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Chronicknittingsyndrome.blogspot.com Edinburgh
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Just been discussing with my geography teacher great-nephew what he wants for Xmas, and weāve settled on a copy of Empireland and a bag of Monsooned Malabar šš»
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@mattleys.bsky.social
Iāve just noticed thereās a third season of Delhi Crime on Netflix. Did you know? Or has it been there for ages and Iām last with the latest?
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George Dubya
5 months ago
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino leading an FBI manhunt in the heart of Mormonland sounds like the setup for a Coen Brothers movie
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@ita99.bsky.social
Did you see this? I liked it, especially the baby DS
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9 months ago
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Laura Bassett
10 months ago
Anxious to find out what these bombshell stories are but could probably just text Hegseth and ask him
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Fintan O'Toole
10 months ago
My review of Chris Whipple's Uncharted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/b...
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Why Did Democrats Let Biden Keep Running in 2024?
Chris Whipple offers an insidersā account of a disastrous political campaign.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/books/review/chris-whipple-uncharted.html
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lhendo
11 months ago
Anyway, here is the mood in France
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WIRED
11 months ago
This is the takeaway of the tariffs announced by Trump: In addition to the penguin-occupied Heard and McDonald Islands, the tariffs target the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose sole occupants live on a joint US-UK military base. Yes, the US is levying reciprocal tariffs against its own troops.
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The Blunt Force Trauma of the Trump Tariffs
Elon Musk and DOGE have taken a blowtorch to federal agencies. But the tariffs are a helpful reminder that it's Donald Trump who's fiddling while it all burns.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-penguins/
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Kippy Woo
11 months ago
Big "You let Dougal do a funeral?" energy.
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Geoff Pearson
11 months ago
I haven't been able to follow the classified Signal chat debacle without thinking of Airplane.
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Tom Duffin Photographer
11 months ago
This morning's eclipse was covered by cloud so I had to seek a consolation moonrise this evening and managed to snare it in the Granton Gasholder
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Ryan Marino, MD
12 months ago
āWe wanted to learn the truth about the concerns and the science behind vaccine safety. So we talked to two uneducated, elderly, white, millionaire conspiracy theorists in a Steak & Shake.ā
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Sam Freedman
12 months ago
Ever since someone posted that he looks like a racist care bear I can't not think that whenever I see a picture.
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Anabel Marsh
12 months ago
I remember seeing these on a library school trip before the shelves went up in 1980, and I still walk over them 40+ years later!
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I have motion-sensitive lights in the kitchen and one fell in the corn flakes last night. Gave me a bit of a start when I turned round
12 months ago
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General Boles
12 months ago
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER?
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@ita99.bsky.social
Have you ever seen these, Ita? I loved them. Theyāre sort of comedy drama crime
uk.acorn.tv/jackirish/
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Watch Jack Irish On Acorn TV
Emmy Award-winner Guy Pearce (Memento, Iron Man 3) is ex-lawyer turned PI Jack Irish in this acclaimed Aussie noir series. Aided by journalist-and sometimes girlfriend-Linda Hillier (Marta Dusseldorp,...
https://uk.acorn.tv/jackirish/
about 1 year ago
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 year ago
blasphemous grifting -- Lee Greenwood says Trump may take the oath of office on a new limited edition Trump bible that is going to be released tomorrow
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@ianmartin.bsky.social
Forgive me if youāve already seen this a million times but just ICYMI
youtu.be/93eoCNI31JQ?...
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Four Favorites with Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe and more (A Real Pain)
YouTube video by Letterboxd
https://youtu.be/93eoCNI31JQ?si=AVtuBenCNsEvVU78
about 1 year ago
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@greigforbes.bsky.social
Sunset on Leith
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@ita99.bsky.social
Ita, do you remember a tv drama about a murder where the murderer was identified years later using his sonās dna, after his son was arrested for a driving offence? There was a lot made of his carās being āup on bricksā at the time of the murder? Probably this
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Guy Lodge
about 1 year ago
Itās the last day of the year ā why not do a list? Iāve taken part in various films-of-the-year polls, and posted my contributions, but none worked according to my criteria, which are simple: any new (or new-ish) film I saw this year, regardless of its eventual release date.
