Sarah Mackie

Using a Star Trek GIF, post where you're at right now. 🖖🏽

omg omg omg

I know several ship captains with Master Unlimited licenses who have piloted the largest vessels on the oceans and they are—to the man—the most risk-adverse people on Earth. They are responsible for dozens of lives and hundreds of millions in assets. 0% chance any sail through Hormuz for a while.

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got.

Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean?

Last line is especially ominous

The Eclegraph Log in Q News Iran crisis Sport Business Money See all News Iran war LIVE Latest updates LIvE Markets Expats fleeing Dubai abandon pets in scramble to leave Travel restrictions and costs force animal owners to take drastic action as Iran targets Gulf states Tr

Two points:

1. They’re not “expats” they’re “migrants.”

2. Them abandoning their pets will hopefully give each and every one of these people just a little bit of insight into the incredibly hard decisions refugees have to make when they’re fleeing war zones.

What the end of Alba means for May’s election and the broader independence movement Well that’s it. The Alba party has gone and will not be contesting the Holyrood election in May, or indeed any elections in the future. Unlike some, I am not gloating about the party’s …

My latest blog piece, some personal musings on what the demise of the Alba party means for the Scottish election in May and the broader independence movement.

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If anyone is willing to share, I would be very appreciative!! 🔧🍃

We've just set the launch trailer live for Piece by Piece, our cozy repair shop game that is coming THIS WEEK, on March 11!!

You can see it below, and find the game here: store.steampowered.com/app/3179050/...

Four years since I made this...and the doomscrolling has only intensified.

Burning the planet with ai bullshit to sell ad space reporting a building on fire. Just stop it.

holy shit

That fire near Glasgow Central is getting worse.

Hope no-one's been hurt.

New footage has emerged as firefighters continue to tackle a blaze in Union Street. Live updates: www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2591832...

Jaysus

I needed this rn

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

Pixelated black and white Voyager photo of Io, showing a plume from a volcanic eruption.

Voyager 1 captured the first evidence of an extraterrestrial volcanic eruption #OTD in 1979, on Jupiter's moon Io.

The plume in this image was discovered by astronomer Linda A. Morabito, working as a JPL engineer at the time, and announced a few days later. 🔭 🧪 👩‍🔬

Image: NASA/JPL

The irony of a man wearing a board stating "Keep men out of women's spaces" harassing a woman by chasing her and invading her space.

Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the crane’s cab

“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974

The single best thing they've done, making sure they don't split

Don't chip

Don't brush some grains off the independence vote in May.

An image of Liara looking at a Geth unit with red eyes. The text reads: "Remember: behind every robot that turns evil is an engineer who specifically installed red LEDs into the eyes just for this occasion".

A screenshot of a phone mock screen. There's a photograph of a cat, but its face is covered by a music player, featuring Paul Simon's face, lining up perfectly where my cat's face should be.

Put my cat on my lock screen. Did not expect something like this to happen.

See also: Ender's Game

Misquoting Orwell is the perfect end to her tenure

a picture of a pig on a carousel with the words status written above it Alt: Status: with a wee girl on her face getting dragged around by a carousel

Posting what you thought was a gif while on your coffee break at work to find later it was just a static image. *sigh*

It's almost like the President of the United States of America and his lackeys don't understand trade deals.

He cannot 'cut all trade with Spain' because the trade deal the USA has is with the whole European Union.

Yet another reason why the EU is a powerful trading bloc,

And Brexit was stupid.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This sounds like what a teenage boy playing Fortnite would say.

I’m just flinging things in the Clyde now

UK supermarket chain Iceland drops trademark dispute with Iceland Company promises ‘rapprochement discount’ with shoppers from country after decade-long action in EU court

TIL that the country of Iceland had to take the company Iceland to court because it had trademarked the name Iceland and it was preventing companies from Iceland doing business in the EU. www.theguardian.com/business/202...