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Eilean Donan castle (on the mainland, just before Skye Bridge) at sunset, with flowering gorse in the foreground.

Taking a break from doomscrolling with some hiking on Skye. Planned the trip ages ago, so a not-flying away-from-civilization holiday wasn’t a priority, but sure seems feature-rich now.

My husband (the one who didn’t like cats before I insisted we get this cat), and my cat (the one who never lets me pet her), cuddled up in bed together.

“It’s not what it looks like!”

Haha, I’ll look for that. Just needs a horse.

A low-flying (landing) plane above a moving train, in the green fields near Edinburgh Airport.

Planes & trains, Cammo estate walk, Edinburgh.

In which I review "Friends! The Musical Parody," and it goes about as you'd expect it might.

www.alledinburghtheatre.com/friends-the-...

My latest:
broadwaybaby.com/shows/a-vibr...

Former home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK Braverman becomes third sitting Conservative MP to join Nigel Farage’s party in little more than a week

"Unease" about "unsubstantiated" claims about Braverman's mental health.

I mean...the woman joined Reform. That's ironclad protection against any claims of libel, that.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Of course, OF COURSE, shut it down. Can it possibly be controversial that taxpayers cannot fund thugs empowered to commit extrajudicial killings with impunity?

I’ve personally experienced the financial chaos that shutdowns can bring, but this one has to stick until ICE is abolished.

Rather remarkable timing, vis-a-vis the murder of Loureiro, MIT’s top fusion researcher.

As much as you’re able, you mean. That’s the problem with incoherent nonsensical positions.

Do you seriously not understand what Zionism means?
🤷‍♀️ Ok kapo.

So you support the destruction of Israel but not the killing of Jews. Um, got it. 🙄

Seek counseling.

I take antihistamines year-round because of mine. Worth it!

Adorable. Now do Australia.

I dunno…I’ve lived in NYC. Cold, yeah, but the howling winds, horizontal rain, and 3 pm darkness of Edinburgh were (are) quite an adjustment.

Scotland in December has entered the chat.

Latest.

Farage: “I want less immigrants.” Tice: “Fewer.” Farage: “Don’t call me that yet.”

Lolsob.

UK Choir: We'll all wear Santa hats next week.
Me: Wait, where am I supposed to get a Santa hat?
UK Choir: Seriously? You don't already own a Santa hat? How is that possible?
Me: Ummm...do you own 14th century LARPing gear?

Cultural differences are weird.

The New Yorker made an offhand comment about “Wicked: For Good” as “defying brevity,” and I doff my hat in the presence of greatness.

Do folks who think that there is, in fact, a Trump/Clinton blowjob photo also think yo mama is actually so fat? 🤔

Picture: two bags of original-style Fritos!

My fellow Americans living in Edinburgh: the Supermercado Invicta, on Roslin high street, a local bus ride away, HAS FRITOS.

A rocky beach and seagrass in the foreground, with a stone ruin in the distance, against a cloudy sky at sunset.

Atmospheric ruin outside of St. Monans, Fife. Some aesthetic compensation for the sun being this low at 3:40 pm, sigh.

Woods, with rhododendrons in the foreground, with autumn foliage and suffused in golden light.

Leaf-peeping in East Lothian.

(Binning Wood, about 25 miles from Edinburgh, and very near an excellent Konditorei in Haddington I hadn’t known about. It was a good day.)

I’d wager his services aren’t free.

White van advertising “Fat Boy Skim” plastering services.

Better Living Through Masonry?

Spotted at Western General Hospital, Crewe Toll, Edinburgh.

I think that’ll change the nightmare rather than end it. Vance can’t control Miller, Hegseth et al. Power vacuums rarely end well. Genuine question, as I don’t live in the US and have firsthand perspective: what happens after that? Is there a peaceful path out of this?

I think that’s probably a flavour.

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