Well hello Oban.

For goodness sake, just keep the box. JRM's building isn't fit for purpose. Never has been (like a lot of his stuff) so preserve it in a way that allows us to view it from above and alongside. Much the best solution. www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/2548834...

#EndTimes - Part 94.

Of course the main takeaway from all of this is that autism is women’s fault.

Encounter. Oslo Operaen roof. #Oslo #Photography

Oh do fuck off with your stupid clichés you dreadful nullity. And to think I'm old enough to have thought John Major was a boring waste of space.

Went to the new, huge #Munch Museum in Oslo. Phenomenally ugly building from the outside, good space inside. Absolutely mediocre contents. Didn't really know much about Munch. Now that I do, & have seen lots of works, my considered opinion is that he's crap. Good roof view of interesting housing.

The splendid spaceship that is the Operaen in #Oslo

There's a lot of Palestine action going on in Oslo.

First night of the @themagfields.bsky.social tour - Oslo Koncerthuset. #69LS #MagneticFields

Quisling's replica of the the 550 AD Snartemo Sword, complete with copies of the ribbons found with it (they had swastika designs, so the Nazis tried on many occasions to obtain the original - the Norwegians refused and hid it).

"Mr Cattermole said the loss of outdoor space had restricted seating and meant the pub had to cut down on local fundraising events such as ferret racing." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Medieval bronze brooch. #Norway

Well, hello Norwegian Royal Guards. #Norway #photography

Well, hello Oslo. Here to see my good friends @themagfields.bsky.social start their final European tour of 69 Love Songs.

Thanks for the shoutout @druidic.org !

I made this graphic to show what the make up of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) would be based on the latest YouGov poll. There is so much to say about this. Analysis coming in the newsletter.

“morally, politically and legally intolerable” Boycott Israel. Arrest Netanyahu, etc.

On the river in Vilnius.

New Who has gone too far this time...

Hello Vilnius. This is Potato sausage. I thought it might be a sausage with some potato in it. It's 100% potato. #potato #Vilnius

Was idling away an airport wait wondering why I dislike Picasso. Partly it's the hype, the now intellectually ossified view that you have to get him in order to be in the intelligent human club, but also that he's sufficiently non-abstract to look absolutely shit next to any competent realist.

Stratigraphy. The bridges over the Firth of Forth. Oldest at the bottom to newest at top. Taken from a boat on the way to Incholm. #Scotland #photography #engineering

View through to the Cloister from the c. 1300 Chapter House in Incholm Abbey. #Scotland #photography #architecture

This is the caretakers house at the medieval Abbey on the small island of Incholm in the Firth of Forth... and this is the view across to Edinburgh from it. Not a bad job to have... #Scotland #photography

The Cloister of Inchholm Abbey. Pretty basic, but the only surviving one in Scotland. #Scotland #photography #architecture

Gothick! Inchholm Abbey with yet more rain approaching. #Scotland #photography

Train and Rain. From the boat on a trip to Inchholm today. #Scotland #Photography

Queen Victoria peeps out of the frieze of Langside Hall. Formerly the National Bank of Scotland's late 1840s offices. It used to stand on Queen Street & was moved, stone by stone, to this site in 1903. #Glasgow #Architecture

The Sighthill Stone Circle in central Glasgow. First astronomically aligned megalithic monument to be built in Britain for thousands of years. From the right angle it can look very un-urban. #Glasgow #StoneCircle

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

When it comes to his dealings with a “charismatic criminal liar” I was thinking about Trump. #Mandelson www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Commendably ginger - but not naked, as in Glasgow :)

Sauron!

How a proper electoral system works. #Norway www.vg.no/valg/norge/2...

Happy Birthday to the man with the brass neck to release a succession of EPs and finally an album of French songs entitled…

"Lock him up" as they say. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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My goodness that nose looked suspicious in a thumbnail...

The new Banksy at the Royal Courts of Justice. It has now been covered up (sic).

Tempted... always fancied an abbey... (of course, it's very cheap, because of the upkeep costs and almost entire lack of other legal uses...) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

"Conversion to residential accommodation would also be possible, again subject to the usual consents." www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

A photo from 20 years ago. Memorial glass to William Blake in Battersea Old Church. Blake was married there. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress. (Songs of Innocence and of Experience)

Naur an edraith ammen! Naur dan i ngaurhoth! #Tolkien #Glasgow

New Scottish Parliament poll tracker, incorporating yesterday's @moreincommonuk.bsky.social polling. Thanks to 12 marginal holds and 3 marginal gains, the SNP match their 2021 result. Seats (+/- 2021): SNP: 64 (-) Lab: 18 (-4) Ref: 16 (+16) LD: 11 (+7) Con: 10 (-21) Grn: 10 (+2) Alba: 0 (-) 1/4

#Rayner Dismal lack of attention to detail is the only crime here, but I struggle to think of anyone on either front bench who'd be any better. Hopefully the election for the deputy leadership sinks Starmer, as he and his crowd are currently delivering us to the actual fascists.

The future beckons...

Finally got round to watching The Banshees of Inisherin. Shamefully late, given how much I like In Bruges. I was very satisfied indeed.

Labour are part of the problem : example 94. ... I don't even need to give an example any more, do I.

High above West George Street. 150 West George Street to be precise. The former Scottish Union and National Insurance Company offices of 1878, by James Thomson (the one who liked to put his face all over the place - and no relation to Greek Thomson). #Glasgow #Architecture #Photography