Jock Tamson
@jocktamsonsbairn.bsky.social
A Scotland rugby fan and raspberry jam eater who is shocked by the rise of populist politics. Brexit and the 2016 US election were life changing for me. I make wooden boxes to heal myself. I can often be seen crying on planes while watching sad films!
Working on another box🤯
June 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Working on another box🤯
It has been a while since I posted any of my work. Politics has increased my output of boxes. #woodworking #woodworker
June 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It has been a while since I posted any of my work. Politics has increased my output of boxes. #woodworking #woodworker
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International students pay uni fees, rents, buy food & clothes & gifts in the local economy, they pay my salary of which around £25k pa goes to the gvt in income tax & NI and £3000 a year goes in council tax. This is what the government loses every time it refuses a student visa to appease Farage
May 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
International students pay uni fees, rents, buy food & clothes & gifts in the local economy, they pay my salary of which around £25k pa goes to the gvt in income tax & NI and £3000 a year goes in council tax. This is what the government loses every time it refuses a student visa to appease Farage
#woodworker #woodworking #woodworkshop here are my newest boxes made from 1960s fir that was part of the New York Ballet stage. I love the “patina”!!
April 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#woodworker #woodworking #woodworkshop here are my newest boxes made from 1960s fir that was part of the New York Ballet stage. I love the “patina”!!
#woodworker #woodworking made a little side table with some scrap wood from the community workshop. Finish is shellac all over then wire wooled then wax paste on table top and Danish Oil on the rest of the table.
April 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
#woodworker #woodworking made a little side table with some scrap wood from the community workshop. Finish is shellac all over then wire wooled then wax paste on table top and Danish Oil on the rest of the table.
#woodworker #woodworkshop #woodwork a friend at our community woodwork joinery gave me these large pieces of veneer. Any idea which species they are and any good ideas on how to use them??
March 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
#woodworker #woodworkshop #woodwork a friend at our community woodwork joinery gave me these large pieces of veneer. Any idea which species they are and any good ideas on how to use them??
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“Democracy is based on trust. If you systematically destroy trust in institutions - media, academia, justice - the only thing that can still work is a dictatorship.”
- Yuval Noah Harari
- Yuval Noah Harari
February 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“Democracy is based on trust. If you systematically destroy trust in institutions - media, academia, justice - the only thing that can still work is a dictatorship.”
- Yuval Noah Harari
- Yuval Noah Harari
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Our stock market is crashing.
Our economy is contracting.
Our government is dismantling.
Our allies are fleeing.
Our grocery prices are rising.
But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America."
So it all evens out.
Our economy is contracting.
Our government is dismantling.
Our allies are fleeing.
Our grocery prices are rising.
But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America."
So it all evens out.
March 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Our stock market is crashing.
Our economy is contracting.
Our government is dismantling.
Our allies are fleeing.
Our grocery prices are rising.
But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America."
So it all evens out.
Our economy is contracting.
Our government is dismantling.
Our allies are fleeing.
Our grocery prices are rising.
But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America."
So it all evens out.
#woodworker #woodworkingshops This is the box that I am still working on. Cut the top off with a bandsaw, glued in some silver birch bark from my garden and lined the bottom with purple felt (the colour of Scottish thistles!). This one will be going to my mum in Scotland. Almost finished.
March 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#woodworker #woodworkingshops This is the box that I am still working on. Cut the top off with a bandsaw, glued in some silver birch bark from my garden and lined the bottom with purple felt (the colour of Scottish thistles!). This one will be going to my mum in Scotland. Almost finished.
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Worth pointing out he didn't do this just because he's a nice guy- he's making a really important point about the debt industry, and it shouldn't be missed!
March 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Worth pointing out he didn't do this just because he's a nice guy- he's making a really important point about the debt industry, and it shouldn't be missed!
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Why go for the supporters and not the billionaires who engineered this? Seems tone deaf and entitled. Be more London
March 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Why go for the supporters and not the billionaires who engineered this? Seems tone deaf and entitled. Be more London
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So those of us who didn't give him the benefit of the doubt were right, same as we were right about Brexit, Farage, the Tories, and Austerity. When do we get our apology?
