Bob Thomson

@bobthomson70
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Glaswegian who left for The Dordogne at 50, devopsing remotely for Euros for a job. Likes many things outside work and STEM, writing, drawing, synths, dogs. Living with chronic illnesses since 2007, Crohn's from a dodgy pizza, chronic kidney disease from the Crohn's medication. So it goes. Transplanted May 2025.
Webhttps://about.me/bob.thomson
Blog Scot Living in Francehttps://bobthomson70.substack.com
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Think of the last person you interacted with. How happy do you think you are relative to them? (I ask this question every day to gauge how happy the Fediverse is.) #happiness #poll #mentalhealth #psychology
I am probably happier
About the same
They are probably happier
Poll ends at .
Truthpaste! Love this labelling - let's roll it out across all products

The Dennistoun Milestone on Duke Street in Glasgow. Created in 1991 by Jim Buckley, it has an interior space containing a number of local artefacts, including a clay pipe found at Whitehill School, a bottle of water from the Molendinar, a text about life in a Glasgow tenement and a tobacco knife from the nearby Wills Tobacco Factory.

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#galsgow #dennistoun #sculpture #publicart #rankbajin

I'm probably a bit late to the party with this, but Dubai chocolate still seems to be selling at a massively inflated price. Can we market anything else like this? Just put pistachios in stuff, prefix it with 'Dubai' and add a 150% markup. Dubai sausage rolls. ÂŁ10 a pop. Dubai milk. ÂŁ5 a pint. Dubai..... newspaper. Just smear some pistachio butter in the paper - like a sort of inedible baklava. ÂŁ30. I really should be paid to just come up with ideas. Dubai ideas.... TWO million pounds. Very good, Ben.

The Central Station viaduct over Argyle Street in central Glasgow. Designed by the architect James Miller and the engineer David Mathieson, it was built around 1900. It quickly earned the nickname of the Hielanman's Umbrella as it was a popular meeting spot for people who'd been forced to move from the Highlands of Scotland to the city in search of work as it offered shelter from Glasgow's notoriously inclement weather.

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#glasgow #architecture #centralstation #glasgowhistory

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Ditto:

'Why are you still on Bluesky too?'

'But did you *delete* your Twitter account?'

’You said you switched to Proton mail too, oh that’s bad, once someone at Proton said something’

It’s nice to see new neighbours move into the Fediverse. It feels unwelcoming to see people immediately interview them about the purity of their intentions. Or telling them You’re Doing It Wrong. They've just arrived on a journey away from Big Tech. Maybe they'd prefer to be offered a seat and a cup of tea.