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Glasgow dweller, architecture enjoyer.
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duille.com
"St.Vitus Cathedral, Prague". Josef Sudek. c.1927.
February 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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mothcub.bsky.social
Mutual recognition.
A two panel comic labelled "Mon 27 Jan '25". In the first panel, a girl looks at a man and his two dogs. Text reads: "I saw a guy with two sausage dogs". In the second panel, the two dogs gaze blankly at the viewer. Text reads: "and they saw me".
February 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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duille.com
"View From The Window". Arthur Segal. 1930.
February 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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parkermolloy.com
A second Mitch McConnell has hit the ground
Bush "a second plane" meme
February 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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lostglasgow.bsky.social
So, thanks to the full ghostsign reveal, and some diligent digging by m'learned friend, New Cleckit Dominie, we can now reveal that the Brooklyn Cafe used to be part of a chain of chippies.

Here's the Murray Firth prospectus from a share launch (Scotsman, 24 May 1920).
January 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
snailchores.bsky.social
Great thread with some very practical advice..
thenoblegasbag.bsky.social Dr Stephanie Flude @thenoblegasbag.bsky.social · Jan 23
As #StormEowyn approaches, with red weather warnings, I thought it might be useful to share my storm preparation plans, which are based on spending 3 days with no power after Storm Arwen in 2021 (what is it with storms named after women from Middle Earth?) 1/21
Screen shot of the Met Office's weather warning map for Friday January 24th. This shows that the entire UK is covered in weather warnings, including 2 red warnings for wind, 2 amber warnings for wind, 2 yellow warnings for wind, 1 yellow warning for rain, and a yellow warning for snow (although this box is hidden behind other warnings so you can't see what it says in the image). The amber warnings cover North Wales, Northern England, and Scotland. The Red warnings are difficult to see on the map but cover Northern Ireland and parts of Southern Scotland, including the central belt (i.e. Glasgow and Edinburgh) and the southern islands (like Arran, Isla, and Jura).
January 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
In 1911, installed for the Scottish National Exhibition of that year, there was a dirigible gondola ride in Kelvingrove Park which would take you across the valley below to the far side of the River Kelvin. How fun does that look?

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#glasgow #glasgowhistory #kelvingrovepark
January 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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naomithinksit.bsky.social
Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys
Egyptian Blue Bes ceramic Statue from the British museum shop, kind of looks like a tiny suspicious bear? He's adorable A middle Egyptian turquoise hippo from the met. He looks despondent and adorable. He has line art of reeds painted on his back and face. A ceramic baby rattle from the met shaped like a pig. However it doesn't look much like a pig, it's giving creature saying ooooooo. It's adorable. Little red earthenware bowl from the met. It has two little humanoid feet on the bottom and looks like he's standing shyly. Adorable.
December 11, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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tambourine.bsky.social
three pages of early january diary entries from my beloved tattered copy of the english year, edited by geoffrey grigson
After a very bright day, the air rinsed quite clear, there was a slash of glowing, yolk-coloured sunset. Gerard Manley Hopkins, 186g (Surrey) JANUARY 4 Our roads are very full of water, I never saw the London turnpike so much cut with the carriages, by having almost continuous rains, little or much. Richard Hayes, 1764 (Kent) Rain, rain. Gleams. Venus is very resplendent. Gilbert White, 1793 (Hampshire) Horsedung echoing to the merry (Foot-) traveller on a frosty morning. S. T. Coleridge, 1804 (Westmorland) Woke early and saw a snowy branch across the window. It is cold, snow has fallen, and now it is thawing. ... Very dark, too, with a wind somewhere. Katherine Mansfield, 1915 (Buckinghamshire) JANUARY 5 Snow on the ground-snatched up by the wind that full of frosty particles seemed to rush from the valley up the mountain, it galloped transversely from the middlemost of the mountains to their very top, and along their summits, like a vast ghost cavalry scouring a country. Item, I distinctly and repeatedly saw the wind raise up from the mountain a true genuine cloud of snow, that rose high ... sailed along, a true genuine large white cloud with all the form and varied outline of a cloud-and this in several instances dropped again, snow at second hand, and often in the sun resembled a shower of diamond spearlets. S. T. Coleridge, 1804 (Westmorland) There have been great winds, and the sea has been smoking white above the cliff-such a wind that it made one laugh with astonishment. Now it is still again, and the evening is very yellow. D. H. Lawrence, 1916 (Cornwall) Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then a solemn pink. Heavens, how beautiful! I heard a knocking, and went downstairs. It was Benny cutting away the ivy. Over the path lay the fallen nests—wisps of hay and feathers. He looked like an ivy bush himself. I made early tea and carried it up to J., who lay half awake with crinkled eyes. I feel so full of love to-day after having seen the sun rise. Katherine Mansfield, 1915 (Buckinghamshire) JANUARY 6 Old Christmas Day. Last night the slip of the Holy Thorn ...grafted for me last spring in the Vicarage lower garden blossomed in an intense frost. Frances Kilvert, 1879 (Herefordshire) JANUARY 7 Shook the snow from the ever-greens, and shovelled the walks. Gilbert White, 1785 (Hampshire) 5.40 p.m. ... A sublime sort of evening-windy, vast, with wild clouds and great spreads of mournful light where the sun had been, clearing away for a while into a starry purple dome, with the Pleiades and Orion and the Great Bear and the Galaxy, a sight that makes man feel his immortality and his littleness more than perhaps any other ... Across the pale amber two or three dark, almost black, little clouds drove slanting like collapsing balloons. Against this western screen the trees showed their leafless fringes, and a bend of the New River lay gloomy and blue beneath them. James Smetham, 1861 (Middlesex) JANUARY 8 Bushes and short trees blown like the flame of a candle. Long-tailed tits on dead stems of willow herb 4 ft. high. Rushes, half dead, half green. Never go for a walk in the fields without seeing one thing at least however small to give me hope, the frond of a fern among dead leaves. Richard Jefferies, 1884 (Sussex) JANUARY 9 Rooks resort to their nest-trees. Hepaticas, winter-aconite, wall-flowers, daiseys, polyanths, black hellebores blow. Wheat looks well on the downs. Gilbert White, 1769 (Hampshire) JANUARY IO The arum just appearing under the hedges as in April; and the Avens ... has never lost its leaves but appears as green as at Spring. John Clare, 1825 (Northants) JANUARY II Brisk wind but quite warm. Song thrush pipes away as though an April morn. Richard Hayes, 1765 (Kent)
January 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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pastglasgow.co.uk
Santa has been good to this pair of lads on Crown St, Gorbals back in December 1970, bringing astronaut suits and space hoppers down the lum for them.