March 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
So those of us who didn't give him the benefit of the doubt were right, same as we were right about Brexit, Farage, the Tories, and Austerity. When do we get our apology?
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The state of America's government. bsky.app/profile/jame...
March 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The state of America's government. bsky.app/profile/jame...
#woodworker #woodworkshop Next stage of my current box. Trimmed the splin splines, sanded with 600, 1000 and 1200 grit then wiped on a small amount of shellac.
March 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
#woodworker #woodworkshop Next stage of my current box. Trimmed the splin splines, sanded with 600, 1000 and 1200 grit then wiped on a small amount of shellac.
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February 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Anyone else seeing a lot more new followers from North America but far fewer from the UK and rest of Europe? I despise Trump and his nationalistic bilge but my near exclusive focus on here is the campaign to start fixing the harm of Brexit and to secure a representative electoral system in the UK.
December 14, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Anyone else seeing a lot more new followers from North America but far fewer from the UK and rest of Europe? I despise Trump and his nationalistic bilge but my near exclusive focus on here is the campaign to start fixing the harm of Brexit and to secure a representative electoral system in the UK.
#woodworker #woodworking my next imperfect box in progress. Poplar sides, scrap top and walnut splines. Personally I love the hole in the top😂😂😂
March 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
#woodworker #woodworking my next imperfect box in progress. Poplar sides, scrap top and walnut splines. Personally I love the hole in the top😂😂😂
#woodworking #woodworker My newest imperfect box - silver birch bark from my garden attached to poplar, zebra wood base, oak top with spalted maple self made veneer. Finish is Danish Oil.
March 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
#woodworking #woodworker My newest imperfect box - silver birch bark from my garden attached to poplar, zebra wood base, oak top with spalted maple self made veneer. Finish is Danish Oil.
#woodworking #charlesrenniemcintosh can anyone recommend books and other sources of plans?
March 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
#woodworking #charlesrenniemcintosh can anyone recommend books and other sources of plans?
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Why did Trump think that negotiating a deal with Zelensky in front of the world’s press was a good idea. Maybe he thought that the occasion would over awe Zelensky and he would naïvely sign anything that was put in front of him. If so, it wasn’t Zelensky who was naïve.
Art of The Deal, my arse!
Art of The Deal, my arse!
March 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Why did Trump think that negotiating a deal with Zelensky in front of the world’s press was a good idea. Maybe he thought that the occasion would over awe Zelensky and he would naïvely sign anything that was put in front of him. If so, it wasn’t Zelensky who was naïve.
Art of The Deal, my arse!
Art of The Deal, my arse!
#ukpolitics #uspolitics Dear UK Friends - I apologize for slightly more than 50%of the US electorate who did not elect the Dumpster.The horrific treatment of an ally yesterday and the US support of Russia at the UN reminds me of what isolationist USA did to the UK beginning of WW2. Apologies!!!!
March 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#ukpolitics #uspolitics Dear UK Friends - I apologize for slightly more than 50%of the US electorate who did not elect the Dumpster.The horrific treatment of an ally yesterday and the US support of Russia at the UN reminds me of what isolationist USA did to the UK beginning of WW2. Apologies!!!!
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Next time Badenoch says she wants the UK to leave the ECHR can someone show her this video: youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...
Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?
YouTube video by The Guardian
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March 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Next time Badenoch says she wants the UK to leave the ECHR can someone show her this video: youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...
#uspolitics #ukpolitics - even this very conservative tabloid in NYS gets it
February 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
#uspolitics #ukpolitics - even this very conservative tabloid in NYS gets it
#uspolitics #ukpolitics - a picture is definitely worth an infinite number of words as Trump turns to Judas over Ukraine
February 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
#uspolitics #ukpolitics - a picture is definitely worth an infinite number of words as Trump turns to Judas over Ukraine