Iain MacGilleBhràith
@aeonmach.bsky.social
I LIKE a *lot* of shit: sci & tech (my day job!), environment & energy (ecomodernism), politics (~moderate, social-liberalism), culture & language(s), outdoors (mountains, cycling/MTB, sailing), travel, nuance & irony.
I HATE black-&-white simplism!
I HATE black-&-white simplism!
This is a wonderful article all about The Rut by @countrysideben.bsky.social - full of interesting details and explaining the biology and lifecycle of deer! 👏
I just sent it to my son bc he heard it for the first time on a cracking walk over Maoile Lunndaidh et al a week or so ago.
I just sent it to my son bc he heard it for the first time on a cracking walk over Maoile Lunndaidh et al a week or so ago.
October 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This is a wonderful article all about The Rut by @countrysideben.bsky.social - full of interesting details and explaining the biology and lifecycle of deer! 👏
I just sent it to my son bc he heard it for the first time on a cracking walk over Maoile Lunndaidh et al a week or so ago.
I just sent it to my son bc he heard it for the first time on a cracking walk over Maoile Lunndaidh et al a week or so ago.
It’s not Dovedale is it?
When I was here last year it was somewhat misty!
When I was here last year it was somewhat misty!
September 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It’s not Dovedale is it?
When I was here last year it was somewhat misty!
When I was here last year it was somewhat misty!
This 👇 from a wonderful (warm!) cycle around the ‘Greenock Cut’ (aqueduct) yesterday. Amazing views and an amazing piece of Victorian engineering built to supply Greenock with water…
August 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This 👇 from a wonderful (warm!) cycle around the ‘Greenock Cut’ (aqueduct) yesterday. Amazing views and an amazing piece of Victorian engineering built to supply Greenock with water…
Lads, I found the Overton Window…
August 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Lads, I found the Overton Window…
I think the Overton Window is now operating like these…
July 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I think the Overton Window is now operating like these…
And especially 👇
Just bc one lives in eg Glasgow (or god forbid - from a (lack of) sunshine perspective - Fort William) does NOT mean all of Scotland is gloomy 🤷♂️
The west Highlands in winter OTOH… it’s enough to make one invent whisky.
Just bc one lives in eg Glasgow (or god forbid - from a (lack of) sunshine perspective - Fort William) does NOT mean all of Scotland is gloomy 🤷♂️
The west Highlands in winter OTOH… it’s enough to make one invent whisky.
July 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
And especially 👇
Just bc one lives in eg Glasgow (or god forbid - from a (lack of) sunshine perspective - Fort William) does NOT mean all of Scotland is gloomy 🤷♂️
The west Highlands in winter OTOH… it’s enough to make one invent whisky.
Just bc one lives in eg Glasgow (or god forbid - from a (lack of) sunshine perspective - Fort William) does NOT mean all of Scotland is gloomy 🤷♂️
The west Highlands in winter OTOH… it’s enough to make one invent whisky.
Courtesy of the @metoffice.gov.uk’s excellent ‘anomaly’ maps (you can alter the settings to see how the monthly/seasonal/annual stats compare to a long running average!)
July 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Courtesy of the @metoffice.gov.uk’s excellent ‘anomaly’ maps (you can alter the settings to see how the monthly/seasonal/annual stats compare to a long running average!)
6/ I had no idea where they were talking about & only deduced from other clues (Easter Ross) & knowing energy sector.
The BBC also called it ‘Bàgh an Neig’ a year ago 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...
But look closely at the AAA footnotes for Nigg/Neig; they sensibly call it ‘Camas Neig’! 😏
The BBC also called it ‘Bàgh an Neig’ a year ago 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...
But look closely at the AAA footnotes for Nigg/Neig; they sensibly call it ‘Camas Neig’! 😏
July 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
6/ I had no idea where they were talking about & only deduced from other clues (Easter Ross) & knowing energy sector.
The BBC also called it ‘Bàgh an Neig’ a year ago 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...
But look closely at the AAA footnotes for Nigg/Neig; they sensibly call it ‘Camas Neig’! 😏
The BBC also called it ‘Bàgh an Neig’ a year ago 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...
But look closely at the AAA footnotes for Nigg/Neig; they sensibly call it ‘Camas Neig’! 😏
2/ Firstly they haven’t of course bought Nigg Bay - a quite large beautiful bay and sands - at all (I will return to dissect the BBC’s odd and confusing Gaelic naming) but the *Port of Nigg* (a port & infra business).
