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Tim Chapman @othersfield.bsky.social · 47m

Salin-de-Giraud

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 1h

It's not just books, too; it's music, it's stage. It just can't sustain like this and I'm absolutely dreading the bottoming-out because it will very likely destroy tons of people's lives, quite probably mine included, even if on the other side there will be (hopefully??) relief and a rebalancing.

Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 1h

Are you happy paying $18 for a paperback that was poorly printed by Ingram's POD printers? Or the $37 hardcover with fripperies you won't even see once the book is on your shelf? Then you're going to love the $25 shit-quality paperback and the $45 hardcover, coming sooner than you think!

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 1h

As a proper coffee addict, they may be a “functional substitute”, but they're never an emotional substitute.

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 1d

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 23h

Oh that could be an excuse for me to visit my home town.

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 23h

Great views from www.winterhighland.info/cams/glencoe/ webcams

12C and 47% humidity in the sunshine in/above the high pressure subsidence inversion, whose base appears to be around 700m asl judging by image 2

<6C with 98% humidity at 366masl.. below the inversion where low cloud is trapped

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Neil Reid @cairngormwanderer.bsky.social · 1d

A lesson learned and a day of utter joy in the #Cairngorms.
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Climb each hill like it’s your last

The picture shows an old man lying in the heather looking across a loch at a great cliff face. The cliff is the massive Creag an Dubh Loch and the man is Dod Thomson, a bothy pal of many years stan…

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard not to: www.youtube.com/shorts/5J3Am...

Why Everyone in Japan Still Uses Pocket Memos

YouTube video by bungu

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Ash Routen @ashrouten.com · 2d

On October 1, Balin Miller died when he accidentally rappelled off the end of his rope in Yosemite. We examine the flawed media reaction to his death.

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How a Climbing Tragedy Became Social Media Content » Explorersweb

On October 1, Balin Miller died when he accidentally rappelled off the end of his rope in Yosemite. We examine the flawed media reaction to his death.

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 2d

I saw this on Thursday driving up Deeside. A disturbing column of smoke visible for miles. The sign in Dinnet, a few miles before Culblean Hill, still warned of a high fire risk. It said, "No fires!"

Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 2d

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Culblean Hill, playing with fire in the Cairngorms National Park and the politics of muirburn - parkswatchscotland

On Thursday 9th October, the same day Jim Fairlie the Scottish Government minister responsible announced a further 9 month delay in the “watered down” – excuse the phrase – muirburn licensing scheme,...

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 5d

The rut was loud this afternoon.

walkhighlands @walkhighlands.co.uk · 13d

In his latest column, @countrysideben.bsky.social listens to one of the most dramatic sounds and spectacles of the Highlands.

Read all about the Rut:
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/the-rut/

The rut

I always look forwards to the first subzero morning. Coming so early in the autumn season, when summer still holds the days, it typically occurs after a clear night, which means the subsequent morning...

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 5d

The muirburn above Glen Ey forms a sharp scar underfoot near the top of Carn Bhithir that's quite distinct from the grassy side falling towards Allt Connie.

Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 5d

I support the ban and like Neil want landowners to made to behave responsibly. Earlier today, it stung to drive past Morven watching a plume of smoke form a column in the sky and then drive past the high fire warning, no BBQs or fires sign in Dinnit. It's either fine or its not.

Neil Reid @cairngormwanderer.bsky.social · 5d

I still think the campfire ban in the @cairngormsnews.bsky.social Cairngorms National Park is right, but it's long past time landowners were held to account too and made to behave responsibly themselves.

nickkempe.bsky.social @nickkempe.bsky.social · 5d

Prof Douglas MacMillan's post earlier this week on the cause of fires in the Cairngorms National Park shows the Scottish Government's sleekit announcement today that muirburn licensing will be delayed for another nine months is highly political parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/10/08/w...

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 7d

The valley north of Carn Bhac is likely infrequently visited for a reason.

Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 7d

Thankfully that's a rare temperature here.

Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 7d

My plan for tomorrow is to visit a valley that statistically no one ever visits, head with the gusting 50mph wind behind me to a Munro I've only visited in the fog then close read Zero History by a fire. It's less ambitious than last year's October mission, but that's this year.

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 7d

Struggling to understand when it isn't hot coffee season, but I'm adjacent to the north sea and always have a full Moomin branded mug, so I'm happy for you.

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 7d

Frustratingly so.

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 8d

Leg sore. The tendonitis or whatever it is fairing up again. Managed half an interval run dodging dog walkers and fighting my thirst this morning. At least I had a good month of it not hurting.

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Ben Dolphin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️⛰🌲 @countrysideben.bsky.social · 8d

Bit of storm inspection today. Close call for the Aberdeenshire MR hut! 🫣 #rangerdailydiary

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 9d

For various reasons* I've been exploring weather data in Norway using yr.no and seklima.met.no, which is fantastic. Does anyone know of a UK equivalent to help me understand our weather?

* Mostly trying to understand xc-ski conditions year on year.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 9d

My favourite Jilly Cooper story is recounted in Graham Hoyland's 2013 book Last Hours on Everest. What a trooper.

"We lay in a tent for three days in a blizzard. After the first morning we had each told our life stories, and we lay there gazing at the roof of the tent, wondering what to do next.

Luckily Mark had brought a copy of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, a breathily written romance, and Brice had a penknife. We carefully cut it up into three parts. Mark, as owner, was allowed to read it in sequence: A, B, then C. Brice got B, C, then A, but I - as the youngest - was lumbered with C, A, then B, and struggled to comprehend both the plot and the characters.

On our return Mark contacted Jilly Cooper and told her the story. She was delighted to have been able to satisfy three large men at once with only one book."

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Will Ellwood @unleashtheginger.bsky.social · 10d

Rereading: Zero History

I've read this once. At the time it was released, I was unemployed and spent a day on the old blue Ikea sofa at my parents' house listening to Arcade Fire's The Suburbs on repeat. An unfortunate number of years have passed since then.

Rereading: Zero History

I've read this once. At the time it was released, I was unemployed and spent a day on the old blue Ikea sofa at my parents' house listening to Arcade Fire's The Suburbs on repeat. An unfortunate number of years have passed since then.

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James A. Reeves @jamesreeves.co · 12d

A Chromatics megamix so glossy it’s nearly lacquered—plus notes on the Mariana Trench and unbearable weather. Here’s a sleek hyperlink. And a podcast thingy.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 13d

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

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