Al Innes

me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything

me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog

08.08.2025 02:33 — 👍 2531    🔁 879    💬 17    📌 13

More seedy

10.08.2025 18:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Solidarity with resident doctors striking in England and Wales today.

For anyone unconvinced, the monthly take home pay of an NHS resident doctor today is only around £100 greater than it was in 2008.

The government could easily afford to resolve this. This strike is their fault.

#solidarity

25.07.2025 08:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Always good to see Dr Rae get his due. Top work from the Arctic Institute here.

27.11.2024 11:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Second round – ScAN early career travel grant application – closing date – 2 December – Scottish Arctic Network

🔊💷 Funding Alert 🔊💷
Deadline: 02 December 24'
We are very pleased to be able to support early career researchers again this year - travel funds available for early career researchers based in Scotland to participate in Arctic-focused academic events.
arctic.scot/second-round...

27.11.2024 10:23 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Such a great week, fantastic to hear about all the great #Arctic work going on across Scottish universities @mastscot.bsky.social Annual Science Meeting

27.11.2024 10:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Edinburgh sunset ain't too bad #Scotland

14.11.2024 23:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm going to start working on this, and will add to it as more major media outlets join Bluesky.

I expect the pace to pick up very soon and very significantly.

Major media has let us down significantly over the last ten years, but it's still vital to know what's being reported. go.bsky.app/2JyEju6

14.11.2024 07:42 — 👍 7679    🔁 1762    💬 924    📌 176

07.10.2023 11:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Has anyone questioned Guy of Gisborne about this? Seems to have both motive and opportunity, if you ask me.

28.09.2023 11:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sycamore Gap: Most famous tree in the north of England is deliberately felled and police are investi... One of the UK’s most photographed trees has come down overnight after being “deliberately felled,” the Northumberland National Park Authority has said.

Why would anybody do this? Sad and pointless.

(And yet looking into my mind, I think of the disparity between my instantaneous emotional reaction to this versus my sluggish emotional reaction to climate change - illustrates a problem of thinking)

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/s...

28.09.2023 10:43 — 👍 105    🔁 26    💬 14    📌 11

A very handsome man in a wetsuit posing in the middle of a waterfall. He doesn't look cold, but he is.

Afternoon from the Fairy Pools on Skye. Had a very 'last days of summer' vibe, you can even see the massive wall of rain coming at me from the Cuillin Hills.

Yes, it was freezing.

28.09.2023 11:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fuck this hustle-culture bullshit. When I’m a skeleton I’m not doing a goddamn thing

22.09.2023 23:22 — 👍 6333    🔁 1965    💬 64    📌 61

It'll undoubtedly waste food. Just as was Twitter originally intended.

23.09.2023 22:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Contents of a book with a portrait of Dr John Rae inset.

Delightful Franklin-adjacent illustrations at the library today.

23.09.2023 09:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A case of 14 daguerreotype images: Sir John Franklin and the officers of his flagship HMS Erebus, plus Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror.

Still vaguely annoyed that Sotheby’s chose to have today’s auction online only. I wanted gavels! Drama! Fistfights!

And hopefully the spectacle of UK Museums uniting like superheroes to save the Franklin Expedition daguerreotypes from vanishing into the hands of a supervillain.

21.09.2023 09:30 — 👍 33    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

A marble plinth with the words: "Beneath lie the remains of one of Franklin's companions who perished in the Arctic regions 1848. Discovered and brought away from King William Land by Captain Hall the United States explorer 1869."

Marble relief of a ship navigating past an iceberg (L to R). In the center is a pair of figures, one holding a globe, the other in distress.

Good morning from (what is most likely) where Harry Goodsir, Acting Assistant Surgeon on the 1845 Franklin Expedition, is laid to rest.

The remains were originally identified as being Lieutenant Henry Le Vesconte, but the presence of a gold tooth and bone sampling pushed the envelope toward Goodsir

21.09.2023 08:34 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0