Pat Kane
@thoughtland
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Eco-soc #indy. Writer @scotnational. Editor @alterglobal21. Singer @hueandcry. Ideas https://t.co/WsFU1Jogoo Semi-bio: https://t.co/7HY8WYGWrG #AdAstra
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined August 2010
All here at But pushing my E2 writers’ site, at - weekly trends-letters & columns, new book & archives. Please support independent writers, in an age of corporate and propagandist media, and consider a paid subscription. RT, thanx!
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RT @thoughtland: There’s been much dumping on the newest ChatGPT-5 chatbot from @OpenAI. A “PhD level assistant” that counts 6 fingers on a….
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There’s been much dumping on the newest ChatGPT-5 chatbot from @OpenAI. A “PhD level assistant” that counts 6 fingers on a hand? But use it as a thought-starter or prototyping tool, & it’s amazingly powerful and generative. My @ScotNational column
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RT @bellacaledonia: The Truth We Seek? Edinburgh International Festival’s Complicity in Genocide .
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Well how much am I enhanced this morning, for discovering the voice of Callie Day
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Great this clip, but the whole thing to its climax 🤪One of the greatest soul tv performances ever.
The groove on D'Angelo's “Chicken Grease” is so strong it could power a city.
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Weegie question: why do the majority of boutique Edinburgh cafes shut down between 3 and 4 pm? Strikes me they miss out on a lot of business…
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Andrew Murray talking about Your Party So what “form of coercive power” are you proposing, Andrew?
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Cage fights on the White House lawn, as part of 4 July celebrations in the US to mark the 250th anniversary of the country's founding. Full #Caligularity . &
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Brilliant commissioning by @bellacaledonia of Micheal Gardner, one of the true inheritors of Tom Nairn. Here, a startling comparison between the UK Welfare State & TikTok, both platforms consciously undergoing @doctorow’s “enshittification” process
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Enshittification is an informal word used to criticize the degradation in the quality and experience of online platforms over time, due to an increase in advertisements, costs, or features. It can …
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It’s a moment when only the Full Ponsonby will do:
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The former presiding officer and journalist has died aged 86.
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What a statesman he would have been, if Indy had come earlier. Elegant, intelligent, properly global Scot. Condolences, RIP.
Former Scottish Parliament Presiding Officer Sir George Reid has died. He was 86. He was an award winning journalist at STV, SNP MP for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire in the 70s, ambassador for the International Red Cross, MSP, Presiding Officer & academic.
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Here’s a month of my @ScotNational columns, open access and fully research-linked Voters at 8, not just 16; what the Brewdogs in the street know; preserve modernist Scotland; plasticles in your testicles… Enough to satisfy. Share, support, thanks!
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Don DeLillo, as a young man in 2025, would be right here, morphing with the Gen AI.
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Chaka Khan says it’s the Sturgeon Moon. I think we know that….
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31.5K likes, 608 comments. “The August Full Moon is here...and it’s called the Sturgeon Moon. 🌕✨ Named by Indigenous tribes for the time when sturgeon fish were most abundant in North American...
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The materialist’s religion.
Prof. Brian Cox talks about cosmic insignificance and meaning. 🎥 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
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There’s plasticles in your testicles… & micro- and nano-plastics everywhere else in your body. Huge Plastics Treaty currently being forged—but the Qs are deep. How to resist pollution when it’s already (& ineradicably) inside you? My @ScotNational col
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