That's so cool!!! I also love collared doves, they only narrowly lose out to stock doves... I love bird cooperation, I once saw a carrion crow eating seeds while another crow was picking fights with gulls hovering above, and I choose to believe those two things were connected π
Sounds like it might be feral pigeon behaviour - stock doves are very shy and I've never seen more than one at a time - another reason why they are the best pigeon/dove π
(my favourite bird is another question entirely - and that goes, narrowly, to the beloved long tailed tit)
But yes I can totally believe that of woodpigeons (photo below); I have photos somewhere of two magpies, a crow, and two rock pigeons all looking on at a safe distance as a bulky woodpigeon calmly consumed a crust macaulaylibrary.org/asset/165123...
Woodpigeons surely?? Not sweet little stock doves???
Just look at it. Petite. Woodpigeon proportions. Feral pigeon iridescence. Pretty black eyes. It truly has it all macaulaylibrary.org/asset/103889...
Stock dove: cutest Scottish wild pigeon/dove? Discuss
*spelling, I blame all the Half Life/Deus Ex memes
It's payday, the sun is shining, I'm getting married in 2 months and the Greens won in Gordon & Denton
Remi I am tearing up on the BUS!!! How could you!!!!!!
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Very funny and relatable post to make after talking about This Is How You Lose The Time War. Because SAME!!!!!
Interesting, I'll give it a shot! Gracias!
This feels very relevant to Scottish comic creators selling internationally - a survey to explore the possibility of setting up a Cultural Export Service scotland.britishcouncil.org/Cultural-Exp...
This feels very relevant to Scottish comic creators selling internationally - a survey to explore the possibility of setting up a Cultural Export Service scotland.britishcouncil.org/Cultural-Exp...
I can't wait!!!! <333333333
Surely this is universal basic income's moment! Surely now is the time to hold up the realities of automation in front of everyone and present a vision for how we can live beyond it? Why am I only hearing UBI discussed by leftists who are frustrated by the "AI is the devil" discourse
Read that transformerai blog going around. I'm still searching for the explanation of what genAI can do that humans can't, but - controversial take - I do actually agree that a lot of lefties are completely wasting an opportunity with AI, hoping that the bubble will explode and take the tech with it
Despite wider declining trends, comics and graphic novels have remained unusually buoyant in popularity with print reading of comics dipping only slightly since 2017 (32.2% vs 29.2% in 2025); the shallowest decline of any reading material monitored. Their translation to digital form has proven successful with readers too; while most other forms of reading on screen have stagnated or fallen, comics have bucked the trend with digital reading rates increasing over the last seven years (13.8% in 2017/18 to 14.3% in 2025).
I *need* to start putting it in my diary to check in on the National Literacy Trustβs Annual Literacy
Survey. Just catching up on the Future of Literacy project, the first paper of which includes a section dedicated to comics, with some encouraging takeaways: literacytrust.org.uk/information/...
New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW.
I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.
the worst part is it takes like TEN MINUTES to learn. I got taught through a work thing that dove into a lot of extra detail/interesting niche uses but there's a tutorial here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvbL...
basically super quick way to reformat data & do calculations. 15 minutes of reminding myself of the formula to see (e.g.) how many pages I'd assigned to each shortlisting judge to read and then setting up that formula is now reduced to three clicks, and one of those clicks is "generate pivot table"
every excel discussion since forever: well if you need to learn one thing in excel, learn pivot tables--
me: yeah sure I'll get around to it
me after literally 10 minutes of tutorial yesterday: SO ALL THOSE FORMULAS I TAUGHT MYSELF TO DO??? AND I COULD HAVE JUST???????
puts my head in my hands. I finally learned what Pivot Tables do yesterday.
Got my hair cut into a short bob for the first time in nearly a decade and WHY did I leave it so long (in both senses of the word), omg
It costs Β£5.60 total to buy two sets of tickets for an 8min journey across different days, and Β£11.70 to add that journey on to one "anytime return" month-long ticket. AND THAT'S JUST THE SAVING THAT I KNOW ABOUT
I ended up still paying like Β£50 because I didn't go FULL on with the split ticketing (I wanted some extra flexibility over the weekend), could have def got it cheaper if I'd tried though
This reminded me to check and the verdict is: NOPE, recycling bins still stuffed beyond capacity
Sam is doing really cool work on Scottish trans history. This will be well worth popping along to if you're in Edinburgh on 27 February!
I actually gasped
LRP: I LOVE VINTAGE STORY
