Split and merge PDF files with #PDFsam fast, free and open source! Works a treat for me. @pdfsam.org pdfsam.org #PDFmerge #PDFsplit

As of lunchtime today this EDM has now been signed by 89 MPs, including my own @grahamleadbitter.bsky.social so thank you for him for doing that. But we've still got another five hundred plus to get on board so contact your MP today.

Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240 equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

Very excited to hear today that my #Pebble Time 2 is finally on its way to me. The Time 2 has a bigger screen, better battery life, heart rate monitor, two microphones, speaker, compass, and a touch screen but still has those four buttons we all loved. Order yourself one here repebble.com

I've been writing about #books again, this time about Manderley Press and also a little about @tomgauld.bsky.social aboutabook.uk/about-2/

I've been blethering on about books again. The #FolioSociety this time. aboutabook.uk/about-the-fo... #books #blog

After a long pause (council work has kept me very busy) my book blog is back. This time talking about two books in 'About some dams'. aboutabook.uk/about-some-d... #books #NOSHEB

Locally I would add to this: • Mikeysline - oursupport.mikeysline.co.uk • James Support Group - jamessupportgroup.com Remember: it's OK not to be OK.

Dr Husam Zomlot speaks at 2025 #SNP Conference fediverse.tv/w/hTvaNRuKHF... #Palestine

In their response to the 2.75m people who have already signed the petition "Do not introduce Digital ID cards" the government has said: 'For clarity, it will not be a criminal offence to not hold a digital ID and police will not be able to demand to see a digital ID as part of a “stop and search.”'

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards. Now approaching 1,000,000 signatures. Have you signed it yet? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Blog: About a childhood of reading I've just finished reading 'Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading' by Lucy Mangan. In it she details her life in books from the earliest days of being read to, then learning to read, and her progress through ... aboutabook.uk/about-a-chil... #books #blog

Blog: About a bookmark How do you keep track of where you are in a book? If your answer is that you fold down the corner of the page you are wrong and you will burn in hell. The correct answer, of course, is that you use a bookmark ... aboutabook.uk/about-a-book... #books #blog

Blog: About some deaths In my reading recently I've come across some deaths which have affected me. aboutabook.uk/about-some-d... #books #blog

Blog: About Persephone Books One of the things I like about reading is the part serendipity plays and my discovery of Persephone Books came about that way ... aboutabook.uk/about-persep... #books #blog

Blog: About how I got here My mother taught me to read and by the time I arrived at infant school I was already a voracious reader ... aboutabook.uk/about-how-i-... #books #blog

Blog: About a book I want to tell you a story about a book ... or three. aboutabook.uk/about-a-book/ #books #blog

I've finally found a use for the Raspberry Pi 4 which I've had lurking on a shelf for a while. It's now running Ghost ghost.org so I can start yet another blog and also experiment with that as an alternative to Substack. #blogging #books #raspberrypi

#qotd '[Farage is] just another Liz Truss but in a cravat and mustard trousers.'

You know I said I was contacting Spoons to find out how they were going to deal with the toilet issue? Well... Get rekt transphobes. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Want an example of "brave" then here it is. Paul O'Dwyer survived the plunge over the weir and made it to safety but died after going back into the water to try to save the others. #RIP www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New release of #WayMaps now live at waymaps.the-hug.net and www.walklakes.co.uk/maps featuring latest updates from @openstreetmap.bsky.social but with lots of work behind the scenes to simplify rendering of paths, tracks, in 'busy' areas. Note roads in Fishertown and also the cemetery bottom right.

Just over 17 hours before I find out about the new #Pebble watch. I'm SO excited: I've been waiting a long time and many less good smart watches for this day. store.repebble.com/countdown #RePebble

I don't normally sign 38Degrees petitions but I've made an exception for this one. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

This is our response to the #OnlineSafetyAct 2023. It is now linked to from all our forum pages. I'm not wasting any more time on this. If #Ofcom come after us wanting more we'll just take the forum down. www.walklakes.co.uk/osa.html #OSA

Oh my goodness, someone's thinking that a mail server comes under #OSA. That hadn't even occurred to me. We run one, for a grand total of three people, all related. Are we really going to have to do a risk assessment?! FFS, this gets more and more ridiculous. onlinesafetyact.co.uk/ra_my_busine...

My letter is in 'The Northern Times' today responding to a Lib Dem councillor who thinks we should treat our loans to fund the Highland Investment Plan like a repayment mortgage. That isn't how local government finance works ... #HighlandCouncil #SNP

I confess that when we had boiler problems the other day it never occurred to me that this might be the cause ... #LLM #enshitification

All sorts of questions here, not least why the data exists at all, but fundamentally a leak of car location data by VW is a huge data protection snafu and by a data controller in the EU too where the fines for GDPR breaches can be significant, to say the least. infosec.exchange/@gannimo/113...

Christmas Eve thought it would put on a bit of a sunset.

#UPS parcel, due Wednesday but "held for future delivery" has been held back again today. Called their support number. Apparently they're experiencing a high package volume at the moment. No way they could have anticipated that huh?

List: 💛 SNP: 32% (+3) ❤️ LAB: 18% (-4) 💙 CON: 16% (+2) 💜 RFM: 12% (+1) 🧡 LDM: 10% (-) 💚 GRN: 8% (+1) 🩵 ALBA: 5% (+2) Seat Projection 💛 SNP: 59 ❤️ LAB: 20 💙 CON: 19 💜 RFM: 13 🧡 LDM: 11 💚 GRN: 7 Pro-independence majority of 3. 2/2 www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

@tjrc.bsky.social Hi Tim, are you by any chance the Tim Cutts that was involved with the Milton web site after I departed for Scotland?

Ah, the usual dodgy bar chart from the Lib Dems on their latest leaflet. Points to note: • The SNP's 21 is has been shortened, we have 61% more members than them based on their figures, not about 20% 1/

I'm also on Mastodon as mastodon.scot/@tallpaul ... and Facebook as www.facebook.com/paulatthehug/ I also have some personal pages which we host starting at the-hug.org/paul