my band Shinlifter have their EP launch on Saturday and with impeccable timing our Instagram has been hacked so we’ve lost our main channel for promoting it. if anyone wanted to help share this brilliant poster by my pal Grace there, here or elsewhere we’d be very grateful!

Totally fine and normal to kidnap children in the USA because a xenophobe decided they don't have the right piece of paper. This is what is coming to the UK if we don't fix up immediately.

If anyone in leith is looking for a Monday night 7 a side my usually rammed one has been more sparse recently and needs reinforcements 👀

Spare Idlewild ticket for tonight folks, just Idlewild and me and some mates in Edinburgh, what's not to love. Pay what you want for it.

Seeing a lot of responses to this saying "great, they can arrest the people outside asylum hotels!" which feels like a canny gotcha but is ultimately just an endorsement of the basic premise of the policy.

Phone stolen for selfie (happy birthday @everebecca.bsky.social ) ((hello @hannahjtw.bsky.social ))

Then, I’ve heard it said ‘but they have all this information anyway, why not put it in one place’? Why not? Because you don’t want to make it easier to oppress and control than you should. Grit in the wheels is a protection. 9/10

Wow SPOOKY

Met a man whose favourite Green Day album is Warning a couple weeks ago and haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Good for you man.

Bike path to university this morning chalked with Stop The Boats, if anyone up here was waiting for signs

When it comes to asylum seekers, "luxury" doesn't mean expensive, it means "goods and services that fall outside the scope of essential living needs". Everything, from the impossibly meagre allowance to the arbitrary restrictions, is about ensuring denial and misery.

Government plans to halve the ‘move on period’ for Refugees, reducing it to 28 days. 28 days to find a job, get a deposit, and find somewhere to live. Thousands of street homeless refugees by the time winter hits. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

To the tune of Zombie by the Cranberries 🎵 "Til you're dead, til you're dead, laundry laundry laundryyy yyy yy" 🎵 Other suggestions welcome, laundry is one of the better chores anyway so this is if anything a bit melodramatic

Ultimately what I am trying to say: we need a controlled ending to asylum hotels, this is uncontrolled which makes everything more volatile. To get ahead Labour needs to invest in a national plan for social housing which includes asylum housing and stop their own idiot narrative.

As a new sighthill-based student I am probably going to this, if other Edinburgh people are interested/were on the fence (there's a corbyn intro)

As a new sighthill-based student I am probably going to this, if other Edinburgh people are interested/were on the fence (there's a corbyn intro)

Love thinking of a cupboard as "boarding for cups", like here's a nice place for you live little guys hope it's dry and comfy

easy peasy veg jalfrezi

To be honest, hard to put together a policy that sums up this govt more than "we'll recognise a Palestine state in a few months unless you do these bare minimum things that won't even help very much" so some kudos for giving a new example

Wearing my best "I'm not a tourist" expression while dragging suitcase back home so that people think "he's not a tourist"

Fascinated by this tiger. Is he looking for a place to live? Did he build the place? Is he looking for you? Is this his nicest suit?

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

sometimes you just gotta back yourself

Need to bring the term "Britisher" back with me to Scotland from here in India, really has a kind of intangible ridiculousness of nationhood quality missing from just "British".

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

Took this on a whim and it was really good. Took a while for me to be invested, but once you're there, a really wonderful story about colonisation, science and resistance for the sci-fi heads.

Keep describing where my parents have just moved to (Coimbatore, TN) as a "small town" out loud and just checked to see it has a metro population of 3 million well okay then

Glasgow’s women made history in the largest ever equal pay strike in 2018. A few months later the council admitted their contracts were discriminatory. But almost seven years on, they’re still waiting for new ones - and for all the money they’re owed. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-coun...

joining the red wedge later this summer to Learn (the university not the 1919 revolution but also seriously the resemblance is uncanny)

@ewangibbs.bsky.social a friend of mine in Sheffield came across this. Would appreciate thoughts.

A great tribute to Diogo Jota by @hersport.bsky.social .

I've paid tribute to Diogo Jota in the only way I know how: By showing that he was one of the best goal scorers in the Premier League era. www.andrewbeasleyfootball.com/p/diogo-jota...

sorry but this is so funny, "shows his emotion" no he's just getting slapped in the face by darwin who doesn't get his little nerd celebration and wants him to get up and jump around 😆

Only Jota scores this goal like this. One of my favorite players I've ever watched, just devastatingly sad. Thank you for the memories. youtu.be/IqtmljFZ1ik?...

Doing someone's dream today (quitting a job to Chase Further Happiness)

Started doing a thing in writing when I 1. number the points I'm making in a long sentence 2. but not capitalising each point 3. and doing it basically every sentence.

Man on toilet idly wonders if singer from Wheatus is racist now

oh no

Found this very compelling

McCartney's best work? Sure there's Penny Lane, I'm personally really partial to For No One as well, but the real winner is rosemary and red onion frozen veggie sausages

🚨ICYMI I’ve spent months talking to policewomen abused by fellow officers about how their partners used police training and authority to facilitate abuse - and how their own forces closed ranks when they asked for help. Read: observer.co.uk/news/nationa... Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/5j5L...

Late to The Bear and to be honest I just think we'd all have more fun with it if all the characters were great at communicating with each other, processed their shit and everything ran real smooth the whole time. The characters would be way happier too. Can someone make this show instead?

This is the story of three policewomen abused by other officers - of how their perpetrators' police training, authority and access shaped their abuse, and how their forces abused them all over again when they tried to speak up: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This podcast is genuinely extraordinary in exposing police practice in the UK around domestic abuse internally, i can't remember something quite so open about how broken the internal systems with the police are with actual testimony from people who've been a part of it.

What a bleak turn to be watching normalised in real time.

Just a reminder that Iran had a secular government that was overthrown by the US and UK in 1953 and the Shah, this man's dad, was installed. The Shah regime was an ally of Israel's, and the BBC just platformed his son to say that bombing Iran is something Iranians are happy about.

🎧 LISTEN NOW UK police have come under pressure in recent years over their handling of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls. But what happens when the call is coming from inside the house? open.spotify.com/episode/5j5L...