Listening to #BBCRadio3 this morning has been fantastic. Great show, great range of music linked to Dallas and Fort Worth, past and present. Insightful interviews with fine people. Such a counterbalance to political news of the USA. Gives hope that the good people might just win out.

Oh look, a leader with a backbone… Spanish PM Sánchez has stated that Spain will neither recognize the govt of Nicolás Maduro nor support any U.S. military intervention in Venezuela, warning that such action would violate international law and endanger regional stability.

'Like Mark Anthony minus the toga and brains, he struts and preens, cries havoc! and lets slip the dogs of war' - good piece. Now time for Starmer and others to stop their lapdog ways and speak out.

'Come to Edinburgh and get smashed' - great quote in a great thread from Andy. My whinge for the day is that I ask the media to stop regurgitating the line about how many millions of pounds it brings to the city, and instead tell us where the money goes, specifically to benefit local communities.

Talking Heads’ bassist, Tina Weymouth, from the August 1985 issue of Vogue #Womensart (Via TalkingHeads Fans FB)

To celebrate the new year A THREAD of successful female Scottish writers. Here's too us. Let's start here 👇 Hugely popular Mary Brunton's second novel, Self Discipline inspired Jane Austen's Emma. She sold TONS of books. I 💕 her /1

Wandered by this today. Ignoring the typo, I just got images of people testing the threat; hauling a fish supper from a backpack, or carefully unveiling a goldfish in a tank...

With my glorious new-old badge, I am sartorially prepared for the work Christmas lunch 🧥🐸🎀

Cornish artist Kirsty Elson creates art with driftwood and other found material #WomensArt #December7th #ArtAdvent 🎄

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein didn’t just fund the Silicon Valley network linking founders of Amazon, Google, Facebook and SpaceX. Emails reviewed by @bylinetimes.bsky.social show this opened the door to Bitcoin’s core developers just as the project faced collapse bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/h...

When they tell us finances are stretched and we all have to make sacrifices, this is how our government chooses to use police officers' time. Apart from being immoral, and difficult for the brave protesters being arrested, what's the cost to the taxpayer of court cases, police hours and paperwork?

Such a great campaign to get recognition for a woman who was mourned by people of her time. I pass that cairn twice a week and it's been good to see people stop and read the story. Well done Sara and Andy!

Well done Scotland. The Tartan Army vs ICE on the streets of World Cup America next summer is going to be box office. American blowhards used to beating up kids are about to face having the piss mercilessly taken out of them by men in skirts. Lovely stuff.

Otter fishing on the water of leith earlier this month. Absolutely unfazed by onlookers on the walkway only a few feet above. @wolct.bsky.social #Edinburgh #otter #wildlife

Jamie Mann does an excellent job of exposing the transparency failings in UK and Scottish property records here. www.theferret.scot/russian-olig...

I see the argument. Ripping down all that concrete and replacing it with expensive flats built for tourists doesn't seem a good option for the community. Refurbish it, be creative about its future uses.

I agree. Says only 2051 homes for social housing have been built in Edinburgh in the last five years, yet everywhere you go student flats are popping up. They make loads of money for investors and destroy local communities. While homeless people live in atrocious accommodation. Disgraceful.

In the UK there has been a decades long campaign against the BBC by the right wing. They can’t stand the fact that the BBC is owned by the people and corrects the narrative that the right wants to impose on the public. The BBC belongs to the British people, not a billionaire. #DemVoice1 #DV1

Autumn in Aberlady.

This just sounds out of order. Once again police time wasted accosting people at random, then retreating when the accusation made is found to be an embarrassing mistake. And the students who had to deal with this...Edinburgh University should apologise and learn from this.

Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker, was elected New York’s 111th mayor on Tuesday, riding a historic surge of enthusiasm as the nation’s largest city embraced generational and ideological change. Here are seven takeaways from election night.

