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I still love patchwork, I still hate custard and I still make a mean toffee apple. History, sleep support and who knows what else besides, all in beautiful East Lothian.
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"We care to read mostly because we want to know what another person thinks and cares about, not what words an algorithm happens to produce as it simulates knowledge."

Find any UK town. Find the stretch of road that could carry the description 'between the bus garage and the big supermarket' and you'll be hard-pressed to find a better option than in Musselburgh.

Way to go, dodgy website. I know what the north of Scotland looks like and it can be lovely, but it ain't that. That's not Sandwood Bay, that's THAILAND

Probably a good moment for @parliament.scot to a) reverse its highly pre-emptive decision to introduce transphobic toilet regulations on the basis of draft guidance which was never in force and has now been amended, and b) apologies and ensure nothing like that ever happens again.

Beware: weaponised nostalgia is the new face of climate denial. Not 'the science is fake', but 'We had it bad in my day too - remember '76?'. It reassures, distracts – and delays the action we urgently need.

By the time you’ve reached your forties you will have lived to see the newspapers that insisted that the country you grew up in was on the verge of social collapse portray those very same years of your youth as a period of blissful social cohesion.

Muslim doctors saved my life. Muslim mayor made London a fairer, safer city. Muslim friends enrich my life. Muslim values align (broadly) with those of all the world's great religions. Most Muslims I know were born in Britain. I too am the descendant of immigrants. I will not be triggered to hate.

Dear software companies. We *DON'T WANT AI INFLICTED ON US INVOLUNTARILY* No I don't want fucking Zoom AI, or Acrobat AI, automatically pre-loaded. It should be a voluntary opt-in ONLY.

The books we love when we're young are the ones that make us readers. They shape us at the deepest levels, and they stay with us forever. So whatever else you do - please never stop reading books with kids, and encouraging them to read. Please never stop changing lives! #literacy

This is the last thing the BBC needs

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry dealt with this 80 years ago.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... An absolute travesty. Sharing a Shell is a stone-cold classic. Not too long and with a message which is relevant for all ages, especially in these times.

OK, I've got a few minutes to kill, so I'll go ahead and ignore that this is bait. Bait that OP doesn't seem to realize makes him look sad as hell, but bait none the less. This is someone who doesn't understand WHY people read. The purpose of reading, even non-fiction, ISN'T pure info gathering.

Come to Ocean Terminal! They said! Dine with a view over to Fife! About that...

I saw these and thought of @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Hello? We were doing this over 20 years ago, and with no sense that it was new or radical. Chill.

Time spent labelling plugs and adaptors is never wasted.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is heartbreaking. I worked as a trainer on this scheme before and during covid and say not only how it helped parents with breastfeeding, it helped them with the loneliness and mental health pressures that come with new parenthood in our society.../

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This. All this.

❗ REMINDER: How to prepare powdered formula safely It’s #WorldFoodSafetyDay We’re proud to have collaborated on the study “The safety of at home powdered infant formula preparation: A community science project” led by Swansea University

Inconsistency is a consistent issue with the new Lothian Bus app. A glance at the map would say the bus was some distance from Cross Loan. A closer look at the times unless you're already at the stop, you're too late...

You're saying UK when you mean England. Opening hours are quite different in Scotland, especially for Sundays.... www.businessinsider.com/grocery-shop...

once again I must tap my own sign