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Trevor Chaplin
@trevorchaplin.bsky.social
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He/him. Fine with “they”. Lives in Glasgow, musician, likes coffee, music, archaeology, science, art, all things Palaeolithic, practises Zen Plum Village style, atheist, anarchist, living with chronic fatigue and chronic pain.
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Anakin meme: Home secretary says asylum reforms will 'unite a divided country' as Labour MPs voice opposition’ SHE MEANS AGAINST HER? SHE MEANS AGAINST HER, RIGHT?
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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This is where I post from
In a still from the Second Doctor story, “The Invasion”, the Doctor’s Companion, Victoria, and friend try to sabotage a computer.
July 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Black text on a red background reads “we are all”. Beneath it is black and yellow police tape reading “censored”.
July 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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We are in this situation.
Picture of people giving a Nazi salute, with an unidentified person (possibly August Landmesser or Gustav Wegert) refusing to do so.
July 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Our song speculating about encounters between our species and Neanderthals when we shared the planet.

#altrock #neopsychedelicrock #indiemusic #newmusic open.spotify.com/track/6N0I8H...
Gallery of Stolen Dogs album cover art. Art nouveau lettering and arts and crafts stylised foliage. Listen to Feldhofer 1 on Spotify or other streaming platform.
June 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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What’s happening in the US is important. But while you’re looking that way, the UK “Labour” government is attacking trans people, disabled people, immigrants, those on benefits, and more.

Including this worrying development:
According to reports, the government plans to publish data on the nationalities and criminal convictions of people facing deportation. Our Director, James Wilson, responded: "It is unclear what the government hopes to achieve by publishing this data in this way, but the dangers are very clear. “Less than a year after the anti-asylum riots, the government risks feeding further division, dehumanisation and prejudice in our communities. "It is the role of the criminal justice system to prosecute individuals, not whole communities.” More information here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/22/home-office-foreign-criminals-nationalities-uk
April 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Beware of fake quotes.
A bust of Aristotle is overlaid with the words: "1 don't think Plato said that thing about letting go of your ego. I'm pretty sure that was Brian Wilson". -Aristotle
March 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I’m listening to Laurence Rees’ “The Nazi Mind: 12 Warnings from History.” I highly recommend it, as I do his other work.

Please read this. We need to know this stuff in this moment. You’ll recognise a lot.
Screenshot: Laurence Rees, The Nazi Mind: 12 Warnings from History. Viking Press. 2025. ISBN 978-0241740811.
February 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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“And away!”
Screen shot Keir Starmer at a White House press conference in front of US & UK flags, subtitles saying "There's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom"
February 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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That mechanism that retards action is something that KSR is very good on in Ministry for the Future.
Book cover: Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. The book is on a coffee table, quite starkly lit.
January 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Thinking about “Dry January”? (Even if you’re just thinking and not doing). Consider reading This Naked Mind.

It’s for anyone, not just for “other people” and “those who have a problem”. Have a look for yourself.

Audio book available on Spotify, Audible etc.
Book cover: THIS NAKED MIND, control alcohol: Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life. By ANNIE GRACE
January 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Hae a great Hogmanay, and a Guid New Year tae ane an aa when it comes.

May you be healthy, may you be happy, and may you have peace in 2025!
A steaming hot clootie dumpling sits on a plate. The dumpling has a light brown sheen, and the folds of the floor can be seen in the skin. The plate is on a chopping board. There is steam rising. You can almost smell the spicy aroma. It’s glorious. You can have a slice if you come round.
December 31, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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A detail of an Anglo-Norman fresco at St Botolph's Church, Hardham, West Sussex. The church is thought to have been completed by 1125CE. The frescoes are early C12th, reminiscent of the style of the Bayeux tapestry.

An anchorite lived in a walled-off cell from around 1250CE.
Detail of an Anglo-Norman fresco in “bacon and egg” toned ochres. The painting is faded and flaking. There are four, perhaps five, figures. The style is known as Lewes Group, and dates to early 12th Century CE.
December 11, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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We’re the first sit down customers in the new Spitfire Coffee on Great Western Road! Great coffee, great music. I’ve always enjoyed visiting their Merchant City cafe. Good luck to their new venture. ☕️
An oat milk latte and an espresso on a coffee table in the newly opened cafe. There is a red counter in the background.
December 11, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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I’m not a fan of telling people what they “should” do, especially not based on their ethnicity.
A screenshot of a skeet, with the handle redacted so as not to encourage a pile-on. It reads: “When I get tired of explaining #zionism to haters I just use this definition #Jewsky #Israel “. An image then shows the words: “Zionism (n) The idea that Jews should go back to where they came from”.
December 9, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire, a Neolithic chambered tomb around 5,700 years old.

