Liverpool to Host Major Arts and Crafts Exhibition Event to be put on in Honour Of May Morris By Ashish Prabhu for Vocal vocal.media/journal/live... May Morris: Crafting a Legacy opens at Lady Lever Art Gallery on Apr 25, www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/lady...

"people's feelings of life satisfaction are based more on relative status than absolute status" is a basic precept I learned in first year psychology or sociology at uni, I'm not sure why economists find it so hard to understand

One for accessibility/literacy folks...

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

But they're not telling us how until after the elections lol

Three and half years ago, 21 Labour MSPs (including Anas Sarwar) voted to pass the Gender Recognition Reform Bill which would have granted self-ID rights (but the UK Tory government blocked it). Now, the anti-trans Scottish Labour want to eliminate trans integration, safety and privacy altogether.

do you think perhaps it’s on “economists” to come up with better graphs if everyone says that society is crumbling and they’re not measuring it

Mathematicians created an ‘impossible’ shape that shouldn’t exist

Actually this seems like the manifesto of a party that knows they won't be in power. The NHS wards policy is impossible to implement - maybe concentrate on getting people out of corridors and into wards in the first place!

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

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Good Evening, Your Party Scotland was a 6 month sociological study conducted by St Andrews University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

EXTREMELY CORRECT and why I'm celebrating

So, watch out for a few less weird right-wing articles, because Orban's Danube Institute was funding a few of our weirder weirdos

*stares in Doctor Who*

BREAKING: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian elections after 16 years in power - with opposition Tisza party on course for landslide victory.

In danger of being optimistic about the Hungarian result here

Large screens have been put up on the banks of the Danube here in Budapest, close to the National Assembly parliament building. Péter Magyar appeared on those screens to deliver his supporters a message: "We are optimistic but cautious". www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Locus is an important part of the SFF world! With just two days left in the fundraiser, please consider pitching in. I even contributed some books, which I'll sign and personalize however you please!

I don’t often find myself agreeing with Ezra Klein, but this is completely correct — and frankly, shows some guts for a mainstream liberal columnist to say. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...

Comfortables always have two phases of operation. Phase 1: "This graph *proves* the Emperor is wearing clothes, take that you peasant filth." Phase 2: "Those claiming the Emperor has no clothes have been monstrously abusive towards *me* and must be executed."

Guess it's not a surprise that Streeting doesn't think countries should be able to self-identify

Part of the reason Labour won't say they'd like to rejoin the EU is prooobably that they spent so long shouting at Scots that if we left the UK it'd take us decades to get into the EU, on terrible terms, etc. Might make them look a bit dishonest if they now claim the UK can walk straight back in.

tfw you're in a "voluntary union"

Laughing at Will Hutton's article in the Observer cos it's just like "everyone I disagree with (from left-wingers to Polanski to Farage to Trump to Netanyahu) is a catastrophist, which is bad. I have blind faith our institutions with survive and defeat fascism, because I am a Sensible."

as the polls have closed, a hungarian pollster is presenting their predictions and the guy is saying "yeah, in our modelling we've also taken into account the votes fidesz are expected to buy for cash or a sack of potatoes" we all think this is normal

In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.

This is the opposite of standardisation, surely

One thing Scots absolutely love is wee English scrotes telling us what we're allowed to do

Also it doesn't tell you till right at the end that it requires your postcode, so if you don't wanna give them that much personal info, don't waste ten minutes like I did

Hey @goodlawproject.org it's pretty poor to put out a political survey that asks for voting intention and doesn't prompt for the SNP or Plaid Cymru. Comes across extremely England-centric. No Northern Irish parties either.

So much wrong even just in this headline and photo

DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST The BBC reported that at 23:07 the Met said they had made 523 arrests for the de-proscription of Palestine Action.

Can't stress enough how dishonest and opportunistic these people are. 'Cass review is unimpeachable' until Cass calls for a puberty blockers trial, then suddenly it's not. 'Women's organisations all oppose trans rights' until some support them, then suddenly they should be defunded etc. etc.

The funny thing is, this is the Times which is fully behind Four Women Scotland and their ilk, but even they can't make this sound anything but wildly anti-woman

'Susan Smith, one of the three directors of FWS, also called for some of Scotland’s equality organisations to be defunded.....she singled out organisations such as Rape Crisis Scotland' Feminism! www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

More than 500 people arrested at London rally for Palestine Action https://aje.news/bviyrc

Don't get me wrong, he's a horrid little shit in the pockets of private healthcare and bigots. But at least he's being honest. There are no circumstances in which the UK would "give" Scotland a referendum. "Give" Give. What a ****.

he drinks an Irn Bru / he drinks a Mountain Dew / he has a Surge or two / his highness dog at Kew / he sings the songs that remind him of the good times / he sings the

Freg 🐸 💚 #crochet #craft

Women would most likely also have handled all the day to day, week to week bills and payments in cash too … as part of ‘running the household’

Peter Capaldi's (very good) article about child poverty today was like "I started school in 1964, which is closer to the end of WWII than it is to now" And like I have bad news for him about how much closer

knowing history is important but it also has to be accurate

I keep seeing this "women couldn't open bank accounts / have credit cards until the mid 1970s 🤯" And like...kinda sort not really? Banks weren't OBLIGED to let women open accounts, but I think most did, and all building societies

"in old typewriter font" is SENDING me

If you don't let us kill everyone we might need to use pronouns again

now the #Artemis crew enter a new stage of their lives, where from now on people will sing The Waterboys at them

Imagine being so privileged that not only are you able to have positive emotions about today's politics, you think it's wrong for people to have negative ones lol