This is tonight! #AyeWriteBookFestival #Cumbernauld #NewTowns #Stories #Photography #Dialectogram @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social @dialectographer.bsky.social www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/conc...

'Battling' Bessie Braddock (1899-1970) died on this day 1970. Labour MP for Liverpool Exchange from 1945-70, she won a national reputation for her forthright campaigns on housing, public health and other social issues

"The safe place for output is the stodgy and inoffensive, the twee and the banal.... The BBC lessens itself because it is afraid, hoping to be both ubiquitous and unnoticed- an impossibility and trend which will only get worse after all of this." Read👇for key insights on the #BBC #Trump crisis.

imagining Elon being followed by a robot that squirts him with water every time he fails to understand science fiction (extract from Iain M. Banks’s 1988 novel THE PLAYER OF GAMES)

🧵/ How far does the public support net zero? Support: 60% Oppose: 25% Net support by party Green: +81 Lib Dem: +67 Lab: +64 Con: +11 Reform: -44 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

"Your Daddy and I always had steak on a Monday, just to spite the week ahead." Perfect line from Cushla's mother, perfectly delivered by Gillian Anderson. www.channel4.com/programmes/t... #Trespasses #TV #Channel4 #steak #chips #SteakAndChips

The 'apology' should be to screen all his speeches in full. People will beg for editing! #BBC #Trump #Jan6

Can't the nation just take a breath and get this sorted by Christmas, as a present to ourselves? #ANGELARAYNERFORBBCDGYOUCOWARDS

Gets my vote first move as DG getting rid of the Kings speech replacing it with an extended TOTP with Angela on the decks playing out early 90's dance pop bangers www.dailymotion.com/video/x8g18ji

British "patriots" assaulting the BBC to gain approval from American fascists is just fucking weird on a deep level.

The extent to which this stuff is driven by a yearning for sexual & racial "purity", & for a world of clear, sharp, enforced dividing-lines, is absolutely palpable, & connects it clearly to the wider descent into right-wing extremism so many seem to have embraced.

Our macs are on and off like yo-yos.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

Oh fuck off

There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

"The problem isn’t that we have a deliberately biased BBC, it’s that we have a BBC that has been consciously reduced in its scope and bullied into dumbing down and retreating." @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter today

Traffic cone hat lady ftw #GameOfWool

In November 1867, Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, voted in a parliamentary by-election. But how was she able to vote in an election more than fifty years before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918? Dr Kathryn Rix explains:

The truth is not "more nuanced," the truth is that none of these people are narco terrorists.

We will remember them. In our churches, there are many reminders of tragic toll of the First World War. On the altar at St Beuno's, Penmorfa in Gwynedd is a simple cross that was carved by Emile de Vynck, a refugee from Belgium, who luckily escaped the conflict on the Continent.

✊ From the late 19th century, socialist movements adopted the raised fist as a symbol of unity and strength. One of the first depictions was by Hungarian artist Mihály Biró in 1912. His image of a fist emerging from factories toward parliament in Budapest visualised the power of collective action.

Remedies? Ofcom has power to request and now *require* information to oversee how platforms uphold a legal duty to remove unlawful content Have a process of notification For every crininal prosecution, require a platform account of the user history, complaints upheld/ignored + lessons

Ohhhhhhh Nick! Ohhhhhhh Alan! Tears before bedtime. #CelebrityTraitors

Alan's face!! Twitching with mirth! 😂 #CelebrityTraitors

Who's helping the celebs with their outfit selections? It been top notch work for all of them! Perfect for each 'character' and occasion. #CelebrityTraitors

📣 There's a new petition to Stop the Closure of Walsall Leather Museum. The building is the last example there of an early Victorian leatherworks in situ. The leather-working process is showcased, it's a much-loved local attraction. The Council has announced it will close in 2026. c.org/PKm6B7svFN

Excited to do a talk during #BookWeekScotland about outdoor swimming in the open waterways - the #Clyde, the #Kelvin and the canals - of 19th century #Glasgow through stories, memoirs & poems of the past. At @arlingtonbaths.co.uk, Tues 18 Nov, 7.30pm, free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/that-famed...

"That one can give what one does not possess, oh the miracle of empty hands." Graffiti around Ibrox. #glasgow

#onthisday, 1 November 1929, #Glasgow Corporation opened two Victorian-style #TurkishBaths at Elvan St, Shettleston (closed c.1971—about which little is known), & Calder St, Govanhill (Closed 2001 despite intensive protests). Govanhill Community Trust aims to re-open as a wellbeing centre. 🗃️ #C19th

Gone for a 5 mile hike with a mad boy called Alex (he says his real name is Andy.)

Farage is 32-61 across Britain (12% VERY favourable and 50% VERY unfavourable), and 32-65 with the Wales sample in this poll (with 59% very unfavourable). The idea that this Caerphilly result mainly product of existence of a nationalist party in Wales & Scotland not England makes v little sense

It is really important that the BBC do better. The Mason piece conflates an 83% Plaid/Reform vote as a "none of the above" view of politics, that is mostly Reform in England, but has a competitor in Wales Key here is a Welsh majority are *very* unfavourable to Reform bsky.app/profile/sund...

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT! 🌐 Don’t miss The Web We’ve Built, celebrating 1 trillion pages saved to the #WaybackMachine. Join virtually from anywhere for stories, music & digital history live! 🎉 📅 Oct 22 🕖 PM PT 👀 🖥️ ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011... #Wayback1T

I disgraced myself.

Victoria is one of our Perth Women on Wikipedia. Born in Megginch Castle, Erroll and served her first apprenticeship in Northern Garage, Perth. Awarded MBE for her bravery at sea in WW2 but she didn't appear on the Wikipedia article of notable Drummonds until we added her name! #PerthScotland

Oh, look! History in practice ... another design/ tech we've done before, coming back around, here on environmental & economic grounds. @lr-foundation.bsky.social The century-old ship sail technology finally catching on - BBC News share.google/4shumvYj8gUQ...

The first edition of a pioneering participatory detective ‘novel’ from 1936, in the form of a dossier of case files and accompanying evidence, allowing the reader to try to solve the mystery before opening the sealed section which records the right answer. www.mcnaughtans.co.uk/product/murd...

Strong, but sad, piece about the loss of safe, relaxed, non-commercial, people-centred places for young people to just be themselves and do stuff. #YouthCentres #YoungPeople #YA #stuff #hobbies #chat #quiet #support #austerity

Marking John Wilkes's 300th anniversary (coming up next week), there is a short piece about him in the History Matters section of the latest @historytoday.com www.historytoday.com/magazine

Really interesting- and, I think, welcome- to see MPs sharing this kind of data about casework. Casework is largely invisible (other than to the constituents it helps!) compared to what MPs do in the Commons chamber but is a huge part of MPs’ workload, and it’s really hard to get robust data on it

Wonderful to see the Jackie archives appearing on the British Newspaper Archive so we can see which hot to trot hunks the teen girls of 1964 were moistly pinning to their walls.

IDF propaganda videos presented as 'intelligence derived illustrations' include... "scans of the Scottish Maritime Museum boat building workshop. All have been dropped, without credit, into animations presented as “illustrations” of Hamas bunkers or Iranian weapons sites."

hello here are some sausage dogs on a rug painted by edvard munch

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Well, this is heartwarming! 🦉❤️ #Owls #birds #SaveTheOwls

This is grim. Solidarity with my Muslim brothers and sisters. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...