There are a whole lot of people who get very angry with you if you say slurs are bad, apparently

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

Before I read this I hadn’t realised that Covid, although awful for everyone, was extremely triggering for gay people who had lived through the AIDS crisis. Of course it was

Horrific.

Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy But here's my labyrinth I stole your baby

if you’re a Central Belter or a weej and you’re male, please tell me if you pronounce ‘fantastic’ the Ally McCoist way

Zero tolerance for people who think using the R slur is funny or fine in an old article. Get to fuck with that.

Please report this little prick

food opinion: I don’t think sauces with italian sausage or chorizo are good because the sausage always goes gritty

stupid cat is distracted by his cell phone and will be attacked by a vampire

we need everyone to come help us get the big boats past our historically vanquished enemy pls right now very urgent they’re blowing them up oh fuck

Critics argued the public has “a right to know who is behind any campaign” otherwise there was a risk of Scottish democracy being “undermined behind closed doors” www.theferret.scot/britain-remade-links-industry-lobbyists/

flowers from the bairns 🌺

You stop dithering about the US using Prestwick, then

⚠️ since Westminster voted to decriminalise abortion at least 3 women have been arrested, one after a miscarriage in a bereavement room, under threat of life in prison 🧵 please share observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Is tu riamh an ceann do dhleastanais, mu chòcaireachd, caoraich, leabhraichean; a bheil fios an d’fhuair thu do dhìol airson do dheataim is spàirn is sgìths? —Meg Bateman, “Màthair” from Soirbheas/Fair Wind, Polygon Books 2007 A #Gaelic #poem for #MothersDay

Just embarrassing.

EXCLUSIVE: A military intelligence expert has flagged 'concrete proof' that a Scottish airport has been used to help the US bomb Iran

What a surprise, eh? High-profile transphobes now pivoting to anti-choice rhetoric.

I met the Scottish Greens leaders. We talked: ▪️the Polanski effect ▪️stealing the SNP’s ‘woke’ Sturgeon vote ▪️why Trump is ‘a shite’ ▪️leftwing populism ▪️genocide and illegal wars ▪️bringing billionaires to heel ▪️and using new laws to hold social media giants to account In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

🔴NEW: A group leading the push to overturn Scotland’s opposition to new nuclear power says it is “independent” and “grassroots”. But we found links between campaign and a lobbying firm representing EDF, which owns Torness nuclear station www.theferret.scot/britain-rema...

Just watching Aliens, for the millionth time, no big deal. Tesla got the idea for Cybertruck from this movie I bet.

SO very much … Friday mood. Pizza and margaritas incoming. 🍹🍕🏺 Moche gilded copper ornamental mask, Peru, 6th-7th c. CE. #MetMuseum 📸 me

crying look at his face

would love to laugh at this but unfortunately some will actually send help

Search your camera roll for ‘hell’

I love it when a museum has an exhibit that's just a lil guy

MEXICO STEPS UP: 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

Gregg Wallace is punting last-minute Mothers’ Day messages

Anyone have recs for ear buds for small ears? My RHA ones have finally given up. AirPods don’t fit

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 826 people in 12 days (since March 2): — 106 children killed — 65 women killed — 31 medical workers killed www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

If you have time this weekend, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 gov are consulting on legislation to make eg Musk’s child sexual abuse image app illegal. It would be illegal to create or request a sex abuse image and the apps would be illegal. Please help show there is public support for this

Sounds like a very bold promise from a very cautious man.

23 years ago GCHQ official Katharine Gun leaked an email to the media in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Where are the whistleblowers now? www.declassifieduk.org/britains-sec...

‘And as a Wee Free, I definitely can’t.’

This is great writing. I always hated the Jamie Oliver school dinner thing – felt like an excuse to laugh and point at the poors.

Deleted my post about the far-right Edinburgh rally as it seems to be a different transphobe called Elaine who’s speaking

SNACK interviewed the creators of Invisible Women back in 2024 and I remember them discussing how difficult it is to find archival evidence of women filmmakers, basically because all the work they did was unseen

Al Jazeera cracked this "enigma": This school had many daughters of military officers and soldiers. The idea was to attract them to the school, strike it to draw in rescuers and relatives, and then strike it again to kill them.

“With money from the American Christian right pouring into Europe, serious questions need to be asked about where influential think tanks and advocacy groups are receiving their funding – and what agendas may be travelling with it.”

Today's frog is the giant burrowing frog.

watching Zootropolis 2 and I’m really unsure if the bunny and fox are shagging

Excuse me while I scream over Tintin Legos #tintin #theadventuresoftintin #lego

Today was the 30th anniversary of Scotland’s first and only school shooting, which is also a day to remember how a right-wing tabloid cyberstalked the survivors waiting for them to turn 18, in order to run a front page smear attack on them for…having grown up to be normal teenagers on the internet.

A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Brave New World? #JusticeForCreators in the age of AI 🤖 An excellent new report from the @societyofauthors.bsky.social and other orgs. Send a copy to your MP ahead of a Govt report on the impact of AI on 'creative industries' - 18 Mar.