July 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
2/ Firstly they haven’t of course bought Nigg Bay - a quite large beautiful bay and sands - at all (I will return to dissect the BBC’s odd and confusing Gaelic naming) but the *Port of Nigg* (a port & infra business).
Does ones brain being fried include not even having read or being able to parse/understand the evidence one has provided?
The exec summary pretty clears states that while storage is necessary (esp if you’re trying for high pen or 100% RE) it isn’t ready and calls for research and dev🙄
The exec summary pretty clears states that while storage is necessary (esp if you’re trying for high pen or 100% RE) it isn’t ready and calls for research and dev🙄
July 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Does ones brain being fried include not even having read or being able to parse/understand the evidence one has provided?
The exec summary pretty clears states that while storage is necessary (esp if you’re trying for high pen or 100% RE) it isn’t ready and calls for research and dev🙄
The exec summary pretty clears states that while storage is necessary (esp if you’re trying for high pen or 100% RE) it isn’t ready and calls for research and dev🙄
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b/ there’s been a ban on on-shore wind in England no? so isn’t much of it…
…but I’d rather it was there in frankly boring agri-industrial (not natural!) farmland than ruining Scottish uplands (also NB not natural but with potential!).
And it isn’t just the turbine; it’s all the access tracks.
b/ there’s been a ban on on-shore wind in England no? so isn’t much of it…
…but I’d rather it was there in frankly boring agri-industrial (not natural!) farmland than ruining Scottish uplands (also NB not natural but with potential!).
And it isn’t just the turbine; it’s all the access tracks.
July 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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b/ there’s been a ban on on-shore wind in England no? so isn’t much of it…
…but I’d rather it was there in frankly boring agri-industrial (not natural!) farmland than ruining Scottish uplands (also NB not natural but with potential!).
And it isn’t just the turbine; it’s all the access tracks.
b/ there’s been a ban on on-shore wind in England no? so isn’t much of it…
…but I’d rather it was there in frankly boring agri-industrial (not natural!) farmland than ruining Scottish uplands (also NB not natural but with potential!).
And it isn’t just the turbine; it’s all the access tracks.
If you read one thing this morning, read this.
Searingly honest, (rightly) dark-humouredly scathing at times - especially on the nonsense of the dangerous self-healing inherent to this story:
Searingly honest, (rightly) dark-humouredly scathing at times - especially on the nonsense of the dangerous self-healing inherent to this story:
July 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you read one thing this morning, read this.
Searingly honest, (rightly) dark-humouredly scathing at times - especially on the nonsense of the dangerous self-healing inherent to this story:
Searingly honest, (rightly) dark-humouredly scathing at times - especially on the nonsense of the dangerous self-healing inherent to this story:
Live from the Gareloch post racing!
July 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Live from the Gareloch post racing!
I’d *eat* all of them but I’d *like* some of them more: I like good and honest food, so the supposedly “upper class” options are pretentious conspicuous consumption bs (gold, truffles, macaroni cheese w/ lobster*) & some is poor quality (frozen pizza etc) 🤷♂️
…middle class me!
*NB not “mac n cheese”
…middle class me!
*NB not “mac n cheese”
June 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I’d *eat* all of them but I’d *like* some of them more: I like good and honest food, so the supposedly “upper class” options are pretentious conspicuous consumption bs (gold, truffles, macaroni cheese w/ lobster*) & some is poor quality (frozen pizza etc) 🤷♂️
…middle class me!
*NB not “mac n cheese”
…middle class me!
*NB not “mac n cheese”
I’m not an expert!
But I very proud of this orchid that has appeared in the grass verge I’m rewilding outside my house!
But I very proud of this orchid that has appeared in the grass verge I’m rewilding outside my house!
June 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I’m not an expert!
But I very proud of this orchid that has appeared in the grass verge I’m rewilding outside my house!
But I very proud of this orchid that has appeared in the grass verge I’m rewilding outside my house!
