Excited to share the BBS results page for the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. True to form, there's going to be more data on here than you can shake a stick at, giving you the most in-depth rundown available anywhere! This will all update automatically throughout the day, so refresh often!

A barrister is being tried for simply accurately stating the law to a jury in a closing speech, possibly for the first time ever. It is chilling how quickly we are resorting to authoritarian measures, particularly in the context of the genocide in Palestine. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

moms and dads, encourage your straight boys to learn how to dance and give them a chance to impress zendaya

This semester I taught a course on the History of the Far Right in the US. We were lucky to have one of the Pacific Northwest's best contemporary chroniclers and interpreters of the far right, @leahsottile.bsky.social, visit the class. This piece by Leah was inspired by what she heard students say.

Thanks to my pal @stefanfatsis.bsky.social, I now know that I've achieved one of my life's ambitions and am cited in @merriam-webster.com.

Scottish voters I want your most frivolous and niche election prediction. Former SNP, former Alba, soon to be former Independent MSP Ash Regan getting something hilariously poor (0.32%) is mine

Commemorating that time Whispering Bob Harris was chased around the Norfolk coast by a ghostly force, "The Old Grey Whistle and I'll come for you Test" is available now. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1805...

I should be working, and yet...

Check out biased WashPost story: Rubio is described as “practicing Catholic” while Kerry is described as “raised Catholic” but had “disagreements with the church on abortion and some other issues.” But Rubio actually has many more disagreements: immigration, Iran, climate, USAID, the poor, etc.

Immediately putting “absolute horses” into my daily conversations

Gary Gibbon #C4News says that Labour have briefed activists telling them not to cry on camera if the results are bad

Interesting thing to note about Elevatorgate is how the new atheist personalities making the pushback against Rebecca Watson were all Epstein Islanders, and this should be probably be required viewing. She was put through the wringer by these creeps.

Just leaving the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, a new exhibit featuring the printed Epstein files to advocate for the estimated 1200 to 1400 victims of Epstein’s trafficking and abuse. They gave me a pencil and highlighter with the exhibit name stamped on them.

Black-footed cat kitten born May 1st to first-time mom Gaia. Gaia wasn't exhibiting quite enough maternal behavior so the kitten will be hand-raised behind the scenes. [via Cameron Park Zoo]

"if only this Jewish party leader was as anti-racist as Thatcher" is certainly a take

Remember that we have elections in Scotland and Wales tomorrow, and don't let anyone put you off voting by telling you that it's meaningless or 'boring'. There could be a political earthquake in Wales this time around, and Scotland doesn't need people dismissing its outcome. 🗳️

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

For a year-and-a-half, I've been attempting to get to the bottom of a photograph showing Nigel Farage posing with far-right activists. Our new investigation casts fresh doubts on Farage’s claim that he refuses to associate with extreme elements of the populist right bylinetimes.com/2026/05/06/r...

"Artists with opinions shouldn't have to pay for your pain. We didn't create it." Someone should sit Roisin down and explain that when you have a massive platform afforded to you due to your art and you use it tweet that trans people are not fit to be teachers, you are causing trans people pain. 1/

Not going to share those antisemitic cartoons of Polanski, even to condemn them, because I don't think my Jewish friends need to see them all over their timeline. If even I, a gentile, am this viscerally repulsed, God knows how they must feel. Nazi propaganda shit.

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

Looks like foreigners don't want to risk being imprisoned by ICE just for a chance to see a soccer game.

If you're looking for new insults to hurl at your enemies, you should consult this hilarious catalog of "ironic" similes. Another super fun story from @puddingviz.bsky.social.

Before you even get into the Hearts comments, "as a Glasgow boy, I want one of the Glasgow teams to win" is probably the least "Glasgow man who likes football" sentence it is possible to say

What now-familiar domain names looked like before they were bought by big-time companies, e.g. openai.com was “the personal homepage of a guy named glenn”, doordash.com was a porn site, threads.com sold spools of thread. [bsky.app]

I've been seeing a surprising number of people turning to prediction markets rather than polls to gauge public opinion. Good luck with that. Here's my new piece for Undark magazine, where I dig into details with the help of political scientists and economists. undark.org/2026/05/05/p...

🧵A somewhat niche thread. Film posters inadvertently photographed by postwar town planners. I found most in the Manchester Archives+ and Manchester Libraries archives. #1: Dr. No #cinema #socialhistory

The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.

Having a hard time? Spare a minute to think about Sarah Vine. It'll cheer you right up.

Cork, what a county. Its September 1934 and the Derry Journal reports that at a cinema dance in Buttevant, Co. Cork, all the women there refused to dance with the fascist Blueshirts. A Blueshirt announced that they had paid their way in and if no girls would dance with them.. [1/2]

“Is it because rent is 2/3rds of their income, or has genz become boring? Let’s ask this pair of well off 50-somethings for their opinion…”

they're called cross sex hormones because people get mad at you for taking them

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

lmao www.euronews.com/next/2026/05...

📢LGBTQI+ people in detention need to be protected - Ask your MP to sign the joint letter with Rainbow Migration and push back. Contact your MP now: bit.ly/41YdoKr #NoPrideInDetention #EndLGBTQIDetention

Lots of deliciously dismaying details in this but nothing sums up the billionaire mindset like “attend one orchestra rehearsal as an audience member and believe as a result that you are being groomed to become its next music director”

This is really excellent reporting by @yeomans.bsky.social on an issue which is often overlooked when people hear about how much UK is paying France to "stop channel crossings", and what exactly for. This is the end outcome of those policies, children ripped from mothers, toddlers crossing alone.

This is probably the most straightforwardly egregious example in the article. This woman is voting Reform in order to strip her disabled stepson of his benefits. You couldn't make it up.

Excellent news as a new form of a checkpoint inhibitor drug to treat cancer enables the drug to be injected rather than intravenously infused ensuring the treatment is more accessible (as well as being very effective) for patients. 🧪

Coercive control. That should be a huge warning to British voters… This is not only disturbing, it’s also highlighting exactly what Reform stands for. If they can treat British voters with such contempt simply because they don’t vote Reform, they can do even worse things.

Happy Star Wars Day. Here's your annual reminder that "May the Fourth be with you" was invented by the Tories to celebrate the election of Margaret Thatcher.

Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

goatse you! black emperor

Unfazable Minneapolis

Sent from a friend in Malta, where apparently Mr Tayto is in the Witness Protection Programme

Tesco, emailing me this terrifying motherfucker to me on a Sunday morning is an act of war, what the fuck, no I will not meet Plumbert I will destroy Plumbert