Gavin Greig
@ggreig.com
Software developer wha bides i the East Neuk. He/him. Likes 28/32mm models for role-playing games, especially pulp/steampunk/scientific romance. Thinks Scotland should be a normal country - independent. http://ggreig.com, https://mastodon.scot/@ggreig
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Gavin Greig
@ggreig.com
· Nov 16
Should probably do an "introductory" thread:
I work as a software developer, now for a company in London, but I live in a village in Fife, Scotland. Technically I've been on BlueSky for a bit over a year already but have only fully committed to the move since the US elected Trump for a second time.
I work as a software developer, now for a company in London, but I live in a village in Fife, Scotland. Technically I've been on BlueSky for a bit over a year already but have only fully committed to the move since the US elected Trump for a second time.
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Have you finished wrapping your dinosaurs yet?
December 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Have you finished wrapping your dinosaurs yet?
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The Earth’s core has more power than humanity could ever use.
Clean heat, clean power, and even UK-sourced lithium to reduce our dependency on China.
The tech hurdles are big, but the payoff is bigger and Cornwall is showing the way
Clean heat, clean power, and even UK-sourced lithium to reduce our dependency on China.
The tech hurdles are big, but the payoff is bigger and Cornwall is showing the way
Unlimited energy: reaching for the heat beneath our feet
Deep below us, is a vast untapped source of sustainable energy waiting to be released. Slowly, we are finding ways to tap into it
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The Earth’s core has more power than humanity could ever use.
Clean heat, clean power, and even UK-sourced lithium to reduce our dependency on China.
The tech hurdles are big, but the payoff is bigger and Cornwall is showing the way
Clean heat, clean power, and even UK-sourced lithium to reduce our dependency on China.
The tech hurdles are big, but the payoff is bigger and Cornwall is showing the way
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via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
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Right, now I know I’m getting old, clearly remember when the Keiller Centre opened. What I could never clearly remember was which direction I was going in. The disorientation of shopping offset, however, by the excitement of not knowing where you were going to exit.
#Dundee #CityCentre #Memories
#Dundee #CityCentre #Memories
The Keiller Centre in Dundee has finally shut its doors to shoppers after 46 years. Opened in November 1979 on the site of the old Keiller factory behind High Street it provided a maze of shops & business under one roof contributing to a unique experience & many memories.
December 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Right, now I know I’m getting old, clearly remember when the Keiller Centre opened. What I could never clearly remember was which direction I was going in. The disorientation of shopping offset, however, by the excitement of not knowing where you were going to exit.
#Dundee #CityCentre #Memories
#Dundee #CityCentre #Memories
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conservatism was never just a different political opinion, it was always racism, sexism, and a need to control others
December 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
conservatism was never just a different political opinion, it was always racism, sexism, and a need to control others
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Blindingly obvious and exactly what I said to the New York Times at the time. So the question is, why did the useless British media carry, hysterically, coverage of a UK (Not Very Good) Lawyers for Israel press release? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bob Vylan: No charges over IDF chants during Glastonbury set
Avon and Somerset Police says the incident
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Blindingly obvious and exactly what I said to the New York Times at the time. So the question is, why did the useless British media carry, hysterically, coverage of a UK (Not Very Good) Lawyers for Israel press release? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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We're not supposed to be this angry every waking minute.
We're not supposed to live a life in stasis, waiting for the next Truly Fucked Up Thing to occur.
These "Current Times" are not normal, they are engineered by the sycophants & henchpepople of psychotic dictators.
Do not accept any of it.
We're not supposed to live a life in stasis, waiting for the next Truly Fucked Up Thing to occur.
These "Current Times" are not normal, they are engineered by the sycophants & henchpepople of psychotic dictators.
Do not accept any of it.
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We're not supposed to be this angry every waking minute.
We're not supposed to live a life in stasis, waiting for the next Truly Fucked Up Thing to occur.
These "Current Times" are not normal, they are engineered by the sycophants & henchpepople of psychotic dictators.
Do not accept any of it.
We're not supposed to live a life in stasis, waiting for the next Truly Fucked Up Thing to occur.
These "Current Times" are not normal, they are engineered by the sycophants & henchpepople of psychotic dictators.
Do not accept any of it.
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If it was anybody else, the discovery of a letter from one convicted paedophile to another convicted paedophile, saying, "Hey, remember that friend of ours who we watched definitely being a paedophile," would result in an immediate arrest.
Your move, America.
Your move, America.
December 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If it was anybody else, the discovery of a letter from one convicted paedophile to another convicted paedophile, saying, "Hey, remember that friend of ours who we watched definitely being a paedophile," would result in an immediate arrest.
Your move, America.
Your move, America.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Oh look Sauron's home
December 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Oh look Sauron's home
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This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
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Santa told us that people that don’t add alt text are getting coal in their stocking this year.
December 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Santa told us that people that don’t add alt text are getting coal in their stocking this year.
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Tr*mp keeps renaming American icons after himself. He’s just writing graffiti. He must know they’ll all be renamed and his name erased the moment he’s gone, just like painting over the scrawls on the sides of subway cars.
December 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Tr*mp keeps renaming American icons after himself. He’s just writing graffiti. He must know they’ll all be renamed and his name erased the moment he’s gone, just like painting over the scrawls on the sides of subway cars.
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The BBC keep saying, presumably on (extremely risk averse) legal advice, that the emails “do not indicate wrongdoing”.
