One of the really, really toxic elements of stale 2-party politics is the notion that parties "own" voters. It's on full display here.

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Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Dale Vince’s latest bright idea — giving even more subsidies to oil and gas giants and "optimising" production — is about as sensible as his plan to mass produce gas from grass. Let's discuss!

If I'd arrived in Whitby on the Demeter, I'd be more circumspect about demanding they "stop the boats."

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How misinformation brought down a National Park. APRS Director @kat-jones writes in The Herald about the vested interests that brought down the proposed Galloway National Park and why this is a sobering lesson for all environmental campaigners. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...

big lad in front of me at the Kristen Hersh gig has a tshirt on that says THE TALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD which isn't true but I sort of admire it

amazing that David Attenborough has put out a film about the world's seas on his 99th birthday, including footage from Scotland's beautiful inshore, all very much worthy of @emmaroddicksnp.bsky.social's motion to Parliament and comment from @bluemarinef.bsky.social news.stv.tv/scotland/sir...

The Minister for National Security here, bragging that he has secured support at the US President’s residence for bombing food and aid deports. This comes after their army was caught executing 15 aid workers at point blank range, in cold blood.

Let me just say that Mridul Wadhwa is a bona fide heroine and an inspiration and the attacks on her were some of the most upsetting and enraging I've seen. If this country had one shred of decency it would honour her, not attempt to drive her out of public life. Fuck Britain.

It's classic British bigotry - you're not allowed to fight back against the suffering they inflict if they're doing it whilst using polite middle-class accents and long words. That would be very impolite. Sit quietly and take your beatings as we talk about just how reasonable this all is.

What a stint. The party changed for the better in so many ways thanks to his work.

It’s understandable that lots of people fell for the Woke free speech gender whatever drivel. It was everywhere people looked, often all they ever heard. Nonetheless, if you fell for any bit of it, you now need to reflect on how you were taken in and the uses that your credulity are being put to.

Of course the BBC piece on JSO makes as little reference as possible to accelerating climate breakdown www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I know that everyone keeps posting this, but this is seriously the best explainer of what's been going on culturally in the recent years.

1. A group of mainly men just chose to roll back decades of progress in women’s sports 2. This policy’s harm will fall hard on cis women and girls now caught up in Seb Coe's crusade against Trans+ people 3. Intersex and Trans women and girls are ALREADY - unfairly - banned from female athletics

has anyone got a non-conspiratorial theory about why so much of the media was happy to write about Greta T when she was campaigning on climate issues, but then suddenly it all dried up when she also campaigned against genocide in Gaza?

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory

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The Onion summer writing fellowship is seeking applicants! It's six months, good salary and benefits. This year's applicants do NOT have to complete the Eating Challenge, as it turns out this does not adhere to Illinois labor law. We apologize to those who have died in the past.

Transphobes and homophobes are relentless in their mission to link the idea of sexual criminality with queerness. It's a central plank of their ideology. It's not based in fact, or any interest in preventing sexual harm. It's impervious to being caught out as hypocritical.

got a meeting with an MSP today that's been rescheduled to 2.30 because of a dentist appointment, and my colleague said to me "oh so we're now in the tooth hurty slot?"

the wild leeks are up! they are invasive species, so fill your boots but don't spread it, especially into wild garlic habitats - it's less interesting but still great, for example, make a plain potato soup and just blend a lot of this leek in raw with a couple of mins to go 🤤

Annaliese Dodds has made a principled decision to step down from her role following Starmer's move to cut foreign aid to fund defence spending. Like her, I believe withdrawing from humanitarian commitments is both cruel, counterproductive, and short-sighted.

anyone in Central Scotland looking to rehome cats or kittens? (asking for a friend)

hate doing a typo, double hate doing a typo in an email subject line, triple hate it when that becomes a long discussion, quadruple hate it when it becomes the subject for a zoom meeting

Israeli soldiers held by Hamas are "hostages", but Palestinian children held by Israel are "prisoners"...

we do love to hear it www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Having coffee with @mrjamesmack.bsky.social while watching them build the #SagradaFamilia and making Gantt chart jokes. The people across from us left a pigeon buffet.

@alzabosoup.bsky.social during your episode on chapters 11/12 of Shadow - Severian's visions following the ceremony - you say the Malrubius vision can't be real. But ... surely it could be the heirodule?

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

Ok here’s the pitch: inglorious bastards style show about a gang of trans women that survived the Hirschfeld clinic and now they’re hunting nazis

SG consultation's on a National Park for Galloway is live until the 14th, and the thoughts of my former employers @aprscotland.bsky.social on it are here, including the niche questions I hadn't given much thought to (I really want it to cover the Solway too) Please fill in! aprs.scot/resources/re...

Am in media today talking about the Internal Market Act (having done a report for @scotlink.bsky.social) news.stv.tv/politics/war...

just did a Welsh radio news prerecord on [redacted]

your early springtime Barcelona tips, please

Remembering Matilda, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade - January 13 marks 85 years since the death of Matilda, whose name at birth was Abake – meaning ‘born to be loved by all’ among the Tarkar people of Western Africa. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

my favorite game to play when determining the root cause of any global or political strife is “ronald reagan or 9/11?”

Saw a take on here that was bemoaning that "natural disasters are political now", and it says so much about how desperate those at the centre are to disengage with the real world. I am sorry but you think the devastating climate change fires are somehow not political???

Here are some paintings I’ve done recently. Enjoy, I guess?

you need to take Greenland before you can expand into Western Europe

this is the first time I've ever knowingly seen five planets at the same time - Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn (plus a plump half moon; terrible picture shows Mars, much redder and more obvious by naked eye)

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You got that photo for the JRR Tolkien Calendar 1974? Sure boss, real sexy like you wanted.

LMAO she snitched at least. Grim.

If we were going to do this damnfool thing, Northern Ireland is bigger than ten states, Wales would be the 33rd biggest, and Scotland would be 23rd, just ahead of NC. Yorkshire alone would be next to NI in the list. Have some ambition. We could be ten states and have some influence. But let's not.

Nothing is more tedious, personally, in my particular field than this clicker counter journalism. Zero context for why people make channel crossings. It was a calm day, before the weather turns. Without safer means to seek asylum it was pretty obvious people would cross www.bbc.com/news/article...

Had a dream that ended thus. "You know how you can pin other apps to your public profile? Well, one of my pals has pinned the calculator app, and her two favourite functions are divide and multiply." For some reason had me in hysterics to the point it woke me up.