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David Gilmour
@davidjgilmour.bsky.social
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Hibs, Man City and Baltimore Orioles supporter. Atheist, socialist, Linux computer geek. Professional angry leftie.
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Sent a post on Chuffed, trying to get people not to send money to this account. Not sure what impact it will have, but trying to do something since their BlueSky account appears inactive.
#SpotTheScammer
Post to Chuffed.com, trying to stop people giving money to a scam account set up by organized criminals.
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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The Cambridge Companion to Plato, edited by Richard Kraut
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #Philosophy #Platonism #History #NonFiction
Book cover. Black and white drawing of Plato, surrounded by a brown border with the title and author's name in white and orange text.
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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#SpotTheScammer

@carlharris0007.bsky.social Illuminati scammer.
Screenshot. My invitation to join the Illuminati and my polite refusal.
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Philosophy 101 by Paul Kleiman
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #Philosophy #History #NonFiction
Book cover. Various black and white drawings of famous philosophers and quotes from some of the writings. Book title and author's name in black on a white background.
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Sounds reasonable.
Lenin and cat. Balding man in a suit with a cat on his knee.
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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#SpotTheScammer

It's cute when the bots talk to each other. #Bless
Screen shot of two BlueSky scam bots interacting. It's not any more exciting than that.
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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A misty night in Edinburgh. Hope this goes across in a quick smartphone photo at night.

#Edinburgh #Photography #Night #Mist #SmartphonePhotography
Photo taken from the middle of the road, at night and with mist showing. Street lamps lighting in the background and lens flare in the left hand corner. Cars on either side, houses on the right and trees and the cemetery stone wall on the left.
October 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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#Antifa have their own chocolate bars now. Is there no end to their evil?
A pile of chocolate bars, featuring a green cartoon frog on a purple background on the wrapper.
October 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The Princeton History of Modern Ireland by Richard Bourke & Ian McBride
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #History #IrishHistory #BritishHistory #Ireland #Politics

Suspect that most British people don't know as much Irish history as they should, and I include myself in that. Hoping to learn something here.
Book cover. Title and authors' names in white text on a green grass drawing background.
October 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Livingston South station. A concrete platform on both sides, with two tracks in middle and electric wires above. A grey West Lothian day unfortunately.
October 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #Sociology #Economics #USPolitics #Capitalism #NonFiction
Book cover. Title and author's name in black and red text on a cream coloured background. Also six small photographs of people doing worthwhile but poorly paid jobs.
October 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs by Søren Kierkegaard
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #Philosophy #PhilosophicalFiction #MoralPhilosophy #Existentialism #NonFiction
Book cover. Painting of an city with two large white buildings in the background and well dressed people walking and riding in the foreground. The title and author's name are written in red and black text on a white background towards the bottom.
October 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Does God Exist? by William Lane Craig
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #Christianity #Atheism #Apologetics #Philosophy #NonFiction
Book cover. Title and author's name written in white text on a light blue bacground. The word "God" is in red text. The subtitle "The Question You Can't Ignore" is in white text on a red stripe across the cover.
September 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Sunflowers brightening up an otherwise grey Edinburgh day.

#Edinburgh #Scotland #Photography #SmartphonePhotography #Sunflowers #Flowers #Street #Gate
Two sunflowers, one not quite in full bloom, next to a metal gate at a small road junction. Stone gate post and some weeds also visible.
September 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #Totalitarianism #History #Stalinism #Nazism #Antisemitism #NonFiction
Book cover. Sepia photograph of German man and boys in military uniform giving a Nazi Salute. Title and author's name in black text on a white background superimposed on the photo in the lower third.
September 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Paul : A Very Short Introduction by E. P. Sanders
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #Christianity #History #Religion #NonFiction
Book cover. Orange, blue and black downward gradient with book title and author's name in white writing.
September 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #Philosophy #Essays #Germany #19thCentury #NonFiction
Book cover. Colour portrait of a young German man in the nineteenth century, looking forward and slightly to the viewer's right.
September 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely,
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #BehavioralEconomics #Economics #NonFiction
Book cover. Book title and subtitle in white text on an orange and blue background. The word irrational is printed upside down. Author's name in orange text on blue.
September 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung by Mao Zedong, colloquially referred to in the English-speaking world as the Little Red Book.
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #Politics #History #Socialism #Communism #NonFiction
Book cover. Title in yellow writing on a red background. Black and white photograph of Mao in the middle.
September 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest by T. Z. Lavine
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #History #Philosophy #NonFiction
Book cover. Book title and subtitle in red and blue writing. Author's name in black writing.
September 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Hibs Women’s continental journey will continue following our dramatic 3-2 victory over Apollon Ladies at the Stelios Kyriakides Stadium.
www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/2025/au...

#GGTTH #Hibs
Group of female footballers and their coaching staff celebrating a famous win.
August 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Atheism Explained - From Folly to Philosophy by David Ramsay Steele
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #Athiesm #Philosophy #Religion #NonFiction
Book cover. A Planet in the bottom left corner with space and stars filling the rest of the picture. Book title, subtitle and author's name also shown in the middle.
August 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #History #Economics #Politics #Democracy #Globalization #NonFiction
Book cover. Drawing of a container vessel sinking in to the blue ocean. Title, subtitle and authour's name underneath.
August 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky by Vladimir Lenin
💙📚 #Booksky #NowReading #History #Communism #Socialism #NonFiction #SocialistSunday
Book cover. Drawing of Lenian in a dark felt hat, suit and waistcoat. The cover has the title, subtitle and authour's name on it.
August 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Minette celebrating #internationalcatday
Orange tabby cat lying on the back green cushion of the sofa, looking at the viewer. Light from the window coming in from the back.
August 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM