"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

If I can’t turn this off I hope that it’s ready for every bit of input to be “fuck off you glorified talking paper clip cunt”

There’s a very good way to fact-check that doesn’t involve AI and it’s called ‘using a human copyeditor’! Which I’m assuming her publisher does anyway?

The march of illiberal authoritarianism continues as it completely takes over the British right. Michael Deacon in the Telegraph proposing what Thatcher never dared: after dehumanising & impoverishing the unemployed stripping them of the right to vote. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05...

People from ethnic minority backgrounds in Scotland: I’m recruiting for focus groups exploring identity, belonging & constitutional change in Scotland. Optional focus group participation includes a £30 voucher. ✨ No political expertise needed to share your experiences & perspectives lnkd.in/e_s99zYW

Blocked some idiot for making shitty obscene jokes about Rolf Harris. Rolf Harris *the paedophile*

there's an english man with no affiliation to judaism somewhere wracking his brain right now trying to find a way to argue that this is still antisemitism

The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

This was the candidate in my constituency for the Scottish elections, who’s now standing for the by-election in Aberdeen. She is a ‘wellness coach’ who thinks fluoride is toxic

Not enough attention was paid to Scottish Labour’s donors this election. This millionaire is funding Alex Salmond’s family’s case against the Scottish government. The Easdales criticised the government’s focus on “gender ideology” then gave Scottish Labour six figures! They all want Sarwar to stay

Just a periodic reminder that this obscene-wealth-to-scale website exists and should be viewed by everyone eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

New essay on what I think about most: the meaning of mean & how I want it & me to be full of possibility, not statistics & what can be set against that: jasmine, courage, possibility, James Baldwin's poems, & that meaning's root is in both changing & sharing. Read 👉 www.somayer.net?na=view&id=8

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Israel kidnaps Scottish flotilla activist

the center left demands instant green capitulation to the labour party because the new leader might maybe possibly be Nice and within a day he's openly praising reform politicans. we hate to see it folks

This is fine tbh. I think people were confused by the terminology used in the OP and mixed up epilogues and prologues (which are part of the story!) with prefaces, forewords, and afterwords (which aren’t). I’d be surprised if they’re skipping big chunks of storytelling on purpose.

I’m deleting Instagram because what is this bullshit every time I open it

Everyone loved Baby Yoda but sometimes around the point they named him "Grogu" everyone started talking about cooking and eating him.

Ed Miliband should bring back his giant stone pledges and simply crush wes streeting with them

on the train with so much dry shampoo in my hair it’s like an 18th century peruke/small animal habitat

Omg the auto captions for my lecture #medievalsky

Morning. If any National Union of Journalists or Society of Authors members have lost Instagram or Facebook accounts due to wrongful Meta suspensions & account deletions please get in touch. This censorship appears to be happening to a lot of people. We are seeing what we can do through a union.

Americans are incredibly weird about cast iron pans

fallen down a horrible rabbit hole of looking at ‘british patriot’ clothing

Gender-swapped Manky Jaiket

Mothman love moth.

I never took a marketing class but I feel like rolling out your new technology by saying “ENJOY STARVING, YOU OBSOLETE BITCH” to anyone with a job was likely to cause an unwelcoming response.

I think it really speaks to how utterly broken the brain of your average transphobe is that the the concept of "the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament intends on making sure that trans members are addressed in a respectful manner" has them throwing an absolutely massive howling tantrum

“French ICC judge Nicolas Guillou is no longer allowed to travel to the US. All his accounts with American companies, like Amazon and Microsoft, have been shut He has no email accounts. He is on a list of 15,000 others including Al-Qaeda, Putin, and other terrorists.” - @shonamurray.bsky.social

Well now, Wesley, what's all this...

She’s at it again. An honour, as always, to write for @vittles.bsky.social and share an unexpectedly delicious meal I had recently. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/recency-bias

I recommend Amazing Machines at Aberdeen Art Gallery if you like weird little guys and automata

Underwhelming. Grand-sounding yet vague promises. What does ‘stronger control’ of public services mean?

Dougray Scott and his big lella jaiket

Hey, did anything happen about this? Seems relevent attue moment when one party is demanding another party step aside for 'progressions sake'. www.thenational.scot/news/2589179...

The Crow Road is such a lovely book and I also have a soft spot for the 90s BBC adaptation. Joe McFadden, Peter Capaldi, Dougray Scott all looking like innocent babies

A guy we know pitched a story to a mag about former skateboarders going back to their old haunt in middle age. My BIL(52)went with him as part of the story. BIL is now back home with a broken ankle and the writer is home with a broken vertebrae. The only possible way the story could have gone.

He is completely unlikeable and has zero charisma or presence

Very cool that this unassuming church in Glasgow has one of the most significant collections of early medieval sculpture in the British Isles, including this Viking-age sarcophagus dating from around 900 and thought to once contain the relics of the Pictish king St. Constantine.

apotropaic marks of entrapment. literally ‘get in the bin’

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone

been watching Widow’s Bay and it’s great but I misguidedly thought it wasn’t very scary. On ep 4 now and I’m alone

An interesting manifesto @electionlit.bsky.social

Andy Burnham and Grogu

oh look it’s racist Nosferatu

The word “no” but somehow it’s the size of the universe

I’d sooner get kicked down a flight of glass stairs than have this cunt as my PM.

Question: when you eat oranges or orange peel (like in marmalade or fruit cake), do your lips and tongue go a bit numb?