It's been a hell of a week but after a whirlwind adoption from the SSPCA, introducing Ziggy and Al. They're such beautiful boys and love each other almost as much as they love hugs. They're settling in so well and starting to explore more of our house. Today they saw a squirrel! 🐿️

For anyone else in Scotland receiving the Reform party's data gathering form and freepost envelope. Returning the envelope empty or with a nice note inside, rather than their form, is an excellent way of transferring money from their dodgy backers to the Royal Mail.

GNU Severus, Sev Sev, nonsense boy, bubbah, bubs, NO, wee daftie, tap tap monster, Lord precious paws, Sir Nonsense Face, splorey boy, Mr Sunshine, latterly good boy wobble bum and tunaface. Eater of plastic, starer at squirrels and magpies, lover of radiators and all other sources of warmth.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

This is all so odd. I've no idea what @robinince.bsky.social has said/been saying that could be *that* controversial. Even if you disagree (which I don't), these views are well within the boundaries of mainstream opinion/Overton window. I don't see the problem. (1)

An important statement from the desk of Robin Ince

But the good news is, by doing this, we defeated racism in the UK.

Imagine the reaction to allegations that Corbyn had made hissing gas noises to Jewish kids as a schoolboy - and then if he had responded to those allegations by shouting 'Bernard Manning!' at the journalists

The thing to note is that all the lads were boiling with white hot fury at old Jezza, but they will all at very least sit on their hands for Farage. Because the latter might be a fascist but he’s officer class, and he’ll listen to a lot important people who matter rather than disregarding them.

Slovenia also withdrawn

Ireland to boycott the Eurovision due to Israel’s participation in the competition Spain and The Netherlands are also withdrawing from the competition for the same reason www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

If Russia is banned for its war of aggression and atrocities against civilians in Ukraine, Israel should be banned for its genocide in Gaza. This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

It makes me both sad and energised having seen how much of the media is either complacent , appeasing or supportive of the hatred of trans people - the cowardly thoughtless cesspool of mediocrity bubbles with their bylines

The path is open, but has a few artificial pinch-points. Whilst now not blocking the path, the fence is still further out than it needs to be AND the spy robots are all still where they were, on the opposite side of the path from Leonardo, outside of the enclosure they're supposed to be protecting.

“I’ve heard about it 1,966 times now, but I think it’s all over”

That's an absolute joke of a diversion, which "Gavin N. Brown" should be forced to cycle daily, in the dark, from now until the 16th January or until such time as he accepts the ridiculous nature of it

Ferry Road Path CLOSED to pedestrians and cyclists from today to 16 January for installation of a security fence at Leonardo. TTRO closure order was signed on Wednesday with the below diversion: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/fi... #EdTravCyc @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike

I've mentioned this quietly, but - since the summer my hobby has been making this ambitious murder mystery podcast. A story. Narrated by me, with a mouthwatering cast. Partly interactive. Trailer is coming tomorrow but if you like the sound of this, please follow @murderbastard.bsky.social.

I get wanting to protect your bike from the elements. Taking up the space for two bikes in a busy bike rack isn't the one. Some people sadly don't really consider others at all.

“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

abc7news.com/post/openai-... Jesus Fucking Christ.

5 days left to grab a print of my latest oil painting! This is a region in the Eagle Nebula near the Pillars of Creation originally imaged by Hubble Telescope 🐡🔭🧪 stellerarts.com/pages/leviat...

Christmas has arrived on Regent Road over the weekend! #BigWheelNotYetTurning @edinburghminute.bsky.social

@edinburghminute.bsky.social One for your what's on bit!

Discovery Plus has taken another step into enshitification. In browser you now can't tell which feed is ad-free. There's also now ads dropped into the supposedly ad-free feeds (watch worlds on the BBC if you can). They've also made it much harder to get to the page for the sport you watch.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Leith Walk near the foot opposite Casselbank Street. Again zero plan or sign for blocking a cycle path. More conflict created without a thought. #EdTravCyc

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.

QMUL paid a quarter million pounds to QS ranking. That’s what those league tables do: they extract money out of universities for a game that relies on other universities somehow mysteriously not being absolutely brilliant anymore & pretending we can turn things that can’t be qualified into metrics.

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social Hi Simon! I just finished reading the 10th anniversary edition of Nimona and loved it. Would like to be one of your starter offerings for buy a stranger a book day this week. How much would a copy of that book + postage be? Want to offer more than one if I can.

Everyone: half-and-half scarves are abominations Team Ineos: allow us to introduce you to our new half and half kit. Marginal financial gains or something. #TDF25

Hi @marshadecordova.bsky.social you're suggesting worrying amendments which really won't work in our rural Oxfordshire setting and might require children to take bikes into 60mph HGV traffic. Have you read TfL's guide to Bus Stop Bypasses? Linked below! content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-stop-byp...

The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found. tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...

Keir Starmer is such a pointless man. Does nothing useful. Continues to fund and arm a genocide. Attacks the disabled. People dare to say "Fuck Keir Starmer" or "Freedom for Palestine" and suddenly his pointless lame duck party are getting coverage of a festival pulled because it made them sad.

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

@josebeentv.bsky.social Loving the WToB comms! I think you like pronunciation things and I have one about Alba. It's Scottish Gaelic which folk don't know so most Scottish folk would pronounce it as it's written but the correct pronunciation is more like Al-uh-ba. learngaelic.scot/dictionary/i...

Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games. Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙

It’s less than 2 weeks until The Tour Of Britain ! With stages in Scotland for the first time in the women’s tour - we can’t wait to show the World Tour teams our home roads! Who’s coming to watch?

"I wish we'd listened" to a movement that represents a miniscule minority of women, because that's how democracy should work when stripping rights from people. He is so unfit for the brief he has and for a blight on the LGBTQ+ community, which he represents as well as transphobes represent women.

i'll be honest this week has really made me think more deeply about how we segregate disabled people & how unacceptable that is. everything should be accessible

Worth sharing

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

There are around 10k private school kids in Edinburgh. 51 have moved to state schools in January. As I've repeatedly said the effects of VAT on fees are going to be minimal. www.thetimes.com/article/ab42...

Alex is right in this thread; if Trump has won then Europe is going to be forced to rethink everything, starting with how the hell we support Ukraine but v much not stopping there, across foreign/defence/economic policy

whatever happens, we need to accept that fascism is popular. racism is popular. misogyny is popular. I’m not sure how democracy moves towards progress when reactionaries have the votes.

Yeah one of the people attacking parkrun, free weekly events about movement and community, for daring to allow trans people to take part did a 'WHY IS NO ONE LISTENING TO THE POOR NAZIS???' Honestly, they just sink further into the mire of their own contradictions until all they can see is shit...

This is by far the most important reason to use ALT text, but there are other benefits, too. For example, people who speak different languages can plug your text into a translator if they don't understand an image. It also improves SEO and discoverability on bluesky.

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" well, ideally I was hoping to be curious, research, create stuff and enjoy beauty but apparently it's actually forever triaging emails until I die. I hope this one wild and precious life finds you well.