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Just outside Achnasheen, a stag stepped in front of the car and I thought, well at least we died a picturesque death😅
December 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Just outside Achnasheen, a stag stepped in front of the car and I thought, well at least we died a picturesque death😅
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This exact thing happened to us, winter of 2024! ScotRail had said they’d either get us a taxi or hotel. When we got to Inverness, the taxi was waiting; but it had begun to snow, and I wondered if I should have insisted on the hotel.
December 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This exact thing happened to us, winter of 2024! ScotRail had said they’d either get us a taxi or hotel. When we got to Inverness, the taxi was waiting; but it had begun to snow, and I wondered if I should have insisted on the hotel.
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Thankfully ScotRail provided a taxi for the last leg (£220 on the meter when we were dropped off, and presumably that much again for the return.)
December 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Thankfully ScotRail provided a taxi for the last leg (£220 on the meter when we were dropped off, and presumably that much again for the return.)
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A delayed departure out of Glasgow meant that we wound up missing our connection in Stirling by only a couple minutes, and therefore the last train to Plockton from Inverness.
December 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A delayed departure out of Glasgow meant that we wound up missing our connection in Stirling by only a couple minutes, and therefore the last train to Plockton from Inverness.
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A delightful description in here from 1925 of Harry Stephen Keeler's writing space, which includes blackboards of his novel plots coded with colored chalks, a massive wall of filing cabinets, and a pet rabbit named H.L. Mencken.
![Photo of passage from a 1925 profile in an Armour Institute alumni newsletter: "An immense blackboard covers the adjoining wall, which with colored chalks and vertically and horizontally ruled lines shows the chronological position of every character in a mystery novel he would be writing. A third wall has every inch of its area covered with a huge filing cabinet, containing several hundreds of drawers, in which is tabulated, in very neat and concise form, material and information pertaining to almost every conceivable subject from Chinese curios to such branches of science as sociology and pschiaty [sic]. A description of his workshop would by no means be complete without including one of his most prozed possessions, a pet rabbit which makes its home in his waste-basket. 'I know you'll be terribly disappointed,' said Harry Stephen Keeler, 'for you hoped to find literary atmosphere here. But there ir -- or he -- is.' Pointing to the rabbit, 'That's H.L. Mencken. That's the atmosphere.'"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:szszhxvp46zm3f5bqe4eye73/bafkreibpv5jiik5f3xpcweqcrirvgio2hut2v3yvnsqixdgufypyuwjrsi@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A delightful description in here from 1925 of Harry Stephen Keeler's writing space, which includes blackboards of his novel plots coded with colored chalks, a massive wall of filing cabinets, and a pet rabbit named H.L. Mencken.
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My wife and I came across these in London like 30 years ago, and they're still the best idea ever for a card deck.
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
My wife and I came across these in London like 30 years ago, and they're still the best idea ever for a card deck.
I don’t think the Feds coming in has worked. Same number of Antifa on my street as there were yesterday.
September 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I don’t think the Feds coming in has worked. Same number of Antifa on my street as there were yesterday.
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Now this is Content
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Now this is Content
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Growing up we had a “mixer tap” in the kitchen that did not mix the water; it gave adjacent streams of scalding hot and freezing cold water. I didn’t realize that was because true mixer taps were ILLEGAL in Britain when our house was built.
Freeze or scald? The choice is yours! There’s an interesting reason why you see separate hot and cold water faucets in the UK.
May 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Growing up we had a “mixer tap” in the kitchen that did not mix the water; it gave adjacent streams of scalding hot and freezing cold water. I didn’t realize that was because true mixer taps were ILLEGAL in Britain when our house was built.
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In stressful times like these, it is important to acknowledge and enjoy the delightful things in life that make your face light up in a smile. For instance, this:
April 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In stressful times like these, it is important to acknowledge and enjoy the delightful things in life that make your face light up in a smile. For instance, this:
This would make a good jigsaw puzzle (my highest compliment)
April 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This would make a good jigsaw puzzle (my highest compliment)
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Not only is there good old shoe-leather reporting here, but if you scroll to their "Related Stories" at the bottom, it reads like the amazing saga of story after damning story on Rep. Ogles.
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An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation has uncovered new questions about a Middle Tennessee congressman who has left a trail of scandal since his election in 2022.
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March 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Not only is there good old shoe-leather reporting here, but if you scroll to their "Related Stories" at the bottom, it reads like the amazing saga of story after damning story on Rep. Ogles.
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My idea to save turn Walgreens around: British style meal deals.
March 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
My idea to save turn Walgreens around: British style meal deals.
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Comic made for Comic Writing, Professor Bendis’ Class. Made by Bramwell Collins.
November 1, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Comic made for Comic Writing, Professor Bendis’ Class. Made by Bramwell Collins.
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That’s about 2%. The annual attrition of federal workers is 6 - 7%, which raises the question of whether Trump’s team of megaminds basically just promised a shitload of severance to people who were about to leave anyway.
More Than 40,000 Federal Workers Have Resigned So Far, Short of Target
Uncertainty about whether they will get paid not to work through September is deterring employees who face a Thursday deadline for taking a buyout.
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
That’s about 2%. The annual attrition of federal workers is 6 - 7%, which raises the question of whether Trump’s team of megaminds basically just promised a shitload of severance to people who were about to leave anyway.
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We have ascended to Bluesky. Tell a friend.
November 17, 2024 at 4:51 PM
We have ascended to Bluesky. Tell a friend.
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Classifications for book reviewers:
192 pages or less: slim
256: brisk
320: detailed
384: richly detailed
448: ambitious
512: imposing
576: sprawling
640: magisterial
704+: heard it was good
192 pages or less: slim
256: brisk
320: detailed
384: richly detailed
448: ambitious
512: imposing
576: sprawling
640: magisterial
704+: heard it was good
November 20, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Classifications for book reviewers:
192 pages or less: slim
256: brisk
320: detailed
384: richly detailed
448: ambitious
512: imposing
576: sprawling
640: magisterial
704+: heard it was good
192 pages or less: slim
256: brisk
320: detailed
384: richly detailed
448: ambitious
512: imposing
576: sprawling
640: magisterial
704+: heard it was good
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I have fixed
your post
that has
gone viral
and which
you probably
worded exactly
the way you intended
You’re welcome
you forgot to mention something
it was so incomplete
and now so fixed
your post
that has
gone viral
and which
you probably
worded exactly
the way you intended
You’re welcome
you forgot to mention something
it was so incomplete
and now so fixed
November 22, 2023 at 6:36 PM
I have fixed
your post
that has
gone viral
and which
you probably
worded exactly
the way you intended
You’re welcome
you forgot to mention something
it was so incomplete
and now so fixed
your post
that has
gone viral
and which
you probably
worded exactly
the way you intended
You’re welcome
you forgot to mention something
it was so incomplete
and now so fixed
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The actual subjects of American Gothic. Nan Wood Graham (the artist's sister) and Dr. Byron McKeeby (the Woods' family dentist) in the Gallery at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, September 1942.
October 22, 2023 at 4:25 PM
The actual subjects of American Gothic. Nan Wood Graham (the artist's sister) and Dr. Byron McKeeby (the Woods' family dentist) in the Gallery at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, September 1942.