Alistair Davidson

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

This and let´s not forget the independence thermometer.

All my comics have happy endings!

Morpheus: "What if i told you Scotland are a mid tier international football team and it's a blessing to have a manager who gets us qualifications"

Steve Clarke (not Karl Marx) paired with the quote "We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall make no excuses for the terrorball."

this is very bad, and we should revive the kind of progressive enthusiasm for literacy that characterized 19th and 20th century movements.

NVIDIA are a remarkable business really

Me too! Or at least out of environments where someone might pressure me to use it inappropriately. For a moment it felt like we might take a turn back towards standards and simplicity, but instead the industry has decided to make its awful React codebases 50% bigger and see if that helps somehow.

"You mean its all KDE?"

When I put on this uniform, I swore an oath to never wear another.

Refugees Welcome Saltire Flag Show refugees that they are welcome in Scotland.Single-sided mesh fabric flag.

I made a Refugees Welcome saltire flag shop

www.contrado.co.uk/stores/refug...

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech

I think Billy Bragg's idea of pro migrant england flag stickers is smart politics

It's the Anakin Padme meme. Anakin is now a smoke detector saying I don't have enough energy to tell u if there's a fire. Padme happily asks So u don't have enough energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years? Then she looks worried, and asks again: U don't have the energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years, right? To which Anakin the smoke detector replies BEEP

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Begging our "national" government to understand that foreign owned build-to-let flats export wealth from the country forever.

Posts that serve Elon's agenda get a post agreeing with them as the top reply. Posts that go against Elon's agenda get a post disagreeing with them as the top reply. A powerful force in biasing people's reactions to see the reactions of other (similar to "stacked panel" cable news propaganda format)

an important thing for everyone to realize is that Elon manipulating the feed of which posts you see on the site (and which of your posts are seen by others) is *much* easier than Elon manipulating the Grok AI is. It's a brainwashing machine

please sir can I have workplace adaptations?

no?

ok then

The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan The anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure, says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan

As I write in The Guardian this morning, the danger of this moment is that if Europe does not act against Trump now, it will never act again.
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Go to your local tenants union meeting, it will lift your spirits

I used an LLM-to-tokens-to-SQL tool that was really awesome. I'd love to see that come to wider data manipuilation, coding, and command line usage. It could be democratising.

One issue is the companies / their marketers know the easy money is in the vibey sugar rush and the tools in my experience aren't being aimed towards the careful, plodding mindset of a senior engineer. The most successful users like Simon seem to to be really in the guts building their own toolsets.

For my foreign followers the Herald is Scotland's equivalent of the NYT; the Orange Order are a uniformed anti-Catholic street movement; Kevin McKenna is a Catholic journalist who has become so reactionary that he is finding common cause with the OO.

Kevin McKenna, 100 feet up astride a rocket-powered bike, gazes down at the sharks below

i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!

Prediction: we'll start digitally signing videos at point of capture

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

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Don't worry the US cut their monitoring programmes so it's all fine now

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social