So, something we got into a bit for the space book is the idea of resources as the source of wealth, because (a) it's widely believed, and (b) it's a claim used to justify all sorts of outlandish space ideas. The short version is that resources are a teeny tiny fraction of wealth.

Reading about William Ap Howel from Ynys Môn, who allegedly had 43 children before his death aged 105 (possibly from exhaustion)

Like small country nationalism (including Zionism) was a response to the first globalization of Capital in the late 19th Century. EVERYTHING that claims ancient and essentialist roots is actually modern and reactive.

Religious fundamentalism happened AFTER the scientific revolution.

Here's another one: Edward Balliol, John Balliol's son, was probably the last king/claimant with Gaelic as his native language, and simultaneously a genuine traitor to the Kingdom. He was unlikely to have ever made his claim without English support

John Balliol was the legitimate heir to the Scottish throne by a strict reading of the succession law and not a stooge of the English

James VI was a clever and canny character and not at all the moron he's often portrayed as *disclaimer: this does not mean i think he was anything less than a tyrant

Unfortunately for people on the big island, you've got a long way to go until you've hit the NI experience.

FWIW, until they shrug their shoulders at soldiers shooting children and the security forces colluding with terrorists to do things like murder musicians, they are in no way worse than Thatcher. We are not forgetting how absolutely vile that woman was because this lot are shite.

The people who need the reminder — who need the alternative paradigms — are in the foreign-policy community. They're the analysts who re-code U.S. foreign policy in terms of "geopolitics" or "the national interest" and then, in effect, sanewash what the Trump administration is doing.

Back from a lunchtime visit to Archives & Special Collections at Strathclyde. Glasgow history folk: please don't overlook the Strathclyde collection. They hold a surprising range of stuff, and the archivists are extremely welcoming to weird nerds who turn up with weird enquiries.

What Jack said:

For Scotland, remaining part of the Union is not an act of internationalism. If anything, it's the opposite, the submerging of our political culture within a UK political culture that is itself subordinate, humiliated and beyond decency, let alone the rule of law.

Just occurred to me that "SOON" implies they may invade in... January. Greenland in January

People who should know better treat Jewish people as basically fictional.

IMO the Scottish Government should be should be looking to develop a firm and public position against US designs on Greenland.

Donald Trump is entirely stupid enough to invade a country for oil nobody wants. That’s very clear.

As a few people on here have wisely said, Mexican cartels make the South Armagh Brigade look pacifist. Washington is wild for not taking that threat more seriously

Despite a lot of wishful thinking among parts of the European Left, the paramilitary forces of Mexican cartels would pose a much greater challenge for the US military than a decrepit Cuban army

There was a drunk lassie in the chippy earlier crying about Maduro and as she left she said "I can't believe they've done this he was only inaugurated the other day" and I can only conclude that she has Maduro confused with Mamdani???? Fuckin hell hen.

Smart, careful political scientists: Actually, this isn't technically a regime change operation. Donald Trump: Actually, it is!

There is a non-zero chance Trump decided to this based on what he had for breakfast, what was the television last night etc etc.

Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything

Never a more vindicated group in human history than those who have spent years saying Europe needs to move away from reliance on the US. Fantastic our closest ally is a fascist regime that has torn up international law, great stuff, thanks Atlanticists.

Add Ian Hislop, who is half-Scottish. His paternal family are from Ayr, with his grandfather being the minister at the West Kirk at the Sandgate (before it become a Wetherspoons)

An aside to this is also the strange paradox of 'Gaelic Nationalism' never even mentioning a Gaelic state that takes in the Isle of Mann or even the Gaidhealtachd of Scotland

A Scots version of Green Eggs and Ham - entitled Roast Spuds an Beef. I accept that "spuds" isn't a Scottisism but it scans, and that was more important to me.

A take so ice cold it's just crawled from an underground crypt in the Carpathian Mountains

Wanlockhead, Scotland's highest village, famed for its lead mines and gold prospecting. A village with many stories lurking in its dark corners. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway

In 1811-12, the Luddites attempted to resist some of the first waves of machine-industrialisation. They were crushed. 20 years later "pauper apprentices" (= orphan children) were being SOLD to factory-owners as cheap labour. Think on, dear hearts, think on.

RIP to a legendary character in two of the greatest shows of all time: The Wire and Scottish football

Walked past Anas Sarwar and his family last night. Said absolutely nothing and let them get on with their life.

it’s worth noting that the civic definition is actual government policy in scotland

Saw this legend oot walking his dug once

In the UK: a drinking club for corrupt councillors/builders/police In the Ottoman Empire: an underground atheist revolutionary network?

Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel

Eternally true www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PRINT AIN'T DEAD.

Girl In An Orchard, painting by Maria Dorothea Webb Robinson (1840-1920), Irish artist.

Allow me to blow your mind... Let me introduce you to this bad boy

Cracking morning putting surveys out in Achiltibuie. We paused at Lorg na Còigich - the stunning new art installation commemorating the successful 1850s land struggles. Led by women, the people rose up against the injustice of the clearances - and won! coigach-heritage.org/lorg-na-coig...

A bheil fios aig Ameireaganaich Bluesky gum faod sinn leughadh?

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse - covered with sea lions. If you zoom in you can actually see them climbing the steep steps up to the top! #nature #love #mammals #scape #landscape #eastcoastkin #photography #nokings #zen #Oregoncoast #goodmorning #bluesky #PNW #hiking #marinelife #sealions

Ok everyone, let's all say it together --- "BUILDING SCAM!!!"

guy who's like ultra reactionary and goes racism and nationalism are actually leftoid french revolutionary inventions and we need multiculturalism to bring trve evropa to its ethnic diversity of the middle ages

As Scots we're only too familiar with people who refuse to respect our nationhood, our culture, our history, our democratic right to self determination. This is why, now and forever, we stand in solidarity with Ukraine against Russian aggression.

Is this a social phenomenon or 1) a political project to create the illusion of a social phenomenon or 2) a post that annoyed you?

Britain: oh crap are we really going to have to do a nuclear war plan against the Americans France: oh yay we get to dust off our nuclear war plans against the Americans

My playlist of best songs in Welsh from the year, have a wee listen open.spotify.com/playlist/7x7...

Trongate at Glasgow Cross, 1932, painting by Piero Sansalvadore, Italian artist, 1892-1955 (Hunterian, University of Glasgow).