BruceRyan_rants
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Vegan cyclopath in my copious free time. Head to @bruceresearch.bsky.social for my professional posts.
Blogged: Visiting Innerpeffray Library – Scotland’s oldest lending library bruceryandontexist.info/2026/10/05/v...
Visiting Innerpeffray Library – Scotland’s oldest lending library
I’d first heard of Innerpeffray Library when my colleague Frances was looking for notable Scottish libraries to advertise to iConference attendees. Then this summer, friends who live in Stirl…
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We had insufficient knowledge of Istanbul’s cats.
Friend share their lounge with Recovery Moomin. He's very cute.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Perhaps the low score is due to me planning to submit my 2025-26 tax return afterwards. (I have done so, and seem to have escaped from payments on account!)
I went looking for old anti-vaccine propaganda and expected an interesting historical curiosity. Instead I found arguments from 1802, 1885 and 1920 that would barely need rewriting to circulate online today. That raises a rather disconcerting question.
Great opportunity here for an experienced economist to become a Scottish Fiscal Commissioner. See the Insight publication for some reflections from Justine Riccomini and me about what the role is like in practice.
Scottish Fiscal Commission@scotfisccomm.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday we began the process of recruiting a new Commissioner. We asked our two most recently appointed Commissioners to share their experiences of the role. Read their reflections here: bit.ly/4fS3wZk Apply here: bit.ly/454OOcz
We did the quiz in the Anker Bäckeri/Kaffee in Wiener Neustadt.
The return to saner temperatures may have helped.
We’ve forgotten so many details of this trauma, so I’m doing some refresher-reading.
blogged: a tale of two passes: bruceryandontexist.info/2026/05/02/a.... Yet another moan from a grumpy old git.
A tale of two passes
I’ve doctored the numbers and a QR code so there is no point in trying to use this image for yourself. Earlier this year I turned 60, and so became entitled to both a railcard and a national …
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80% 😊 And Trump can fuck off all the way, and then some more. He doesn’t make me feel better, and makes a whole lot of people deader.
Blogged: 4 weeks in Vienna! Thank you to my ever-wonderful wife. (The words are tedious but the photos may amuse.) bruceryandontexist.info/2026-2/
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Reise nach Wien (March) days 1 to 4 (27 February to 2 March) day 5 (3 March) day 6 (4 March) day 7 (5 March) day 8 (6 March) day 9 (7 March) day 10 (8 March) day 11 (9 March) day 12 (10 March) day …
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Exactly how is the war on Iran helping other countries? It’s not even helping people who might want to see the end of the current regime, as far as I can see.
Bad pun time. I’m on a bus to the middle of NÖ-where.
You think we don’t already try? And how will you oay for the forced remivals on top of everything else? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Britons should strive to pay minimum tax legally possible, says Richard Tice
Reform UK’s deputy leader comments came as he was responding to questions raised about his own tax affairs
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Breaking tradition: doing the Thursday quiz on a Sunday. Oh the shame!
