Ian Davidson
@iancvdavidson.bsky.social
See pinned post. My posts📢will either "reach" U or they won't,⛔in which case, my failure🙊of communication? Ultimately, it is all just "noise"? DMs not possible due to age non-verification. I have approx 25 followers & follow 10! Not much to say right now!🙏
Thanks Sarah. Something to read over festive drag! My wife is a South Side Glasgow tenement lassie; ootside loo etc. I had a "privileged" childhood in a factored "4 in a block" in Hillington, housing built for Industrial Estate, Rolls Royce aero etc?🎅
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Thanks Sarah. Something to read over festive drag! My wife is a South Side Glasgow tenement lassie; ootside loo etc. I had a "privileged" childhood in a factored "4 in a block" in Hillington, housing built for Industrial Estate, Rolls Royce aero etc?🎅
How low does the man go? Disgusting💩👺
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
How low does the man go? Disgusting💩👺
Very New York film script: "The Mayor will sort it out" (usually with a few "favours"?!). I would like to see a corruption 😇free, high productivity zone at Glasgow City Chambers first!😂🤔
December 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Very New York film script: "The Mayor will sort it out" (usually with a few "favours"?!). I would like to see a corruption 😇free, high productivity zone at Glasgow City Chambers first!😂🤔
In Scotland, this would be described as "pure brass neck"!😆
December 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
In Scotland, this would be described as "pure brass neck"!😆
Indeed. Self critical for speaking up & self critical for not doing so, the tricky mind! Nervousness can also lead to "losing the thread" & "rambling"? This is why politicians are coached? It can really sap your energy! 🤔😂
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Indeed. Self critical for speaking up & self critical for not doing so, the tricky mind! Nervousness can also lead to "losing the thread" & "rambling"? This is why politicians are coached? It can really sap your energy! 🤔😂
Good riddance! According to Brian Leishman MP and other commentators, we now have a left wing, perhaps even a socialist government. Not sure what Jimmy Reid would say about that!😂
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Good riddance! According to Brian Leishman MP and other commentators, we now have a left wing, perhaps even a socialist government. Not sure what Jimmy Reid would say about that!😂
I was in Glasgow centre for a meeting. The Xmas panto season has started plus the shoppers! Avoid until January!😂
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I was in Glasgow centre for a meeting. The Xmas panto season has started plus the shoppers! Avoid until January!😂
Very much so! By a bizarre set of circumstances, I was able to access some counselling from Hestia at one of the Inquiry's outreach sessions; very good.
"Peace and love" notwithstanding,😇😂 I reckon Boris Johnson (for starters) was criminally negligent. He should face consequences.🤔
"Peace and love" notwithstanding,😇😂 I reckon Boris Johnson (for starters) was criminally negligent. He should face consequences.🤔
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Very much so! By a bizarre set of circumstances, I was able to access some counselling from Hestia at one of the Inquiry's outreach sessions; very good.
"Peace and love" notwithstanding,😇😂 I reckon Boris Johnson (for starters) was criminally negligent. He should face consequences.🤔
"Peace and love" notwithstanding,😇😂 I reckon Boris Johnson (for starters) was criminally negligent. He should face consequences.🤔
Increasingly🃏eccentric, I counter futility🤕with existential reality: in Time,⏳all things R possible! Tectonic plates🌋move over millennia, national🌍boundaries/fortunes change more quickly? Materially illogical, but human time speeding up 2 chaos💥& entropy? Minnows🐠2 day, masters 2morow? Maybe?🤔🙏
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Increasingly🃏eccentric, I counter futility🤕with existential reality: in Time,⏳all things R possible! Tectonic plates🌋move over millennia, national🌍boundaries/fortunes change more quickly? Materially illogical, but human time speeding up 2 chaos💥& entropy? Minnows🐠2 day, masters 2morow? Maybe?🤔🙏
Abbey Books, Paisley, just a few mins walk from University, Tues/Sat, 1015/1715.
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Abbey Books, Paisley, just a few mins walk from University, Tues/Sat, 1015/1715.
I spotted🕵a Green MSP yesterday at temple of consumerism, Silverburn Mall; playing hookie from March to do Xmas shopping?🤔😂
November 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I spotted🕵a Green MSP yesterday at temple of consumerism, Silverburn Mall; playing hookie from March to do Xmas shopping?🤔😂
Basing CE£ on historical pop growth = nonsense; actual range of services reduced due 2 Quangos. CE pay calculated differently from other staff; "good practice" = fixed ratio between lowest/highest paid? Success depends on all staff. No evidence that current CE pay holding back recruitment?
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Basing CE£ on historical pop growth = nonsense; actual range of services reduced due 2 Quangos. CE pay calculated differently from other staff; "good practice" = fixed ratio between lowest/highest paid? Success depends on all staff. No evidence that current CE pay holding back recruitment?
Whilst I enjoy reading empirical arguments about demise of left/current politics, I also have wider/weirder(?) philosophical perspective on Change/Time. The current human world IS💩but perhaps 4 reasons we don't understand? eg: Is personal identity politics a cause or consequence of this turmoil?
