What makes Scots a language in its own right and not just a dialect of English? Simply put, Scots has its own words (fae “bonnie” tae “blether”) as well as its own grammar rules and syntax (word order) – it’s “up the stair” in Scots and not “upstairs”). www.thenational.scot/politics/261...

Apparently, Scottish fans singing of Flower Of Scotland in the stadium broke the FIFA decibel record for the World Cup.

Boston stewards and police are smitten by our amazing Scottish fans! www.facebook.com/share/r/1BKE...

"Look, Ma, we're on top of the world!" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I think we are in danger of underestimating quite how evil Elon Musk is. 🧵

Hitting that button like a game of Street Fighter 2 with an old joypad #SocialistSunday

While unionist media tries to portray the fraudulent misuse of donations from party members as if it involved public funds, they're not keen on you finding out about the massive amounts of £ siphoned *from taxpayers* to their cronies by Labour & Tory politicians www.thenational.scot/news/2619120...

A windy day but high spirits at this year's Leith Gala with the #ActiveSNP team!

This is the song the young people from the special school in my ward sang to us tonight before winning their Saroj Lal Award. It was perfect! youtu.be/CjxugyZCfuw?...

Let's make it viral in time for the big orange balloon - sorry, baboon's - birthday. youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs?...

As a middle aged autistic man it was extremely liberating to realise that eccentric and weird behaviour are not signs of madness. Real madness is not coping, so any eccentric and weird behaviour that helps you cope is the opposite of madness. There's a lot to cope with. Be weird, comrades.

11) All of this is a direct consequence of Brexit populism: through its unchecked framing as anti-immigration, it set in motion the, by now complete, normalisation of far right agendas. Social media, AI and local dynamics matter too, but the normalisation of the far right agenda is rooted in Brexit.

8) The absolute minimum immediate action must be that all of them leave X. Again for the avoidance of doubt: staying there is directly helping keep alive and legitimise what now is a tool designed to advance fascism. If our Govts, MPs, journalists etc cannot say a clear no to that, we are done.

6) The world’s richest man is helping fuel this violence in our communities through his personal interventions as well as X as a platform that is, in itself, a fascist platform now. 7) Despite that, most of our politicians, Govts / Govt Depts, journalists etc are still using that platform.

4) Reporting of what is happening mostly does not recognise 1) to 3). 5) This leads to things like the description of events as incidents or protests when they are forms of race riots carried out by far right extremists - riots that exhibit some pogrom characteristics and paramilitary behaviour.

Thoughts by Matt Moberg

The flower festival of Montefiore dell'Aso, Le Marche.

'Night Clocks' by contemporary printmaker Lisa Benson #WomensArt

Another lovely evening with friends, another wonderfully entertaining author, another fab book launch in the world's first City of Literature. ❤️📚

Now the fascist regime in the US have revoked Iranian fans' ticket allocations - while FIFA just stands back and lets it happen. I can't see how any self-respecting sportsperson would want to compete in such a tainted Cup. www.thenational.scot/news/2617815...

World Cup 1934. Olympics 1936. We thought we'd learned our lesson not to allocate major sporting events to fascist regimes. 😪

"To the young who want to die" Poet, author and teacher Gwendolyn Brooks, born June 7th 1917.

Foods that we've lost - but could reclaim again.

Fascinating talk tonight by Prof. Elliot Bulmer on the 'constitutional question' that Scotland is immersed in - but doesn't even register in political debate England, where we're viewed as simply a subsidiary region. Which of course, is precisely why we want independence.

Remember that classic description of insanity? Doing the exact same thing again and again and expecting a different result.

Excerpts from Matt Moberg musings on holiness, tenderness and awe. ❤️

"The Flower Maiden" and was created by Scottish artist Annie French (1872–1965)

Two-tier policing is real and ever-present. Black and Brown people experience it. Women experience it. Pro-Palestine and green protesters experience it. But the last people who would ever experience it are right-wing white men. They are the people with whom the police instinctively align.

Solidarity with Ukraine 🇺🇦 💪🏾

Quilt art by Spanish quilter and textile artist Cristina Arcenegui Bono #WomensArt

Definitely a lot of Michael being extracted* at America's expense, but funny nonetheless. youtu.be/-1jN0jRAQLw?... *taking the Mickey aka taking the p*ss

Beautiful

Scottish poet Tom Scott's ode to Orpheus and his undying love.

Banned from holding this discussion live in London (presumably for demonstrating Insufficient Support of Genocide!), Hasan Piker & Yanis Varoufakis in conversation on free speech, antisemitism, zionism and the sorry state of liberal democracy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMmQ...

More dreadful chaos caused by Trump's evil ICE Empire! 😡

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The Kennedy Center is preparing to restore its original identity. According to an internal memo, attorneys for the institution have instructed staff to begin removing references to Trump from official materials and to once again use the venue’s full historic name

And he's only gotten worse and worse.

View of a Labour frontbencher, shared with me: "There's not enough room for everyone on the boat". Not sure history endorses that as being a great strategy for dealing with the Far Right.

#30DaysWild #Pride #TheRainbow

News flash: AI don't buy products or services. So woe betide C.E.O. Bill Winters if he has to fall back on his intrinsic value if he becomes unemployed. Mr "I'm so much smarter than those low value plebs" doesn't realise that fewer people in employment means fewer people need what he's selling

A bird. #oilpainting #art

Wait, you mean money doesn't buy happiness, and GDP doesn't buy you a longer life? 🤔

I try not to hate anybody, but the people who try to gain power by inciting us to hate? The ones who profit off the misery they cause? Yeah, those guys I hate.

Tories Red and Blue alike continue to damage our economy and our society, just hoping to hang on until they can get a lucrative lobbying gig or an ermine robe. Scotland can do better. #IndependenceIsNormal #IndependenceNow

Seattle Street Artist’s mural Tribute to Alex Pretti; veteran nurse killed by Border Patrol officers #StreetArt #mural #AlexPretti #tribute

We live in a country where some of the best journalists are late night comedians & editorial cartoonists. THANK YOU Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, Tom Tomorrow, Mike Luckovich & Michael de Adder ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! #LAUGH_DO_NOT_DESPAIR ✊