i thought that we wanted tech glasses to look goofy as hell so they stand out from normal eyeglasses

good news! the city you are resident in has decided to embark on the process towards twinning with the city of RACISM

Rock Apparently Factors Into Girlfriend’s Shower Routine https://theonion.com/rock-apparently-factors-into-girlfriend-s-shower-routin-1819575242/

diamond jubilee of hurt

just imagine that, showing up in america in 2026 and having the chutzpah and gumption to be like god save the king! we got one! he's gracious! he's great! it doesn't matter this song is the worst dirge because it's about our KING!

the internet wants to tell me today that some scottish people are being given cookies because they put their cans together in a park in boston

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also have you seen some of their faces

A few of the placards seen today as the fash got chased off Buchanan Street. Never forget: the far right are indeed dangerous and wicked; and they are also weird and pathetic, and we should say so.

man walked through the demonstration carrying his dog singing 'all you fascists bound to lose'. he's right and he should say it

at the buchanan st steps, glasgow

i love this bar forever

it's not rising damp if it's your pipe that's burst 🥺

there's a repeating trope on bluesky of people dumping on people who don't understand the UK public's current opinion of their prime minister by presenting lists of individual reasons they might hate him and yes everyone can come up with reasons why but the sum is not explained simply by the parts

won the pub quiz on a three way tiebreak old times ❤️❤️❤️

Backrooms/Spinal Tap crossover when

YES

had a day as a software developer where you're chasing a bug and by midday you're embedding a foreign linear algebra function just to rule something out, by 4 you've found it's all because "there's something kooky about dishwashers", and at 6 you make the two line fix you don't get that with AI

rip marjane satrapi

barely a day goes by now when i don't think about wonko the sane from douglas adams' so long, and thanks for all the fish

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

Here comes Chris, he’s fifty minutes late He’s been at his girlfriend’s reiki course He has an energy that’s easy to hate You’ll never meet a man who’s more divorced We’re the Sultans We’re the Sultans of Swing

🎵 darling hold my hand 🎵

woke up and 'dance with me' by orleans was randomly bumping around in my head for the first time since like 1988 youtu.be/op9ApJJyhD4?...

in what world is this a logical or even meaningful sentence

russian got shot in their old limousine zil issue

went to look up how everyone's favourite small town scottish butcher spent £81 on 2kg of nescafé gold blend and it turns out you really can spend that much on it if you're careless with your instant coffee budget

FYI: if you're playing a programme on BBC iPlayer in a web browser you can still turn subtitles on and off by pressing 888.

George Floyd should still be alive.

Me in trousers: svelte, debonair, distinguished, wise, a leader, owner of many valuable commodities, spiritually enlightened, invited to many secret parties that you are not invited to nor, for that matter, informed of afterwards Me in shorts: doughboy in want of a tickling

just when you thought kim jong un had the monopoly on outré methods of execution

prompted by some north americans on some kind of historical scavenger hunt to look up rolland street in maryhill, glasgow, which turns out to have been 200m from my house www.trove.scot/place/170260. there's a famous photograph taken there in 1953 during coronation celebrations

turtle beach ear force gotta love a guy who knows his brand

for the weird xennials who were just entering “the real world” as the web started to flourish, who learned a new medium by arguing and making stories and building our little shrines and edifices and typing tags and crushing gifs… it brought an unexpected wave of new kinds of creative work.

[me, getting stabbed to death in 19th century London] ugh, more like Jerk the Ripper

late night wikipedia spelunk on the greyhound racing stadia of scotland, and the chaotic history of powderhall stadium in edinburgh

checked out the wikipedia article for 80s kids TV presenter terry nutkins (of animal magic and the really wild show fame) and... that's bleak en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_N...

Think of all the actually worthwhile things that could be achieved instead of this totally cruel, pointless, waste-of-time nonsense.

travelling by train this time of year is so great. all the lambs in the fields! just saw two excited little guys feeding from their mother and wagging their tails like puppies

So it's our pal Jonathan Richman's birthday today and he's 75 and it's getting warmer outside so let's hear "That Summer Feeling," because it's never too soon to get nostalgic about what's to come. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zmy...

don't often post stuff about my employment but super proud of my colleagues

the news again: the canon is problematic. now, the weather

MY BODY is quickly assembling some laundry together for a wash but MY MIND, MY MIND is lambasting itself for using the adjective "floaty" on a messageboard twenty years ago to describe the at the time latest record by the band built to spill

jaundice-y and ivory

thought this was about wes streeting for a hot second

glasgow gable end mural immediately

english for the hard of hearing subtitles actually show the non-english words rather than "[speaking in foreign language]" challenge some of us could maybe understand the other language if we could hear it, so show it