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Aidan Skinner

@aidan.skinner.me.uk

Open Source Open Rights Open Banking Open Labour Open Minds Open Containers. Open's a verb GNU/Accelerationist Dusty black coat red right hand (He/Him)

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Happy SQA results day
(To me, who has 7 more to enjoy πŸ₯³πŸ« )

Amidst the stats released re #s going to Sc uni, might also be worth reporting Sc clearing degrees available to those from Sc schools vs rUK on UCAS site

Strathclyde
Sc students 0
RUK students 223 degrees available via clearing.

Or ...

05.08.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Lawnchair larry

Lawnchair larry

05.08.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

same with Yusuf, Sturgeon.

05.08.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this reminds me: i need to get on the list to get my other hip done

05.08.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe I don't understand politics, but I'm pretty sure a career where you are Deputy First Minister and Finance Minister before your 35 is one that has been very successful, and the idea that they haven't been able to flourish due to their views doesn't make any sense.

05.08.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

"sorting" after 18 years in government

05.08.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Just me and thee and I'm not too sure about thee

05.08.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Panopticon

Panopticon

Sometimes You Wanna Go Where Everybody Knows Your Name

05.04.2024 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 409    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

tired: eternal september

wired: eternal hacktober

05.08.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unelected politician seeks to restrict freedom to protest against arms manufacturers who employ him as an adviser. But it's okay because he "acted on personal honour".

05.08.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TNT Sports secures live rights to England’s Ashes series in Australia TNT Sports will show all of England’s matches live this winter, after adding the Ashes battle to its coverage of white-ball series in New Zealand and Sri Lanka

Guys - I have a plan to defeat Reform: Nationalise TNT Sports and make it free to air.

05.08.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

oh! is this maybe related to the rise in re-smelting gold from european to us bullion standards that's mostly going through there?

05.08.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Daily Mail: "Ban this stuff!"

Organised Crime: "Yes, please! Ban This Stuff!"

05.08.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I mean that's just not true of many industries like fishing, construction

05.08.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I get my good opinions on this from Molly Smith and Juno Mac: sex work is work, work is often horrible.

05.08.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've spent a lot of time over the last year @taskandpurpose.com writing about weird Cold War military space plans. Nuking and or putting nukes on the Moon was a reoccurring proposal. Uh.... taskandpurpose.com/history/air-...

04.08.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon character in a devil costume is standing in front of a grave ALT: a cartoon character in a devil costume is standing in front of a grave

Furthermore

04.08.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Clarrie and Susan in the archers

04.08.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Browned but uncooked ox tail and pork ribs up to their oxters in veg, beans, some spices, some stock

Browned but uncooked ox tail and pork ribs up to their oxters in veg, beans, some spices, some stock

A delicious sludge with a glistening pork rib sticking out next to a chill and some hints of meat, beans

A delicious sludge with a glistening pork rib sticking out next to a chill and some hints of meat, beans

04.08.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

bounty for electric braces in libreoffice

04.08.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

is this good for me? no, obviously not. would this be even worse for me if my brain wasn't developed? yes, obviously. should algorithmic social media be understood as basically satanic? duh

23.03.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

find the anti-anti- phones backlash/position very weird. you don't have to think jonathan haidt is a genius to think smart phones are bad for people, you just need to self crit the inside of your own head

23.03.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 10
A parody of a jeans ad showing the mutated guy from "The Fly" and the text: 

"American Eagle
Seth Brundle has fly jeans"

A parody of a jeans ad showing the mutated guy from "The Fly" and the text: "American Eagle Seth Brundle has fly jeans"

Good morning this is all I have to contribute to the discourse

04.08.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1382    πŸ” 348    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 6

you can get a taxi for your burrito now?

04.08.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yikes! there's a bunch of small branches down around us but think Eoywn took out anything that was biggish and ready to go. Seen a fair few signs that have been blown off and scattered around.

04.08.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

that's basically how we got pies once somebody figured out you needed to put fat in it for it to be edible?

04.08.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Two oxtails and two half racks of poem ribs that been well browned

Two oxtails and two half racks of poem ribs that been well browned

Onions, celery, carrots in a pan arranged two browned lumps of ox tail fat that will render down

Onions, celery, carrots in a pan arranged two browned lumps of ox tail fat that will render down

An aubergine being blowtorched

An aubergine being blowtorched

The pot with veg cooked off beetroot added and the fat rendered down a lot

The pot with veg cooked off beetroot added and the fat rendered down a lot

Making chilli

04.08.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely should

04.08.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep. I cashed out 2/3rds of my EFPII stale and am quite glad I did. Written rest down to 0.

04.08.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can we get a little butlerian jihad as a treat?

04.08.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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