Donald Farmer
@donaldtreehive.bsky.social
Scottish - American. Built a so-called career on data and analytics. Should have been a musician.
That this man was ever elected will be an eternal shame to our country. There appear to be no depths to which his ego cannot drag him down.
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
That this man was ever elected will be an eternal shame to our country. There appear to be no depths to which his ego cannot drag him down.
Does anyone know if there’s an English translation of “Oma. schreit der Frieder” published?
December 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Does anyone know if there’s an English translation of “Oma. schreit der Frieder” published?
Wish I had my phone with me on my morning walk. Somebody had stuck a sticky note on a Cybertruck … “2025 Winner of the FiFA Design Award.”
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Wish I had my phone with me on my morning walk. Somebody had stuck a sticky note on a Cybertruck … “2025 Winner of the FiFA Design Award.”
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I’m old enough to remember when a ‘remote conference’ just meant a conference where all the participants were aloof, mentally disengaged or emotionally repressed
December 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I’m old enough to remember when a ‘remote conference’ just meant a conference where all the participants were aloof, mentally disengaged or emotionally repressed
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December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.)
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.)
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
We have a friend staying with us and I said, of course she can read & borrow any books she wants.
“I like biographies."
And I now realize I have thousands of books but maybe only 6-10 biographies. I just don’t read them much.
Any suggestions?
“I like biographies."
And I now realize I have thousands of books but maybe only 6-10 biographies. I just don’t read them much.
Any suggestions?
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We have a friend staying with us and I said, of course she can read & borrow any books she wants.
“I like biographies."
And I now realize I have thousands of books but maybe only 6-10 biographies. I just don’t read them much.
Any suggestions?
“I like biographies."
And I now realize I have thousands of books but maybe only 6-10 biographies. I just don’t read them much.
Any suggestions?
I find it weird when US politicos criticize Europe for lack of “free speech.” Personally, after 25 years and as a US citizen, I see (and feel) more constraints on expression in the US than in Scotland.
Perhaps I should say, different constraints. What is acceptable varies greatly across the water.
Perhaps I should say, different constraints. What is acceptable varies greatly across the water.
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I find it weird when US politicos criticize Europe for lack of “free speech.” Personally, after 25 years and as a US citizen, I see (and feel) more constraints on expression in the US than in Scotland.
Perhaps I should say, different constraints. What is acceptable varies greatly across the water.
Perhaps I should say, different constraints. What is acceptable varies greatly across the water.
Noah Smith uses the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to presage the current woes of Europe.
www.noahpinion.blog/p/europe-is-...
May be of passing interest @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
www.noahpinion.blog/p/europe-is-...
May be of passing interest @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Europe is under siege
Menaced by Russia and China, abandoned by America.
www.noahpinion.blog
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Noah Smith uses the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to presage the current woes of Europe.
www.noahpinion.blog/p/europe-is-...
May be of passing interest @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
www.noahpinion.blog/p/europe-is-...
May be of passing interest @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
The moral collapse of US governance is breathtaking.
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The moral collapse of US governance is breathtaking.
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
December 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
You know what's worse than the humiliating sycophancy of FIFA? The humiliating sycophancy of the supreme court.
It's difficult to stomach that I committed to defend the constitution of this country, and happily did so, yet the senior law officers of the land don't appear to give a damn about it.
It's difficult to stomach that I committed to defend the constitution of this country, and happily did so, yet the senior law officers of the land don't appear to give a damn about it.
December 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
You know what's worse than the humiliating sycophancy of FIFA? The humiliating sycophancy of the supreme court.
It's difficult to stomach that I committed to defend the constitution of this country, and happily did so, yet the senior law officers of the land don't appear to give a damn about it.
It's difficult to stomach that I committed to defend the constitution of this country, and happily did so, yet the senior law officers of the land don't appear to give a damn about it.
An extraordinary interview with Sara Maitland. Despite living in solitude, her life is far from empty. In the interview, she discusses silence as presence and how the contemplative life is a way of being open to truth, not an experience to chase.
monk.gallery/interviews/s...
monk.gallery/interviews/s...
