Stuart Swales🎄

Week-end (1967) dir: Jean Luc Godard a man and woman running away from an exploding airplane which has several automobiles piled on top of it

vibe check

If this goes on long enough we will eventually evolve not to trust statistical autocomplete software with medical decisions.

Yes indeed. My uncle brought one back from a business trip for me then.

VOICES FROM A FUTURE PASSED Out today!
How the BBC, Acorn & ARM Changed the World
The "barking mad" 1981 4-day build that led to the ARM chip in your pocket. From the BBC Micro to Raspberry Pi, meet the IT Royalty who built our digital world.
In-store or Online: Search ISBN 9781764460804 on Amazon

Love this sign from the Glasgow-based street artist A Sign of Humour on Pacific Quay in Glasgow, with the Glasgow Tower and Science Centre in the background.

#glasgow #streetart #kingkong #hunour #glasgowsciencecentre #scotland #keepglasgowweird

Yorkshire. And some other stuff.

Eking out that last drop of battery juice as the tape transport slows...

Tick Bite Prevention Week takes place from 24th-30th March!

Preventing tick bites is the best way to protect yourself and pets against tick borne disease.

Can you help raise awareness in your community?

Our free resources are available to order here:

www.lymeresourcecentre.com/awareness

This is now on sale! A history of Acorn, written by Rob Napier (of Barson Computing) and with contributions from all the major people involved at Acorn and the BBC: amzn.eu/d/06qvLzW8

Photo of a seat in a park attached to a giant wooden catapult

'Ejection seat' by Cornelia Konrads, contemporary German artist, known for her land art and site-specific art installations #womensart #Saturday

Do you remember Acorn Computers? The company designed and delivered the first ARM chip and the BBC Micro. Want to know more or catch up? The RISC OS North show, is on Saturday 21st March, in Warrington, UK.
riscosnorth.uk #RISC_OS #Event #Warrington #RaspberryPi #ARM

Hot off the presses! It's the 300th anniversary of James Hutton's birth. The guy who first truly grasped that the Earth was old, the founder of modern geology, one of Scotland's heroes.
And @annebrusatte.bsky.social has written a children's book about him!
Order details below⤵️

Common Peephole     She came from Greece, she had a faulty socket. Her eye fell out, she couldn’t stop it.   That’s when I caught her eye. Brian Bilston

Pulp poetry.

A screenshot from RSPB Scotland Loch Leven squirrel cam, with a red squirrel perched at a feeder box.

Want to get more red squirrels in your life?

We’ve rounded up some of our favourite red squirrel webcams, giving you a window into Scottish nature wherever you are.

Check out our list of webcams here: scottishsquirrels.org.uk/2026/02/27/r...

📷RSPB Scotland Loch Leven webcam

Firefox 148: AI on your terms You asked for more control over AI. We listened. Firefox now makes it easy to turn generative AI off with one toggle, or pick and choose the features you want to use. Your preferences stick - even as new updates roll out.

This is such a refreshing change from having unwanted AI features shoved down our throats. Thank you Firefox.

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fir...

Sixty years ago, Jennie Lee's vision created The Open University 🎓 Welcoming all backgrounds, millions have started life-changing journeys. #OUfamily #TheOpenUniversity #OU60 💙

New Masters by Research project available with myself and @jessicairving.bsky.social trying to pick apart what MERMAID hydroacoustic sensors can tell us about submarine volcanoes www.bristol.ac.uk/earthscience...

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

I had a shit fast-onset cold/manflu a couple of weeks ago and experienced similar.

Worked with someone in Cambridge who had to have the directions to their parents house in S Yorkshire written on a card in the sunvisor. Mostly involved 'go up the A1'. Dropped them there just the once, 30+ years ago, could still get to that house again.

It would be nice to have a couple of better viewpoints up there!

In 2010 I ordered four winter tyres from Germany. They shipped overnight to Edi airport. One pair got onto a van and headed up the M90 to the garage in Perth to await fitting. The other pair got on a second van an hour later. It did not get up the M90! Took a fortnight to reunite all four tyres.

“We can make those arguments on fairly solid ground”

Oh really? Just yesterday I received an FOI response after asking for details of the argument on transmission charging. Scot Gov had nothing.

The SNP’s arguments are not “on fairly solid ground”. They are utterly groundless.

The rather brilliantly named Normal School for the Training of Teachers in Garnethill in Glasgow. Designed by D. and J. Hamilton and built in 1837, it was the first institution in Britain specifically set up to train professional teachers.

#glasgow #garnethill #glasgowhistory #architecture

Et aussi: www.midlothian.gov.uk/info/200281/...

Looks to still be junior beginner options at Hillend: www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory/27...

Think there is a twice daily bus for Glenshee

Misread this as 'I hear one of the bays tried to run away.'

Ski Clubs Find Ski Clubs connected with Glenshee Ski Centre from Perthshire, Angus and Aberdeenshire

Doesn't help when more easy-to-access places like Braehead shut down.

Think Glenshee reported having a school learner's day recently. Also see www.ski-glenshee.co.uk/Ski-Clubs where there are opportunities for youths.

Behold, the death of Canvas (and all the other online classroom managers).

Time to buy stock in the makers of Blue Books, paper companies, mechanical pencils, erasers, and red pens, because we are all about to go old school in our classrooms.