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1. The uncomfortable truth about Glastonbury: (tags:festival music business employment OhForFucksSake )
2. Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated: (tags:reviews OhForFucksSake books )

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We had a nice day on the beach in North Berwick. A few of Sophia's old nursery friends, getting back together, with a few siblings thrown in. They got on like it wasn't mostly a year since they last saw each other, and they had a ball digging holes, wading through seaweed and climbing on rocks. The weather was just as fabulous as it looks here.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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1. The RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund: (tags:UK airplanes military investment )

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When I am Emperor anyone selling bowls, plates, etc will have to certify whether you can microwave food in them without them getting hotter than the food.

Is microwave transparency really too much to ask?

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1. The first non-opioid painkiller (for acute pain) has taken 27 years to produce.: (tags:pain research medicine )
2. UK asylum plans shows post-Brexit Britain is 'in very dark place', Albanian PM warns: (tags:uk migration OhForFucksSake )
3. Reading one book on a subject will put you ahead of the vast majority of people: (tags:experts learning )
4. One in four LGBTQ+ pupils may drop out before finishing secondary school: (tags:lgbt school bullying )
5. India High Court rules trans women are women: (tags:India transgender LGBT GoodNews )
6. A newspaper reported that Arthur Conan Doyle went to a local pub. Turns out to be completely made up (but the history is fascinating): (tags:journalism fraud Edinburgh history )
7. The transfers between parties in yesterday's Edinburgh council election are fascinating!: (tags:edinburgh elections voting politics scotland )
8. You can now buy The Hobbit in 5 different Celtic languages. (I'm sure people will have great fun comparing them): (tags:languages uk ireland TheHobbit )
9. Make AI Mediocre Again: (tags:satire ai video advertising )

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1. Holyrood Committee seek views and experiences as part of new inquiry into ADHD and autism: (tags:scotland autism adhd )
2. How would Britain vote, a year since the 2024 election (broken down in a wide variety of ways): (tags:uk voting polls )
3. Ooh Dark City has a 4k release. I'm quite tempted: (tags:movies scifi )
4. Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child: (tags:polls genocide Israel )
5. Poll: Americans' support for Israel at record low, backing for Palestinians at all-time high (46:33): (tags:USA polls Israel Palestine )
6. Why I'm glad the NHS has rejected two Alzheimer's 'wonder drugs': (tags:alzheimers medicine NHS )
7. Warwickshire County Council leader resigns, leaving 18-year-old in charge (Reform, unsurprisingly): (tags:politics UK )
8. Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11: (tags:games linux windows )
9. How disability benefits are paid across the world - and how UK compares: (tags:welfare disability international )
10. Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban: (tags:UK bigotry children transgender LGBT )

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1. Mechanical Watch: Exploded View: (tags:watches design )
2. Language is complicated (Japanese star edition): (tags:japan English language )
3. Reminder that you can be lovely to your friends and family and still a disgustingly awful genocidal murderer: (tags:Nazis history people )
4. What Britain looks like after Brexit (written in 2016, about 2025). Anyone want to assign it marks for accuracy?: (tags:UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
5. Voyager 2 Illuminates Boundary of Interstellar Space: (tags:space )
6. Upcycling plastic into painkillers: Microbes transform everyday waste into acetaminophen: (tags:plastic medicine recycling )
7. Some great photos from Edinburgh's Pride March: (tags:lgbt edinburgh photos )
8. Businesses still gatekeep jobs for graduates - it's harmful and cruel: (tags:business academia university OhForFucksSake )
9. What does the new Industial Strategy mean for Scotland?: (tags:scotland government )
10. The USA is definitely not at war. Probably. Maybe. Kinda.: (tags:war USA Iran Israel video funny )

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First climbing experience, and after an hour of trying different walls Sophia made it to the top!
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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Sophia is watching the boys in the street have a water fight.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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The reason British people talk about the weather all the damn time is that two weeks ago I got hailed on, yesterday was hot enough that I sweated through my clothes, and today there's haar stopping me seeing more than 100m.