ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

Fun fact relating to id cards, in the UK people applying for a visa (not asylum seekers) are allowed to work, however the DWP will not issue an NI number to visa applicants which means nobody can hire you without a risk of a fine.

Vlure @ TRNSMT New album is out on Friday, big favourite from TRNSMT. Transports you directly back to Trainspotting era. 📸 for thegoldenbough.co.uk/2025/08/09/t...

Eldest looking pensive on a trip to Largs #ShareMondays2025 #FSPrintMonday

Mean City Festival @ Classic Grand, Glasgow Fun way to spend a saturday night, seems like a scene worth supporting and Meryll Streek was amazing as always. Could do with a new name though, very confusing to have 2 festivals with the same name 📸 Gimp Fist, Meryll Streek

Underworld @ Glasgow TRNSMT This was a pretty surreal one, been legents for about as long as I have been alive. 📸 for www.instagram.com/the_golden_b...

Has anyone coined a term for the type of activism that seems to concentrate solely on criticising the smaller / indie actors who are at least attempting to do something positive?

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

An actual quote, translated by me: "we paid a lot of money for the war, now we gotta split the percentages of the land. We already did the teardown, the first step in urban renewal." This is Israel's minister of the treasury. I feel sick. Physically sick.

Meryl Streek @ Back Doune the Rabbit Hole One of my festival highlights and is in Glasgow playing the Mean City festival on Saturday - classicgrand.com/tc-events/me... - Very much recommend

Join the anti-racists this weekend: 📣 Sat 20th Sept, 12 noon Buchanan Galleries, Glasgow 📣 Sun 21st Sept, 11 am Cladhan Hotel, Falkirk 📣 Sat 20th Sept, 1pm Alloway Place, Dundee

Chloe Slater @ Glasgow TRNSMT Wanted to hang around this one for longer, it sounded good 📸 for thegoldenbough.co.uk/2025/08/09/t...

"It’s our most ambitious gig in the sense that we’ve never done anything anywhere near this big in terms of the number of bands."

On that note, if anyone has any favourite music photography zines / books, please send recommendations my way

Finally working on my first photo zines starting with Stag and Dagger and turns out my favourite photo taken that day was these 2 on their way to a birthday party.

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

Live review: Outwith Festival // Dunfermline // 06.09.25 Featuring @arabstrap.scot The Twilight Sad and Haiver.

Cowboy Hunters @ Edinburgh Psychfest Caught them a HouseGuest previously and becoming one of my favourite live shows around. I find it very hard to not love a 2 peice band

Heartworms @ Edinburgh Psychfest Really enjoyed this one, goth rock, great show

Sunstinger @ Back Doune the Rabbit Hole Kids were less into mid afternoon shoegaze than I was.

You can't even send a birthday card to the most notorious paedophile of all time and call him your best pal anymore because of woke

Funny how "protecting women" is so important to Wes when it comes to smearing the trans community, but not when it comes to his pals who appear to be an actual threat...

New Banksy is fucking nail on the head 🔨 👏 Free Palestine 🇵🇸

OK! 25% off ANYTHING with code rdgbcf! that's CDs, tapes, digital, t-shirts, print sets, posters ... fill ya boots, today only x #BandcampFriday

Back Doune the Rabbit Hole - Mima Merrow, Ferocious Dog and Bay City Rollers. Still have most of a summer of photos to go through. Such a fun one. 📸 + review @ www.isthismusic.com/back-doune-t...

The Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan is due to appear before Westminster Magistrates Court in London after being charged with criminal damage and harassment following an alleged incident, involving a transgender woman, last year

Honeyglaze, Getdown Services, La Securite and Anna Erhard at Edinburgh Psychfest. Ended the night with deja vu saying La Securite reminded me of a band I seen in Montreal a few years back, turns out that was jetlag and I had shot them a few years ago in Montreal (www.instagram.com/p/CwJd-gJs5r...)

Good. This is what governments should be doing.

Edinburgh Psych Fest brought together a diverse range of musical styles, united by a desire to Get The People Going Blind Yeo, Getdown Services and Bikini Body among the highlights – review below...

Had a blast at Edinburgh Psychfest, been excited to go to it for a while and full of nostalgia for summer hall. One of the best festivals of the calendar and thanks to them + @ayecandyphoto.bsky.social for having me. (Heartworms, Cowboy Hunters, La Securite, Honeyglaze, Swiss Portrait)

But arresting pensioners for protesting against a genocide is still fine

The extraordinary @themoonlandingz.bsky.social at Edinburgh Psychfest #musicphotography

i don't enjoy the romanticizing of some golden past of the web that web never died you made all the decisions about where to publish and where to spend your time

And a happy "Tossing out the TERFS" day to you as well! While It's a shame to see Mothin Ali show support for MPs advocating for segregation after voting closes, it's notable that pretty much all candidates who had outright transphobic positions lost.

As Yvette Cooper pushes forward new laws to make it harder for child refugees to get safe passage to join their parents in the UK, here's a picture of her from 2020 campaigning for the complete opposite.

Labour's 'Farage is right, just don't vote for him' strategy is going about as well as expected

Found this surprising scene on my run this week, Bananaman or someone trying a practical study on the Banana equivalent dose?

The K's @ TRNSMT 📸 for thegoldenbough.co.uk/music/

According to anecdotal reports, the new in-fashion insult heard around schools and playgrounds is: "Your dad shouts at hotels!" 😮😆 ~AA

Not the usual fare, but hard not to smile watching Myles Smith playing @ TRNSMT. Was just full of joy. 📸 + Review @ thegoldenbough.co.uk/2025/08/26/t...

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

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‘I’m a lesbian and feminist. I’ve been harmed by men. So I wouldn’t fight for trans people if it hurt women’s rights. Yet I’m called a groomer and a misogynist’ Rebecca Don Kennedy, head of the Equality Network, on how dark it’s got for trans people in Britain www.heraldscotland.com/news/2541309...

Was kinda expecting more people to be dressed as gladiators at the colosseum to be honest

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

The DIY Punk Festival ended up being superceeded by ... a KPOP Demon Hunters singalong at the cinema just to keep everyone on their toes

Reviewed my first family music festival, Back Doune the Rabbit Hole. Had a really great time, I think the family setup was perfect and music wise had a lot of hidden gems. Review @ www.isthismusic.com/back-doune-t...

I have a *lot* of photos to go through, few from the holiday in Rome, was surprised that we seen a beaver(?) in the River Tiber, it was quite exciting although I couldnt get a decent photo of it.

Been a long time since I have seen something genuinely good on the internet, this is what the internet used to be and we can do it again (music video channel that plays silly music videos) vole.wtf/vtv/