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Alasdair Mckinlay

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Early retired civil servant. Did lots of community stuff. Living with myeloma and doing just fine.

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26.02.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Shows you're loved. And cared for. And know lovely people! Who own cars!! Omg. Nice car owners can be so helpful.

26.02.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cute is as cute does. It's eternal with the right heart behind it. You've got it in Spades. Bridge reference I've never understood. I'm a bit concerned though about how many of your pals need to be redacted over such a long period. Do I need to inform the MET?

26.02.2026 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A Women's History Month montage in a grid layoutof pioneering women across STEM, education, science advocacy, and related fields. The portraits are primarily black-and-white or vintage-style photographs, celebrating trailblazers whose work advanced scientific discovery, engineering, computing, astrophysics, civil rights through education, and more. 

Top row (left to right):  Gladys West, mathematician and educator whose modeling of Earth's shape contributed to the development of GPS technology; Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist who discovered pulsars; Eleanor Roosevelt, humanitarian, First Lady; Chien-Shiung Wu, experimental physicist who disproved parity conservation.

Middle row (left to right):  Edith Clarke, pioneering electrical engineer, the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from MIT; Grace Hopper, computer scientist, mathematician, and U.S. Navy rear admiral who developed the first compiler; Marie Curie, two-time Nobel Prize winner in Physics and Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on radioactivity; Pearl Buck, Nobel Prize in Literature.

Bottom row (left to right):  Rosalind Franklin, chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose Photo 51 was essential to understanding the double-helix structure of DNA; Septima Clark, educator and civil rights leader; Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who co-discovered nerve growth factor (NGF); Gabriela Mistral, poet, educator, diplomat, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature.

#WomenInSceince #WomenInSTEM

A Women's History Month montage in a grid layoutof pioneering women across STEM, education, science advocacy, and related fields. The portraits are primarily black-and-white or vintage-style photographs, celebrating trailblazers whose work advanced scientific discovery, engineering, computing, astrophysics, civil rights through education, and more. Top row (left to right): Gladys West, mathematician and educator whose modeling of Earth's shape contributed to the development of GPS technology; Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist who discovered pulsars; Eleanor Roosevelt, humanitarian, First Lady; Chien-Shiung Wu, experimental physicist who disproved parity conservation. Middle row (left to right): Edith Clarke, pioneering electrical engineer, the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from MIT; Grace Hopper, computer scientist, mathematician, and U.S. Navy rear admiral who developed the first compiler; Marie Curie, two-time Nobel Prize winner in Physics and Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on radioactivity; Pearl Buck, Nobel Prize in Literature. Bottom row (left to right): Rosalind Franklin, chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose Photo 51 was essential to understanding the double-helix structure of DNA; Septima Clark, educator and civil rights leader; Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who co-discovered nerve growth factor (NGF); Gabriela Mistral, poet, educator, diplomat, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature. #WomenInSceince #WomenInSTEM

𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘩𝘒𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘡𝘩𝘦𝘳 π˜ͺ𝘡 π˜ͺ𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘡𝘒𝘯π˜₯π˜ͺ𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘡𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘢𝘭π˜₯𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨π˜ͺ𝘒𝘯𝘡𝘴. ~Newton

Women's History Month starts Sunday. #celebrate #WHM

26.02.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 196    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

To continue the theme, I misread the D in pdrn.......😁

26.02.2026 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brains. Eh?

26.02.2026 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@ande91.bsky.social

26.02.2026 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hopefully I'm going to see him next Friday in Glasgow. Treatment dependent. I can buy life as poetry. And dance. Thanks for sharing.

26.02.2026 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great photo.

26.02.2026 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Love the fact you are up to mischief, but you have such a great, innocent, butter wouldn't melt face.

26.02.2026 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great photo.

26.02.2026 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Angeline from Parson's Green, grows her own potatoes. Dropped lines from the beginning of Moses Supposes.

25.02.2026 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nonsense. I believe the phrase is, this is the content I'm here for. Can't wait for the photos of you as an academy award. Roll on June.

25.02.2026 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Damn auto correct. Neebs!!!

25.02.2026 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Needs. 😊

25.02.2026 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Blimey! πŸ”₯

25.02.2026 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

18 working in a local pub in Fife. 2 Glaswegians during the holidays at the bar realise they know a guy in common. Him? Aw what a fantastic cunt. Really decent cunt. One of the nicest cunts I ever met. Just a pronoun. And a Tom Leonard poem. It's an ill wind that blaws nae cunt fuck all good.

24.02.2026 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup. At his best on the pitch it was absolute poetry. Anyway. I must pop off cos I've just put on Bad Day at Black Rock. Forget how good it is from minute one. Spencer superb. Lee Marvin superb and hell of a specimen. And Robert Ryan's trousers are too short. Hope you're feeling less blue V.

24.02.2026 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cor. As a younger man obviously. And the talent. Pretty sure there was a tv programme early 70s where he taught us youngsters how to play. Didn't work with me.

24.02.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Meant to say earlier that there were a lot of girls at school who liked Paul Nicholas. Blonde and smiley. Suddenly occurs, no footballer crushes V? Alan Rix? Liam Brady?

24.02.2026 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh sorry but that made me chuckle out loud.
Not quite sure what to make of the assistant. Kind, helpful, honest? Deeply insulting and thoughtless? Excellent line either way.

24.02.2026 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#OtD 24 Feb 1909 anarchist Ethel Macdonald was born in Motherwell, Scotland. Her exploits during the Spanish Revolution caused the British press to dub her the Scots Scarlet Pimpernel stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9642...

24.02.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Sorry to hear this. That photo is lovely. Bags of personality.

24.02.2026 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing strange about David Essex. Gorgeous. Those eyelashes. Mate had his poster up when a teen. She became quite prominent in her work. Was being interviewed on Radio 4 in a studio with a window. Mid serious point, David walked past and winked at her. She totally lost the plot. Blushed. Stammered.

24.02.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@ande91.bsky.social

24.02.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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@ande91.bsky.social the other window in lovely Flux, Leith.

24.02.2026 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Music! Music!! Good grief. Rachmaninov's 2nd. I start to well up BEFORE the finale begins. Why? How does he do that? Then I actually cry. Every single time. Yes I'm a soppy date who greets just thinking about scenes from movies, but it's still astonishing.

24.02.2026 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah. This is why today is Twin Peaks day.

24.02.2026 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory πŸ—ƒοΈ

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