhinged country. * pageviews.wmcloud.org?project=en.w... 1145
Reposted by @tagishsimon.bsky.socialYuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 06/04/2026The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM 14941485
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026There are only 11 organisations listed on the UK Foreign Influence Registration Scheme public register. * foreign-influence-registration-scheme.service.gov.uk/public-regis... #chocolateFireguard 000
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Ring ditch & settlement 0, agriculture 1. Ewieside Hill, Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/... 110
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026tfw the LIDAR runs out of poop just before your feature of interest. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/... 111
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 14/03/2026UAE going all out to Streisand the idea that you're not safe there whether or not a missile falls on your head. Excellent work, no notes. 030
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026In which Canmore decides that pretty much everything in this boggy west Shetland moorland is worthy of notice. (Centre is approx HU 24268 51410 ... PastMap doesn't take arguments on URLs, so no possibility of a link to it) * pastmap.org.uk/map 010
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026A380 flying backwards into Heathrow, according to ADS-B Exchange. Nice trick. 000
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026This 1900s cartographer had drawn enough brochs by then to know that this was not such a thing. What was (presumably) he thinking? Kame of Isbister, Mainland, Shetland. Posited as a mid C9th monastic settlement. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/... 230
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 08/03/2026ngl, I kinda wonder how the Glasgow fire got from this to that /with/ the fire brigade on scene. 321
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Meticulous, well-argued and generally fascinating Words? What do they mean? article just dropped. 110
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Meldrum House Golf Course, inspired in part by the lilia of the Antonine Wall. No sharpened stakes, though; probably a mistake. 010
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Distribution of wind turbines in the UK, according to OpenStreetMap ... about 13,500 of. Space for one or two more, I feel. * overpass-turbo.eu/s/2lws 110
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Fun fact: this facility cost $1.06 Billion, rising by 2021 to $1.21 Billion taking account of maintenance. It has, allegedly, been taken out by a ~$35,000 drone. #SoMuchWinning * www.executivebiz.com/articles/ray... 120
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Dark ages singular and fairly epic countour fort, described by RCAHMS as 'impressive', and 'I do not know anything comparable' ... which you'll never see b/c it's under trees and scrub. Just along a plateau from a huge Roman fort area. Inchtuthil, Perth & Kinross,. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/... 110
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Get that hillfort ploughed. Why not? The Chesters, Spott, East Lothian. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/... * www.trove.scot/place/57792#... 020
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Big up the owners of Little Scews on Hoy, who seem to have decided to plant a vast arboretum around their shabby little cottage. * www.bing.com/maps/search?... 000
Reposted by @tagishsimon.bsky.socialtagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 22/02/2026A little unsatisfactory that Canmore/Trove has zero thoughts on what this structure on Hoy, Orkney, might be. The 'D' shape is about 50 metres west-east. * www.bing.com/maps/search?... 122
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 22/02/2026A little unsatisfactory that Canmore/Trove has zero thoughts on what this structure on Hoy, Orkney, might be. The 'D' shape is about 50 metres west-east. * www.bing.com/maps/search?... 122
Reposted by @tagishsimon.bsky.socialChristian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Trouble with Reviewer 2? Why not carve your alternative theory into the side of your house instead? (seen on a facade on New Street, Scalloway, Shetland) 0389
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026tfw a huge Grade B listed country house is just not big enough for you, your family and your helicopter. Balgray House, East Renfrewshire; the original house is the top of the C-section complex. What looks like the courtyard is the roof of a structure, so 3x size? * www.nvdc.co.uk/balgray-house 000
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Cricket ground - top left - mimicing an Iron Age scooped settlement (bottom right). Easy mistake to make. Balgray Cleuchheads, Dumfries and Galloway. * maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/... 011
tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026In which the famer had some fun. Hetlandhill, Carrutherstown, Dumfries and Galloway. 110
![A series of worn inscriptions carved into the facade of a house on New Street, Scalloway. The inscription reads:
'This diagram illustrates the cause of the so called Earth Tides. Also each alternate Ocean Flood, the cause of which has never yet been understood. [Text below ridge mostly illegible]
[Lower stone:] The water flows back when att[ractio]n over & forms a heap on opposite side of E[arth] to balance att[ractio]n flood. There is no [... illegible].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4tvxd4eblq5sgvwr7t6iohtt/bafkreiad6biamkodzexevzbgm275fjllf26wwymunk4k6qgho6n7wv7c34)
