My new msp is a Glasgow City fan 🧡

Monumental Titl Tussle

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I respect that though it is clearly possible to have basically any flat soled shoes converted for use in curling (eg like the American man in mixed doubles and his airforce ones), most people just solidly stick to postman pat shoes.

Been thinking about this quite a bit recently. According to google ngram viewer the change happened about 2006. Can't help but feel that this House of Commons committee report section (publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...) on the distinction misses the point!

Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more. via The Economist

There’s a pronunciation of Greenwich that is specific to people who are from within about a two mile radius of it. I only learned of as an adult, having grown up 10 miles away.

Got this yearbook through the post today as a freebie because I contributed to the Glasgow City page. Really nice to see and the type of thing I would have loved as a child but was ofc not available in the 90s

As someone with a bunch of Irish emigrants dotted about my family tree, this nationalist/ ?anti-immigration march was a pretty wild thing to stumble across in Dublin today

Wild that two ex swpl players scored in this and Kirsty howat wasn’t one of them. Palace are basically swpl fc this season though

On my way home now from a great #MedSoc25 thanks to all the presenters, the committee and the BSA staff for making my last one as co-convenor, and part of the committee, a good one. Hopefully see you all next year!

Ding ding ding! Yeah couple of mine are there

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Getting ready to spend 7 hours trapped on a tidal island with a bunch of crusty punks and no toilet #crammondislandpunkfest

I am doing the audio for No is Not a Lonely Utterance. My no is getting croaky but is coming out one way or another! I wrote a post collating 10 pieces (itself included) on g-c feminism & the broader anti-woke & anti-edi ideological landscape. Last for a bit. Solidarity! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Hurt my wrist playing in goal a while back- thought it was a sprain. After swelling went down I noticed a lump over the end of the bone so thought I’d better get it x-rayed in case of small fracture.

Oh my GOD GROW UP

Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. Read the motion below 👇 BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.

First celeb spot in nyc was Ricky gervais in Central Park ☹️

Genuinely surprised that any amount of cocaine while driving is allowed???

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Forgot to post this at the time but we did a @glasgowcoa.bsky.social (bus stop versions) as our contribution to the window wanderland thing 🐦🌳🔔🐟

Come and join us at the next MedSoc! Call for abstracts now open 😎

Hereeee weeee gooooo

Another great football day! Glasgow City beat Celtic to progress in the Scottish cup (at a game attended by a duck???), palace men beat man united at old trafford and palace women got a hard earned draw

What an annoying bunch of jokers

Tbh 2024 was a pretty difficult year for me, for mainly personal reasons, including nearly losing all my sight to optic neuritis. On to 2025 though right?

Just had a look at the BSA annual conference programme grid and have seen that there is another Hilary Collins presenting (spelled with one L). Hopefully I might benefit from confused extra attendees at my talks haha

Glasgow city beating rangers 3-0 and palace (men’s) beating Brighton 1-3. What a day 🥲

It’s just really nice that the only comment I’ve seen on Bluesky related to this news is basically to the effect of BB being a baller and this award is richly deserved ☺️

Yes, go on…

Come on and Shine! Shine! Shine like a star

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www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/new... FIFA study on trans inclusion in football recommends moving away from "yes" or "no" debate in inclusivity

Often think Bunny Shaw is reduced to goal hanger, or a target woman, which ignores the intelligence of how she plays. But you can’t argue with a certified banger like that

Look I just think palace are a better team than Celtic and Chelsea put 7 past palace in the early, rocky days of the season, including a bronze screamer. So by rights, there should be at least 5 Chelsea goals this half

Lucy bronze scoring before I even got the live stream working haha

City conceding for only the second time from open play this season. Also annoying

Cannot believe Villa are choosing this game for their first win of the season. Rude tbh.

I find it quite interesting that Abbie Larkin has become such a talismanic figure- she’s 1 of 2 women on sky ads about Ireland national team sponsorship on Irish tv but for her recent clubs (palace and Glasgow City) she has never been a regular starter

I was frustrated trying to find chat about women’s football closer to home so have had a go at making a starter pack. Lmk about ither accounts that should be added! go.bsky.app/Kh5Jen8

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: 1) Shoe shop assistant 2) bar staff in a pub 3) ticket office in an art house cinema 4) nurse 5) pa to a professor

Fair enough it is a lol that they play ‘it’s a grand old team’ at Celtic women’s games, a club formed in… 2007

Like, I’m pleased for Celtic and want them to do well in the WCL, and for Scotland’s coefficient to be boosted. But also people can be annoying and Scotland has such an incredible women’s club football history

Also before people start being annoying about that being the first goal for a Scottish club in Europe- it’s the first goal for Celtic sure but Julie Fleeting scored for Ayr United (!) in 2001 (!), the first year of a eufa women’s comp, and Emma Black scored for city in 2005. Hibs had some too

woah woah woah Celtic taking the lead against Chelsea. Surely Chelsea should have been expecting counter attacks/ breaks? Can’t see the lead lasting long tbh

I’ve held the swpl trophy, you’ll never sing that

My dog, the model