The Muir of Dinnet wallet inspector. You have been warned. * www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.087...

The Bel Memorial at St Nidan's Kirk, Midmar, Aberdeenshire. It celebrates a family of master masons who would be horrified by the typography of the inset tablet - a chunk of badly positioned left justified text in a plain san-serif font with dubious kerning & line spacing. Carved Microsoft Word.

Remembrance Sunday. 🧵

tfw it's 1877, you're the Laird of Glen Tanar, and you manage to down an elusive stag at 267 yards. "the gentleman, not known for his modesty, had two memorials erected to himself: one where he stood and one where the poor beast fell." * www.openstreetmap.org/node/1328601...

Why yes, I am the author of green ink email missives to @diggermann.bsky.social's people in Aberdeenshire on discovering rifts in the HER spacetime continuum. * online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/maste... * online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/maste...

A rather fine 1961 teak & copper memorial shelter topped by a Rod of Asclepius weather-vane, in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire; remembering one Dr T. K. Buchan, who served the local community as a doctor from 1916 to 1958. * www.google.com/maps/place/L...

Just the most barking mad scheme, which seemed to boil down to "oh, so you have a public park / common do you? ... we'll be putting a dual carriageway across that". Sabre's new map: www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.p...

In which it's suggested that the not very good Trove website may have cost £2M.

One of two Congregational Church Memorial Halls on Baltic Street, Montrose - motto "All were others, All will be others" - arising from now difficult to understand schisms amongst independent-minded Scottish believers; this group part of the 1843 Evangelical Union splinter afaics.

tfw Streetview captures your wedding. June 2016, Ardwell Church, Wigtown, Dumfries And Galloway. * www.google.com/maps/place/5...

@thisismyglasgow.bsky.social l Might you know, does this plaque still exist? Canmore puts it immediately to the west of the George Square Cenotaph, but I cannot see it on Streetview & need an exact position to map it. thx. * www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/lifestyle/13... * www.trove.scot/place/331713

I fear I have exhausted the resources of the Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register :( It's been on the blink for the last 24 hours or so, with a welcome slight recovery over the last four hours, before this collapse. Oh wells.

Heathrow seems to be having its instrument landing system calibrated again tonight.

Canmore/Trove/Historic Environment Scotland not exactly beating the 'asleep on the job' rap. 301 outdoor war memorials known to the IWM register, but not recorded by Canmore. Represents an 18% shortfall, based on 1674 IWM memorials checked. * overpass-turbo.eu/s/2dMS

Proper obelisk. Good job, Inverkip (and photographer Gregory Beecroft). www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...

@bandrdt.bsky.social do you have any clue where in Blairgowrie the Scottish Veterans Garden City cottages are? IWM claims Emma Street, but I'm unconvinced / cannot find this tablet on Google Streetview. * www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...

Lost & found (Geograph edition). * www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it... * www.geograph.org.uk/photo/8142792

For no good reason beyond OpenStreetMaps being down for maintenance earlier today, here are the number of memorials and monuments per million population, and per square kilometre, for western European countries, according to OSM.

Started / going.

The Bronx NYCHA building which partially collapsed earlier today - one of the Mott Haven Mitchell Houses - was built two years before the 1968 Ronan Point collapse, so I guess there's that. Seems like much the same etiology; explosion taking out the entire structure above it.

Is the 1830 French Prisoners of War Memorial in Penicuik the earliest cenotaph in the UK? Seems to indicate outsize regret from the citizens, 15 years after Waterloo. * www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it... * www.google.com/maps/place/5...

@whippletom.bsky.social has asked me to issue an urgent clarification, explaining that this tweet should not imply that a major newspaper believes there is a causative link between paracetamol and autism. The headline was merely for shits and giggles.

I wrote a thing about digital ID cards. It’s rather long… paulbernal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...

Here's the Winchburgh (West Lothian) War Memorial, erected 2000. Commemorating WW1 & WW2 war dead, the statue about as far removed from sanity as one could hope. The Disneyfication of remembrance.

