frasermacdonald.bsky.social
Geographer, historian.
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Also worth catching Dani's LRB podcast on the families of Katie Allan and William Lindsay, who are fighting to reduce Scotland’s appalling prison suicide rate.
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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If you are at an event where someone on stage gives a Hitler salute and that person is not dragged off by security and kicked out, you are at a Nazi rally.
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🤮
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Yep, the general complacency is hard to fathom.
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I hadn't clocked the Hope Lane irony.
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👇
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wow, many congrats!
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even the dullest pundit should wonder - should have been wondering - why the top 3 parties are chasing the same 25% of the electorate
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Listening again now, it’s been a while. 💥
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Literally this! I'm so glad you felt the same ... I honestly think about it a lot. I didn't even know the music beforehand. @slipshodspeller.bsky.social had a ticket but couldn't go so I thought, och why not. And then: woah. Like WHAT? Incredible.
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Ah yes, must have been early 2000. My mind was actually blown. Among the most memorable gigs I've ever attended.
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I first saw them at The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen, late in 99 ... maybe you were there?
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It’s odd, I can’t think of a comparable experience of missing someone I didn’t know. Listening to him on radio felt like a kind of relief, the surety of a political anchor. Anyway, all comfort to you.
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Could be I guess? The difference in height to now is several metres.
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Look at the height of the beach … and this was in pre-dredging days!
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Super interesting piece, Richard, thank you. Reminds me of the thundering anti-trinomialist Abel Chapman, when he learned the latest nomenclature for the magpie: “Pica pica pica! Just as one would call to one’s housemaid!”
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thanks Becky!
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I haven't seen anything specifically on this, but there seems to be a general assumption that caffeine will be metabolised in compost like it is in humans. But I guess you could do a bioassay on seeds to check (e.g. like some growers do for aminopyralid residues).
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I think this is about using coffee grounds as a mulch (which I wouldn't) rather than as a compost feedstock where caffeine is denatured by thermophilic microbes.
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draff would be amazing, I just don't have access to any.
the rule is: if it was ever alive, I can compost it.
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Thanks Mike! Nope it took me another decade or so to find my way to both TLM and Big Country!
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yes! ... no *good* reason. Labour will try and keep it but we shouldn't just roll over.
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Yeah, it seems that HEIs price in this kind of collegiality and goodwill but never reciprocate, which is why I think we need to organise the withdrawal of goodwill. Sad state of affairs tho.
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Yes, REF may (hmmm) have been more benign in an earlier era, but I can see literally nothing in it now for workers in our sector. We shouldn’t have to help make the system of our own punishment.
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Sorry I can’t make this, it’s a great book.
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Thanks for sharing this.
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Yes, totally agree, it's pretty bleak. Thanks re article!
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Not sure of the location of that bench but the garden slopes down to the railway line, near the end of Belvidere Rd. Thomson was the old feudal proprietor and I guess there are many branches of that family – I have (not fond) memories of harvesting for 'Tattie Thomson' on what is now the bypass.