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One day I shall finish my to-read pile* *no, I don’t believe it either.
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Laura McInerney
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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Quote with your model of masculinity.
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And he asks me with both eyes: why is it daytime? why does night always fall? why does spring bring nothing in its basket for wandering dogs but useless flowers, flowers and more flowers?”
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“Il a deux trous rouges au côté droit.”
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“There were never strawberries like the ones we had”
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“Frosty winds bring a chill And my futon’s the colour of cold.”
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“it wis january and a gey dreich day the first day ah went to the school so my mum happed me up in ma good navy-blue napp coat wi the rid tartan hood birled a scarf aroon ma neck pu’ed oan ma pixie an ma pawkies it wis that bitter.”
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2 days ago
Memorial To A Marriage, 2002, sculpture by New York based artist Patricia Cronin
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I am in this tweet and I don’t like it.
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Holyrood
3 days ago
"We should be grateful for those who learn a second language, whether that be Russian or French at university or English in a school or community centre," writes
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We should be grateful for lovers of language - wherever they learn
Among the tributes to playwright Tom Stoppard, who died last month aged 88, was an extraordinary story told by a profess...
https://www.holyrood.com/comment/view,we-should-be-grateful-for-lovers-of-language-wherever-they-learn
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Festive Porpentine
4 days ago
My latest display is going great guns. A victory for emotional manipulation.
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Got nothing to read.
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Post something random.
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild: Foxes (back garden wall) Black goth squirrels in Washington DC Toad (Castle Campbell) Deer (on the way to work) Sparrowhawk (in the back garden).
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Robert Saunders
11 days ago
Yes, govt bent to pressure from MPs over the benefit cap. That's how parliamentary democracy works - and why it's a good thing. It means a leader has to carry a wider movement with them. There's a counter-pressure to the strategists in No. 10. It matters that we elect a Parliament, not just a PM.
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵
11 days ago
The thread about the Singing Street; skipping, hopping, dancing and birling through the backgreens and streets of 1950s Edinburgh This thread marks a double milestone for Threadinburgh, it is the 300th post since the first in September 2022 and the visit counter just ticked past the 500,000 mark!…
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The thread about the Singing Street; skipping, hopping, dancing and birling through the backgreens and streets of 1950s Edinburgh
This thread marks a double milestone for Threadinburgh, it is the 300th post since the first in September 2022 and the visit counter just ticked past the 500,000 mark! I'm marking this occasion by finally chalking something off my to-do list that has been there far too long. Perhaps by providence, I recently acquired a little booklet self-described as "a Merry-Ma-Tanzie of Skipping, Hiding, Hopping, Birling, Stotting, Playing and Dancing Rhymes". The Singing Street, to give it its name, was the accompaniment to a 1951 amateur film with the same title. Described by The Scotsman as "a wonderful picture of Edinburgh - as true perhaps as has ever been put on the screen", it turns seventy-five next year. It's all too easy to treat its "astonishingly evocative scenes" as a pure nostalgia trip back to an Edinburgh which has disappeared into living memory, but this was never the intent of the film. It is so much more than just a skip and a hop down memory lane, so let's celebrate it by telling the tale of how and why it came to be and by recognising its importance as a piece of a wider archival work. Once that is out the way shall we step scene-by-scene and song-by-song, back to the streets of 1950s Edinburgh to compare them with the present day.
https://threadinburgh.scot/2025/11/27/the-thread-about-the-singing-street-skipping-hopping-dancing-and-birling-through-the-backgreens-and-streets-of-1950s-edinburgh/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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LeithMotive
13 days ago
Without discounting the experience of those men willing to talk about their experiences with prostate cancer, be very cynical about this push for general screening from the charities involved. There is not good evidence that the benefits offset the risks.
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Getting really fed up of
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continually moving things around esp. ingredients.* Do you actually want my business? *rather than over-processed crap.
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Mhairi McFarlane
17 days ago
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
absolutely beautiful piece about Rachel Cooke by her husband.
