Paul 4Jags
@paul4jags.bsky.social
Posting on social media in a personal capacity about stuff I like, such as running, hillwalking, social history, big books, terrible music, and awful football teams.
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Paul 4Jags
@paul4jags.bsky.social
· Nov 7
When Hillwalking became Munro Bagging
How I became a Munro bagger, and the extra challenges of hillwalking with diabetes
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com
Reflections on accidentally becoming a Munro bagger, and also some thoughts on the extra issues that hillwalking with diabetes presents.
@diabetesuk.bsky.social
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@diabetesuk.bsky.social
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NEW: Tributes have poured in following the death of a prominent peace and Scottish independence activist.
Tributes pour in after death of 'leader in Scotland's peace movement'
ebx.sh
February 19, 2026 at 10:02 AM
NEW: Tributes have poured in following the death of a prominent peace and Scottish independence activist.
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As a Scottish atheist with diabetes it's just Tuesday, but for those that are celebrating, enjoy your red envelopes/start of your fast/your pancakes.
Gong hei fat choy
Ramadan Mubarak
Eh...happy pancakes
Gong hei fat choy
Ramadan Mubarak
Eh...happy pancakes
February 17, 2026 at 1:27 PM
As a Scottish atheist with diabetes it's just Tuesday, but for those that are celebrating, enjoy your red envelopes/start of your fast/your pancakes.
Gong hei fat choy
Ramadan Mubarak
Eh...happy pancakes
Gong hei fat choy
Ramadan Mubarak
Eh...happy pancakes
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What’s going on in Bothwell? This pretty heritage town near Glasgow is the target of ongoing arson attacks - why can’t police find who is responsible and what do locals think?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Bothwell: the affluent Glasgow town that has become UK’s ‘firebomb capital’
A high street is punctuated by burned-out buildings like rotten teeth in an otherwise perfect smile – what’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:22 AM
What’s going on in Bothwell? This pretty heritage town near Glasgow is the target of ongoing arson attacks - why can’t police find who is responsible and what do locals think?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Says something about the people I follow on social media that everyone is marking Robert Duvall's passing by talking about A Shot At Glory rather than those less well known films he was in.
February 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Says something about the people I follow on social media that everyone is marking Robert Duvall's passing by talking about A Shot At Glory rather than those less well known films he was in.
Working my way around the Fife Coastal Path. Leuchars to Newport-on-Tay today, on the northern coast of Fife.
February 14, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Working my way around the Fife Coastal Path. Leuchars to Newport-on-Tay today, on the northern coast of Fife.
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Last week in Elgin we came across the grave of Patrick Sellar, once factor for the Duke of Sutherland. I resisted the urge to piss on his grave, but re-read Iain Crichton Smith's book while in The Lismore in Partick today. This meant I could piss on the urinal dedicated to him in their toilets.
February 13, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Last week in Elgin we came across the grave of Patrick Sellar, once factor for the Duke of Sutherland. I resisted the urge to piss on his grave, but re-read Iain Crichton Smith's book while in The Lismore in Partick today. This meant I could piss on the urinal dedicated to him in their toilets.
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Blue skies at last over the Scottish hills. This is Stob Dubh on Buachaille Etive Beag today 0, shimmering in the sunshine.
February 13, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Blue skies at last over the Scottish hills. This is Stob Dubh on Buachaille Etive Beag today 0, shimmering in the sunshine.
Last week in Elgin we came across the grave of Patrick Sellar, once factor for the Duke of Sutherland. I resisted the urge to piss on his grave, but re-read Iain Crichton Smith's book while in The Lismore in Partick today. This meant I could piss on the urinal dedicated to him in their toilets.
February 13, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Last week in Elgin we came across the grave of Patrick Sellar, once factor for the Duke of Sutherland. I resisted the urge to piss on his grave, but re-read Iain Crichton Smith's book while in The Lismore in Partick today. This meant I could piss on the urinal dedicated to him in their toilets.
Blue skies at last over the Scottish hills. This is Stob Dubh on Buachaille Etive Beag today 0, shimmering in the sunshine.
February 13, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Blue skies at last over the Scottish hills. This is Stob Dubh on Buachaille Etive Beag today 0, shimmering in the sunshine.
After weeks of miserable weather it's lovely to finally get a brief respite from the left w cloud, high winds, and horizontal rain. Buachaille Etive Mòr this fine morning.