On the contrary. They may not absolutely prove it but in context they most definitely point towards it.
On the contrary. They may not absolutely prove it but in context they most definitely point towards it.
December 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The BBC keep saying, presumably on (extremely risk averse) legal advice, that the emails “do not indicate wrongdoing”.
On the contrary. They may not absolutely prove it but in context they most definitely point towards it.
On the contrary. They may not absolutely prove it but in context they most definitely point towards it.
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Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
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This time two years ago, we found out that Palantir was paying a PR firm to recruit influencers to attack us 🤯
https://goodlawproject.org/pr-firm-topham-guerin-tories-and-palantir-offers-to-pay-influencers-attacks-twitter-x/
https://goodlawproject.org/pr-firm-topham-guerin-tories-and-palantir-offers-to-pay-influencers-attacks-twitter-x/
PR firm that works for the Tories and Palantir offers to pay for attacks on us | Good Law Project
Leaked emails reveal that the tech giant Palantir has hired Topham Guerin to pay influencers to attack Good Law Project on social media – but the source of the money is to be kept ‘confidential’.
goodlawproject.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This time two years ago, we found out that Palantir was paying a PR firm to recruit influencers to attack us 🤯
https://goodlawproject.org/pr-firm-topham-guerin-tories-and-palantir-offers-to-pay-influencers-attacks-twitter-x/
https://goodlawproject.org/pr-firm-topham-guerin-tories-and-palantir-offers-to-pay-influencers-attacks-twitter-x/
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I always think the snow in this picture makes Forfar Road, and Morgan Academy behind it, look a bit like a #WinterWonderland or something out of a fairy tale.
Date: January 1982
Ref: GD/X1384 Dundee Centre & North Tray 2
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
Date: January 1982
Ref: GD/X1384 Dundee Centre & North Tray 2
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I always think the snow in this picture makes Forfar Road, and Morgan Academy behind it, look a bit like a #WinterWonderland or something out of a fairy tale.
Date: January 1982
Ref: GD/X1384 Dundee Centre & North Tray 2
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
Date: January 1982
Ref: GD/X1384 Dundee Centre & North Tray 2
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
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I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
December 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
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Are corporate social media posts about pride the most important part of building an inclusive society? Of course not.
But is a 92% reduction in them a worrying sign? Almost certainly:
https://bit.ly/4j6ezPI
But is a 92% reduction in them a worrying sign? Almost certainly:
https://bit.ly/4j6ezPI
Revealed: how big businesses are rolling back public support for Pride
Guardian analysis of 20 major companies in UK and US shows mentions of Pride on social media have fallen substantially in past two years
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Are corporate social media posts about pride the most important part of building an inclusive society? Of course not.
But is a 92% reduction in them a worrying sign? Almost certainly:
https://bit.ly/4j6ezPI
But is a 92% reduction in them a worrying sign? Almost certainly:
https://bit.ly/4j6ezPI
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Defending concentration camps will be Bari Weiss's legacy.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Defending concentration camps will be Bari Weiss's legacy.
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Trying to reverse image search (one of the great features of Google in recent years) on an image I know to be a mundane Edinburgh Corporation electrical transformer room, to try and find an original source for it, Google now instead confidently tells me this is an image of the control room in GCHQ 🤦♂️
December 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Trying to reverse image search (one of the great features of Google in recent years) on an image I know to be a mundane Edinburgh Corporation electrical transformer room, to try and find an original source for it, Google now instead confidently tells me this is an image of the control room in GCHQ 🤦♂️
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Much more worrying at the moment is the fact that the US and Russia, both under the power of greedy and narcissistic megalomaniacs, also have nuclear weapons. #SauceForTheGoose
A nuclear Iranian regime is not just a threat to Israel, but also to the United States and the entire Western world.
Via: MEMRI
Via: MEMRI
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Much more worrying at the moment is the fact that the US and Russia, both under the power of greedy and narcissistic megalomaniacs, also have nuclear weapons. #SauceForTheGoose
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🏴 🇬🇧 So according to Andrew, Scotland isn’t a colony, but we (England) can’t have Scots “running off” with Scotland 🏴
December 22, 2025 at 6:18 AM
🏴 🇬🇧 So according to Andrew, Scotland isn’t a colony, but we (England) can’t have Scots “running off” with Scotland 🏴
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EVs aren’t just a car. They’re part of an energy system.
What happens when millions of vehicles become part of the electricity system?
Vehicle-to-grid will turn every EV into a mobile battery storage opportunity.
#climatecrisis #electricvehicles #V2G #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/colour-...
What happens when millions of vehicles become part of the electricity system?
Vehicle-to-grid will turn every EV into a mobile battery storage opportunity.
#climatecrisis #electricvehicles #V2G #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/colour-...
EVs At The Tipping Point: Why You Don’t Want To Be A Late Adopter
These graphs tell an important story. On the left is how horses disappeared from cities once cars took off. On the right is the same kind of substitution curve - petrol and diesel powered cars giving ...
www.lyrebirddreaming.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
EVs aren’t just a car. They’re part of an energy system.
What happens when millions of vehicles become part of the electricity system?
Vehicle-to-grid will turn every EV into a mobile battery storage opportunity.
#climatecrisis #electricvehicles #V2G #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/colour-...
What happens when millions of vehicles become part of the electricity system?
Vehicle-to-grid will turn every EV into a mobile battery storage opportunity.
#climatecrisis #electricvehicles #V2G #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/colour-...