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Staff to Tinkerbell. Phumbling fotographer. Humanist and secularist. I am looking forward to retirement next year and visiting galleries, museums, and classical concerts. Living in Argyll and loving in Ayrshire.
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Vale Tinkerbell. b. 01/06/2007 d. 25/05/2025. A good and faithful cat.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

A growing list of cases including this one here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activis... No wonder Musk told his followers to stop supporting Wikipedia

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's "Executive Orders" are, in plain English, diktats, which makes him ... er ... a diktator? Have I got that right?

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

If I'd ordered this and not been served breaded spleen stuffed with cheese, I'd be very disappointed. #WhyPunctuationMatters

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Never forget the 5 Ps Principle: Proper Procrasination Prevents Premature Performance.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u... But remember what JD Vance said: the Professors are the enemy 🧪

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Smoke at sunset www.blipfoto.com/entry/332188...

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This Bengal cat knows a thing or two about chasing sunbeams. www.blipfoto.com/entry/332152...

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Dog search www.blipfoto.com/entry/332110...

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

Christmas Eve highlights.

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

Musk is going to disband all of SpaceX's regulators and competitors, isn't he?

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Some rando called Tammy-many-numbers has followed me. Tammy has a screw loose. It's there on the shelf behind her.

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

In lieu of sending out Christmas cards to everyone I know, I've once again made a donation to the very excellent www.refuweegee.co.uk. So, have yourselves a very happy Christmas, and may the New Year be all you may wish for yourselves and those you love. Patrick

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

Nationalising essential utilities – like water – should not cost taxpayers anything at all youtu.be/TlVbKVBLOiM?... Labour claims taxpayers would face a massive bill for nationalising the water industry. But that’s not true.

submitted 168 days ago • 13 comments

If your country has a lot of hydro power then any installation of intermittent renewables automatically gets grid storage. Every hour on a panel, every rotation of a wind turbine means less water through a dam which is saved for later when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine.

submitted 180 days ago • 3 comments

A frosty morning here in #Argyll, with a wintry dawn. Nice to work from home this morning.

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVForVibrant #NaturePhotography #FlowerPhotography #Nature #Flowers

submitted 183 days ago • 2 comments

20 years ago today, I moved to Argyll.

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

It's a sobering thing seeing your job advertised ... but I can heartily recommend this Principal #EHO job here in Argyll and Bute. If you're looking for a rewarding health and safety role with great colleagues, click the link. myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/arg...

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

This is going to be fun!

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

Tinkerbell questioning why her rest has been disturbed.

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments

Hello and welcome to even more new followers! I’m a social historian from Glasgow and have been working on an LGBT+ history project in Belfast. As part of this I wrote about Henry Lynch Robinson, a ‘flamboyant’ architect… www.queerhistoryni.com/blog/henry-l...

submitted 198 days ago • 1 comment

I naively thought we could one day take back and 'save' the bird app, but I see now that was foolish. Mea culpa for taking so long to do so, but I've downloaded my archive and closed up shop there now. Here for early medieval nerdery, and @almostarch.bsky.social for pop culture archaeology madness

submitted 203 days ago • 2 comments

Hello lovely followers! Given - ahem - global events and constantly worsening state of Twitter it seems wise to start preparing to end use of that platform, and make this my primary outlet. However so far, only got about 5% of the following carried over. If you can gies a wee boost, I'd be thankful!

submitted 204 days ago • 19 comments

Tinkerbell helping with the housework this morning.

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Good morning.

submitted 253 days ago • 0 comments

was asked to provide some quotes for an obituary for David Knowles, my friend and ex-boyfriend; I think they'll only use a couple of the sentences I sent but I wanted to put the whole thing somewhere

submitted 260 days ago • 57 comments

New study from my colleagues at Leeds showing the extent of plastics pollution from poor waste management. Some staggering amounts of plastic pollution enter the environment each year🧪 www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...

submitted 267 days ago • 3 comments

here is my jeremiad against the raw milk movement, based on the history of pasteurization: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 268 days ago • 83 comments

My son and his best men at his wedding in Somerset on Saturday. Good luck to Alex and Emily.

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