Farage really on the ropes there.

Our group had enjoyed several Robert Harris novels - good easy read thrillers and also very interesting as they are based on historical situations.

You've Been Trumped - Wikipedia

‘You’ve Been Trumped’ - good movie/s. Locals near Aberdeen had the measure of him long ago.
"the underlying message is that if you are rich and powerful enough, you can run roughshod over tradition and private property rights and buy your place at the table."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You've_...

These guys did a brilliant gig at Mareel earlier, with @roseannewatt.bsky.social, great night of poetry and good patter, hilarious.

😃 Good point well made 😃

Love this wall.

They must have been doing customer training with the Tesco staff again. They keep asking how I am and telling me to enjoy my day. Calm down guys, that’s a bit overly for the UK.

"You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it." - John Adams

He is repenting so hard right now.

Four square concrete planters full of red and pink tulips with a few yellow daffodils amidst green leaves.

Since approximately 1966 we think, our Council gardeners have been taking care of these planters outside the Library. We rarely see them come and go - it’s like magic flowers just appear 🙂

Naw you burnt down the worker’s houses and made a ton of free money for your speculator buddies, so all good.

Anything Orkney can do, we can do better, darker and lighter 🙂

Hirda da Oorick by Ann Marie Anderson and Jenny Duncan.

Author Ann Marie Anderson reading from her new book.

Children enjoying the Oorick-themed activities.

Sharing a story.

☀️ We’re still smiling after our super Sunday event to launch the latest Shetland book for bairns from Peerie Oorick.
🥰 It was lovely to see so many families coming together to enjoy the space.
🖍️ There’s lots to see & do in the Library, particularly in the school holidays- why not pop along?

I wondered for a while why Trump was so excited by Brexit, even to the point of getting Farage to fluff him. It was simple, really: proof that, with the support of enough bent media, bad people selling bigotry & lies really could persuade people to vote to punch themselves in the face forever.

I kind of want to go

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

Ha ha 🙂
If @anncleeves.bsky.social is taking Jimmy from us, we’re having Vera!

U.S. officials can’t find any Greenlanders who want to talk to Usha Vance A local travel company in Greenland’s capital also cancelled a planned visit by Usha Vance

U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one

The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named David Roberts (@volts .wtf). The post reads: "The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It’s not a public act, it’s not a schtick, there’s not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people."

This is the simplest and most obvious explanation.

There are now just three types of media figures on both sides of the Atlantic: people clear-eyed & honest about the obvious evil of Trump; people explicitly supportive of Trump’s obvious evil & people implicitly supporting Trump’s obvious evil by ‘both sidesing’ every lurch further in to fascism…

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Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Airlines - why not flash up ‘final call’ in red half an hour before the plane is even ready to board, just to haul your passengers out of the warm bar into a drafty corridor? Oh, you already got that…

Trump Administration Calls for Elimination of Federal Agency that Funds Libraries. Photo of White House at night.

Library lovers, we need your help. A recent executive order calls for the elimination of IMLS, the only federal agency that funds libraries nationwide. Without IMLS, many of the resources and programs we love could be at risk.

📚 Learn what you can do to help: ilovelibraries.org/article/trum...

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.

No one knows why he was detained.

Massive anti-US invasion protest in Nuuk, Greenland outside the US consulate.

"99% say no Trump"
"no means no"

( 📹@OJoelsen ) #3E #EndImpunity #GreenlandProtests

Wrong answer - ‘home baked with love’ is our USP 🙂

Restaurants - any chance we could have salt cellars back instead of a range of dodgy apparatus designed to spit giant rocks of salt at our food?

I have heard that the plot involves the Library as a centre of vice and corruption, and that they get their cake from Asda.

I love to get a window seat on a clear day! A few photos from a London-Cyprus flight.

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.