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A good, detailed and informative article on where Scotland's men stand with respect to prostate cancer diagnosis and care. I'm surprised to learn that it's almost common in men as breast cancer is in women.
'The prostate cancer support groups are filled with men who tried to get a test and couldn’t'

Despite an ambition to catch cancers sooner, many prostate cancer patients are still being given devastating late diagnoses www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
'The prostate cancer support groups are filled with men who tried to get a test and couldn’t'
Despite an ambition to catch cancers sooner, many prostate cancer patients are still being given devastating late diagno...
www.holyrood.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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I made this clip to illustrate my 10 year love-hate experience on Twitter and what made me finally walk away. 🤣😂
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Gronda! Gronda! THE ADVENTURE GAME (1980) saw celebs try to escape from the planet Arg. Each episode culminated with the Vortex, a pulsating column of light which 'evaporated' the likes of Bonnie Langford and Richard Stilgoe. Don't worry, kids, they're not dead. Doogy Rev!
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I can see an insect acting suspiciously, I think it's a spy.

Cagey bee
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, one of the greatest comic strips of all time, was born on this day, November 18, 1985 -- December 31, 1995.

And Calvin's dad remains a beacon of inspiration to cyclists everywhere.
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Calming
The first episode of The Clangers was originally broadcast on this day in 1969.
November 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Out for a walk down in the Linn Glen in Dalry. There's a few unusual sites.
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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World's largest commercial sailing ship, the 136-metre Neoliner Origin, successfully completes first Atlantic, voyage crossing, from St Nazaire 🇫🇷 to Baltimore 🇺🇸
World's largest cargo sailboat makes first transatlantic crossing | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
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November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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The speedy gleams the darkness swallow’d;
Loud, deep, & lang the thunder bellow’d:
That night, a child might understand,
The Deil had business on his hand…

—Robert Burns’s “Tam o’ Shanter”, read by Hamish MacDonald; illustrations by Gary Welsh
Happy #Halloween!
#C18
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqV...
Tam o Shanter: The Comic
YouTube video by ScotsHoose Yaldi
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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But, but…Matt told us renewables are more expensive

“Mudgee winery has become the largest of its kind in Australia to go completely off the electricity grid. More than 400 solar panels power the cellar door, winery, machinery, processing plant and restaurant”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Winery becomes Australia's largest to go off the grid
Going off the electricity grid has been transformative for Mudgee's Lowe Wines, which had been struggling with high power bills and supply shortages for years.
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is a fun piece of nostalgia - picking out the characters and games.
"RetroSpectrum - Reloaded"

Digital collage made in Photoshop based on the glorious games of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 😍

#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758), Scottish botanical illustrator known for the book "A Curious Herbal" 1737. Blackwell published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured work in order to raise funds to free her husband from debtors prison. #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
October 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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“Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed”

The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ, c.7th/8th century CE. St Columba sends it packing
📷: Rodney’s Stone, Moray
#BookWormSat
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columb...
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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"Loan Shark"
October 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is astonishing. I wonder what the trend has been in the UK?
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Exciting news for Great North fans (kickstarter expected in Q1 of 2026) as well as some more previews of my art here!
The Great North Is Great
A blog about role playing games (particularly D&D and Cyberpunk), fantasy fiction, science fiction, and related themes from the author of Yoon-Suin.
monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The point being that the rule of law is logically impossible without a basic assumpton of equality between everyone it might apply to. (This has often been an ideal towards which we've fallen short...but it remains...or remained...a principle nonetheless, without which all there is is violence.)
In some ways ,modern civilization can be said to have begun when John Locke put forward the idea that a contract between a British and Dutch person (say) has the same legal and moral standing as a promse between Englishmen. (This was about 1690)
Katie Lam made a case against, in principle, treating UK government promises *if made to foreigners* as promises to keep. Given "sacred duties" to Brits

So can grant people permanent status but renege. Can agree treaties + renege. Argues it may be naive to play by the rules of a multilateral system
October 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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An important (global) public service announcement from Ed Miliband on the day that renewables have over taken coal as the largest source of electricity.

"Clean energy, it's happening and it's the future."
October 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM