Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

This hits. We rarely get time to sit with research long enough for it to refine our thinking. It becomes ‘read fast, apply, evidence, move on’ - compliance, not scholarship. Protecting proper collegial space for reading, reflection and informed judgement feels precious - and worth exploring.

I've spent most of my afternoon doing professional reading and pulling together evidence for a course I've been doing.Yeah I'm off work today but to have the time and space to just sit, focus and properly reflect without having to jam it into a small space in my week, bliss! #EduSky #ScoEdu

A simple brief today people but it should make for an interesting #FebMusicChallenge26 playlist. My own choice below

I'm surprised he found someone to marry him, I'm not surprised he's divorced 😬 Goodwin can f**k himself because I somehow doubt there's going to be many women volunteering.

🚨 Israel has approved a plan to begin registering West Bank land as “state property” for the first time since 1967, Al Jazeera reports, citing Israel’s public broadcaster KAN. Analysts describe the move, advanced by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich & others, as de facto annexation, noting most...

I've decided the best way to watch ice skating is to delay watching it till about an hour in then watch from start on catch up, means you can fast forward all the breaks for the ice being reset 😄 #WinterOlympics #IceSkating ⛸️

The BBC reporting on Beth Upton’s current employment situation is definitely not in the public interest, and it is insane how much the British press freely get away with harassing her for the crime of simply living her life existing as a trans person in the UK.

Focusing on one cheese tonight with Fourme d'Ambert in a block and as a spread. Still trying to shake a cold so going for lots of fruit and flavour. #Cheese #SelfCare #EduSky

The Cass report has been widely cited internationally - as a prime example of bad science and what not to do. It would be a laughingstock were it not for the fact that these are children's lives we're talking about. The UK has seen a huge rise in suicide among trans kids. Cass has blood on her hands

LYING POLITICIANS SHOULD CARRY A HEALTH WARNING, THEY ARE DEPRESSING & DEMORALISING AND LIE CONSTANTLY

What, the folks pushing transphobia are the same folks as want a handmaid's tale dystopia? Surely not?

"Things like Intl law still really matter.. the UN still really matter" Cooper refused to say if the UK would uphold an ICC arrest warrant, the UK refuses to meet its genocide convention obligations & it refuses to defend ICC & UN officials being sanctioned by the US

This! ⬇️ Dr Upton, may you find a less toxic place and I wish you well 🫂 🏳️‍⚧️

Every single person involved in this hate campaign and everyone who has supported them - Anas Sarwar, for example - needs to be run out of public life the way they've run Dr Upton out the NHS. Being trans isn't a risk factor for people around you; this obsessive hate absolutely is.

Measles outbreak in London! Measles can give children pneumonia, brain swelling, blindness, deafness or KILL them. Antivaccers don’t care if they kill children because they are selfish insane news.sky.com/story/fast-s...

Trans people and real feminists are exhausted from telling people this was always the agenda. Whether you participated in the fear mongering against trans people or just stayed quiet and let it happen, you helped create this.

"They're all just scum not lotharios"👌🏻as usual the @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social 100% on point youtu.be/h870VJsLk_c?...

Yes!! #AsOne #SCOvENG #M6N 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I'm trying not to get to optimistic until the final whistle but also C'MON SCOTLAND!! #SCOvENG #SixNations #M6N 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉

Well this wasn't the start I was fearing 😮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉 #SixNations #M6N #SCOvENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

If Starmer decides to appeal the Palestine Action judgement, how much tax payers money will the government spend to help shut down criticism of a foreign state- Israel?

