they call it jury nullification and you’re hearing it more and more. people say you can’t, you can’t nullify, but juries say, stop us. it’s incredible really. can you believe it? jury nullification.

he is not guilty

this is genuinely disgraceful

i need someone to create an emoji set for discord based on the old something awful emotes it's shocking how much i still mentally punctuate things with those and i miss them

I know people bristle at such comparisons but the term "Trumpian" does seem apt: having seen their prospects of winning an election drop, the Top Tier Government decides to cynically deploy its institutional heft in a fundamentally inappropriate manner against partisan foes in Lower Tier Governments

has it occured to all the people complaining about the pavement parking ban in glasgow making the streets too narrow that they could simply not have cars while living in the city

right like why was this ever an insult, who doesn't like campfire songs

fwiw i actually think grainger was decided wrongly even on its own merits? surely belief in climate change (as opposed to a philosophical belief in eg the inherent moral value of nature) doesn't meet the threshold of not being merely a 'viewpoint based on the present state of information available'

reasons despite everything i'm proud to be a member of the snp:

75 years ago, the ECHR was signed after the horrors of the war. Today, Nigel Farage and many Westminster politicians want to tear up the laws that protect our basic human rights. Our rights are not Westminster’s to take away. We will stand firmly against that.

Bluesky rn

the party and our scottish government need to get off of twitter/x seriously, why on earth are we making people go on a site that enables this kind of abuse to get government updates

I've just been called a "rape enabler" by the X AI tool Grok. This is a shocking allegation which has totally taken me aback & beyond anything I've ever encountered in normal political discourse. These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts. Disturbing.

I’m stepping up to be your @snp.org candidate for the Whitburn and Blackburn by-election. West Lothian’s Labour-Tory coalition has been running our services into the ground – I’ve had enough, and I’m sure you have too! So vote Callum #1 on Dec/11 for a local, fresh and committed voice!

We invite you to a meeting about Roma serving in the Ukrainian army with Yanush Panchenko, a Ukrainian ethnographer of Roma origin, researcher and public figure specialising in the study of Roma culture, history and language. 8 November, 15.00 CET Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

this has been a huge achievement in scotland, where we simply do not have the problem of children not being able to afford to get to school that seems to be constantly in the news in england

feel like the existence of the united states and canada undermine the arguments that open borders would lead to some kind of unmanageable population shifts like huge amounts of both countries are poor and underdeveloped, and while some people *do* leave to move to cities/richer areas a lot don't

this is really neat and a far more advanced version of what we've only just started doing with the rain gardens along some streets in glasgow

this is a great tool but a huge # of my mutuals and follows definitely get the "posts a lot" and "no breaks" labels

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

If Douglas Alexander is serious about defeating racism by standing together, he should have a word with his own Labour colleagues about their own rhetoric.

Chris Cunningham is absolutely beclowning himself here. He clearly isn't familiar with the data or the methodology. Claiming the waiting list is 'only' 7 years based on them seeing people who registered in 2018 now has no bearing on how long a person currently at the back of the queue will wait.

trying to get a taxi on halloween wish me luck

i am deeply suspicious of people whose profiles are almost entirely reposts

Happy to confirm that ScotGovt have replied to confirm they have no intention to change Scots law to mirror UK Govt plans to give powers to police in E&W to prohibit repeated protests. #HumanRights #Protest #Scotland

Found the one other person who agrees with me that death to smoochy is excellent

i genuinely do not know how anyone who works in an nhs hospital does it. a few days as a frequent visitor to a ward has me a weepy pile of exhaustion just from the environment, and i'm not even responsible for anyone there seriously you're all amazing

kicking visitors out of a ward by using an actual cowbell should be considered a human rights violation

Under the current law, people who are pregnant in Scotland have no legal right to end a pregnancy and this needs to change. We're supporting 'Let’s change the Act', Scotland’s campaign to decriminalise abortion and reform the Abortion Act 1967 - please join us! www.letschangetheact.co.uk

wait til americans learn that "undeclared major" isn't really a thing most places and that all of us actually need to arrive knowing what we're studying

you know, if i was minded to have a kid, having spent today on a hospital ward (as a visitor i'm fine) would be enough to convince me that doing *anything* that would result in intentionally entering a hospital would be a bad move

Your Party are basically just the Labour Party’s sedevacantists

i wake up and it's at 18 innings??? feeling things i haven't felt since being a kid in ontario in the 90s

Spectacular,

please read this whole thread from actual left-wing activists with experience and connections on the ground in ukraine zarah sultana's comments about ukraine add to the evidence that your party is fundamentally unserious and incapable of engaging with the difficult work of governing or leading

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

ok but for real, if your party refuses to have any policies or principles before their conference, that must mean they presently don't have any membership criteria, code of conduct, or disciplinary processes explains quite a few things

lmao hope the other defectors have fun with their new colleague

help i cannot stop eating buldak noodles even though i am well aware of the Consequences

imagine how much the person who chose the picture here must dislike Kevin McKenna

if you're wondering how things are going for the most privileged class of immigrants in the uk (it's me, english speaking white canadian) a taxi driver clocked my accent the other day and went on a full blown non-joke rant about how great trump is and canada's going to be the 51st state

A statement saying both that they haven't decided their policy on indy yet and that they're the only ones who'd deliver it correctly at the same time is actually ridiculous

lol, lmao, lucy powell won not got my ear to the ground on labour internal stuff at all but presumably this is going to make things interesting

this will straight up be the next thing here if we let police scotland do live facial recognition btw

Not often people jump from a rising tide to a sinking ship

what the actual fuck are yous doing why would you defect from the scottish greens, an actual party that has actual representation and has been in government, to a fake vanity party for corbyn's ego archive.is/vdxao

been saying this since 2016 tbh, i now believe everything suetonius ever wrote

Here in Scotland, I will remind those of you who have forgotten, that is not what we have. We have, against all odds, while battered and tossed by the storms of Westminster austerity, built a fortress of social democracy. Free tuition. Free prescriptions. Nationalised rail. Child poverty cut in half

We're excited to be collaborating with some incredible community organisations for 'We Can't Keep Waiting', they'll be running workshops for trans people from across Scotland to come together and work out how we can care for eachother, and push for the healthcare we vitally need.

the spf bullied a well-respected judge into stepping down from this inquiry, effectively ensuring police scotland won't be held to account for sheku bayoh's death but they're definitely also the people we should be listening to about how responsible they'll be with live facial recognition