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
Yesterday's book haul. 3 for £1
#CharityShop
#CharityShop
February 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Yesterday's book haul. 3 for £1
#CharityShop
#CharityShop
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I cancelled my WaPo subscription a while ago over some nonsense they did (there are so many that the run together at this point) and subscribed to The Handbasket ( @marisakabas.bsky.social ), @hellgatenyc.com and a few other hyperlocal rags instead.
sending a lot of love to the journalists at the post right now, who really don't deserve this. everyone else - subscribe to a news outlet today, any outlet.
February 4, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I cancelled my WaPo subscription a while ago over some nonsense they did (there are so many that the run together at this point) and subscribed to The Handbasket ( @marisakabas.bsky.social ), @hellgatenyc.com and a few other hyperlocal rags instead.
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it goes without saying but I don't think the 3rd richest person on the planet is destroying the prestige newspaper he bought because of the finances of the newspaper business
February 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM
it goes without saying but I don't think the 3rd richest person on the planet is destroying the prestige newspaper he bought because of the finances of the newspaper business
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Wow, he clearly thought he was being asked to apologise to the victims that he personally raped.
Trump attacking Kaitlan Collins for asking about justice for Epstein survivors: You are the worst reporter. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile. Your organization should be ashamed of you.
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Wow, he clearly thought he was being asked to apologise to the victims that he personally raped.
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"Those black boxes of redaction are little black boxes of power. Some men are protected because they are worth something, while the girls look like parts, not human." What a piece this is by Helen Rumbelow, though not for the faint-hearted.
I studied the latest Epstein files. As a woman, this is what I felt
They show a hidden world oiled by porn-saturated misogyny. I spent two days reading them
www.thetimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"Those black boxes of redaction are little black boxes of power. Some men are protected because they are worth something, while the girls look like parts, not human." What a piece this is by Helen Rumbelow, though not for the faint-hearted.
If you're like me and love #6music but not necessarily between 1-4pm midweek, you can always instead listen to this particularly good episode from Guy Garvey, with Elizabeth Alker as guest. 13 days remaining before it's gone!
I highly recommend listening to Guy Garvey's show from this afternoon.
He chats to the amazing @elizabethalker.bsky.social, author of Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop, includes a bit on how The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows was made
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
He chats to the amazing @elizabethalker.bsky.social, author of Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop, includes a bit on how The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows was made
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Guy Garvey's Finest Hour - Elizabeth Alker and Everything We Do is Music - BBC Sounds
Guy chats to Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do is Music.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
If you're like me and love #6music but not necessarily between 1-4pm midweek, you can always instead listen to this particularly good episode from Guy Garvey, with Elizabeth Alker as guest. 13 days remaining before it's gone!
#PoliticsLive featured this, including Kate Nash at the Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee, where she detailed the severe impact of new rules on performing arts tours within the European Union. It then cut back to the studio, where Vicki Young said..
"Kate Nash talking about OnlyFans there." 🙄
"Kate Nash talking about OnlyFans there." 🙄
The story here is not that Kate Nash has an OnlyFans, it's that working class artists can't make a living anymore.
That means no Beatles, no Led Zeppelin, no Depeche Mode, no Cure, and no Bowie. It's cultural suicide.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
That means no Beatles, no Led Zeppelin, no Depeche Mode, no Cure, and no Bowie. It's cultural suicide.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Kate Nash tells MPs post-Brexit rules have made touring financially unviable
The musician told MPs she lost £26,000 on her last tour of Europe
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 2:18 PM
#PoliticsLive featured this, including Kate Nash at the Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee, where she detailed the severe impact of new rules on performing arts tours within the European Union. It then cut back to the studio, where Vicki Young said..
"Kate Nash talking about OnlyFans there." 🙄
"Kate Nash talking about OnlyFans there." 🙄
"There now follows a Party Political Broadcast for the Reform UK Party..."
Laura Kuenssberg "On occasion, he is quite unlike other politicians, with flashes of honesty you wouldn't hear from others".
BBC News - Inside Reform: Laura Kuenssberg follows Farage's party as it experiences the glare of scrutiny - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Inside Reform: Laura Kuenssberg follows Farage's party as it experiences the glare of scrutiny - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inside Reform: Laura Kuenssberg follows Farage's party as it experiences the glare of scrutiny
The BBC has spent time interviewing senior figures and witnessing Reform's work at the largest council it runs.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"There now follows a Party Political Broadcast for the Reform UK Party..."
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This house comes with another house and a sit-in chippie, all for £275k, right on the seafront, if anyone is looking for that sort of thing
www.propertypal.com/11-marine-ro...
www.propertypal.com/11-marine-ro...
11 Marine Road, Carnlough
This 5 Bed Townhouse Sale Is Located At 11 Marine Road, Carnlough. Find Out More Inside.
www.propertypal.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:49 PM
This house comes with another house and a sit-in chippie, all for £275k, right on the seafront, if anyone is looking for that sort of thing
www.propertypal.com/11-marine-ro...
www.propertypal.com/11-marine-ro...
HippFest, Scotland's premier celebration of silent cinema, is back – newly-commissioned soundtracks, Nordic folk parties, 'the British Metropolis', and classics from Keaton, Laurel + Hardy etc
@jamiedunnesq.bsky.social on this year's programme...
@jamiedunnesq.bsky.social on this year's programme...
