Mary Magdalene, looking right at you and NOT very penitent. By Salomon de Bray of Haarlem, d. OTD 1664.

#OnThisDay 11 May 1981 🇯🇲 Bob Marley died, aged 36 A year before he passed, he played his only gig in Ireland at Dalymount Park, where they have painted this mural in his honour. #Bohs

countenance alert

Bread & circuses baby

Who wants a longish read about the colliery waggonways of Southside, illustrated with far too many maps? Nobody? Bah. You shall have one anyway. new-cleckit.dominie.scot/the-govan-wa...

Catherine West MP, the fresh perspective that Labour needs: a Labour Friends of Israel member who has attended transphobic events and voted in line with the Starmer government over Palestine and disability cuts

Today I have written about the delights of J. H. Prynne, the grand old Cantabrigian late modernist who died recently. (And a bit about his close contemporary, Geoffrey Hill.)

With both Clyde and Hamilton winning their playoff semis, Clyde’s home leg in the final would be played at New Douglas Park, previously Hamilton’s ground. Meanwhile, Hamilton would play their home leg at Broadwood Stadium, previously home to Clyde 🤣🤣🤣

The latest Scottish parliamentary election delivered a significant majority in support of LGBTQ+ rights and a ban on conversion practices. Now it is time to deliver, no more delays. The Scottish people have spoken. They have backed inclusion and rejected the politics of hate.

The election of two trans MSPs from immigrant backgrounds shows that Scotland refuses to become the hateful nation that Reform wants it to be

The one very important lesson from Wales and Scotland that should be read from these Senedd and Holyrood results is that explicitly progressive and left-wing politics is deeply deeply popular, extremely electable, and *the* only way to successfully stop Reform UK and the rise of fascism.

The Onion ass headline

Once you start seeing the eagerness with which some people want to cut others out of civil society, you can’t stop seeing it.

Back to more serious topics: EK Clásico today 🖤🤍♥️ @ekthistle.bsky.social @officialwosfl.bsky.social #WoSFL #EKTH #EKYM

LIFE RULES: Insulate your house with books to ward off evil Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse Never click on a link to the Daily Mail Use double the recommended amount of garlic Always stop to say hi to sheep And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice) I think that's more or less everything covered?

“Camina lento, no te apresures, que el único lugar a donde tienes que llegar es a ti mismo”. José Ortega y Gasset 📷Clarissa Bonet

Thoughts and prayers to Ash Regan, standing in the dark on a side road somewhere near the A9, haunted face lit from below, clutching a giant thermometer, as someone drives by playing The Jam Going Underground "the public gets what the public wants" And that, my friends, is the Transphobia Dividend

I hope Gordon Brown is rocking up to downing Street with a bag of cans, a KFC and a fishing rod saying to the Police that he knows Starmer and can talk him down.

It is IMO important to recognise that Labour were *cheered to the rafters* by the national press and by their politician colleagues for telling their own supporters to fuck off. Probably worth bearing in mind, as we watch the same people scratch their heads and now ask: where did it all go wrong?

The Electoral Commission have been an absolute joke on this, with serious consequences for Scottish democracy.

Huge congratulations to Iris Duane and Q Manivannan, soon to become Scotland's first ever trans and non-binary MSPs 👏🏻👏🏾👏🏼🏳️‍⚧️💪🏼 #ScottishGreens #ScottishElection2026 #ScottishElections #ScottishParliament #scottishpolitics

East Kilbride, thank you! Thank you for helping @electlauramoodie.bsky.social I know she will be an amazing champion and voice for a fairer, greener and kinder area.

Congratulations to George Galloway and the Workers’ Party of Great Britain on their 0.1% (fewer than 3,000 votes total across all constituencies and regions).

Labour are third in *Glasgow*

Fergus Ewing, Kate Forbes, Ash Regan, Angus Robertson all gone 🍾

Kin hell Gerry

And there it is - a Green council in Waltham Forest. They'll take some convincing that a 35,000 stadium and AI powered campus next to a lovely green space is a good idea. Ah well, he's always got his shareholders to console him 🫣

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+11.5% and a strong second place finish for a trans candidate in our current climate is heartening. The Scotland that the GCs want us to think we live in is not the Scotland of reality.

Joanna Cherry should not be on telly, absolutely awful person, a truly, truly nasty piece of work

Is it weird that I find the man dressed as a giant bird heartwarming, while wanting the man taking a selfie to be drummed out of public life?

The Scottish Greens gain their first ever constituency seat in the Scottish Parliament with Lorna Slater winning with a sizeable majority of 4,582. Sitting SNP MSP Angus 'three jobs' Robertson pushed into 3rd place with SNP vote down 17%. A major moment for @scottishgreens.org

Delighted to see this clown getting shown the door, even apart from a first Green constituency win 🥳

Edinburgh Central (Edinburgh and Lothians East) Constituency Vote (vs 2021 notional): GRN: 12680 (36%, +29.2) LAB: 8098 (23%, -7.6) SNP: 7702 (21.9%, -19.3) CON: 2262 (6.4%, -10.3) LD: 2168 (6.2%, +2.7) RUK: 1876 (5.3%, New) OTHx5: 455 (1.3%) Valid Turnout: 54.5% Green GAIN from SNP - LL

anas sarwar: trans women should get raped in male prison's and be segregated at work and in public spaces. entire british news media: go on, anas! finally some common sense on the 'gender debate'! the public:

“Sometimes you shag the flag, sometimes the flag shags you” - Kier Starmer

SNP lose Na h-Eileanan an Iar to Labour by 154 votes. Alliance for Tartan Transphobes: 159 votes 👀

Anas Sarwar was viciously transphobic in this election campaign and, for that (and other reasons), he is going to lose his seat. Learn the fucking lesson.

Anas Sarwar calls for Keir Starmer to resign (2026, colourised)

Manchester results (in the 32 seats up for election): Greens: 18 (+17) Reform: 7 (+7) Labour: 6 (-24) Lib Dems: 1 (+0) BBC: "Major gains for Reform!!!1!"

Keir Starmer to tell everyone who used to vote Labour to fuck off again, and proscribe them as a terrorist group.

"Anas Sarwar will be First Minister" going into the same bucket as "Jo Swinson will be Prime Minister"

In defence of these people: everywhere they’ve looked for *ten years*, they’ve found other MPs, political journos and party wackos welcoming their face-punching of supporters, and urging them to go further. Obviously this was both idiotic and incredibly horrible but all the lads wanted more of it.

"The Labour Party under Keir Starmer will abandon its core idealism and principles and won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it." - David Graeber (from 2020)

Pffft.

how's that first-past-the-post electoral system working out

When asked for comment Sarwar admitted they're doing terribly throughout Scotland but speaking as a Glasgow Boy he'd be proud if a Glasgow constituency was the worst.

Labour's fury at the Greens and their voters reveals their arrogant entitlement and contempt for the public. They are entitled to your vote. The 'lesser evil' system is an ontological fact and an eternal moral vérité of the cosmos. You may not judge them. You may not ask for more. How dare you?