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Stormwitch

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I'm the same Crow Stormwitch from the bird site.
Still pro-indy. Still anti-fascist.
Still a small voice in the cause of Scottish paganism.

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thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Fishing for tiddlers in the Victoria Park pond in Glasgow.

Stormwitch,
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@thisismyglasgow I wonder if this heron is related to the one who recently died at Paisley Hamills...

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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A Moses McCulloch and Company access cover on Albert Drive in Glasgow. Founded around 1810, McCulloch and Company started life at the Cumberland Ironworks on Stockwell Street, and until they ceased trading in 1962 they were one of the oldest such businesses in Scotland. Walter McFarlane spend 10 years working at this foundry before setting up his own foundry at Saracen Lane in 1850.

Cont./

Stormwitch,
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@thisismyglasgow The downfall of the foundries was also due to their success.
There are manhole covers in Lanarkshire with dates going back 70 years. There are postboxes going back even further- there is one in Paisley with a VR stamp.
When outputs are SO durable, it it any wonder that demand dies off? It's not just the loss of empire and associated market - the companies died off because their product was too good.

Wen, to Futurology
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School closed amid outbreak of parasitic disease in south Devon

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/16/school-closed-amid-outbreak-of-parasitic-disease-in-south-devon

South West Water said: “We are working with public health partners to urgently investigate the source. We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will continue to keep customers and businesses updated.”

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-uk-cryptosporidium-cases-ongoing.html

Not only do they directly pollute water, they don’t even treat it properly before it is presented as drinkable.

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@Wen ahem "inconvenience" ahem

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Jordanvale House on Dumbarton Road in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow. One of the oldest buildings in the local area, it dates back to at least the 1830s. It's now used as the presbytery of the neighbouring Saint Paul's Church. The only other surviving building of a similar age in Whiteinch is the nearby Inchbank House.

Stormwitch,
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@thisismyglasgow oh, that would be the Inchbank House, which was the seaman's mission - the Buffs Club- like a farmhouse hidden at the back of Dumbarton Road - that place.

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@thisismyglasgow There is a story that there was a Drovers Inn in the area, but that might have been further down-river, towards the Thornwood.
It would be nice to think that the drovers inn was on the same spot, tho'.

Wen, to random
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Something is stirring in England: right to buy looks imperilled, and not a moment too soon

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/12/england-right-to-buy-thatcher-labour-leadership

My goodness. Next thing the Gruaniad will be telling us is that Scotland and Wales are getting things right and attempting to actually do something about the damage that Thatcher, her Tories and Labour have done to the whole of the UK!

It will never catch up in the paper.

Stormwitch,
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@Wen it is sad that a lot of these tenants who bought their council properties actually thought that they had moved up a level in social standing. That was the purpose, tho'. Turning traditional Labour voters into tory voters.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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West End Cross in Paisley. Built in 1886, this is a beautifully designed gushet building. For anyone wondering about the name of the pub on the ground floor, there's an A missing from it, which potentially changes it quite substantially!

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@thisismyglasgow in my granddad's day, that building was called "the coffin en' ", because of it's shape.

Wen, to maps
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Can’t read a map or add up? Don’t worry, we’ve always let technology do the boring stuff

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/09/cannot-read-a-map-or-add-up-donot-worry-we-have-always-let-technology-do-the-boring-stuff

Another rather vapid column from the Gruaniad. Probably someone who has never had the joy of exploring an area on paper before venturing there or even understands the real need to be able to manipulate simple quantities in your head.

The future beckons…

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@Wen "the medium of the assembly line". I recall when robots "freed" thousands of semi-skilled workers from that tedium to allow them the "freedom" of being on the dole for the rest of their lives. Hardly inspiring.
The tine of the article is of the same kind as that of The Mighty Micro, a book which I panned as part of the critical thinking component of my degree.

NormanDunbar, to random
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Oh dear.
How sad.
Never mind!

BBC News - Lee Anderson: MP suspended from Tory party over criticism of London mayor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68392621

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@NormanDunbar

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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The former Willowbank Primary School in the Woodlands area of Glasgow. Built in 1900, it was designed in a Classicsl style by Alexander Petrie. The building itself is wonderfully symmetrical, but it's always puzzled me why the gateposts are off-centre as that creates a rather jarring effect (or maybe that's just me!).


Stormwitch,
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@thisismyglasgow Looking at it, the gate seems to have been placed in the centre of that section of wall...

