I dunno what prompted a clothing brand to launch a men’s sweater called the Rosa Parks with an advert featuring a man taking a seat, but we are where we are

The thread about the Great Edinburgh Beer Duty Fraud: Boiling the Wort and Cooking the Books It was 3AM on Christmas morning 1933 when - after a long and cold stakeout - not Santa but three agents of His Majesty's Customs & Excise entered the renowned Bell's Brewery on the Pleasance and caught the…

I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

Great headline

Not ESPC but too glorious not to share

This is a good read from someone who knows what they are talking about 👇

🗣️"The Life and Times of Esta Henry: Queen of The High Street". Esta's remarkable story gets an outing again, with updates since last time! ✨ 📆 Tuesday 4th Nov 🕡 doors 18:30, start 19:15 ⛪ Braid Hall, Morningside Parish Church, 2 Cluny Gardens 🫰 £3 for non-members of Morningside Heritage Association

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

Bless them 😢 "Our centres are full of black cats which sadly no one wants to adopt". www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2508220...

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

Surely Jason Orange can help him out.

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

Just seen Farage and Truss (grifting over in the US) described as "the Slug and Lettuce".

@chartmusictotp.bsky.social have you seen the latest news….

Went along to Edinburgh Local Heritage Network fair at Ocean Terminal today. Met all these interesting folk. Will check for more members at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/heritagenetwork

Genuinely thought the Americans whole excuse for the gun thing was to prevent tyrannical governments? Guess they just *really* like kids to be murderer in school shootings. The more you know!

Absolutely embarrassing from @liverpoolecho.co.uk: “I went to see Sally Morgan and watched people moved to tears”. If you wanted to know how her show works, and why it’s awful advice to tell people to try it out, we’ve been doing the work for 15 years. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/rev...

70% of Irish twenty-five year olds now live with their parents. I wrote about why that's obviously a very bad thing. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

I wrote about the word itself back in 2009. Your piece is excellent and very well focused on actual usage and the implications

I wrote a few thoughts on Twee as a discourse style and why it's a problem. And if you can spare 5 minutes to read it, I'd love to hear your thoughts medium.com/@irene_68410...

Why, in 2025, is a national newspaper still putting this twisted maniac* on its front page? *and his air fryer recipes

The thread about Esta Henry; the life and times of the Queen of the High Street On this day (January 15th) in 1963, a small silver airliner with 45 people on board took off from Sao Paulo in Brazil en route for Rio de Janeiro. Moments later it plunged into the ground in the city's suburbs, taking…

My Tupperware after I left tomato sauce in it for too long.