9 upright stones, with an enormous capstone of about 25 tonnes.

The upland between the Golden Valley & the Wye Valley hosts an integrated Neolithic ceremonial landscape.

#StandingStoneSunday

Pic by me, Sept 23.
Arthur's Stone, Dorstone, Herefordshire, England. It is situated on the ridge line of a hill overlooking both the Golden Valley and the Wye Valley. A Neolithic chambered tomb or dolmen, it lies beside the narrow country road, known as Arthur's Stone Lane, which runs just beyond the wooden fencing that can be seen behind the monument, and which encircles the site. The monument is aligned north-south, and we are looking north into the chamber under the capstone. In the foreground is an upright stone and in front of that a smaller reclined stone. The huge capstone, almost like a giant leaf-shaped arrowhead, though now fractured across its breadth, seems to point to this upright, which stands some 2 meters from the chamber, and is thought to represent a false entrance. It's a warm September day and the sky is a warm blue, with vapour trails that appear to be marking the alignment. The trees and shrubs beyond are a late summer green, and the grass in front of the upright is dry and parched, a little earth showing where visitor's feet have worn away the growth. The sizeable earth mound is noticeable by the way the lower rung of the fence is obscured on the right of the picture. CS Lewis is said to have taken inspiration from the capstone when imagining the stone table on which Aslan is sacrificed in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
December 8, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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A detail of our Christmas Tree.
A very tinselly, baubley, sparkly detail of a Christmas tree. Reds, greens, golds and warm white fairy lights.
December 7, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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Vindolanda, by Hadrian's Wall. Used for 4 centuries, soldiers from Spain, Gaul, Germany, Dacia, Asia Minor, Syria and North Africa lived there. There is evidence they had local girlfriends. There was correspondance and trade with their homelands. Immigration is not new.

My photo, Feb 2024.
A view of Vindolanda, a Roman fort and settlement in Northumberland, Northern England. The settlement is extensive and the picture is just part of the range. A path curves towards an expanse of stone foundations. Small figure are wandering among them. The hills and bare trees beyond are in winter browns and the blue sky, dotted with white cumulus, looks cold but bright.
December 5, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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The Medusa mosaic at Bignor Roman Villa, East Sussex, just off Stane Street Roman Road.

(Pic by me, May 2023).
Roman mosaic floor. There is a Medusa head, encircled by snake hair, in the centre of the picture, around which are geometric entwined patterns. The colours are reds and ochres. The top left of the picture shows greenish damage to the mosaic, presumably organic.
December 4, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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My Blueskyroast. 😆

(With thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com for drawing it to my attention).

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December 4, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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The wonderful Katy J Pearson this evening at St Luke’s, Glasgow. Go and see her if you get the chance.
Katy J Pearson and band onstage at St Luke’s, a venue in the Calton, Glasgow. The photo is from the balcony and is low res. The stage is bathed in a purple light.
December 3, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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Another view of Castlerigg stones, Cumbria for #StandingStoneSunday
The eastern side of Castlerigg stone circle with hills in the background and the cloud-obscured sun framed by the hills. The sky is cloudy and brooding.
December 1, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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Quote post with your Lock Screen
Lock screen picture is a small Buddha statue in an early spring garden with daffodil buds beginning to flower and a terracotta shard with a partially visible calligraphy in the style of Thich Nhat Hahn reading “this is…”.
November 30, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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I’ve been #StoneBothering at Castlerigg Stone Circle, Cumbria. A bit late for #StandingStoneSunday but atmospheric as ever.
Castlerigg Stone circle. One of the stones is in the foreground while the ring circles away from it to the left and into the mud distance. Behind the circle, the Sun struggles through the clouds making the distant hills pinker in hue.
November 25, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Any other fans of French New Wave cinema here? I’m searching, but feeling a bit lost.
A black and white still from Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud ) by Louis Malle (1958). Jeanne Moreau is standing in moving traffic at night, looking lost. A shop front, maybe a bar or cafe, is lit up behind her.
November 17, 2024 at 11:23 PM