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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 8h

Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 1d

Aye. Spending fortunes in pursuit of the perfect tulip was daft. But at least tulips are bonny. And growing a tulip doesn't require enough energy to power Amsterdam for a week.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

After record crypto crash, a rush to hedge against another freefall reut.rs/4h5Ah5m

After record crypto crash, a rush to hedge against another freefall

Following the largest crypto liquidation in history last Friday, options market investors are bracing for more volatility and further declines in bitcoin and ether, aggressively positioning in trades that offer protection against another potential freefall.

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 4d

How are infungible chimpanzee cartoons doing these days? Asking for a friend. A VERY DESPERATE friend who can't feed his family.

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 4d

Never forget: This low brainwattage chancer who could start a fight while locked in a room by herself was selected as an SNP candidate and then received >0 votes in the SNP leadership election. The SNP *must* improve its candidate vetting.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 5d

Alba's sole MSP Ash Regan has quit the party citing concerns about its 'direction'

Ash Regan quits Alba over concerns of party's 'direction'

www.thenational.scot

Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 5d

Well that's certainly more convenient for the BBC than admitting to BBC staff being:

1. Stupid
or
2. Dishonest
or
3. Both of the above.

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 7d

I asked ChatGPT if it agrees with this and it responded " No. There is no AI bubble. Detergent is needed to form bubbles. Strawberry flavoured mouse peelers. Whoopee!!!"

Sky News @news.sky.com · 7d

Bank of England warns of 'sharp correction' for markets if AI bubble bursts

The Bank of England sees trouble ahead for global financial markets if investors U-turn on the prospects for artificial intelligence (AI) ahead.

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 7d

Status: Yearning for glistening hippo calves and sea shanties. Just like the guid auld days...

Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 7d

🎶I ghish I could thly right uck to the sky gut I can't. 🎶

You can.

I can't!

Yet another ludicrous Tory charlatan-bastard. Doing ventriloquism. With an English judge's wig.

Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 8d

A bronze-plated horror of a human being like Badenoch pretending to enjoy Pratchett is ALMOST as grotesque as a gold-plated horror like Musk affecting to understand Iain Banks.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 8d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 8d

This evening in the London meeja: We must respect Trump for happening to be the American president when Israel decided to pause its atrocities because it has all it wants. For now.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 8d

ANALYSIS | Love him or hate him, Trump just showed Biden and Democrats how to handle Israel’s Netanyahu. But can his Gaza ‘peace’ endure?

Trump just showed Biden and Democrats how to handle Israel’s Netanyahu

www.independent.co.uk

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 9d

The Scottish government has no significant economic powers. We know it. They know it. Yet they still keep pulling this line, taking us for idiots.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 9d

Russell Findlay has claimed the SNP’s 'biggest failure is the economy' – mentioning the pro-independence party 23 times in his speech to the Conservative party conference

Russell Findlay claims SNP 'biggest failure is the economy' as he swipes at Swinney

www.thenational.scot

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 9d

Police release photos of mosque arson suspects:

A pair of dodgy looking characters and no mistake.

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 10d

A tightening of the screw of repression is a weekly event in Britain now. And there's no sign of a less repressive government taking power.

Just stating the facts here...

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 10d

My dad has turned up this photo from a visit "many years ago" to the Forth Bridge. I think it's taken from what he calls the howff, just below track level, used by the maintenance workers.

I guess when you're engaged in a proverbially endless task, you need a wee cup of tea once in a while.

Black and white photo showing a kettle on the sill of a very dirty window. Immediately outside the window is the very recognisable steelwork of the Forth Bridge.

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 11d

The soldier's Glengarry bonnet indicates that he was from the Canadian Scottish Regiment. I wonder what his biography was...

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 11d

I estimate 6.2 on the Wimdy Scale here in Dundee.

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 11d

"You'll stop the deportations from Britain after the Muslims, right?
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Right?"

Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 11d

Inch-high Nazi Guy and the State of Israel: Just two concerned parties having a frank and friendly discussion about ethnic cleansing strategies.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 11d

The Englandnwales Greens have finally got a leader with a bit of smeddum. And our lot have got Ross Greer. Hey-ho.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13d

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 13d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 13d

Inside ma heid. Every time I see an ugly man.

Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 13d

This is an impossible fool's errand and I probably* shan't engage with it.

*(Yaar! That's Handsome Pete. He dances for nickels.)

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 13d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 13d

WHO WILL DEFEND THE STATUES WHILST EVERYONE'S ON COW PAINTING DUTY?!!

Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 13d

Those are Belted Galloways, a Scottish breed. So, well done to all concerned in maintaining the English tradition of planting a flag on things that aren't English.

James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 14d

what the fuck are we even doing man