Simon Varwell
@simonvarwell.bsky.social
Loves trains, the outdoors, travel, Esperanto, ambient and post-rock music, dystofic, good food and scrontous beer. Hates car-centric societies, late stage capitalism and courgette. He/him. Inverness | 🏴 | 🇪🇺 Work: @hisasimon.bsky.social
To every actor who's just finished Pantomime season, you can finally relax, because
IT'S BEHIND YOU!!
IT'S BEHIND YOU!!
January 4, 2026 at 8:39 PM
To every actor who's just finished Pantomime season, you can finally relax, because
IT'S BEHIND YOU!!
IT'S BEHIND YOU!!
Jimmy Thelin being lined up for the Celtic job, perhaps?
January 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Jimmy Thelin being lined up for the Celtic job, perhaps?
More nice winter light today. It’s cold out but beautiful.
January 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
More nice winter light today. It’s cold out but beautiful.
This is a fascinating idea and report: hospitality as resistance and community.
A true & earnest thing: Despite the fact that I live & breathe politics professionally, voted in two elections, subscribe to lots of media, engage in political discourse, and gave to campaigns, I think our weekly dinners may have been my most meaningful political act of the year.
In my personal newsletter: A look back at our 2025 resolution to host dinner every single Saturday.
Great news: We did it! amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-o...
Great news: We did it! amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-o...
January 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
This is a fascinating idea and report: hospitality as resistance and community.
Time for some reading before The Traitors.
January 3, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Time for some reading before The Traitors.
An astonishing theft, out of nowhere, violating all right thinking ways of doing things. Hard to see a way back that doesn’t lead to more instability and potentially heads rolling. Though the powers that be will probably do nothing.
But enough about Celtic’s collapse in the lunchtime kick-off.
But enough about Celtic’s collapse in the lunchtime kick-off.
January 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
An astonishing theft, out of nowhere, violating all right thinking ways of doing things. Hard to see a way back that doesn’t lead to more instability and potentially heads rolling. Though the powers that be will probably do nothing.
But enough about Celtic’s collapse in the lunchtime kick-off.
But enough about Celtic’s collapse in the lunchtime kick-off.
A gorgeous morning’s walk (and sledge) in the woods.
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
A gorgeous morning’s walk (and sledge) in the woods.
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GamerGate should be part of everyone’s education. And yet the people involved were never really punished, and many are now part of the big companies or connected to government.
NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.
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Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.
futurism.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:16 PM
GamerGate should be part of everyone’s education. And yet the people involved were never really punished, and many are now part of the big companies or connected to government.
My choice is appropriately festive too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbL9...
January 1, 2026 at 6:37 PM
My choice is appropriately festive too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbL9...
Feliĉan novjaron! Out for a walk and crikey it’s cold out. Spots of snow too.
January 1, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Feliĉan novjaron! Out for a walk and crikey it’s cold out. Spots of snow too.
I often get arrested at this time of year by German police, for handling stollen goods.
January 1, 2026 at 12:51 PM
I often get arrested at this time of year by German police, for handling stollen goods.
Not a new year resolution maker at all, but I recently deleted Duolingo (runs on AI these days). I’ve enjoyed learning some Dutch this year and it did help a little on my two Flemish trips of 2026. However I want to read more Esperanto so I reckon other languages can wait for the time being.
December 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Not a new year resolution maker at all, but I recently deleted Duolingo (runs on AI these days). I’ve enjoyed learning some Dutch this year and it did help a little on my two Flemish trips of 2026. However I want to read more Esperanto so I reckon other languages can wait for the time being.
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Do I know anyone who speaks Cantonese? I'm copy editing something and want to make sure some phrases are accurate and transliterated in a way that makes sense. Can pay you for your time.
December 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Do I know anyone who speaks Cantonese? I'm copy editing something and want to make sure some phrases are accurate and transliterated in a way that makes sense. Can pay you for your time.
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Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation
December 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation
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The Dutch word for a horse is paarden (fairly similar to the English "pardon") and the Dutch word for breeding is fok (fairly similar to, well, you know) and that's all the context you need for this joke...
Englishman: What do you do?
Dutchman: I fok horses
Englishman: Pardon?
Dutchman: Yes paarden
Englishman: What do you do?
Dutchman: I fok horses
Englishman: Pardon?
Dutchman: Yes paarden
December 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The Dutch word for a horse is paarden (fairly similar to the English "pardon") and the Dutch word for breeding is fok (fairly similar to, well, you know) and that's all the context you need for this joke...
Englishman: What do you do?
Dutchman: I fok horses
Englishman: Pardon?
Dutchman: Yes paarden
Englishman: What do you do?
Dutchman: I fok horses
Englishman: Pardon?
Dutchman: Yes paarden
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Go round the outside.
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Go round the outside.
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John Calder was the Cromarty radical who took the ideas of the French revolution to the fields, streets, courtrooms and gaols of the Highlands. Great article by Feargus Murray for @heckle.scot.
James Calder – A Highland Friend of the People
Feargus Murray fills a gap in Scottish republican history by recalling the life of Cromarty radical James Calder, among the Highlanders inspired by the French Revolution to fight for democracy in late...
heckle.scot
December 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
John Calder was the Cromarty radical who took the ideas of the French revolution to the fields, streets, courtrooms and gaols of the Highlands. Great article by Feargus Murray for @heckle.scot.
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A gorgeous train station in Prague. What’s your favourite station?
#railways #trainstations #prague #trains #cities
#railways #trainstations #prague #trains #cities
December 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A gorgeous train station in Prague. What’s your favourite station?
#railways #trainstations #prague #trains #cities
#railways #trainstations #prague #trains #cities
Went out for a walk earlier to catch some rays but someone had put trees in the way.
December 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Went out for a walk earlier to catch some rays but someone had put trees in the way.
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One week they're crying about people getting visits from the police because of tweets, the next week they're calling for inquiries into tweets.
December 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
One week they're crying about people getting visits from the police because of tweets, the next week they're calling for inquiries into tweets.
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Annoying that the plural of oaf is oafs and not oaves.
December 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Annoying that the plural of oaf is oafs and not oaves.