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Likes Photography, Italy, Whisky, The Magnetic Fields, Autonomy, Glasgow, &c Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre. Glasgow, Yr Hen Ogledd

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · Nov 20

18 years ago today I took one of my favorite photos. I followed a small path behind a church in Pienza and suddenly : sunset on the slopes of Monte Amiata, from behind the palace of Pius II...

#photography
#Italy

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 2d

Expectant crowd...
#Madrid #TheMagneticFields
@themagfields.bsky.social

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 3d

#Madrid

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 3d

Hola from #Madrid. Where there are a lot of Marys. This one is is the Colegio San Isidro.

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 7d

Shocking and depressing. Presumably the items are properly recorded, scanned etc? So at least it's not "as bad as" when the only records we have are things like an 18th century diary entry, or a pencil drawing?

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 7d

Have you read the books? Also wondrous.

Green Knowe.

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 7d

Listening to extraordinary interview with Varoufakis here : www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Start the Week - Yanis Varoufakis on Greece’s civil war - BBC Sounds

Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis and historians Paul Cartledge and Mary Vincent.

www.bbc.co.uk

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 9d

There's a lot of them in Oban. Maybe the frequent strong winds make them more effective.

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 9d

Strong contender for "worthless article of the year" here.

Some people have a choice about whether or not to vote Labour. I wish I did too | Polly Hudson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some people have a choice about whether or not to vote Labour. I wish I did too | Polly Hudson

I’m disillusioned with Keir Starmer’s government. But my late father’s passion for his political career makes it difficult to imagine putting my cross in another box, writes Polly Hudson

www.theguardian.com

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 9d

Remind us why they are useless.

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 9d

Oban chimneys for @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social

#photography #architecture

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 9d

A sort of vaguely Chinese Doric order in Oban...

#photography #architecture

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 9d

What's this about?

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 10d

Birds that never flew...
The guanofest that is the militaristic #Glasgow coat of arms on the inside north face of the Triumphal Arch, linking the old City Chambers to the extension block.

#architecture #photography

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 10d

I really can't tell if this Laura Snapes piece is badly written or some clever satire of a genre.

(doesn't help that I know nothing whatever about the two subjects I guess)

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Taylor Swift’s Charli xcx hit job misses the point – and underscores her tedious obsession with conflict | Laura Snapes

Sixteen months after Charli used Brat to air her anxieties about Swift, the US star’s graceless response is a missed opportunity for growth – and betrays her vengeful side

www.theguardian.com

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 10d

There'll always be someone trying to get a slice of the action.

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 10d

And they should also leave x, if they haven't already, an immoral cesspit of hate and lies.

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 10d

We have a Dick Cannon at work.

There's a sentence.

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 10d

Whilst the reporter whips a crozier out from behind their back.

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 11d

Today is National Poetry Day in the UK. Here's a topical #haiku

Start of October.
If you mention halloween,
Then I will block you.

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 12d

Poll Analysis: Norstat 22nd - 25th of September 2025

Holyrood Seat Projection:
SNP ~ 63
Reform UK ~ 20
Labour ~ 19
Conservative ~ 12
Lib Dem ~ 9
Green ~ 6

Independence:
Yes ~ 53%
No ~ 47%

Poll Analysis: Norstat 22nd – 25th of September 2025

Another poll with continued SNP constituency dominance has them within touching distance of a proportionally unearned majority, and Yes remains in the lead.

ballotbox.scot

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 12d

Also (having seen comments you got on Instagram) I don't think a selfie *is* a selfie unless you actually send it to someone.

Of course, sometimes it *is* art...

flic.kr/p/2qBCu8M

Siena items

Selfie in the specchio di traffico on Via delle Terme. Siena.

flic.kr

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 13d

I've only come across the term at the Whisky Fringe. and I'm OLD*.

(*albeit I've always hated football, so unlikely to know their quant little traditions from before they were eviscerated by international capital and turned into cash-vampire "local clubs for local people")

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 13d

Selfies are the opposite of Rembrandt. He was actually looking at himself, carefully, for himself.

Selfies are attention pictographs, aimed at others, that say "Hi, it's me, remember me? Read this text above or below this picture and reply - after all, I added a picture!"

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 13d

By the way, when I said it's phenomenally ugly, I meant it. I took this to prove it...

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 13d

So fed up of Labour's romantic, self-deceptive drivel on this subject. They feel entitled to the votes of people they can't even accurately identify - let alone identify *with*.