Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.
They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.
The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
Scam email for the Cellarman nove - it just came out
Surprised to get the AI scammer action quite so quickly for #TheCellarman #newfiction #blackdragon
Billboard in Dundee. Pic: Alistair Heather
Headline from the BBC about some rich old loser buying the right to some airtime for his racist views & NF getting in on the hate of it all as usual
wtf does some billionaire based in Monaco know about UK society - picking away at a perceived vulnerability as to what it means to be English with the only answer offered waving flags and to hate whatever today is categorised as the "other" - all while the rich get richer.
'Winter Menhirs, Imbolc' - Brian Graham (2003)
A swift building brick with a nesting hole for swifts
Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law #birds #Scotland #conservation #environment #swifts @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
John wants to be an artist but instead he spends most of his time avoiding student Molly who adores him and pining for the goth girl Marianne who he first saw in a graveyard. Earning a meagre living at the Black Dragon pub in Hayds as a bar and cellarman, he finally meets his muse. But appearances can be deceptive. She is a young mother escaping from an unhappy marriage. And he is not sure if art is enough anymore. Book cover showing Tweedbank roundabout at night.
The Cellarman. Available now.
A small town love story set in the eighties. Paperback coming soon if you don't do Kindle and/or Amazon.
amzn.eu/d/6hdqqsa
So close...
Mars Attacks 👾
Indonesia blocks #Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Young women with sunglasses and a big smile sits in the Batmobile with her hands on the wheel
Sitting in the #Batmobile in a mall in #SurfersParadise in 1987 - I was 21 and the other two in the queue were under 8 #Batman #AdamWest #livingthedream
You can tell the photo was important as it was where I kept my secret pincode!
Poster and trailor for Pollux et le chat bleu aka in English Dougal and the Blue Cat - follow the link to imdb to learn more
Feel like I should watch this again #DougalAndTheBlueCat #PolluxEtLeChatBleu #MagicRoundabout
Life at the Magic Roundabout is disrupted. Everyone loves Buxton except for Dougal, who discovers the cat's mad plan to become blue army king & destroy all who are not blue.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0308...
The Perrymount in Haywards Heath but it closed down and I only ever remember seeing one film in the cinema as a child Dougal and the Blue Cat - watched a lot of tv to compensate though!
#childhoodcinema
A view from Ettrick Water footbridge by Selkirk campsite and the river upstream is disappearing into the gloaming
Upstream Ettrick Water #dusk #river
Christmas market in Vienna entered through a giant star on a rainy day
Festive
🔥 Why do we people part with these?! I found this one a while back
Boycott Eurovision. News clipping from Sky News: Israel allowed to take part in Eurovision 2026 - as several countries withdraw. Scottish Greens.
Once a symbol of unity and hope across Europe, the Eurovision Song Contest has been turned into a pink-washing front for war criminals in Israel.
After today's decision, there must be a global boycott of Eurovision.
I got married in 1996 with just two witnesses in attendance: a photographer and a friend of a work colleague - contacted the latter (a stranger) via email prior to the event and they showed up on the day.
The marriage lasted less than a year.
But this wedding was arranged via Reddit 💚
Peaceful pool on the river Tweed breaks snd boils over the cauld
By the cauld #riverTweed #river
Daily Fail ask Rachel Reeves' uncle to rewrite her CV for some reason - my uncle used to say the best and most astonishing things about my career to anyone who would listen. This guy less so. Take both with a pinch of salt.
My uncle used to tell folk that I explained the World Wide Web to Bill Gates.
Bad luck #RachelReeves new low from #DailyFail
Ukraine could have surrendered in 2014. But we didn’t.
Ukraine could have surrendered in 2022. But we didn’t.
And we could surrender now. But we will not.
We. Are. Ukrainians. We will not surrender.
Only a few days left to enter the Cafe Writers poetry competition. Our sole judge is Jessica Mookherjee. First prize is £1000 and there are other prizes too. #poetry www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...
A South Downs book cover which features wooden signposts against a green downland colour background.
Callum James' South Downs: Paths of the Dead is partly a grimoire of the walk, partly a linear topography, partly a treatise on necromancy. Subverting the expectation that books on landscape are divorced from folklore, spirits & the magic of a place. @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 🔥
Book cover showing an image of a roundabout with street lights at night - the book is called The Cellarman by Bridget Khursheed and it is due out in 2026
Coming in 2026 #coverreveal & yes it is fiction
Okkkkayyyyyyyy 🔥
Thank you @bordertelegraph.bsky.social for your support for Exact Colour of Snow #poetry #saltires
www.bordertelegraph.com/news/2551344...
Honoured to be included on the #poetry longlist for the Scottish National Book Awards with #ExactColourOfSnow
Anas Al-Sharif “killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.”
What are they hiding? This removal of witnesses wasn’t accidental.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
SOME NEWS: Dust will open for submissions 20th August - 20th September.
This will be for our fifteenth issue which will have the title and theme ‘Dear World’.
We can’t wait to read your poems 💛
(Poems sent before 20.08.25 won’t be read)
