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saying somebody's action is "very telling" is such a smug thing to do and its use is very telling

Glasgow folks, today you are not opting for takeaway food and drinks. You are not putting delivery people in harm's way. Ok?

drove past the partick thistle stadium today when it was absolutely battering it down thinking "surely they're not still out playing in this!" they were

If all the govs shutting down servers for a PHP update, all the hosters & enterprises terrified by the vuln, gave $100k, or just $50k a year to the PHP Foundation, things could look very differently. Go, make your employer sponsor *today* thephp.foundation/sponsor/ #php #phpc @thephpf.bsky.social

Today in "why railway history makes me fear for my sanity": the three stations below the Shields Road railway bridge, each with its own booking office and waiting room, and platforms so close you could have held a conversation from one to the other across the tracks.

I legit believe that this human-brain/network-scale mismatch is the problem at the root of the organic (rather than professional, propaganda-shaped) derangement of our online spaces, and therefore of our offline ones. We just cannot handle knowing what people think in their brains to this degree.

this reminds me of an idea i had 25 years ago to allow you to send any file by fax by generating it as what was already known as a qr code people were like, that's dumb but this is cool and fun

it's not faster for me to type this way but sorry humans the wind changed a long time ago and i stayed like this

EVERY ORGANISATION PUBLISHES MINUTELY SEGMENTED PRECISELY MEASURED GRAPHS OF "BOT TRAFFIC" IT'S JUST A FACT

that sound you just heard is the deepest sigh, a sigh substrate that undergirds all other sighs

this (correctly) went from "yes, important" to ick far too quickly

saw some purportedly neck face graffiti in glasgow; what is this, new york in 2004

If you walk west along Doune Gardens in the  North Kelvinside area of Glasgow, you may notice something odd. For no obvious reason, the buildings suddenly change and its name becomes Doune Quadrant. So, why does this happen? Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #spitewall

town talk diner, lake street, minneapolis, minnesota, 1984

reading the full red dead redemption 2 credits after finishing the story and it has everyone: @kenjennings.bsky.social plays a weird cave hermit and of course mike watt shows up playing the bass (years late on this but just an astounding achievement. my god)

found out today that my suspicion was correct and my most load-bearing hearing aid had NOT BEEN WORKING for the last 18 months and it's now fixed and everything is so LOUD and not in a fun way

Flight hijacked, forced landing at Luton, but managed to escape.

every weekend is still a school weekend. learnt this weekend that the shower head that was spewing water out the side for years could have just been replaced with a £10 replacement that just.... screws in. it just screws in and you know what? the fittings are all the same size. makes u sick

This picture from a Red Cross photoshoot in 1918 is an uncomfortable reminder of the time when Glasgow had a racially segregated hospital. A wee thread... 📷: Library of Congress

Dressing up for a Halloween as a sexy that one chocolate biscuit that the mice in Bagpuss pretended was lots of different chocolate biscuits

punk pop covers of kate bush go a long long way in northumberland

even being in the presence of somebody else watching tiktok makes my brain do a lil panic

pinch! punch! first of the moooonth

this america.gov website claims to roll 29,000 websites into one but also tells you "open the links in the answer and check the official pages before you act" and well that just, at the very best, makes it a search engine

sorry about all the reposts for category is books raising money for shutters to protect from anti-queer attacks/ not sorry very much not sorry

wonderful glasgow bookshop Category Is Books is less than £1k away from their fundraising goal to repair their smashed windows and install shutters, consider donating and buying some books

this post contains the correct and only-acceptable pronunciation, and use, of the word "marg"

oh lord ken with the deep cut (we once had a zaireeka listening party at my house where we pressed play on all the CDs in different rooms and ran room to quadrophonic room. no we didn't buy it my housemate worked at a record shop)

have some self-respect, humans

@bristling.bsky.social hey hb!!!