It’s looks like a very silly self-own: a not unreasonable conclusion from their (***NB on their own silly nativist terms***) would be that they’re commenting on the Anglo-Saxon Germanic invasion and that they identify as and yearn to be Gaels resisting this… 🤷♂️😂
June 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It’s looks like a very silly self-own: a not unreasonable conclusion from their (***NB on their own silly nativist terms***) would be that they’re commenting on the Anglo-Saxon Germanic invasion and that they identify as and yearn to be Gaels resisting this… 🤷♂️😂
Er no: I called the specific stated Norway issue minor (feel free to apologise for your reading incomprehension)…
… plenty of the others may indeed be major issues (and safety/death is).
I am not denigrating CalMac - as I said they are (mostly) good - I’m saying the article and propaganda is bs.
… plenty of the others may indeed be major issues (and safety/death is).
I am not denigrating CalMac - as I said they are (mostly) good - I’m saying the article and propaganda is bs.
![Shortfall in crew numbers and regulations concerning rest periods [you think Scotland and CalMac doesn’t have these issues?!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uibbhzsiixmazxfbsttgldel/bafkreibwte7jpnuu5il7khtjcioc4jwulzi6p76ifhgyjl2xwon5xg2ho4@jpeg)
June 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Er no: I called the specific stated Norway issue minor (feel free to apologise for your reading incomprehension)…
… plenty of the others may indeed be major issues (and safety/death is).
I am not denigrating CalMac - as I said they are (mostly) good - I’m saying the article and propaganda is bs.
… plenty of the others may indeed be major issues (and safety/death is).
I am not denigrating CalMac - as I said they are (mostly) good - I’m saying the article and propaganda is bs.
The ferry thing *is* politicised but this SNP-outrider defence of CalMac (in the face of what islanders will tell you are real issues) is just as cringe as the anti-SNP media obsession with it…
…it’s also bs: barring fleet issues, CalMac *is* good but it suggests the author hasn’t been to Norway.
…it’s also bs: barring fleet issues, CalMac *is* good but it suggests the author hasn’t been to Norway.
June 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The ferry thing *is* politicised but this SNP-outrider defence of CalMac (in the face of what islanders will tell you are real issues) is just as cringe as the anti-SNP media obsession with it…
…it’s also bs: barring fleet issues, CalMac *is* good but it suggests the author hasn’t been to Norway.
…it’s also bs: barring fleet issues, CalMac *is* good but it suggests the author hasn’t been to Norway.
Interesting by David Gauke on the centre-right but I find it confused and/or making odd assumptions!
He (correctly IMHO) notes the risk of taking on the populist/far-right on culture ↙️ ….
… but earlier quotes a report - implictly endorsing - stating 2 necessary conservative cultural positions.↘️ 🤔
He (correctly IMHO) notes the risk of taking on the populist/far-right on culture ↙️ ….
… but earlier quotes a report - implictly endorsing - stating 2 necessary conservative cultural positions.↘️ 🤔
June 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Interesting by David Gauke on the centre-right but I find it confused and/or making odd assumptions!
He (correctly IMHO) notes the risk of taking on the populist/far-right on culture ↙️ ….
… but earlier quotes a report - implictly endorsing - stating 2 necessary conservative cultural positions.↘️ 🤔
He (correctly IMHO) notes the risk of taking on the populist/far-right on culture ↙️ ….
… but earlier quotes a report - implictly endorsing - stating 2 necessary conservative cultural positions.↘️ 🤔
Look I’d forgotten about this eejit and please friends I don’t need you re-tweeting her bc then I have to think about things like why two-thirds of *one hundred thousand* people follow her…
For every expert we were privileged to be able to read discussing Brexit we got some viral bloviator.
For every expert we were privileged to be able to read discussing Brexit we got some viral bloviator.
June 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Look I’d forgotten about this eejit and please friends I don’t need you re-tweeting her bc then I have to think about things like why two-thirds of *one hundred thousand* people follow her…
For every expert we were privileged to be able to read discussing Brexit we got some viral bloviator.
For every expert we were privileged to be able to read discussing Brexit we got some viral bloviator.
First time doing proper pure climbing in a while - teaching my son the delights of ‘trad’ climbing including his first ‘leads’.
June 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
First time doing proper pure climbing in a while - teaching my son the delights of ‘trad’ climbing including his first ‘leads’.
OTOH not infallible - but then wave-particle duality is a bitch 😏
June 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
OTOH not infallible - but then wave-particle duality is a bitch 😏
I’ve been gaming for a while…
June 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I’ve been gaming for a while…