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

It's actually even worse than this - it was meant to be a community event with no media, so they weren't even being singled out! So they just broke the rules and then misled the public about it @heraldscotland

You might think that if a bunch of charities said @heraldscotland.bsky.social wasn't welcome at an LGBTQ hustings they might be gracious about it and have a think about why, right? Nah, they bullied their way in, then complained that everyone including the equalities minister is too woke

People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

Oh well if Judy Murray says so news.stv.tv/scotland/jud...

Bands I like from the 90s are reissuing stuff! But they're reissuing on a label run by a notoriously dodgy and transphobic but rich guy But there aren't many other ways to do it? But I don't even do vinyl anyway #NoEthicalConsumption

Reading things like "it is six months today since the start of the ceasefire between Israel and Palestine. Last night seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes. In what fucking way is this a ceasefire then?!

Ok, willingness to participate in a manel is the political equivalent of returning the shopping cart moral judgement. It's a low fucking bar, but not a single Scottish political party has managed to get over it. Jesus...stand up to fascism, these boys won't even step out of the spotlight.

I'm remembering around 2017 when women in Scotland were expressing ourselves about indy manels, and the way the indy men reacted. That was the precursor to the incoming transphobic shite where they all declared they're "protecting women". All taking place in the context of the MeToo resurgence.

If you're at a loose end today, The Govan Stones is having a free open day between 11am and 4pm. This includes an achaeological survey of the Govan Old Parish Churchyard which has a number of interesting gravestones. #glasgow #glasgowtoday #archaeology #gravestones #mementomori