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An idle singer of an empty day
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BBC News - Tutoring a baby to make him an 'English gentleman' - Is it worth the money?
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Tutor sought for £180k job to teach baby to become a 'gentleman'
The advert seeks "an extraordinary tutor" required "to support child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
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November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.

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Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals
A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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What a great @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social !! Take a peek inside Solstice (and Equinox, Book 1) via Look Inside! on our website: www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/sols...
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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And do come to the workshop I am running with @gjmichaelson.bsky.social at 3.15 on the Saturday, on how to write a novel collaboratively!
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Here’s Karine Polwart singing Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye” in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today
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“Freedom Come All Ye” performed by Karine Polwart in The Italian Chapel, Orkney, August 2013.
YouTube video by Alan Ferrier
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November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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“We’re born with a bit of creosote in our blood.”

The Burning of the Clavie is a Scottish New Year fire festival. The “Clavie Crew” carry a flaming barrel of tar through Burghead

Clip from BBC Scotland’s HIDDEN LIVES, with @peteralanross.bsky.social
#WyrdWednesday
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BBC Scotland - Hidden Lives, Series 1, The Clavie, The Burning of the Clavie
At the Clavie fire festival the explosive force of the flames delights the crowd.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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BBC News - Trader who inspired The Big Short and now bets against AI sends tech shares lower
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Trader who inspired The Big Short sets off AI tech share sell-off
Shares of major tech companies have fallen in the US and Japan over fears about AI bubble
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November 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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BBC News - Bronze Age coracle recreated 50 years after its discovery
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Bronze Age Fife coracle recreated 50 years after its discovery
The boat was found buried in a prehistoric cemetery and recreated by a Highland based coracle-maker.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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For Naomi Mitchison fans: the annual Scottish PEN Naomi Mitchison lecture is on Dec 11th in Glasgow University with Professor Alison Phipps
November 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.

This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".

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November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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BBC News - Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest - BBC News
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Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest
The trio are cleared of all charges after citing human rights law in their defence.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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@theduncanmackay.bsky.social Was Boudica thought of as an Ancient Britain in popular lore?
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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BBC News - OpenAI completes shift to becoming for-profit
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OpenAI completes shift to becoming for-profit entity
The deal will see long term investor Microsoft retain a 27% stake in the ChatGPT-maker.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social I've just spotted the first "Staff at Stonehenge preparing to move the stones back one hour this weekend..." image. Is this a record...?
October 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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BBC News - Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US - BBC News
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Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US
Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Happy birthday, Earth! According to Ussher's Biblical chronology, our planet was created #OnThisDay in 4004 BC.

Key #archaeological discoveries would challenge this short timeline, as discussed in Antiquity 🏺

🔗 from 2009 (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...
First page of James Ussher's 'Annals of the World', in which he set out his timeline for the Earth.
October 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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October 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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@asls.org.uk @writersscotland.bsky.social BBC News - Author Philip Pullman calls on government to act over 'wicked' AI scraping - BBC News
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Author Philip Pullman calls on government to act over 'wicked' AI scraping
The writer of the trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust wants copyright laws changed.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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BBC News - Penguin and Club bars can no longer be called chocolate
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Penguin and Club bars can no longer be described as chocolate
The rising cost of cocoa has led to the manufacturers changing their recipe.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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BBC News - Anger as historic Clyde ship towed out to sea and sunk in Hawaii
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Anger as historic Clyde ship towed out to sea and sunk in Hawaii
Falls of Clyde was scuttled by the authorities in Hawaii despite a campaign to return to its birthplace for restoration.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Getting people to understand how LLMs work is a safety and health emergency
October 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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George Morrow, Punch, 1921, Volume 160, p140
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October 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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It pleases me that the grave of Hugh Tennent Tennent in the Necropolis attracts a tribute of abandoned cans.

(There was some left; I poured it out as a small libation to the man who brought lager brewing to Glasgow.)
Granite slab engraved with the words "Behold the upright for the end of that" In front of it sits a Tennents lager can.
October 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM