When you show up for a race and realise you're in over your head.

How, in the year 2025, is the easiest way to get something from your computer to your phone *still* to email it to yourself?

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Scottish mountaintop views. Nothing can beat them.

Morning.

This may look cute, but trig points only do this when they're very distressed.

While it was a furnace at sea level, the mountaintops were a perfect summer's day.

Age verification? I still think of them as Opal Fruits.

When the weather clears, those long Scottish summer evenings do impress.

Today I am grateful to the onlooker who flattered me by thinking I could be in the West Highland Way Race and cheered, a non-jobsworth bus driver, and clouds. Buachaille Etive Mor down and first fastpack done.

Are there any alternatives to Google out there that provide a better search? The last few years I've felt result quality has been sliding and now the answer-by-numbers AI response at the top is just getting too much. Time for it to go the way of AltaVista. Recommendations welcome.

Is there such a thing as too much vitamin D? Asking for a friend.

Ben Vorlich and Stùc a' Chròin. This is a hills account now.

More hills in nice weather.

Beinn Dearg in Perthshire today. Amazing weather.

"Dasymmetric" and "pycnophylactic", yes, it must be a @chanret.bsky.social methodological paper. More coffee needed.

Severance is like... Loki meets Waiting for Godot? Everyone on my feed has been raving about it, but it was not what my flu-addled brain was looking for. I stuck with the Simpsons as I glugged my Lemsip. Sorry, social media, I have failed you.

The things you find in shops.

Not the greatest performance from the GPS tonight.

My mind has been poisoned. I found myself singing 'spurr buh wur wur wur' in the shower today.

"Madam, return my jacket immediately!" #TheTraitors #Traitors #TraitorsUK #DoctorWho

Happy Frantically Try To Remember All Your Passwords Day.

Got the #theTraitors bug again. Days until the next episode, so have descended into the podcasts to quell the cravings...

Great to see Amazon giving long overdue recognition to the greatest-of-all-time Christmas movie.

"You know how they talk about that 'runner's high'? Well, it's real. It's not great, but it's real." - Bonnie Plunkett, sage

Winter is a good look for Edinburgh.

If anyone asks what growing up in the 90s was like, I will show them this video.

I've taken up a post today as a Special Adviser with the Scottish Government, working on the programme and strategy for the country. I investigated the possibility of combining this with my role as an Edinburgh councillor, but the legal requirements proved to be unworkable.

I love a Scottish mountainside as much as the next person, but a woodland glen at this time of year is a special kind of place. They deserve to be talked about as much as the Munros. (@walkhighlands.co.uk Gorebridge and Temple circuit)

I finally realised what I'm missing here. I followed all the relevant politics/policy starter packs but my feed doesn't have the humour it had in The Other Place. Interesting but a bit dry. Can anyone recommend good starter packs (or just accounts) full of the funny and the satirical?

This is worse than 2016, when the country sort of stumbled into Trump, not fully knowing what he was. This time around America knew what he was and chose it anyway.

In the 1990s and 2000s, the number one paper to reach Labour and Liberal Democrat voters was the Daily Mail, simply because of how many readers it had. Neither major party has really adjusted to the number one paper being 'the BBC website directly' or 'the Guardian'.

I recently watched a woman in court who fought a DVLA fine on the basis she was a free woman of the land, the court did not use her "legal name", and she had written a disclaimer in red ink saying she did not accept the court's jurisdiction. It went down as well with the judge as you'd expect.

Still looking for this platform's key strengths. They all have them. Twitter: insane arguments and cat videos. Facebook: elderly relatives and cat videos. Instagram: being shown how you're uglier than everyone you know and cat videos.

The one piece of advice I always go back to is: you can only work with the information you have at the time. If you look back and blame yourself for something you could have done better, also ask yourself if you knew the information you know now about it. In most cases, the answer is no

My algorithm on The Other Place is well-trained to give me lefty humour, videos of cute animals, Doctor Who fan content, and people I actually know in real life. It's a Nazi-free experience as long as notifications are off and I never read replies. This site is like starting from zero.

I see we're all trying this site again.

People are following back so now I've got pressure to provide content. It's like joining The Other Place in 2011 all over again.

Hello, world.