Alison

The coat of arms of the City of Glasgow, as granted by the Lord Lyon in 1866. It incorporates a number of symbols and emblems associated with the life of Glasgow's patron saint, Kentigern (often known by his nickname, Mungo) which had been used on official seals prior to that date. The oak tree, with Kentigern's bell hanging from it, refers to a fire which Kentigern started using one of its branches. Perched on top of it is a robin which was a favourite of young Kentigern's tutor Saint Serf and which Kentigern brought back to life after jealous fellow pupils had killed it. The fish is a salmon, caught in the River Clyde by one of Kentigern's monks. The King of Strathclyde Rydderach Hael had given a ring to his queen Langeoreth, who had then given it to her lover. Rydderach Hael discovered he had been cuckolded and had the ring thrown into the Clyde, then demanded that his wife come to court wearing it. He hoped to humiliate her by showing that he knew of her infidelity, but Langeoreth confessed to Kentigern and he promised to help her. He ordered a monk to catch a salmon, and when the ring was found in its stomach, Langeorath was able display it on her finger.

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BrewDog sold Highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning its reforestation plans Self-styled ‘punk’ beer company bought land in 2020, pledging to plant Scotland’s ‘biggest ever forest’

These fuckers.
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Robert Cornelius. Black and white, scratched daguerreotype of young white man with dark clothes and messy dark hair, arms folded, looking towards the camera with an expression that says ‘I have no idea if this is going to work’.

Unforgivably, I missed the 1 March birthday of American photography pioneer Robert Cornelius. Which, tbh, is really just an excuse to post his 1839 self-portrait, widely viewed as the first selfie. And also rather hot.

a woman in a yellow suit is standing in front of a wooden door ALT: a woman in a yellow suit is standing in front of a wooden door

The OG Daguerreotype Boyfriend!

Yeah, they can hunt and gather their own cheese. I'm not parting with any of mine.

Map of the Glasgow subway showing that it is in fact a single circle

somebody just stuck their head into the subway carriage and asked where this train was going, which caused some bafflement

Gritted my teeth and opened the three bundles of mail that I'd had stopped and held during the 8-week Maternal Calamity.

They were all full of publicité, the bulky printed spam that gets delivered daily in defiance of the "Pas de Pub" sign on my mailbox.

IFRC warns harmful information is putting lives at risk during crises | IFRC Geneva, 5 March 2026 – Harmful information is undermining life-saving humanitarian action at a time when disasters are affecting more people, more often, according to the World Disasters Report 2026, ...

New report on how mis- and disinformation is seriously messing up humanitarian operations. Includes a hopeful call for platforms to transparently moderate harmful "content", which seems optimistic.
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My favourite track on an astonishing album. Thank you!

Image shows two beautiful people - Siouxsie Sioux and John McGeoch - smoking and drinking like the rock stars they are.

John McGeoch - a Greenockian, a genius, and a total hottie - died on this day in 2004. Siouxsie once said of him, "I loved the fact that I could say, ‘I want this to sound like a horse falling off a cliff’, and he would know exactly what I meant."

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

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This - after a public consultation that came down c95% against corporate copyright theft - is a hearty move towards this government’s spineless purchased representatives needing to be hoofed in the crotch by us all, in a big queue until they get the message.

Yeah, they just lost another customer.

'Suddenly it was like Beatlemania' – how we made Cabin Pressure ‘By the time we did the third series, Benedict Cumberbatch had starred in Sherlock. Suddenly the audiences were 90% young girls who’d queue round the block’

Throwing myself into #sadmin once again, but lightening the load with another run through of Cabin Pressure. Giggling myself into bits already.
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He really was pure delight, wasn't he?

Oh mate. I have a friend whose kid started a MA in International Relations last year and I barely know what to say to them.

Accident #1 and Accident #2, the ultimately fatal one, were negotiated with three sets of clothing over the 5 weeks, and the only laundry happening was in a hospital sink with hand soap and swearing.

Anyway, don't skip laundry day.

I'm doing the big pile of laundry that I couldn't be bothered to do on 3rd Jan (mum had Accident #1 that evening) because I felt lazy and figured I could do it on 4th Jan (the day I ended up on the 1st available flight to Scotia).

Idea:

Star Wars, but with the cast of Rainbow....and Frankie Howerd.

I'm still annoyed with myself that I did.

Wasn't he already offensive enough to Inuit and Nunavut in The Terror? He really felt the need to stick the boot in /again/?

Don't carp on at me! My jokes could be betta, I know, but even though I flounder at times I'll keep doing it for the halibut.

Oh my cod.

sometimes it's nice to see everyone nice having a nice time on the internet isn't it?

Image is a screenshot from another site. It shows a beautiful ginger cat with a determined expression. The text reads “A ginger tabby cat has been banned from entering a Scottish college after months of wandering its corridors, entering lessons and even allegedly setting off an alarm.” More text notes that the cat is known as Rebel, and that this is not his real name.

Of course he’s not going to give out his real name, does he look like an amateur?

Image shows a Casio calculator of unclear vintage. The model is HS-7 and it's quite fancy for the household I grew up in - it has a solar panel. Alas, it has gone to Silicon Heaven.

Alas, poor Casio! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite 5376616, of most excellent 5318008.

The process that led to the Holocaust didn't start with killing people.

First it made them non-people.

Then it killed them.

This is all your fault, you know. (Thank you)

Oh wow, I will definitely watch this when I feel better!

This is the most delightful thing I've read in years and it reminds me how wonderful you are. Thank you!