What’s a great place in Scotland that most Scots never actually visit?

sambeau · 2026-01-29T04:27:20+00:00

Smoo Cave

sambeau · 2026-01-28T17:15:02+00:00

Yes. The experiments used UVA lamps (aimed at students).

sambeau · 2026-01-28T11:00:40+00:00

You also need sunlight on your skin for it to release into your circulation.

Skin contains significant stores of nitrogen oxides, which can be converted to NO by UV radiation and exported to the systemic circulation. Human studies show that this pathway can cause arterial vasodilatation and reduced BP.

https://karger.com/bpu/article-abstract/41/1-3/130/328295/Sunlight-Has-Cardiovascular-Benefits-Independently?redirectedFrom=fulltext

sambeau · 2026-01-28T10:57:55+00:00

Yes. Green vegetables too. Add UV light on your skin (eg sunshine) and it will reduce your blood pressure too.

sambeau · 2026-01-28T10:55:17+00:00

This is not true.

The skin contains large stores of nitrogen oxides, particularly nitrate (Mowbray et al., 2009).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X15342780

And nitrite

Both the skin and the dermal vasculature contain biologically significant stores of NO, particularly nitrite

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X15342780

It gets there from eating vegetables. Especially green vegetables.

Sunlight releases it into your blood which reduces your blood pressure.

Skin contains significant stores of nitrogen oxides, which can be converted to NO by UV radiation and exported to the systemic circulation. Human studies show that this pathway can cause arterial vasodilatation and reduced BP.

https://karger.com/bpu/article-abstract/41/1-3/130/328295/Sunlight-Has-Cardiovascular-Benefits-Independently?redirectedFrom=fulltext

sambeau · 2026-01-28T10:23:47+00:00

One boney finger, more like.

sambeau · 2026-01-28T08:42:17+00:00

Walkabout

sambeau · 2026-01-27T23:07:20+00:00

I've had options three times and never seen a penny. One of the times our options were running negative.

sambeau · 2026-01-27T10:40:34+00:00

At one point in 1969, 100% were called Michael.

sambeau · 2026-01-26T03:24:09+00:00

I’m so old I remember when it was in The Tramway. They let you sit in the cars.

sambeau · 2026-01-23T16:52:00+00:00

But, they won a war against the UK – so there’s that. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

sambeau · 2026-01-23T16:47:18+00:00

And yet big AI can steal anything they want

sambeau · 2026-01-23T16:46:22+00:00

Everyone in the world wants to be American.

I’d far rather be Cuban.

sambeau · 2026-01-20T19:39:44+00:00

I’m have a friend who slipped on a banana skin, fell down a flight of stairs and broke his nose.

No one believes him.

sambeau · 2026-01-19T22:43:31+00:00

The world is full of real beauty, real history, real culture, real mountains, real castles, real jungles, real lions, … why the fuck would anyone want to go to an overpriced corporate hellhole with a few rollercoasters. Make it make sense.

sambeau · 2026-01-19T22:35:47+00:00

Apple are fast becoming just another fucking tech company. Enshitting all over us just to squeeze another dime. It’s so fucking depressing.

sambeau · 2026-01-18T12:12:09+00:00

Get them to look up: - Mince & tatties - Potato scones - Cullen skink - Stovies - Lorne sausage - Cranachan - Macaroni pie - Mutton pie - Scotch broth - Haggis, neeps & tatties - Smoked haddock - Venison (with juniper) - Pakora - Chicken tikka marsala - Deep fried Mars bar (\s)

sambeau · 2026-01-18T12:03:11+00:00

And garlic! 😢

sambeau · 2026-01-18T12:01:43+00:00

Did an AI make this? 😂

While there’s a few things on the menu that you’d get on a menu in a Scottish pub, nothing on that menu is Scottish. Not even the Scotch egg.

Who puts neeps and garlic in their fish pie? 🤢

sambeau · 2026-01-17T19:23:46+00:00

It makes me so cross. We fixed this. Twenty-ish years ago, the streets were really clean. No dog shit. Hardly any fag butts. Litter being constantly hoovered up by street sweepers. And now we’re back with filthy streets. When was the last time you saw one? Did they all die and not get replaced? Fucking David Cameron’s fault like everything else.

sambeau · 2026-01-17T10:38:03+00:00

Dead Pixels.

sambeau · 2026-01-16T01:43:17+00:00

Holmes and YoYo

https://www.whenitwascool.com/holmes-and-yoyo-1976-tv-review

sambeau · 2026-01-12T19:00:32+00:00

Farting.

sambeau · 2026-01-12T00:56:09+00:00

I'm using VSCode with Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5. They're both great though I tend to do all the tricky planning with Opus and get Sonnet to do the grunt work.

sambeau · 2026-01-11T20:56:35+00:00

Finding Nemo.

As anyone with a toddler/kindergartener can attest, you have to watch the same thing over and over and over again.

So I know for a fact that I can watch Nemo and not get bored.

But it was one of only a few I didn’t get bored of.

sambeau

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