The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...

I don't want to share any private space with a terf. They would violate my dignity because they don't mind their own business. I've said this before but I think now, more than ever, we should have separate rooms for them. Utter weirdos

Well there's a fucking surprise. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

BBC News - Lack of autism support in school led me to a psychiatric ward as a teen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Looking at the political world, nothing means anything anymore, and if you're looking for guidance and order out there then you're lost. Us down here, we can still create meaning, and the more it means to us the less these mad fuckers will understand it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scottish Labour's headquarters has been targeted by pro-Palestine protesters amid growing concern for hunger strike prisoners

Aye, why not? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I don't have my own kids but I've helped raise them and made mistakes that I regret. I'd change a lot given the chance again, and I think one of the messages I would emphasise is to mistrust anyone who seeks power over others, no matter how benign they appear. Avoid those people.

The development of Western philosophy during the last two centuries has succeeded in isolating the mind in its own sphere and in severing it from its primordial oneness with the universe.~CG Jung

Nigel Farage has been out today defending a platform that creates child sex abuse images and harasses women. Remember this the next time he says his anti immigrant rhetoric is motivated by concern for women and children.

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Ten years since David Bowie died, and the algo has served up the tribute I wrote at the time (headline very much not mine) mostly about 12/13 year old me buying a reissue of Ziggy Stardust ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"A psychology that satisfies the intellect alone can never be practical, for the totality of the psyche can never be grasped by intellect alone... the psyche seeks an expression that will embrace its total nature." ~C.G. Jung

Sainsbury’s in Scotland currently has a twin pack of Israeli avocados on promotion. #BendOverForBibi #IsraelGenocide #Gaza #OccupiedWestBank #Palestine

"Spotted outside the US Embassy in London" via Politics Joe

Synchronicities can produce the crack in our consciousness that expands our choices, our capacities & our consciousness of the divine. These mysterious moments go beyond our ego consciousness and open us to the sacredness of being a part of something larger than we are.~Laurence Hillman

Meg,six years ago today. A wee puppy really.

Gerry Gable and Searchlight were formative in my understanding of the far right and their operations at a time when you couldn't necessarily see them. They used to hide, believe it or not! Rest in peace, Gerry, and thank you. searchlightmagazine.com/2026/01/obit...

2026 starts well with the glorious comedy Bottoms back on streaming in the UK after a too-long absence. If you've not seen it, it's an incredibly funny, rude and absurd US high school comedy. Top drawer. Watch. If you have seen it then watch it again and treasure it, it may be gone again soon!

I haven’t had time to write this up properly, but it’s the 31st anniversary today of the bank robberies which gave the world the Dunning-Kruger effect, when two men concealed their identities by the brilliant method of smearing their faces with lemon juice. Anyway, here’s a press cutting:

There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself. — Miyamoto Musashi

A fascinating thread, worth taking the 5-10 minutes.

We know that every time a human being makes real progress in consciousness, makes this evolutionary jump toward a higher level of consciousness, the whole world for him has changed; relationships change and the outlook on the outer world and on his own situation changes.~Marie- Louise von Franz

I guess that FIFA peace prize was a little premature.

That poor factory 😔 Palestine activists target Scottish factory in late-night hammer attack | The National share.google/M5j9Qxuhwr8l...

Happy 2026 #newyear

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Hi! My friend Hollie is so talented artistically. She has had some health issues and we are really rooting for her. If you could take a gander and maybe purchase? Her color concepts are terrific! 1-holly-siek.pixels.com

One more Hootenanny's gonna kill me, @slimecitymusic.bsky.social , I'm watching Top Of The Pops youtu.be/JvSlPE2Q9wE?...

I'm being exposed to relatively current pop music at work and am a bit obsessed with One Kiss by Dua Lipa and Calvin Harris. The production is immaculate, and I would have been as locked into this 30 years ago on eccies as I am now. It's house music. youtu.be/DkeiKbqa02g?...

I have no idea where I fit on the vast neurodivergent spectrum but I identify heavily with the concept of masking, not knowing who you really are and feeling like you're performing all the time. It's exhausting. Aged 55 I don't so much but it took that long. pca.st/episode/c025...

As it stands, though, it is we who are lost, trapped in language and rationality, unable to interpret the dark currents that Trump’s otherwise abstruse asseverations send coursing into some of the more reactionary precincts of the Republic.

Big thanks to The Ginger Quiff for an amazing review of our new album 📈 NATIONAL RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT 📉 Full thing here ➡️ thegingerquiff.com/slime-city-n...

The 1:4 ratio looms large in authoritarianism, enough to destroy democracy. If an inclusive society somehow needs to manage that 25% who would, if let loose on the levers of power, oppress us all. They're humans, just don't get them together at a party. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is crazy youtu.be/DriMNklN5Io

it is very, very funny to see The Sensibles talking like Corbynists "when the economy collapses, then everyone will see sense"

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As a card carrying Cassandra it's been a tough decade being told to stop the hyperbole, that it was doing no favours, but it was and is. It would be nice to hear some humility from the likes of Harris, some indication that they've learned something. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

And also an encouragement to abandon any principles you may have and join the psychopathic class. All this can be yours if you're ruthless enough.

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Why am I only NOW discovering NASA-themed ugly sweaters?? Daaaamn. nouvette.com/product/nasa...

We need ecstasy, which in its Greek sense (ek-stasis) means to be outside the ego. The ego is a prison, caught in time, space and rationality. We need to leave this mental prison behind from time to time, and on a regular basis.~David Tacey

Search your first name then ‘glamour shot’, and post a photo:

Allow yourself a non-retail space listen to just focus on Tracy Wormworth's amazing bass line.