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Husband, father, Silicon Valley technologist and entrepreneur, American, Scottish

California
Joined November 2013
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Happy birthday to my Mum who would have been 84 on Easter Day #Friesland #Australia #Scotland #Pakistan. Greatly missed.
Thinking of Mum who passed away this week last year. Born in a small Frisian village. Suffered the Hongerwinter. Studied in Edinburgh. Sailed at the age of 22 to Karachi. Train to Sialkot. Married Harry in the Punjab. Honeymoon in Lahore. Three children born in Pakistan. Moved...
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Happy 2024.
Farewell, 2023! 👋 This New Year's Eve, we're saying goodbye to an incredible 365 days of performances with a stunning rendition of 'Auld Lang Syne' from our Songs From Ukraine Chorus.
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I love this poem for the New Year. The cycles of time and the seasons, described so beautifully here, have been my great comfort over the past few difficult years. It's midwinter and hard to hope, but 'the wind blows up the dawn / With spring behind it...' firstknownwhenlost.blogspot.…
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Auld Lang Syne, the Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1788, was set to a much older Scottish/Irish melody and is now sung all over the world to welcome the new year. Happy New Year from the west of Ireland!
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The Brexit scam has unraveled. Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll | Brexit | The Guardian theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Rare to say this about Twitter but this thread on Putin's calculations is essential reading
Does Vladimir Putin want negotiations? Almost certainly yes. Does Putin want to negotiate? Almost certainly not. The difference is not semantic. (A long-ish 🧵) /1
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The Life of Stories I was on a small motorcycle in New Mexico when a passing pickup slowed in front of me, an enormous arm emerged and waved me down. We stopped. An enormous man emerged "You Scottish? Saw your flag!" I explained who I was & what I was doing 1/11
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So all you cheerleaders for "the most moral army in the world" with your claims of "pinpoint accuracy." Take a look at what you enabled. This is the Genghis Khan model of warfare: total destruction, mass slaughter of civilians, complete eradication. Netanyahu says he has barely begun. Don't be on the wrong side of history. #NoToEthnicCleansing – at Sri Lanka
Northern Gaza is no more. An unspeakable crime
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Avi Shlaim is one of the most high integrity Jewish intellectuals of his generation. This piece is a required read by all of us so torn by the events since October 7th prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…
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O Holy Night - Adolphe Adam Singing a cappella in the chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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Kleef, 20 december 1679. Johan Maurits bijgenaamd ‘de Braziliaan’ en bouwheer van museum Mauritshuis overlijdt. Johan Maurits is een kleinzoon van Jan VI ‘de Oude’ van Nassau, broer van Willem de Zwijger. Vorig jaar is het 200-jarig bestaan van het museum uitgebreid gevierd.
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This is the haunting voice of the daughter of one of my cousins in the Church. Tanks still outside. Down to almost no provisions. I’ve been told food and water was delivered by the IDF but no sign of it yet. When will this nightmare end? Transcripts below:
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Andrew Walker retweeted
Dear fellow parents, I know this is an inconvenience truth but we need to take seriously 👇
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An MP’s relatives have been trapped alongside hundreds of other civilians in a Catholic church in Gaza City since almost the start of the conflict, and the situation has only grown more dire in recent days. theguardian.com/world/2023/d…
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Can any of Israel’s loyal defenders on this website explain why Israel is besieging and attacking a church in Gaza, and killing Christian women inside? Is the position now that Christian churchgoers are also Hamas?
Update. Soldiers are at the gates and there was a fire when they hit one of the (already dysfunctional) generators. There is no water left. There are 300 people there. We don’t know why this is happening. Are they going to be expelled from a church just days before Christmas??!
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