Lisa O'Neill at Cottiers tonight. Bold and brilliant music and a great line in patter. The support Iona Zajac was excellent too.

All glories to @brickingglasgow.bsky.social who built these magic things.

Standing stone and shinty goal. Inveraray.

This is what Michael Gove's 'We've all had enough of experts.' has inevitably led to. Ruben Amorim won't even listen to the Pope on tactics now.

Portishead

Le groupe Massive Attack refuse que sa musique soit streamée en Israël en raison de la guerre à Gaza

I was in at the garage at Wemyss Bay today and spent 10 minutes in the secondhand bookstore in the railway station right next to it. I've said before that the station's a wonder and the bookshop well worth a visit. It has the destination board for the old Marchioness of Lorne steamer on display too.

A Small Tortoiseshell kept me company in the garden a good part yesterday morning . A beautiful wee thing.

#SaveCoulLinks Ramsar wetland SSSI from ✈️🌊🏌️⛳ Approved new golf course on protected dunes is now with Scottish Government for revue. UK residents please read, sign & circulate these PETITIONS as objections to the destructive American development. Part of 1 planned fairway is already lost to the sea!

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Nigel builds a bonfire, Tommy plays with it. Wake the f*** up Starmer, Kyle etc

' Saw you from a foreign window...'

A fantastic speech against the madness in Gaza from the Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov. He's speaking up for our shared humanity here. Against what's being done to innocents on both sides. But the Palestinians and Jews who want peace there are not powerful enough to stop it. They all need our help.

We went over to Argyll today with the intention of birdwatching, or maybe just a wander in the woods, but the passing belts of rain were epic, dousing, so I spent the afternoon reading Norman MacCaig which is never a waste of time.

A new work understood to be by the street artist Banksy at the Royal Courts of Justice in London has been rapidly covered up by authorities

@edhawkins.org is a climate scientist at University of Reading who works on assessing climate risks with historical data. He’s the creator of the most iconic climate communication tool ever, the warming stripes.

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵

The European Convention on Human Rights entered into force on this day in 1953. The convention has improved people’s lives, in many different ways, across the continent. Here are more than 200 examples: www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

#MusicChallenge: 15 songs from 1 music act. No particular order... My choice: @commonerschoir.bsky.social 12. Neighbours. One day in Glasgow 2021.... #ArtistFave15 #MusicSky 🎶🎧 #AntiRaids #community #neighbours youtu.be/2YOk0ITaF2E?...

He may be thrawn, but he sure is crabbit, or to borrow partly from P.G. Wodehouse, no- one's going to mistake Van Morrison for a ray of sunshine but, great artist he undoubtedly is, so happy 80th birthday to Van the Man.

I don't think we fully grasped yet how important solar will be as an energy source. Great graph @carbonbrief.org based on @iea.org data.

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

This major new study from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has global implications, so it would be good to see it getting global media coverage rather than only a few Dutch outlets. We ignore such news at our peril! #Climate #AMOC #EndClimateSilence www.dutchnews.nl/2025/08/golf...

#alphabetchallenge #weekIforIconic A framed picture of the Beatles in 1968 in Highgate cemetery, taken by Tom Murray on what is, at least now, described as the 'Mad Day Out'

The British media class has gone stark, raving mad. This is fascism. And they’re strolling into it, whistling.

The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'There's a certain little fish that doesn't do well without water.' Every day's a school day.

One day.

This is interesting and while there are no direct parallels, the U.K. not being a federal state despite Brown's empty promises back in 2014, there's some things for Scotland to think about, especially if England were to actually turn these Reform headcases into a government.

After weeks of extreme heat that sparked wildfires across the country, Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, called for a “climate pact” to improve government coordination and enhance the country’s “mitigation and adaptation to the climate emergency.” By Carlos Caminada for Bloomberg Green…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oucx... @lacharpenta.bsky.social @justagalandadog.bsky.social

It never rains but it pours.

Ross Wilson( aka Blue Rose Code) and Lyle Watt in brilliant form last night at Birnam Arts Centre. They finished with 'Scotland Yet' which takes on unbearable poignancy with England's continued descent into madness with the rise of Reform. If the Brexit referendum had been before the Scottish one...

Blue Rose Code at Birnam tomorrow with our oldest friends. It started with us getting high together, rolling joints on the cover of 'Solid Air', then it was years of Munro bagging, pints of cider & heavy afterwards, and now it's 'Where's the best scone and cup of tea in this town?' So it goes.😄

🤔 slippery slope in undermining the Land Reform Act www.thenational.scot/news/2540116...

Inveraray retain World Pipe Band Championship. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Scottish jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie and his band, with Spike Lee, all holding a Queen's Park scarf. The jolly old Spiders, the begetters of the passing game and therefore all modern football.

Glasgow: the first international and the invention of systematic passing. Wilson's World's Postcards from the Past, episode 1. View the full clip here: jonawils.substack.com/p/wilsons-wo... or here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajeN... Full archive is here: www.youtube.com/@jonawils

Well, it looks a reasonable squad on paper but I still think the champions league is beyond them.

Scottish Water “In total, SW delivered over £1 billion of investment in critical infrastructure last year, whilst also hitting targets for timely delivery. As a publicly owned organisation, every penny of surplus is reinvested into improving services” www.scottishwater.co.uk/About-Us/New...

Gaun yersel, big man. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We need an "In Bed" rule for extreme weather headlines, except add "Thanks to Big Oil's Avoidable Pollution." ‘We’re being cooked alive:’ Europe burns as temperatures soar above 100 degrees Thanks to Big Oil's Avoidable Pollution:

You know what is terrifying about this? There is no way of escaping a heating planet. It’s like being trapped in a heating oven. What we are witnessing is at a 12-month mean of +1.53°C above preindustrial. There is a 97% certainty we will cross 2°C. Heaven help us. www.theguardian.com/...

Fortunately Scotland's ineptitude will save all of our people having to make the difficult moral and social choice of whether to go to the U.S. for the World Cup.

Glass #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGlass #photography #EastCoastKin #StreetPhotography #Lumix

Slightly diminish a band: The Beatless

@redpeter99.bsky.social and @rossaverde.bsky.social , I don't know if either of you already follow the 'It Was What It Was' podcast but it's excellent and they've just recently embarked on a multi- episode delve into Don Revie's Leeds. First two already up.Thought it might be of interest to you both

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGlass Scotland Argentina '78 glass tankard. Marvel at the signatures of Lou Macari, Joe Jordan, Joe Harper, Gordon McQueen and Willie Johnston. 47 years old and showing a sight more durability than the team did. Still think it was a good squad, though not as good as 74.☹️

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.