Wishing tree on the path up Ben A'an, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

There is a tradition in Scotland of inserting coins into the stumps of old trees as votive offerings, and some can contain coins that are hundreds of years old. The folk wisdom goes that if your coin falls out, your wish will not come true.

#glasgow #benann #stirlingshire #wishingtree #votiveoffering #folktradition #hillwalking #hillwalkingscotland #folklore #scottishfolklore #scotland #folkart #ScottishHistory

A perfect example of how to make a dull, grey and boring tenement gable end disappear by covering it with a mural of sheer beauty.

#glasgow #govan #streetart #murals #scottishstreetart #glasgowstreetart #urbanregeneration #smug #gableends #tenements #tenementlife #scotland

Little known fact, wheelie bins are drawn to the glow of Christmas Lights

#photography #edinburgh #christmas #night #X100S

I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.

It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.

It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.

Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.

For those of you keeping track, mastodon.scot has just passed its 20,000th user! (and still growing)

edit: since this is doing numbers, I should mention I don't have anything to do with the running of the server, but very happy seeing it doing well!

You can also donate directly to the server upkeep here - https://ko-fi.com/trumpet

#TwitterMigration

Jeremy Hunt is pathetic.
VOTE COUNT BINFACE AND I WILL:
•Double council tax on second homes
•abolish non-doms and UK tax havens
•price-cap croissants at £1
•tie ministers’ pay to nurses’

PLUS I will reform the tax system! 👇🏿
All this and more in my new book:
geni.us/whatonearth

Last week I heard a speech by Prof. Dame Sarah Gilbert. She of the Oxford vaccine. A woman whose team's work is calculated to have saved several million lives. She warned that Britain's dismal failure to remember, learn and expand on the hard fought achievements of the last few years placed us back to square one when (not if) it happened again.

This piece is a depressing demonstration of that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63638501?at_custom2=twitter&at_medium=custom7&at_campaign=64&at_custom3=Regional+BBC+South&at_custom4=74B2C3F4-6594-11ED-B6DF-BD770EDC252D&at_custom1=link