Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

This is a great idea, during what's often the crappest time of year for a lot of folk - middle of January. All gigs are free! www.leithjazz.com

Okay evidently most of you saw this a fortnight ago but i only saw it today so am sharing just in case anyone else missed out on their wee greet

Can I interest you in hearing about our lord and saviour MMT?

Locally and nationally, @scottishgreens.org are representing working-class interests and providing a real left-wing alternative - the very things I had hoped to do as a Labour councillor. I will continue to spend every day trying my very best to serve the people of Sighthill/Gorgie.

Paint is a scam. Oh, you've got some kind of mark on your paint? No, you can't get that off. Just need to buy more paint I guess!

You can choose what your city looks like.

(arguing with the assembly instructions:) I'm not an ambi-kneeler, goddammit!

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Totally 1) devastated and 2) livid at this. I was a Brownie leader for ten years and a Brownie/Guide/Ranger and it’s such a valuable and underestimated safe space for young girls and women to develop confidence and find refuge, whatever their background or identity. This is so incredibly cruel.

Algorithmic social media is such poison. I literally use TikTok to watch people cleaning vintage bags and cats being stupid and yet maybe three vids into a brief scroll through my FYP and I get a hateful transphobic video????? Fuck off!

What's that coming over the hill? A great variety Of morbid symptoms

Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u

It's one of those things where I *know* in a few years people will be like "Well, didn't it seem crazy at the time?" and yeah it did but still 90% of people just nodded along with it

WANTED: A Chair that does not give way when sat on.

loads of interesting stuff in here, and some good 'check my own assumptions' work as well

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

Dick Advocaat is the head coach of the Curaçao football team, who will be the first ever alcoholic drink managed by an alcoholic drink to play at a World Cup finals.

Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.

See also: The Onion's take on car bloat

This album is more than twenty years old but a lot of the lyrics sound like they could have been written yesterday. Slightly disconcerting to be honest. open.spotify.com/album/0wz3WQ...

Living Rent has urged the City of Edinburgh Council to strike off two landlords who have been found guilty of serious misconduct at the First Tier Tribunal.

'things that only an ex-bbc staffer can do'

The suspiciously long arm of the law

:( - dashare.zone ADMIN

Oh, you’re a big Ramones fan? Name 5 of their t-shirts

Update: one month later, the penny drops: "the tyranny of the plurality"

"Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of...communities." ― Jane Jacobs

"all the leaves are grey, and the sky is grey" - a dog singing california dreaming.

I'm finding it hard to keep myself uninformed.

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we? After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism. Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨 🧵 1/22

THIS is the inconvenient truth

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

Everyone’s talking about “green aviation” like it’s going to save the planet. But is electric or hydrogen flight really that green? 👀 Let’s talk about it. #FlightFree #ClimateCrisis #GreenTech #SustainableTravel

It is! It is *fucked*! Everyone's wages are immediately sucked up by a parasitic class of landlords. It's drawing money out of the real economy and accelerating severe anti-growth trends! And nobody is fucking doing anything about it!!!

I've written about the worst city in the Netherlands. It's just 3000 words. A quick read. What Lelystad teaches us about new cities, why you probably shouldn't build them, what to do if you must,... and why you might need to. ps. Lelystad is actually good. tomforth.co.uk/newcities/

it's important to call things what they are "mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy

Genuinely DISTRAUGHT to find that the essay about the modern world I have been slowly and vaguely composing in my head was already written, and in much better style, half a century ago.

ive crunched the numbers, and its not looking good. theyre pretty much ruined by all the crunching, i owe you new numbers

InfraSisters in Edinburgh campaign for safer cycling, especially for women riding after dark. This Friday night they will hold a mass glowride in Edinburgh. Ladies in the lead, but everyone is welcome to light up the night. www.cyclinguk.org/event/glow-r... #OurStreetsOurNight #MyRideOurRight

With the demise of Ange Postecoglu I have no choice but to announce that the ceremonial title of Big Ange (bestowed upon the most important Ange reigning, and previously held by Angelas Rayner, Merkel & Lansbury) has passed to Angela Eagle. I am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this

bluesky: the early years

When they set out on the way to the recording studio there had been eight non-blondes so it was actually a pretty reasonable question to ask.

I've written a poem, but it's maybe a bit too political for Bluesky. It's called 'The Problem with Populism'. The problem with Populism Is that it's quite reminiscent Of some other words which you *do* know the meaning of.

He's with the Angles now

Wow! It's good that AI is going to unlock massive productivity gains and unleash the fourth industrial revolution, or else we'd really be in trouble.

People nowadays sure do seem to love doing two things at once.

They might as well rename the 'ratio' feed 'the Sally Jenkins feed' at this point.