My words today were rubbish, my tortilla was shit hot

And the writers show runners and actors of Heated Rivalry. Now I understand why Latin Americans get obsessed with telenovelas

What’s he done now?

The Greens are Putin’s clowns: he doesn’t even have to shovel them money like with Reform.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Just as well Venezuela aren’t in the men’s football World Cup finals.

I might just read this on repeat over Christmas

Too cheery to be Scottish

And again

The doleful effwcts of uncosntrained immigration and cultural dilution When I was a bairn the guid fowk of the New Town would have nuked that from space

I liked being drunk when the other place was good

It's frustrating how Russia has built this entire myth of invincibility around itself. It lost the Crimean war, a war with Japan in 1905, the first world war, an invasion of Poland in 1920, and in Afghanistan. It won the second world war only with Allied logistical support.

Brazil, Morocco and a no-hoper team from a mountainous, divided island of white sand beaches whose inhabitants speak a pidgin of their colonial master’s tongue. Haiti are of course the other team in group C

Bizarre mix-up at draw as winner of World Cup accidentally revealed seven months in advance

There’s some weird law of the universe that takes over and Scotland always has to play Brazil. Even I notice it and I have spent a lifetime knowing nothing about football

I miss when Twitter was good. it would be hilarious during a television crisis such as this.

‘Heidi Klum’s knickers are like concrete‘ my mother. If anyone knows her stylist and tell me the mark of concrete I’d be pleased to know

THE INAUGRAL FIFA PEACE PRIZE PEOPLE!!!

Every single time I come onto this place.

In the days before social media cancellation. Helen Garner‘s Diaries (1995)

I had forgotten just how confident men can be in their pronouncements that are often utter nonsense. It’s good to be reminded. Well done that man.

This is really fascinating especially the tiny bit about the establishment’s fascination with the exotic and that exotic changing fashion. So the orientalism of the Brighton Pavillion becomes Balmoral Castle. Plus ça change open.spotify.com/episode/6Y6Q...

Someone up from England who wanted to rewild the place.

Keep in mind that given the intense/widespread opposition in Ukr to the "little Ru" conception, if Ru managed to conquer Ukr, it will intensify the genocidal policies it now pursues in the occupied territories to achieve this "transformation". Ru openly talk about killing millions if necessary.

listening to Muriel Spark describe Edinburgh as the home of all hypocrites.

We honor the millions of Ukrainians who were starved by the Soviet regime and vow to never forget their resistance and loss. 🧵 1/2 ⬇️

What was true of the Trump administration's original, extortionate minerals plan is equally true of this peace plan. It will probably be true of the next White House plan, and the one after that.

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

'More than 21% of those surveyed felt the Franco era was “good” or “very good”.' Not so good for those lying in unmarked shallow graves. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The more of us reading Françoise Gilot’s book on Picasso as a way to truly understand this the better.

One of the more entertaining parts of living in Scotland again in the past decade is certain sections of central Edinburgh thinking they are radical.

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I have been out at an event full of young people and I am here to inform you that moustaches are back. Some are a throwback to the heyday of Magnum PI and sadly others, the height of Vichy France. (You all may know this but I might as well live in a cave in Assynt for all the street life I see)

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selfies. If you take them can you tell me why?

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This spot on and good phrasing. Now let’s see the response.

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A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Can you imagine how many bams we’ll need to take in Scotland when they extend this English repatriation policy to white people?

I had to inform the Patriarch this afternoon about the fleg wars with the saltire hanging from houses and flags. “Well at least we know where the arseholes live, but could they not just have stuck with the Union Jack?” What a time to be alive. . .

Beginning to wonder if I should sew together an English, Scottish and EU flag and wander about the town with it just to reclaim something I didn’t know I was losing.

I think this is it. Despair is easy and you get to feel wise, and it doesn't really place any obligations on you or force you to speak out or do anything, really.

Ffs. Here we go.

I feel this way about young people listening to Oasis, Carl Cox and taking MDMA. “Get yer own music and drugs!”

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