Guess what makes immigrants feel integrated, wanting to be part of their communities? Feeling welcomed, embraced, appreciated - like I felt from the moment I stepped in Scotland nearly 10 years ago. The people here made me feel Scottish, by simply not being xenophobic twats demanding I prove myself.

"Nadie elige su amor", escribió Antonio Machado. Rosario Castellanos entabló un duelo lírico y le respondió en otro poema. Éste:

The brief summary of the “coppers storming Nicola Sturgeon’s house” stuff is that the police were told the SNP had spent donations they were given for a second referendum on day-to-day party maintenance. I’m not even sure that is a crime. Now, look at what these clowns have done.

Things newly read: 'The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein' by Peter Ackroyd. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

"Why has West Belfast always supported the Palestinians?" West Belfast people: "C'mere a wee minute 'til I show you something....".

Presumably the #headline switch between the printed version and the online version was because the #Guardian realised that the print version was open to "and that's why Starmer wants to bring it in". So remove a serious headline, replace it with a party-political one. #Labour #authoritarianism

Fascism needs women in ‘traditional’ homemaking roles because fascism exists to control populations and serve the predator class. There needs to be a hierarchy at home so the wider social hierarchy can be preserved. Making men the sole breadwinner ensures their complete dependence on their employer

It’s over for us

Latest addition, from Hardlines Glasgow at George's Cross, very happy with it.

April, the last full fixture of the spring: “Feet, Scottish, feet!” – they rucked the fear of God Into Blackheath… —“London Scottish”, by Mick Imlah (1956–2009) – born #OTD, 26 September published in THE LOST LEADER (Faber, 2008) #poem #poetry 1/5 www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/london-...

Going well, then. #IDCards #BritCard petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Variations on a theme; respite after an embattled week. To George's Cross, to do the same things as last week, more or less.

To St Luke's & The Winged Ox to see Belly. Very enjoyable show, and was quite surprised by how well I knew some of the tracks, was never really my thing.

'From an Office Window' (1918) by Christopher RW Nevinson (Private collection)

we have to reduce the number of migrants living in the UK because it upsets the racists

Ballroom Dancers, Trossachs. September, 2023. #Scotland #Photography

Moir's achievements include preserving Glasgow Green from being turned into a coal mine and using mass trespass to force the authorities to let people walk on the grass in Kelvingrove Park. newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com/2023/04/01/n... (For his role in the 1850s Cludgie Wars, watch this space.)

it is admittedly a little bit funny to consider that maybe the rapture did happen and god said “just Claudia Cardinale actually, thanks”

Claudia Cardinale a illuminé de sa beauté sauvage et de sa voix rauque plus de 150 films et de nombreux chefs-d’œuvre du cinéma, du «Guépard» à «Huit et demi». Elle est morte en région parisienne à l'âge de 87 ans.

What I'm wearing for the Rapture.

Autism is not a disease, not something to be extracted, but simply who people are. There's nothing to be cured but the ignorance of us so-called neurotypicals and our inability to accept that rather than changing who people are, we ought to change the world and make it more accommodating to all.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk A caller, Sam, who identifies himself as being on the autism spectrum, correctly identifies the fascist eugenecist subtext of Trump and Kennedy’s rhetoric. It is worth reminding ourselves how Hans Asperger was involved in this tidsskriftet.no/en/2019/05/e...

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

Withered Decline, Buckinghamshire 2025. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite

No, Mr Starmer, the problem with Reform's vicious anti-immigrant shithousery isn't that it's "unworkable" or "uncosted". It's that it's morally reprehensible. If you had a functioning moral compass, you would know that, you disgusting little racist. #dontvotelabour

If Reform announced plans to throw migrants into concentration camps, Labour would respond that the policy is unworkable rather than morally insane.

Challenge to commentators: don't dismiss transphobia and landlordism as 'side' issues in the implosion of Your Party. It's central. Same as Galloway: you can't build a progressive party on petit bourgeois prejudice and hatred masquerading as "community values". That's what we are seeing play out.

Never thought I’d see Nazi salutes thrown on the streets of Glasgow. Screen shot shows one of the organisers of yesterday’s far right rally commenting that this is ‘beautiful’. They are telling us who they are. Believe them.

Russian poetry night with Joseph Brodsky Only ashes know what it means to be burned out

To the O2 Academy to see one of the great post-punk survivors, in the company of @davesaul.bsky.social & half a dozen other reprobates inc my son. Weeks of ticket app chaos finally paid off. #HMHB #GetYerFuckingHedgeCut

A great many leagues of secret things.

The brass Holy Grail Imitation for sale. #FallFriday

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

No option really.

Andor, a Disney+ show about resisting fascism, just won 5 Emmys. Three days later, the network caved to it.

These people couldnae run a menage

To Kelvinbrig, first time in a while. Usual purposes; Framing Workshop, Caledonia Books, Doublet. Plus booking the tattooist &, less predictably, having a pleasantly bitter coffee in Roots & Fruits, now a posh café. Last time I visited it was just a barn selling weird potatoes. 30 years I guess.

#OtD 17 Sep 1922 soldiers of the new Irish Free State opened fire on striking postal workers, one man and three women. Olive Flood was hit, but fortunately the bullet deflected off her suspender belt and she escaped with a minor flesh wound stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8944...

I think this is a beautiful painting and I believe the inspiration for ‘Warriors Gate’ Monastery Graveyard In The Snow - Caspar David Friedrich

True. It's tradition

thread on radio/audio & emotional-political identification

The state making it its business to go around hiding pictures of politicians in the company of notorious child abusing sex offenders, let's see how this plays out for them

#OtD 17 Sep 1939 troops of the USSR invaded Poland, jointly occupying it with German Nazis. This completed the terms of the non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin on 23 Aug stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8945...

And there are those, not yet dead, who make ghosts of themselves and haunt this season. They are the autumn people, most happy in the longer dark and the shorter day. - Beware the Autumn People #writing

Literary criticism carries cultural authority, which is why it must be as rigorous about its own habits as it is about the books it reviews Authors aren’t supposed to do this. Luckily, I’ve never been good at following rules that are entirely made up kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/literary-c...

Let them watch Hey Duggee on an iPad

An old favourite from my time living in the Welsh Valleys. The view I used to enjoy looking from my side of the valley in the little village of Cwm near Ebbw Vale across to the other. Taken 20 years ago today. #photography #landscapephotography