This sounds like a fun future: techbros with the wealth to buy and control much of the mass media (think CBS, CNN, TikTok, WaPo, X &c), and politicians and think tanks (notably the Tony Blair Institute).

Are you proud of this headline, @whippletom.bsky.social? What's the truth about whether you have any of a spine, a conscience, or agency? It can be confounding. "Science" at The Times.

Still going well, I see, for the sporting genius that is Jim Ratcliffe. Much like his Brexit.

The next millennium has arrived for Tony Harrison; I hope he'll be planted in Beeston Cemetery "behind the family dead, butcher, publican and baker, and now me, bard, adding poetry to their beef, beer & bread." Great injustice if not. Here's V (from about 4 mins in) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu3Z...

Important new #OpenAccess article on how slavery in Britain was ended, and who ended it. Taken Not Given: The End of Slavery in Britain by Simon Newman www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #History #EnslavedHistory 🗃️

I’m not It isn’t. It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.

Bleak shit. Racist tail wagging the dog.

Interesting q., why are Trove/Canmore records so bad? Putting a pin on the map is great & all, but having something - anything - to say about the subject would also be swell.

Moffat, winning the Black Sheep of Death Fountain competition. www.google.com/maps/@55.333...

Exit POTUS taking a really weird course, pursued (maybe) by F15s.

What's this then? Montrose High Street. www.google.com/maps/place/M...

@wendling.bsky.social, self-professed far-right expert, leaving BBC News readers with the impression that the Kirk shooting was done by "antifa" rather than a groyper. Mike, really, go and look it up. Groypers have been at war with TPA for years now. And do better b/c this story is really bad.

Top tip for the RAF is to turn off your ADS-B if you just happen to launch an A330 Multi-Role Tanker to do recon/refuel circuits just off Doha entirely coincidentally at the same time as Israel launches a surprise! - no one knew in advance! - attack on, err, Doha.

I've not whingled about the Trove website since Canmore's June shutdown. I notice a couple of changes in the 2+ Months since. They seem mostly to have given up on the notion of 'Nearby places and designations', now presenting just 4 of each and dispensing with the option to view a scalable map.

tfw you come to realise the Imperial War Museum's War Memorial Register is structured, for Scotland, according to the 1975 to 1996 arrangement of Regions and Districts established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and abolished by the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994.

Strong sock game from the gentleman standing on Blacksike Bridge in front of the May 1915 Quintinshill rail disaster memorial plaque. The bridge overlooks the crash site, somewhere on the left of the photo. www.google.com/maps/@55.015...

We can mull the pros & cons of direct action - suffragettes, anyone? - but still delight in the spectacle of walking protein monument to mendacity, Mark Wallace, fulminating after the offices of the very dubious dark-money Policy Exchange were hit last night.

@robfordmancs.bsky.social there, who never understood the irrational opposition to universal ID in this country. And The Times pointing out that 'Digital identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps.' "Irrational opposition."

Here we are then. Good job promoting and normalising this, BBC. It's been a long campaign, but you're nearly there.

Fun to live in a panopticon. Presumably they'll be slurping up mobile phone IMEIs too.

The BBC.

I spotted this plaque on a wall near the High Street end of Duke Street yesterday. It seems the East End of Glasgow is fighting back against claims by those in the west that Argyle Street is the longest street in Scotland! #glasgow #longeststreet #plaque #keepglasgowweird #dukestreet #argylestreet

Another day, another contributor watermarking images which they neither took nor for which they own the copyright. As if that makes any sense at all. IP larceny for us, watermarks for you. Was it publicly funded? Why yes it was. @ambaile.org.uk

tfw you're so proud of your new SVG image that you spam 18 wikipedia pyramid article with it, irrespective of its lack of relevance.

Can we talk about how completely useless the search UI to the Imperial War Museum's War Memorial Register is? Here is the County filter, after setting 'Scotland' as a Country filter. 30 choices, many in England, Northern Ireland, & including France. Moray? No way. www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/se...

Side effect of the age verification bollocks is that I'll forever have this annoying cue in my bluesky field of vision b/c wild horses couldn't drag me to hand over biometric or any data to the central scrutineers. Sorry to whoever it was.