Greatest scientist between Newton & Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist, died #OTD 1879; formulated Theory of Electromagnetism, four equations which underpin modern information & communication technologies. Monument George Street Edinburgh | James Clerk Maxwell Foundation Edinburgh

Love it.

"In Nazi Germany people kept living their everyday lives while fascism swallowed their country. Bread was bought, children played, people dated, movies played in theaters. This is how fascism thrives. It does not interrupt normal life, it depends on it." frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

The Polanski Effect bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/23/t...

This is a great piece of research. I love the first rules of the game - 'Single sole shoes, no iron. No tripping'.

Call for council to preserve the Causewayside Lads Institute The Grange & Prestonfield Community Council have demanded action from Edinburgh Council in order to preserve the building at 27-29 Ratcliffe Terrace. Last week council planners refused permission to demolish the former Lads Institute on…

Link: www.thenational.scot/news/2553687...

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

Bookmarked. Shared. Liked. I'm laughing my ass off at this! Share this far and wide. Thank you, Donald for your attention to this humor! 🤣🤣🤣

Stephen Colbert just gave a raw, sharp, and memorable opening about Jimmy Kimmel. Must-watch. 🔥🔥🔥

Or in the UK, honey did you write the words Palestine and action on a piece of cardboard?

Behold the free speecher, who sacks anyone who dissents. Bravo UK's Channel 4 TV which exposed hours of his lies last night. This is not democracy; the media need to boldly show why

Mr Goldsworthy articulating how I feel about our species.

BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.

Mr Polanski, who is Jewish, said: "Welcoming a potential war criminal to the UK is another demonstration of how this Labour government is implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza." news.sky.com/story/israel...

The UK gov should be past assessing a ‘risk’ of genocide in Gaza. Israel is committing genocide - top legal experts agree. In 2024, the ICJ ordered “immediate & effective measures” to protect Palestinians. This ‘finding’ & refusal to end arms exports to Israel breach the duty to prevent genocide.

In Edinburgh this afternoon: Protest against the genocide in Palestine. For friends outside the UK, the words the protestors are writing on their signs make them subject to arrest and potential prison sentences. There's a useful article in the comments below.

Mapping Israel's influence on the UK parliament. 🔍 "Two names stand out: Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) and Labour Friends of Israel (LFI)... CFI claims 80% of Tory MPs as members. It’s funded 118 current Conservative MPs on 160 trips, spending over £330,000."

Anyone get that thing where the lack of rain reveals hidden walls under the grass? Was told it might be the walls of an orchard kept by nuns who had a convent nearby from the 16th C. Sciennes area.

Israel murdered Anas al-Sharif, and his fellow Palestinian journalists, to silence witnesses to its genocide. Gaza's journalists - the bravest journalists who ever lived - never stopped speaking out. The least we can do is to speak louder than ever before.

It's a bit breezy at Wardie but worth it for the geography lesson in sand transportation

🚨 This morning we turned the street outside Labour Party Headquarters in London into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.

NEW: Another two arrests under terror legislation in Scotland today The two men had been wearing shirts reading "Genocide in Palestine time to take action" at a March in Edinburgh on Saturday www.thenational.scot/news/2533001...

The chancellor and her speech writers should stop and think before creating soundbite lines like 'boot on the neck'. We all know the photo that evokes. She's under pressure, but that doesn't mean using violent imagery to grab a headline. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

WATO is a significant forum for that to appear in, and Helena Kennedy is hard to ignore. Hopefully this emboldens other BBC journalists to defy management and tell it like it is.

Where is the moral panic? Where are @lisanandy and @Keir_Starmer? Or are we saying Rod Liddle can use his national platform to call for state violence and it’s fine But if Bob Vylan chants about actual state violence it’s “incitement”? At least try to be consistent.

Good to see, but why is there silence on this subject from most of our politicians when they talk about the environment and industry? Especially in the country I live in - Scotland - where the landscape and wildlife are kept almost void of wildlife because of this ridiculous 'industry'.