Andy Fyfe

Trump ramps up tourist checks with mandatory social media inspection plans Exclusive: ‘These barriers will hit UK travel to the USA hard’ said Julia Lo Bue-Said, chief executive of Advantage Travel Partnership

Travelling to the US, e.g. for the 2026 World Cup?
Soon you will need to provide details of social media activity for the past five years.
Aim is to comply with President Trump’s demand for all visitors to be “vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible”.
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

A wee bit of Irvine thrown in there I see.

Schnauzer puppy sitting in a laundry basket.

Helping Dad gather clothes for the washing machine this morning...
#schnauzergang #dogsofbluesky

A dog running

The scientific term for dog zoomies is Frenetic Random Activity Periods.

They really know how to make it difficult to leave them for a few days... #schnauzergang #dogsofbluesky

During the next week, many of us will experience our last 8pm sunset until next April.

It has already happened for some southern and eastern parts of England!

We've been losing 3-5 minutes of daylight per day through August.

I have only just discovered that Primula, the squeezy cheese brand, is owned by a Norwegian charitable trust. And all of its profits go to charity.
Last year it gave away £3.7m to good causes.

We have a pair of tickets to give away for Camera Obscura's gig at the bandstand in Kelvingrove Park. They'll be playing w/ The Vaselines and The Cords on Wednesday 4th of June.

Repost to win! We'll choose a winner on Monday evening.

thanks @mergerecords.bsky.social! @kingofpartick.bsky.social

Sodium citrate is a key ingredient in making a cheese sauce creamy. It contains the elements Sodium (Na), Carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O) i.e. NaCHO in the formula Na₃C₆H₅O₇.

I remember that carpet.

Didn’t realise this was happening - more undermining of the American legal system. Soon it’ll be illegal to sue Trump…

A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

This is grotesque and no, Today Programme, it isn’t funny - as the excellent Lyse Doucet made very clear

Is that not a radio 2 thing, or I'm I misinformed.

Human bodies emit a tiny amount of light. We glow most strongly in the afternoon.

Last month, beavers built several dams almost overnight in an area of the Czech Republic where the local authorities had been discussing a dam project for seven years. Having done so ‘without any project documentation and for free’, the beavers saved them about £1 million.

NOT THAT ARSED ABOUT WHERE THE CLOCKS WENT WERE THEY.

Does TripAdvisor do the same?

Public barred from knowing details of anonymous mystery donation to council The public have been barred from knowing details about a mystery private cash donation for Glasgow City Council.

This is very odd. Even odder is that no councillor seems to have leaked the name. Or news outlet printed it. Come on! www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

VIA Rail Canada: “We have to post everything in English AND French.”
NMBS: “Hold my Leffe…”

Area E, such a beautiful name, puts me in mind of a Terminator film.

Some of those decorations have quite scary faces.

A set of railroad tracks with parts of them set on fire as a commuter train prepares to cross.

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.

Repost for a chance to win this Charlatans bobble hat

Might as well kick things off with a gift - winner picked at 9pm this Sunday

Wuffers in the woods
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