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john h

@heliolithic.bsky.social

“a queer and unaccountable creature, who must necessarily be looked at with wondering curiosity and repulsion” // glasgow

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Post image 09.03.2026 11:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Immense respect to the firefighters who kept this from reaching the station and who kept everyone safe; truly astonishing that no one was killed or injured. How bleak to see yet another bit of Glasgow history disappear

09.03.2026 10:33 — 👍 56    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 1

nooo don't collapse your so sexy aha

08.03.2026 22:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

bit grim to joke about I suppose but what else are you supposed to do when your home is on fire for the millionth time imo!

08.03.2026 21:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

(purportedly) a grimy vape shop destroying a chunk of glasgow's architectural heritage. I know cities that use subtext and they're all cowards, etc.

08.03.2026 21:41 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

"lmao find a real problem to be upset about" - poster @heliolithic under fire over 'shaming' bluesky post

07.03.2026 14:47 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the amount of crap you get advertised on instagram when the algorithm learns you have a dog is amazing - "the poo bags you'd want to be seen using", buddy I'm ashamed of everything that I am and have done and even I'm not ashamed to use generic poo bags!

07.03.2026 10:49 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

if you want a chat about tenament walls with someone who knows more about tenament walls than they ever wished to, you know where I am

07.03.2026 08:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life.

Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent.

That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship
Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.

STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

06.03.2026 10:37 — 👍 531    🔁 349    💬 29    📌 69

surprised there was no risk averse person in the domino records press team to point out that there is, of course, a will oldham song called 'you have cum in your hair and your dick is hanging out' - or if there was, they were overruled

05.03.2026 15:25 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

no I didn't forget to dress him up for world book day. have you even heard of autofiction

06.03.2025 12:57 — 👍 59    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 0
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celebrating world book day by falsely accusing silas of theft of church funds and teaching him how to weave linen

05.03.2026 10:36 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

just give her a big jug of tar water and send her off

05.03.2026 10:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

found some of the last few a bit meandering (assume because jim white wasn't on them but certainly not going to spend time looking this up) but this one is great I agree. shame about the song about going on the computer (and that's coming from a big going on the computer fan)

05.03.2026 10:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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and some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. history became legend. legend became myth. and for over seven years, the gatwick drone passed out of all knowledge

04.03.2026 19:49 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

stephen o'malley's pipe organ drone album spheres collapser? but I barely know her!

04.03.2026 17:03 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I don't have time to convince people that LLMs work (for many everyday notions of 'work'), I am too busy hunting down sam altman to put him in jail forever

04.03.2026 16:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"I do not not not not not not want to receive marketing emails" (final not in a font the same colour as page background)

03.03.2026 15:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

oh I missed "no matter what you click" - yes if you click opt out and they email, that's non compliant and they do it because chances of enforcement are basically zero

03.03.2026 10:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Electronic mail marketing

not quite - see soft opt-in section below. though they must have given you chance to opt out and must continue to do so ico.org.uk/for-organisa...

03.03.2026 10:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

impound them all, let god sort them out

02.03.2026 20:22 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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reckon this guy should've had a couple more of his middling coffees before giving internally incoherent quotes to the BBC

02.03.2026 20:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

saw lots of eider ducks the other day and today saw a teen really focusing on taking some up close photos of flowers and greenery in the park. they should have been in school obviously. the teen too

02.03.2026 17:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
02.03.2026 09:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

often confuse this for the redwall feasts bot (despite the profile pictures not being all that similar) and so frequently think "damn brian jacques didn't have to go so hard"

02.03.2026 09:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

application granted. some bad news about what planets look like when orbitally locked to their suns in order to give a neat ratio however

01.03.2026 22:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

N, thank you for your services to nature

01.03.2026 22:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

[extremely analytic theology voice] a god who establishes laws and then continuously overrides their consequences to maintain a tidy ratio between two unrelated physical processes in one base system is a less coherent conception of god than one who sets up self-sustaining laws and then stops fussing

01.03.2026 22:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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hiya besties welcome to another haul post

01.03.2026 18:54 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

walked past a place yesterday evening called anchorage bed and breakfast and have for the past day or so thought it funny and strange, if not entirely inaccurate, that they'd name a bed and breakfast after the practice of anchoritism. it is, of course, on a harbour and I deeply misunderstood.

01.03.2026 17:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0