The amazing - and amazingly small - harbour at Seacliff in East Lothian. This was created in 1890 using a steam engine and compressed air to carve the harbour out of solid rock. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/northberwick/seacliff/index.html
The amazing - and amazingly small - harbour at Seacliff in East Lothian. This was created in 1890 using a steam engine and compressed air to carve the harbour out of solid rock. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/northberwick/seacliff/index.html
When life gives you lemons (a review I thought was lazy and damaging in the way it framed women’s writing), make lemonade (a 2,500-word essay on the habits of literary criticism).
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/literary-criticism-under-review
I’m feeling an urgent need to make an escape-from-the-UK plan in the increasingly likely event that the far right gains power in the next few years. The most upsetting thing is that the same people stripped me of my rights to do so with #Brexit. Now the only people that can easily emigrate are the very wealthy.
This is why I will never ever stop being furious about Brexit. I never lose sight of what I personally lost on that day.
I’m feeling an urgent need to make an escape-from-the-UK plan in the increasingly likely event that the far right gains power in the next few years. The most upsetting thing is that the same people stripped me of my rights to do so with #Brexit. Now the only people that can easily emigrate are the very wealthy.
This is why I will never ever stop being furious about Brexit. I never lose sight of what I personally lost on that day.
I feel like this delightful wee birdie deserves a slightly more respectful shot too. Here they are showing off their very waggy tail.
I feel like this delightful wee birdie deserves a slightly more respectful shot too. Here they are showing off their very waggy tail.
Morning!
Morning!
Help for #vacancy in #scotland I'm looking for a new team member for a fabulous role in #socialvalue
building relationships, volunteering, fundraising, education engagement and more
part time (3 days) but a good salary pro rata - with a car
Please share on if you know someone looking, be an excellent entry into a social value role for someone.
Team have a office in #glasgow area. I also welcome any advice on where to share fhis
https://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/volkerrail/social-value-advisor/1035413
Help for #vacancy in #scotland I'm looking for a new team member for a fabulous role in #socialvalue
building relationships, volunteering, fundraising, education engagement and more
part time (3 days) but a good salary pro rata - with a car
Please share on if you know someone looking, be an excellent entry into a social value role for someone.
Team have a office in #glasgow area. I also welcome any advice on where to share fhis
https://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/volkerrail/social-value-advisor/1035413
All of us can remember at least some part of ourselves from when we were younger. Within most of us there exists a child with ideals for a good world, untainted by our politics' need for violence and its justifications carried through every layer of society, from education to the media.
Over the years that child is killed, bombarded with misinformation, shot with exaggeration, buried in fear about why certain groups of people who could be their friends or neighbours, are actually rapists, criminals, or subhumans. A new person is born and raised with ignorance disguised as critical thinking, where once was a conscience now lives a drastic need to justify everything happening around them. The nagging voice of youthful innocence growing quieter, with every tragedy not questioned and excuse believed, everything must be going okay, why else would everyone be following? After all, am I willing to lose my friends and possibly my job to stand up for what I believe in?
In Germany there exists an insult, “Gutmensch” (or “Good Person” in English) which is rather strange if you think about it. How is it an insult to call someone good? It's rather a self-exposing groupthink term for making fun of the people who haven't yet given up trying to make the world better. After all, who doesn't believe they themselves are doing what is good? Why do you think it's easy to ask for a better world, but some things just require the hard choices to be made with uneasy solutions? Why does the implementation of your beliefs require the militarization of your speech?
When the last immigrant is deported, and what we were told to be justice is finally achieved, but rising cost of living, joblessness, poverty, and crime still persist: Who will be left to blame but ourselves, for having killed a child that was right?
This black-and-white photo captures Loch Nan Uamh under a grey sky, emphasising the serene and moody atmosphere. The composition highlights the contrast between the calm water and the dark, rugged landscape.
#highlands #lochnanuamh #nature #water #monochrome #serene #photography #seascape #lake #noir #scotland #landscape #sea #blackandwhite #bw #bnw #photo #seashore #loch
This black-and-white photo captures Loch Nan Uamh under a grey sky, emphasising the serene and moody atmosphere. The composition highlights the contrast between the calm water and the dark, rugged landscape.
#highlands #lochnanuamh #nature #water #monochrome #serene #photography #seascape #lake #noir #scotland #landscape #sea #blackandwhite #bw #bnw #photo #seashore #loch
The parking attendants are cute but will head butt you if you disobey
#sheepstodon#Skye#Scotland#sheep #sheepstadon #SheepOfMastodon
The parking attendants are cute but will head butt you if you disobey
#sheepstodon#Skye#Scotland#sheep #sheepstadon #SheepOfMastodon
Gleann na Guiserein and Ladhar Bheinn.
The last of my pictures from Knoydart.
I had decided not climb Ladhar Bheinn, reckoning that I wasn't up to the usual route (around the other side), and decided to explore the glen beneath it instead.
But from there I could seen an easy route up, and was kicking myself for not picking it up from the map - and leaving a detailed route card that said I wouldn't climb the mountain!
Still, it was a great day's walk!
#Scotland
https://patrickhadfieldphotography.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/gleann-na-guiserein-and-ladhar-bheinn-knoydart-june-2025/
'70 organisations back unfreezing of pro-Palestine group's bank account'
In England, the Nationwide Building Society, has frozen pro-Palestinian groups accounts, making itself complicit in an ongoing Genocide!
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25410093.70-organisations-back-unfreezing-pro-palestine-groups-bank-account/
#palestine #scotland #england #banking