Iain MacGilleBhràith
@aeonmach.bsky.social
I LIKE a *lot* of shit: sci & tech (my day job!), environment & energy (ecomodernism), politics (~moderate, social-liberalism), culture & language(s), outdoors (mountains, cycling/MTB, sailing), travel, nuance & irony.
I HATE black-&-white simplism!
I HATE black-&-white simplism!
Owen Jones: “All will be held to account!”
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Owen Jones: “All will be held to account!”
3/… and the underlying key point - tying in with Tim’s point - is spelt out by @jamesdaustin.bsky.social and @oldtrotter.bsky.social in further comments in the thread:
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
3/… and the underlying key point - tying in with Tim’s point - is spelt out by @jamesdaustin.bsky.social and @oldtrotter.bsky.social in further comments in the thread:
…which implies the cut-down CNS-7 is as follows (and damn this has been painful - transparent it is NOT!):
November 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
…which implies the cut-down CNS-7 is as follows (and damn this has been painful - transparent it is NOT!):
PS I have found something which I think indicates what CNS-7 might be based on which Qs were found not to work (Spanish researchers)…
… but the relevant part also seems to cast doubt on CNS working across countries (“national groups”)!?
… but the relevant part also seems to cast doubt on CNS working across countries (“national groups”)!?
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
PS I have found something which I think indicates what CNS-7 might be based on which Qs were found not to work (Spanish researchers)…
… but the relevant part also seems to cast doubt on CNS working across countries (“national groups”)!?
… but the relevant part also seems to cast doubt on CNS working across countries (“national groups”)!?
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is a wonderful article all about The Rut by @countrysideben.bsky.social - full of interesting details and explaining the biology and lifecycle of deer! 👏
I just sent it to my son bc he heard it for the first time on a cracking walk over Maoile Lunndaidh et al a week or so ago.
I just sent it to my son bc he heard it for the first time on a cracking walk over Maoile Lunndaidh et al a week or so ago.
October 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This is a wonderful article all about The Rut by @countrysideben.bsky.social - full of interesting details and explaining the biology and lifecycle of deer! 👏
I just sent it to my son bc he heard it for the first time on a cracking walk over Maoile Lunndaidh et al a week or so ago.
I just sent it to my son bc he heard it for the first time on a cracking walk over Maoile Lunndaidh et al a week or so ago.
It’s not Dovedale is it?
When I was here last year it was somewhat misty!
When I was here last year it was somewhat misty!
September 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It’s not Dovedale is it?
When I was here last year it was somewhat misty!
When I was here last year it was somewhat misty!
This 👇 from a wonderful (warm!) cycle around the ‘Greenock Cut’ (aqueduct) yesterday. Amazing views and an amazing piece of Victorian engineering built to supply Greenock with water…
August 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This 👇 from a wonderful (warm!) cycle around the ‘Greenock Cut’ (aqueduct) yesterday. Amazing views and an amazing piece of Victorian engineering built to supply Greenock with water…
Lads, I found the Overton Window…
August 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Lads, I found the Overton Window…
I think the Overton Window is now operating like these…
July 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I think the Overton Window is now operating like these…
And especially 👇
Just bc one lives in eg Glasgow (or god forbid - from a (lack of) sunshine perspective - Fort William) does NOT mean all of Scotland is gloomy 🤷♂️
The west Highlands in winter OTOH… it’s enough to make one invent whisky.
Just bc one lives in eg Glasgow (or god forbid - from a (lack of) sunshine perspective - Fort William) does NOT mean all of Scotland is gloomy 🤷♂️
The west Highlands in winter OTOH… it’s enough to make one invent whisky.
July 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
And especially 👇
Just bc one lives in eg Glasgow (or god forbid - from a (lack of) sunshine perspective - Fort William) does NOT mean all of Scotland is gloomy 🤷♂️
The west Highlands in winter OTOH… it’s enough to make one invent whisky.
Just bc one lives in eg Glasgow (or god forbid - from a (lack of) sunshine perspective - Fort William) does NOT mean all of Scotland is gloomy 🤷♂️
The west Highlands in winter OTOH… it’s enough to make one invent whisky.
Courtesy of the @metoffice.gov.uk’s excellent ‘anomaly’ maps (you can alter the settings to see how the monthly/seasonal/annual stats compare to a long running average!)
