Donald Farmer

Timely for me - I am reading The Green Child right now.

Genius! Bravo Scotland!

May I share on Facebook?

Genius

That's a cool little bookshop. Emphasis on "little" - you'll be cosy for sure.

A very sad day for Scotland as STV legend Glen Michael has died at the grand old age of 99. From 1966 to 1992, Glen helmed the best kids programme in Scotland, one that occasionally got 90% audience share, and brought a wide variety of brilliant American cartoons to this side of the Atlantic.

From Velvet and Vintage Textiles, Larysa Bernhardt Embroiders Otherworldly Moths Larysa Bernhardt uses vintage tapestries, needlepoint, and lush velvet to embroider mystical, textile moth sculptures.

Such beautiful work ...

This organza dress from Iris Van Herpen’s couture show yesterday is amazing

Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)

Does The Salt Path go through Captain Tom’s garden?

Not into ebooks - but the print version is on the way!

Bed bugs? They can really bring on hives if you are sensitive.

Researchers hail success of scheme to protect capercaillie chicks from predators With just over 500 of the ground-nesting birds left in the wild, the capercaillie is in danger of extinction in the UK.

Great news for capercaillies in the Cairngorm National Park.

news.stv.tv/scotland/res...

History on a "need to know" basis. And the public don't need to know.

A US federal court released a major ruling on AI, identifying 3 different uses of copyright works:

:: training AI models (fair use)
:: digitizing purchased print books for storage (fair use)
:: downloading pirated books to build a library (infringement).

fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

You thought I didn’t exist!

They also need to make sure he doesn’t buy any newspapers while he’s there

ht: @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

An unmissable event for all tech speakers ...

I was there last week. Rather sad to have missed you all, but couldn’t stay over the weekend

Chickpea is great. Sumac has excellent veggie dishes. Garðurinn is a little Sri Chinmoy center cafe. Mama Reykjavik is super good too. All quite central.

Do you want veggie recommendations for Reykjavik?

Me too! That’s my weekend taken care of.

Schadenfreude may be a bit much. But I think you’re allowed a little Schaden-smirk (my new word of the day)

Thank you, internet.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

I’m annoyed to see the falling out between Trump and Musk. And disappointed. I had said their chumminess wouldn’t last through May and it’s already the first week of June.

Not these ones! ... thefurnitureco.uk/living-room/...

I do find it rather amusing that Lawrence Fox went batshit when Dr. Who became a woman, then he went batshitter when Dr. Who became a black guy, so they've made the new Dr. Who Lawrence Fox's ex-wife.

An English friend greatly enjoyed the Weird Studies podcast I shared with her, so joined a Weird Fiction reading group. So she thought; she actually joined a Queer Fiction reading group, which was even more eye-opening. Good for her, she stuck with it and now has new authors to share with me.

There is three decades of research showing that domestic violence increases during recovery and it has largely been ignored.

I always list it as one of the many reasons it’s so urgent to reform our recovery system.