This is America!

www.facebook.com/FubarNews Fubar on FB ti see how Aberdeenshire flooding is happening and the folly of some drivers

I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.

David Wallace Lockhart has told listeners to Radio Scotland that 55% of workers in Scotland who earn less than £35,000 will pay less tax than UK counterparts. This is not correct. It's 55% of *all* workers in Scotland. Another broadcast correction needed. @angusrobertson.bsky.social

Anas Sarwar and Labour have been caught making up a quote and attributing it to a person who did not give their permission on one of their campaign leaflets. Extraordinary to not get the basics right. hellorayo.co.uk/clyde/local/...

Anas Sarwar is under pressure to 'stand up publicly and say sorry' after Scottish Labour invented a quote from a leading maternity campaigner and posted it to thousands of Scots households

Good to hear rebirth of In Our Time @BBCRadio4 with Misha Glenny but disappointing in discussion of work of the son of a Scot with a Scottish name, John Stuart Mill, has his work described only in terms of England. Melvin Bragg understood UK/Scotland/England/Wales/NI.

🇺🇸 US Coastguard ship with its seized, scrap heap, Venezuelan tanker, anchored off Burghead in the Moray Firth All carried out without the uk even bothering to inform the Scottish Government 🇬🇧 Absolute contempt and disrespect for the people of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Mail is getting out there again so when Reform letter comes through remember to send back the envelope, they've paid the postage and it would be a shame not to oblige them. :))

Rubbish photo of bird on the move. Can you identify it? Looks a bit like a miniature chaffinch.

Words written on the death of someone he knew from Maxim Gorky

King Joey is 78 today. Happy birthday Joey Harper. @afc.co.uk best no.9.

Something lovely for the weekend! Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me #Archaeology

His Faither’s Breeks, 1840s, photo by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson.

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Pharmacists in Dundee reporting shortages of insulin and antibiotics. Suppliers admit they were ordered to prioritize stockpiling in the South East of England first. They are gambling with Scottish lives. This union is literally toxic. 💊⚠️ #HealthEmergency

They're building igloos and snowmen in Aberdeenshire

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Happy New Year! Winter at Garenin, Isle of #Lewis  [photo: Stephen Branley]

Hopefully this video of wee Aberdeenshire moosie eating a plum works

lenathehyena.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/i... The life o Peter Milne

#HillfortSunday #TapONoth Iron Age hill fort. Massive vitrified walls with substantial reuse in Pictish era.

King Charles personal wealth of £2 Billion+ Monarchy assets £25bn+ Public funding £132m+ per year. His "Pull Together" speech was broadcast into millions of homes where people are struggling to pay bills and delivered from the glitter and gold of Westminster Abbey. The disconnect is staggering.

Back in 1812, business as usual ... karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/12/25/c...

My annual Christmas greeting to you all. The Christmas Day Truce. The text is here: www.linkedin.com/posts/steve-... #WWI #ChristmasDayTruce #History #Skystorians #WesternFront #GreatWar #TrenchWarfare @westernfrontww1.bsky.social @greatwarhuts.bsky.social @jich.bsky.social 📚 🗃

#ChristmasPost #Aberdeenshire

Anyone know what UH stands for in old Scottish death certificates?

THREE satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland - two tags had been cut off. Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/17/t...

Thought for the day.

Labour values

Norway used its energy wealth to build one of the most prosperous and fair societies in the world. Scotland can do it too, with the fresh start of independence. Get involved: snp.org/energy

Knitting jumper with mixed shade wool and bizarrely the sleeves are knitting up near identically. How does that happen? ⁿ

But no mention or coverage of John Swinney's speech this morning on the BBC Scotland webpage. It's almost as if they don't want people hearing the case for independence, easier to stick with Farage's anti-migrant bile

Abody at the Scots Language Centre is gey sair tae hear o the passin o Adam McNaughtan, the teacher an sangwriter wha is weel kenned fir sangs like 'Yellow on the Broom' an, maybe maist famously fir folk that sing wi thir bairns, 'The Jeely Piece Song'. www.scottishbooktrust.com/songs-and-rh...

Happy St Andrew's Day

weebitsofhistory.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/p... The barbarity of war and the humanity of medicine

Bus Stop of The Day: Isle of Lewis. Pic: Dave Beere

Keir Starmer has said the UK will 'reclaim our heritage' in a bizarre attack on the SNP

Call to rethink investing public money in 'Scotland's second largest landowner'. #ScottishEnvironment🌱 #LandReform #NaturalCapitalism💷💷💷

"The women here [Kirkwall] are much addicted to pleasure, which I attribute to the abundance of fish." Description of the Orkney Islands, 1529

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)

Letters to his cousin in the Scottish Highlands from a young Black Isle lad in the trenches in 1916 and 1917 thanking her for food parcels.

Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc