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For other authors who want to leave substack, there are guides.

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Apple Corpus - which causes the person you’re looking at to be confused and say “I’m sorry, I didn’t quite catch that”.

Hear me out for a second. Maybe increasing tax on rental income was always going to be passed onto tenants and lead to higher rent?

BBC - Learning, Rudolf Bing explains the origins of the Edinburgh Festival Rudolf Bing on how he first began to work on the Edinburgh Festival in 1945.

The Edinburgh Festival was the brainchild of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. They wanted to show that there’s a lot more that connects us than separates us. And art is one of those things that transcends borders.

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Torn (n)

1. Feeling that one is not totally sure of something.

2. Ripped or pulled apart.

In OpenAI’s new Atlas browser, instead of a 404 page, they should have a “I can’t allow you to do that David” page.

On today’s anniversary of The Battle of Trafalgar, I remember Lady Hamilton and her daughter Horatia Nelson. They deserved better.

Great result at the charity shop. I got a copy of Two Worlds, by David Daiches. It’s the story of a Jewish family in Edinburgh in the 1920s and 30s. His father was Rabbi in the synagogue at Graham Street - which was renamed Keir St some time later.

And it’s not even as if there’s any private sector business standing in the way. The buses and trams are owned by local government. The trains are owned by the Scottish government. Surely, of all cities, it should be easier in Edinburgh?

Hot take. If Arsenal had just one of Eze, Madueke or Gyokeres last year, they win the league.

The handbrake is definitely off. #ArsNew

Madueke off? What? He should be on the left, with Saka on the right.

Come on Arsenal!

There’s this guy from the Knives Out movies.

The Arsenal squad is so strong that it might be fair to say that the manager is the weakest part of the team.

I don’t think we need to play like that anymore. We have the best squad in the league now. So many goal scoring options. Plus the best defence anywhere. Let’s just go out there and score more goals than the opposition

Got new iPhone, running iOS26. Opened the new “Games” app, and it had all my contacts in it under “Friend Suggestions”.

This is gross, Facebook style creeping.

Apple can’t claim to be the “Privacy” company if they do things like this.

My daughter’s doing History for Advanced Higher just now. The way that Chamberlain’s appeasement is talked about now is way different to how it was when we were kids.

Now he’s seen as a genius who knew that Britain couldn’t win a war, and he was using the time to build up our capabilities.

The Cocteau Child.

Are you a Liquid Glass half-empty person or a Liquid Glass half-full person?

This is a 1 frame cartoon style image. There is a statue of a man holding a duck. 2 people are looking at the statue. One of them says “it’s the inventor of autocorrect and his beloved pet duck”.

@kocienda.bsky.social I saw this on another app and immediately thought “I know who needs to see this” 😀

A man stands outside a second storey window, washing the exterior of the glass. The Meadows, Edinburgh

Window washing. The Meadows

#Edinburgh #monochrome #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #photographersofbluesky #blackandwhite #bnw #Scotland #urbangaze #blackandwhitephoto #eastcoastkin #photographersunited #bw #streetphoto #street #classicmono

Colonialism is where the a group of people overthrow the culture of an existing state. For an example, see the Islamic colonisation of the Middle East, including the Levant.

34 years ago today Linus Torvalds announced Freax to the world (well comp.os.minix). The name was later changed to Linux.

Next year is the year of Linux on the desktop.

I did not know that.

From Wikipedia: ‘Mogen David is the Ashkenazic pronunciation of the Hebrew Magen David, which literally means "shield of David"’

The old Arsenal;
The plan for Number 10 is Martin Ødegaard, then Ethan Nwaneri and Max Dowman after that. We have great players there for years to come.

New Arsenal:
Let’s bring Eberechi Eze in too. Because nobody’s place is 100% secure.

And I am totally here for it.

Statehood should be earned by diplomacy, not massive terrorist attacks. We should campaign for more EU countries to recognise Kosovo’s state. Where’s your post on a state for the Kurds? Why only post about Palestine?

Lisa Shmeesa 🦎🦎🦎 (@LisaRieffel) on X My kid wrote a song called, “I Wonder What’s Inside your Butthole” Quite honestly, it slaps.

You’ve made me think about this song again.

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Unpopular oninion: Other than for showing a photo, 99% of iPhone users don’t use widgets.

Imagine you were born on the first Christmas Day, over 2,000 years ago. And every day since then, you got £1,000 (or $ or €). Every single day. And you put that money into a room.

Today, on July 7, 2025, you still wouldn’t be a billionaire.

It’s too much money for 1 person.

How many times have you pressed Skip on the F1 trailer so far on your Apple TV?

I’m not saying I want to be tracked, but can it really be productive to keep showing me the same trailer before every show??