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Bill Marshall 🇸🇮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Scot now living in Slovenia. #ScotsAbroad Semi-retired internet consultant, chess player and administrator, landscape photographer, guitarist, Dorothy Dunnett commentator.
http://www.dorothydunnett.co.uk
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
A full TENTH of Meta’s revenue comes from advertising scams:
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
spiderbill.bsky.social
The ads are annoying but the articles are worth reading in full for that squeak. And to get a glimpse of the insane riches amassed by royal houses.
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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duchess-van-hoof.bsky.social
We get reports from multiple countries that Russian money is funelled into the pockets of right wing pundits & politicians.

Yet, that is somehow never a matter of "national security"?

Weird how that happens...

Contrast that with the response to human rights protests.
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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paulr-32.bsky.social
Missed this little statistic on BBC and STV.
weegingerdug.bsky.social weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 6d
The latest figures show that 262 prisoners in England and Wales were mistakenly released in the year leading up to March 2025, according to the prison service's annual digest. That's a 128% increase.

Number of prisoners mistakenly released in Scotland, 0
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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bigaj38.bsky.social
Just a quick thread on a subject that I think will make or break our independence aspirations in Scotland. Old age pensions. Let me explain. As a golfer of pensionable age, I am surrounded by men and women of the same ilk. (1)
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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astroroyalscot.bsky.social
This week I've been e-chatting with photographer Lynn Gilbert who took this stunning portrait of Grace Hopper (1906-1992) legend & pioneer of language-based computer programming. 🧪👩‍🔬
You can read Hopper's own words about her experience in Lynn's wonderful interview: www.lynn-gilbert.com/free-chapters
A stern looking older woman in a Navy uniform stares straight at the camera. Behind her is an old large computer with large circular data tapes along the top. Just about her right shoulder is a badge stuck to the casing with sellotape. It says "You're the Boss" which is exactly what the women's expression is mirroring. She is certainly The Boss!
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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judithjesch.bsky.social
An important article challenging the views of earlier archaeologists about 'Pictish cellular' vs. 'Norse rectangular' building styles. The authors could also have challenged more clearly the earlier view that they mention, namely that 'the early Viking conquest' took place 'around AD 800'. 🧵1/6
northernpicts.bsky.social NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 12d
A new consideration of the chronology of the key settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney - shows that the buildings here belong firmly in the Pictish tradition. This leads to a wider consideration of the timings and character of the Viking Age in the Northern Isles.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Buckquoy, Orkney: addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland
www.cambridge.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
spiderbill.bsky.social
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Would you pay $3000 for a bed that sends 22Gb of telemetry about you and then goes crazy when AWS goes down?
WARNING: Your Bed Needs the Cloud?
YouTube video by David Bombal
youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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abbaetha.bsky.social
#dunnettcontent

This is fun!
yvonneseale.bsky.social Yvonne Seale @yvonneseale.bsky.social · 18d
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.

#medievalsky

www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
Screenshot of the Viabundus website.
October 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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indyposterboy.scot
It seems remarkable, yet true, that so many people in Scotland are apparently still ignorant of the huge stripping of Scottish devolved powers by Westminster's Powergrab in 2018. Where have you *been*?
Flyer detailing how Westminster used Brexit to strip a wide range of important devolved powers from Scotland, and did so whilst excluding Scottish politicians from the 'debate'. 15 minutes. one speaker. No debate. Not a single Scottish MP allowed to speak on the bill. Are you angry yet?
October 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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obyrska.bsky.social
Pretends to be shocked
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
October 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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scotsabroadforindy.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.

THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
spiderbill.bsky.social
@abbaetha.bsky.social
This sounds like it might interest you
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nigella.bsky.social Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 23d
#RecipeOfTheDay is the delectable Om Ali, an Egyptian dessert introduced to me about 30 years ago by the great Claudia Roden, comprising crisp filo pastry layered with nuts and dried fruit and baked with cream-enriched sweetened milk. It’s simple but sensational! www.nigella.com/recipes/om-ali
Om Ali
I first ate this at Ali Baba, an Egyptian restaurant in London that the great Claudia Roden took me to about 30 years ago, and have loved it ever since; it found its way into my second book, and I've ...
www.nigella.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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edinburghup.bsky.social
📚 Author Event: Bryony Coombs at the Institut français d'Écosse
📆 Thursday 23rd October, 3pm
📍@ifecosse.bsky.social, Edinburgh

@bryonycoombs.bsky.social will deliver a lecture among the celebrations for the 730th anniversary of the Auld Alliance! 

🎟️ Book your free ticket: 
‘Engraved on Man’s Skin’: The Auld Alliance, Much More than a Military Alliance - Institut français · Écosse
‘For this bond was not written on parchment but engraved on the living flesh of man’s skin, not in ink but with their mixed blood.’ When the French poet and diplomat, Alain Chartier, arrived in Scotland in 1428, he described the alliance between these two countries in highly evocative terms – as a living document […]
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October 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
spiderbill.bsky.social
Autumn colours behind Dreznica with Mt Krn behind
Autumn colours behind Dreznica with Mt Krn behind
October 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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katringf.bsky.social
Scottish Independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Welsh Independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
United Ireland 🇮🇪

RT if you agree.
October 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Comment cannot match this, even if some are funny.
gibbspaulus.bsky.social Paulie @gibbspaulus.bsky.social · 26d
“Doth thine box rolleth on wheels?”
“It doth not, good sir!”

( Original screengrab by @stevewriteswords.bsky.social )
October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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euromovescotland.bsky.social
Aberdeen University has awarded an honorary degree to 100-year-old Jim Glennie, the last Gordon Highlander alive to fight on D-Day, 6th June 1944. “We wanted to honour not just him, but his entire generation for freeing Europe from Nazi tyranny" said the University.
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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andrew.sharpe.scot
All EU members must sign up to the ECHR, because it is a legal obligation under the Treaty of Lisbon. So of course parties in England who don't want the UK to rejoin the EU would much prefer we left it.
October 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
spiderbill.bsky.social
Contrasts depending on which direction you look from Kosec in the afternoon.
Autumn colours against dark mountain clouds. Kosec, Slovenia Old barn pillar framing the view to Dreznica Late afternoon autumn view over Dreznica
October 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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ideasroadshow.bsky.social
This #medieval illuminated manuscript has been digitized and is now available online #openaccess !

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky 🏺

www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-...
The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online
For thousands of years, ordinary people all over the world not only worked side-by-side with domestic animals on a daily basis, they also observed the wild fauna around them to learn how to navigate a...
www.openculture.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
spiderbill.bsky.social
The cold spell we had a week ago has kicked off the Autumn colours.
Red and brown Autumn leaves framing the view of the church in Dreznica.
October 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
spiderbill.bsky.social
More medieval than early renaissance so not strictly #Dunnett related, but hey, you need to learn the background to attitudes and this may be the most fun a historian can have with their clothes on! 😜
thehistoryguy.bsky.social Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · Oct 10
On the YouTube right now…. @goingmedieval.bsky.social reveals some truths about medieval sex.

It is not at all what you think.

📺: youtu.be/wkZy3geThS8?...
October 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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judithjesch.bsky.social
L: Sea-Stallion and Cathedral; R: the Sea-Stallion's original, Skuldelev 2, in the Viking Ship Museum, #Roskilde. 1/2
The Sea-Stallion, a reconstruction of the 11th-century Skuldelev 2 viking ship Fragments of what was an 11th-century viking ship, Skuldelev 2, at the Vikingeskibsmuseet, #Roskilde
October 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM