My immediate response to this was to wonder 'are electrons soft' and then to go but really, ARE electrons soft?

The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."

Congratulations, Andrew Wakefield! You did it, you fraudulent quack!

2010 autocorrect: Fiagnosis? You must mean diagnosis. 2026 autocorrect: Fish odyssey. Must be. Welcome to the “everything stopping working” century. This must be what 5th century Rome was like.

Nominate the city of Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I’m really glad that our members have chosen to strengthen the relationship with our friends in the @greenparty.org.uk We are looking forward to working with @zackpolanski.bsky.social and others to elect a record number of Greens in Scotland, Wales and England in May! 💚

Thread, more eloquent than I was!

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

Happy January

Simon Harris' response here is dire. Talking about the use of X as "a balance, a tough one" for himself when asked about the safeguarding of children. How the Dept of Ed hasn't stopped posting photos of children on X, even temporarily while they deal with it "in real time", is insane. #IrishPol

Wow. This is really powerful.

This is a really interesting thread about one approach to dealing with AI in the classroom.

I'd forgotten that this thread existed! I think this will be appreciated here: behold, the most soviet wind turbine *ever* bsky.app/profile/dasd...

Today First Glasgow put single fares up to a whopping £3.25, leaving us with some of the most expensive buses in the UK 💸 How can ScotGov allow this blatantly unfair situation to persist? 😤 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 by supporting SPT’s plans to take our buses back into public control 💷

Should be amusing to see the front page of the NZZ in the morning. 😏

There's a whole load of people who never understood that there's a reason why you don't build bridges using agile project management. And they're just as annoying as the people who still insist on pushing digital projects through waterfall governance.

"We oughtta keep up the demand Because the supply is getting more." From Barbarella (the song not the film) Next line was "Well there'll be catastrophic circumstances If the emails and dot coms capture the world" so there's that.

I'm definitely going to have to Google "Article 25" at some point if Americans are going to continually refer to it as though we all know their constitution number by number. Not now, the signal on this train is dire.

Nothing like a work email about ICE training to get the adrenaline flowing in the morning. ICE are also the Institute of Civil Engineers but it took me a moment to remember that.

There's a whole subsection of the economy where two third parties exchange money for the privilege of annoying the hell out of the rest of us. And they're increasingly hard to dodge.

Incisive post by Cory Doctorow on AI. Worth reading and sharing imo www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This is exactly right. A world in which "the strong" take what they want is not a safe world, even for the strong themselves. In Hobbesian terms, it creates a "war of every man against every man" in which life is "nasty, brutish & short". Hence Hobbes' "first law of nature" is to escape that world

This is really interesting. There's a Pratchett quote where he says, approx, 'Lancre people don't bother with time in anything much shorter than an hour. If you want to boil an egg you sing fifteen verses of "where has all the custard gone (jelly's just not the same)" under your breath.'

Holy shit they're actually going for it this time...

The woman in this photo was trying to get around ICE vans to go to her doctor's appointment when they dragged her out and arrested her. She's fucking terrified. If you don't have empathy, then you're the toxic asshole.

Genuinely thought this was Dogbert for a fraction of a second 😂😂

*Screams*

Today in planes are unacceptably cheap and trains are unacceptably expensive: the return flight for my next Cambridge-Glasgow trip is sixteen quid. The whole thing is fifty. The cheapest comparable train is a hundred and thirty. Purely conscience-based modal shift might take a while, eh.

I can't make this but maybe you can?

This is a Quite Interesting thread.

That thing about conservatism having an in-group who are protected but not bound by the law and an out-group who are bound but not protected? There's a third group: on our sufference. Jews weren't safe under the Nazis, but not being Jewish didn't keep you safe if they could declare you a communist.

Read this. Save it as a favourite. Read it. Years ago my doctor said that the hardest part of my intense depression was how *convinced* I was by what the filter of depression told me. together we found something that the filter couldn’t deny, and I used that as a tool.

This thread is the best refutation of social-media doomerism that I have seen.

I don't know who needs to hear this but it's okay, you don't need to respond. She nearly got me the last time with "British people microwave their tea".

You know it would explain a lot about the working world if, for most people, conversations are a cantrip they can cast for free that gives them an excuse not to work on something harder. Rather than, you know, a complex level 2 spell that gets in the way of stuff you're actually measured against.

I've seen a lot of Scottish Labour adverts and as far as I can tell they want exactly two things: a) the SNP out, and b) Labour in power in both Edinburgh and London. This does not strike me as sufficient, honestly.

I wonder if it was required to be a positive mention. "I poured myself a gin and looked through the mixers. No tonic? What kind of bar was this? There was Swepppes Bitter Lemon... I shuddered. No, I'd rather have it neat."

It is perfectly normal for bedtime routines to include a quick introduction to playing the spoons and a 30-second plank challenge, right? Or am I doing this wrong..?

"The Highway Rat was a baddie The Highway Rat was a beast He took what he wanted And ate what he took His life was one long feast..." (Julia Donaldson)

Depends what you mean by ridiculous. I hurt my neck because I accidentally turned my pillow upside down. But I also bruised my shin bone falling off a camel which tends to raise more eyebrows since I'm Scottish...

All the waterfowl sharing the one unfrozen patch of pond 😂

Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January

Oh, just get vaccinated (part 5,000) "Many shots seem to have “off-target” benefits, such as lowering the risk of dementia, studies have found." (gift article)

One of the nice things about Bluesky is not that it is bot-free (it is not), but that the moderation tools and lack of algorithm in the main feed make it bot-resistant.

Randomly bombing places, people and things is bad, right? I'm sure we agreed that. Nigeria, Venezuela, random fishing boats - somebody take the button off the man.

Went for a walk along the Clyde a bit, and was initially disappointed just to see crows and seagulls. But then, after walking a little more, we saw oystercatchers, a heron and a cormorant.

I am increasingly convinced that everyone's resolution in 2026 should be to spread hope and joy as far as possible. To build a better world we have to believe it is possible.

I once had an email address for a company called "Thus". They'd chosen the domain "let-it-be-thus.com", or, as I had to recite it over the phone "let hyphen it hyphen be hyphen thus dot com".

Writing advice thread ⤵️

Chair arrived!