The devastating impact of Brexit on the UK coffers. 👇 Little wonder we're having to raise taxes with next to nothing to show for them. "Project Fear" wasn't fearful enough.

My pretty walk home tonight. If you were as gloomy as Glasgow in winter, you'd have a million lights too.

To be fair, I doubt Farage gets much pleasure from remembering that his side lost World War Two.

Sounds based to me. More politicians should follow sex workers. Sex work is work and sexuality is normal. The weird thing is when religious people are conditioned to toxically entangle their faith & shame with regular sexual desires. The weird thing is stigmatizing & criminalizing working people.

Hmm I think my campaign slogans could use some work.

Pleased to announce my new campaign.

It's not an album cover but I've always loved this photograph of Ethel Cain. That truck didn't stand a chance against her immovable aura.

This car-free bridge across to the Riverside Museum in Glasgow was only completed last year and it's already a huge hit with cyclists—despite the city's climate, latitude etc. What sustainable travel modes need more than anything is the infrastructure to support them.

This isn't just poverty of aspiration, it is incompetence. www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

Anglo-Saxon lineage, you say? The Danish flags on roundabouts thing suddenly makes sense...

Tl;dr: We've "cut the green crap" before (thanks Tories!) and it was disastrous for householders, their wallets and the climate.

Yet another "protected belief" bigotry downwind of Forstater. Deep need to rein this back in.

Mamdani is clearly a skilled communicator, but answering quickfire questions like this becomes easier when you have what many politicians lack: a bedrock of solid principles. It's such a refreshing contrast to the kind of triangulation we're used to. Keir Starmer and his ilk could never.

My heart somehow aches at how beautiful today was; the futility of trying to capture that beauty—to bottle it up and take it home. All I have to share is a collection of moments—already memories—and yet I'm still thankful even for those.

They may dispute the specific number. But with 4000 people on the waiting list and fewer than 50 first appointments a year, it hardly matters if we project 80 years, 224, or anything in between. Unless there is dramatic change, people are just not getting the service they need. It's unacceptable.

Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane: STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification

It might look like a mountain scene from the Highlands but no, it’s a visitor to Edinburgh with Arthur’s Seat in the background. A city landscape.

You won't get a much better illustration of how many people in the Westminster bubble treat politics as a game without consequences than Peston barking about the growing climate of aggression toward millions of Britons like Kilroy introducing the final round of Share or Shaft.

And there goes another racist episode. Soon to be forgotten. Once the phone ins, the denials and the harsh words have ended. But many won’t forget. Yet again they’ll feel unwelcome. Some just accept it, suffer more and spend years fighting it rather than chasing dreams. But, integrate they say.

We ought to be surrounded by reminders that business as usual is accelerating the worst crisis modern humanity has ever faced. bsky.app/profile/alex...

Important context from @sustainabletall.bsky.social. There is no point in talking about embodied emissions in concrete towers without considering the counterfactual, holistically.

Farage hates foreigners more than he loves the people of Britain.

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

I'm sorry but delaying HS2 while "fast-tracking" Heathrow is a form of climate denial. www.ft.com/content/ae08...

The fact that people are allowed to store their cars in the street is really weird - after all, a car is an individual's own private property and their responsibility. I can't think of a single other item you can store in public in this way.

Veganism has faded partly because consumers want *protein*, but a Greggs vegan sausage roll has more protein than a meat one. A Cambridge study that, if you label sausage rolls for their protein content, the % of consumers choosing meat-free more than doubles: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Powerful and entirely accurate.

The mere *existence* of algorithmic content recommendation in place of opt-in human curation is one of *the* biggest regulatory failures of the last twenty years.

fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th

See also: AI-generated anti-immigrant slopaganda. If you need AI to illustrate your concerns, perhaps your concerns aren't "legitimate".

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives" “Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

The world’s coral reefs are home to about a quarter of all marine species.

A pop of autumn colour in my neighbourhood today. #Glasgow

I love how my mum, to this day, still worries about me partying and meeting men... When easily the most dangerous thing I do day-to-day is bike on streets with no cycle lanes.

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Good framing, however you feel about the accuracy. Super-wealth is the prime destabilising factor in our society. If you consider strong representative democracy to be a patriotic principle, the power of a tiny unelected ultra-class controlling most assets, media and Gov policy must be tackled.

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media? Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is. To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

I would like to hear similar sentiments expressed with as much conviction by leading UK politicians.

In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments. 224 YEARS. This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change. We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.

One of many interesting findings in this polling from Yougov.

For Those I Love performing in Glasgow last night. A poignant, raging, climactic exploration of grief. Love with nowhere to go, so music becomes the outlet. Just an astonishing performance from an artist unlike any other and one of the best gigs I've ever seen. A reminder that I'm choosing to live.

In my happy (but concentrating) place.

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Turning worn out pavements into works of art: more of the mosaics set into damaged sections of the footpaths in Queen's Park in Glasgow. #glasgow #queenspark #mosaics #ceramics #tiles #tiling #streetart

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

Just a little observation, but today we have the SNP arguing in favour of continued oil and gas exploration while Labour gives the green light to another runway at Gatwick—and still media types will ask Greens what makes them unique "now that all the other parties have adopted climate policies".

Today I had the most unreal urbex at Govanhill Baths. On its day of closure, local residents began what became the longest occupation of a public building in British history. It has yet to brought back into use—except as a potent symbol of the UK's crumbling public services in the neoliberal age.

Gig night. I cried twice during the show. Soft af, me.

I hate having to navigate a sea of tripods just to go lift. I miss the days when Instagram was images rather than "content". There's gotta be something better than the influencer-industrial complex to make people feel like they've made it in the world.