It always fascinates me how window cleaners do things in Glasgow… 🪟🧽

First they came for the subeditors, replacing them with autocorrect. Then they came for the authors, replacing them with AI algorithms. Then they came for the librarians, and there was no one left to tell the difference. Read this! 👇

Today, I voted no on the bill that included funding for ICE. The events taking place in Minneapolis represent a cultural moment — where people across the political spectrum saw, with their own eyes, U.S. citizens abused, threatened, and gunned down. Our fundamental rights as Americans, trampled.

Brilliant launch tonight of @rutherglen900.bsky.social at Rutherglen Town Hall. Huge thanks to @southlanarkshire.gov.uk & Clyde Gateway for funding these spectacular celebrations! Even managed to meet Dougie the Pigeon, Cllr Margaret Cowie & @michaelshanksmp.co.uk… #Rutherglen #Rutherglen900

I hope they don’t mess wit #Bluesky cause this is the realest place on social media right na

Whenever I look at something, my next step is often to mute or block it - especially if I’m interested, & as a result, the Algorithm doesn’t know WHAT to do with me. If you feel like your #mentalhealth is low, take a break from #socialmedia. Go for a walk, call someone you love, help someone else.

Just joined another social media app that I'm seeing a lot of chatter online about with peeps apparently jumping ship from TikTok. Being a social media user since the Myspace days, here I go again, lol (I miss pre-M*sk Twitter)

Mutial sharing, reciprocity of posts is the answer to censorship, off and on social media.

I’ve been enjoying the beauty of deep reading. Social media is pumping us with cheap dopamine - to the point where many people can’t fully immerse themselves in a book. If you haven’t read in a while, I really encourage you to pit down the phone and pick up a book

Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word.

Especially Twitter. Ugh. 🙄

If anyone was wondering what the people’s response to an ICE occupation looks like, today was the answer. Thousands of Minnesotans shut down work, school, shops, and marched because federal violence won’t be tolerated. (1/2)

Sending solidarity to everyone in Minnesota from Scotland with love. 💙

“However, the ByteDance-controlled global TikTok entity will continue to manage e-commerce, advertising and marketing on the new US platform.” So all the financial data and potential for “undue influence” remains the same. Be wary…

Google is becoming absolute rubbish. I have to scroll and click to the second page before I stop seeing junk AI summaries and sponsored results. 🙄

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr quote about the white moderate is REALLY loud today.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

🎤The Rutherglen Schools' Choir are gearing up to "Sing it Loud" at the R900 launch event in Jan. Pupils from 10 schools are coming together to sing the Song of Rutherglen, written by Fraser Bruce. The choir sounded amazing at their first rehearsal last week! 🎶

I’m not much of a walker, but this looks like a really fun idea - and an amazing #Bluesky account to follow. 👇

Twenty years in Scotland & I still have the same expectations for my @forduk.bsky.social vehicle as I when I lived in Michigan. 🤷‍♀️ The reality: we left @arnoldclark.bsky.social as the standard was so low, it lost the franchise. Now over to @evanshalshaw.bsky.social for a 7-week wait for diagnostics.

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

👣🌎 #FreeAmericaWalkout #FreeAmerica

It's Walkout Week! Ask questions & get ready with Q&A office hours, Walk Out for a #FreeAmerica, find out what comes next at the mass call, and join in solidarity with Minnesota on Friday: Links down below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Gotta laugh at a classic social media gaff these days…

If you see this, can you respond in some way? Bluesky doesn’t seem to be Blueskying for me…?

The American people want the Epstein Files, not Greenland.

Beat the January blues by creating Friendship Bracelets at Springhall Library this week! 😄 Book your space online Tuesday 13th: southlanarkshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd... Wednesday 14th: southlanarkshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use

In 2017, the Cato Institute published research: 77% of Americans said on-duty police shouldn't use profanity. Opposition to police profanity reached rare bi-partisan consensus - 77% of Democrats & 75% of Republicans agreed that police shouldn’t swear at people. www.cato.org/blog/77-say-...

First time I’ve finished social listening after hours in 2026 - and I very much hope it’s the last time, too! I’m usually so good at maintaining a work-life balance… If you’re working in #socialmedia or #marketing, how is your 2026 going so far? 💬

I feel like I’m watching the Hallmark Channel’s version of “Mighty Ducks 3” or similar. 🙄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What did you do with your Christmas leftovers this week? We combined Jamie Oliver’s Vegetable Pasties and filled them with his Leftover Turkey and Leek Pie recipe instead, and it was absolutely delicious. Share what you made in the comments! #fridgetapas #christmas #food #foodie

Alasdair Gray would have turned 91 today. Happy birthday to the artistic and literary gunslinger, the Riddrie Kid; his words and imagery echo off every wall in Glasgow...

It got RIGHT up my nose today to get a mailing from Reform Party - they scraped my data from the Electoral Roll. Fascists have no place in Scotland.

Everyone, anyone? Check it out!👇⭐️

Really lovely bundles of cards made from primary school drawings from @missioscotland.bsky.social this year! 🎄

dear god!!! Scotland's Christmas Home Of The Year is doing ma head in🫢 - I just can't 🫣 - who are these people?🙄

WHY does @bbcscotlandnewsnot.bsky.social keep interrupting a LIVE DRAW for the World Cup with local news before the draw is actually finished?! Entire family is raging right now.

On #GivingTuesday, my wee family is donating to the Moira Anderson Foundation, a charity in #Scotland dedicated to supporting those affected by Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA). Donate via @justgiving.bsky.social: checkout.justgiving.com/1cdavjb4ej What charities do you support? Tag & I’ll follow! 👇

It’s while sorting through boxes of memories that you figure out just how cool you were when you were younger, and how much more you’ve grown since then…

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Thursday: Target to lay off 1800 corporate jobs Monday: Amazon to lay off 30,000 corporate jobs Tuesday: UPS to lay off 48,000 operations and management jobs You'd think with all these layoffs, CEOs and CFOs and COOs would also be fired. Alas.

As we approach the inevitable pause of SNAP, you can use this link to find banks in your area. Need help? Can help? Let's pull together & weather this as a community.

FDR slaughtered six million piglets to save farmers, then used the meat to feed the hungry. President Trump is starving families to feed his ego. Quite the evolution.

Has anyone used Tidal to stream music as an ethical platform in the UK? Please share your experience if so…

I’ll have to send a rider dispatch or a carrier pigeon instead: my U.S. Senator for Michigan, @slotkin.senate.gov, can’t receive emails. I’m undeterred though - paper and pen are at the ready! ✍️ #MichiganWomenForDemocracy #Michigan #PureMichigan

Raising my eyebrows at the Caerphilly by-election result with a @plaidcymru.bsky.social win this morning in Wales. Wondering if Caerphilly just crossed itself off a lot of people’s “Could I live there?” lists. It’s harrowing to see how fear, racism & xenophobia divide communities and erode trust.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

Just finished watching the final season of #ResidentAlien. It was filled with absolutely fantastic writing and acting! 💫 We are gutted there won’t be any future seasons.