This is how they get you. You'll start with something harmless, like looking up when your street was built. Before you know it you'll be mainlining Goad fire insurance maps and planning your holiday using the mid-nineteenth-century OS 25-inch series. It is wonderful.

The London parties attack the SNP for twenty years in office - because in Westminster thinking that means Brexit and Austerity. But the SNP has transformed Scotland for the better in that time. We need to protect that progress from London party policies, and build towards the Scotland we want.

We pride ourselves on our selection of books from or about Scotland, including authors a little forgotten. Therefore, we’re delighted to be welcoming fantastic reprints of Agnes Owen’s novels.Also coming out a new edition of “Scotland’s favourite novel“, Sunset Song. Great stuff from Scotland!

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has won a prestigious award for her 'visionary leadership' at an international event in Iceland

I don’t think many people appreciate how remarkable a story the SNP has to tell about its time in Government. There is nowhere else on earth where a governing party has faced the level of vitriolic, unthinking opposition from the mainstream media that the SNP has.👇

I said, that’s bullshit, Dad. But it wasn’t. When I got in the Army, I knew more than any 22-year-old Second Lieutenant should know about men and power and the army. That knowledge and what I did with it would end my career almost exactly one year later. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-west-p...

And a steady stream of pictures of pets and Lego. I don’t know why we have these fortnightly or monthly bouts of OMG Bluesky is Dying/Dreadful/dead. I think it’s pretty good all-in-all.

Haig took his feet off his desk and slapped a little stack of papers, saying they were the requests we had handed in to the finance department. Glaring at me, he said, I know what you’re up to. This is a way to go after mandatory chapel, isn’t it? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-west-p...

Andrea Pitzer on Radio Free Mike, discussing Trump's detention camps. She's written a history of modern concentration camps called ONE LONG NIGHT, and you do not want to miss this episode. On your favorite podcast platform, but support & subscribe over here — substack.com/home/post/p-...

I’ve spent a lot of time studying Japan’s pop-cultural machine, and I’ve started distilling what I learned into big-picture principles that can be applied to all sorts of business-creative endeavors. Here’s the first. blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/so-you-wan...

A disgrace ! #freeScotland

Head to head, I’ll take all comers in journalist woodworking Bluesky.

If life makes you angry, deal with it. You are not going to run out the clock. Because you are human, the rules dictate that the clock is going to outrun you. In the meantime, as my mother counseled, be kind to others. You, and they, will live longer. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/to-be-human

And there’s this! 👇

Final FMQs of this Parliament. I think of 1999 when I sat as a new MSP in our reconvened Scottish Parliament, and the colleagues who won’t be standing again. I am deeply grateful for their service and their friendship. Now, we’re ready to write the next chapter for Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Just feels like every material representation of masculinity for 12 year old boys, all crammed into a tiny digital space that will fit your screen. So farcical that I don't know how anyone working on or watching this production doesn't feel like their intelligence is being insulted.

A giant sand portrait of Hind Rajab – a girl murdered by the IDF who is the focus of an Oscar-nominated film – has been created on a Yorkshire beach ahead of this weekend’s Academy Awards The Voice Of Hind Rajab has been nominated for best international film

Picture 1: Two plain clothes police officers during a search of Peter Mandelson's home Picture 2: Police search Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's home

I have some sympathy with the Chinese side, whose mindset is downstream of Reagan-Thatcherite Western private capital's exploitation of China without regard to the core interests of Western nations; but this is a good read on present & background: www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...

Grimatified (adj): that feeling you get after a conversation with ChatGPT lasts long enough for its flattery to get to you.

Put into "the mouths of babes and little fishes". Strategic analysis - strategy formulation - strategy execution. Remember when Britain was this great? Me neither. www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...

Here we stand or here we fall History won't care at all Make the bed, light the light, yeah Lady Mercy won't be home tonight

Roast chicken, cabbage & smashed fresh soy bean fettucine, gussied up with gravy from the chicken, miso & cream.

Refusing to vote to reopen the government unless the ACA subsidies are extended is maybe the single most popular thing Democrats have done since…jeez, I don’t even know when. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/dont-lose-...

"... China learned this lesson the hard way in 2004, when global traders manipulated soybean prices — driving them from $540 to >$750 / ton, then announcing bumper harvests that sent them crashing to $500, trapping Chinese processors in high-priced contracts..." www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...

🧵Update: In Worcester, MA, ICE dragged a mother away from her baby & family—without identifying themselves or showing a warrant. She’s now in San Antonio. The community tried to stop them. They were met with force. Read it. Share it. Never forget it tinyurl.com/No-warrant @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

Calling out #BadFaith behavior is something that many #negotiators find difficult. Some feel awkward doing it. Others worry that they'll scuttle the #negotiation. However, addressing bad faith behavior swiftly & consistently is essential to achieving good, implementable deals.

As someone who has made pharmaceuticals for their career, I am begging you to never take a drug that hasn't been tested on animals first.

HOW TO MAKE GOOD NEWS SOUND BAD. A lesson in colonial reporting by wm's bbc in Scotland. #Independence🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Wall of Memory - Argentina's Desaparecidos / 'The Dissapeared' web.archive.org/web/20220114...

Me in the national security team group chat.

If you could commission one fictional character to fix the current US political problems, who would it be?

RIP Hind Rajab. Today is one year on since this little six year old was killed (my daughter's age) - and then so were the two brave medics who came to rescue her, as agreed by the IDF, as she cowered in her family car with her family dead around her. I will never forget this story.

August 2024: Edinburgh University 'exascale' AI supercomputer axed due to Labour spending cuts. January 2025: Labour’s first artificial intelligence growth zone to be sited in Culham, Oxfordshire.

We may not survive next week, but here are some figures to ponder. Our largest individual donation was under £20k. We have never had 2 individual donors give £10k or more in the same year. We have less than 500 regular donors, but need 800 to pay our bills. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/donate/

Japan eyes next-gen solar power equivalent to 20 nuclear reactors mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Hey, remember how when Musk started getting into 'monetising' Xitter, it was said that its biggest user base was in Japan? Well, how that's going... www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...

“Of all the disruptive horrors of the Trump administration, child separation was the worst. It was a project of intentional kidnapping, intentionally inflicted death and despair.” —Patricia J. Williams

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Politics is a fight, like a boxing match. Both have a big, partisan audience. (The difference is in politics the good fighters really are there first for what they can do to help their supporters). Ask yourself this: Are my political representatives making enough of a performance...

Having a lot of success with 'Sky Follower bridge' - in my case by installing the Chrome extension and running it from both of my Xitter 'Followers/Following' pages.

Why do you want to dismantle Scottish justice and roll out English law in Scotland? Why do you want to destroy the Scottish NHS and leave Scotland to take its chances with what England chooses? Why do you want to dismantle Scottish education and join the illiterates?