Karen Fraser
@arielsclaws.bsky.social
‘At a time like this, it's positively indecent that you don't need a glass of port.’ - My Fair Lady.
Libraries. Shetland. Pessimistic.
Libraries. Shetland. Pessimistic.
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Farage really on the ropes there.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Farage really on the ropes there.
‘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_...
"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_...
You've Been Trumped - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
‘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_...
"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.
We were delighted to have @michaelpedersen.bsky.social and @holliemcnish.bsky.social pop in to see us! #SuperSheltie is demonstrating with his wee hooves the amount of delight #ThisMuch
July 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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 😃
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
😃 Good point well made 😃
Love this wall.
No joke, this picture of a canal wall is one of my favorite photos I took during my recent trip to Venice, just look at that color spectrum
June 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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.
June 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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.
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"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.
He is repenting so hard right now.
April 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"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.
He is repenting so hard right now.
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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 🙂
April 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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 🙂
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☀️ 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?
🥰 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?
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
☀️ 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?
🥰 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?
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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.
April 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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.
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I kind of want to go
April 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I kind of want to go
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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
April 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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!
If @anncleeves.bsky.social is taking Jimmy from us, we’re having Vera!
Filming for the new ‘Shetland’ series has started & we glimpsed a familiar face!
Ann Cleeves said “Now that DI Perez is in Orkney, I felt it left an opening for one of my other well-known characters.”
BBC Radio Orkney’s Stewart Bain said “I doot Jimmy & Vera will need anidder hoose-swap afore lang…”
Ann Cleeves said “Now that DI Perez is in Orkney, I felt it left an opening for one of my other well-known characters.”
BBC Radio Orkney’s Stewart Bain said “I doot Jimmy & Vera will need anidder hoose-swap afore lang…”
April 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Ha ha 🙂
If @anncleeves.bsky.social is taking Jimmy from us, we’re having Vera!
If @anncleeves.bsky.social is taking Jimmy from us, we’re having Vera!
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U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one
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
www.the-independent.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one
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This is the simplest and most obvious explanation.
March 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is the simplest and most obvious explanation.
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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…
March 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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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🚨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...
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...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨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...
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…
March 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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…
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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...
📚 Learn what you can do to help: ilovelibraries.org/article/trum...
March 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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...
📚 Learn what you can do to help: ilovelibraries.org/article/trum...
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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.
No one knows why he was detained.
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.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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.
No one knows why he was detained.
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Massive anti-US invasion protest in Nuuk, Greenland outside the US consulate.
"99% say no Trump"
"no means no"
( 📹@OJoelsen ) #3E #EndImpunity #GreenlandProtests
"99% say no Trump"
"no means no"
( 📹@OJoelsen ) #3E #EndImpunity #GreenlandProtests
March 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Massive anti-US invasion protest in Nuuk, Greenland outside the US consulate.
"99% say no Trump"
"no means no"
( 📹@OJoelsen ) #3E #EndImpunity #GreenlandProtests
"99% say no Trump"
"no means no"
( 📹@OJoelsen ) #3E #EndImpunity #GreenlandProtests
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?
March 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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 love to get a window seat on a clear day! A few photos from a London-Cyprus flight.
March 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I love to get a window seat on a clear day! A few photos from a London-Cyprus flight.
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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.
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.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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.
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.
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7 months ago today I bombed that kids hospital in Kiev. But as Trump says, "it's what anyone would do".
March 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
7 months ago today I bombed that kids hospital in Kiev. But as Trump says, "it's what anyone would do".