THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.
A photo of Harold Gillies sitting in an operating theatre during World War I, along with three nurses and another male staff member.
My book, THE FACEMAKER, is about the pioneering surgeon Harold Gillies, who rebulit soldiers' faces during World War I. Gillies established the world’s first hospital dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. /5
Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.
Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.
The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.
The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.
Happy #WorldBookDay!!
To mark the day, I'm giving personalised book recommendations for the young readers in your life. Just tell me their age (0-18 years) and about their interests and I'll share some books I think they'll love 📚
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.
She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.
Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
tapping the sign etc
........ do not give the evil owned theft machine your medical records
Nobody wants to hear from you Neil Gaiman!!! Shut the fuck up!!!!
Screenshot from STAT article that says "What we're going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles," he said. "What is the new incidence of hospitalization? What's the incidence of death?"
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways
Yessss, a masterpiece!
I am so tired.
I can't help but feel I experienced the world in microcosm on the way to the shop today.
I saw a queue of cars stuck trying to enter a single lane tunnel. I thought the roadworks on the other side must have caught everyone out with the different traffic lights.
Then I got closer. 1/9
And they don't like being yelled at! They all quit having town halls! The GOP is retiring inassive waves.
YELL AT THEM IF ONLY BECAUSE IT FEELS GOOD!
My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds.
I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are.
My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.
Hello new followers and happy new year! We're just twelve days away from the launch of my first epic fantasy, SISTER WAKE, everything you've ever wanted in a book;
(provided what you want is Irish myth, colonial revenge and two hundred foot Celtic goddesses with a grudge.
I hope to see you there!
I tell myself over and over not to litigate past elections, but I do think I should be allowed one (1) free bitchslap on every “Donald the Dove” person in the United States.
100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
Um. Look, I haven’t been awake long or had coffee, but—
Has the U.S. … kidnapped a president?
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The ol' classic~
You know it's nearly Christmas when your Britta filter has to sit, sullen and dejected, on the counter rather than in the fridge, to make space for more food and drink.
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Finally.
Gargoyles forever!!
i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.
FINALLY a judge is pointing it out explicitly.
The behaviour of Enoch (& the other Burkes) is a clear safety concern.
Genuinely, how far off are they from rationalising violence as appropriate to their cause?
photo of an em dash drawn on a piece of paper in pencil
chatgpt is down, post handmade em dashes
Who among us hasn’t dreamt of slowly descending down a stone spiral staircase with a torch in hand and discovering a hidden candlelit library filled with thousands of centuries-old novels and being welcomed by a cantankerous yet endearing library ghost?
Ah, thank you for letting me know!
I read these books when I was 15, thanks to the ‘zon algorithm, and in retrospect I was too young for them.
But they still definitely imprinted on me. Karla meant a lot as a lesbian in such a rigid society.
