Escher's Ants On A Möbius Strip... still freaks me out 😬

Lets say no to racism and the far right this Sunday down Southside!!!

Cardboard Sid Vicious has news. A BAD BAD PLACE is 99p Kindle Daily Deal share.google/Akyxq78flpM9...

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With enormous regret, SLAB is today advising supporters not to vote for ANY Scottish Labour candidate in this election. There are several pro-trans Labour candidates standing on 7 May, but a vote for them would now sadly be an endorsement of explicit transphobia. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

Just breaking up the timeline

Spring is in the air

Don't bogart that fish, dude!

I'm trying to gather autobiographical material on a 1970s Scottish singer/songwriter, Brian Joseph Friel. Among a number of albums, Arriverdici Ardrossan. Lovely songs like Salad Green Geraldine. Anyone?

Bondi beached.

Remembering the great Ronnie Lane on his birthday

Music & scents can bring forth astoundingly clear memories as they stimulate the amygdala (emotion) and hippocampus (memory) parts of our brain. Music can be entwined w memorable life events so nostalgia and emotions fix those memories, even from v young age magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/con...

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Trump always does what he accuses others of doing.

LEFT: 1960s Robert Mueller, a wounded and highly decorated soldier in Vietnam. RIGHT: 1960s Donald Trump, a draft dodger at reform school, not athletic enough to make the team so picking up jock straps as “staff.”

Now available on Ch4 player. Watch it then visit #Tarragona

Wtf is up with the 6 o clock bbc news?

Here are 20 names and contacts. More coming. Take a minute and get into some good trouble: 1️⃣ SHARE this post to spread the word. 2️⃣ GET contact information. 3️⃣ SEND your message via email or social post. mdavis19881.substack.com/p/lets-put-p...

And the greatest work of art associated with him- Benjamin Britten and his Embittered Bittern.

Having an extended weekend in Glasgow & walking around the city centre. Here is the shell of the Mackintosh building of Glasgow School of Art eight years after the second fire of 2018. Still with no agreed final plan & timescale of when it will be rebuilt. A Glasgow & Scottish scandal.

Glasgow after the fire. A city which has witnessed change for good & bad but which is now failed by the status quo & party politics. Many of the people of the city know this but can politics & public life reflect this? My essay on @bellacaledonia.bsky.social bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/11/g...

Late as in the late Dentarthurdent. It's a sort of threat, you see...I'm told they can be very effective.

Three snippets concerning the parhology of the New Right: open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Glasgow railway station fire again shows vulnerability of city’s older buildings www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Farage & right-wing populism will pay an electoral price for their pro-Trump views. 67% of people are anti-Trump; a mere 4% very pro-Trump. While Farage's Reform are seen by 70% as pro-Trump; the Greens by 56% as anti-Trump. Putting Farage in an electoral ghetto. Via YouGov.

How many, watching the devastation in Union St, are quietly reciting 'I'm very thirsty, I'm thirsty too. Here's the drink that's made for you.?'

Interesting to see Fauldhouse crop up in this list from The Guardian. (And Addiewell getting an honourable mention.)

Fauldhouse, great place to come from. To go to? Well, the Graun says so.

Wtf! Wordle 1,721 X/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

Need a dose of humor in these unfunny times? That's why god created Gary Larson. If you don't want to read the article, just go through the stand-alone comics in it ... My favorite is "Nerds In Hell". screenrant.com/gary-larsons...

Published in New York and Toronto today 🥳 Huge thanks to @sohopress.bsky.social and @harpercollinsca.bsky.social for taking a chance on A Bad Bad Place.

It's long been assumed Putin has kompromat on DJT. If so, at which point does he decide there's nothing left to do but use it?

Together we stand, divided we fall: 28 March. London. Be there. Full info: www.togetheralliance.org.uk

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states. The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.

Tried and failed to buy a ticket for the B52s in Glesga this June 😭. If any of you lovely people have managed to get some and have a spare I’ll buy it, plus a few rounds!

Tonight if anyone has a wee spare hour www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/franc...

Sixty years ago, Jennie Lee's vision created The Open University 🎓 Welcoming all backgrounds, millions have started life-changing journeys. #OUfamily #TheOpenUniversity #OU60 💙

#Edinburgh peeps, more upcoming author event 🚨 klaxon 🚨 news! Join us on Tuesday March 3rd for a neurodivergent writers showcase, with Tom Newlands & Elspeth Wilson www.tickettailor.com/events/theed... #Edimbourg #books #livres #Bruntsfield

12 years ago, on Twitter, I posted this thing where George Osborne visits a hospital. It went viral... when someone else tweeted it without crediting me. Anyway, it looks like it's been retooled for Wes Streeting.

An excellent long read on Dick Gaughan and the recent R/evolution box set. songstudies.substack.com/p/different-...

INVITATION 🎉 A Bad Bad Place event. No cake but Queen Val McDermid will be there. Extras include especially lovely bookshop and beach www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/franc...

Nice to see Hibs and Livingston doing a favour to the team between them. Geographically speaking.

My new graphic novel, Nine Knives, comes out next week from @markosia.bsky.social In it, you'll get People talking in refections...

A bit emotional reading such a stunning review of A Bad Bad Place. And in such an amazing lineup 🥹🥹 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

My latest blog is all about the oldest image of Stirling Castle open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

New book on pre-order - 'Royalty and Ritual: The Landscape of Power in Early Medieval Scotland and Europe' edited by Professor Alex Sanmark ( @thinkuhi.bsky.social Institute for Northern Studies), Dr Mark Hall, Professor Jane Geddes & Dr Oisin Plumb (UHI INS) tinyurl.com/2w43wrt5