It was an honour to welcome #Glasgow's LordProvost, Cllr Dr JacquelineMcLaren, to the exhibition yesterday. The ceremonial chain of office made an impressive addition to the many interpretations of the coat of arms on show @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social , even if it was just for an hour! 🐦🌳🔔🐟

We’re having an exciting week here with the Glasgow Coat of Arms exhibition! 🎖️ We were delighted to welcome the Lord Provost to the exhibition today, where we had an up-close look at the city’s ceremonial chain. Surprise! The exhibition will also be open this weekend during our community events.

Geneva: I was *so* ready to leave after a day 👎

This is a relatively small thing, but whatever you think of Swinney, I'm a big fan of political leaders saying, "no. Not THEM."

Yes, hell mend the English mainstream parties but this understates the role of the media in whipping up the hatred that those parties then sought to transfer into votes for themselves

There are now more transgender MSPs now than there are Joanna Cherrys, a win for us all

58 SNP 🟡 Labour 17 🔴 The fascists 17 Greens 15 🟢 Tories 12 🔵 Lib Dems 10 🔶 The media will call this a win for Reform and a disaster for the SNP 🤪

Day one, first expulsion

JK Rowling now being represented by a non-binary South Asian MSP named ‘Q’ is like something out of a movie. I can’t stop cackling about it.

is this good

Also stolen from the group chat.

England today.

England's voting fash at the same time as claiming Attenborough's a national treasure. Surely fashy policies contradict everything the aul fella purports to care about? It all just comes across as nauseating self congratulation when it's actually a deeply shameful day for that nation.

heading for fascism on a road paved by people saying "you can't possibly say we're heading for fascism"

Urgh, that weird limbo just before the results started coming in for indyref back in 2014. I love this picture of what may have been the last count I attended

Oh man that'll look great toppled on its side and beaten with shoes

Springburn artist Mandy McIntosh on her knitting design: "I knitted the Glasgow Coat of Arms as a protest ... to remind myself + others that the stewardship of Glasgow's social history/material culture is constantly made and should be in the hands of people" 🐦🌳🔔🐟

The truly damning thing about this is that we already had an effective ambassador to the US who did not want to leave her post. There was in fact no vacancy.

I've been SNP for years but today's a bit special - I get to vote for my former work experience schoolie! More seriously, he was a decent wee guy, a keen learner and I've been hearing good things about his performance as a councillor so 🗳

And remember - you don’t need ID to vote in the Scottish Parliament elections.

Delighted to finally meet Bella the beautiful Beither up at Stockingfield canal Bridge

You start to notice them once you look: carved in stone, tucked above doorways, or embedded in civic architecture across Glasgow. On Burnhouse Street, just around the corner from us, a Coat of Arms is carved onto the façade of the steamies. Dating to 1898, it reflects a time just seven years after

"The exhibition shows how public contributions have helped build a shared record of the symbol, reflecting a sense of collective ownership + civic pride ...the coat of arms featuring the bird, tree, fish + bell linked to St Mungo is presented ... as a living symbol rather than a fixed emblem" 🐦🌳🔔🐟

Exhibition exploring Glasgow Coat of Arms opens in North Glasgow

*weeks* I spent trying to get the slippers for my old mum that she like and fitted properly. Got there in the end, at which point mum decides she's always gone about in her bare feet* and has rarely** worn slippers** *never happened **always

a 16 year old trans girl got brutally stabbed to death and the media and political response was to reintroduce section 28, implement conversion therapy on the nhs, and strip every trans person in the country of our civil rights while smearing us all as rapists.

Is this very expensive stone paving on the pavement provided by the Council Tax payer while we are shunted onto ankle breaking grooved decking built in the gutter?

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

The security team at the White House Correspondents Dinner:

I'm kinda happy that the Arnold Clark building on Nithsdale Drive was chewed up and spat out by this big boiler. Gutted about the beautiful row of trees that would've been blossoming right now. Entirely unnecessary collateral damage

Maxwell Park being lovely in the sun 🌞 #Pollokshields #Glasgow

Bizarre experience after setting up my @glasgowcoa.bsky.social show on Friday. Heading for the bus + there's Pete the Street painting the @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social. Before I talk to him he hands me a rain-soaked business card/postcard and it's a print of the exact location of our 1st chat!

That's us all systems go at the @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social #Glasgow coat of arms exhibition! 🎉🐦🌳🔔🐟 I'll be here all day if anyone wants me to talk them through the exhibition boards though the photos do speak for themselves. Looking forward to seeing some of you!

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

A taste of Tom Allan's lovely carved wooden sculpture that's a permanent feature in @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social. It complements the #Glasgow coat of arms exhibition of over 200 images and items that starts there tomorrow! #Maryhill #heritage #GlasgowHeritage

I see protector of women Joanna Cherry has been saying she'd prefer to have had a cis male sex pest in power for the last ten years than a woman who disagrees with her

We’re so pleased to announce the next exhibition: 🐟🌳🔔🐦 Let Glasgow Flourish: The Glasgow Coat of Arms by Dr Caroline Scott The history of the Glasgow Coat of Arms is the history of Glasgow itself. Inspired by the stories of St Mungo, our patron saint, the city’s emblem has evolved over the years.

It was busy up the Town today

me to the deep state

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

To be fair, they weren’t saying that each of them were individually physically bigger than Jesus. They were saying that four Beatles in a trenchcoat were bigger than Jesus

My fave souvenir from #Glasgow's turn at City of Culture: one of a sheet of postcards that I think came with the Glasgow's Glasgow exhibition book. The Gallery of Modern Art pre-Niki de Saint Phalle and maybe even pre-cone?

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Me watching today as some Central Station lines are resuming but not the Cathcart Circle

STOP EVERYTHING ALEC GUINNESS IS AN ANAGRAM OF GENUINE CLASS

Eighty-five years ago, between the 13th and the 15th of March 1941, Clydeside was targetted by German bombers. While it's generally referred to as the Clydebank Blitz, locations were targetted along the length of the Clyde from Cambuslang to Greenock. Cont./ #glasgow #clydebankblitz

….in the sunshine and how lucky we are to still have what survives of it. Little did I know the blow the built heritage of the city would be dealt the next day. I hope one day we can look up on Union Street and see something renewed and hopeful emerge from under scaffolding. #glasgow #artist

What I think I will look like if I get a skinhead. VS What I will look like if I get a skinhead.