All This Stuff is happening but I’m also reading a mystery novel with my 9yo and he was like “I want to read books like this always, I wish there were more books like this!” And I got to tell him mystery fiction is a thing that exists

This is absolutely wonderful. Power to the people.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

That's superb. I'm only a little jealous. I've only just discovered him but it seems I'm in for a real treat reading his works.

I've just discovered Scalzi and finished Old Mans War over the weekend. It was just what I needed, action packed, fun and pretty funny. I have The Ghost Brigades waiting on me at my local library. Can't wait to get into it.

...shrubbery is not cut to the mandatory size because he wanted it to be a bit bigger to protect his window from the glaze of the nearby lamppost.

When I asked how he can feel free if he can be fined for cutting a shrub too high or having a garage doors in the colour he likes.

I spoke with a friend who lives in America some time ago. He was telling me how this is the only land when you can be really free. Then changed a subject and started a rant about his HOA he is at war with because his garage door colour is slightly different than that of the neighbours and his...

Fife villagers plan to fight mass eviction notices as next steps revealed at public meeting 17 West Wemyss and Methil households threatened with eviction have been advised to stay put while legal options are explored.

Meanwhile in Fife
Large faceless Investment Fund, which is probably run offshore as well. Is trying to evict people from their homes.

as someone who used to be a really, properly huge fan of Kanye this feels......encouraging? not by any means the answer to everything, or good enough to go "ok cool yeah let's just brush past the last few years", but: encouraging!

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Jason Roth @LucidJay Replying to @Hipstercrite Once Andre 3000 was on my ferry ride to Alcatraz and I said hi. My 6 y.o. autistic son came over and started talking his ear off about German Shepherds, his obsession at the time. Andre talked to him about dogs for like 20 mins. We exchanged numbers. 4 years later I got this text iMessage Aug 30, 2017, 9:38 PM Hi Jason. I was searching for a name and yours popped up. I remember our cool encounter on the boat. Ha . How's the kid ? I'm living in nyc now . So if you're ever here please reach out.

This came up in my old posts today. Don’t know why, but it feels good to know that Andre 3000 specifically is this kind of guy.

How Hearts rattled Celtic, Harry Milne's role and the team's biggest quality Hearts kept Celtic at arm's length in the title race by coming from behind twice to earn a point. Joel Sked looks back at the action.

Derek McInnes said Hearts "rattled" Celtic.

That was clear from watching the game, re-watching it and the stats from the match.

It was a very un-Celtic like performance as Heart of Midlothian's biggest quality in the title race shone through.

Sorry to hear of the recent death of Roy Erskine, Scottish footballer of the 1950s, and more recently a famous grandfather to Andy Murray. He was profiled in the Hibs handbook in 1953, and I have put together a detailed summary of his playing career.

Screening all UK children for type 1 diabetes would be effective, study says A simple finger-prick blood test can find those at risk so they can get the right treatment.

Finger-prick blood test could be early warning for children with type 1 diabetes. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When my late mother got Alzheimer's, we had to label everything too.

Then and (sadly) now.

The Orient Express (latterly Robins), Dunfermline

Old Photograph Kincardine-on-Forth Fife Scotland

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of the railway station in Kincardine on Forth in Fife. Passenger services were withdrawn between Alloa and Dunfermline in 1930 tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2013/05/old-...

Two 900-year old doors, one large and one small, at Dunfermline Abbey. The latter of which has the Latin inscription “Memento Mori” - Remember You Must Die

Memento Mori

The priority given to hiring as many people as possible for ICE, ahead of background checks and even training, has only one purpose, to build an army for Trump.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Brilliant song, I've no idea why this was only ever released as a b-side. Thanks for reminding me of it.