Now I know what to wear to do the ironing.

#Onthisday 1697 on a road between Edinburgh and Leith, 20-year-old student Thomas Aikenhead climbed the ladder to the gallows, a noose was placed around his neck, and he was hanged. He was the last person in Britain to be executed for 'blasphemy'. 🧵 heritage.humanists.uk/thomas-aiken...

Possession of an indecent image of a child gets you 9 months in prison (possibly suspended) and 10 years on the register. In case you fancied going over to Twitter to see what all the fuss was about.

You would never expect to see 'accountant' and 'commune' together, in any context.

We should have nICE agents in the UK. That go around helping old people carry shopping and children cross roads. *SENDS TWEET*

Back in those days people didn't muck around with business names. No 'Cncrt' or 'Cemently'. Just 'CONCRETE (Scotland) LTD'.

Do not bother to write again.

Parking on Sesame Street is for Kermit holders only.

Back-to-back Cadfael! #HMHB #TommyWalshsEcoHouse

The harm being done by widely-available images of child sexual image is incalculable. People (mostly men) will be looking at them, and thinking thoughts, and going looking for more. And then acting on those thought. Why are UK govts not doing anything about this? I just don't understand.

I don't care if you find this tiresome. What the fuck is anyone doing still using this site? Why are the DPP and the Procurator Fiscal not immediately charging employees of Twitter in the UK? What's the line that has to be crossed before the State takes action? It's bewildering.

The controller of the world's largest distributor of child sexual abuse images, clearly a neo-Nazi, yet again suggests you to disbelieve the evidence of your own eyes. And you're STILL on twitter are you? Fucks sake. What's wrong with you?

Great to see Kenny @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social on Digging for Britain this evening.

Honestly. What kind of an idiot tries to steal ATMs these days? The note serial numbers are all recorded, the paper will be covered in dye, and cash is really difficult to use in large quantities except at a massive discount/premium to the person taking it off your hands.

Four years ago the Red Cross placed a refugee with us for emergency housing. He was a young Vietnamese man with nowhere to go, no shelter and no English. We had other people stay after him but he was lovely, would not take money and looked despairing and exhausted. One week end, a multicultural 1/4

Right, own up. Who called it that?

Kind of weird, though: as though the issue of violence against women/girls and sexual abuse images of children is just a minority issue (as opposed to SERIOUS CRIMINALITY, which is what it is). 'Yeah, we'll leave that boycott to the Wimmins committee. They can do it if they like.'

Tonite! #KelvinWheelies 🛹🤟🏻

Slightly diminish a band: Hüsker Don’t

To quote the Duke of Holderness, "Mr Holmes, if there is meaning in this headline, I am afraid it escapes me".

Did they not consider changing the title of the programme, for the repeats?

Please stop painting realistic pictures of tunnels. The coyotes are getting hurt.

In 1886 twenty lost buildings were reconstructed for the Old Edinburgh section of the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry, so visitors could walk down an entire 'medieval' street looking at, for example, Cardinal Beaton’s House (dem 1874) & Mary of Guise’ Oratory (dem 1845)

If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.

Used to live next door to Dolph Lundgren. We'd knock his door & ask his mum "is Dolph in?". It was even more hilarious because he was actually allergic to dolphins

Bone Machine is one of my favourite albums. Should be the soundtrack to more family gatherings.

Just pushed 1400kg of small car off a road and into a driveway, single-handed. Feeling slightly smug. Will probably slip over on the ice and break my wrist later.

It's a matter for the Police. I can't see any tenable argument to the contrary. Very serious crimes are being committed repeatedly and continuously.

Once again the plan of taking a random day off, mid-week in early January, and going to the beach pays off.

The bit about Nicholas Cage's Bulk Sausage Roll Order is the icy on the, er, cake.

That's pretty good.

❄️ Brrrrr. Snowfall this week on Sir Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North, bracing against the best and worst of the British weather since 1998. 📷 © Steven Lomas

'How do you prefer your Fire Station?' 'What? Oh...in a stripped-back Scots Baronial style. Why do you ask?'

I can't decide whether 'Your Iron Age War Trumpet' is an insult, a euphemism, or both.

Happy First Anniversary of those confused Lynx being released into the wild.

Supergran will return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.

Big s/o to all the stray cats

The evolution of the flag of Greenland

Zoo's Jazz Snake

*vomits all over a hapless, innocent Bittern and not one but two Bearded Reedling... and a discarded Maccy Ds carton*

It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.

No it's definitely tonight!

It's tomorrow night!

OH CANADA! 😳

Starlings in their fleecy slippers #Shetland #snow

So many animal videos on here; cat in snow; capybara walking underwater etc etc. The whiff of AI curls out from my laptop fan vent.

Next time, @kieranhurley.bsky.social , try three slices of pie instead.

It has a deficit in good advice, and a surplus in useless advisors.