I am a climber, runner (with a Collie), cyclist and swimmer. I was running a small (but perfectly formed) analytics company now employee owned to mark my retirement. Commute between the Highlands and The Borders, campaign for Scottish independence, bake bread and occasionally dabble in bad art.
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Last Notes npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The dissolution of the UK is getting closer npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen For ducks sake. And this is a headline from what was one meant to be a paper of ’record’. Who is writing these headlines, AI or ‘vested’ interests? Or do ‘journalists’ exist any more? npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Neil Parrish, fantastic runner and all round great guy has died on The Cape Wrath Ultra course - he was running to raise money for the Scottish Mountain Rescue npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Cartoon npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Christian Zealotry and the nutcase syndrome npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen 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 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Tom Gauld on knowledge npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Peter Brookes on ‘humanity’ npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Caturday npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Our Future Health npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morning walk npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A lovely run this morning - only 8k, tracks, but it is the curse of good weather - just when you have to knuckle down for some writing npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Linton Kirk, one of Scotland’s oldest churches still in use in the Scottish Borders is surplus to Church of Scotland requirements and a local group are attempting to raise the money to buy it foe the community. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Scottish man's Palestine Action terror charges dismissed - the trickle before the flood? npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Labour on the take again. And donations to the party from big business are not in the public interest. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen EDUCATION Scotland has laid the foundations to irreparably damage our rich linguistic heritage by encouraging teachers to create AI-generated children’s books. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen This is being interpreted by some as the Lord Advocate deciding that the UK maladministration will lose their appeal in the High Courts in London, and not wanting to be embarrassed in the Sheriffs Court. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Researchers from Cornell University have developed what they call "the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale," a tool designed to measure how impressed people are by business school-style jargon that sounds strategic but says very little. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Israeli #police have killed two young #Palestinian brothers and their parents in the occupied West Bank, shooting all four in the #head and #face as the family returned from a Ramadan shopping trip. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen This is just one example of ‘think tanks being funded by people with vested interests. In this case it is ‘just' nuclear power. They have become a blight on society, represented by the media (and the BBC in particular) as disinterested experts. They are no such thing - and they are a canker on public debate. See the UK Lawyers for Israel for example = funded by Israel yet purporting to be independent. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Silent Sunday npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morning run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Afternoon run. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen There is a simple answer. Fossil Fuel companies are determined to maintain their profits and having worked hard to deny any impact on climate are finding this a little more difficult to avoid - although many governments are trying their best to ignore it. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morning run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Anonymous artists placed a Titanic-themed statue of Trump and Epstein on the National Mall in Washington DC. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Smoke and mirrors - now how many times have we seen this before? npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen #Murphy points out the bleading obvious - not that I am criticising it, it needs to be repeated often for the hard of thinking. Death and destruction are NOT a sensible path to take to produce ‘growth’, in the short, medium or long terms. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The harsh truth writ gently. Climate #mitigation is essential, but as always not being taken seriously by this (or any previous government). npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen One has to admit that #Orr, #Farage and #Lowe do make for good political copy while also making tits of themselves. Probably rather more danger than many care to admit privately. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen It is worth while pointing out that while a Republic, the USA is not exactly a democracy. But then the UK is not a proper democracy either. And many politicians want nothing to do with democracy. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Flags when you can not get word in edgeways. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen I have three - does that count? npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Not facing a loss of democracy, living through it. The US today npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Afternoon run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Silent Sunday npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morning walk with the dugs npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The laws of unintended consequences. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen This is very positive. It is great that England can develop and project a sense of nationhood without having to drag the rest of the UK in and blur the differences. We all have them and some are positive and some negative no matter what nation you believe you belong to. Assimilation is not good for any of us if it means destroying identity. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen We passit the wee shop on the way home. As A walkit i, a border collie wis carefully removin his harness. Whan A went i, A callit oot, 'whose dug is thon, he's gettin aff his lead'. A man left the shop i a hurry. Whan A left, the dug wis carefully removin the harness again. A waitit an let the owner know 'he can reach the clip’ 🤣 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen My haul from this morning. Beer over the week or books 🤔 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Lunchtime run. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen All your beds belong us npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen I think that is what Israel wishes to do. Remodel #Tehran and #Beirut based on the work by the (piss) Artistes of the #IDF on #Gaza. It won’t happen now or even soon, but the hatred that is being promoted is not going to make Israelis or Americans any safer around the world. Future generations will come to regret this folly. I have no sympathy for the Iranian regime at al, but murdering heads of state (Israelis did it to a prime minister) does not set a good precedent. