Scott Wortley
@scottwortley.bsky.social
scottish law lecturer, TV viewer, accidental mental health advocate. Interested in legislative interpretation and Columbo (but proper Columbo - you know the stuff from the NBC years, and more infrequently ABC episodes)
Working in an office in central Edinburgh with a window on CHambers Street and the street "entertainment" always makes me think of Brautigan's Scarlatti Tilt
"In his online profile, the solicitor described himself as someone who was “punchy, powerful and makes moves with zero hesitation”."
Scott Wortley@scottwortley.bsky.social · 1h agounhesitatingly recommend reading this. magnificent.
unhesitatingly recommend reading this. magnificent.
Solicitor escapes jail after impersonating police officer
A solicitor from Cheshire who impersonated a police officer to try to get CCTV footage of his ex-partner dining out at a Nando’s restaurant has been given a 12-month community order.
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Jump to 50 seconds in and listen to the music they use. Trust me. Your flabber will have never been so gasted.
Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 10mo agoSpecial bonus feature:
Can't remember where I first encountered red sky at night - shepherd's delight red sky in morning - shepherd's warning red sky in the afternoon - the fields are on fire but it was many many years ago
Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social · 8h agoNew old sayings about the weather The new Private Eye is out now.
Told my kids that Strictly has gone to live on a farm with Doctor Who.
After learning there is a celebrity dog trainer on Strictly I looked for this
Barbara Woodhouse Goes To Hollywood 1981 (Complete)
YouTube video by VHS Rewinds
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Going to try dynamic pricing for anyone coming to my office during the fringe.
Friz @ EdFringe@frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 5h agoTo everyone at Underbelly Thank you all so much for the increased audiences to the Free Fringe shows. Masterful gambit. Friz
Rozanov: "There's nothing easier than to quote a text precisely, you just have to check books. It's far more difficult to assimilate a quotation to the point where it becomes yours and becomes part of you." (via Czapski in Lost in Time (NYRB 2018) p 22, note.
On the train this morning I remembered a poem I had nearly written. Proust, on first encountering Mrs Danvers Last night I dreamt I ate a madeleine again. #notsorry
The producers of the apprentice explaining how they choose the panel of interviewers for the penultimate episodes
On either side you see the huddlines which support the rickety much loved structure with great charm and personality.
Paul@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 17h agoThis is called a ‘hudd’ and was used in the 18th century for the priest to stand in when conducting graveside services in wet weather. The Wingfield hudd is one of just two in East Anglia. There's another at Walpole St Peter in Norfolk. #History #HistoryMatters
Search engines would start working properly. Crap nostalgia groups on FB would have to put the graft in to produce their ridiculous posts. People in photographs might suddenly have two arms again, instead of three and a tentacle or something. Art might not be uniformly sludge brown. Be nice, really.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 17h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Hello, if you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet, also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/ - share his poems, quotes, events, info, Q+A, etc. - and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/ please re-post?
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Replies and quote tweets of this are informative about a certain range of attitudes indicating some people are very angry that women in Edinburgh have a single sex service set up in addition to the ERCC service which did not guarantee such services for users.
Scott Wortley@scottwortley.bsky.social · 4d agoIt was preposterous that amnesty characterised a trauma informed service to support women who have been subject to sexual and domestic violence as anti rights. There was an impact on service users and this shows an impact on staff. No wonder those involved were and remain so angry
1. Book I have reread the most times: A christmas Carol - once a year every year since I was 11. 2. Top 5 books of all time: Great granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood Love and garbage by Ivan Klima Pfitz by Andrew Crumey The Book of evidence by John Banville The poetry of Norman MacCaig
Wot, more porkies? In one Goon Show, Eccles says to Neddie Seagoon that he bought a tie when he was at Cambridge. 'Cambridge? What were YOU doing there?' says Neddie. 'Buying a tie', replies Eccles, innocently and haplessly. It's taken six decades, but Eccles is now at the apex of his profession.
I remember jimmy cricket doing the "what is the difference between a duck?" joke on the telly in the 80s
I hope Ariana gets better. You’d hope in she has better resources than most to do so. But my main concern is about the culture that normalises and glamorises extreme thinness, and the effect that has on all girls and women. I don’t think we should stop talking about that in case it upsets Ariana.
Ariana Grande is not listening to anything I have got to say. But when I took my 7 year old daughter to see Wicked, she turned to me with wide eyes and said “mummy! You can see all the bones in her chest!” So yes, I would like there to be a public discussion about how unhealthy that is
I find the suggestion that we somehow owe it to Ariana Grande not to mention how clearly unwell she is really weird. As if her wellbeing is the only one that matters here, or as if she is reading my posts and is going to made more unwell by them
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
I don't like to talk about my charity work, and luckily because of the NDA I can't.