Everyone should pay their taxes Duchies of Lancaster & Cornwall provide King & P William £27 million & £23m/year Since 1993 king voluntarily agreed to pay income tax on Duchy’s surplus after expenses deducted. He doesn’t pay: Corporation tax Capital gains tax Inheritance tax

What I see every time putin or some other terrorist supporter says that russia should return to its historical borders:

When is a traitor not a traitor? (Just asking questions.) youtu.be/CHRkLeVGmV4?...

Alas, there's a lot of Capitalism-denial thought going on in this comparison...

I’ve said this every month for a year.

Nothing says "Putin has a copy of a video of Trump raping children" quite like the US government compelling a European democracy to surrender to the orc invaders from Mordor or whatever that shitty steppe ibetween civilisation and China is called. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

"...to see ourselves as others see us..." In a bookshop in Grenoble, France: #Scotland #France #booksky

This speech never gets old.

After new land reform legislation is passed by The Scottish Parliament, some bright spark challenged the 450 individuals who own most of Scotland to win an election if they don't like it...

@theguardian.com didn't point out that while Andrew Mountbatten Windsor remains on private royal property at Sandringham, he cannot be arrested and charged as he would technically be within 50 feet of the monarch because royal property and person are indivisible: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is how you do wash trading. All these companies are investing in each other paying each other bits of the same trillion dollars in order to make it look like they’re so close to AGI so investors will keep giving them money to lose. This is also known as a Junkie’s promise.

#NotMyKing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

Hello @observeruk.bsky.social The first #NoKings protests I saw began in S. Korea well before the UK print deadline. Other protests across Europe including outside US Embassy in London. Your lead online story is about a man who will be king whether we want it (or in Scotland, at least) not. 🙈🙉🙊

Block list for Trump regime government accounts. How to Dismantle a Dictatorship, Step 4: Block validation. #3E bsky.app/profile/did:...

For Scots, see what happens, when ye leave London Looters Rule?

Well done Haynes Manuals and a big boo to @fordmotorsofficial.bsky.social The lock on the door of my van simply came out of the door thanks to a previous owner's shonky repair. Official Ford dealerships in Scotland were quoting a minimum 2 week wait for repair (if at all possible). 1/2 #RIPOFFUK

Only @theguardian.com could deliberatley fail to mention why the majority of Scots still cherish the world's oldest national flag, the Saltire: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... We simply don't see ourselves as 'British'. Everyone will always be welcome. #Scotland

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Big shout out for Shabana Mahmood for ignoring Loyalist Marching Season and the burning of renowned Catholic Effigies and refugees. Apparently, Catholics who fear the celebratory killing of Catholics don't count for the Labour Government. Mind you Scottish Labour depend upon the Orange vote 🙄

That's great so I've added #AltText so that more folk can appreciate it.

Coming very soon now-a comprehensive single volume history of Scotland from brochs to Brexit with something for everyone from Old Street Publishing-with thanks to @willdalrymple.bsky.social for his assessment ! @sahavoice.bsky.social @broadcastscot.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

I possibly shouldn't have laughed. But I laughed very hard. Posted by Tarquin 🇺🇦 on Twitter. #GoCharlie

The very first batch of Cruffins based the recipe by Lune Bakery but substituting rye sourdough starter for live yeast and filling with my homemade whitecurrant curd... Four days of patience, and they'll be gone in hours. #freshbaked #bakesky #sourdough

#Brexit #Farage should be walloped with this👇

This and this ⬇️⬇️

Look what I found while packing the contents of my writing desk for the move to France... ...old newspapers celebrating a US President who didn't have a brain worm preventing the formation of logical, compassionate thought, and a coherent, grammatically-correct sentence. #USA #Obama #TheGuardian

Very weird to be packing my books for the move to France, knowing that it could be at least six months before I unpack these beauties by @adapalmer.bsky.social, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, and many others. However, I am looking forward to making my own etageres des livres #booksky #scifi #france

ANCHORAGE…

It's long past time Scots started realising that it's about the water (and energy). If it gas about hydrocarbons, we wouldn't have a refinery faced with closure. How else do you think England's privatised water companies have been able to get away with 3 decades of chronic under-investment?

I am once again contemplating this banger.

The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax from @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

makes me want to lay on the highway

#bakesky Olive, cheese and rosemary tear-and-share loaf with homemade rhubarb vinegar and olive oil dip... A great way to enjoy patio eating on such a beautiful day on the Fife coast. #fifelife

Beach at Ely, Fife, this morning.

When studying Information Technology as a post-grad, the initial lessons were on the differences between human-readable and machine-readable information. All writers should incorporate how to incorporate human-readable algorithms into their work to teach AI how to skull-f*ck the ChatGit thieves.

Describe your favourite movie in the most misleading way possible: Man discovers that fun of doing everything backward to annoy his critics wore off really quickly but doubles-down with his posse to annoy a Russian oligarch.

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Thursday's reminder that after five decades of diligent practice, I can make great furniture from planks of tree, paint stunning equine portraits and write enjoyable fiction. I can even bake stunning cakes. What I still cannot do is make an edible rye sourdough. I won't be eating this #humblepie.

“Is he dead yet?” asked Piglet. “No,” said Pooh. “Fuck,” said Piglet.

Your Prez called it.

I believe you can know almost everything that you need to know about the current state of language-derived predictive software from the fact that autocorrect insists her first name was “Nora”. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_In...

Yet *corporations'* copyright claims will somehow magically be workable as fuck.

I Failed So Many Times Making the Cover for My Book... Part One! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790575...

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Perhaps because I'm a Scot currently travelling through France, I have to wonder why it's never occured to reporters (or comedians) in England that 'Farage' is French for 'failed cheese'. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...