HippFest reveals its 2026 programme - The Skinny
HippFest, Scotland's unmissable film festival pairing silent cinema with live music, returns for its 16th edition with its biggest lineup yet.
www.theskinny.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 1:42 PM
10 Downing Street is like a fortress. However, if you wear the right uniform convincingly, once inside you can cause all kinds of mayhem. First Cummings, now McSweeney
#Mandelson #Scandelson #McSweeney #Cummings
#Mandelson #Scandelson #McSweeney #Cummings
February 4, 2026 at 1:10 PM
10 Downing Street is like a fortress. However, if you wear the right uniform convincingly, once inside you can cause all kinds of mayhem. First Cummings, now McSweeney
#Mandelson #Scandelson #McSweeney #Cummings
#Mandelson #Scandelson #McSweeney #Cummings
"I regret appointing that toxic individual, who has caused irreparable damage to the Government & the UK, and was clearly a wrong 'un. Soz about that." #Mandelson
Continues to employ toxic individual, who has caused irreparable damage to the Gov & the UK, & is clearly a wrong 'un. #McSweeney
#PMQs
Continues to employ toxic individual, who has caused irreparable damage to the Gov & the UK, & is clearly a wrong 'un. #McSweeney
#PMQs
February 4, 2026 at 12:14 PM
"I regret appointing that toxic individual, who has caused irreparable damage to the Government & the UK, and was clearly a wrong 'un. Soz about that." #Mandelson
Continues to employ toxic individual, who has caused irreparable damage to the Gov & the UK, & is clearly a wrong 'un. #McSweeney
#PMQs
Continues to employ toxic individual, who has caused irreparable damage to the Gov & the UK, & is clearly a wrong 'un. #McSweeney
#PMQs
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In case anyone hasn’t seen one of the greatest videos of all time m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue1U...
Mike Skinner Backstage Peter Mandelson Went Mad | Turn The Page Live | The Streets
YouTube video by stan tonkin
m.youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:14 AM
In case anyone hasn’t seen one of the greatest videos of all time m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue1U...
Lord David Frost being a slimy liar* on #PoliticsLive, and basically admitting that he'll be joining Reform UK at the earliest opportunity.
*must be a day of the week with an 'a' in it.
*must be a day of the week with an 'a' in it.
February 4, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Lord David Frost being a slimy liar* on #PoliticsLive, and basically admitting that he'll be joining Reform UK at the earliest opportunity.
*must be a day of the week with an 'a' in it.
*must be a day of the week with an 'a' in it.
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Just a few brief notes on John Huston's THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN...
boxd.it/cYzu7x #FilmSky
boxd.it/cYzu7x #FilmSky
A ★★★½ review of The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Judge Roy Bean: "The last time that bear ate a lawyer, he had the runs for thirty-three days..." Three years after BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID, Paul Newman was back in the saddle for a film that'...
boxd.it
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Just a few brief notes on John Huston's THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN...
boxd.it/cYzu7x #FilmSky
boxd.it/cYzu7x #FilmSky
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Today's the day! We're in court with Reform right now ⚖️
February 4, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Today's the day! We're in court with Reform right now ⚖️
This month in Scottish film events, look out for celebrations for Valentine's Day (and Galentine’s Day), a tribute to the foreboding cinema of Béla Tarr and so many great screenings at Glasgow Film Festival 🩷 💜
Scottish Film Events: February 2026 - The Skinny
Look out for celebrations for Valentine's Day (and Galentine’s Day), a tribute to the foreboding cinema of Béla Tarr and so many great screenings at Glasgow Film Festival.
www.theskinny.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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This is Nigel Farage with Nick Candy, the treasurer of Reform UK 👇
Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered.
The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.
Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered.
The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.
February 4, 2026 at 10:57 AM
This is Nigel Farage with Nick Candy, the treasurer of Reform UK 👇
Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered.
The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.
Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered.
The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.
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Good thread from Joel, sparked a thought, is the problem that we've lost a make do and mend attitude? Everyone is so quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater, rushing toward the next big thing to get rich or just shout "first!", when we should be fixing what's broken, not introducing new.
At an industry event last night one (old media) journalist said “we may need institutions like the BBC because internet searches don’t return separate news stories now, but an AI summary that is usually wrong.”
Watching an industry shrug and surrender to a competitor that DOES NOT WORK.
Watching an industry shrug and surrender to a competitor that DOES NOT WORK.
February 4, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Good thread from Joel, sparked a thought, is the problem that we've lost a make do and mend attitude? Everyone is so quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater, rushing toward the next big thing to get rich or just shout "first!", when we should be fixing what's broken, not introducing new.
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Sparrows in Winter, Shozo Ozaki.
February 4, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Sparrows in Winter, Shozo Ozaki.
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European Movement UK now has over 27,300 members. 🚀
It was 26,000 last month.
We need to build fast, because this will become the national campaign to rejoin the EU.
Join us!
👉👉 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-ab
It was 26,000 last month.
We need to build fast, because this will become the national campaign to rejoin the EU.
Join us!
👉👉 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-ab
February 3, 2026 at 10:04 PM
European Movement UK now has over 27,300 members. 🚀
It was 26,000 last month.
We need to build fast, because this will become the national campaign to rejoin the EU.
Join us!
👉👉 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-ab
It was 26,000 last month.
We need to build fast, because this will become the national campaign to rejoin the EU.
Join us!
👉👉 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership-ab
The BBC are just itching to force a General Election ASAP to get Reform in.
Henry Zeffman: "Because Keir Starmer appointed Mandelson as his ambassador, this is a scandal about a man whom this govt appointed to one of their plum diplomatic roles not even quite a year ago. I think the political implications for the govt, for Starmer, are still spiralling"
February 4, 2026 at 6:45 AM
The BBC are just itching to force a General Election ASAP to get Reform in.