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John Thomson

@johnthomson.bsky.social

Ex-Full-time NHS (Emergency Medicine) Part-time photographer. Jeddah via Aberdeenshire via Ayrshire

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Aye, Scotland, Wales or NI don’t fucking look much like England you racist cockwomble Farage

30.09.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
John Martyn - Transatlantic Sessions - Solid Air
YouTube video by Dogsterr2111 John Martyn - Transatlantic Sessions - Solid Air

My musical hero has died. RIP Danny Thompson, the man who inspired me to pick up the double bass. Here he is with John Martyn who, it transpires, used to live up the next close to me in Glasgow. youtu.be/uvCU1U2rhB0?...

24.09.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Popart Danny Thompson.

24.09.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RIP Danny Thompson

24.09.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Solid Air

RIP Danny Thompson. open.spotify.com/track/7EDrSW...

24.09.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@phoenix.tapbots.com any update on alpha? Thanks

28.08.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What the fuck does he know about war?!

29.07.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OMG which publication is this from. I grew up so near to this garage!

14.07.2025 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
This is a monochrome advertisement for the Lada Riva car, highlighting its features such as headlamp wash/wipe, rear seatbelts, and adjustable door mirrors. The ad suggests that one would expect these features in a luxury car, but they come at an affordable price in the Lada Riva.

Nothing spared except the expense.

Headlamp wash/wipe, rear seatbelts,
interior adjustable door mirrors.
You'd expect a luxury car to have all these features
except this. Β£2895.
*Prices quoted are ex-works inclusive of VAT & inertia reel seatbelts.
7 Ayr Road, Irvine. Tel: 78509

This is a monochrome advertisement for the Lada Riva car, highlighting its features such as headlamp wash/wipe, rear seatbelts, and adjustable door mirrors. The ad suggests that one would expect these features in a luxury car, but they come at an affordable price in the Lada Riva. Nothing spared except the expense. Headlamp wash/wipe, rear seatbelts, interior adjustable door mirrors. You'd expect a luxury car to have all these features except this. Β£2895. *Prices quoted are ex-works inclusive of VAT & inertia reel seatbelts. 7 Ayr Road, Irvine. Tel: 78509

Jul 1983: Lada Riva ad from Magnum Motors Ltd.

(+Headlamp Wash/Wipe; Rear Seatbelts; and Interior adjustable door mirrors)

Β«Nothing spared except the expense.Β»

13.07.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Register for this free webinar on 8th July

03.07.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How’s that going? Not everyone has pretend friends!

18.06.2025 06:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Into the light.

13.03.2025 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Al-Balad, Jeddah

12.03.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Milky Way

Milky Way

Milky Way over Jeddah

09.03.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Love the processing here. Understand the difficulty in capturing this. My meagre effort.

04.03.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So, Farage is a spokesperson for Trump and Trump is a spokesperson for Putin. It’s, quite ironically, like a game of Russian dolls. Except instead of dolls they’re ugly treacherous cunts.

20.02.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1433    πŸ” 230    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 9
The Day of Our Divorce Hearing 

you treated me to lunch, a spaghetti place.
We had never been so kind to each other.
When you said I'm still a slob we laughed.
After lunch we stood in the parking lot.
You said, You have the last word but I said, No, I'm tired of being the one who sums things up.
You get the last word.
But you couldn't think of one.
So off you went to our silver car, I to our red one.
It's three years later.
And even that's just a story now.
Lately I don't feel as if I lived with you.
But I remember our kindness that day, when it no longer mattered.

The Day of Our Divorce Hearing you treated me to lunch, a spaghetti place. We had never been so kind to each other. When you said I'm still a slob we laughed. After lunch we stood in the parking lot. You said, You have the last word but I said, No, I'm tired of being the one who sums things up. You get the last word. But you couldn't think of one. So off you went to our silver car, I to our red one. It's three years later. And even that's just a story now. Lately I don't feel as if I lived with you. But I remember our kindness that day, when it no longer mattered.

This poem made me stop in my tracks.

26.01.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 12345    πŸ” 771    πŸ’¬ 314    πŸ“Œ 76
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Some pictures from Al-Balad, Jedddah

18.01.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Done!

04.01.2025 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shit on a stick!

25.12.2024 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You just made it!!

24.12.2024 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If it’s not found within 90 min it generally burrows into the eyeball and will need surgically removed, the eyeball that is!

24.12.2024 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes please

17.12.2024 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shona, are you able to share how you got this image? I’d love to learn. Thanks

14.12.2024 08:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Santa’s favorite Christmas song is β€œA Long December” by the Counting Crows.

08.12.2024 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5683    πŸ” 322    πŸ’¬ 243    πŸ“Œ 34

Can someone suggest some feeds for breaking news? TIA

08.12.2024 05:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A night to forget for us all!!

05.12.2024 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I like handwritten letters. I like pouring my feelings onto paper, into words a little slanted, a little smudged from when my hand shook as I wrote them down, a polygraph of my heart. If flowers can be pressed, so can feelings β€” into paragraphs, into β€˜β€”yours truly,’ into a name.

03.12.2024 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1045    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 13

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