Glencoe

Ruth_Mottram, 4 months ago to random

Ok mastodon, (or at least the part of it currently going through a big freeze), show me your strange ice pictures, your weird ice spikes, needle ice, hair ice and frazil ice, your beautiful ice crystals.

Is #icetodon a thing year? It should be. I'll start.

HeavenlyPossum, 1 month ago to random

So the World Central Kitchen convoy a) cleared its route with the IDF beforehand, b) traveled on an approved route, and c) departed at an approved time, so d) the IDF knew exactly who it was killing when it struck the convoy three (3) times.

It was so obviously deliberate, and so deliberately cruel—not just to murder these people, but to terrorize other aid workers into abandoning the Palestinians to be starved to death. To prove the IDF’s impunity and reach, and to compel the IDF’s defenders into apologizing for yet another unforgivable atrocity.

Glencoe, 2 months ago to random

There are still people pushing the "self-defence", "antisemitic" narrative.

Let's get a few things straight.

The term for slaughtering tens of thousands of defenceless people who have nothing to do with any attacks on you isn't self-defence, it is genocide.

Deliberately starving people who have nothing to do with any attacks on you isn't self-defence, it is a crime against humanity.

Valid criticism of the Israeli state is not antisemitic it is not a criticism of all Jews.

Glencoe, 8 months ago to random

A couple of mobile phone shots looking over Loch Leven this evening with the loch very calm.

A photo overlooking Loch Leven, the loch is nearly flat calm with good reflections of the mountains. Some autumn colour is just coming in.

Glencoe, 10 months ago to random

Was at the vet in Coal today, went for a walk along the beach. There are two wrecked ships on the shore, an old fishing vessel and this sailing boat. Looks like she was built for speed.

A wrecked large sailing yacht lying on it's side above the high water mark. View is from above.

Glencoe, 7 months ago to random

"It is also well known that close contacts of Tory politicians made immense profits through this crisis, while the rest of the country suffered sickness, deaths and economic pain. The New York Times analysed 1,200 contracts worth nearly $22bn and found that roughly half went to companies run by friends and associates of Conservative party politicians, or with no experience in that area."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/11/labour-billions-covid-fraud-pandemic?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Glencoe, 10 months ago to random

When out of an evening doing the slug collecting round, I very occasionally come across a newt. Came across one tonight, cute wee fella.

Glencoe, 7 months ago to random

Revealed: UK government keeping files on education critics’ social media activity

"She said: “Discovering they have been monitoring me makes me fucking furious"

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/30/revealed-uk-government-keeping-files-on-education-critics-social-media-activity?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Glencoe, 9 days ago to random

This dog plant has planted itself in the poly tunnel, going to just leave it and see what it grows into 😂

Glencoe, 1 month ago to random

Here Suella, you know how you're aways gaggin to deport something, anything? Well, here's the thing, my garden is fair hoachin wi slugs, I mean it's over run wi the feckers. If you send a bloke up here nightly to pick them up, I could guarantee a very healthy 250 to 400 every night no problem. You can then deport them to anywhere you fancy, I don't care, suit yourself, that would be peachy 👍

Glencoe, 1 month ago to random

Apparently it's common practice for restaurants to retain part of tips given by customers to their staff. Why isn't that a simple case of theft? I give it to the member of staff serving me, if any of that doesn't reach that member of staff it's been stolen.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/04/restaurant-chain-bans-diners-from-using-card-payments-to-tip-staff

Glencoe, 2 months ago to random

We are living in a time when a lot of people apparenty believe that George Galloway is the least shitty of the shits available to vote for, and they might be right.

Glencoe, 2 months ago to random

Media folks. An 'election' where all credible opposition is either dead or in jail, where armed men are in the polling booth with voters looking at how they vote, isn't an election. Please cease playing Putin's game, don't call it an election, it isn't. Call it a fake election, call it a corrupt election, but never ever just 'election'. Call it out every time.

Glencoe, 2 months ago to random

The top of this lil table was wrecked with water damage. Veneer all discoloured and peeling off, mouldings broken and falling off. I removed the mouldings and veneer. It's made of plywood, so I sanded that till nice. Stained it, then cleaned up, repaired and re-glued the mouldings, finishing with Danish oil. Not too shabby a result, it'll have some more life yet. Something very satisfying about taking something destined for landfill and making it useful again.

Glencoe, 2 months ago to random

What? Did you think humans are the only species wot enjoys a bit o pick n lick?

Glencoe, 1 month ago to random

It appears that the BrewDog Lost Forest has in fact been largely lost. To date Scottish Forestry had paid BrewDog £690,986.90 for planting, but seemingly large numbers of the planted trees are now dead.

https://parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2024/04/14/brewdogs-dead-forest-and-the-dead-hand-of-scotlands-forestry-grants-system/

Glencoe, 3 months ago to random

Has your aluminium step ladder gone all wobbly, when you climb on does it feel floppy? Never mind help is at hand, just drill the old rivets out and replace them with some big mothers. Now your steps are nice and stiff, rigid when you climb on. The innuendo is free, no charge for that.

Glencoe, 4 days ago to random

What madness is this? In order to get at the windscreen washer bottle and motor, you have to take the front off the car. FFS! If you really must bury the bottle at least put the motor somewhere accessible.

Glencoe, 1 month ago to random

After a very odd conversation with campervan travellers the other day. A public information broadcast.

Buying e-bikes, strapping them to your diesel powered campervan and travelling hundreds of miles to use them for purely recreational purposes is not "green". E-bike purchase is only in any way shape or form "green" if they are used for journeys which would otherwise be made using a fossil fuel powered vehicle.

simon_brooke, 9 days ago to random

OK, folk, help me compile a list of failed "inward investment" projects across Scotland.

I'll start

Rootes Linwood
IBM Greenock
Singer Kilbowie
Stelrad Dalbeattie
Sun Linlithgow
NCR Dundee
Timex Dundee

I must have missed hundreds. Add your picks

#ScotPol

simon_brooke, 8 days ago to random

This week's major project is splitting the tractor, to replace the failed oil seal which is leaking oil from the gearbox into the clutch housing. We've got to the point where the only thing still holding the front half of the tractor to the rear is the steering linkage, and I can't remember how we split that last time!

simonvarwell, 29 days ago to random Esperanto

This is extraordinary, and a damning indictment of land ownership in Scotland. How on earth can a private company be in a position to give a capital city’s main bus station notice of closure? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg302gkw779o

simon_brooke, 25 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to random

That's all of this year's calves tagged. A stressful evening, but successful. One of the tissue-sampling tags failed (the calf was struggling and I missed his ear), and one yearling who needed a remedial tag evaded capture, but perfection is for the gods.

Pictures will follow – for obvious reasons, they're not on my phone.

Edited to add: pictures.