Alan Wood
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Bassist etc. Grapefruitmoon on the other place and elsewhere. Professionally I skiddle about with Microsoft data products. Everything else I do unprofessionally.
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Argonaut Books (Leith's local book shop) needs your help.
Waterstones are set to open a new store just down the road despite committing to not disrupting independent bookstores. Follow them and support them here ...
Waterstones are set to open a new store just down the road despite committing to not disrupting independent bookstores. Follow them and support them here ...
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Argonaut Books (Leith's local book shop) needs your help.
Waterstones are set to open a new store just down the road despite committing to not disrupting independent bookstores. Follow them and support them here ...
Waterstones are set to open a new store just down the road despite committing to not disrupting independent bookstores. Follow them and support them here ...
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For fucks sake, no part of a cow or pig is called a burger or sausage, it's a shape. Desperate attempts from animal farmers to damage vegetarian food sales.
What's next Cadbury's not being able to sell chocolate fingers because that's what Captain Birdseye sells fish as?
What's next Cadbury's not being able to sell chocolate fingers because that's what Captain Birdseye sells fish as?
Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law
Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law
Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week
Calling plant-based food veggie “burgers” or “sausages” may be banned in the UK under the new trade agreement with the EU, the Guardian understands.
The Labour government secured a new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU earlier this year, which allows British businesses to sell products including some burgers and sausages in the EU for the first time since Brexit. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
For fucks sake, no part of a cow or pig is called a burger or sausage, it's a shape. Desperate attempts from animal farmers to damage vegetarian food sales.
What's next Cadbury's not being able to sell chocolate fingers because that's what Captain Birdseye sells fish as?
What's next Cadbury's not being able to sell chocolate fingers because that's what Captain Birdseye sells fish as?
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Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Everyone seems to have forgotten Scotland Women played in the World Cup in 2019.
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Everyone seems to have forgotten Scotland Women played in the World Cup in 2019.
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When Tommy Robinson celebrates Labour policy, the party deserves to die
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
When Tommy Robinson celebrates Labour policy, the party deserves to die
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Tech bros are fucking deranged.
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Tech bros are fucking deranged.
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Private companies operating care services in just three regions of England made £250m profits in 3 years,
£87.7m of profits went to care providers owned by private equity controlled from tax havens.
Profits mean money buys less. Higher taxes for less service.
Say NO to privatisation.
£87.7m of profits went to care providers owned by private equity controlled from tax havens.
Profits mean money buys less. Higher taxes for less service.
Say NO to privatisation.
Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years
More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Private companies operating care services in just three regions of England made £250m profits in 3 years,
£87.7m of profits went to care providers owned by private equity controlled from tax havens.
Profits mean money buys less. Higher taxes for less service.
Say NO to privatisation.
£87.7m of profits went to care providers owned by private equity controlled from tax havens.
Profits mean money buys less. Higher taxes for less service.
Say NO to privatisation.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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me when the AI bubble bursts
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
me when the AI bubble bursts
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If you watch these two for smart political analysis you're a fucking idiot.
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
If you watch these two for smart political analysis you're a fucking idiot.
Watched what should have been an interesting YT video on a favourite band of mine. Absolutely ruined by the inane AI voiceover. Emotionless, monotone crap.
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Watched what should have been an interesting YT video on a favourite band of mine. Absolutely ruined by the inane AI voiceover. Emotionless, monotone crap.
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Deal with the rich, before they deal with you
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
October 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Deal with the rich, before they deal with you
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In summary, stop relying on #AI for factual information, you lazy fucking half-wit. Do the work. It'll be quicker and far more enriching in the long run.
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In summary, stop relying on #AI for factual information, you lazy fucking half-wit. Do the work. It'll be quicker and far more enriching in the long run.
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A lot of people are quoting this post and that's good because they should, AI sucks and robs us of something special and only mediocre uncreative piss-babies rely on it to make anything at all, fuck AI, p.s. Emma Thompson is now the president, sorry, that's just how it is
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A lot of people are quoting this post and that's good because they should, AI sucks and robs us of something special and only mediocre uncreative piss-babies rely on it to make anything at all, fuck AI, p.s. Emma Thompson is now the president, sorry, that's just how it is
Staying one step ahead of AI by refusing to use it.
October 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Staying one step ahead of AI by refusing to use it.
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This parliamentary group should be dissolved immediately. Its members have disgraced themselves. They pose as protectors of women while cosying up to the Magdalene laundries, for pity’s sake. It’s vile, unconscionable hypocrisy. They’re unfit to hold public office. Keep the spotlight on this, please
EXCLUSIVE: Ash Regan 'owes the Scottish public an explanation', campaigners have said, after it emerged a Holyrood group supporting her bill to outlaw buying sex is backed by an organisation that ran Magdalene laundries
Read here: tinyurl.com/ynept4fb
Read here: tinyurl.com/ynept4fb
October 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This parliamentary group should be dissolved immediately. Its members have disgraced themselves. They pose as protectors of women while cosying up to the Magdalene laundries, for pity’s sake. It’s vile, unconscionable hypocrisy. They’re unfit to hold public office. Keep the spotlight on this, please
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Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.
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Notice how Zack actually outlines what he wants to do and how he intends to do it in clear terms, and how Starmer (and most other politicians, really) can only speak in vague platitudes about “unlocking the potential of everyone” or some shit?
October 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Notice how Zack actually outlines what he wants to do and how he intends to do it in clear terms, and how Starmer (and most other politicians, really) can only speak in vague platitudes about “unlocking the potential of everyone” or some shit?
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Hhahahahahahahaaa
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Hhahahahahahahaaa
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Salesforce owns Tableau. Time to drop all mentions from classes and trainings #dataViz
Salesforce told ICE that its A.I. software could help the agency nearly triple its staff, according to internal documents, as President Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
October 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Salesforce owns Tableau. Time to drop all mentions from classes and trainings #dataViz
I Swear was fantastic. One of the best films I've seen in ages. Maxine Peake and Peter Mullan both outstanding as always. Robert Aramayo as John was incredible. #tourettes
October 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I Swear was fantastic. One of the best films I've seen in ages. Maxine Peake and Peter Mullan both outstanding as always. Robert Aramayo as John was incredible. #tourettes
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The richest man on the planet is paying for Tommy Robinson's legal fees.
The UK's problems are not caused by migrants or refugees.
They are caused by billionaires like Elon Musk.
The UK's problems are not caused by migrants or refugees.
They are caused by billionaires like Elon Musk.
October 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The richest man on the planet is paying for Tommy Robinson's legal fees.
The UK's problems are not caused by migrants or refugees.
They are caused by billionaires like Elon Musk.
The UK's problems are not caused by migrants or refugees.
They are caused by billionaires like Elon Musk.