Douglas

@dgls.bsky.social

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mostly sentient. i make fast software to do with energy use in buildings, for the people. glasgow resider

A bench with a picture on it of a sailboat, and the writing "Inverkip Bay" and underneath "Pure delight, pure terror"
it's a still from the early 80s TV show The Day Of The Triffids. A theatrical looking couple in a park cower from the exposed and engorged stamen of an approaching flower
a multipack of Walkers "English Bangers & Mash" potato crisps on a supermarket shelf
A crowd assembled, one sign reading "Racism is weird - have you tried hobbies?"
It's a Google Street View screenshot of where the Glasgow Sausage Co once stood. There's a very recent boxy brick block of flats with four storeys, then where the building stood there are trees and a rubbish small park. Banners are dangled from the still extant railings, presumably selling wasp killing services for £25.
A BBC news article headline: "Scotland's papers: Murrell faces court and Edinburgh tram collision"
A black and white, clearly long exposure (as all the lights are casting persistent auras), of Rolland Street in Maryhill, Glasgow, from 1953. The street is crowded with people and stalls. The chimneys of the tenements are standing right at the front of the buildings, which isn't typical for Glasgow tenements.
A screenshot from Wikipedia showing a snippet of the Wikipedia article for Powderhall Stadium in Edinburgh. It says: "William Lapsley died on 28 February 1903 as a result of an accident in a horse drawn cab on his way to a rugby union international between Scotland and Ireland. The driver of the cab lost control of it on a steep hill and the house bolted and crashed into the basement of a nearby house. Lapsley died at the scene and his wife, though seriously injured, survived. The lease of the Powderhall..." and then it's cut off, because it's just a snippet. There's crazy stuff in there about how it was a venue for professional "pedestrianism" for the longest time, and also how they tried to stage "horse trotting" races in the 1870s but had to stop because this was too dangerous even for the 1870s.
playing mini golf in minehead. stephin and shirley from the magnetic fields are in the background watching my shot ⛳
A picture taken at Blythswood Square in Glasgow at about 8:45pm on Sunday 8th March. There is a pall of grey-white smoke emerging into the air behind buildings, which is from a fire in buildings adjoining Glasgow Central station
The top of a Guardian article in the series "The hill I will die on" saying "People who ski have more money than sense" - "Extortionate costs, queuing in the cold and potentially life altering injuries? No thanks. And don't get me started on the EDM après-ski hell"
yours truly in 2011 on a bright day in the belly of the now demolished never-occupied village of pollphaill. i'm clearly doing an urban explore
two cranes in a nest atop a maritime crane
a concept diagram where somebody is watching a TV show in the first frame. in the second frame there is a burger on the screen, and a speech bubble coming out of the TV that says "say 'mcdonald's to end commercial". in the third frame the person is standing up in front of the TV with their arms in the arms exclaiming "mcdonald's!". in the fourth and final frame they are back watching their tv show where someone is still slowly shooting someone else with a gun
me aged nine months dressed as a fallen angel for the queen's silver jubilee. 1977 baby
It's a Guardian article in the 'The hill I will die on' series, written by General Woundwort, titled Watership Down. The standfirst is "Embreer Frith! I'll blind him. I'LL BLIND HIM!" The article's picture is several rabbits on top of Watership Down. Kehaar the seagull has just landed awkwardly, on his face
A map of all the countries in Europe I've visited. Mostly western Europe for me. Bummed Gibraltar isn't on there. I have a Europe level of 62. Make of that what you will.
It's a packet of "Ginger Bread" Doritos sitting on the shelf at a Tesco's, reduced to 73p
A shelf in a UK TK Maxx store showing a book "H.P. Lovecraft: Tales of Horror"
It's a picture of me at home, it's dark because no to the big light and indeed most lights. I'm not looking at the camera
a book of 'The Aleister Crowley Collection' sitting on a shelf in the local tk maxx
A shot, from an elevated position, across the seafront of Sliema, Malta. A giant cruise ship with "🐋 MOBY" written on the side is inching into the sea from the mouth of Valletta harbour, dominating the surrounding built environment
A still from the 1980s Scottish short TV series The Mad Death. A fellow in his fifties wearing a stylish brown corduroy jacket tells a woman in her thirties wearing a protean shell suit "it'll have to be destroyed, I'm afraid" (there are subtitles)
It's me. I'm wearing my new glasses and not looking at the camera. The frames are a soft green. I'm wearing a yellow hat. I'm in a car in a car park.
A photo of a cross street in central Glasgow (St Vincent Street and Wellington Street). It's nighttime and there is a red pedestrian signal visible across the street. The red means go because it's actually for the main street to the right ninety degrees to the direction you are crossing, because some public authority (Glasgow? Scotland?) has decided to change the street language we've been familiar with for decades and make pedestrian signals be right next to where you are, at low height, more often than not completely invisible, and it has to be killing people
It's a photo of a very large clog, as in the Dutch shoe. Maybe four metres long? It's yellow and cartoonishly shapely and it's in the garden of some mid century American house
your writer aged 17 sat on a balcony of an apartment in Venice, CA in the summer of 1994. david hasselhoff used to take time out from filming baywatch to drive around the boardwalk like he was a real lifeguard. i didn't hassle the hoff, but did almost run him over on my bike
An electronic sign on a bus that says "Next stop CEMETERY - hello.... welcome aboard"
Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap, grimacing and taking a guitar solo (played on a guitar that appears to have a Marshall amp for a body) over the edge of the cliff, FIVE LOUDER
It's a Glasgow bus, speared by a metal strip from a bus stop. It's late in the evening. I just yeet-signalled the folk in front off after the bus driver muttered to himself and phoned back to base telling me and me only they probably weren't going to be going anyplace for a while.
A WhatsApp message that says: "In fact possibly the best "ride" was the cinema 360 that was like a 180 degree dome that POV video of being on roller coasters was projected onto and you just had to stand there in this shit concrete dome looking at the cool roller coasters they had in America xx"
Photo taken out of a window of a train hurtling through the Scottish Central Belt. It's a rural looking scene.
A picture of Balmore Road, Glasgow, today. There are visible saltires (the flag of St Andrew) halfway up the lampposts.
it's a figure skater in a dog costume about to come onto the ice. they look as if they definitely do not know how to follow the exploits of a chicken jockey.
a photograph on a sunny day of the front of a store of the French supermarket E. Leclerc, showing the sign prominently
The cricketer Ian "Beefy" Botham sits in some old gentleman's club looking place (wood panels, old portraits on the wall (not of him)) smoking a cigarette, wearing amongst other monstrosities a neck scarf and a red, white and blue cap with two clapping hands.
It's about 6am and the sun is reflecting off a window across the street, visible out of the window of this room that, presumably and actually, I am currently within. There is a pot plant in the foreground but that isn't particularly relevant, just providing a bit of colour, specifically green and brown.
Scene from a street party on the street I grew up on, from the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. I'm nine months old and dressed as a fallen angel, held up by my mum who is wearing red flared cords and a white skinny polo neck. A couple of small girls dressed as clowns or harlequins are adjacent. A slightly older boy is dressed at St George. It's all a bit Derek Jarman.
A screenshot of a link to a BBC news article with the headline "Re-opening of railway line and nudist festival"
A link to the Pavement documentary 'Pavements', showing there from 11th July, where the caption says "I'm waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting." and then the call to action says "GO!"
gif of somebody pouring a can of coke into a glass. Only a dribble is coming out and the gif loops forever without the coke level going up noticeably
It's a concert poster for ELO ENCOUNTER, an ELO tribute band playing ELO's greatest hits including Mr Blue Sky, Telephone Line, Strange Magic etc etc and not Blinded By The Light because that was someone else. If you're interested, they're playing at the Albany Theatre in The Butts (snigger) in Coventry on Friday 5th September 2025. Idk how much tickets cost but what price Evil Woman
A public information poster from the 1980s that used to be in shoreline toilets from Margate to Penzance that says 'DON'T SMUGGLE DEATH - Keep rabies out of Britain' with a picture of a supposedly rabid, smuggled dog attacking an innocent young girl
A link from a newspaper website (the Guardian, actually) saying "13 minutes ago: There's quite a bit going on at the moment. We're working through the"
Google Maps screenshot showing the location of Halfway in relation to Cambuslang (it's to the southeast)
A fridge magnet from Guide Dogs that says "I'm sponsoring Norman" and a picture of the eponymous Norman, a little black furred snub nosed boy puppy with a furry duckling toy in his mouth. His front paw is placed forward with sassy intent, because Norman is Going Places.
A still from the movie Lawrence of Arabia. Omar Sharif (Ali) and Peter O'Toole (Lawrence) are on camels surrounded by other humans also on camels. Ali is using a stick to point out the desert, saying "And that is the desert"
some interview where a young reform guy is talking about a "once-woke generation finally waking up" :((
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu. It's 1994, and I am 17. I'm wearing a bootleg Dinosaur Jr t-shirt where J Mascis' head is being sliced open. The courtyard: Italianate.
Picture the scene. It's 1994. Yours truly is idly trying to write fiction on the beach in Venice, CA while Pamela Anderson and David Charvet are filming Baywatch in the immediate vicinity. A crew member asks if I want my picture taken. I say meh, OK. Pamela Anderson tells me she likes my pants, which cost $1 from the Goodwill
A beach on a south side of Sandö, Sweden. It's in the Baltic so there's almost zero tide. The sky is blue, the thin, rocky beach is lined with tufts and jetsam.
Richard Nixon's final "meal" before resigning: a single ring of pineapple with a dollop of cream, and a glass of milk served with knife, fork and serviette on a silver tray.
It's a resting dog on a couch. There are blankets.
A photo of central Birmingham taken from the 21st storey of a building also in Birmingham. There's roads and tram tracks and cranes and general modern hustle and bustle.
Picture of a probably temporary road bridge for HS2 works. It's concrete and there are railway tracks going underneath it.
A second or so shot from Master And Commander showing Billy Boyd at the wheel, cutting to some kid who looks like Sean Astin laying down and sleeping
It's a screenshot of an MS Paint like interface (actually JS Paint) with paintbrush/ eraser/ pencil icons and so on and "It's 31st December 2024" written on the canvas
It's the lights of the Glasgow George Square "Winterfest" Winterval celebration refracted through the fogged up upstairs window of the airport bus. There's a big wheel and one of those drop rides visible and lit up. It's pretty an' that.
A phone screenshot of an app that is currently showing the text "Let us update the firmware of your ball" alongside a progress bar. There's also a big image of said ball in the centre of the screen.