Donald Farmer
@donaldtreehive.bsky.social
Scottish - American. Built a so-called career on data and analytics. Should have been a musician.
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I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
August 26, 2026 at 7:02 AM
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
August 6, 2026 at 10:08 AM
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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I live in a small town in NE Scotland close to where chunks of the #Odyssey was filmed. Nolan’s cast and crew were all lovely and spent money like water in our hard-up area. He even made sure our tiny cinemas got on-time release of it when we normally have to wait for big movies. Thanks Chris.
July 19, 2026 at 6:57 AM
I live in a small town in NE Scotland close to where chunks of the #Odyssey was filmed. Nolan’s cast and crew were all lovely and spent money like water in our hard-up area. He even made sure our tiny cinemas got on-time release of it when we normally have to wait for big movies. Thanks Chris.
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It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."
April 26, 2026 at 1:47 PM
It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."
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If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed.
Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
April 26, 2026 at 2:01 PM
If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed.
Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
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It’s a crowded category, but I thought what Trump said after the murder of Rob and Michele Reiner was even worse. There’s not a shred of empathy, humanity or basic decency in his body!
James Fallows: “This is the most despicable public statement by an American public official in my lifetime.
It needs to be recognized as such.”
It needs to be recognized as such.”
March 22, 2026 at 3:39 PM
It’s a crowded category, but I thought what Trump said after the murder of Rob and Michele Reiner was even worse. There’s not a shred of empathy, humanity or basic decency in his body!
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It’s good news that award-winning Gaelic drama An t-Eilean (The Island) has been commissioned for a second series, with filming in the Western Isles starting in the spring. Here’s my interview with talented leading actor Sorcha Groundsell! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/entertain...
Interview: Sorcha Groundsell, star of new BBC crime drama An t-Eilean set in Western Isles
The Western Isles actor is at the helm of "An T-Eilean", the first major crime drama to be filmed in Gaelic.
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 1:44 PM
It’s good news that award-winning Gaelic drama An t-Eilean (The Island) has been commissioned for a second series, with filming in the Western Isles starting in the spring. Here’s my interview with talented leading actor Sorcha Groundsell! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/entertain...
From Le Monde …
February 11, 2026 at 1:32 PM
From Le Monde …
The cultural destruction of this US government is extraordinary. I get the sense that they destroy simply because they can, as if they reflexively hate everything not made by them or in their image.
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
simonwillison.net
February 5, 2026 at 5:28 AM
The cultural destruction of this US government is extraordinary. I get the sense that they destroy simply because they can, as if they reflexively hate everything not made by them or in their image.
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you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
My granddaughters’ rats enjoyed their Burns’ supper.
January 25, 2026 at 8:36 PM
My granddaughters’ rats enjoyed their Burns’ supper.
Someone who shares part of my name and (horrors!) some of my distant relatives can go f*** himself.
January 24, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Someone who shares part of my name and (horrors!) some of my distant relatives can go f*** himself.
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Thin Ink's 1st issue of 2026: I’m reclaiming the word foodie & rejecting purism while I’m at it.
Loving food has brought me joy my whole life. But in recent years it’s also come with guilt: Not vegetarian enough. Not climate-perfect enough. Not “doing it right.”
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-real-b...
Loving food has brought me joy my whole life. But in recent years it’s also come with guilt: Not vegetarian enough. Not climate-perfect enough. Not “doing it right.”
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-real-b...
The Real Big Tent
Food, climate, and why rejecting purism ≠ rejecting responsibility
news.thin-ink.net
January 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Thin Ink's 1st issue of 2026: I’m reclaiming the word foodie & rejecting purism while I’m at it.
Loving food has brought me joy my whole life. But in recent years it’s also come with guilt: Not vegetarian enough. Not climate-perfect enough. Not “doing it right.”
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-real-b...
Loving food has brought me joy my whole life. But in recent years it’s also come with guilt: Not vegetarian enough. Not climate-perfect enough. Not “doing it right.”
news.thin-ink.net/p/the-real-b...
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
That this man was ever elected will be an eternal shame to our country. There appear to be no depths to which his ego cannot drag him down.
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
That this man was ever elected will be an eternal shame to our country. There appear to be no depths to which his ego cannot drag him down.
Does anyone know if there’s an English translation of “Oma. schreit der Frieder” published?
December 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Does anyone know if there’s an English translation of “Oma. schreit der Frieder” published?
Wish I had my phone with me on my morning walk. Somebody had stuck a sticky note on a Cybertruck … “2025 Winner of the FiFA Design Award.”
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Wish I had my phone with me on my morning walk. Somebody had stuck a sticky note on a Cybertruck … “2025 Winner of the FiFA Design Award.”
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I’m old enough to remember when a ‘remote conference’ just meant a conference where all the participants were aloof, mentally disengaged or emotionally repressed
December 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I’m old enough to remember when a ‘remote conference’ just meant a conference where all the participants were aloof, mentally disengaged or emotionally repressed
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December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.)
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.)
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
We have a friend staying with us and I said, of course she can read & borrow any books she wants.
“I like biographies."
And I now realize I have thousands of books but maybe only 6-10 biographies. I just don’t read them much.
Any suggestions?
“I like biographies."
And I now realize I have thousands of books but maybe only 6-10 biographies. I just don’t read them much.
Any suggestions?
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We have a friend staying with us and I said, of course she can read & borrow any books she wants.
“I like biographies."
And I now realize I have thousands of books but maybe only 6-10 biographies. I just don’t read them much.
Any suggestions?
“I like biographies."
And I now realize I have thousands of books but maybe only 6-10 biographies. I just don’t read them much.
Any suggestions?