July 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Courtesy of the @metoffice.gov.uk’s excellent ‘anomaly’ maps (you can alter the settings to see how the monthly/seasonal/annual stats compare to a long running average!)
6/ I had no idea where they were talking about & only deduced from other clues (Easter Ross) & knowing energy sector.
The BBC also called it ‘Bàgh an Neig’ a year ago 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...
But look closely at the AAA footnotes for Nigg/Neig; they sensibly call it ‘Camas Neig’! 😏
The BBC also called it ‘Bàgh an Neig’ a year ago 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...
But look closely at the AAA footnotes for Nigg/Neig; they sensibly call it ‘Camas Neig’! 😏
July 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
6/ I had no idea where they were talking about & only deduced from other clues (Easter Ross) & knowing energy sector.
The BBC also called it ‘Bàgh an Neig’ a year ago 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...
But look closely at the AAA footnotes for Nigg/Neig; they sensibly call it ‘Camas Neig’! 😏
The BBC also called it ‘Bàgh an Neig’ a year ago 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...
But look closely at the AAA footnotes for Nigg/Neig; they sensibly call it ‘Camas Neig’! 😏
2/ Firstly they haven’t of course bought Nigg Bay - a quite large beautiful bay and sands - at all (I will return to dissect the BBC’s odd and confusing Gaelic naming) but the *Port of Nigg* (a port & infra business).
July 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
2/ Firstly they haven’t of course bought Nigg Bay - a quite large beautiful bay and sands - at all (I will return to dissect the BBC’s odd and confusing Gaelic naming) but the *Port of Nigg* (a port & infra business).
Does ones brain being fried include not even having read or being able to parse/understand the evidence one has provided?
The exec summary pretty clears states that while storage is necessary (esp if you’re trying for high pen or 100% RE) it isn’t ready and calls for research and dev🙄
The exec summary pretty clears states that while storage is necessary (esp if you’re trying for high pen or 100% RE) it isn’t ready and calls for research and dev🙄
July 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Does ones brain being fried include not even having read or being able to parse/understand the evidence one has provided?
The exec summary pretty clears states that while storage is necessary (esp if you’re trying for high pen or 100% RE) it isn’t ready and calls for research and dev🙄
The exec summary pretty clears states that while storage is necessary (esp if you’re trying for high pen or 100% RE) it isn’t ready and calls for research and dev🙄
…
b/ there’s been a ban on on-shore wind in England no? so isn’t much of it…
…but I’d rather it was there in frankly boring agri-industrial (not natural!) farmland than ruining Scottish uplands (also NB not natural but with potential!).
And it isn’t just the turbine; it’s all the access tracks.
b/ there’s been a ban on on-shore wind in England no? so isn’t much of it…
…but I’d rather it was there in frankly boring agri-industrial (not natural!) farmland than ruining Scottish uplands (also NB not natural but with potential!).
And it isn’t just the turbine; it’s all the access tracks.
July 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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b/ there’s been a ban on on-shore wind in England no? so isn’t much of it…
…but I’d rather it was there in frankly boring agri-industrial (not natural!) farmland than ruining Scottish uplands (also NB not natural but with potential!).
And it isn’t just the turbine; it’s all the access tracks.
b/ there’s been a ban on on-shore wind in England no? so isn’t much of it…
…but I’d rather it was there in frankly boring agri-industrial (not natural!) farmland than ruining Scottish uplands (also NB not natural but with potential!).
And it isn’t just the turbine; it’s all the access tracks.
If you read one thing this morning, read this.
Searingly honest, (rightly) dark-humouredly scathing at times - especially on the nonsense of the dangerous self-healing inherent to this story:
Searingly honest, (rightly) dark-humouredly scathing at times - especially on the nonsense of the dangerous self-healing inherent to this story:
July 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you read one thing this morning, read this.
Searingly honest, (rightly) dark-humouredly scathing at times - especially on the nonsense of the dangerous self-healing inherent to this story:
Searingly honest, (rightly) dark-humouredly scathing at times - especially on the nonsense of the dangerous self-healing inherent to this story:
Live from the Gareloch post racing!
July 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Live from the Gareloch post racing!
I’d *eat* all of them but I’d *like* some of them more: I like good and honest food, so the supposedly “upper class” options are pretentious conspicuous consumption bs (gold, truffles, macaroni cheese w/ lobster*) & some is poor quality (frozen pizza etc) 🤷♂️
…middle class me!
