I didn’t have ‘giant predictive text machines wreck the environment’ on my dystopia bingo card.
Ranks
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The way I interface with the rest of the world seems somewhat off-kilter.
Since game development is trending, it's a prime time to mention ACharacterQuiz.com, a super fun project I've been working on with one of my colleagues, is now live!
A Character Quiz
Pick your world. Answer honestly. Meet your match.
acharacterquiz.com
Spent all afternoon playing The Last Tea Shop by @springvillager.bsky.social It’s been a cozy, gently magical vibe, and I got pleasantly lost in the game
A bollard on Pacific Quay painted by the French conceptual artist Daniel Buren in his trademark black and white stripes for the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. Cont./ #glasgow #publicart #glasgowhistory #pacificquay #danielburen
EXCLUSIVE: New research has revealed that the Scottish Government has invested almost four times more per capita than England when it comes to affordable housing
Scotland 'spending 4 times more on affordable housing' than England, research finds
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Ran the mile in: 03:42:66 beating the record that has stood for over twenty-seven years.
I know, I know: you're a person I've never met. You don't want to read my books. You saw this when I posted it before. You're annoyed. But also 3 more people might buy the book because I reposted it. They might recommend it to friends. It might contribute to my future security. See my reasoning?
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3w agoHello new followers! I've removed the paywall from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you probably won't... www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
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SNP-run Glasgow City build 110 times more social rent homes than Labour-run Liverpool as Guardian predicts social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear’
Liverpool’s complete social rent homes build last year – 5 In the Guardian today: Social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’ Research shows generations of childre…
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Watermelon Sorbet, Modern Relics series Studio Nokori, ink and pen on handmade paper www.studionokori.com/modern-relics #art #painting
it's really quite astonishing on how few major works have been done on this towering lady. But 151 years ago today, the child of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune was born on July 10, 1875 in South Carolina. Bethune literally connects the end of slavery to the civil rights era
Old photo: the Union Chain Bridge, of 1820, crosses the River Tweed where it forms the English-Scottish border, a few miles upstream from Berwick. This view, from Scotland, looks over to the English end of the bridge which, as a curiosity, is at this point, slightly to the north of the Scottish end!
I hope we’re in for a night of dynamic acoustics and a light show!
One day you start doing laundry, and then you never stop doing laundry, and then you die.
SNL just seems to be annoying impressions of people I find annoying.
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Call on Scottish Government to demand Environmental Impact Assessments on Data Centres. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
Call on Scottish Government to demand Environmental Impact Assessments on Data Centres
Sign our petition to call on the Scottish Government to demand Environmental Impact Assessments on Data Centres. Data centres use huge amounts of energy and water – a recent proposal for a data centr...
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Recommend a read of this for all those who believe independence is normal. Includes information on the Scottish Independence Congress, the Scottish Constitutional and Scottish Citizens Conventions as well as the Wellbeing Economic Approach. It's happening www.believeinscotland.org/scotlands_ne...
Scotland’s New Path to Independence
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For the life of me I can’t remember what model of Cadillac it is! #lomography #lomo #instax #cadillac #film
New on the blog today, I've written about THE LADY BANDIT by Emilia Pardo Bazán (tr. Robert M. Fedorchek). I loved these darkly comic tales of fair-weather servants, trigger-happy priests and a notorious robber who finally meets her match! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/t...
The Lady Bandit by Emilia Pardo Bazán (tr. Robert M. Fedorchek)
Ten years ago, back in the early days of this blog, I read and loved The House of Ulloa, a feisty tale of contrasting values in which a virtuous chaplain finds himself embroiled in the exploits of …
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It's only hydrogen if it was made by the Big Bang. Otherwise it's a hydrocarbon derivative.
When Mondays are heavy but then I remember that there will be a brand new What Went Wrong episode waiting for me! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
WHAT WENT WRONG
Film History Podcast · Updated weekly · What Went Wrong covers Hollywood’s most notoriously disastrous movie productions, digging into the behind-the-scenes insanity of everything from massive flops to record-breaking blockbusters. In each …
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Nesrine Malik warns that normalizing anti-migrant rhetoric is transforming local communities into zones of suspicion. When "concern" turns into exclusion, the social fabric starts to fray. 📉🚫 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The result of normalising Reform’s ideas? Neighbour is turned against neighbour | Nesrine Malik
‘Concern’ about immigration has now morphed into policing how ethnic minorities exist in our communities, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Just used my free will and my credit card in concert to buy an instant camera.
