John MacPherson
@johnmacpherson.bsky.social
Mostly a photographer: https://www.john-macpherson-photography.com
I sometimes write: https://www.duckrabbit.info/blog/author/j-macpherson/
Scottish Highlander, left-coast, interested in all sorts of things. I make stuff, some of it even works.
I sometimes write: https://www.duckrabbit.info/blog/author/j-macpherson/
Scottish Highlander, left-coast, interested in all sorts of things. I make stuff, some of it even works.
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I like stories. I posted this one on The Other Place and many people liked it. So I thought I'd post it here for anyone who missed it. It's about travel, but mainly it's about trust, risk & reward and a reminder that we're all strangers to others at some point. But only temporarily... 1/12
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December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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I mean it’s not like the entire world won’t want Green Hydrogen in the future 🙈
It’s obviously much “safer” if Scotland doesn’t have the “complicated problem” of selling its own fuels 🤷♀️
It’s depressing seeing this all happening again, said it would happen & now it is
Off to cry in a corner..
It’s obviously much “safer” if Scotland doesn’t have the “complicated problem” of selling its own fuels 🤷♀️
It’s depressing seeing this all happening again, said it would happen & now it is
Off to cry in a corner..
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I mean it’s not like the entire world won’t want Green Hydrogen in the future 🙈
It’s obviously much “safer” if Scotland doesn’t have the “complicated problem” of selling its own fuels 🤷♀️
It’s depressing seeing this all happening again, said it would happen & now it is
Off to cry in a corner..
It’s obviously much “safer” if Scotland doesn’t have the “complicated problem” of selling its own fuels 🤷♀️
It’s depressing seeing this all happening again, said it would happen & now it is
Off to cry in a corner..
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The Lewis and Harris seed collecting volunteers were out in the Bays of Harris collecting prostrate juniper berries and alder seed.
Good work team!👏
Good work team!👏
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Lewis and Harris seed collecting volunteers were out in the Bays of Harris collecting prostrate juniper berries and alder seed.
Good work team!👏
Good work team!👏
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As another November draws to its close, Dr Peter Christie, one of the founders of the Inverclyde Church Recorders group, has been reflecting on the uncertain future of war memorials in closing churches.
These remarkable items come in a variety of forms, not all of them easy to relocate... (1/2)
These remarkable items come in a variety of forms, not all of them easy to relocate... (1/2)
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
As another November draws to its close, Dr Peter Christie, one of the founders of the Inverclyde Church Recorders group, has been reflecting on the uncertain future of war memorials in closing churches.
These remarkable items come in a variety of forms, not all of them easy to relocate... (1/2)
These remarkable items come in a variety of forms, not all of them easy to relocate... (1/2)
HAMSTR™ Share the load with your new workplace companion.
November 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
HAMSTR™ Share the load with your new workplace companion.
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'Blue Light' by contemporary, Brighton-based, UK painter Emma Brownjohn #WomensArt
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
'Blue Light' by contemporary, Brighton-based, UK painter Emma Brownjohn #WomensArt
'Time and Tide'
(From a previous winter.)
I walked along the beach, it was the 7th December, and cold. Sleet showers stung my face.
I saw a branch, cast ashore by the tide. It was shapely and elegant, and rocking to and fro with the rhythm of the sea. 1/5
(From a previous winter.)
I walked along the beach, it was the 7th December, and cold. Sleet showers stung my face.
I saw a branch, cast ashore by the tide. It was shapely and elegant, and rocking to and fro with the rhythm of the sea. 1/5
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
'Time and Tide'
(From a previous winter.)
I walked along the beach, it was the 7th December, and cold. Sleet showers stung my face.
I saw a branch, cast ashore by the tide. It was shapely and elegant, and rocking to and fro with the rhythm of the sea. 1/5
(From a previous winter.)
I walked along the beach, it was the 7th December, and cold. Sleet showers stung my face.
