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Well this is going to make someone’s day, bigly. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Best guitar solo ever?

Love this

When you realize the intro of the famous song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is the intro of Beethoven's 5th Symphony simply played backward. Mind-blowing. Original post

Supper was making eyes at me tonight.

radiowesterross.scot/best soundtrack song ever!

The Old Course in St Andrews was blanketed in hail on Tuesday evening. Scottish summer.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... “The vote comes after a jury in Los Angeles found that Meta, the owner of Google and Facebook, designed deliberately addictive products that harmed a 20-year-old’s mental health.”

Apple confirms that its Maps app will begin showing ads to users “this summer”

www.independent.co.uk/extras/indyb... so do we really need another (subscription based) streaming channel in the UK?

Good read: “Fossil fuels push the world towards autocracy. Were we less dependent on them, there might have been no President Trump…”

So if you don’t already: Turn on two-step verification and adopt passkeys. Double-check that only current/available phones or numbers are associated with accounts, and regularly review what devices are associated with them.

Here's a preview, if you care about the currrent royal scandal, from journalist Ian Fraser (old school and univerity friend) 2025.ianfraser.org/britain-is-f...

First time “bluesky post” this is Loch Droma in the North West Highlands of Scotland taken early this morning, temperature about 2 °

“Powers to call in media mergers extended beyond TV, radio and newspapers to include online news sites and news magazines”

The U.S. welcome mat is rolling up — at least that’s how some international travelers see it, according to a global organization representing the travel and tourism industry. It could cost the U.S. billions.

“Importantly, the data does not include usable payment or card details, which we do not hold on our systems, and it does not include any account passwords.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

arstechnica.com/apple/2025/0...

…hackers had been able to access personal data including names and contact details relating to an undisclosed number of the mutual’s current and past members – of which there are more than 6.2 million. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

…what happens if AI becomes the dominant form of finding information? Google is preparing for that possibility… arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/g...

The message appears to be sent from a Google email address, no-reply@google.com, with the familiar heading ‘Security alert.’ www.which.co.uk/news/article...

Marks & Spencer has admitted that some products are running short in its stores as it continues to deal with the fallout from a massive cyber-attack, as nearly two weeks of disruption to its IT systems affects its stores. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Facebook parent Meta Platforms on Tuesday launched a separate app for its Meta AI assistant. The standalone app comes as Meta looks to boost the AI assistant’s usage, also available within the company’s platforms - WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. edition.cnn.com/2025/04/29/t...

I had 2 book tokens to spend after the festivities so here’s the result and many thanks to Nick at #ullapoolbookshop for sorting these out

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com JOIN US - there's cake!

“At stake is not just the future of a 240 year old newspaper, The Observer, the Sunday sister of the Guardian, it’s also the integrity and values of the Guardian and the future media landscape of a fractured and dangerous world.”

Love the band version of this song from Agatha All Along, great seventies feel to it youtu.be/l-ALW6_4kqw?...

First day on Bluesky, any fellow Scots on here?