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I still love patchwork, I still hate custard and I still make a mean toffee apple. History, sleep support and who knows what else besides, all in beautiful East Lothian.
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I ❤️ my purple tradescantia.

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No lande hath evir had but one language. Even the monolingual do not lyve wyth just one tongue. Historye ys polyglot, culture ys a glorious babel of invention, and lyfe itself ys made out of translaciouns.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

More pics of a fine day for an early spring walk by East Lothian's River Tyne

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A fine day for an early spring walk by East Lothian's River Tyne.

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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

submitted 5 days ago • 54 comments

I ❤️ my big red oxalis.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"if you are gonna make light of the 30,000-60,000 people killed you could at least get the fucking facts straight. If you don’t care enough to get a basic fact correct, it looks suspiciously like you do not care about the people who died so you can wear a silly little t-shirt and feel like a rebel."

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

how do you even get the permits to build a highway to the danger zone?

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

“optimize your writing with AI—” how about you optimize your brain by thinking for yourself and not outsourcing your creativity to companies owned by some of the world’s worst people

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

apropos of nothing, a story of a member of a foreign state security service and some penguins. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politic...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I used to be in charge of that model! Long long ago....

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The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

submitted 206 days ago • 44 comments