Stormwitch, to random
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I find it strange that there are people who think that there have always been January storms.
I remember the first one in Scotland that started the term "January storms". It was in the late 1960s. Slates came off roofs. Trees were blown down. Chimneys came through roofs. Chimney pots littered roads. Gable ends fell out. Nobody had ever seen that before. Now they are happening outside of January.
I sometimes despair that the human lifespan is too short for this to register with people.

MadeyeTheCarnaptious, to random
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Nowadays whenever I hear London based "journalists" like Nick Robinson refer to "north of the border" I am glad that I Iive in a different country. I don't want to be associated with the shitshow that's .

I look forward to the day when the "border" is an international frontier again.

Stormwitch,
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@Wen @MadeyeTheCarnaptious Yes, it doesn't exist. It is an accounting unit of UK Labour, and, ultimately, will do what it's told by Labour England. Totally impotent, and useless.

Stoat, to london

Rally at the Houses of Parliament Wednesday for the SNP King's Speech amendment, tell MPs to vote for it. There's also a form you can use to write to them here, takes 2 minutes tops:
https://palestinecampaign.eaction.online/gazaMPaction

Wednesday 15th November 5PM
Parliament

Stormwitch,
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@Stoat oh, it's the same Bain principle shite- oppose anything the SNP propose.
Disgusting behaviour.

Stoat, to random

Step 1: Do something that you know Scottish folk will hate

Step 2: Scottish folk tell you they hate it, you and your little dog too

Step 3: Cry

https://news.stv.tv/politics/snp-mp-who-defected-to-tories-forced-into-hiding-over-threats-of-violence

Stormwitch,
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@Stoat She couldn't have done a worse thing for herself.

brianklaas, to random
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I wrote about the man you've probably never heard of, who arguably has caused more deaths than Stalin, Mao, or Hitler -- and the astonishing hypothesis that helps explain why crime rates spiked globally so much during the second half of the 20th century, before plummeting inexplicably in the 1990s. https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/did-leaded-gasoline-cause-a-huge

Stormwitch,
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@brianklaas In the mid 1970s, in Glasgow, I was standing in Quenn St. It was summer, and the surface of the road was lead grey. For years I had been coming home from Glasgow with grit in my hair.
I knelt at the kerb, pondering the grey grit.
A voice at my shoulder - "what are you doing?"
"Do you have a knife?"
A penknife was produced. I stuck it into the grit, and produced a pile.
"That's lead", I said.
He was a journalist. The expose happened soon after.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Love this window on the back of 22 Park Circus on Glasgow. This same design is echoed in the roof of the structure to the rear of the building. It was constructed in 1872 and was designed by James Boucher. However, Alexander 'Greek' Thomson used the same pattern on the internal walls and exterior railings of his 1857 Holmwood House.

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@thisismyglasgow there are similar scales on the roof of one of the buildings in central Strathaven. I thought dragons.

popsci, to random

Maybe it's time to ditch Chrome. https://t.co/JTGvic4lDZ

Stormwitch,
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@popsci Worthwhile saying - my Firefox download came with the Google search engine. It's easy enough to change it to something else.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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The former Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science, AKA, The Dough School. It was here that the world famous Glasgow Cookery book originated as a course text in 1910.

Stormwitch,
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@thisismyglasgow funny the way colloquial speech works. Do, from Domestic, becomes dough.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Former Bank and office building on St Vincent Place in Glasgow.

Designed by J.T. Rochead in an Italian Renaissance style and built in 1867, this is not only a beautiful building, it also features some great sculptures by William Mossman, including a wonderful pair of Atlantes around the door.

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@thisismyglasgow Go inside. The statues around the ceiling are inspirational.

ned, (edited ) to random

So Musk tried to do this with PayPal, changing its name to X, and was ousted for it.

So wait, if he wanted to change PayPal's name to X but they wouldn't have it because they didn't want to sink that ship, does that mean that he bought Twitter with the intention of destroying it (very quickly) first, so that he could rename it to X and nobody would care because it's already a sunken ship?

(And yes, X.com does redirect to the X-birdsite now...)

https://twitter.com/chafkin/status/1683475959981264900

Stormwitch,
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@ned @Scott1984FP @jennzycos
Shit by any other name still smells, looks, and behaves like shit.
Not quite as elegant as Shakespear's "A rise by any other name would smell as sweet", but you getvthe drift...

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@scotlit @bookstodon Don't forget Espedair St...

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