Toots for jbenjamint@mastodon.scot account

Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-02-01 at 08:42

Smells and sounds you'll just have to imagine.

[#]bread

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-02-01 at 08:24

The sheep have all decided it's time to get up and get about their day, so I suppose we should too.

[#]sheep

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-02-01 at 07:39

Good morning Fedizens, from the west of Scotland. Welcome to February.

[#]sunrise #lochaber

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-29 at 12:23

My work - supporting vulnerable young people who may be at risk of interacting with the justice system - now has a bridged bsky account (small steps I know). Give us a follow!

@cashbackscot.bsky.social

[#]ScotPol

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-28 at 15:25

From today's lunch pedal.

[#]cycling

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-27 at 15:03

From today's lunch re-fresher: Drum Fada, the "long ridge", which we're looking at end-on here.

One of my favourite hills for it's sweeping corries and the way they catch the afternoon sun. This hill is pretty much ignored as folk focus on the much bigger mountains off camera to the left.

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-25 at 18:20

Seeing as tonight is the night for celebrating Scottish song writers, have a wee earful of this lovely new song from Calum Bowie - Dream Of My Own.

https://youtu.be/N6NDNLRdtEI?feature=shared

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-24 at 15:44

Voting now having settled into a sort of stable pattern, it looks like the fedi is roughly 10% people called Ben, 90% called something else, and Sally (see comments).

Feels...about right?

@SallyStrange

https://mastodon.scot/@jbenjamint/113883588842113237

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-24 at 15:04

Feel like printing this off, framing it and sticking up on the wall somewhere. What an incredible writer Andrey Kurkov is.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/24/vladimir-putin-ukraine-freedom-stability-wealth-war

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-24 at 13:35

Damn, you can't vote in your own poll. This is gonna skew the results. Would someone mind voting Ben for me please?

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-24 at 13:34

Ok, doing a Friday lunchtime science on the prevalence of Ben.

Is your name...

[#]poll

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-24 at 10:33

Feast the eyes on the wind forecast.

https://www.yr.no/nb/kart/vind

(Incidentally YR is, afaik, the most popular general weather app amongst outdoor folk in my neck of Scotland)

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-24 at 09:43

Chapeau to all the council crews out today, tomorrow and thereafter. 🙏🏽

HT @kerrycoco https://mastodon.social/@kerrycoco/113882658653610045

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-23 at 17:36

I respond to a Fesshole post written by someone claiming to be German - and seconds later am followed by someone with a very German-sounding name...

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-23 at 10:33

Which reminds me of a question. Animals eyes reflect back wildly different colours at night, though all appear black/brown under sunlight... anyone know why?

Collie: blue/green

Deer: white

Boar: yellow

Spaniel: red (freakishly bright red, which can be fun in the woods at night)

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