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Whilst I enjoy reading empirical arguments about demise of left/current politics, I also have wider/weirder(?) philosophical perspective on Change/Time. The current human world IS💩but perhaps 4 reasons we don't understand? eg: Is personal identity politics a cause or consequence of this turmoil?
Indeed! Thanks to KS for Govan photos inc GUWRC old "Supp Ben Additional Requirements" poster! I frequently wonder how much of "my past" is real & how much imagined; it is good to see actual evidence! I prefer the "old physical world" but also understand how new virtual world can create connexions/1
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Indeed! Thanks to KS for Govan photos inc GUWRC old "Supp Ben Additional Requirements" poster! I frequently wonder how much of "my past" is real & how much imagined; it is good to see actual evidence! I prefer the "old physical world" but also understand how new virtual world can create connexions/1
SG has many fiscal bean counters but few brilliant economists who understand real economy of land, labour, physical capital,💰+ how they work together? True economics = alchemy rather than mastering spread-sheets? PS: Fiscal settlement weighted against our interests, was so from day 1, 🕵warnings 🙉🙊🙈?
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
SG has many fiscal bean counters but few brilliant economists who understand real economy of land, labour, physical capital,💰+ how they work together? True economics = alchemy rather than mastering spread-sheets? PS: Fiscal settlement weighted against our interests, was so from day 1, 🕵warnings 🙉🙊🙈?
"Pure dead brilliant" as we say in Glasgow, a city which has mortgaged its soul to academia with lots of new shiny buildings and overseas students paying mega-fees + living in high rent student housing with zero rights!
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"Pure dead brilliant" as we say in Glasgow, a city which has mortgaged its soul to academia with lots of new shiny buildings and overseas students paying mega-fees + living in high rent student housing with zero rights!
Harmful habits can become "addictions"🤕 (thus I reckon all of us have potential 2 become addicted to something, if necessary "trigger" 🆘arises?). "Living well" seems to demand a balance of "spontaneity" with some basic structure? Too much "self-control" v. chaos; the golden mean of "just so"?🙏
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Harmful habits can become "addictions"🤕 (thus I reckon all of us have potential 2 become addicted to something, if necessary "trigger" 🆘arises?). "Living well" seems to demand a balance of "spontaneity" with some basic structure? Too much "self-control" v. chaos; the golden mean of "just so"?🙏
Both from life exp & reading Buddhist -related psych; "habit" = big deal! Gradually/gently cultivating "good" life habits (preferably with some "feel good") easier, v. directly confronting "bad" ones with unreliable "Will Power". Not a fan of "manifestation" either! Beware Calvinist guilt complex!😂
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Both from life exp & reading Buddhist -related psych; "habit" = big deal! Gradually/gently cultivating "good" life habits (preferably with some "feel good") easier, v. directly confronting "bad" ones with unreliable "Will Power". Not a fan of "manifestation" either! Beware Calvinist guilt complex!😂
Ecce Trumpus ignoramus!
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Ecce Trumpus ignoramus!
Most useful thing adults can do? Demonstrate* that: There R alternative ways of experiencing (without using harmful substances!) the inner reality of being alive & growing up in a confusing world? "Positive" psychology & philosophy v. "negative" politics & economics?👍*"show not tell"
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Most useful thing adults can do? Demonstrate* that: There R alternative ways of experiencing (without using harmful substances!) the inner reality of being alive & growing up in a confusing world? "Positive" psychology & philosophy v. "negative" politics & economics?👍*"show not tell"
Just another mercenary muskateer chancing his arm with the Labour Party whilst he considers his next move to boost his personal pension funds?
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Just another mercenary muskateer chancing his arm with the Labour Party whilst he considers his next move to boost his personal pension funds?
Good move. I reckon folks with busy lives, families etc need three days off as compressing everything in to the traditional two day weekend creates stress? You (and HR Dept) will need to adjust to the mathematical challenge of calculating salary, pension, leave etc on an 80% pro rata basis?👍
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Good move. I reckon folks with busy lives, families etc need three days off as compressing everything in to the traditional two day weekend creates stress? You (and HR Dept) will need to adjust to the mathematical challenge of calculating salary, pension, leave etc on an 80% pro rata basis?👍
U = {C x f(T)} x {f(PP)}/∞
Uncertainty = Change as function of Time, x function of Paradoxical Possibilities; divided by infinity!
Star Trek type nonsense, but I reckon humanity has reached its limits; we need an X factor to turn the bad stuff on its head? 🤔
Uncertainty = Change as function of Time, x function of Paradoxical Possibilities; divided by infinity!
Star Trek type nonsense, but I reckon humanity has reached its limits; we need an X factor to turn the bad stuff on its head? 🤔
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
U = {C x f(T)} x {f(PP)}/∞
Uncertainty = Change as function of Time, x function of Paradoxical Possibilities; divided by infinity!
Star Trek type nonsense, but I reckon humanity has reached its limits; we need an X factor to turn the bad stuff on its head? 🤔
Uncertainty = Change as function of Time, x function of Paradoxical Possibilities; divided by infinity!
Star Trek type nonsense, but I reckon humanity has reached its limits; we need an X factor to turn the bad stuff on its head? 🤔