Oh that looks good.

A fascinating read, thanks for sharing. I’d never quite appreciated the different definitions of what the phrase means.

As the skeet says, it’s a gorse bush - yellow and prickly - with my shadow cast from low sun behind me on to the bush. If I was honest, I look faintly sinister and statuesque. Which may be an improvement on my normal appearance.

For everyone asking what I look like in shadow outline against a gorse bush, tonight is your lucky night.

Ah!

I did not expect that last one!

Picture of street filled with people when cars are prohibited, with a prominent sign saying “road closed.” Via Urban Truth Collecrive (Also, it’s a street, not a road)

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong?

Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

Split screen on the news. Guy on the left is exactly in line with the jacket of the guy on the right.

I like how this guy’s jacket changes colour when he goes through the news portal

Sorry. And to rub salt in the wound I’m not even a fan myself.

Given the ongoing stability, this will be our final update.

Was just there last week. It was doing a roaring trade. The rubbish weather wasn’t deterring the tourists (or seagulls).

Ooh intriguing!

Hope it’s been going ok!

All the best for them! If you head north of the border I’ll move mountains to get to a Scottish gig.

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I’ve been listening to this radio series (no it’s not a podcast, what sort of cretin do you take me for) and it’s at once depressing, rage-making, encouraging and inspiring. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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Brilliant.

are you the parent of a kid who hates AI/thinks it's uncool? dm me—i want to talk to you (or your kid!) for a story!

A photo of a statue of a woman on a tall plinth (ie the statue is on a tall plinth, not that it’s a statue woman on a tall plinth, which would then be on a plinth itself and that would be a bit cursive. Or indeed entirely cursive) in a well landscaped park, overlooking a river.

Stuff to do in town, passed the castle, and it prompted a joke.

Who’s the best at laying carpets or lino in Inverness?

Floorer MacDonald.

Just there the other week and it was blowing an absolute hoolie!

media literacy studies today should be akin to rhetoric classes in the past: an education in the tropes and structures that shape communication and so society

A pile of multicolored stickers, black stars on top, with the text “resist AI”

Someone just ordered TWENTY of my anti-AI stickers! I hope to see these slapped on lampposts all over Toronto.

Want your own to paint the town? Go right here: monicabyrne.org/stickers

If he’s not deemed by senior military as fit for the command room, they should remove him.

A ruined chapel. The view is mainly through an archway and beyond that can be seen more arches on the far wall. There are trees outside the ruin.

Having spent most of the last two weeks in Aberdeen, Skye and Argyll, it’s a reassurance (not that I needed it) that Scotland is a great place to travel around. We need some better infrastructure outside the cities (and in most of them too), but our wee country is rich in curiosity and beauty.

I’ve certainly got more comfortable with it as I’ve got older, and it’s a real joy. Decisions are easy, and not making any is fine too. There’s ways of finding people/company if you need but it’s rarely essential.

Our cities can’t go on like this.

I fear the party has left you (and many others) but I hope you find a way to fight the fight.

Never nice to have to leave something you’ve worked so hard for, but you’re better off elsewhere.

Please make LVT a condition of joining any coalition!

They blew it in the last parliament, and I’m not optimistic this time. Much as I disagree with Andy Wightman on the issue that led him to leave the Greens, his departure left a huge gap in thinking about local democracy.

Wow great work!