This year marks 200 years of organised football in Edinburgh. Read all about The Foot-Ball Club, founded in 1824, in the new edition of Edinburgh Life (p34-37): ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/115978/…

It's an absolute car crash interview for Starmer. Martin Geisler left him without a name, exposing him as a totalitarian. Democracy dies with Labour.
#DontVoteLabour
#NeverVoteConservative
#ScottishIndependence2024

Interesting 1950's article describing a post-clearance Strathmore (Caithness Flow Country), as a 'happy and bustling' place. Similar descriptions used pre-clearance in the early 1800s.

1750 - 500 people
1950 - 50 people
2024 - keeper and dogs

Now artificial wild land.

#BM100 #smalleuropeanwoman amazing

Thank you HarveyLewis for the update.
Come on Jasmin Paris 👊🏻💚

#smalleuropeanwoman #bm100 The Barkley Course The Barkley Marathon
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This footage of Jared Campbell Jared Campbell offering Jasmin Paris ( #smalleuropeanwoman ) the choice of direction (after 46 hours of the toughest #running ) is some of the most incredible sportsmanship I have ever seen… (it may have created a watery situation in my eyes!) #BM100

Operating in Fife. Do you know who this is? If so please call the police. This man took my mum to a Bank on Monday to get money out of her bank. Check with your older relatives and warn them.

Jasmin Paris Jasmin Paris finished loop three in 32:15:53, smiling and looking good. #BM100

300 years since the birth of Gaelic bàrd Duncan Bàn MacIntyre (Donnchadh Bàn nan Òran):

My soul aches. In broad daylight, Russia's missiles from Crimea struck Odesa, killing 14 people, including medic and first responder who rushed to rescue. How much longer must we endure this horror? The world must rise up and halt this madness! 💔

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the courage required to show up for navalny’s funeral is worth our appreciation

Over 100 people killed in Gaza amidst gunfire & a stampede, when the IDF opened fire as hungry Palestinian civilians rushed to rare aid trucks, according to the Ministry of Health. Tonight I spoke with Mark Regev, senior adviser to Israel’s PM, about this & the dire lack of aid.

”About one in every 20 children, women and men in #Gaza are now dead or wounded.
𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚 .”

- Volker Türk speaks at #HRC55 on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

For St David’s Day, Ciaran Jenkins of Channel 4 News & I play Welsh folk song Ar Lan y Môr. Wherever you are in the world, wishing you a peaceful day. Ciaran Jenkins BBC Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Channel 4 News #StDavidsDay

I've been spending a lot of time exploring human habitation of the Flow Country World Heritage Site this winter.
There's 185 shieling sites (mapped) across the area and I've used historical records to find a total of 586 shieling huts. This is only recorded shieling huts.

Elizabeth MacDonald has closed her post office in Drimnin (Morvern) for the last time after 56 years. It was in the family for 145 years, but the service will now cease. She is also the last Gaelic speaker in the village #AnLa BBC ALBA 8pm BBC Highlands BBC Scotland News

The RSPBA have issued two press releases this afternoon, February 12, with more good news and progress made to re-establishing five major pipe band championships in the 2024 calendar.

bagpipe.news/2024/02/12/rsp…

'A Palestinian colleague... broke down weeping telling us how he was lying under his bed with two young granddaughters clinging to him, both of them screaming hysterically throughout the night... children should not have to suffer this'

Hamish Young from UNICEF

Important evidence to UK Covid-19 Inquiry about better outcomes in Scotland compared to other nations of the UK. covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/modu…