Tenement housing, Spa Street, Aberdeen. (1965) Pic: Douglas Campbell

I voted for you. I won't be again. Your attacks on net zero disgust me. And if you are rightly drawing attention to rising work place temperatures, why are you sabotaging efforts to cut climate change emissions.

Scotland should not allow war criminals or fascists to profit from our land or our people. It's time to seize Trump's golf courses.

Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/TlR4Ovg

"I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man" - Mahatma Gandhi 🐷

🤨 Mmhhmmm When someone tells you who they are, believe them

Heatwaves are no mystery. It is what happens when societies keep protecting the industries destroying the conditions life depends on. Animal agriculture is one of them. Stop funding it.

Decided to write to Heir Harmer one final letter after he announced his resignation

One the one hand, we should be nicer to people. On the other, Keir Starmer's government has banned me from public toilets.

Burnham has refused to call the horrific war crimes in Gaza a genocide, and he has promised to build heinous Trump-style immigration detention camps. This is not a man who will deliver change, it's just more of the same from a failed Labour Party. It's time for real change.

Sharon Graham is up for re-election, hope she loses! #ClimateChange #BurningPlanet

As a matter of URGENCY, PLEASE could 100,000 of you sign this petition in the next week: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

What you have to understand is that for Starmer's team, the right is not the enemy. The left is. Its driving mission, from the moment Starmer took over, was to stamp out first the Labour left, then the wider left. It hates us, deeply and viscerally, with a passion never directed at the right.

Meanwhile, not one of the groups so far known to have been orchestrating the violence in Belfast and Southampton has been banned as a terrorist organisation.

The horrific sentences handed to the Filton 4 (8, 6 and 5 years) are gut-wrenching injustices; the reaction of a fascist regime determined to stamp out all dissent and exert control over a population that increasingly refuses to let genocide take place in our name Free them ALL

Aberdeen Station platform indicator board. (1982) Pic: David Christie

“We have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country, including in our healthcare & hospitality sectors. We don't want this to be used to divide people/fuel hostility." Why is it being left to affected families to say this while politicians talk about "legitimate concerns"?

Kittybrewster railway station, Aberdeen. Recommended for closure by Dr Beeching's report 'The Reshaping of British Railways' and closed on 6 May 1968. Pic: David Lauder

If you go around claiming humans need to eat animals to survive you have zero right to be mad at climate deniers or laugh at flat earthers, you're in the same category.

Free range German shepherd anyone? #EndSpeciesism

When we say they are coming for everyone's rights, we mean it. This was not hyperbole. The systems you think protect everyone only exist until we are inconvenient.

Aberdeen is getting hit with job cuts across the board. Oil & gas is in terminal decline, college and uni cuts limit transition opportunities, and our media is becoming further centralised in Glasgow and, to a lesser extent, Edinburgh. This is not just or sustainable. Where is the action plan?

if we all band together we should be able to buy a communal lollipop

George Street, Aberdeen in 1959.

1/ A new report has put a number on what Reform UK's climate policy rollback would actually cost: nearly 500,000 jobs destroyed within 3 years. That's comparable to almost every teacher in the UK losing their job. Here's what the research with @oilchange.org found 👇

Trade Unions should put their money where their mouth is and sue the British Government over the unworkable EHRC guidance. Guidance that will be devastating for the workers' they represent and especially the small businesses who employ them. Force Labour to legislate to fix it.

Congratulations to @houstinium.bsky.social on winning the selection vote to represent @scottishgreens.org in the upcoming Aberdeen South by-election! Think @scottishgreens.org messed up the announcement email though, they listed Jorg who you beat in the democratic vote in the email instead of you?

Break from election stuff for a moment: LGBTQ+ rights is, alongside democratic systems, one of the areas I think it's important to use my platform as BBS to push on. The way the UK is treating trans people is absolutely despicable, and if you are an ally with a Labour MP, you should write to them.

The UK Government must secure the immediate release of those detained by Israeli forces, and impose boycotts, divestment and sanctions. Carefully worded expressions of concern while peace activists are paraded and degraded by a senior Israeli minister are simply not good enough.

The lack of working-class representation in our Parliament is very striking. We have some well meaning middle-class folk in there but representation matters. Just look at the years of college cuts, voted through by those same well-meaning people.

I think we can say now that we’ve investigated “how far can we push the destructive cruelty, before reactionaries are satisfied” as deeply as we need to, to conclude the answer is “they will never be satisfied, they will always want more”.

Living standards for lower-income households were especially hard hit in the last few years. For poorer families, annual incomes have sunk, on average, since the end of the pandemic, and truly plunged at the very bottom. Read how to reset Britain’s economic policy ⤵️ buff.ly/EIq0o5n

Wes Streeting is an extremist. This is like the Home Secretary meeting with the BNP, Britain First, Patriotic Alternative, Eugenicists for a White Christ, and whatever else “to discuss citizenship issues” He should be nowhere near power.

If they're looking for a replacement for Keir Starmer they should seriously consider this bloke. I like the cut of his jib.

There absolutely should be sackings at the Electoral Commission over this. A fake party that does no campaigning, will have spent £0, and whose own holocaust denying leader acknowledged is only there to confuse voters, came 7th, only explainable if it did indeed confuse voters.

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Hate this sneery "What is this obsession with Gaza when our potholes remain unfixed?" attitude. It's a fucking genocide. A matter of worldwide outrage. Anyone oblivious to that should have no place in public life. Potholes!

regular reminder: keir starmer quite literally told the left, and progressive voters, to leave. he told us he did not want our votes.

🟢 @hollybruce.bsky.social elected to represent Glasgow Southside! Holly is the second Scottish Green MSP to be elected today, and the second Scottish Green constituency MSP to be elected ever!

🟢 @lornaslater.bsky.social elected to represent Edinburgh Central! Lorna is the first Scottish Green MSP to be elected today, and the first Scottish Green constituency MSP to be elected ever!

An obvious antisemitic caricature of Zack Polanski in The Times. But there will be no media or political outrage, which tells you all you need to know.

Jews are not collectively responsible for Israeli government policy. People demonstrating peacefully for Palestine are not collectively responsible for the attacks on British Jews. Collective punishment for other people's crimes is not justice.

Found some prescience in a manual from the 1950s.

Also, and then what? There’s no medication you get for autism, you will be hard pressed to get ANY accommodation at work and even if you did so what this Really is just to put doubt on Any autism claim

Politico: "Badenoch will speak to media around 10.a.m...to unveil her party’s new 'Plan for Drivers.' It includes the eye-catching plans to abolish 24-hour bus lanes to ease traffic congestion" Ludicrous policy. Buses are used by millions of people every day. This will make all their lives harder.

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it. It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

Happy to see several hundred Unity demonstrators (from a hugely diverse range of backgrounds) showing the 12 or so hate-filled fash that Aberdeen shows solidarity to all! Love trumps hate every time! ❤️👊🏽 #SayItLoudSayItClearRefugeesAreWelcomeHere

For the avoidance of doubt, following the publication of the explicitly transphobic Scottish Labour manifesto this morning, I will not be campaigning for any Scottish Labour candidates in the upcoming election, and I will not be voting Scottish Labour either. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

🧵 If you remove the nation state from the migration debate, you're just arguing about whether or not people should be allowed to move house... the answer is OBVIOUSLY yes. Citizenship offers rights & entitlements. So the contention is whether we all deserve access to human rights equally or not.