Donald Farmer
@donaldtreehive.bsky.social
Scottish - American. Built a so-called career on data and analytics. Should have been a musician.
My granddaughters’ rats enjoyed their Burns’ supper.
January 25, 2026 at 8:36 PM
My granddaughters’ rats enjoyed their Burns’ supper.
Someone who shares part of my name and (horrors!) some of my distant relatives can go f*** himself.
January 24, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Someone who shares part of my name and (horrors!) some of my distant relatives can go f*** himself.
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Thin Ink's 1st issue of 2026: I’m reclaiming the word foodie & rejecting purism while I’m at it.
Loving food has brought me joy my whole life. But in recent years it’s also come with guilt: Not vegetarian enough. Not climate-perfect enough. Not “doing it right.”
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-real-b...
Loving food has brought me joy my whole life. But in recent years it’s also come with guilt: Not vegetarian enough. Not climate-perfect enough. Not “doing it right.”
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-real-b...
The Real Big Tent
Food, climate, and why rejecting purism ≠ rejecting responsibility
news.thin-ink.net
January 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Thin Ink's 1st issue of 2026: I’m reclaiming the word foodie & rejecting purism while I’m at it.
Loving food has brought me joy my whole life. But in recent years it’s also come with guilt: Not vegetarian enough. Not climate-perfect enough. Not “doing it right.”
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-real-b...
Loving food has brought me joy my whole life. But in recent years it’s also come with guilt: Not vegetarian enough. Not climate-perfect enough. Not “doing it right.”
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-real-b...
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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: thisispaulconstant@gmail.com.
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: thisispaulconstant@gmail.com.
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: thisispaulconstant@gmail.com.
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: thisispaulconstant@gmail.com.
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.