wait the person whose barring from the Your Party conference led to Zarah Sultana's boycott of day 1 was George Galloway's election agent last year!??

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

Things newly read: 'The Singularities' by John Banville. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

Folk shuffling around food banks in tears, Government telling us to tighten our belts, and we still have this load of old fucking bollocks going on. #ffs #poverty #austerity #SameOldFeudalSystem #AbolishTheMonarchy

“Well, it was this way,” returned Mr. Enfield: “I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning ..." Mr Enfield leads us on the dark journey that we know as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R. L. Stevenson. #WyrdWednesday 🩸📚💙

Universes collapsing into one 🫨

I've seen EK Thistle play today's opponents twice before; a 6-1 victory & a 1-7 defeat. Not an easy one to predict, 0-0 seems a likely bet 🤔 #EKTH #WoSFL

The giant Albion, and his mysterious emanation (who is dark and female - interesting!). By William Blake, whose day is today.

#fallfriday Open newspaper What do I see A politician with kids doing the best for me I'm in a bourgeois town youtu.be/WOP0Lj1DQG0?...

To New College Lanarkshire, to see my daughter as Hero in 'Much Ado About Nothing '.

New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime. www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...

Actually Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. The monster is called "allegory for the emergent industrial working class as a reservoir of latent revolutionary violence"

Things newly read: 'Much Ado About Nothing' by William Shakespeare. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

This is such a beautiful illustration of the whole Your Party fiasco, AI generated art romanticising a bygone age of “proper” labour.

¡Basta! No permitiré que os interpongáis en mi camino. ¡Me voy a leer "Frankenstein, o El moderno Prometeo" en su versión de 1818!

Got this from the webinar I’m on. Man, does this have applications all over our lives!

Jackdaws by the north Winterborne chalk stream.

Need bring dead, wounded and prisoners back into football stats. Also, bet your man Whytfeild there wasn’t doing triple rolls on the ground, clutching his face, waving an imaginary card at the ref.

'It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows.' Mina Harker describes the Whitby Abbey in her diary in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Lady Hilda? See Alt-text for more. #PhantomsFriday #gothic #booksky

Things newly read: 'The Spell' by Alan Hollinghurst. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

Obviously. #EverybodyOut #ALaHuelga #EIS

I try my hardest to stop buying books but sometimes it is just too difficult.

Just leaving this here www.thenational.scot/news/2545164...

Le mur du son (Unknown)

Post someone who looks good in a hat.

The SNP's wrecking amendment to this motion has sadly passed, confirming that the Scottish Government no longer opposes the Rosebank oil field application. A huge step backwards and a sad day for Scotland's reputation on climate action.

'But sorrow and silence, Are the wood's threnody, The silence for you and the sorrow for me.' -Francis Ledwidge 🎨Léon Spilliaert #BookWormSat

Forest in Late Autumn, Caspar David Friedrich, 1835.

Captured on a foggy autumn morning near home, where the forest turns into a soft, muted dream.. #autumn

I’ve inadvertently created an Edwardian night-time colour photograph with my iPhone. #photography #landscapephotography #iPhone #earlycolourphotography #Edwardian #whatacarryon

The media—in league with the political and monied classes—regularly changes the perceived reality of every serf on the plantation. I'll quote myself from @bylinetimes.bsky.social in 2022.

Blue hour at Crummock Water

#fallfriday The working class has been shafted So what the fuck you sneering at? Your prerogative in life it seems Is living out an ad man's dream ... youtu.be/U8UJ6LbSLiw Peel session 05/03/91 Photograph Declan Roney.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Things newly read: 'The Drowned' by John Banville. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

Across the Sound of Raasay

Plaid Cymru's by-election victory at #Caerphilly is historic. The last Plaid by-election gain was #Carmarthen in July 1966 when Gwynfor Evans overturned a huge Labour majority ushering in the modern era of Plaid & Welsh politics. What will be the lasting effect of Caerphilly?

I don’t think this can be underplayed. Lots of plates shifting, but it’s a decisive win for progressive politics over hate. This is not the narrative that has been consistently rammed down our throats by the media.

Pure joy. #KTF #✊🏿

Nietzsche on realism

Things newly read: 'A Case of Matricide' by Graeme Macrae Burnet. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

Yes.

Things newly read: 'Burnt Island' by Alice Thompson. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 @saltpublishing.com

'Limehouse' (1913) by Christopher RW Nevinson (Atkinson Art Gallery Collection)

Another wee push for yesterday's analysis piece; if for some reason the inadvertently candy floss coloured map doesn't draw you in, there is a TL;DR version here, but if you do just read this screengrab you won't see my bit about Anas Sarwar's nightmares or a mildly spiced take on radicalisation.

Another reminder that the Labour Party are rancid class traitors, and that this has nothing to do with Starmer, or Blair or even Kinnock.