James Aithie 🏴
@jamesaithie.bsky.social
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards"- Soren Kierkagaard
Dumfries and Galloway / Isle of Lewis 🏴
Dumfries and Galloway / Isle of Lewis 🏴
Pinned
I Know What I'm Watching!
BBC2 11:05 📽️📺
Overnight Sleeper London to Scotland ✅
Treacherous Scottish weather ✅
Iconic telephone box ✅
Eccentric locals ✅
Perilous whirlpool ✅
BBC2 11:05 📽️📺
Overnight Sleeper London to Scotland ✅
Treacherous Scottish weather ✅
Iconic telephone box ✅
Eccentric locals ✅
Perilous whirlpool ✅
CANCEL SATURDAY PLANS
Next Saturday, January 31st, from 11.05am BBC2 is showing a brace of Powell & Pressburger masterpieces - first, the absolutely gorgeous restoration of I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING followed by the incredible A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH... #FilmSky
January 31, 2026 at 6:37 AM
I Know What I'm Watching!
BBC2 11:05 📽️📺
Overnight Sleeper London to Scotland ✅
Treacherous Scottish weather ✅
Iconic telephone box ✅
Eccentric locals ✅
Perilous whirlpool ✅
BBC2 11:05 📽️📺
Overnight Sleeper London to Scotland ✅
Treacherous Scottish weather ✅
Iconic telephone box ✅
Eccentric locals ✅
Perilous whirlpool ✅
"Hey Ghislaine, I just bought 10% of the Sainsbury's clothing line. Maybe they'll let you design some stuff. Pretty neat huh?"
"Let me see. No, you've just bought shares in glass ramekin puddings."
"Let me see. No, you've just bought shares in glass ramekin puddings."
January 31, 2026 at 6:19 AM
"Hey Ghislaine, I just bought 10% of the Sainsbury's clothing line. Maybe they'll let you design some stuff. Pretty neat huh?"
"Let me see. No, you've just bought shares in glass ramekin puddings."
"Let me see. No, you've just bought shares in glass ramekin puddings."
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“Anthony-Evenson, who knows ASL, said the hands spelled out ‘ICE out’ by using the sign for ‘ice’ and the ‘resistance fist.’”
Team USA snow sculpture in Stillwater removed over ‘ICE out’ messaging
The World Snow Sculpting Championship work by Team USA included messages spelled out in American Sign Language.
www.twincities.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:43 AM
“Anthony-Evenson, who knows ASL, said the hands spelled out ‘ICE out’ by using the sign for ‘ice’ and the ‘resistance fist.’”
It went downhill quickly for Ruby Slipper after the 70's #totp
three cartoon characters are standing on top of a green hill with a sign that says " not a question " .
ALT: three cartoon characters are standing on top of a green hill with a sign that says " not a question " .
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:08 PM
It went downhill quickly for Ruby Slipper after the 70's #totp
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President Trump, your Melania movie has bombed
January 30, 2026 at 8:01 PM
President Trump, your Melania movie has bombed
As featured in Banjo and Ro’s Grand Island Hotel on iPlayer
📺 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Article trib.al/p3FSEO8
#InnerHebrides
📺 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Article trib.al/p3FSEO8
#InnerHebrides
Dream job alert at Banjo and Ro’s remote and beautiful' Boat House cafe on Ulva
The charming eatery and shop will reopen in the spring, and the new TV presenter owners are looking for staff.
trib.al
January 30, 2026 at 7:51 PM
As featured in Banjo and Ro’s Grand Island Hotel on iPlayer
📺 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Article trib.al/p3FSEO8
#InnerHebrides
📺 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Article trib.al/p3FSEO8
#InnerHebrides
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"Leather panels" is a hilarious detail that only Trump could make up
Trump on Mpls: "Do these people really want to have rapists and drug dealers and people from prisons and murderers, do they really want to have them in the community? It's really insurrectionists and agitators and they're paid ... everybody has a beautiful sign with brand new wood. Leather panels."
January 30, 2026 at 5:35 PM
"Leather panels" is a hilarious detail that only Trump could make up
It looks like the documentary equivalent of Michael Flatley's dire vanity project Blackbird. 📽️
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:09 PM
It looks like the documentary equivalent of Michael Flatley's dire vanity project Blackbird. 📽️
Just 7 days until #6Nations! 🏉
a woman in a colorful sweater has her arms in the air
ALT: a woman in a colorful sweater has her arms in the air
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Just 7 days until #6Nations! 🏉
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Catherine O'Hara is as much of a "good in absolutely everything, no matter how good the thing itself was" actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman.
January 30, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Catherine O'Hara is as much of a "good in absolutely everything, no matter how good the thing itself was" actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show
Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
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Just fuck off 2026
January 30, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Just fuck off 2026
It had best not be the end of England! The end of the United Kingdom however... 👍
This is good. "Perhaps Goodwin was always like this… Or perhaps he… was gradually radicalised by the thing he was studying. Who knows? Who cares? Life is short and we must not squander it wandering in the psychological wastelands of deeply average people."
iandunt.substack.com/p/matt-goodw...
iandunt.substack.com/p/matt-goodw...
Matt Goodwin and the end of England
How one man's career explains our public life.
iandunt.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:14 PM
It had best not be the end of England! The end of the United Kingdom however... 👍
Modern civilization peaked right here. Things have been on the slide since.
#OnThisDay in 1969, The Beatles' final performance took place on the rooftop of the Apple building, #London #TheBeatles #Music #Rock
January 30, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Modern civilization peaked right here. Things have been on the slide since.
Aye right, because the film was on celluloid.
January 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Aye right, because the film was on celluloid.
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What a mess. I truly hope this gets sorted out, we need places like this. Got my first pay slip from wonderful Third Eye Centre (okay, I was 7 and my mum had us there during the summer for childcare when she worked in the cafe, BUT I GOT 50p A WEEK IN BROWN ENVELOPE FOR FILLING THE COFFEE MACHINE)
Glasgow's CCA closes with immediate effect as all jobs lost
Glasgow's CCA closes with immediate effect as all jobs lost
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 5:26 PM
What a mess. I truly hope this gets sorted out, we need places like this. Got my first pay slip from wonderful Third Eye Centre (okay, I was 7 and my mum had us there during the summer for childcare when she worked in the cafe, BUT I GOT 50p A WEEK IN BROWN ENVELOPE FOR FILLING THE COFFEE MACHINE)
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Keswick and Derwent Water from Latrigg
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Keswick and Derwent Water from Latrigg