📷 TSPL

#Glasgow #Christmas
December 25, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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December 23, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social
Improbable lighthouses
Archeologist's fantasies
c1850
November 13, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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davidhering.bsky.social
“We’re hearing that the Angel of History balloon is out of control - a wind is blowing from paradise and it’s broken free of its moorings”
November 28, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
"you used heroin for 15 years?"
Cheryl Hines in the TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm looking confused as she talks to Larry David
November 28, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Cat. Ca. 1904 - 1908. www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...
Dreamy, muted watercolor painting of brown tabby and white cat, in perfect loaf position and looking off to the right. The cat and the whole painting in general have a quiet, sweet, slightly melancholy feel.
November 23, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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weirdmedieval.bsky.social
doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century
a medieval drawing of a dog standing upright wearing a hood and holding a bottle. beside him is a cat laying in bed wearing what looks like a nightcap. both have distraught expressions on their faces.
November 22, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
The two genres of starter packs are “piss goblin pals” and “data statistics and economists from the school of London”
November 19, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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feldfrog.bsky.social
For sale: ship of theseus
Condition: used, like new
November 17, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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jeremykaplowitz.com
it would be so funny if this is how his presidency ended. months before his term ends, he just walks into the rainforest and is never seen again
popbase.tv Pop Base @popbase.tv · Nov 17
Joe Biden becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Amazon Rainforest.
November 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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kamack.bsky.social
Peace but not with capitalism. David Proudfoot, a Communist miner speaking in Methil, Fife in the 1920s.
B&w photo showing Two women holding a banner with “peace But not with capitalism” on it, in the foreground is a bicycle and a couple of wee kids, to the left David Proudfoot stands on a chair in a suit and tie with a rolled up sheet of papers sticking out his pocket
November 17, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
love a good “O” in a poem, little fearless halo, the line’s volume knob turned all the way up, the stanza’s submarine window through which we glimpse an ocean of thought and feeling
November 16, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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lostglasgow.bsky.social
#OTD, 17 November 1915, thousands of Glasgow housewives and workers - Mrs Barbour's Army - marched on the city's Sheriff Court in support of 20,000 rent strikers, leading to the introduction of rent controls throughout the UK.
November 17, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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ruralindexing.bsky.social
Eclectic Public Library
Eclectic, AL
November 15, 2024 at 5:15 PM