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Andrew Scott is a contemporary artist renowned for his bold "frame-breaking" creations, where characters in his paintings seem to penetrate through glass.

Through this unique creative approach, Scott explores themes of freedom, solitude, and resilience.

Artist: @andrewscott_art

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Underpass mural by Kerry Wilson in Glenrothes. Pic: Stuart Taylor

Column. On pathetic European freeloaders.
www.thetimes.com/article/7652...

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders. Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle. In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces. Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps. This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025: Print - The New York Times TV - NBC News Radio - National Public Radio Online News - POLITICO In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets. Print - New York Post TV - One America News Network Radio - Breitbart News Network Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post)

To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously. The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps. Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon. (John Ullyot Acting

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

YouTube video by the_miracle_aligner Everybody wants to rule the world cover in Classical Latin (SOFTBARDCORE)

Today I found out I needed to hear 'Everybody wants to rule the world' in Classical Latin.
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Number Crunching (from Private Eye) 5 years to rebuild Notre Dame 7.5 years since Grenfell and 85% of remediation work still not done.

This country needs to pull its finger out on many fronts.

Hello Bluesky, been meaning to make an intro for a while. I’m Katy, Head of Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Government Office in Ireland 🇮🇪.

We celebrated St Andrew’s Day in St Patrick’s Cathedral last night. An absolute privilege to be in such an iconic place sharing our culture and bonds. 💚

Did you know Wester Hailes was supposed to have a lake? In its original 1965/66 plan, the scheme was also supposed to be linked together by a central avenue lined with shops and other amenities. The plan referred to it as a ‘20th Century Princes Street’ with housing areas branching off like leaves

Dear Santa: When I was a child, my father cheated on my Mom. Later, my parents divorced. Soon after, my mother died in a car accident My brother and I could only live in my grandma's old house. Grandma's sister was an alcoholic. The whole family lived on my grandma's savings. Grandma recently died. My Uncle Andy is barely keeping himself out of jail from day to day. My brother left home and won't talk to us any more. Dad, now 74, had to go out to work to support the family and eventually he is going to want me to do the same thing. Yours sincerely. Prince William

It’s all in the telling.

It'll be dead soon. Nature abhors a vacuum.

Raise your hands if you don't give a shit which bathroom someone uses.

As long as everyone washes their hands, I’m good.

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The chosen elector ('The Voter') is quizzed afterwards on what the computer had asked him

'”The one question Norman could remember was an incongruously gossipy: 'What do you think of the price of eggs?'”

1955!

Love it!

Re-reading Isaac Asimov whose works I devoured as a 70's kid

In 1955's 'Franchise' he imagines a 2008 election. An all-powerful computer simply picks one American, interrogates their feelings, then surmises how the Presidential, Senate, and House elections would have gone had there been a vote.

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