Aberdeenshire this evening from my back garden.

“Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein…took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care.”

The figures from the Health & Safety Executive, show that between March 2014 and March 2024 there were 490 reports of serious injuries to school staff in Scotland caused by violence.

Workplace injuries above a certain threshold of seriousness must be reported to the HSE.
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My painting BLUE VESPA

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I was just about to say bath crayons. Great fun.

He’s so good at this

Perfect. Hope it’s a wonderful day.

Parent wants a call.

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (4?) is strutting along next to Dad, gripping a cheese scone that's almost as big as his face, munching on it like an apple.
Bare feet.
The sun's shining.
Crumbs flying everywhere and no one cares.
He's having a GOOD day. (1)

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

One of the most powerful messages ever 🤍

Gary Lineker is a legend, he spoke out when no one else on TV would.

Gary Lineker on Gaza, "It's the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime. Constant images day in, day out of children losing their lives."

people like greta thunberg feel as close to modern-day saints as i can think. just someone absolutely committed to the cause of human justice. i feel totally inadequate when faced with that moral clarity

St John's church, Glastonbury peering out of the mist. Photograph taken this morning from Glastonbury Tor on Michaelmas day.

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

Ed Davey, "It's so frustrating, so infuriating that Nigel Farage gets such an easy ride from the media"

"As he lies, as he divides, the BBC and others given Farage so much time and attention"

"But they never hold him to account for all the damage he has already done"

"The damage of Brexit"

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"

-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

It’s reported that Disney has lost $3.87 billion in revenue since they cancelled Jimmy Kimmel

This is a form of resistance

Vote with your dollar and send a strong message that you won’t tolerate Trump and the FCC silencing comedians and dissenting voices in the media

Cancel theme park visits too!

This is so true!!

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

So not surprising that the people who fetishize assault rifles kill more Americans than those who don't.