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Good luck with that. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Peter Jennings on US Armed Forces Enavngelism and a wish for armageddon. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morning run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen He really means debate by the people who matter - in this case him. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The Murdoch press surpasses itself. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morning run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen I generally find #Coren an entitled boor, but in this piece, sarcasm included he gets it right. It can be summarised as a plea for the retention of already inadequate animal welfare standards. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A lovely afternoon npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Oh dear, I have had multiple posts removed by the moderator on mastodo.scot. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen And guess who is involve. The ubiquitous UKLFI. Funded by Israel and involved in multiple lawfare ‘disputes’ in the UK npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The News Thump Perspective npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Octopus farming, an outrage about to happen npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Afternoon run/swim npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Challenges, surmountable challenges and just the difficult. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Pastafarians of the world unite npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen This amused me. I have to say (as a man)I am being on record as saying that it is a crying shame I can’t get running togs and outdoor clothing from companies I would prefer to give my business to that are in bright colours. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A comment piece, the quote that sticks in my mind comes early npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen All happening while we were out. Trump lies again and a missile strike reportedly kills 50 kids. Better hope that no US soldiers get killed Colonel Bonespur (apparently he is pushing for a military gallantry medal). npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Lunchtime run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen I do a regular trip from The Borders to Cumbria twice a month. I drive an electric, an i3. I have noticed that irrespective on the charge starting, the trip back north can use as little as 25% and normally 15% less than the one south. I am assuming that a combination of the distribution of wind direction and the relative gradients of the hills N/S to S/N are the primary factors. My driving style is consistent. Does anyone else have a similar experience? Please boost for coverage. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A tail of two cats npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A brilliant bit of snow sculpture, Central Park New York (photographer unknown) npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The win in the Gorton by-election raised my spirits (and the dug got extra breakfast) but for general cuteness (OK I am a sucker) this takes a lot of beating. Photographer unknown (by me) npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Peter Mandelson’s business emails have vanished, lobbying firm admits npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The McCrone Report in full npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Don’t let people tell you they were never warned… npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen First Dog on the Moon, in memoriam npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Linguistics theories debunked (partially) npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Hmm - sensitive are we Labour? It is not *only* muslims who are furious at your behaviour towards Gaza - and a lot of other things as well. But 500 letters won't come close to how many of us feel. Not that I have the opportunity to express my opinion on Thursday - but wait until May. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Good news for Loch Lomond and some very effective campaigning by everyone involved. Shame they did not do the same thing for #Turnberry. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen You have to laugh. One group of self confessed pirates and thieves accuse another of doing the same thing. Itonic does not begin to capture the mess npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen You aren’t shovelling fast enough 😝 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen I rather appreciate this letter from Kate Soper in the Griuaniad in response to a rather pathetic apologia defending academics metioned in the Epstein files. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A Welshman walks into a ‘Spoons. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen I would love to start the morning meander with a bit of good news before getting out with the dugs, but not a chance. Reform are promising us a dystopia - but a ‘Christian’ one. So more like the US every day. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Late afternoon run. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The fall of the house of cards npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen First Dog on the Moon considering inheritance (with caveats) 😂 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A very late Caturday entry. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen I was never under any illusion that any attention was being paid to the environment at all? Did anyone? npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen It is a shame the British maladministration have not paid any attention to this. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen How far back could you understand your native language (in this case English)? npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Silent Sunday, just me and the dug npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Madeline Horwath on the end of the Winter Olympics npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen I despise the ‘word’ weaponisation, but this writer has nailed her(?) colours firmly to the mast. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Caturday npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest prompts calls for justice in the US npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The Times seems to be treading on thin ice with this cartoon - not that I care, the joke is current currency npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Media balls npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Greens furious as Reform UK get BBC Question Time slot before by-election | The National npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Having a hilarious time observing comments in the Gruaniad as they are placed and sometime not so promptly removed. Example include npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen - Do they serve pizza behind bars? npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Greenwashing and blowing smoke in one AI driven package npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morning run. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The Shadow Cabinet