*NB not “mac n cheese”
…middle class me!
*NB not “mac n cheese”
June 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I’d *eat* all of them but I’d *like* some of them more: I like good and honest food, so the supposedly “upper class” options are pretentious conspicuous consumption bs (gold, truffles, macaroni cheese w/ lobster*) & some is poor quality (frozen pizza etc) 🤷♂️
…middle class me!
*NB not “mac n cheese”
…middle class me!
*NB not “mac n cheese”
I’m not an expert!
But I very proud of this orchid that has appeared in the grass verge I’m rewilding outside my house!
But I very proud of this orchid that has appeared in the grass verge I’m rewilding outside my house!
June 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I’m not an expert!
But I very proud of this orchid that has appeared in the grass verge I’m rewilding outside my house!
But I very proud of this orchid that has appeared in the grass verge I’m rewilding outside my house!
It’s looks like a very silly self-own: a not unreasonable conclusion from their (***NB on their own silly nativist terms***) would be that they’re commenting on the Anglo-Saxon Germanic invasion and that they identify as and yearn to be Gaels resisting this… 🤷♂️😂
June 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It’s looks like a very silly self-own: a not unreasonable conclusion from their (***NB on their own silly nativist terms***) would be that they’re commenting on the Anglo-Saxon Germanic invasion and that they identify as and yearn to be Gaels resisting this… 🤷♂️😂
Er no: I called the specific stated Norway issue minor (feel free to apologise for your reading incomprehension)…
… plenty of the others may indeed be major issues (and safety/death is).
I am not denigrating CalMac - as I said they are (mostly) good - I’m saying the article and propaganda is bs.
… plenty of the others may indeed be major issues (and safety/death is).
I am not denigrating CalMac - as I said they are (mostly) good - I’m saying the article and propaganda is bs.
![Shortfall in crew numbers and regulations concerning rest periods [you think Scotland and CalMac doesn’t have these issues?!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uibbhzsiixmazxfbsttgldel/bafkreibwte7jpnuu5il7khtjcioc4jwulzi6p76ifhgyjl2xwon5xg2ho4@jpeg)
June 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Er no: I called the specific stated Norway issue minor (feel free to apologise for your reading incomprehension)…
… plenty of the others may indeed be major issues (and safety/death is).
I am not denigrating CalMac - as I said they are (mostly) good - I’m saying the article and propaganda is bs.
… plenty of the others may indeed be major issues (and safety/death is).
I am not denigrating CalMac - as I said they are (mostly) good - I’m saying the article and propaganda is bs.
The ferry thing *is* politicised but this SNP-outrider defence of CalMac (in the face of what islanders will tell you are real issues) is just as cringe as the anti-SNP media obsession with it…
…it’s also bs: barring fleet issues, CalMac *is* good but it suggests the author hasn’t been to Norway.
…it’s also bs: barring fleet issues, CalMac *is* good but it suggests the author hasn’t been to Norway.
June 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The ferry thing *is* politicised but this SNP-outrider defence of CalMac (in the face of what islanders will tell you are real issues) is just as cringe as the anti-SNP media obsession with it…
…it’s also bs: barring fleet issues, CalMac *is* good but it suggests the author hasn’t been to Norway.
…it’s also bs: barring fleet issues, CalMac *is* good but it suggests the author hasn’t been to Norway.
Interesting by David Gauke on the centre-right but I find it confused and/or making odd assumptions!
He (correctly IMHO) notes the risk of taking on the populist/far-right on culture ↙️ ….
… but earlier quotes a report - implictly endorsing - stating 2 necessary conservative cultural positions.↘️ 🤔
He (correctly IMHO) notes the risk of taking on the populist/far-right on culture ↙️ ….
… but earlier quotes a report - implictly endorsing - stating 2 necessary conservative cultural positions.↘️ 🤔
June 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Interesting by David Gauke on the centre-right but I find it confused and/or making odd assumptions!
He (correctly IMHO) notes the risk of taking on the populist/far-right on culture ↙️ ….
… but earlier quotes a report - implictly endorsing - stating 2 necessary conservative cultural positions.↘️ 🤔
He (correctly IMHO) notes the risk of taking on the populist/far-right on culture ↙️ ….
… but earlier quotes a report - implictly endorsing - stating 2 necessary conservative cultural positions.↘️ 🤔