Few ppl can derive lyric poetry from a slag-heap but Marc has. There’s something ironic in that the planted conifers are causing damage to Welsh soil, just as the coal did. In the foreground weeds dominate - many alien to local ecology. The image & the landscape are both facets of a living loss.

Is there, for honest poverty, That hings his head, an' a' that? The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Our toils obscure, an' a' that; Yhe rank is but the guinea's stamp; The man's the gowd for a' that

To Òran Mór to see Kirsten Harvey once more, this time as part of #CelticConnections . Voice of an angel, but I always miss her playing this one.

❤️💛 This Saturday, we will be hosting Thistle Welcomes Day in partnership with Jags For Good! As part of the day, there will be a pre-match collection supporting Refuweegee taking place outside the ground. Read all the details: buff.ly/VaRJFEz

They paywalled this shite?

Keir Starmer: Stop British bases or GPS facilities being used by the Americans to attack Greenland tally.so/r/2EKBb9

ekstatic ekphrasis Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42565/...

A statement from the Bylines Scotland editorial board | Bylines Scotland

They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been

Anger, envy, gluttony and covetousness so far, and the only reason lechery doesn't figure is because I'm too slothful.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

I once did a 10 min talk at university about the revelations in the bible and how each part relates to scenes in beneath the planet of the apes because the lecturer pissed me off the week before by belittling me. It was neither a film nor a religious class.

Appreciate it's no longer #FallFriday but it's actually "I'm fooking bladdered Saturday" however, this is still THE GREATEST Top of the Pops performance ever:... youtu.be/GmEQztuvURc?...

The Twilight Sad announce sixth album, IT’S THE LONG GOODBYE, featuring The Cure's Robert Smith, and share new single "DESIGNED TO LOSE".

I’ve just published a new piece of writing. It’s a serious literary work that sits between essay and narrative, and it’s concerned with women’s anger and imagination in the aftermath of violence. kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/kristie-th... #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Women #Scotland

#fallfriday It's wintertime and I still see the cobble stones Clacking over your streets at dawn I was really poor since I left Edinburgh I'm OK just by myself Cause our miserable king won't protect us from ourselves youtu.be/AbMG1v7qDqs?...

sometimes life seems kind of over-scripted Sunday morning, post-Venezuela, I overheard a man say "No me gustan los pinches gringos, pero tenemos que acabar con la izquierda por fin..." ugly face, like Magwitch in 1946 "Great Expectations" no way a majority view but a non-trivial minority

🧵Utterly pathetic from these bishops! The bishop of Paisley was one of the biggest recruiters of anti-abortion vigilantes and now all they have to do is be a short distance from the hospital. The law applies equally, to me, an atheist. I can’t have pro choice protests at the hospital. They made

Hear Albert Camus Read the Famous Opening Passage of The Stranger (1947)

'It was moonlight. The moon shines in all around just as the sun does. I hate to see it sometimes, it creeps so slowly, and always comes in by one window or another.' Woman locked in the nursery due to 'a slight hysterical tendency' in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by C.Perkins Gilman 1892 #WyrdWednesday

🆕 Comebacks - Inspired by Saturday's 3 goal comeback vs. Morton, our brand new page is introduced by popular demand, featuring every comeback win in history as well as all the comeback draws from 2 or more behind: 👉 www.thethistlearchive.net/club-records...

Disband NATO and shutdown all US military bases in Europe.

Whit?

Things newly read: 'Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories' by M. R. James. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

It's really upsetting to me that the nazi platform many of us tried to warn our union about (but were outvoted) is now being used to generate child sex abuse images and we're *still using it*. @eisunion.bsky.social

Racists will always racist, of course, but the Labour Party's blithe swing from 2004's "Naah, fuck it, why would we need to put transitional controls on migration from EU expansion countries, what could possibly go wrong?" to 2015's "Have a 'Controls on Immigration' mug!" is always right there...

Boing Boing! #PTFC #FTOF

🤝 Our Match Sponsors for this afternoon's game against Greenock Morton are Sarti! Visit one of their two authentic Italian restaurants in Glasgow's city centre on Wellington or Bath Street! Find out more about them: buff.ly/QysT2Mf

The unprovoked and deadly invasion of another country while its citizens sleep should appal all of us. The fact that Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil reserves makes this feel very familiar.

The Fifa peace prize has now gone to VAR.

This illegal invasion of another country while its citizens sleep is a cynical act of American imperialism. The fact that Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil reserves makes this feel very familiar. Greens stand against this contempt of international law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

All respectable organisations should stop using X - NOW!

“If you spend enough time in the desert, you will hear it speak.” ― Nnedi Okorafo #ir #eastcoastkin #classicmono #bnw #blueskyphotography

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #bnw #urbanlandscapes #architecture #reflection

Day and night bathe and never never throng in front of the north, the wild man! Let your crowns be far-flung, your arm be brave; die for the fires.

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it

Get with it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTD_...

The US have discovered him!! I see Rentoul has managed to cross a large body of water without being buried in a casket of soil from his homeland. A first for his kind.

Third Lanark v Berwick Rangers at Cathkin Park, October 1966. This photo was taken by renowned football historian and photographer George Thomson. It’s possible that this was the last photo taken of Third Lanark. By May 1967, they would no longer exist.

While we are on a #kurosawa theme, this is from Hidden Fortress, the two bickering tramps were the inspiration for George Lucas to create R2 D2 and C3-PO...

I'll be thinking of you & your PROBLEMS.

How I'm entering 2026

Last old film of the holidays 🌲👻🥲

MORE SOUP 🍲 👨‍🍳

The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed. ~Anna Akhmatova Laura Makabresku

Scottish football clubs seem tethered to this cesspit of vice and misinformation, including @partickthistle.bsky.social . As for politicians on X, nobody is surprised that they persist.