🎉 150 years of the Jags 🎉 Partick Thistle FC is back at Maryhill Burgh Halls! Join the team's memorabilia volunteers who have put together a powerful exhibition featuring some never-before-seen artefacts from the club's history to mark this incredible milestone. We'll soon be back on a Saturday...

James Kelman never disappoints. This is hilarious.

👀 Our World Cup special is still on sale, but next month a new Nutmeg lands. 📖 #40 is a transfer special, going behind the tittle-tattle. 📖Elsewhere, you'll find the usual plethora of great writing on matters club & country. 🛒 Pre-order yours: shorturl.at/w9E15

Truly Gifted Kids:A Book About A Band Called Prefab Sprout by @nigetassell.bsky.social Nige sets out to uncloak the enigma in this deepest dive ever made into Paddy McAloon’s craft, motivations and methods Personal and poetic, a true labour of love about labours of love 13-08-26 tr.ee/-BLPqLQ27t

@danigaravelli.bsky.social Any help?

@rickhough.bsky.social Any suggestions?

Respect For Friend Drops After Reading Book They Recommended

Judging by the media coverage, the biggest scandal in English football history is that a "spy" was spotted at a training ground, not that so many of its clubs are owned by brutal regimes, private equity grifters and gangsters, and take the money of quasi-criminal crypto companies and bookies.

I saw this today and it is astoundingly good. Go and see it if you can.

How is worldwide football going to solve the issues with VAR? The easy way would be to admit it's been a failed experiment and scrap it. That's not going to happen because of the sunk cost fallacy and also just because it's football administrators in charge. 1/2

Would love to have this on my CV: “Failed to write a self-help book.”

The Blue Nile - Flags and Fences youtu.be/arOG2_QG4ls?...

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These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

Reform candidate on BBCScotland. What’s an anagram for ‘Huffy Wee Dickwad’?

🎥 On Wednesday 20th May, "One Team In Glasgow" - a fan-focussed four-part documentary series about Partick Thistle - will be going live on free streaming service STV Player! Read more: buff.ly/7G6zO9d Watch the trailer: buff.ly/9YHmqrD

BBC Scotland are tying themselves in knots trying to make the the case that this isn’t a massive win for the SNP. Especially if they don’t get a majority in a system set up to make a majority really difficult.

Hey @backlisted.bsky.social not sure if Agnes Owens has crossed your path but damn, she’s good

I also love this.

Are we smelling the right wing coffee yet?

Depressingly predictable results in this nasty, selfish, and traditionally racist country

I awake and realise what an excellent visual metaphor this is. What Reform supporters think they're voting for/what they'll get.

As a child in the 1970s, I remember thinking: gosh, when I grow up I hope there are no libraries, no English Literature degrees, no bookshops, no decent public services, no Top of the Pops, no Woolworths, just an endless plain of sport and home computers. Feel blessed to have lived to see it happen.

Couldn't resist these.

@lynnej0nes.bsky.social Thanks for the repost, Lynne. Hope you're well.

@robfmac.bsky.social Thanks for the repost, my friend. Hope you're well.

This week I have been mostly falling in love all over again with The Blue Nile.

I know not many followers like the football on here 😇 but If you know anyone pass this on if you could. I've a book coming out in August. First run sold out. Second run plodding along. It's about Partick Thistle. What's not to like? ptfc.co.uk/product/150t...

The emotional significance of objects sends ripples through our lives, which is why this is often my final poem when I give a reading. It's taken from my second full collection, Whatever You Don't, Just Don't. If you fancy a signed copy, drop me a DM and I'll sort one out for you...

Beautiful. Thank you @monorailmusic.bsky.social

The Striker and the Clock by Georgia Cloepfil is a gloriously well-written book about the challenges of pursuing football as a career and the difficulties of knowing when it’s over. Loved it.

If this is real. If his thumbs actually typed what is below... Citizens. Senators. Cabinet. The President of the United States is out of control. He is beyond reason or amelioration. We might really, really, really, I'm trying not to shout or capitalize here, really want to address this.

Terrifying. When an autocrat sees no other way out.

@rokewood.bsky.social hello there. Good to reconnect. Hope you’re well.

Do any of you use a streaming service other than Spotify and Apple?

All the classics are here but I'd like to add my own as a personal favourite off the cuff reply

Gary Woodland. Endured PTSD following brain surgery in 2023. He’s just won the Texas Open. Best sports story of the the year. If you’ve seen it, defy you not to have cried. Humanity in excelsis.

This popped up today but sadly it's behind a Paywall. Suffice to say I was utterly fascinating and charming. As was the lovely Lyndsay Hamilton. open.spotify.com/episode/3Dxo...

No doing a Braveheart sword wave and yelling FREEDOM on the train

Opening Day youtu.be/EBwhjAhNmKA?...

Second Print run of Partick Thistle - A People’s History now out there ptfc.co.uk/product/150t...

Second Print run of Partick Thistle - A People’s History now out there ptfc.co.uk/product/150t...

The march of the Megs, the music of print... 📖 Our World Cup special issue is nearly here. 🛒Fill the days with Nutmeg joy. Order yours here: tiny.cc/rgrz001

I don’t want to know who Bansky is. I see enough disappointing looking men in their 50s when I’m shaving.

[Sade voice 🎵]

We're second in the Championship by mistake. #partickthistle

👀 Thursday's World Cup special issue page peep: a wonderful, revealing article from Archie Macpherson. 📖 Behind the BBC scenes on that cataclysmic night at Italia '90. 🛒 Pre-order your copy here: tiny.cc/rgrz001