My aunt, the doctor, told me a new joke. She asked: Why did the UN call its event: “healthy indoor air”? I said I did not know. So my aunt replied: Because “healthy indoor air” sounds better than “the air indoors isn’t healthy.” And then neither of us laughed.

We have bought some pain killers.

This is a fantastic health breakthrough.

Glitchy much?

AI companionship From the new Private Eye, out now.

Trump spreading fossil fuel propaganda lies at the UN - what an embarrassing president for the US.

CAPTCHA Rapture stature contracture.

Refusing to take responsibility for my own catastrophic misjudgements and hugely selfish decisions over a course of decades.

I love the fact that the reaction of primary-school-aged Glasgow weans, faced with the news that there was a terrifying bogle haunting the cemetery, was "let's tool up and go completely Buffy on him".

Bonnie Prince Charlie.

For one day only, the Blackadder Prayerbook – made for Glasgow’s first archbishop, Robert Blackadder, c. late 1400s – will be on display as part of Glasgow’s 850th birthday celebrations & @natlibscot.bsky.social’s centenary 29 Sept, Glasgow Cathedral. Free #medievalsky www.nls.uk/whats-on/bla...

🖤 A beautiful new opportunity for unpublished & unagented writers with a novel-in-progress: the Hilary Mantel Prize launches today. The winner will receive £7,500 + mentoring + rep by A.M. Heath. FREE to enter. Deadline: 31 Dec 2025 amheath.com/hilary-mante... #writingcommunity #booksky Pls share.

Loving the responses and how much people enjoy beautiful historical writing! Do have a look through the replies for excellent reading commendations and add your own, #SkyStorians 🗃️

The flag-shagging cult creeps ever closer to home.

Have successfully unplumbed/unwired the washing machine that committed suicide earlier this week, and am now two glasses of red into the evening. How's everyone else doing? 🍷🍷

This is glorious. 🚴

Getting with the programme. On the beauty and research value of rugby programmes. A new article from our Digitisation Assistant Joel on our #CultureOnStirCamus blog: archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/09/19/g... #SportingHeritage #Rugby @sportingheritage.bsky.social @isstirling.bsky.social

The brain needs some kind of regular workout to retain skills. We are complicit in our own senescence if we opt out of doing anything we find hard anymore.

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

⚠️Please be aware that if you book for a private Covid v*ccine with Pharmadoctor & tick the evolving neurological condition box (which they count ME as being) you are ineligible for the v*x. They won't tell you this in the online consultation & will refuse you onsite.

the obvious explanation for this is that until at least 1260 BC, the people of the outer hebrides lived for several hundred years and that their heads were interchangeable, much like lego figurines. the real mysteries are when they lost these abilities and how we can help them get them back

Be careful what you wish for.

Not saying I’m feeling gloomy today but I just boarded a plane and when the guy at the desk asked what my final destination was the temptation to answer ‘the grave’ was almost overwhelming.

As the next meeting of the now-pointless US vax advisory panel is due this week, today felt like a good time to highlight some fact-based, accessible reports that we at @independentsage.bsky.social released this year. independentsage.org/wp-content/u... independentsage.org/wp-content/u...

Edinburgh City of Literature is looking for new trustees! If you have an interest in Edinburgh’s literary past, present or future, and relevant skills you might be willing to share with us, then do consider applying. cityofliterature.com/trusteerecru...

"Britain must burn more fossil fuels and bills must rise in order to power the robot that'll fire everyone. How else will I afford my next private island?"

Techviziers.

He's thinking about sausages. He doesn't know why, but he can't stop thinking about sausages.

This is not a problem to be kicked down the road for future generations to suffer. The damage is already done, the planet is fouled by plastic. But every year of inaction can and will make it so, so much worse. Petition below.

A reminder: state-mandated mourning and censorship of dissent are basic signs that you have an authoritarian government. Just saying.

Well. The RS is clearly feeling the heat. They could have saved themselves the embarrassment months ago. How did they ever imagine this wasn't going to get even worse?

He is our 13th colleague killed since the war started in #Gaza. Doctors Without Borders strongly condemns his killing and call yet again for the immediate restoration of the ceasefire and protection of civilians:

We are horrified and saddened by the death of our colleague Hussein Alnajjar who died yesterday in #Gaza. His death was due to shrapnel injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier.

It's incredible how close the Red Arrows fly together, must take nerves of steel

We have recently uploaded 300+ magazine issues from our Aberlour Children's Charity Archive for you to browse. You can read more about the items available and how to access them on our blog: archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/09/16/a... #ExploreYourArchive #CultureOnStirCampus #AberlourArchive

*frantically googles Dave Vanian to check he's okay*

Is British society in serious danger of falling apart at the seams? YES. Is that the fault of immigrants? NO. Will having people blame immigrants for it help at all? ALSO NO. Will pandering to their desire to do so just make things worse? ABSOLUTELY YES.

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

Tiny visitor alert! A Long-tailed Tit is checking out your feed. 📷 James Gregory

Trump's not even brought the real Melania with him, that's one of the inflatable ones

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Bird watcher reports screaming monk outside Herne Bay factory. Television reception affected. #HerneBay #HerneBayFactory

Bellum [culturale] se ipsum alit - [Pseudo-]Cato

The Year is 2037. Prime Minister MechaHitler II is presiding over post-apocalyptic Britain. A Guardian columnist writes, "MechaHitler is doing its best trying to clean up the mess from Long Corbyn."

I see London's full of wankers again.