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Lighting design at Speirs Major. Occasional photography all over the place.
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...but then there's also so much more to improve.

11.08.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Soak The Bloke has been moved to the river Evenlode, since the St John's Ambulance received a delivery of new haz-mat suits.

11.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I hope somebody left a box set of This Country in the house where Vance is staying.

11.08.2025 13:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My Dad was just stopped from cycling past. He reports there are not yet any sandwiches.

11.08.2025 13:05 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Funnily enough I've actually been physically present in the public gallery twice in Holyrood's history:

First time was the final vote on equal marriage in 2014, the second was when they announced the delay and further consultation on GRR. One, a huge step forward, the other, a catastrophic failure.

10.08.2025 21:56 — 👍 40    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
An ampersand formed by arranging oyster shells on the beach.

An ampersand formed by arranging oyster shells on the beach.

A close-up shot of an ampersand formed by arranging oyster shells on the beach.

A close-up shot of an ampersand formed by arranging oyster shells on the beach.

Today's #AmperSand made from the old washed up shells of flat oysters, at Longniddry Bents.

Previously: www.flickr.com/photos/davem...

#BeachArt #Lettering

10.08.2025 20:57 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

It definitely is. Or it least it was, earlier!

10.08.2025 18:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

like it's current uk law that GC beliefs are THE most protected characteristic, and attempting to NOT listen to them being shouted at you is incompatible with being british

10.08.2025 09:13 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

New GC grift just dropped: getting kicked out of Glasgow Students' Union for putting up a LOAD of transphobic banners and ranting about trans women

Cue Michael Foran to explain how they're legally in the right to harass students and force their transphobic views on them

10.08.2025 09:06 — 👍 33    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Audience review for A Passion For Passion!

At @edfringe.bsky.social‬ from Aug 11-25 | 6:50 PM - 7:50 PM | Underbelly, Bristo Square - Fresian

🎟️ https://www.alicecomedyfraser.com/upcoming-gigs

10.08.2025 09:14 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely! It’s not a huge club, but I’m very much a fan.

09.08.2025 21:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s the one!

09.08.2025 21:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good question! I can't say I remember it specifically, but the idea is certainly ringing a bell somewhere in my brain...

09.08.2025 20:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also bending yourself into uncomfortable positions to make sure the camera is in the right place... Good grief, this one required some contortion! 😅

09.08.2025 20:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I was genuinely rather surprised at how well it turned out!

It required quite a lot of contortion to get the camera in the right place, and I could actually barely see the sky from where I was stood - so glad I could see/follow the responses of the two people at the railing up there!

09.08.2025 19:42 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oh, I have PLENTY I took without the planes, while awaiting them!

I’ve always liked that carpark (and stair), though. Under-appreciated, I reckon.

09.08.2025 19:15 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
A spiral staircase in a lovely concrete carpark. Out the top  of the stair you can see the sky, Edinburgh Castle, and the Red Arrows.

A spiral staircase in a lovely concrete carpark. Out the top of the stair you can see the sky, Edinburgh Castle, and the Red Arrows.

Haha! It worked!

I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh?

#Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography

09.08.2025 18:23 — 👍 1278    🔁 234    💬 50    📌 14

#InternationalCatDay

08.08.2025 10:14 — 👍 23    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm sure (I hope) there's more to Thomas Heatherwick's curation of Seoul Biennial, but this main feature of "a big wall with pictures and text on" and a few freestanding façade sculptures is a really boring a approach to architecture exhibition.l

06.08.2025 14:15 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Happy 35th birthday to Groove Is In The Heart!!! Dig!
youtu.be/etviGf1uWlg

06.08.2025 07:15 — 👍 134    🔁 24    💬 5    📌 2

And every *single* online news site illustrates their "coverage" with a copy and paste image of *that* Scotrail train at Saltcoats 10 years ago.

04.08.2025 13:06 — 👍 40    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 1

Trans people poured their hearts into this consultation. The EHRC won't even bother to read them.

31.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 657    🔁 285    💬 26    📌 8
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1 in 3 doctors were born overseas.

1 in 2 builders were born overseas.

1 in 6 nurses were born overseas.

1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas.

1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas.

1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.

The UK would be screwed without them.

01.08.2025 08:40 — 👍 1705    🔁 767    💬 72    📌 45

Among other notable details to this restored home... It has the most amazing antique shower cubicle.

01.08.2025 11:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I mean it's only anecdotal but I asked my wife, who for a few years represented our country at international level in sport, and she said nope, she didn't - and wouldn't - care about it at all.

31.07.2025 13:16 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

30.07.2025 01:10 — 👍 42934    🔁 9601    💬 822    📌 612
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What?

29.07.2025 07:59 — 👍 32    🔁 8    💬 9    📌 7
The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.

The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"

The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

29.07.2025 04:08 — 👍 17621    🔁 3756    💬 388    📌 550

Hello

Long shot.

The Riba library is shut (refurb)
I'm looking for a copy of the Architects
Journal, 29 July 1954
Can anyone help me?!
Thank you

28.07.2025 14:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Image © John East

Image © John East

Image © Historic England

Image © Historic England

Images © Historic England

Images © Historic England

EVENT: As part of Birmingham Heritage Week, join C20 Society for a walking tour of William Mitchell's Hockley murals. Designed in 1968, Grade II listed in 2022, and more recently finding use as a brutalist climbing wall!

🗓️ Sat 20 Sep 2025, 3:00-4:30pm
🎟️ secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

25.07.2025 10:14 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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