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Scott Wortley

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scottish law lecturer, TV viewer, accidental mental health advocate. Interested in legislative interpretation and Columbo (but proper Columbo - you know the stuff from the NBC years, and more infrequently ABC episodes)

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The sheep who was Thursday

09.03.2026 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

[resists commenting with reference to things what I have read which have somehow got through a review process]

09.03.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Any word from the world's largest acidic geezer on the acidic geyser?

09.03.2026 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no really, holy shit

09.03.2026 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 244    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

horrendous. Another example. Who knew putting vape shops in these old buildings ran risks...

08.03.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

oh no. sorry to hear that. A former scottish presiding officer (speaker of the parliament) seems to have been similarly affected.

08.03.2026 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did you ever see Bob Roberts with Tim Robbins and Gore Vidal?

08.03.2026 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@beaubaumann.bsky.social your twitter account seems to have been hacked. Received an odd direct message from you with a malware link.

08.03.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

have you ever listened to Karin Krog and Rigmor Gustafsson? I hear shades of them in her work (and am going to look for more by her)

08.03.2026 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

one of my former students explained to me that the thing about these models is that very thing it produces is a hallucination based on probability. the amazing thing is any of it being right.

08.03.2026 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the wee free by 93

08.03.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Positive prescription in Scotland requires an ex facie valid title before the possession kicks in at all. Stops this sort of spurious stuff

08.03.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would be the best thing for the game up here.

08.03.2026 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would quite like fans from both to be banned from znnsome upcoming games, but given scottish football authorities that action feels unlikely. Would be nice to have a behind closed doors thing, and no fans from one the team with the pitch invasion allowed at the semi final.

08.03.2026 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fingers crossed

08.03.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ideal outcome this season is neither of them winning a trophy

08.03.2026 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Usucapio eh? Bloody hell

08.03.2026 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œApparently their neighbours claim that they woke up one morning to find that the garden had suddenly been dwarfed”

08.03.2026 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Big Sam until the end of the season surely?

08.03.2026 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Because of things he has written in the past, particularly about history and the union.

08.03.2026 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep. It even disregards the different englands

08.03.2026 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What was Peru's best ladybird book of English history (I assume the Scots, Welsh and Irish are of no interest to him despite maternal links)

08.03.2026 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I often wonder where Daniel "Dan "the man" Hannan" Hannan got his view of history from

08.03.2026 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Reminded me of the not the nine o'clock news joke. The United States is making up for being late to the last two world wars by being really punctual for this one

08.03.2026 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is an important thread about the BBC Written Archives.

08.03.2026 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We're gonna need a bigger supercomputer

07.03.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

GET ME ...THE SUPERCOMPUTER!

07.03.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh redux, while laughing

07.03.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Basically Posner pragmatics ftw

07.03.2026 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Consequentialism is not framed as widely as that article would have you believe.
If Scalia is viewed as the high water mark of textualism his analysis is not as extreme as the one critiqued.

07.03.2026 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0