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“The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.” --Chuang Tzu

“If They Don’t Like It Here They Can Leave” Say People Who Don’t Like It Here, but Are Curiously Still Here theshovel.com.au/2025/09/02/if-…

Went to Glasgow city centre today. Two groups of people were shouting at each other up the top of the hill. Not far away a black man with an afro had the street dancing to the Proclaimers, further down a couple of Eastern Europeans had a wee boy clapping along to Bella Ciao.

Palestinians are beginning to recover bodies from under the rubble across Gaza. This may take years. The real number of casualties in the Gaza Holocaust is in the hundreds of thousands.

LOWKEY FT. LOGIC - RELATIVES youtu.be/vPGyFV6z_VQ?si…

We are the first human beings to see a sunset on Mars. This is from the Curiosity rover. NASA

I was visiting in a Manchester hospital tonight & I saw hospital staff, of all colours & genders, stop what they were doing and running to save the life of a stranger They do it all the time without fanfare or recognition But we should be so grateful for what they do

#birds Swifts fly thousands of miles to breed in the UK—only to find their nest sites blocked up. Their ancient forests with nest hollows now gone, they relied on cavities in buildings, but these, too, have disappeared. To stop their steep 2/3rds decline since 1995, an

“I once complained that the BBC was biased against my political views even though I was on it every 10 minutes”

Scotland fans deleting their Trump tweets before they head to the World Cup next year. #SCODEN

🗣️ "Children and youth are either excluded from the decision making-process or when they are included it often times happen at the very end of the process." Mara Ghilan, Climate Advocate & Policy Consultant, YOUNGO, on the restraints for youth to speak up. UN Development

Lange Vijverberg, Hague - 1883 #artbots #vangogh

Crow snowboarding on a plastic lid

#Breaking: Authorities have confirmed they're investigating the alleged throwing of a bomb into an Invasion Day rally crowd in Perth as a "potential terrorist act". ab.co/4a5epnP

There's not enough tunes about poor urban planning these days. youtube.com/watch?v=yQ7MNE…

Gary Cushway Elon Musk In a 2025 Joe Rogan podcast, Elon Musk compared people in small towns across England, Scotland, and Ireland to Hobbits in "The Lord of the Rings." He described them living peaceful, unaware lives "like the Hobbits in the Shire," protected from global dangers. The context was

Gary Cushway Elon Musk Evidence on immigration linking to rural crime increases in the UK and Ireland is limited and mixed. UK studies (e.g., Migration Observatory 2025) show no overall correlation between immigration and crime rates, with foreign nationals offending at similar or lower rates when