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  Stonehenge in the early morning mist Photographer Nick Bull #StandingStoneSunday #Stonehenge #England

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  Banning journalists from reporting on parties in the UK seeking election seems to be all the rage - Reform, now the Tories. When will Labour catch up? https://bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/kemi-badenochs-conservatives-ban-byline-times-from-conference-after-condemning-reform-for-journalist-ban/ #Journalism #Tories #Ban #BylineTimes #UK #Media #PressFreedom

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  The headline writer is trying… I remember hearing a ditty about Henry VIII wives (to help kids remember their fates and the order - bizarre as it was, he was never a Scottish King) ‘divorced, beheaded, died, dibbled beheaded survived’ . I am sure that collectively a similar rhyme can be constructed to ‘remember’ the last 6 PMs or Reform’s crooks. Entries welcome. #Reform #Crooks #Unfortunate #Carelessness #Wilde #UKPol

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  Oh the irony I am sure that they will blame ‘Deep State’ sabotage for this, but at least it went down at its mooring rather than relying on rescue from, say the RNLI… The very organisation being threatened by these sub moronic terrorists. Frankly given their competence it is best that they are not allowed out on the water. #Tommo #PatrioticPlatform #UK #Terrorism #Thugs #RNLI #AltTxt

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  Lunchtime run and animal encounters First #trail #run for a couple of weeks. We are going to do the Pentlands ’Skyline’ (old route) tomorrow. All well if not fast alongside the Teviot and then back on the old railway. #Sheep have been moved onto the old railway, but they know Chai and just watched as we passed. On the way back we passed two Pointers who normally bark. The gate was open, what to do? Sensibly they moved behind the fence and a barking contest was held. #DogsOfMastodon #BorderCollie

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  The increasing Americanisation of British politics If you think it is a bad idea then please write to your MP and threaten (and mean it) to vote for a party that will correct this corruption of British politics. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/19/uk-politics-increasingly-funded-by-billionaires-as-mega-donations-surge #UkPol #Corruption #Labour #Reform #Conserevatives #LibDems #ForSale

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  Scotland imposes mandatory environmental assessments on new datacentres The next issue will be making sure those assessments are themselves considered in the context of water, power and the general environment. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/16/datacentres-scotland-environmental-assessments-ai-boom #AI #DataCentre #SlopSheds #IT #Scotland Environment #Water #Power #Waste

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  A little cheery news for this wet Tuesday morning. Whether it be War and Peace or The Very Hungry Caterpillar, according to a study from the University of Cambridge, regardless of “what or how we read”, sitting down with a book is linked to improved health and problem solving. Benefits include lowering stress and reducing the risk of dementia, and span all types of reading, from comic books to classic novels or hefty non-fiction tomes. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-me...

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  NIce aspirations, will anyone do anything? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/30/europe-burning-trump-war-climate-sanctions-white-house #ClimateChange #Environment #Action #RoadToRuin

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  Downing Street Brutality Larry The Cat attempts to disable a police sniffer dog’s essential equipment. The dog probably told him a bad joke about revolving PMs. #CatsOfMastodon #Umbrage #DowningStreet

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  Will the English government ever learn or is Blairism deep in their souls? Private Equity and the NHS. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/27/nhs-patients-records-us-private-equity-firm-optum-uk-tpg #PrivateEquity #NHS #England #Health #Security #Privacy #Exploitation #ProfitTaking #ShortSighted #NoLessonsLearnt

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  RIP Mu Hit by a ‘driver’, he has been buried to the sound of pipes and with a small libation. (1/4)

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  New posters are going up in London - love them. edit - a variant shows a different image as you move #Met #GlassHoles #Consent #Epstein

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  Centrepoint - a good news story For those who do not know them, #Centrepoint does a sterling job in these times. More information about them is provided in the linked article. http://archive.today/2026.06.02-172552/https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/26154130.former-homeless-man-thriving-chef-centrepoint-support/ https://centrepoint.org.uk/ #GoodNews #Homelessness

