I’ve had a cold since Tuesday and I’m feeling very very sorry for myself

We've seen a lot of divisive language and misinformation about people seeking safety lately. This is the reality of claiming asylum and being a refugee in Scotland 👇

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I think our horrible neighbour who’s been randomly letting off fireworks at all times of day/night and threatened to kill our downstairs neighbour if he called the police has been taken away in the back of a police van 😮‍💨

Matt Goodwin, ex-academic & failed Reform candidate in Gorton & Denton, is in the pay of Viktor Orbán's authoritarian regime in Hungary. Goodwin for all his rhetoric about 'national sovereignty' and 'taking back control' is in the pay of a foreign government.

Hello to the monkey puzzle trees beside Linlithgow station. They look glorious against the blue sky today

Along with riding 1,000 miles in 7 days in 1934, London to John O'Groats in 4 1/2 days in 1935, and 10,000 miles in 100 days in 1938, Evelyn Hamilton's exploits include ferrying French Resistance fighters across Paris on a tandem during World War II. #BicycleBirthday April 3 (1906-2005)

Such a good song. They were so good in Glasgow on Tuesday 🥹

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rokin, Amsterdam in 1979 and today

Instead of ‘houses and hotels’ you get ‘vape shops and student accommodation’

Keep getting cited for jury duty at really inconvenient times so I’m having to apply for an excusal again and I’m scared they are gonna come after me

I'd like the Labour party to tell me how this is in any way ideologically different from Trump saying "They eat the cats, they eat the dogs..." Sudan - genocides & slavery, child soldiers Afghanistan - fallout from war we were involved in, Taliban Cameroon - Human rights abuses Myanmar - Civil war

Woke up with this in my head, not an ear worm you can sing in public 😅 youtu.be/msro9PGsLmc?...

Had such a cute night last night hehe xoxox

God, trying to arrange this stuff while I have an empty this week is more trouble than it’s worth it feels like lol. I’m THIS close to just downloading Grindr

Oh noo I spoke too soon I don’t think I fancy him lmao

Potentially having my first hookup with a stranger since starting T 2 years ago and I’m fucking neervoussss lads

Is the rspb website down for anyone else or have I just specifically been banned for reading about birds too much lol

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Such a dismal tale about the UK govt: so obsessed w competing with far-right to keep out foreigners that it won’t let in the brightest & best from war-torn countries even when they’re hand-picked by the FCDO, lest they ask to stay. Soft power sacrificed, but how many Reform voters will it convert?

Christ, that fire near central station looks so bad. Sad day for Glasgow, but thankfully no reported casualties so far.

Honestly fair fucks to Vittorio Angelone for calling out Penny Mordaunt on Last Leg

So let's hurry up and rename hotdogs, kidney beans, peanut butter, shepherd's pie, fish fingers, chocolate eggs, lady fingers, oyster mushrooms, cream crackers, etc etc! bsky.app/profile/geor...

It was a dream last night, my poor bike had been thirsty af

I was so embarrassed because last night I had to cycle on my bike that hasn’t been cleaned in ages, so my rusty chain was squeaking every time I pedalled. Then on my cycle back from work at 11pm, a flock of whooper swans flew over me. My squeaks and their honks (whoops?) synced up. It was great

After losing in court one can now safely mention that the Müller brand of milk products is owned by an AfD (Germany's officially declared "extreme right wing" party) supporting billionaire. Whose giant family relocated to Switzerland in 2003 btw, to avoid 30% inheritance tax when he passes.

This spells out what we've always known about institutional and community contempt for trans people in death, and elaborates on how that is intensified by anti-Blackness and transmisogyny. Transmisogynoir means Black trans women's deaths are dismissed, lied about, and not investigated.

I go way less since they drastically reduced the vegan selection 🤷‍♂️

Always find it strange when GCs criticise “social transition”, especially when they’re on the left, because it’s precisely the sort of soft-touch, non-medical, gender stereotype-breaking behaviour they used to argue trans activists *weren’t* letting children do. Why can’t that boy wear a skirt?

Today is St David’s Day: patron saint of Wales, of course, but also of vegetarians and poets. He was reputed to have helped introduce bees to Ireland. He is famously quoted as saying “Gwnewch y pethau bychain”, meaning “Do the little things”. Small changes and good choices matter, especially now.

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1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

I’ve been watching Bruce play since the mixed doubles last Olympics (and trying to follow along outwith the Olympics, but it’s hard as they don’t broadcast curling that much outwith the Olympics) and I’m so so proud of him and his rink. A second silver is huge. I hope they are back next Olympics 🥹

Why do curling stones slide across ice the way they do? After a century of study, physicists have theories — but they’re still not 100% sure. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

They uplaoded it to youtube, go go go!!! youtu.be/5iPjzBl-f_U?...

Not enough recognition given to the medical marvel of puberty blockers being completely safe when given to cis kids to delay precocious puberty but also somehow being able to recognise a trans kid and potentially do unspeakable harm to them

Alysa Liu winning skating to McArthur Park, Donna Summer fans stay winning ❤️‍🔥 so happy for her

I NEED someone to get Danny L Harle to score a film !!! If the Safdies start making films together again… I see it

So many gorgeous skates but the last Japanese skater in the hot pink skating to Last Dance by Donna Summer, one of the greatest songs of all time was a cherry on top 💖

People from the UK who say ‘y’all’: 👎

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition. Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

Come on, Scottish Government, have the courage to stand up for your own planning policy and refuse this damaging application once and for all. A nationally & internationally protected site for nature is the wrong place for yet another golf course.

This is the thing, Hilary Cass can pretend that she's not suggesting anything extreme but merely by using the language is correction to natural course of gender she will be promoting various forms of domestic abuse by the language itself.

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