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David Chance
18 days ago
Plaudits to whoever put this poster up next to the Park Road Tesco in Toxteth.
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James Chalmers
18 days ago
Lockdown "might not have been necessary at all" seems like a bold claim but, perhaps more importantly, likely helps ensure that if we *do* need it for a future pandemic we won't get it, because the inquiry said we didn't need it. (The qualifiers "might" and "if we acted earlier" will be forgotten.)
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Fleur Jenssen
18 days ago
Don't give up 'cause you have friends Don't give up You're not beaten yet Don't give up I know you can make it good
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Colin Yeo
21 days ago
Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system
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sianushka.bsky.social
21 days ago
Gosh, this is bad
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Polish PM says railway track blast was 'unprecedented act of sabotage'
An explosion that damaged a Polish railway track on a route to Ukraine was an "unprecedented act of sabotage", Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday, and he vowed to catch those responsible for an incident he said could have ended in tragedy.
https://www.reuters.com/world/explosion-polish-railway-track-was-caused-by-sabotage-pm-says-2025-11-17/
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This is completely shocking.
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Stella Creasy MP
21 days ago
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
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Nicola
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Was my reaction to this supposed to be crying with laughter?
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"Wuthering Heights" | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Warner Bros.
https://youtu.be/3fLCdIYShEQ
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David Benedict
23 days ago
The photos are a delight; the captions, delicious.
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Oh no. She was so brilliant.
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Oh FFS.
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Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
Labour had laid the ground to break a manifesto pledge on taxes for working people but has now made a U-turn
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/14/rachel-reeves-to-abandon-plans-to-raise-income-tax-rates-in-budget?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Good article. Librarians are paid unbelievably little for what they’re asked to do.
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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/11/britain-value-culture-striking-workers-a-british-library-zadie-smith?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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sianushka.bsky.social
26 days ago
Some pics from Kyiv and Kharkiv. The bombed building is a school.
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I wanted the bed in the illustration as a child. I am not a real princess and would have slept perfectly well.
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Caitlin Moran
27 days ago
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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Mark McGeoghegan
27 days ago
Chaser to the shot that is the
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episode from last night. None of this campaign against the BBC is being done in good faith.
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VictorianLondon
28 days ago
sexy Victorian souwester-based role-reversal futurology (ankles! ANKLES! she holds the umbrella FOR HIM!)
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VictorianLondon
28 days ago
this amazing cartoon dates from 1889
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👇This. Do wonder why the BBC did it. Any other argument is just “it’s alright if it’s my side doing it”.
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BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign - live updates
Davie says
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Frances Evangelista
about 1 month ago
“The librarian is a seeker and keeper of truth, and that makes her a dangerous figure in the eyes of those who fear the fullest, most comprehensive, and most uncomfortable truths emerging.”
lithub.com/in-praise-of...
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In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times
Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I…
https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-librarians-in-dangerous-times/
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We are really shooting ourselves in the foot here. In the dim and distant past, my state school offered French, German, Russian, Latin, Italian and Ancient Greek.
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Having recently read EM Forster’s “The Machine Stops”, I think less time scrolling, more time reading would be a Very Good Idea.
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Power cut!
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Festive Porpentine
about 1 month ago
Oh do read this thread, it’s ace.
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God, I know that line well and it must have been horrible. All best wishes to the victims.
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sianushka.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
Important reporting from Louise Callaghan Men think they’re watching sex-cam models. In fact they’re slaves
www.thetimes.com/article/23c8...
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Men think they’re watching sex-cam models. In fact they’re slaves
A Sunday Times investigation finds that woman have been raped, imprisoned and forced into degrading acts at 24-hour streaming factories in Colombia
https://www.thetimes.com/article/23c8eae4-f893-4472-a05a-65b93bd6fc9b?shareToken=3b0a073d2fccc1b202e78afe9f19c4dc
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Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture, known for her self portraits and depictions of the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working classes
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#GrandDesigns
this week seems to have more money than sense (or taste).
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