Alan McFarlane

This picture from a Red Cross photoshoot in 1918 is an uncomfortable reminder of the time when Glasgow had a racially segregated hospital. A wee thread... 📷: Library of Congress

I suppose I should explain. Credential Manager, aka CredMan, aka cmdkey, is this thing.

If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

The Post Office told wrongly-accused postmasters that their compensation offers were secret, and couldn't be shown to anyone. That was false. The Solicitors Regulation Authority was about to prosecute the lawyers responsible. But now it's dropped the case, and won't say why.

For the love of God, don’t look into to the gloryhole.

Don't start what you can't finish.

CAF Bank serves 14,000 charities. Pulled online banking over security fears

So Irish Examiner journalist Alison O’Reilly hears a solicitor, Gavin Booth say that the suspect in the car bomb case ‘spent time in Saoradh.’ She, being kind, misheard him and reports it as time in Syria. The misreporting (still up, btw) goes around the world and media shrugs. Bizarre

“ELABORATE?” In an article in The Times. I guess a prompt between humans rather than to an LLM…

Kicking off graduations in style! ⚽ Today, our UofG organist played ‘Yes Sir, I Can Boogie’ as graduates processed out, in honour of Scotland’s World Cup match tonight against Brazil. Wishing all the best to our new graduates and the Scotland team! #TeamUofG #UofGgrad26

The magnificent Emma Monk at her magnificent best. Superb thread.

In this kind of junk story-writing, "but then again" does a huge amount of heavy lifting.

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

“Neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh neigh yes”

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

👋 Check out this new Microsoft Entra blog post 👇 Passkeys aren’t the finish line: Eliminating fallbacks and fixing recovery techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft...

The remains of Dunure Castle on the Ayrshire coast, once the main fortress of the Kennedy family but already a ruin by the mid 1700s. The castle's origins probably date back at least as far as the 1200s when a stone keep was built here. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland

Has anyone worked out how to minimise the new navigation panel in Microsoft Defender portal? I can’t see a chevron, or burger menu icon that normally does that.

There's been lots of confusion around MSIX. In particular how it works with WinGet and even more so around system context. This is the first blog in a series of weekly posts coming about how MSIX actually works. devblogs.microsoft.com/insidemsix/t...

636 years ago today. King Robert II died at Dundonald Castle in Ayrshire on 19 April 1390. He began the House of Stewart/Stuart, which ruled Scotland for over two centuries before unifying the crowns of Scotland and England. More about Robert II here: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Ayrshire

We cannot be beaten. #WorldBollardAssociation

There's a guy on Instagram that uses his bald head like a hydraulic press, and you need this. www.instagram.com/kessel_nathan

Lots of people (inc many here) *are* having a very difficult time & want answers/solutions For some, it's "kick out the immigrants & we can have all the nice things (back). For others it's "tax billionaires & we can have nice things (back)" These are NOT morally/economically equivalent (2/n)

Such loud echoes of Corbynism at its peak in the online behaviour of Green supporters at the moment. Glib dismissal of people who just might have a bit more experience of the real world than they do, blanket condemnation of an entire political class because things are bad and they haven't fixed it.

On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 deaths. 340 wounded. That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since. That disaster helped lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60...

No wonder Trump wants to sue the BBC into oblivion.

Five of Scotland’s poshest holiday rentals

Welcome to the future

The view north-west along the River Doon from the Brig o' Doon in Alloway, Ayrshire, a village best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Alloway #RiverDoon #Ayrshire #RobertBurns #BrigODoon

Looking north up Victoria Road through the Queen's Park gates on Queen's Drive. #glasgow

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

Conservators trying to dry out the building, considered the architect’s domestic masterpiece, are removing the cement render that contributed to water damage

A fascinating story here about a very early instance of sign language being used in worship. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ✝️⚓️

Why would China be trying to normalise having big radio installations in your garden…? Maybe www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... “…after letting a house through rentals giant Airbnb - the Chinese pair erected a large parabolic antenna in the garden.”

Three-time Trump voter: I'm looking at this awful picture of the Obamas. What an embarrassment to our country. He is not worthy of the presidency. He takes bribes blatantly, and now he's being a racist blatantly. He's pathetic as a president, and I want to apologize for supporting this rotten man.

Every American needs to watch this:

Sucks to be you, then.

Is this wise the young people call being ratioed?

False Positives in Security Software: What Now? textslashplain.com/2026/01/27/m...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

The inside of a dog toy ours often as much fun as the toy itself.😂 #jrt #JackRussellTerrier

Yay, the new ferry is in its way from Turkey. www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/...

Oh for fuck's sake don't make me write a blog post defending Bitlocker, I do not want to defend Bitlocker

People out here chasing ICE cars around all day advising people not to sign up for a ticket to the Target Center so they can go warm their toes after protesting in -20, because what if the feds get the signup list? Guys! The cold is more dangerous than the feds for protesters!

This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...