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Rhodri Marsden
about 1 year ago
I should note here that
kagi.com
is a very good alternative, although it costs (which is probably why itās good.) Excerpt from recent paywalled long read I did for the Telegraph about Googleās woes:
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@wendymoore99.bsky.social
I was reading on the Hunterian Museumās insta about Joanna Baillie, John Hunterās niece. Is there enough surviving material for you to do a bio? She sounds fascinating. What an extraordinary family
about 1 year ago
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November night, Edinburgh by Norman MacCaig, a favourite poem. I like to post this each year in November. First time on here and Iāve just made it by the skin of my teeth
about 1 year ago
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Tom Duffin Photographer
about 1 year ago
St Cuthbert's kirkyard overlooked by Edinburgh Castle on its crag, is the oldest known site of Christian worship in Edinburgh and the railway lines from Waverley go through a tunnel underneath which must keep the residents turning in their graves.
#Edinburgh
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Joe Keenan
about 1 year ago
Just learned that Apple is using Frasier scripts to help its apps converse more like people. So if your Siri keeps blurting, "I must have you right now! Sorry, wrong room," now you know why.
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Meg Schwamb
over 1 year ago
I love the fact that in an experiment teaching rats to drive mini-cars, that the rats eventually learned on their own to rev the engine and take longer drives for the enjoyment of it
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Iām a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive ā their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life
Equipped with a rodent version of a Cybertruck, these driving rats reveal that positive experiences may sculpt the brain just as powerfully as stressful ones
https://theconversation.com/im-a-neuroscientist-who-taught-rats-to-drive-their-joy-suggests-how-anticipating-fun-can-enrich-human-life-239029
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What a difference a couple of days makes
#edinburghskies
over 1 year ago
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Louisa
over 1 year ago
This thing is really interesting. Iāve taken it three times and gotten the exact same result every time.
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Emily Bell
over 1 year ago
I urgently need this for purple, grey and blue
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@jtlovell.bsky.social
I havenāt watched the interview yet but this is a funny tangent. Sounds as if BF always woke up with a hangover
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over 1 year ago
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Jim Waterson
over 1 year ago
As a beneficiary of BuzzFeedās fuck-ups in this area, it is always a delight when US tech firms consistently fail to realise they actually have to abide by European countriesā employment laws.
www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
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Ex-Twitter worker wins Ā£470,000 for unfair dismissal over Musk āhardcoreā email
Gary Rooney was told he had resigned voluntarily by not replying to the billionaireās email about Twitter 2.0
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/13/musk-ordered-to-pay-x-employee-470000-for-unfair-dismissal
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Alan White
almost 2 years ago
"Covering British politics during this period has been like trying to remember, and explain, a very convoluted and ultimately boring dream. If you really concentrate, you can recall a lot of the details, but that doesnāt lead you closer to any meaning."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?
Living standards have fallen. The country is exhausted by constant drama. But the U.K. canāt move on from the Tories without facing up to the damage that has occurred.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/what-have-fourteen-years-of-conservative-rule-done-to-britain
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William Adler
about 2 years ago
The thing about Joe Biden being an elderly man with a poor memory is that his likely opponent is an elderly man with a poor memory who has been indicted for 91 felonies and found liable for rape
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@ianmartin.bsky.social
This one mentions the writers šš»
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/slow-horses-modern-britain-hopeless-spies/676279/
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Modern Britain Is a Scene From Slow Horses
Inspired by Mick Herronās satirical novels, the Apple series captures a nation beset by institutional failure, political corruption, and hopelessness.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/slow-horses-modern-britain-hopeless-spies/676279/
about 2 years ago
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cait (and adonis)
over 2 years ago
i'm sorry to say this but if you send me a tiktok of a person telling a story into the camera for 3 minutes i'm not fucking watching it. just in general ever. people need to start typing things up again because i can read so much faster than you can talk and i'm not wasting my precious time on this
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Sam Freedman
over 2 years ago
Resembles a social services interview with parents who left a toddler unsupervised.
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Of course he is
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over 2 years ago
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@greigforbes.bsky.social
Perfect example of what you said š«¢
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MiMi Aye
over 2 years ago
Today I learnt that there is an island deemed so inaccessible that it was literally named Inaccessible Island
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Inaccessible Island - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccessible_Island
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Ian Martin
over 2 years ago
Modigliani - "Elvira Considering The Latest Trending Topics"
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Rafael Behr
over 2 years ago
Seeing an influx of good people here today. Starting to get that putting the band back together feeling.
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Richard Blandford
over 2 years ago
I think if you had a cat in a box and it wasn't dead, it would let you know.
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Manning Krull
over 2 years ago
I like when the email says "track your order" and you click it and the website says, "the thing you ordered, we are going to deliver it."
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@jtlovell.bsky.social
@alexadwilson.bsky.social
@ita99.bsky.social
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over 2 years ago
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over 2 years ago
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@jtlovell.bsky.social
@ita99.bsky.social
@alexadwilson.bsky.social
I never used Tweetdeck but I think you lot did
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