Fiona Paterson
@fionapaterson.bsky.social
Retired Old Age Psychiatrist living the good life in Ayrshire. Cooking, gardening, books, knitting & beaches.
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The continued presence of the government and public institutions on X should no longer be a matter of debate. It should simply be a matter of shame.
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The continued presence of the government and public institutions on X should no longer be a matter of debate. It should simply be a matter of shame.
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Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.
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Telling scary stories around the campfire to young people:
"...and you had no way of knowing who was calling. You just had to pick it up."
"...co...couldn't you put it on silent?"
"There was no silent. And anyone in the house could answer. Even if the call was for you."
"...and you had no way of knowing who was calling. You just had to pick it up."
"...co...couldn't you put it on silent?"
"There was no silent. And anyone in the house could answer. Even if the call was for you."
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Telling scary stories around the campfire to young people:
"...and you had no way of knowing who was calling. You just had to pick it up."
"...co...couldn't you put it on silent?"
"There was no silent. And anyone in the house could answer. Even if the call was for you."
"...and you had no way of knowing who was calling. You just had to pick it up."
"...co...couldn't you put it on silent?"
"There was no silent. And anyone in the house could answer. Even if the call was for you."
First ever batch of apple jelly made yesterday & pleased with how it turned out. We have so many apples this year so there will be more plus apple butter from the pulp.
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
First ever batch of apple jelly made yesterday & pleased with how it turned out. We have so many apples this year so there will be more plus apple butter from the pulp.
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A story in three parts
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A story in three parts
Just watched Greyhound On Apple+ & thoroughly recommend. Tom Hanks brilliant as ever, this time fighting the Battle of the Atlantic.
When fighting fascists made America great.
When fighting fascists made America great.
September 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Just watched Greyhound On Apple+ & thoroughly recommend. Tom Hanks brilliant as ever, this time fighting the Battle of the Atlantic.
When fighting fascists made America great.
When fighting fascists made America great.
Tonight’s tea of bucatini with fennel, tomato &prawns. Utterly gorgeous.
Now watching Greyhound on Apple+ & it’s turning out to be a great Saturday night.
Now watching Greyhound on Apple+ & it’s turning out to be a great Saturday night.
September 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Tonight’s tea of bucatini with fennel, tomato &prawns. Utterly gorgeous.
Now watching Greyhound on Apple+ & it’s turning out to be a great Saturday night.
Now watching Greyhound on Apple+ & it’s turning out to be a great Saturday night.
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Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.
September 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.
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Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
September 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
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This is a welcome shift but it should have been the strategy from day one. The rise of support for Reform is not really about immigration. Support for Reform is highest in those areas with *low* migration, but high deprivation. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer gambles on ‘levelling up’-style initiative to tackle Reform threat
Deprived communities to be given tens of millions to patch up derelict shops, pubs and libraries and ‘restore pride’
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
This is a welcome shift but it should have been the strategy from day one. The rise of support for Reform is not really about immigration. Support for Reform is highest in those areas with *low* migration, but high deprivation. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.
Paying now for long car journeys & climbing up to the top of castle towers. Painkillers & hot packs are being deployed.
a man is crying with his mouth open and the words `` it hurts !!! '' written on the bottom .
ALT: a man is crying with his mouth open and the words `` it hurts !!! '' written on the bottom .
media.tenor.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Paying now for long car journeys & climbing up to the top of castle towers. Painkillers & hot packs are being deployed.
First time visiting Castle Fraser. Absolute stunner!
September 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
First time visiting Castle Fraser. Absolute stunner!
Heading North.
September 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Heading North.
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"Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC, carries Flag through gas deployed by federal officers clear protesters Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)"
"campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable"
"campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable"
September 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC, carries Flag through gas deployed by federal officers clear protesters Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)"
"campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable"
"campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable"
Superb tailoring but worth watching to remind yourself just how gracefully Gene Kelly could move. This is a joy to see.
if you want to understand tailoring, you only need to watch mid-century movies, when actors were dressed by tailors, not brands. in the 1944 film cover girl, gene kelly's suit drapes beautifully, moving with him, not against him. collar stays on his neck, even as he dances.
