View today at the cottages on the Loch Humphrey path in the Kilpatrick Hills.

View today at Greenland Reservoir No.3 in the Kilpatrick Hills.

Recent photo of the Firth Of Clyde, seen from The Crags above Dumbarton.

Recent photo of Doughnot Hill in the Kilpatrick Hills, from viewpoint on The Crags.

Recent photo of Loch Humphrey in the Kilpatrick Hills.

The moon a few minutes ago, on a Fujifilm X-S10 camera. The dark areas are ancient lava flows from billions of years ago. The crater near the bottom is Tycho, 108 million years old.

🔥 Hello everyone… I wrote a book. A War To Win Back Your World. Published worldwide 25th of June. Available to pre order NOW I never thought I’d get arrested and held for 36 hours! that moment changed everything. Two years of digging into the money, the legislation, and the systems shaping the world that most people never see led me to write this book. The biggest lie of our time isn’t what’s happening… it’s that we still control it. This isn’t conspiracy, it’s a map. From Net Zero to managed decline, who pays, who profits… and who really decides 🔥 Link to preorder in thread.

"For the public good" - Convenient phrase used to justify government actions that are actually contrary to the public good.

What if AI became so advanced that it convincingly mimics phone calls or messages from family and friends? Prepare yourself for this possibility very soon! If all electronic communications become untrustworthy, face-to-face meetings and hand-delivered letters are the new normal!

I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun. The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇

Adding two photos I took in Bayeux, Normandy, France: the beautiful cathedral, consecrated in 1077 in the presence of William the Conqueror, and the famous Bayeux Tapestry, 230 feet of medieval storytelling about the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. Thought @MemoryMedieval might enjoy these, given his interest in the Normans 🙂

There is no way of knowing how often Parliament votes against what the public actually wants. Until now. houseofthepeople.com tracks every bill going through Parliament. You vote. We compare it to how your MP voted. The gap speaks for itself.

🧵 THREAD 1/ Your bank account is frozen at 3 AM on a Wednesday. No warning. No explanation. No human being to call. You did not commit a crime. You did not miss a payment. You posted something online that an algorithm flagged as problematic. By the time you wake up, your money is gone. Your transit pass is disabled. Your digital ID shows a compliance violation. This is not a nightmare. This is the endpoint of the digital control grid being constructed right now.

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will reach 1 light-day from Earth this year in November. Voyager 1 has been flying for nearly 50 years at 38,000 mph. One light day means radio signals traveling at the speed of light take 24 hours to reach it. When engineers send a command to Voyager 1, they wait two full days for a response one day out, one day back. Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 powered by a plutonium RTG that generates roughly 4 watts of usable power today less than an LED bulb. On that power budget it is transmitting data across 24 light hours of interstellar space to a 70 meter antenna on Earth. It has now traveled farther from Earth than any human made object in history, moving at 17km per second, and it still calls home every day. The most distant thing humanity has ever touched is a 47 year-old spacecraft running on 4 watts, and we can still hear it.

Paper money was never supposed to be the money. It was a receipt. You deposited gold at a bank. The bank gave you a note that said: "The bearer of this note may redeem it for X amount of gold." That's all a dollar was. A claim ticket. The paper had no value. The gold in the vault did. The paper just made it easier to carry. This system worked for centuries. Every major currency was backed this way. The British pound. The French franc. The U.S. dollar. Then, slowly, governments realized something: If people trust the paper, they never come for the gold. So they printed more notes than they had gold. Then more. Then more. When too many people asked questions, they closed the gold window. That was supposed to be temporary. 55 years later, the dollar is still backed by nothing but trust. And that trust has cost you 97% of your purchasing power. The receipt became the money. Global money became trust-based. And money became nothing but a promise that nobody has to keep.

3rd January telephoto shot of Ailsa Craig, as seen from the Kilpatrick Hills. Distance 54 miles.

Recent view of High Duncolm summit from the top of Mid Duncolm, Kilpatrick Hills.

Recent zoomed phone pic of Ailsa Craig from top of Kilpatrick Hills. Distance 54 miles.

Closer view of Erskine Bridge from Kilpatrick Hills, on the route to Greenside Reservoir, in January.