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 AM
After weeks of miserable weather it's lovely to finally get a brief respite from the left w cloud, high winds, and horizontal rain. Buachaille Etive Mòr this fine morning.
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Useful primer/reminder on the latest racist oligarch to make the headlines.
Jim Ratcliffe is best known as the unpopular Manchester United owner and today he has been in the news for saying that 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants'. We need to understand Ratcliffe's as an energy billionaire who made his power and money by closing workplaces and opposing unions 🧵
'UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
In an interview with Sky News's Ed Conway, Sir Jim says Britain faces profound political, social and economic challenges, among them an unprecedented rise in immigration in recent years.
news.sky.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Useful primer/reminder on the latest racist oligarch to make the headlines.
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The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.
1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 AM
The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.
1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
Most famous? Would depend which age of person you asked probably. Alan Rough, Bill Forsyth or Sharon Rooney.
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Most famous? Would depend which age of person you asked probably. Alan Rough, Bill Forsyth or Sharon Rooney.
As it's International Day of Women and Girls in science here's my favourite photo of my childhood hero, Marie Curie. Taken in 1927 with Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and others, 17 people in this photo would win a Nobel prize. One person stands out, because she won two of them.
February 11, 2026 at 11:31 AM
As it's International Day of Women and Girls in science here's my favourite photo of my childhood hero, Marie Curie. Taken in 1927 with Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and others, 17 people in this photo would win a Nobel prize. One person stands out, because she won two of them.
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From Murakami's book "Underground" about the victims of the sarin attack on the Tokyo underground, caused by members of the Aum cult. The book is all about those affected by the crime, but he writes an essay at the end about their ideas, and ability to get drawn into a cult, however you define that.
February 10, 2026 at 4:43 PM
From Murakami's book "Underground" about the victims of the sarin attack on the Tokyo underground, caused by members of the Aum cult. The book is all about those affected by the crime, but he writes an essay at the end about their ideas, and ability to get drawn into a cult, however you define that.
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Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”
From Murakami's book "Underground" about the victims of the sarin attack on the Tokyo underground, caused by members of the Aum cult. The book is all about those affected by the crime, but he writes an essay at the end about their ideas, and ability to get drawn into a cult, however you define that.
February 10, 2026 at 4:43 PM
From Murakami's book "Underground" about the victims of the sarin attack on the Tokyo underground, caused by members of the Aum cult. The book is all about those affected by the crime, but he writes an essay at the end about their ideas, and ability to get drawn into a cult, however you define that.
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So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde
So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde
Obsessing over individual players and political chaos leaves less time to focus on the misogyny. And that’s for the best, isn’t it guys, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:13 PM
So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde
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"They will look at the barely-tarnished reputations of those whose names appear & blame not the men themselves, but the women who refused to let the subject drop. " My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on how it's always about money & politics, not the victims, & this is no moment of reckoning.
'A world where women are reduced to their genitals, and derided as bitches'
NOT so long ago Donald Trump — at the behest of his then pal Elon Musk — lashed out at Keir Starmer over the supposed cover-up of grooming gangs…
www.heraldscotland.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
"They will look at the barely-tarnished reputations of those whose names appear & blame not the men themselves, but the women who refused to let the subject drop. " My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on how it's always about money & politics, not the victims, & this is no moment of reckoning.
The Bow Fiddle Rock, Portknockie.
"Knockers Aye Afloat!" as they say around here, inexplicably.
"Knockers Aye Afloat!" as they say around here, inexplicably.
February 7, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The Bow Fiddle Rock, Portknockie.
"Knockers Aye Afloat!" as they say around here, inexplicably.
"Knockers Aye Afloat!" as they say around here, inexplicably.
Yay, finally. Elgin!
February 6, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Yay, finally. Elgin!
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Interesting piece on Andy Goldsworthy's Gravetstones art work on the BBC website. It's an "exclusive first look" apparently. I offered it to a national newspaper last year but they turned it down. I ended up writing it for my Substack. smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...
Small Finds #7
Andy Goldsworthy
smallfinds.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Interesting piece on Andy Goldsworthy's Gravetstones art work on the BBC website. It's an "exclusive first look" apparently. I offered it to a national newspaper last year but they turned it down. I ended up writing it for my Substack. smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...