Apparently it is Christmas already in our house.

Thank you to @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for keeping on making this point.

Give this one a read if you have not already done so.

You know what, UK Student Loans Company? If you are going to keep sending Mrs. P threatening letters about updating her details on your web site, maybe your web site should actually fucking work more often than one day in ten?

Get this one read, people, it is hitting the bullseye again, essentially referring the orange shitgibbon to the case of Arkell vs Pressdram (aka @privateeyenews.bsky.social ).

At a time of many sadnesses, personal and across the country, I properly laughed at this. Thank you, @jackryeo.bsky.social .

Just saw this, and, apart from living in the UK, where one does not have lights and outlets on the same breaker, this is very much my breaker box. xkcd.com/2848 (Annoyingly, spotted via some git on FB posting it without crediting @xkcd.com )

Spent some time trying to work out if I went across this bridge when I was in Sichuan earlier this year. I cannot work out exactly where it is, but I think it is a lot further into the mountains than the place that my hosts took me for a hike.

I know that some of y'all will pour scorn on Newscast because "Ewwwww Chris Mason". But @bbcdomc.bsky.social on last night's episode was very informative regarding what Trump will have to do to sue the BBC, how the BBC might respond etc.

At least there is one political leader sticking his head above the parapet on this. Please keep it up, @eddavey.libdems.org.uk .

Important point here from da man himself, @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social . The BBC is not just for us, it is for everyone across the world who listens to it. We, the UK, have a serious responsibility to protect it from people who are the tools of hard-right political parties.

Another bang-on-the-money polemic on the BBC situation from @iandunt.bsky.social , to go with the ones I already posted from @bearlypolitics.co.uk and @lewisgoodall.com . iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Props to @generalboles.bsky.social for this, but also to many of the contributors to an excellent thread.

Here is another informative read concerning the BBC situation from @lewisgoodall.com goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

This from @bearlypolitics.co.uk is a ferocious take on the whole BBC story. All journalists and politicians should read it, and the govt should do something about it. open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

Shows in #Edinburgh, just about. Would probably be clearly visible on the gravity meter, but the processing chain is stuck in a way that I need to get the IT team to fix :-(

Remembrance Sunday: time for my annual sneak down the west attic of @stmaryskirk.bsky.social to check when the war memorial service is over, preceded by some nice half-muffled Grandsire Doubles. (1/2)

This is definitely a thing for my climate science colleagues to consider adding to their lecture slides. It should also be waved under the noses of those politicians who are losing interest in aiming for net zero.

With the proviso in the replies, this is a painfully accurate analogy.

This is a really important read for people who have got excited about "vibe coding" and especially so for academics who think that LLMs solve the problem of how to teach students how to program.

Now, some of you may, like me, disagree with @weegingerdug.bsky.social on some political issues. But this thread is fabulous and you should all read it.

Slightly weird that it took Sky to do this, but at least somebody did. Now it is time for the UK Govt to do something about it. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

This row of cherry trees in the Meadows, #Edinburgh are providing their second week of colour of the year. It is a pity that as I was going past, the light was as flat and dull as it could possibly be without actually being dark.

This. What is more, every politician who is trying to extricate the UK from the ECHR can absolutely f**k right off and never come back. That would be you, Mr. Farage, and you, Mrs. Badenoch.

It's #benchmarkMonday ! This very tidy example is near the University of #Edinburgh King's Buildings. (It is this one: www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm26548 )

Splendid rainbow this morning as I crossed the Royal Mile ( #Edinburgh ) on my commute. That is the Bank of Scotland on the right, so maybe there really is a pot of gold at that end of the rainbow.

If you have any interest in the mapping of Britain and Ireland you should be following @natlibscot.bsky.social . Their online maps cover the entire UK (not just Scotland) and (as per this post) pre-1920s Ireland as well.

Yesterday's quake in Afghanistan detected in #Edinburgh on the @raspishake.bsky.social . No signal from the gravity meter, sorry, it is stuck.

I am forever losing penknives so it was a nice change to find one (on a beach in Tunisia: bsky.app/profile/hugh... ) It was not usable until I dismantled it and bent the locking spring back to its original shape. I now need to find whether it is less legal to carry than a Swiss Army knife.

Worth a read, especially if you believe Farage the fag ash fuhrer when he says that it is "ordinary people" putting up flags.

Clearing out the greenhouse today. A few last bits of produce coming in . . .

Message on the door of discontent has changed to ask people to return their national @ucu.org.uk strike ballot, now that we are past the date for the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social local one. (1/2)

Nice to see my long-time colleague Ciaran Beggan (of @bgs.ac.uk ) appearing in the media again.

Your example of Betteridge's law for today.

I don't know where these "Ozymandias in the style of . . . " poems are coming from. But they are cheering my day up. And this one is marvellous.

The more awareness we can build for this situation, the better. Please go to keepandroidopen.org and do whatever is relevant to your country.

Lots of you posting this because it hits the nail firmly on the head. Do plz either repost @privateeyenews.bsky.social's own post or credit them in yours.

No idea who this dude is, but his message is important so give it a listen.

This entire thread is bang-on and should be read by the "magical realism" grouping of Scottish independence fans. (Not that they will accept it, of course.)

This is worth a watch. Also, it suggests that the response to Trump's tariffs killing the UK bioethanol industry (see www.theguardian.com/business/202... ) should be "Good. Bioethanol is a terrible idea."

As someone who lived in Mississippi for 3 years, and who is old enough to remember that episode of Allo Allo, I very much approve this post.

This. If you have a @labouruk.bsky.social MP, lean on them about it. UK politicians need to grow up and to realise that a coalition of some out of Lab, @greenparty.org.uk , @libdems.org.uk is a better outcome than a Reform UK government elected on 30% of the vote.

Two quakes on the gravity meter trace yesterday at Univ of #Edinburgh GeoSciences. The second one (from Türkiye) shows up on the @raspishake.bsky.social as well; the first one (from the Caribbean) did not. (Current gravity data at www.geos.ed.ac.uk/~hcp/gravity/ )

Just in case you have not seen this. Unlikely anyone on @bsky.app was thinking of voting "Reform UK". If you were, have a proper look at the scroungers you are voting for. (BTW, I grew up in #Helsby. I am disgusted with my home town for voting for Sarah Pochin.)

Middle meadow walk, #Edinburgh, has definitely gone from summer to autumn over the last 5 weeks and is rapidly heading into winter.

This needs to be shoved in Nigel Farage's face every time that the racist frog-faced git dares to open his mouth in public.

About time I had a birdie. I have had a lot of 5s and 6s recently. Wordle 1,591 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

been watching lots of focus groups - clearly many young Scots believe we “send all our taxes to Westminster but get only a fraction back” but Scottish Government’s own National Statistics show we consistently benefit from 9.1% of UK public spending while contributing less than 8.5% to UK revenues 🤷🏻‍♂️

Worth a read. And @thenerve.news is worth a follow. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Slightly tearing up reading this.