This building at 35 Whitefield Road in the Ibrox area of Glasgow has always struck me as being potentially interesting, but rather frustratingly, I've never been able to work out its original purpose.
You too can buy a Tesla, and support the main share holder Elon Musk, who abuses his social media platform to convince his 185 million followers, that the US justice system is corrupt, because his favorite criminal is brought to justice.
@randahl When a US businessman says that falsifying business records is no big deal it’s probably a good idea to look very closely at his business records.
@wolfsbruder@cstross The Rosenbergs were found guilty of espionage, not treason. It’s conceivable that Trump has committed espionage, but if so he hasn’t been charged with it. If charged and found guilty he could face the death penalty (although that’s unlikely) but it wouldn’t be the electric chair. That’s no longer a method of execution in any state, and Federal executions are carried out in the state where the crime was committed.
Unfortunately I was enjoying a lovely break on the beach, logged into Mastodon and saw some ugly.
I have been promising myself to start moving away from commenting on what is happening in the moment and talk about more general legal issues. It invites less anger and hate.
Like everyone else, I'm relieved that it wasn't a hung jury or acquittal.
I have no doubt there will be an appeal because there are appealable issues.
@Teri_Kanefield@jwz Unfortunately for some people nuance equals betrayal. If you're not 100% on their side, they consider you a traitor. I think it's best to just block them and move on. You're a lawyer, not a cult-deprogrammer!
@Wen@JackTheCat If Hastings had been writing about any other ethnic minority there, his editor would have been, "Max, we can't print that. It's racist!"
Allegorical figures of Night and Day created by J.P. MacGillivary in 1888 for James Sellars' Anderson College of Medicine on Dumbarton Road in the West End of Glasgow.
@rebeccawatson I inherited a lawn with my house. I'm in NH, so there's no need to water it. I have an electric (battery) lawnmower which of course doesn't spew out fumes and is much quieter than a gas mower. That'll have to do until I figure sort out how to reduce the area of grassy monoculture around the house.
Marvel is rebranding its TV shows to show fans that they don't necessarily have to watch everything in order to understand what's going on. “The hope is that, like the comics, you can just pop in anywhere and have a satisfying experience. We’re trying to dispel the idea that you need to do any kind of setup work to watch anything else,” says Brad Winderbaum, Marvel's head of streaming, TV and animation. Here's more detail from Variety. What's your take on the MCU these days?
By far my favourite bit of architectural ironwork in Glasgow, and possibly anywhere in the world! It can be found on D.B. Dobson's 1902 Art Nouveau commercial building at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow.
Is this the best gushet building in Glasgow? A gushet building is one constructed on a narrow strip of land at a junction between two roads (in this case Paisley Road West and Govan Road). Designed in a Renaissance style by Bruce and Hay, it was built in the 1880s as the Ogg Brothers Drapery Warehouse and Department Store.
Another rather unique Glasgow tenement, this time on the corner of Langside Road and Queen's Drive on the city's Southside. Designed by W.M Whyte in a French Renaissance style, but with a statue of Liberty on the top, it was built in 1885.
You'll often hear it said there are five statues of Liberty in Glasgow. However, in reality, this is the only one as all the others are different allegorical female figures.
One of the best things about living in Glasgow is turning a corner and finding yourself looking up at a roof like this!
The former Ogg Brothers Department Store at Paisley Road Toll was designed by Bruce and Hay, and was built in the 1880s. It's topped by the Spirit of Commerce and Industry, who is perhaps better known as the Kinning Park Angel, the Angel of the South, or simply Mrs. Ogg.
For the second time this year, I've ripped a calf's ear trying to tag it. I hate having to tag new born calves. It's horrible that your first interaction with a young creature is to hurt it; and it feels dreadful to interrupt the mother-calf bonding in such a way. I can't believe this is either a humane or a justifiable practice.
Still, it is done, and the tissue sample is taken.
@simon_brooke I became a vegetarian more than forty years ago as a result of what I saw during my veterinary training. I find this disturbing, so I’m afraid I’m going to have to unfollow.