Sara Maitland: Into the Wilderness
Hermit and author SARA MAITLAND shares insights into her spiritual vocation and the nature of inner landscape ~ and insists prayer can take you anywhere. Interview by Catherine Coldstream
monk.gallery
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
An extraordinary interview with Sara Maitland. Despite living in solitude, her life is far from empty. In the interview, she discusses silence as presence and how the contemplative life is a way of being open to truth, not an experience to chase.
monk.gallery/interviews/s...
monk.gallery/interviews/s...
In the Elsa Thoresen retrospective at Cascadia Art Museum, there’s this lovely linen cloth from 1938, signed and sketched by numerous Nordic artists and embroidered by Thoreson. Here’s Kurt Schwitters signature and sketch.
December 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In the Elsa Thoresen retrospective at Cascadia Art Museum, there’s this lovely linen cloth from 1938, signed and sketched by numerous Nordic artists and embroidered by Thoreson. Here’s Kurt Schwitters signature and sketch.
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Truly the stupidest cult. Obsessed with a drug that doesn't work against an infectious disease that they don't even think is real.
In lieu of affordable universal health insurance, Texans will now be given better access to de-worming medication.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Truly the stupidest cult. Obsessed with a drug that doesn't work against an infectious disease that they don't even think is real.
It’s squid season in the Pacific Northwest. On our evening walk along the pier there were perhaps 50 people, mostly Chinese, fishing, almost frantically. Getting a reasonable catch too.
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It’s squid season in the Pacific Northwest. On our evening walk along the pier there were perhaps 50 people, mostly Chinese, fishing, almost frantically. Getting a reasonable catch too.
Making the sign of the very cross indeed …
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Making the sign of the very cross indeed …
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It’s not where we come from that counts, it’s about where we’re going.
Great to meet Afghan Scots children at Maryhill Burgh Halls and hear a lovely rendition of Robert Burns.
Great to meet Afghan Scots children at Maryhill Burgh Halls and hear a lovely rendition of Robert Burns.
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It’s not where we come from that counts, it’s about where we’re going.
Great to meet Afghan Scots children at Maryhill Burgh Halls and hear a lovely rendition of Robert Burns.
Great to meet Afghan Scots children at Maryhill Burgh Halls and hear a lovely rendition of Robert Burns.
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This is one of the privileges of working in journalism; the opportunity to talk to people with extraordinary stories. Erika Schulhof died just a few months after I made contact with her, but she never forgot her time in Aberdeen. I tried to do her justice! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...
On my own: The remarkable story of Erika Schulhof's escape to Aberdeen from Nazi horror
She was the youngster who enjoyed a magical childhood in Austria before being forced to flee from the Nazis to a convent boarding school in Aberdeen.
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is one of the privileges of working in journalism; the opportunity to talk to people with extraordinary stories. Erika Schulhof died just a few months after I made contact with her, but she never forgot her time in Aberdeen. I tried to do her justice! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...
Following a post by a friend, I wrote about Frankenstein, how the novel differs from the classic movie and why the different story matters when we reach for metaphors for AI.
creativedifferences.substack.com/p/the-misrem...
creativedifferences.substack.com/p/the-misrem...
The Misremembered Creature
What Frankenstein Really Tells Us About AI
creativedifferences.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Following a post by a friend, I wrote about Frankenstein, how the novel differs from the classic movie and why the different story matters when we reach for metaphors for AI.
creativedifferences.substack.com/p/the-misrem...
creativedifferences.substack.com/p/the-misrem...
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
A serious question for serious people. I only have experience of my family members, so they don’t count.
Are Canadians as bad at making tea as Americans?
Are Canadians as bad at making tea as Americans?
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 AM
A serious question for serious people. I only have experience of my family members, so they don’t count.
Are Canadians as bad at making tea as Americans?
Are Canadians as bad at making tea as Americans?