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  A decent 35k this afternoon, crossing from Minto to Ruberslaw and then back over the river Teviot (sans bridge but the river is low and I took my shoes off and paddled over). Very quiet bar the odd cyclist, although Chai got very excited when we met a couple walking. One was carrying a white stick with what looked like a tennis ball on the bottom. The dug could not take his eye off it much to their amusement. No ball was harmed. #running #ScottishBorders #BorderCollie #DogsOfMastodon

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  Dugs in the Mist Morning walk and the dugs emerge through the heavy morning mist when I took the balls out of my pack. #DogWalking #ScottishBorders #DogsOfMastodon

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  Attenborough at 100 That’s what our pair of striplings, 25 and 26 think too #cartoon #Tortoise #KenFyne #PrivateEye #Attenborough

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  Fenster Freitag From the cottage sitting room #FensterFreitag #ScottishBorders

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  ‘Renewables’ - Russia is implicated in attempts to prevent the adoption of renewable energy sources across Europe. First Trump (although his actions on behalf of the fossil fuel industry seem to have backfired across the US and the world) and now Putin. https://archive.is/20260422150417/https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/putin-renewable-energy-sabotage-europe-c8jjk80p6 #Renewables #Sabotage #KillThePlanet #GreenEnergy #Russia #Putin #Trump #CleanEnergy

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  Another warning of the combination of AI enshitification with unthinking reliance on what ‘computer says’ - in this case training and dietary regimes. https://archive.today/2026.04.19-174355/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/ai-training-runners-marathon-warning-mrs008vn0 #running #AI #diet #training #enshitification #nutrition #chatGPT #Runna

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  Looks as though it might be a good week for sky watching. We are expecting the Lyrid meteor shower. The moon is in crescent which should help, despite the increasing amount of unnecessary space junk being launched by Must et al. So up at midnight. Here’s Lyrid hoping for clear skies, we won’t make it up to Galloway or Highlands but the sky is fairly dark here where we are in The Borders so fingers crossed and the forecast is promising anyway. #MeteorShower #Meteors #SkyWatching #Sky #Spectacle

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  Iran is claiming that the US used backdoors into networking kit to disturb their communications. The Chinese press are just loving it, after all they are the ones (the US says) who are putting all of those backdoors in. https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/21/iran_claims_us_used_backdoors #IT #Networking #Backdoors #Security #USA #China

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  I really do not understand these people. If you want to shoot a large animal, surely a camera will do, and if you want a little more risk, a close up with a wide angle lens should suffice. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/hunters-who-believe-shooting-big-game-can-save-africa-wildlife #Hunting #PigIgnorance #Inexplicable

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  The lambs are at it again - although we were not sure we had disturbed a game of Poker or Blackjack #Lambs #SheepOfMastodon #Gamboling

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  In case anyone was curious, a reminder of who owns Reform, the Tories and Labour. Hint it is not their members or their voters. http://archive.today/2026.04.15-203738/https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/property-home/article/labour-donor-revealed-as-the-buyer-of-nick-candys-265m-mansion-dpk3362f #PoliticalFunding #FundingReform #UKPol #Labour #Tory #UKPol

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  From Private Eye by Tomlin #cartoon #Tomlin #Brompton #BikeToot

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  Cartoon US-Iran discussions #War #Israel #US #Iran #Cartoon

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  I am@partial to a bit of pedantry as some have noticed in the past, but this is world class by Mr Brisbane. From Pedantry Corner, Private Eye 🎩 #pedantry #PrivateEye #cartoon #rome #architecture

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  Reforms approach to public safety Shit happens, you’ll die anyway and cheers, many of them were not white. Rejoice https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/02/reform-housing-spokesperson-sacked-after-grenfell-everyone-dies-remarks #cartoon #Grenfell #SimonDudley #Farage #bastards

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  How embarrassing, successful socialism… The author tries hard, but she is having to bite her tongue. Nothing is perfect, but communitarianism, a rejection of Hindu nationalism and relatively low levels of corruption seem to have helped. https://archive.is/20260404161435/https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/kerala-marxist-communism-election-poverty-5qpt3z6zk #Poverty #Socialism #Kerala #India