🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

This afternoon @ross-greer.bsky.social and I joined union organisers and sacked workers outside Rockstar Games in Edinburgh. An allegation of union busting is one of the most serious possible breaches of fair work standards. This cannot be acceptable in any industry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Scottish Greens stand with the dozens of workers sacked by @rockstargames.com for exercising their right to organise with @gameworkers.co.uk @iwgbunion.bsky.social Reinstate them now, then get around the table & give your staff the pay & conditions they deserve for making you billions.

Gross misconduct? At this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely within 30-40 staffers who were discussing unionizing?

Read 'Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition' > www.nls.uk/collections/... #MaryShelley #Scottish #Gothic #Dundee #Frankenstein #NLS100

You can see a piece of the history of 'Frankenstein' in person at our free pop-up display this Friday! The display will feature Shelley's letters, early editions, and materials from our archives. 📌 George IV Bridge 🗓️ 11am-4pm, Friday 7 November 🎟️ Free Entry

Mary Shelley's time living near Dundee on the "blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay" fired her imagination 💭 It was here her "true compositions, the airy flights of my imagination, were born." Discover how Scotland shaped her novel, Frankenstein, in our article by Professor Daniel Cook.

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union. Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

This. This is it. Ditching first past the post for PR would be the single biggest first step we could take towards a more democratic electoral future and all the benefits that would bring.

Nighthawks 2025 From the new Private Eye, out now.

New patches!

Labour hate the SNP so badly that here in Edinburgh they're already in coalition with the Tories to block the SNP from running the city council (they're the largest party by far, but not *quite* a majority). A Labour/Reform coalition is absolutely possible. Starmer is a Tory in all but name.

it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement! Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*

Post the good news when you see it…

Children of Time by @aptshadow.bsky.social. 99p, can't recommend this enough. Unless you hate spiders I guess. Lots of spiders. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chil...

Dracula Has Risen From The Grave fan art what I did for @alisdairwood.bsky.social’s fabulous Hammer zine, ‘Claret’

EoD really is one of the most amazing pieces of art I've ever encountered and cannot recommend highly enough.

Last night I had the pleasure of storytelling the Halloween games of Blood on the clocktower for Ancient Robot games here in Edinburgh. When choosing my costume I of course had to embody @bloodontheclocktower.com Live, storyteller supreme, John Gracey.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

nudge for anyone who's not grabbed Dragonmeet tickets yet! dragonmeet.co.uk/tickets

Just to be 100% clear: do not *trust* your employers - that's super silly. The relationship is economical, not based in loyalty, trust, or kindness. There's no judgement in forming a union, just understanding that capitalism requires a risk of financial loss to get companies to do the right thing.

This is it. We know exactly how to fix the climate crisis. We have all the technology and we know what actions we need to take. What people are hoping for is a technology that will fix everything without us having to change anything at all, and that's a fantasy. We have to do the work.

It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Hammer horror fans—here’s Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in their last photo together.

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

Happy Halloween! Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.

Agadoo doo doo, vast and trunkless legs of stone Agadoo doo doo, desert pedestal alone Antique land, on the sand, shattered visage, cold command Look on works and despair, Ozymandias must moan

Two of my friends, @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social and Mairi Kidd (book just out) have been inspired to pen novels about Mary’s time in Dundee and how that influenced the novel. Do seek them out.

Reminder: The Edinburgh Minute has left Substack. It continues over on edinburghminute.com and this weekend’s edition is here: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...

It's launch day for Blood In The Bricks, and we a super nice review by @runalongwomble.bsky.social to celebrate!

SO looking forward to this discussion next Saturday at the Radical Book Fair

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the hobbits are quite shocked to find fences at the border of the shire on their return, and spend some quality time dismantling them

The 90s. What a decade.

Forgot to post this Elsa pic earlier. Again Happy Birthday.

chats in squirrel are limited to a sort of Roman salute foreleg extended then folded open paw on breast as if to say Look I take you in my open paw and hold you to my heart… —William Bonar, “SQRL” published in OFFERING (Red Squirrel Press, 2015) www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sqrl/

Ohh these courses are always great!!

Reminder it is our #Spooky #Edinburgh #Literary #Salon tonight info and free tickets here www.edinburghliterarysalon.org/post/next-ev... 7pm, Live at the Outhouse Bar and on Zoom #EdinburghLiterarySalon

This is unironically my favorite commission I‘ve ever drawn.

These are so good!

These are so good!

🎶 ‘Ware ye, child, of the Turnip-Man / With turnip head and turnip hands / His turnip heart’s as cold as ice / And at his belt gleams a turnip knife 🎶

"why are games so expensive" "why are mass layoffs happening" "why are games getting cancelled" "why did that popular studio close" it's capitalism. capitalism is why all of this is happening. the rampant prioritizing of profit over the all else, from price and quality to dev health and well being.

The Trump Action Tracker has an update! Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions. www.trumpactiontracker.info? 1/2

An animated loop basd on the games of the ZX Spectrum 8 bit micro from the 1980s This was made in photoshop and Blender and just a fun little tribute to my all time favourite home computer #zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart

Our groundstaff are given all the equipment they need to do their job properly.

"We want the finest suffering available to humanity." From this day in 2017.

Whither Halloween? Nobody takes the time to carve lanterns out of neeps nowadays, and nobody takes the time to scrape out a sheepskin and skull for their costume. Sigh. #OldWeirdScotland South Uist guisers, 1932 (📷Margaret Fay Shaw)