🕯️🇺🇦 A nurse and a patient were killed at the Institute of Cardiology this morning by Russians.

Meanwhile in Ukraine...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister. “I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

I would like to ask Scottish Secretary @ianmurraymp.bsky.social why he thinks it is in any way appropriate to extend a "warm welcome" to the racist rapist serially lying paedophile fascist tyrant Donald Trump?

Sunset from our balcony

If only our government and media were half as outraged about a state policy to kill an entire civilian population.

SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles? RFK JR: No SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them

By the way, the US striking Iran’s nuclear facilities and infrastructure gives Russia the green light to strike Ukraine’s nuclear facilities & infrastructure. This is another reason it’s forbidden under international law. Trump is escalating danger everywhere.

Trump regime ICE forces assaulted and kidnapped a mother on her way to pick up her children from school, this is what they are doing all over the country. #StopICE

'This Is What Fascism Looks Like': Beloved Labor Leader David Huerta Arrested www.commondreams.org/news/david-h...

Ethnic cleansing. Genocide. Eradication. These are the only objective words that can be used to describe Israel's actions towards the Palestinian people. The world is either watching or helping them.

Just a reminder to our Ukrainian friends that we haven't forgotten you, we are mindful of your struggle and suffering, and that we will support you to the day of your victory over the invader and beyond. Slava Ukraini! Image from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, last night. #Ukraine #SlavaUkraini

National self-harm in the name of what exactly?

Pope Saag Aloo IV would be great.

View from the house this evening...

Male bias in medical trials risks women’s lives. But at least the data gap is finally being addressed | Caroline Criado Perez

Bonnie the dog @ Iona, aged 14.

A U.S. Marine veteran waves Palestinian flag - silent defiance against U.S- funded Israeli genocide in Gaza: mass civilian killings, aid convoys bombed, hospitals erased, forced famine. Human rights violations of historic magnitude. Quiet, solitary protests like this speak with loud moral clarity

BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of my favourite beers resurrected by @orbitbeers.bsky.social ... Thanks!

Despite the pains the UK Supreme Court went to emphasise their ruling did not represent a "Victory of one side over another", the Tories in particular can't help but engage in gleeful crowing and bigotry no matter how harmful it may be.

Gruesomely fascinating that in reality the "free speech utopia" of the US far right means exactly the opposite.

An excellent explainer on a difficult topic to get your head around unless you're an economist. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

I'd rather go back to pigeons.

Due to the ongoing issues with reality, April Fool's Day is suspended.

Labour now boasting on the radio about how many folks they've deported! 😱

Confession time: Six or seven years ago I reserved a Tesla Cybertruck for £100, for UK delivery. A) I've owned an EV for over a decade B) A long range electric pickup/adventure wagon was a very attractive idea C) This was before they came out & I expected them to be well designed/legal in UK...

Today we generated 38.5kWh from our domestic solar panels - in mid March, in the Highlands! Still when I see local installers advertising there are always many hostile and cynical comments about them being pointless here, and about renewable energy in general. I just can't comprehend the hostility.

Post the last four albums you listened to...

Beautiful spring day up at Loch Bruicheach.

Listening to The Great Eastern from The Delgados - a masterpiece I'd argue is the greatest ever lp by a Scottish band... @thedelgados.bsky.social

These people are you and me in different circumstances.

The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.

Seen in Lewis. That will tell him!

Er, Scotland, it's time.

Reuters is reporting that President Trump is to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

"Your thoughts they are of harlequin, your speeches of quicksilver I read your faces like a poem, kaleidoscope of hate words For seagull I don't want your wings I don't want your free speech in a lie" (From Donovan, Ballad of a Crystal Man)

One bright spot in this morning's vile news: this is the AI summary of people's comments on the Washington Post's report on cessation of aid to Ukraine.

😂😂

Searched Krasnov. First one that came up? A Russian military leader. And nazi collaborator. Wonder where the code name for Trump came from… 🤔

Here's a project I completed over winter. I insulated & lined the loft room over our garage, then papered the walls & ceiling with old maps & charts. Most of the maps hold memories of adventures and travels, it's easy to lose an hour or so just staring at the walls and reminiscing!