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Superb tailoring but worth watching to remind yourself just how gracefully Gene Kelly could move. This is a joy to see.
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#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
September 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Ooft!
Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
September 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Ooft!
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Trump being taken for a golden carriage ride to nowhere around the grounds of Windsor Castle, like humouring a massive toddler.
September 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Trump being taken for a golden carriage ride to nowhere around the grounds of Windsor Castle, like humouring a massive toddler.
I love how Annie can find beauty no matter the weather.
Cascades of light, sharp showers, lively gusts. Threaded through them all, geese, flying south to find the sun.
View across the Inner Sound to Isle Rona and Skye.
View across the Inner Sound to Isle Rona and Skye.
September 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I love how Annie can find beauty no matter the weather.
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Fascism. What else would you call this?
And make no mistake, the same people calling to ‘defund the BBC’ want exactly the same here: the silencing of dissident voices, the end of a national conversation, the total destruction of a free press so only one story reigns.
And make no mistake, the same people calling to ‘defund the BBC’ want exactly the same here: the silencing of dissident voices, the end of a national conversation, the total destruction of a free press so only one story reigns.
Disney/ABC joining the long list of US corporations bending over for fascism. The people defending and applauding this in the states were previously the loudest voices in favour of free speech and against "cancel culture". ABC handing Trump power he does not and should not have. For shame.
Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments
The late-night host said on Monday that Trump's allies were
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Fascism. What else would you call this?
And make no mistake, the same people calling to ‘defund the BBC’ want exactly the same here: the silencing of dissident voices, the end of a national conversation, the total destruction of a free press so only one story reigns.
And make no mistake, the same people calling to ‘defund the BBC’ want exactly the same here: the silencing of dissident voices, the end of a national conversation, the total destruction of a free press so only one story reigns.
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If you want to know about the state of British media, these 'formidable obstacles' include assault of a police officer, ABH, football hooliganism, entering the US on a false passport, mortgage fraud, stalking, endangering a grooming trial, defaming a 15 year old refugee and a lifetime of racism.
Lost for words at this Jonathan Sacerdoti piece in the Spectator
September 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
If you want to know about the state of British media, these 'formidable obstacles' include assault of a police officer, ABH, football hooliganism, entering the US on a false passport, mortgage fraud, stalking, endangering a grooming trial, defaming a 15 year old refugee and a lifetime of racism.
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“I can either confront & own the consequences of every policy I’ve supported & every leader I’ve cheered for, or I can pretend they had nothing to do with me & become Nigel Farage’s slipper-warmer. No contest.”
"If you've had enough of politicians, if you don't trust Westminster, join us."
What a revolting, cynical statement for a man who was an MP of the party that ruled for 14 years until five minutes ago - and David Cameron's speech writer before that.
What contempt for voters. ~AA
What a revolting, cynical statement for a man who was an MP of the party that ruled for 14 years until five minutes ago - and David Cameron's speech writer before that.
What contempt for voters. ~AA
September 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“I can either confront & own the consequences of every policy I’ve supported & every leader I’ve cheered for, or I can pretend they had nothing to do with me & become Nigel Farage’s slipper-warmer. No contest.”
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Well done Channel 4!
As the government and monarch of a country that, within living memory, fought a noble war against fascism, prepare to suck up to a neo-nazi, at least one part of the 'establishment' media is prepared to show him for the scum that he is!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
As the government and monarch of a country that, within living memory, fought a noble war against fascism, prepare to suck up to a neo-nazi, at least one part of the 'establishment' media is prepared to show him for the scum that he is!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’
Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Well done Channel 4!
As the government and monarch of a country that, within living memory, fought a noble war against fascism, prepare to suck up to a neo-nazi, at least one part of the 'establishment' media is prepared to show him for the scum that he is!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
As the government and monarch of a country that, within living memory, fought a noble war against fascism, prepare to suck up to a neo-nazi, at least one part of the 'establishment' media is prepared to show him for the scum that he is!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...