‘You’ve Been Trumped’ - good movie/s. Locals near Aberdeen had the measure of him long ago. "the underlying message is that if you are rich and powerful enough, you can run roughshod over tradition and private property rights and buy your place at the table." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You've_...

These guys did a brilliant gig at Mareel earlier, with @roseannewatt.bsky.social, great night of poetry and good patter, hilarious.

😃 Good point well made 😃

Love this wall.

They must have been doing customer training with the Tesco staff again. They keep asking how I am and telling me to enjoy my day. Calm down guys, that’s a bit overly for the UK.

"You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it." - John Adams He is repenting so hard right now.

Since approximately 1966 we think, our Council gardeners have been taking care of these planters outside the Library. We rarely see them come and go - it’s like magic flowers just appear 🙂

☀️ We’re still smiling after our super Sunday event to launch the latest Shetland book for bairns from Peerie Oorick. 🥰 It was lovely to see so many families coming together to enjoy the space. 🖍️ There’s lots to see & do in the Library, particularly in the school holidays- why not pop along?

I wondered for a while why Trump was so excited by Brexit, even to the point of getting Farage to fluff him. It was simple, really: proof that, with the support of enough bent media, bad people selling bigotry & lies really could persuade people to vote to punch themselves in the face forever.

I kind of want to go

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

Ha ha 🙂 If @anncleeves.bsky.social is taking Jimmy from us, we’re having Vera!

U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one

This is the simplest and most obvious explanation.

There are now just three types of media figures on both sides of the Atlantic: people clear-eyed & honest about the obvious evil of Trump; people explicitly supportive of Trump’s obvious evil & people implicitly supporting Trump’s obvious evil by ‘both sidesing’ every lurch further in to fascism…

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Airlines - why not flash up ‘final call’ in red half an hour before the plane is even ready to board, just to haul your passengers out of the warm bar into a drafty corridor? Oh, you already got that…

Library lovers, we need your help. A recent executive order calls for the elimination of IMLS, the only federal agency that funds libraries nationwide. Without IMLS, many of the resources and programs we love could be at risk. 📚 Learn what you can do to help: ilovelibraries.org/article/trum...

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

Massive anti-US invasion protest in Nuuk, Greenland outside the US consulate. "99% say no Trump" "no means no" ( 📹@OJoelsen ) #3E #EndImpunity #GreenlandProtests

Restaurants - any chance we could have salt cellars back instead of a range of dodgy apparatus designed to spit giant rocks of salt at our food?

I love to get a window seat on a clear day! A few photos from a London-Cyprus flight.

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

7 months ago today I bombed that kids hospital in Kiev. But as Trump says, "it's what anyone would do".

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

For 250 years, the United States has supported democracy. Now, in the middle of a horrific war that Putin started, Trump is turning his back on Ukraine and democracy, all to the benefit of a brutal dictator in Moscow.

Just imagine a scenario in which PM Liz Truss was in charge now and then tell me that "all politicians are the same"

What awful, awful people. Schoolboy bullies, hoping to get a grin from the big bully by piling on. What monsters.

The Johnson graph is very funny

"daddy, what did you do in the war" son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet we all did our part

‘If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.’ - Roald Dahl

What first attracted Donald Trump to alleged rapist Andrew Tate?

French President Emmanuel Macron publicly interrupted Donald Trump to correct another of the US President’s falsehoods over Ukraine 👏

Trump's face when Macron says the US should be compensated by Russia, not Ukraine, because they started the war. 😂😂

Yup.

V. cheery man on radio speaking about #Celtic match last night, and I think ‘oh, good, who did they beat - Bayern Munich? Wow!’ Then it slowly becomes clear it was a draw and they are knocked out of a comp - but it was a great goal, a great match and they are very happy. Gotta love Scottish fitba 😃💕

For them, it seems, the only speech that should be free is hate speech.

I won’t be listening to any speeches by Vance or his cohort because I studied the rise of the Nazis and already know the script.

Hurrah for Sandy 🙂 #Shetland

“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion” From the new Private Eye, out now.

This film sounds excellent - hope we get the chance to see it in the UK. Hail our brave US library comrades. #BannedBooks

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

Of course, it’s possible that all of the people accused of ‘over-reacting’ were actually under-reacting all along…

The Librarians: Chilling new documentary at the Sundance film festival examines the phenomenon of book banning in US schools - ‘Civil rights fight of our time’. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

Broadcasters who repeated this obvious bollocks are not required to make any correction or apologise to their listeners/viewers. And I saw at least two columnists making hay with it. They too will retract nothing.

John Swinney is right. Labour needs to make amends for appeasing the cult of Brexit.

Five years after #Brexit, its disastrous consequences are clearer than ever. We need to do far more to rebuild relations with the EU & begin a serious conversation about rejoining. That starts with facing down Farage & faragism @europeanmovement.co.uk @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social