Well...that was unexpected. Shaidorov must think he is dreaming! Olympic champion and no one saw that coming! Love Sato's reaction over bronze 🥹 and Yuma Kagiyama always looks so happy, even though he'd have been hoping he could do enough for gold. #FreeSkate #WinterOlympics

#EyesOnPalestine #WestBank #OccupiedTerritories #IsraeliSettlerViolence

I'm not going to lie, Kevin Aymoz of France is my favourite male skater 🤩⛸️ #WinterOlympics

The Scottish Government has published updated statutory RSHP guidance for all schools in Scotland. It strengthens learning around consent, online harms, safeguarding, and LGBT inclusion. We’ve produced a clear and factual explainer outlining what it means in practice for schools.

Catching up with the mens free skate and Benoit Richaud really is the hardest working person at that rink! How many of his skaters are in this final? I know he coaches 16 skaters representing their countries at the #WinterOlympics I take my hat off to him for how he manages to support them all.

Yup! ai;dr = AI, don't read!

Went into the Orcadian Bookshop today & picked up all bar one of #WorldBookDay collection available in Scotland 🤩 so excited for our Reading Leadership Group to get stuck into these & promote them ahead of #WBD #ReadingSchools #ReadingForPleasure #Orkney #UKKidLit @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

Nadhim Zahawi covered up and lied about £3m in unpaid tax for 6 years. If he's looking for criminals he only needs a mirror.

Matt Weston take a bow! Olympic Champion! 🏅 I'm not going to pretend to know much about skeleton sliding but that was such a clearly ridiculously fast time! 😱 #WinterOlympics #TeamGB

We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.

If you’re affected by the High Court’s decision this week, you're not alone and we stand with you 💜 Here are some resources for our trans friends and allies 👇 goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...

I think the people of this country have had enough of tax-exile billionaires.

Migration is not colonisation — it’s contribution. Our CEO, Sabir Zazai, challenges harmful myths and calls for compassionate conversations about migration. It’s time to reject toxic narratives and recognise the value of those who make Scotland home. Full statement here: https://ow.ly/l8eC50Yf3SK

The impact on children is going to be horrific. Apparently we learned nothing as a nation from the damage caused by Section 28, and having grown up under it, I wish that were not the case.

Yesterday shopping run to Lerwick. Managed a 6 goose species day ( Taiga, Tundra Beans, Greylag, Whitefronts, Barnacle & Pinkfoot). Waxwing, 3 Greefinch and a superb Bittern reducing the Stickleback population at Spiggie. #birdingshetland

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

3 years till a likely next General Election and folk like this have so little faith in their party that is actually in government that they're convinced Reform will win. Pretty telling really 😬 And yet somehow it's all going to be the fault of people who won't vote for either of those options 🤨

But the ban is to remain in place while the government decides whether to appeal 😡 #RightToProtest #GazaGenocide

This ⬇️

Labour front benchers scratch their heads and wonder why their base has collapsed, why so many people are disillusioned, frustrated, furious. I mean, what is it about pissing on every value and principle your party once upheld that alienates the electorate? Beats me. 🤔

In a pretty grim decision - with one very considerable silver lining - the High Court has dismissed our challenge to the EHRC Interim guidance. A number of resources follow in a 🧵.

I do feel sorry for these people. I completely disagree with them but I do feel sorry for them.

Some people's ability to justify Starmer's choices and see them as canny and clever leadership rather than either uniformed with bad background checks or accepting of a likely sex offender, is as icky to me as the Tories or Reform.

It's STICKY MILDRED DAY! She's the stickiest creature who ever lived… And she HATES taking a bath! With silliness, antics and calamities brilliantly illustrated by the @rikinparekh.bsky.social, it's out today! 👉 alastairc.com/books/sticky... @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social #KidLitUk #StickyMildred

This is a shocking decision! The helmet had nothing about Russia or who killed them, just the faces of people this athlete has lost. Russia is still being given preferential treatment by the IOC while they are also banned for their war against Ukraine. This is on the IOC not Heraskevych!

Right Scots, let's get ready to show the Blue Labour leader what we think about his right-wing stance on pretty much everything! And his acceptance of people closely affiliated with peadophiles. And being bought and paid for by Israel. And not caring about Human Rights