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Writer, historian (biographer of 3rd Marquess of Bute, mid to late Victorian currently interested East Ayrshire), goat keeper. Cis, her/she. Bi. Married to @Chalcedonyvark.bsky.social
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Our soggy upland bog is simply not suitable for very tiny sheep at this time of year, which is why we and all our neighbours lamb March/April. This year? Private enterprise. Some ladies lambed around Valentine’s. Today Bertha, Bathilde, Barnabas, Denis (Louis is off camera)1/2

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Love it! Except 16c Scotland wasn’t, in fact, just this bigoted, and the Queen’s and later King’s power not actually anything like as arbitrary and irrational as the current …

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As an aside, this is an offensive attack on Big Nev. Chamberlain was naive and desperate to avoid another war after an unprecedented slaughter a generation earlier, and still used the time gained to rearm. Whereas Trump is a malignant narcissist who empathises and sympathises with Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

submitted 3 days ago • 160 comments

A party leader telling it like it is. Finally.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Quite possibly a minority of the medics who have treated me may have homophobes. But I have ALWAYS trusted that they would NEVER let that show in the work place. If a nurse can treat a doctor like this, I’d be afraid to be her patient. Literally afraid. And I’m no mouse.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This is what Trump is encouraging

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Well, Richardson isn’t wrong, is she? And to be honest, I’m surprised that world leaders are surprised. Horrified? Yes! Surprised? No.

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Life in Scotland is significantly better than life in England. Not perfect, plenty still to strive for, but significantly better.

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Vance’s speech was the speech of a very bright 15 year old determined to win the debating cup but not interested in facts, or balance, or indeed particularly invested in his own arguments. Bright, sparkling and utterly shallow.

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⚡️'No point trying to negotiate' with Putin, Yulia Navalnaya says. "Even if you decided to negotiate with Putin, just remember he will lie," Navalnaya, widow of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, said at the Munich Security Conference two days before the anniversary of her husband's death.

submitted 7 days ago • 521 comments

I’ve just woken from a nightmare where the BBC Today Programme asked whether J.D. Vance had a point. When US officials are being asked to sign loyalty oaths and agree that Trump won in 2020

submitted 7 days ago • 107 comments

Happy feast day to these lads: up there with ᏍᏏᏉᏯ and 세종대왕 in the very select list of people who've given a language its writing system.

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We don’t ‘really’ lamb until April (we’re up a Scottish hill) but we had a couple of escapees last autumn (including Barbara, a repeat offender) and last night our first lambs arrived, triplets, full of bounce. #SmallFarmLife

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow

submitted 9 days ago • 216 comments

Oh what a surprise. Colour me ASTONISHED. “Trump offers Putin a way back in from the cold”

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SNHS looking after us. talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/11/l...

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