Stephen Watt
@stephenwatt.bsky.social
History Enthusiast // MLitt in Modern History, with a focus on Interwar Scotland // Sometimes Blogs & Vlogs // Episcopalian // As Seen On Songs of Praise // Probably not a Jacobite
New Life Goal Unlocked: To write a guide to Scotland were I get to talk about a "sincere Scottish breakfast"
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New Life Goal Unlocked: To write a guide to Scotland were I get to talk about a "sincere Scottish breakfast"
Me: It's been a busy day, time to put on a nice cheerful film
***5 Minutes Later***
Guess I'm watching the Seventh Seal again!
***5 Minutes Later***
Guess I'm watching the Seventh Seal again!
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Me: It's been a busy day, time to put on a nice cheerful film
***5 Minutes Later***
Guess I'm watching the Seventh Seal again!
***5 Minutes Later***
Guess I'm watching the Seventh Seal again!
- Be Amazon
- Develop one of the most sophisticated logistic systems in history
- Build a streaming platform with one of the biggest catalogues known to man
- Make one of the worst UI out there so rather than showing the catalogue's highlights it recommends slop like "The VelociPastor" instead
- Develop one of the most sophisticated logistic systems in history
- Build a streaming platform with one of the biggest catalogues known to man
- Make one of the worst UI out there so rather than showing the catalogue's highlights it recommends slop like "The VelociPastor" instead
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
- Be Amazon
- Develop one of the most sophisticated logistic systems in history
- Build a streaming platform with one of the biggest catalogues known to man
- Make one of the worst UI out there so rather than showing the catalogue's highlights it recommends slop like "The VelociPastor" instead
- Develop one of the most sophisticated logistic systems in history
- Build a streaming platform with one of the biggest catalogues known to man
- Make one of the worst UI out there so rather than showing the catalogue's highlights it recommends slop like "The VelociPastor" instead
***New Quest Journal Appears*** A Head of The Game - Find the Head of James IV in Londonium and restore it to Scotland
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
***New Quest Journal Appears*** A Head of The Game - Find the Head of James IV in Londonium and restore it to Scotland
Looking to stay as healthy as someone from 18th century Edinburgh? The prescription is simple - one round of golf followed by a gallon of claret, taken daily for 80 years!
Bonus effects - you gain the national focus Scottish Enlightenment!
Bonus effects - you gain the national focus Scottish Enlightenment!
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Looking to stay as healthy as someone from 18th century Edinburgh? The prescription is simple - one round of golf followed by a gallon of claret, taken daily for 80 years!
Bonus effects - you gain the national focus Scottish Enlightenment!
Bonus effects - you gain the national focus Scottish Enlightenment!
Reposted by Stephen Watt
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
Don't think we can ever understate just how close to complete amd toral collapse China was in 1975.
Even the railways by this point were essentially being run (and looted) by armed Red Guards answering to no-one but themselves!
Even the railways by this point were essentially being run (and looted) by armed Red Guards answering to no-one but themselves!
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Don't think we can ever understate just how close to complete amd toral collapse China was in 1975.
Even the railways by this point were essentially being run (and looted) by armed Red Guards answering to no-one but themselves!
Even the railways by this point were essentially being run (and looted) by armed Red Guards answering to no-one but themselves!
Reposted by Stephen Watt
I found the shamanic gonks
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I found the shamanic gonks
Somehow Tom Baker and Brian Blessed are in the world of Warhammer 40K!
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Somehow Tom Baker and Brian Blessed are in the world of Warhammer 40K!
Sub-30 minutes on a parkrun that is mostly uphill? Yup, that's now me!!!
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Sub-30 minutes on a parkrun that is mostly uphill? Yup, that's now me!!!
Reposted by Stephen Watt
I was a little bored earlier. ⚓️✝️
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I was a little bored earlier. ⚓️✝️
a movie you've seen more than 7 times, as a gif
November 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
a movie you've seen more than 7 times, as a gif
Rewatched The Dark Crystal and honestly don't think there's ever been a film that so perfectly creates a completely alien and magical world as Jim Henson did with his muppets.
