It can't be stressed enough: this kind of city is MORE accessible, with MORE choices for everyone. Reducing the number of cars driven by people who don't need to drive leaves more space for mobility vehicles and reduces journey times. Cars are expensive!

The Nightingale hospitals famously flopped because there was no one to staff them

Herd immunity is important.

Sara Shaarawi from Welcome To The Fringe speaks out against the Home Office’s denial of visas to international artists #edfringe including part of the team behind And Here I Am. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/playwri... @artsprofessional.co.uk

Yes dude! So good to see actors like Hugh using their platform for good.

Oh man, bad news about Spotlight. Can't believe they immediately emailed us as a sort of tone deaf victory lap. Read the room guys.

Why are we throwing money away on fossil fuels when endless (and obvious) renewable energy is here for the taking? Let's stop letting the oil barons rob us.

Scottish Councils demanding that trans children out themselves to their classmates is obviously institutional transphobic abuse, and schools should absolutely refuse to comply. The obsession with policing children's bodies is disturbing.

Hell yeah. Honestly, if you don't want this, you are just in favour of children being killed in traffic, and you need to own that.

Having so many feelings as an American emigrant listening to the @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social Project 1933 series. podcastaddict.com/in-bed-with-.... Wow. Highly recommend.

This is so true. We also MUST reduce the size of cars. Huge, heavy cars cause more death and harm when they crash. The benefit to society far, far outweighs the temporary comfort for the richest.

Lol I laughed because I am in Glasgow. Any other Scottish listeners do a sorta double take there?

Always, always, always.

Exactly. It's 100% about trying to avoid pissing off any possible rich person. Which like, why? What's the point of you?

'That annoying Beep Beep Beep is the ire of many city dwellers' I'll tell you what is annoying: the 7,500 hit-and-runs by cars recorded annually in London. This trumps my concerns about the sounds made by bikes used by kids who lack access to bikes.

I'm sure most of you have seen this, but yeah, it's a bfd that it's coming from an Israeli, an IDF vet, a scholar of the Holocaust. I hope it (and Haaretz' stellar work) begin to move parts of my community that haven't been willing to hear up until now.

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

This is so lovely!

Oh man I sat on a wasp and it (understandably) stung me and it is so sore, this is an outrage

Totally unsurprising, and I am delighted to see it. Reducing KSIs by a third? If you don't want that, you gotta be prepared to argue *in favour of people being killed on roads*. There should be no looking back.

It is not for you to finish the work, neither are you free to desist from it! Love this, Shiv, thanks.

Is anyone developing the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir? An absolute no-brainer for screen adaptation, cinematic as hell, lesbian necromancers in space, need I go on

Dìreach air VILLANELLE a sgrìobhadh ann an Gàidhlig, tha mi a' dannsadh mun cuairt sa chidsin, thoir dhomh rudeigin trom ri thogail, BRING ME THE FINEST MUFFINS IN THE LAND

@thewaroncars.bsky.social Did you guys know that there's a neighbourhood in Scotland called Carbrain (even a Carbrain Primary School). In, appropriately, a 'new town' designed around cars, Cumbernauld.

Oh man, Theatre comrades, have you listened to the new #The98% podcast? Can't find them on here but it's a doozy: 'Lucy Harrison Casting': A Cautionary Tale 🅴 #the98 podcastaddict.com/the-98/episo... via @PodcastAddict

Just voted in the @equityuk.bsky.social committee elections and I wanted to say how excellent the candidates were. I was so impressed with the statements from people standing for Women's Committee. 💪

If you're in Scotland and have experience of ADHD or Autism diagnosis, treatment or like 42,530 children are waiting for a neurodevelopmental assessment, please please will you contribute to this inquiry? We need things to change. www.parliament.scot/about/news/n...

@ifbookspod.bsky.social Hey guys! If books could literally kill! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scotrail needs to do the right thing and hire Gayanne Potter properly to do the train announcements. AI steals jobs that people can do better and that people want to do. Not useful, not progress. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watching #Andor and I kind of can't believe they are getting away with this? This last ep used the word genocide and everything. I think it's really brave telly.

🙋‍♀️ 20% car-km reduction 🤔 Did you think it impossible? 🤔 Will @scottishgovernment.bsky.social heed its own research? HERE-> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/01/20-t... @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @sw20ed.bsky.social @sccscot.bsky.social @peterwalker99.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social

“We are Jewish academics who have devoted our lives to teaching and research on college campuses. If there were a pervasive culture of antisemitism on campuses, we would know about it, and we would fight it. But we have observed no such thing.” No lies detected. academeblog.org/2025/04/25/i...

If you haven't watched #Reunion yet, it's so, so good. Bloody hell. Loved it. The actors hit it out of the park. Every character had an arc, an incredible team effort. Bravo.

Spot on

Just want to do a big shout out to all the actors who help each other out and work in community. I had a tricky self-tape to do today and an actor friend stepped up to help me figure it out, and it's so much easier that way! I love Glasgow and our hardworking, generous community.

I'm on the Live Literature directory now! So cool. www.scottishbooktrust.com/authors/beth...

This makes perfect sense to me. When can we get this done in Scotland?

Whoa Glasgow, look at this!

Showing my daughter The Secret Garden (Maggie Smith version) for the first time. I remember it as being really problematic but also having some very deep feelings in it. It's exciting to be able to share things from my own childhood with my daughter as she gets older.

Oh my goodness, an incredibly welcome piece of good news.

Oh my goodness me, did Ali Shaw write The Trees just for me? I just finished the second chapter and am crying because it is so powerful. What a FLEX.

I got to see 'Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh!' today @playpiepint.bsky.social and I loved it. @lanapheutan.bsky.social got a tricky balance right, and grounded all three characters enough to anchor the politics. Lots of funny turns handled well by the actors. Go and see it!

Feumaidh Bile nan Cànanan Albannach a bhith nas treasa agus nas soilleire a thaobh planadh cànain aig ìre choimhearsnachdan. Bu chòir don Bhile a bhith a' mìneachadh mar a bhios Sgìrean Sònraichte Cànain ag obrachadh. Cuir taic ri athchuinge Misneachd: www.change.org/p/strengthen...

Research: Protected bike lanes result in approximate doubling of number of users in a network link. Roughly twice as many women as men become new users of a link when protected infrastructure is installed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Agreed.

100% this, never thought I would live to see this shame

"After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%."

Honestly I can't believe people in Scotland think it is OK to live without any apex predator mammals. The absolute impoverishment of nature here has confused people. It's so pathetic and unnecessary.

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