Union Square carpark, #Aberdeen at 11am. #uksnow #snow

I'm minding this rehomed young collie dog - his future career as yet unknown, but sheep trials were very definitely not for him. He crossed the stream at Derrynane strand in two magnificent skimming leaps yesterday.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

Update on weather in #Aberdeen. I spent much of the morning shovelling the paths, and pavement clear. I also cleared and defrosted our car. Now all under 2" of fresh snow! #uksnow

Magnificent.

Skyscraper (horse) was born in 1786 which was a century before the first skyscraper building!!!

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

Well, today – of course! – is the 79th anniversary of L Ron Hubbard trying to summon Baby Satan. Apparently, it was this very day in 1946 when the founder of Scientology teamed up with a rocket engineer called Jack Parsons to create a ‘moonchild’

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Meanwhile Stephen Miller’s wife is posting stuff like this

Excellent analysis. Dangerous precedent!

A further update on #uksnow in #Aberdeen

The back garden this morning in #Aberdeen. #uksnow

Dementia is a helluva drug

Sign Combo xkcd.com/2841

I frequently criticize the Times on various fronts. With great size/power comes great responsibility. But it's always important to remember that really only they have the resources and capacity to put stuff like this together. These are like genome maps of the Trump corruption machine.

This is great! And there is a decent #WIKIPEDIA article on the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, too.

Trump crony has embarrassing meltdown after more Kennedy Center performers quit www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

I once held a gate open for Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.

BREAKING: A video montage of all the times Trump promised to end the Ukraine war in 24-hours is going viral after Trump said he has “no deadlines” to end the war. Someone made fun of Trump by speeding up his speech.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

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The headline "Kennedy Center vows legal action" is correct, but your Bluesky summary isn't. They aren't "planning legal action," they *claim* they're planning. Until the suit is filed, it's just hot air. Cover Trump and his cronies like that -- they claim a lot of shit, but rarely follow through.

They're desperate to rationalize "heritage American" as if it's some serious intellectual theory and not a white nationalist twitter meme. Which doesn't work because it is, in fact, just a white nationalist twitter meme.

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This will piss the right wingers off, but I’d say this chap is far more a patriot that the wankers painting roundabouts and hanging flags. What a legend!

🚨 NEW: The US has imposed sanctions on British citizen Claire Melford for being an "agent of the global censorship-industrial complex" Melford, who leads the monitoring website Global Disinformation Index, is now banned from entering the US

Hey artists fleeing Twitter, welcome to the good place👋 I’m so happy you’re here! If you’re looking for some art friends, here are some starter packs of amazing artists on bluesky 🥰 go.bsky.app/6WQAQna

The first person recorded wishing someone "Merry Christmas" was Bishop John Fisher, in a letter to Thomas Cromwell #OnThisDay, 22nd December 1534. "And this our Lord God send you a mery Christmas, and a comfortable, to your heart’s desire." 🖼️ Wikimedia Commons

#Trump's DOJ has been caught attempting to scapegoat Bill Clinton by inserting unrelated, publicly available photos of him into the #TrumpEpsteinFiles Thank you @meidastouch.com (for let me use one of your articles)

I have always liked Cher, and she has now gone up in my rankings.

A video which has been shared thousands of times on social media appears to show a British soldier confronting a police officer over “arresting people for words”. But the clip is fake and has been created with AI.

just when you thought these people couldn't get sadder

This looks interesting! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

An oldie but goodie. ( you have to be of a certain age)

It’s a sad indictment of Britain’s ignorance of nature that Sycamore Gap petitions - for a tree that mattered to humans but not nature - received tens of thousands of signatures but a petition to protect entire peatland habitats is stuck at 1,500 actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."

A great talent. And such a sad quote in the obituary!

Yeah, Robert Plant! Love his new record, too. #music #musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHL5...

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

Reform UK denies allegations Nigel Farage falsified election expenses after complaint to police #Nigelfarage Real shock Farage is a corrupt ,entitled multi millionaire bigot. Who knew ? Took more expenses from EU than anyone else ,guy wants to REDUCE min wage opr.news/6822d0b72512... opr.as/share

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It's not like Nigel Farage to be a Hypocrite.

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it. You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.

Similarly, I remember when my little brother spotted a "donkey with five legs".