The babies have learned to swim!

Why isn't the Scottish parliament considering seizing Northumbria. It could work this time.

Every year since 2005 we've been saying "wow @themountaingoats.bsky.social song this year really encapsulates how this year feels." We'll be saying this for the rest of our lives.

Omg I finally got mine

We all deserve to be able to live with dignity and be treated with respect, even those of us who don't want to let others live with dignity or treat them with respect.

We've got 7 eggs, folks!

Damn, nearly once a week I'll see a story about delays on ferry's from Ferguson's, but this has been going on for 16 years?

I think what really fucking gets me about all of this is just the unwillingness to consider that segregation may actually be degrading and humiliating, and in ways that outway cis people's discomfort at having to live alongside us. One group matters and the other just doesn't.

Great interview with @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social here. Love the point (24:14) about having the church learn more about liberation theology. I'm also incredibly enthusiastic abt hearing a trans theologian talking abt the possibility of embodied incorporation within the body of Christ writ large

I got one of these crazy blogging cameras for work. This thing is nuts.

More generation from wind and solar is great, but we can't afford to be uncritical about the machinations of green capitalism just behind the scenes. Renewables are big business. The communities hosting renewables need to see the benefits and have a say in their development and planning.

I don't see what the big deal is here. You've just got to show your birth certificate to any person who demands to see it while you're trying to piss.

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen

Great to see this type of nuanced thinking from the @scottishgreens.org cllr in Shetland! Even increasing community benefit funds to £12,500 would be small potatoes in comparison to the return community-owned energy creates.

Unionmaxxing and solidaritymogging

We've got a banger of an episode this week with @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social Listen in 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3M54...

Still can't quite believe I got to go to on @themagnificast.bsky.social Anyway, if you want to know where the Catholic Church is on transness, check it out open.spotify.com/episode/3M54...

Do I have any friends on here who are or know an organiser working with @unitetheunion.bsky.social.

When you have a question, just consider pondering it for a bit.

Turn email off forever.

Trade unions in the UK are wild. They have huge political funds to give to the labour party, but basically no infrastructure set up telling workers how to unionise.

I've been watching Paul Verhoeven movies lately. He's got 2 types of movie: weird stuff with guns and weird stuff, but kind of horny.

I found a new hill to climb. Cool hill.

The Scottish election is over. I've heard enough analysis of the results. I've heard people on the left saying there isn't real working class representation in parliament. Great! Where is the next step? Who's helping people organise their workplaces and build working class power?

🧵Our new report with @foescot.bsky.social and Transition Economics has put a number on what Reform UK's climate policy rollback would actually cost: nearly 500,000 jobs destroyed within 3 years. That's comparable to almost every teacher in the UK losing their job. Here's what we found 👇

Here it is, a Bluesky exclusive: The goth legends of baby birds The best baby American Coot encounter of my life, 2hrs next to a pond dangling my camera less than an inch above the water, cut down to the best 8 secs, and slowed down to 25% speed, and set to Clan of Xymox' "Jasmine and Rose" 🪶 🐣

This is damning. Polanski is done.

Big corporations are already getting rich from renewables in Scotland. This would just be business as usual while we get left behind If we want renewables to make a difference for Scotland, they need to be owned by our communities and councils so that the profits stay here in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This article was written specifically to make me mad. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

🚨Our new report with @foescot.bsky.social and Transition Economics shows what Reform UK's climate policy rollback would actually cost: nearly 500,000 jobs destroyed within 3 years. That's comparable to almost every teacher in the UK losing their job. Read more here: bit.ly/49LLiWW

or you can read my story, because unlike whoever wrote this headline I don’t make things up nymag.com/intelligence...

Anyone not calling it a wesignation is a coward

Folks need to get turned on to the nuance here. Renewables are great, but they're also a huge business. The transition to renewables just be green capitalism. Communities and councils need to actually own renewables.

New research shows that more people abandoned Labour because they were too tough on immigration - and because of their support for Israel - than because they were too soft on immigration.

Look if you actually read the Parable of the Talents and conclude the master/ruler is God you have a very sad idea of God (Matthew and Luke below)

This is a very common, albeit extremely bad, deployment of the parable of the talents! The book @deandettloff.bsky.social and I published yesterday has an important correction to this kind of thinking.

You know, by coincidence I just published a book yesterday arguing the exact opposite of this: www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

Made a promo video for @deandettloff.bsky.social @mattbernico.bsky.social - happy publishing day! Or week for Matt, who will see this tomorrow.

I think it sucks that Offord lost the constituency vote, but he still gets to be the regional MSP. Loser energy off the charts.

It's book release day! Wild that this is out in the world, but @mattbernico.bsky.social and I are proud of it and eager to see what people think. Get a copy of Enough Is Enough wherever you like to get books. Here's the @fortresspress.bsky.social page: www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

Wondering what to do about capitalism? Our new book has the answers. Spoiler: the answer is abolish capitalism.

I first met Matt and Dean back in what, 2018? 2019? When they came on Coffee With Comrades to talk about liberation theology, being progressive in the Catholic Church, and general badassery. I've been a real fan ever since. Absolutely HYPED for this book, y'all need to pick up yerselves a copy

Congratulations @mattbernico.bsky.social and @deandettloff.bsky.social on publication day! Another successful bluesky book launch! (5 reposts)

Our book Enough is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology is out now! If you hate capitalism, you'll like this book. Ask your local book shop or library to get it for you and then give us a review on Jeff Bezos' hell site.

There absolutely should be sackings at the Electoral Commission over this. A fake party that does no campaigning, will have spent £0, and whose own holocaust denying leader acknowledged is only there to confuse voters, came 7th, only explainable if it did indeed confuse voters.

check out my buddy Matt’s book! looks hella interesting!

I can’t believe The Magnificast has been going for almost ten years, but Matt & Dean’s show and the writers/theorists/theologians featured on it have really been transformational for me. Really looking forward to this one.

The book is out tomorrow, folks. If you haven't pre-ordered now is the time to do it! www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

Enough Is Enough is out tomorrow and my grandma's marketing advice is to tell everyone it's less than $25, so here I am doing that. You can get a copy wherever you get books! www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...