Letter of the day (in the Times)

So, I see Putin’s finally coming to inspect his new real estate.

Interstellar Comet theorkneynews.scot/2025/08/10/i...

Charity rowers, sir - thousands of ‘em.

MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.

Someone hand Zelensky the Epstein files and the war will be over in no time.

From this month's edition of The Onion.

I love this

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ TUNE!

Excellent!!!

Israel’s Final Solution is now imminent.

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

65 countries have gained independence from the United Kingdom - and not one of them has tried to come back. That’s because independence is normal. Decisions for Scotland, made in Scotland. It’s a future worth voting for. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Old School, Quoyloo is fund-raising in the Blue Door, Kirkwall this week. Come and see the bargains! #Orkney

Utterly disgusting. They guys belong in a jail and when this circus is ended there needs to be the urban equivalent of a war crimes tribunal.

Some lovely touches in this youtube.com/watch?v=li7m...

This made me chuckle 😁 #funny #sport #language

I feel like these shrimp worms could be used as reactions to everything that has happened to our country over the past eight months.

RFK JR Announces He Will Just Go Door-To-Door Killing People To Save Time

Excellent. I hope it happens!

Emma Roddick MSP: Agricultural Shows and Elections theorkneynews.scot/2025/08/06/e...

I’ll start today by saying that RFK Jnr is a lunatic charlatan who is a menace to mankind

“Every record has been destroyed, every book rewritten, every picture repainted, every statue and street building renamed, every date has been altered…” – George Orwell, 1984

Really enjoying Jason Momoa’s Chief of War. Spoken mostly in Ōlelo Hawaiʻi, it’s an excellent production.

I see Yvette Cooper has gone full Reichsfuhrer and ready to arrest thousands over a law based on a political tantrum.

I have the heart of a lion and a lifetime ban from the zoo.

Absolutely. The time for merely complaining is gone.

I see that Trump is renaming the John F. Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts after his wife Melania. I guess the Melania Trump Centre for Performing Tarts has a ring to it.

Harry Lawley is superb starring with Toby Jones in Mr. Burton, the movie about Richard Burton’s beginnings and attempts to become an actor. Very good movie, and I foresee a resurgence of interest in the real man and Shakespeare as a result of it.

Two days just spent on Hoy. Total bliss, beaches, dogs going nuts in the water and two impromptu gigs in the local pub, my first for three years.

What we’ve learned since January 20th is that there are plenty of Americans happy to staff concentration camps, beat up and arrest anybody they don’t like, and lie, cheat and change facts for their personal Fuhrer. It wasn’t a German trait, but a human trait. Forget your democracy, it’s finished.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump is about to hand two nuclear submarines over to his friends in Russia as ordered. His big mouth and thin skin is killing people. Americans need to reverse that sequence quickly.

Inganess Beach Orkney- Childrens’ impressive Neolithic representations and Tern.

Since they seem to consider music an imaginary thing, then I greet any tanking of their imaginary value with a hearty womp-womp www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2025...

President Trump has fired God as creator of the universe due to his promoting a woke EDI agenda. His place will be taken by Satan (all hail His name) in move from his current Lord of Hell position, although he will still report directly to Stephen Miller.

President Trump has fired God as creator of the universe due to his promoting a woke EDI agenda. His place will be taken by Satan (all hail His name) in move from his current Lord of Hell position, although he will still report directly to Stephen Miller.

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

#OneHitHistory The week ending July 31, 1976, Ohio rock band Wild Cherry earned US #OneHitWonder honors when their filthy, sweaty ass-shaker, “Play That Funky Music,” entered the US #Billboard #Top40 at #34. It spent 18 weeks on the chart, including 3 at the top spot! #WildCherry #OneHitWondered

Love this!

Wow. It can be done.

One of the best weeks in the Orkney calendar. Some fantastic events as always.

MAGA voters in action.

Sunday thoughts.

'What we need are politicians willing to break the eggs. We need a new omelette. We need a new political system. We need a new country. Nothing less will do.' @richardjmurphy, via The National archive.is/pl08M

Hopefully it pisses it down 🌧️ 🍊 🦍 🇺🇸

#language #Scotland #funny

Finished today. Sequel to The Space Between Us, Scottish alien First Contact thriller.

Nice noctilucent clouds over Orkney tonight.