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LordWoolamaloo

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Bookseller, editor, blogger, reader, reviewer, writer, photographer, drinker, swashbuckler, cat tickler

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LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Taken this day, 2019, the empty pathways of the night https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/47844221951/

Middle Meadow Walk at night,

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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This is most certainly the kind of day which requires picking up a tub of good ice-cream on the way home from work.

LordWoolamaloo, to movies
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This evening's viewing: Vincent Price, Robert (Count Yorga) Quarry, inept policemen, clockwork snakes, elaborate deaths in the desert & hidden Egyptian tombs, in a revisit to the delightfully daft Dr Phibes Rises Again.

animated gif of Vincent Price rising from a high-tech mirrored tomb in the opeing of Dr Phibes Rises Again

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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book lovers!!

The tiny but award-winning independent book - @TheEdinburghBookshop - is moving! Only a couple of blocks, but to much bigger premises.

It's a lot more than we planned for & will take a lot of work to make it ready, so we'll be adding fundraisers to help, & you can see some architect designs & plans on the bookshop site now https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/newshop

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Lost in thought https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/53707073407/in/dateposted/

Lady walking through the street market

LordWoolamaloo, to random
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Another reason we love David Tennant, as he tells transphobes to just "fuck off" https://boingboing.net/2024/05/07/david-tennant-tells-anti-trans-bigots-to-fck-off.html

LordWoolamaloo, to Cats
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Taken this day, 2011, Cassie cat stealing my seat. Which is, of course, her seat https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/5693186885/

LordWoolamaloo, to wildlife
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Previously when I've been lucky enough to see a heron, they normally tend to stay stock-still, watching everything. This one decided to take a wee stroll https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/53703566238/in/photostream/

#Wildlife #Nature #photography #photographie #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #bird #oiseau #WaterOfLeith #heron #Ecosse #Scotland

Jennifer, to scifi
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I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon

LordWoolamaloo,
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@Jennifer @bookstodon Highly recommend Adrian Tchaikovsky, especially the Children of Time trilogy (human and other intelligent life evolving across millennia), or the Final Architecture series (with hints of Babylon 5 in there). He gives big, widescreen space opera but mixes action with more thoughful moments and good characters

LordWoolamaloo, to Scotland
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Taken this day, 2019, white-capped waves and the mighty Bass Rock https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/46984130684/

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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The Bike Cafe https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/53698684463/in/dateposted/


LordWoolamaloo, to random
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Among the tidal waves of unwanted ads on the Muskrat's Birdsite today, a slew for various AI apps, which can all smeg off to Blocksville.

LordWoolamaloo, to Horror
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The quite excellent Brit movie Saint Maud is on late-night on @film4 (UK viewers)

Animated gif from the horror film Saint Maud, with the titular character imagining glowing angel wings on her back as her religious delusions increase

LordWoolamaloo, to books
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Chatting with a visiting Kiwi author, Rachael King, in the bookshop today, she recognised me - turned out I had chaired her fellow Kiwi scribe at @edbookfest a few years ago, and she remembered me!

It really is a small planet (especially the literary part of it!)....

LordWoolamaloo, to Cats
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Met a new furry chum on the walk to work today, very vocal, very keen on ear and chin scratches.

LordWoolamaloo, to random
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Massive traffic tailbacks on walk to work, arrogant, dangerous drivers deciding this makes it okay to charge through a green man crossing 3 cars scattering multiple pedestrian), or drive up one way roads illegally. Grrr
Wtf is it with entitled, dangerous drivers?

LordWoolamaloo, to Columbia
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To hell with the free speech crushing bastards who run Columbia. A university should always be encouraging free expression in a democratic society. Instead they invited NYPD cops in riot gear to tackle their own students https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/new-york-police-columbia-university-student-protests

Every single Columbia person who agreed to this should be ashamed & leave education, as they're clearly unfit for any campus or the welfare of the students they are responsible for

LordWoolamaloo, to random
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Well, I suppose Yousaf can always claim that at least he lasted longer as a leader than Liz Truss (not a terribly high bar) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68918781

LordWoolamaloo,
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@Wen Yep, I don't think he did anything as badly as some recent ones like Cameron or Truss, but he just seemed to stumble from one calamity to the next, rarely showing good judgement.

TBH the entire party has been making a mess the last couple of years - I'm struggling to think who I will vote for at next election, I suspect it is going to have to be less who do I want and more which of the useless scunners is least bad? Which isn't how it is meant to be...

LordWoolamaloo, to random
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It's nice Dan Poulter decided he had to leave the Tories because they were betraying the NHS & other public services https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68915259

However, I cannot but wonder why he ever thought that party cared about the NHS to begin with, or what took him so long

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Taken this day, 2020, plenty of parking spaces today... https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/50097704873/

Almost empty car park during a Lockdown-era walk

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie

LordWoolamaloo, to science
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Happy birthday, Hubble.

Launched on this day way back in 1990 aboard the Shuttle Discovery, giving humanity a remarkable window on to the awe-inspiring wonders of our universe, allowing us to witness even the stellar nurseries, birthplace of the stars themselves.

#science #Hubble

LordWoolamaloo, to random
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How lovely to see wealthy, over-privileged royals rewarding one another with even more honours and titles for being, er, well, them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68882308

Just rubbing our faces in it now, aren't they?

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Le Monde Sans Fin: the Institut Francais D'Ecosse on the Royal Mile, #Edinburgh , has a free exhibition (until May 10th) around the bestselling graphic novel collaboration between environmental scientist Jean-Marc Janovici and Angouleme winning creator Christophe Blain. I have a short review up on Down the Tubes https://downthetubes.net/in-review-le-monde-sans-fin-exhibition-edinburgh/

#comics #BandeDessinee #Environment#ClimateChange #LeMondeSansFin #GraphicNovels #Exhibition #Edimbourg #bookstodon #books #livres #exhibition

LordWoolamaloo, to edinburgh
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Taken this day, 2017, "I came to do science *& kick ass, & you just cut my funding" https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/33818849730/

March for science protest,

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