Good to hear @dotmund.bsky.social again.

Out of the loop On failing to keep up

app.the-tls.com/214759/conte... I feel seen, as the youths say. Greetings, fellow decrepits.

The nearby Ring of Brodgar - I hear the stones are fenced off now to protect the ground they stand on - and these stones are so full of deep time you can feel it. Orkney has wonders ancient and modern and I'd go back in a heartbeat. Just avoid the cruise parties.

In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape.

Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands, in northern Scotland, remain a fundamental part of the landscape. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/3hepma

Colin Davey – Medium Read writing from Colin Davey on Medium. DFL (Down from Luton) since 2014. Former programme editor, deadbeat.

Taking my business away from Substack. Going back to Medium: medium.com/@colin_davey

Sitting in The Strand (pub), unsubscribing from Substack subscriptions, which is like pulling teeth, with Call Me F****** Al on the jukebox. Worst Sunday drinks since the Tina Turner tribute act.

League, FFS,

I had this idea that, sooner or later, Trump would literally or figuratively be "run out of town on a rail". We did it to Boris Johnson, who's not in that keague -- what's the hold-up, America?

The cream has risen to the top.

Underwrite my new film "From Jugs to Dugs, My Tit Journey", and this time next year...

Is this blister actually named. "Chip"? Am no expert, but actual Jesus, the one that wasn't born in Ohio, drove the moneylenders out of the temple and would have had opinions on this idiotic and malicious rubbish. I am, of course, an atheist.

Is there a book called Harvey I should read?

I just gave you a hate like.

From the TLS
"More than nine billion tins of Spam have passed through the world’s gastrointestinal tracts ad thirteen tins are eaten every second."
Bloody. Vikings.

In the pub. There's a dispute, namely, "Where's my Guiness?" Turns out the barman had, oddly, heard "Innes" and poured a glass of Innes and Gunn, a lovely Scots oddity. Meanwhile, thirsty me. If Gunn had been the senior partner, we'd be there yet.

Whatever you do, don't call it "Brit Card" . True cringe.

Cratic. So cratic.

I will attempt this noble experiment for the Public Good.

It seems you can only read Samuel Beckett sober, which seems all wrong.

I have an AA Milne / Samuel Beckett mashup going. I think I can make ir work. --"Eeyore's Last Tape." Anyone? #GiveItAGo

Sue zlawley stayed tight-lipped throughout .

It's like Captain Pike in The Cage. Two bleeps for yes, one for no, are no basis for a form of government. Yet the USA is either MIA Democrat (boo) or MAGA (hooray).

Not just a dolt but a crooked venal dolt. Yet still the Martians come.

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Words of frightening truth,

Just some BlueSky(e) thinking.

Should certainly Mull that over.
(That’s enough Western Isles nonsense.)

"To that conclusion late you are".

In England and Wales, there are just 53 villages that didn't need a war memorial after WW1, later called The Thankful Villages. Has Trump just invented the Thankful Schools?

Carries the whole "Rail Replacement Bus" joy within it. From "a whole weekend of football" to "Moldova v Wales" is an odd journey.

I love a country that can thrill to Sandy Denny and Neneh Cherry, Massive Attack and The Beatles. I hate the poisonous old gits in my local who would defund the RNLI and who'd give a second of their time to that nasty grifter Farage.