Look, people *know* that these technologies are trained on stolen material. They *know* about the CSAM and abusive images of women it generates. They *know* about the environmental damage. They *know* about the lack of consent. So they must also know that the ethical thing to do is to just say no.

I've really enjoyed watching Morag Peers' presentation on Scottish church records at RootsTech this year #GenHour #Ancestry #RootsTech www.familysearch.org/rootstech/se...

#GenHour #Ancestry #Scotland

Great thread for #InternationalWomensDay

'Why is it always the women that get punished?' Link 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100…… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/revealed-the-staggering-amount-of-time-nigel-farage-has-spent-on-on-second-jobs-since-becoming-an-mp/

Name of the Week: Archibald Butter Minto of Edinburgh & New York, d. 1869. #Ancestry #GenHour #NotatRootsTech

Hi all. It's a beautiful day in Salt Lake City and I'm looking forward to RootsTech 2026. I have a show special: $10 off your next DNA Painter subscription payment if you follow this link: dnapainter.com/subscribe/d/.... ** This applies to both new and existing subscribers! ** Please repost!

If you're going to be in the west of Scotland this May, why not sign up for this Intermediate Course in Scottish Family History Research at Strathclyde University? Featuring the lovely @marplecat.bsky.social and me #FamilyHistory #GenHour #Ancestry #Glasgow www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Board of Peace - Season 1

GOOD NEWS for one of the UK’s rarest birds. 😍 🙌 There are new signs of hope for Capercaillie at RSPB Abernethy, thanks to long-term collaboration between the RSPB, landowners, partners and the Scottish Government. Hooray for Capercaillie!

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

25 Feb 2026 Standardized place name errors on FamilySearch #genealogy #FamilySearch

My take on a very Scottish naming practice of the past (I hope) #GenHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory scotsancestors.blogspot.com/2026/02/from...

"My 'methodology' was a series of errors": Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

Celebrate Seachdain na Gàidhlig (World Gaelic Week) with us! 🗣️ ...through our collections 🏛️ We're currently showing items that tell the story of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (Alexander MacDonald, c.1698–c.1770), a schoolmaster, poet, and Jacobite captain.

In the eighteenth century, landlords in the Scottish Highlands exerted control over what their tenants planted and how they planted it. In reality, these 'reforms' disrupted resilient ecological practices. Cat Scothorne on seeds and the Highland Clearances.

More by these wonderful cartoonists/illustrators, here: www.bergerandwyse.com

Incredibly powerful front page from the Sunday Post ‘These are the faces of the close to 200 women killed by men in Scotland over the last 16 years. Many were murdered in the one place they should feel completely safe - their own home. Today, we ask for your help in ending misogynistic violence’

'...social workers raised concerns about inaccuracies in transcribed conversations with people with regional accents. One described how their AI-generated transcriptions often included “gibberish”. Another said: “It’s become a bit of a joke in the office.”' #AI www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Catch up with my latest finds that could help you to build your family tree! #GenHour #FamilyHistory #Genealogy scotsancestors.blogspot.com/2026/02/now-...

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

Looking forward to tomorrow's @scottishindexes.bsky.social conference. I'll be taking part with a presentation and Q&A sessions throughout the day. Join me and the many other speakers on Zoom or Facebook - details at www.scottishindexes.com/conference.a...

Please don't. Just take all the money you were going to waste on this nonsense and invest in books, literacy resources, libraries, librarians, specialist reading support assistants, and phonics training for all secondary teachers. I guarantee you a better progress return on that investment than AI.

Quote post with a clue to where you're from.

"Let me get this right, UKIP became Brexit which became Reform which is now basically the Tories. So they ruin the country with one Party, rename it, then ruin it again, and then simply rename it again." Dan Goyal, NHS medical consultant indyposterboy.scot/shape-shifte...

MAGA: “We aren’t Nazis!” JD Vance: “ICE will be going door-to-door to find people.”

Who did I talk to most on Bluesky in 2025? www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

If you're a family history society or heritage group looking for speakers, take a look at my list of topics at tinyurl.com/2s4jch96 and get in touch!

Happy new year to all you Blueskyers out there!

Dalek Invasion Earth: 1066 AD #DoctorWho

The customary new year release of historical Scottish records is imminent at tinyurl.com/ScotsP If your family history group wants to learn more about these amazing records, contact me for details of the talks I give about them, listed at tinyurl.com/2s4jch96 #GenHour #Scotland #FamilyHistory

I'm happy to announce that I’ll once again be joining Legacy Family Tree Webinars' lineup, in 2026. In this class I'll show you how to find & understand Scottish civil registration records - births, marriages, & deaths. #GenHour #Genealogy Register at familytreewebinars.com/webinar/scot...

There are many reasons to adore Christopher Eccleston. This powerful short film highlighting the harm gambling advertising does is one of them - it's also got a couple of nice Doctor Who gags in it. #DoctorWho (Some of the language in the video is not suitable for children) youtu.be/R6ufZU1pgs8?...

Best thing ever. #Christmas #MorecambeAndWise

Wishing ally Bluesky friends a happy and peaceful Christmas. My favourite Christmas music video is... youtu.be/fVnv2bEVpik?...

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

For those not in the know, apart from the hilarious (and sometimes scary) pics of sleeping arrangements #DuvetKnowItsChristmas aims to raise money for homeless charities. Centrepoint in the UK (www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...) or an equivalent local charity in your country.

Choose a free family history gift! #GenHour

Choose a free family history gift! #AncestryHour

Just don't change KitKats!!! BBC News - Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband can't be called chocolate any more www.bbc.com/news/article...

To me the sign that Christmas is coming isn't the advertisements, songs on the wireless, or holiday cards... It's me having to tell people that Coca Cola didn't invent or dress Santa 98342 billion times a day... ;) More here; fakehistoryhunter.net/2021/12/03/c...

This is my cousin St Nicholaus 🎅 One of the best parts of tracing your family heritage is meeting lots of new, wonderful family you never knew about. I recognized his Ancestry profile picture as someone I had seen before, and found that he lives very close to me. We met last summer. #Genealogy

Post a movie you've seen more than 6 times in a .gif. www.tumblr.com/jerrythenipp...

“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising” Daisy Cooper

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Bindery Section at the Oxford University Press. This is the floor where the men worked with machines; compare it with yesterday's postcard showing women busy folding sheets If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

No Whamageddon this year. It's all about #Whamadise. Instead of avoiding Last Christmas, every time you hear it you put a small amount towards your favourite charity, then donate the total after Christmas. Very much in the spirit of George Michael who gave a lot of money to good causes 🥰