I saw a branch, cast ashore by the tide. It was shapely and elegant, and rocking to and fro with the rhythm of the sea. 1/5
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let’s agree that a clean milestone
should have some lichen on
let’s agree that if you can sell
books by colour, then you
should be able to buy music
by weight
let’s agree Benefit Street used to be
Community Chest and is now
the new Jail
should have some lichen on
let’s agree that if you can sell
books by colour, then you
should be able to buy music
by weight
let’s agree Benefit Street used to be
Community Chest and is now
the new Jail
November 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
let’s agree that a clean milestone
should have some lichen on
let’s agree that if you can sell
books by colour, then you
should be able to buy music
by weight
let’s agree Benefit Street used to be
Community Chest and is now
the new Jail
should have some lichen on
let’s agree that if you can sell
books by colour, then you
should be able to buy music
by weight
let’s agree Benefit Street used to be
Community Chest and is now
the new Jail
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Keep your receipt guys, you’ve been had. That polar bear is, in fact, what’s known as a “cow”.
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Keep your receipt guys, you’ve been had. That polar bear is, in fact, what’s known as a “cow”.
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It isn't. It's Ai.
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It isn't. It's Ai.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.
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it’s not capitalism unless it’s made in the capitalism region of Luxembourg, otherwise it’s just sparkling greed
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
it’s not capitalism unless it’s made in the capitalism region of Luxembourg, otherwise it’s just sparkling greed
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Fascinating that countries are mulling plans about what to do if the AMOC collapses. Options for Iceland: (1) live under the ice, grow microbial proteins, use geothermal energy or (2) abandon the country and attempt to migrate the entire population south
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Fascinating that countries are mulling plans about what to do if the AMOC collapses. Options for Iceland: (1) live under the ice, grow microbial proteins, use geothermal energy or (2) abandon the country and attempt to migrate the entire population south
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Christ, this is heartbreaking. Looking around my bit of Cornwall... the sheer scale of what was thrown away... millions for farmers, hundreds of thousands for schools, more hundreds for young people and culture and...
www.myeu.uk
www.myeu.uk
myeu.uk – see what the EU has done for you
The EU invests around £5 billion a year in the UK. Search by your address or postcode to see some of the investments near you.
www.myeu.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Christ, this is heartbreaking. Looking around my bit of Cornwall... the sheer scale of what was thrown away... millions for farmers, hundreds of thousands for schools, more hundreds for young people and culture and...
www.myeu.uk
www.myeu.uk
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He's a school bully. What I don't understand is why everyone is tip-toeing around that. Call him what he is. This was never banter it's about power, it's always about the power dynamic. Farage may not understand the whys & hows but he's been rewarded for it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
He's a school bully. What I don't understand is why everyone is tip-toeing around that. Call him what he is. This was never banter it's about power, it's always about the power dynamic. Farage may not understand the whys & hows but he's been rewarded for it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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😍
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
😍
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Sen. Mark Kelly on MS NOW: "I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I've been nearly shot down multiple times … My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head, six people killed around her … We know what political violence is. And we know what causes it, too."
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly on MS NOW: "I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I've been nearly shot down multiple times … My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head, six people killed around her … We know what political violence is. And we know what causes it, too."
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'The Hands Of My Father'
What's in a picture?
Some people say: “A picture is worth a thousand words”. But the story those "thousand words" might tell often depends on the reader. And in the digital age of billions of images, finding an image that truly speaks to us is a matter of luck. 1/9
What's in a picture?
Some people say: “A picture is worth a thousand words”. But the story those "thousand words" might tell often depends on the reader. And in the digital age of billions of images, finding an image that truly speaks to us is a matter of luck. 1/9
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
'The Hands Of My Father'
What's in a picture?
Some people say: “A picture is worth a thousand words”. But the story those "thousand words" might tell often depends on the reader. And in the digital age of billions of images, finding an image that truly speaks to us is a matter of luck. 1/9
What's in a picture?
Some people say: “A picture is worth a thousand words”. But the story those "thousand words" might tell often depends on the reader. And in the digital age of billions of images, finding an image that truly speaks to us is a matter of luck. 1/9
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am I even awake right now?
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
am I even awake right now?