November 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Rewatched The Dark Crystal and honestly don't think there's ever been a film that so perfectly creates a completely alien and magical world as Jim Henson did with his muppets.
At an anime showing, and - still in my workwear of shirt and chinos - I can safely say I'm the most overdressed in the cinema!
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
At an anime showing, and - still in my workwear of shirt and chinos - I can safely say I'm the most overdressed in the cinema!
Fascinated how in both the 1930s and the 1960s there were many in the SNP who wanted a pact with the Liberals to stop them becoming a rival Nationalist party.
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Fascinated how in both the 1930s and the 1960s there were many in the SNP who wanted a pact with the Liberals to stop them becoming a rival Nationalist party.
It's Sea Sunday and once again I (just) successful managed to get through "Will Your Anchor Hold?" without going into a pirate accent!
October 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It's Sea Sunday and once again I (just) successful managed to get through "Will Your Anchor Hold?" without going into a pirate accent!
Coriolanus is great, and honestly don't know why modern day adaptions of Shakespeare get so much hate when his work is so rich that ever since the Restoration people have adapted his work in wildly different ways.
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boxd.it/buiHUZ
A ★★★★★ review of Coriolanus (2011)
Coriolanus (2011) is a fantastic adaption of the Shakespeare play which turns one of the Bard of Avon’s more obscure plays into a gritty political drama set in a 1990s Former Yugoslavia style early Ro...
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October 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Coriolanus is great, and honestly don't know why modern day adaptions of Shakespeare get so much hate when his work is so rich that ever since the Restoration people have adapted his work in wildly different ways.
boxd.it/buiHUZ
boxd.it/buiHUZ
I'm not saying I've seen every attraction in Dublin but I've seen Seamus Heaney's writing desk and W.B. Yeats astrology charts so really I think I'm winning!
October 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I'm not saying I've seen every attraction in Dublin but I've seen Seamus Heaney's writing desk and W.B. Yeats astrology charts so really I think I'm winning!
This train through Northern Ireland feels very much like "what a train through Aberdeenshire would look like if we still had trains."
October 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This train through Northern Ireland feels very much like "what a train through Aberdeenshire would look like if we still had trains."
Proved impossible to get a Belhaven Best in Belfast so had to settle for this obscure local drink instead!
October 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Proved impossible to get a Belhaven Best in Belfast so had to settle for this obscure local drink instead!
First time in Belfast and honestly was not expecting it to have one of the most beautiful natural harbours I've ever seen!
October 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
First time in Belfast and honestly was not expecting it to have one of the most beautiful natural harbours I've ever seen!
Ah, first day in my job as Modernisation Adviser for the Qing Government; going to take a big sip from my mug that says "Imperial China will last forever" and then check my emails
October 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Ah, first day in my job as Modernisation Adviser for the Qing Government; going to take a big sip from my mug that says "Imperial China will last forever" and then check my emails
Friend: You know a lot of folk tunes
Me: Yeah, I learnt them the traditional Scottish way... via road safety songs sung by the Singing Kettle!
Me: Yeah, I learnt them the traditional Scottish way... via road safety songs sung by the Singing Kettle!
October 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Friend: You know a lot of folk tunes
Me: Yeah, I learnt them the traditional Scottish way... via road safety songs sung by the Singing Kettle!
Me: Yeah, I learnt them the traditional Scottish way... via road safety songs sung by the Singing Kettle!
My ★★★★★ review of A House of Dynamite on Letterboxd boxd.it/bi2y1r
A ★★★★★ review of A House of Dynamite (2025)
A film about decision making on the edge of knowledge - one that ultimately gives the audience plenty of information while the tension builds up, but never gives away the vital pieces of intel that wo...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My ★★★★★ review of A House of Dynamite on Letterboxd boxd.it/bi2y1r