Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
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Olap@lemmy.worldto Dull Men's Club@lemmy.world•Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I inform you: I saw an Apache attack helicopter fly over my house.18·1 day agoGiven the reported start of a build up the other side of the border: I’m not sure how dull this is
Olap@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Satellite Images Show Russian Military Buildup Near FinlandEnglish732·1 day agoFinalnd is a NATO member. Russia ain’t fucking with NATO
Olap@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.English42·2 days agoFair play to Microsoft here. Hopefully we see some pull requests from non-ms employees and a better wsl experience for us all
Olap@lemmy.worldto Eurovision Song Contest@lemmy.world•Thrilling conclusion to the 69th EurovisionEnglish49·3 days agoThank fuck it wasn’t Israel
Big baws is grand til ye huv tae explain yersel! How bad’s the leg? Swimmin is mad fer ah joints, stretchin guid tae
And fit beer? The nifht hus seen: Seven Peaks, double joker, Tennants, an Jack Back. An nae dinner, oops
People always think: Scotland doesn’t get sun. This isn’t true, wear sunscreen peoples!
Rugby the nicht. Last o the regilar seasun, shuid be fun like. Then the Fort the moro nicht fer a bbq an Eurovision!
Olap@lemmy.worldMto Scotland @lemmy.world•Free Software Foundation — Community meetup in Glasgow2·5 days agoThey should maybe organise a windows 10 EOL linux install party, bring your PC down and they’ll put Linux Mint on it
I thought second semi higher quality than the first. Finland was great fun, and I like the UK and French entry, gonna be fun on Saturday!
Olap@lemmy.worldOPMto Scotland @lemmy.world•Scottish Water warning after driest period in 60 years3·6 days agoI just imagine Oz is always on a hosepipe ban
Olap@lemmy.worldto Formula 1@lemmy.world•FIA president proposes changes to governing body, aiming to extend his control14·7 days agoThis is too easy
Olap@lemmy.worldOPMto Scotland @lemmy.world•Assisted dying proposal passes first stage in Scotland3·7 days agoYeah, it was her passion in later life. A great story about her, we don’t hear that enough about our representatives
Olap@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?English2·7 days agoIt is lemmy essentially. By far most communities, users, and a single point of failure in essence. That makes is quite good for getting it technically correct however, the best kind of correct
Olap@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?English392·7 days agoReddit took many years to build that reputation. And earned creepy badges along the way. I’m not saying the fediverse doesn’t need to do it, but let’s not be in a rush. We have technical challenges, and a lemmy.world, and a .ml problem before we’re ready for the big leagues
And being niche is fine for now, email was tiny for decades
Olap@lemmy.worldOPMto Scotland @lemmy.world•Scotland’s democratic deficit – moving the needle2·8 days agoYeah, by-elections a litmus test indeed. And Starmer is without a doubt the worst labour PM of my lifetime. Amazingly he will probably see a second term somehow. And probably still deny us another vote
When the ends of our jeans looked all freyed and hemmed
Olap@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•The Original Gears of War Is Being Remastered For PS5, Xbox & PCEnglish6·9 days agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_of_War:_Ultimate_Edition
They have literally already done this job!
Olap@lemmy.worldOPto Eurovision Song Contest@lemmy.world•Eurovision 2025 sees comeback for key changes and unusual time signaturesEnglish2·9 days agoYeah, I do suspect that will work against it, something slightly simpler more likely to resonate. But it is so well sung on record, I really hope they nail it live!
Olap@lemmy.worldto Space@mander.xyz•A star has been destroyed by a wandering supermassive black hole5·10 days agoYou mean with an unexplained orbit of Neptune? The reason we can’t find planet 9 may well be because it’s actually a black hole
A good piece of journalism I thought, well written and personable