Reposted by Karen FraserOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Farage really on the ropes there. 152981328
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Our group had enjoyed several Robert Harris novels - good easy read thrillers and also very interesting as they are based on historical situations. 041
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 28/07/2025‘You’ve Been Trumped’ - good movie/s. Locals near Aberdeen had the measure of him long ago. "the underlying message is that if you are rich and powerful enough, you can run roughshod over tradition and private property rights and buy your place at the table." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You've_...en.wikipedia.orgYou've Been Trumped - Wikipedia 020
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 19/07/2025These guys did a brilliant gig at Mareel earlier, with @roseannewatt.bsky.social, great night of poetry and good patter, hilarious. 150
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 19/06/2025They must have been doing customer training with the Tesco staff again. They keep asking how I am and telling me to enjoy my day. Calm down guys, that’s a bit overly for the UK. 020
Reposted by Karen FraserGod @thegodshow.com · 17/04/2025"You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it." - John Adams He is repenting so hard right now. 11287691773
Reposted by Karen FraserShetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Since approximately 1966 we think, our Council gardeners have been taking care of these planters outside the Library. We rarely see them come and go - it’s like magic flowers just appear 🙂 1371
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Naw you burnt down the worker’s houses and made a ton of free money for your speculator buddies, so all good. 000
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Anything Orkney can do, we can do better, darker and lighter 🙂 010
Reposted by Karen FraserShetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social · 08/04/2025☀️ We’re still smiling after our super Sunday event to launch the latest Shetland book for bairns from Peerie Oorick. 🥰 It was lovely to see so many families coming together to enjoy the space. 🖍️ There’s lots to see & do in the Library, particularly in the school holidays- why not pop along? 083
Reposted by Karen FraserJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I wondered for a while why Trump was so excited by Brexit, even to the point of getting Farage to fluff him. It was simple, really: proof that, with the support of enough bent media, bad people selling bigotry & lies really could persuade people to vote to punch themselves in the face forever. 1303135626
Reposted by Karen FraserMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I kind of want to go 1821606389916
Reposted by Karen FraserAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/04/2025The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it 397121733041
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Ha ha 🙂 If @anncleeves.bsky.social is taking Jimmy from us, we’re having Vera! 1293
Reposted by Karen FraserThe Independent @the-independent.com · 27/03/2025U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no onethe-independent.comU.S. officials can’t find any Greenlanders who want to talk to Usha VanceA local travel company in Greenland’s capital also cancelled a planned visit by Usha Vance 1782306682
Reposted by Karen FraserGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This is the simplest and most obvious explanation. 834188114232
Reposted by Karen FraserJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025There are now just three types of media figures on both sides of the Atlantic: people clear-eyed & honest about the obvious evil of Trump; people explicitly supportive of Trump’s obvious evil & people implicitly supporting Trump’s obvious evil by ‘both sidesing’ every lurch further in to fascism… 481332203
Reposted by Karen FraserAmerican Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 5733442164
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Airlines - why not flash up ‘final call’ in red half an hour before the plane is even ready to board, just to haul your passengers out of the warm bar into a drafty corridor? Oh, you already got that… 010
Reposted by Karen Fraserilovelibraries.bsky.social @ilovelibraries.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Library lovers, we need your help. A recent executive order calls for the elimination of IMLS, the only federal agency that funds libraries nationwide. Without IMLS, many of the resources and programs we love could be at risk. 📚 Learn what you can do to help: ilovelibraries.org/article/trum... 2332235
Reposted by Karen FraserBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.nhpr.orgGreen card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detainedFabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court. 19563047812474
Reposted by Karen FraserAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Massive anti-US invasion protest in Nuuk, Greenland outside the US consulate. "99% say no Trump" "no means no" ( 📹@OJoelsen ) #3E #EndImpunity #GreenlandProtests 369131153369
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Wrong answer - ‘home baked with love’ is our USP 🙂 010
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Restaurants - any chance we could have salt cellars back instead of a range of dodgy apparatus designed to spit giant rocks of salt at our food? 010
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I have heard that the plot involves the Library as a centre of vice and corruption, and that they get their cake from Asda. 130
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I love to get a window seat on a clear day! A few photos from a London-Cyprus flight. 230
Reposted by Karen FraserMaurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them. 784317118266
Reposted by Karen FraserDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 08/03/20257 months ago today I bombed that kids hospital in Kiev. But as Trump says, "it's what anyone would do". 291740456
Reposted by Karen FraserRichard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity. 17507565022551
Reposted by Karen FraserSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/03/2025For 250 years, the United States has supported democracy. Now, in the middle of a horrific war that Putin started, Trump is turning his back on Ukraine and democracy, all to the benefit of a brutal dictator in Moscow. 4215842845
Reposted by Karen FraserOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Just imagine a scenario in which PM Liz Truss was in charge now and then tell me that "all politicians are the same" 792106298
Reposted by Karen FraserKate Macdonald 📚 🧶 @kateem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025What awful, awful people. Schoolboy bullies, hoping to get a grin from the big bully by piling on. What monsters. 091
Reposted by Karen FraserIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025The Johnson graph is very funny 1829837
Reposted by Karen FraserTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 27/02/2025"daddy, what did you do in the war" son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet we all did our part 722470265180
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 27/02/2025‘If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.’ - Roald Dahl 030
Reposted by Karen FraserRory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 27/02/2025What first attracted Donald Trump to alleged rapist Andrew Tate? 791344202
Reposted by Karen FraserPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/02/2025French President Emmanuel Macron publicly interrupted Donald Trump to correct another of the US President’s falsehoods over Ukraine 👏 1041505328
Reposted by Karen FraserParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Trump's face when Macron says the US should be compensated by Russia, not Ukraine, because they started the war. 😂😂 1655195
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 19/02/2025No empathy, warmth, humour, irony, self deprecation, curiosity, creativity. I was just looking at the Twitter of a ‘Reform’ MP who spends his well paid time churning out multiple tweets attacking asylum seekers. A dark void. 1,000’s of ‘likes’. 😕 020
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 19/02/2025V. cheery man on radio speaking about #Celtic match last night, and I think ‘oh, good, who did they beat - Bayern Munich? Wow!’ Then it slowly becomes clear it was a draw and they are knocked out of a comp - but it was a great goal, a great match and they are very happy. Gotta love Scottish fitba 😃💕 000
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 16/02/2025So much to see here - love the essential little dish of tablet. There are strange hairy things on the shelves though… 😄 110
Reposted by Karen FraserGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/02/2025For them, it seems, the only speech that should be free is hate speech. 2165883
Karen Fraser @arielsclaws.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I won’t be listening to any speeches by Vance or his cohort because I studied the rise of the Nazis and already know the script. 021