The current state of affairs in Scotland is politicians and press exasperatedly saying to each other: How could we have lost again, when we spent five years screaming at the public about The Trans Menace? And the answer is: the public find that shit weird and unsettling, and don’t much want it.

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

Guided By Voices has to be the only band in rock history where people gave up on being fans due to lack of storage space.

2 immediate thoughts: Don’t have kids? Clearly you’re not important. Hospitality has been screaming for help and nothing.

When infrastructure treats bikes as serious transportation, society stops treating them as children's toys. It's that simple.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Oh look, there’s still car parking and plenty nearby. Everytime I’ve had to pick up a kilt, I’ve managed to walk a short distance to transport.

Good piece by Constant Follower about BBC Radio Scotland trashing its cultural output. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/05/19/c...

People: it's outrageous that my local council can't fix all the potholes. Also people: I'm driving around in a very heavy SUV, parking on pavements and I want to pay less tax, not more.

If the Odyssey was all that good, Iron Maiden would have written a ten minute song based on it.

OG TRON. Aye it looks cool but. It was. Dull.

Pick a Bond from the photos ypu already have on your phone.

Genuinely angry that the police are just shutting down half of Glasgow city centre on a Saturday afternoon because they're incapable of controlling football fans. I bet the local retailers won't be happy either.

Is it me or does Andy Burnham look like he’s just been sacked by Radio 2?

Lisa Nandy always looks like someone just stole her bicycle.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... Glorious. The fact it’s boiling Lineham’s piss is the icing on the cake.

Wes Streeting has the aura of someone who definitely goes out on week one of The Apprentice.

Perth. Aberdeen.

"I chapped on a guy's door and he said he wouldn't vote for Starmer in a million years because he's just too boring on the stump" Happens all the time. Don't mine the neighbour telling the Labour canvasser "go fuck yourselves" because they're threatening to deport his girlfriend.

Used the Voi bikes in Edinburgh for the first time. Finding a non packed space at Leith Links to return the bike to was harder than it should have been 🤷‍♂️

Here, a friend demonstrates that attaching a bicycle stand to block paving has some pitfalls.

for decades there was a solid chunk of the british population who believed, rightly or wrongly, that labour was "The nice party" and tories were "the nasty party" (good guys/bad guys) and that held even through tony's worst years. Almost nobody under 40 has those associations anymore

A clear win for bike lanes btw. SNP and Greens have been building them, Labour said they'd get rid of the active travel budget.

People who love to post graphs and figures about attitudes whilst ignoring that the Scottish electorate have now re-elected a pro-immigration government 5 times.

Bloody hell. Is THIS finally enough evidence for the Electoral Commission to act? On past performance, probably not.

Evergreen headline.

@drownedinsound.org new newsletter is great. These sound like mid 00s metalcore bands.

We are at the stage of Reform announcing concentration camps and the entire media immediately moving on to whether Polanski exaggerated on his CV in 2012 or not.

“Come Helga, ve are having lunch with General Von Klinkerhoffen at ze Café René”

"Now, the first thing to know about rural North Wales is that it's completely f***ing mental..." Pirate radio up a mountain, drunken train-surfing, a wild man actor and popty-f***ing ping: it's all in my piece in @thequietus.com about SUPER FURRY ANIMALS' early days. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

@weedian.bsky.social Love when Apple music just picks random artwork. Tay Tay/COC collab when?

Can't explain it but Liz Kendall looking like she's in a Jamiroquai video as she gleefully loses her shit in the company of a robot dog feels like one of the most dystopian images I've ever seen

Better support for Sustainable travel options (particularly for staff) should be one of the solutions, surely? Not everyone needs or wants to drive there.

Sandie Peggie *still* getting front page stories and sympathetic interviews while Beth Upton has had to flee to Australia is so unbelievably grim.

Hannah Spencer, a woman who had an ordinary job, becoming an MP and immediately noticing and talking about how, for example, our MPs drink at work, is one of the reasons why the establishment doesn’t like it when normal people get elected.

The main reason I support transit is that many people should not be allowed to drive and that shouldn't be immiserating to enforce

No road safety issues at ‘Bridge over the Atlantic’ – so why is council installing traffic lights? By me. www.transportxtra.com/publications...

Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult. She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.

Hannah added: “I get offended when I hear the argument made that it is working class. Working-class people are fed up with gambling companies being able to wreak havoc in people’s lives.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“All of your friends are cunts. Your mother was a ball-point pen thief”

Bonkers story about how the complaints that shut down Heaven (LGBT+ club/now-rare incredible gig venue in central London) were false & generated by AI given a sudden swerve in that they were made by a married gay couple. THIS PLACE WAS CORE TO YOUR RIGHTS FFS! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

at some point in the next century it will finally hit UK defence experts that the UK is not a world power

Blimey. This just gets deeper and deeper and more awful. 11 police officers investigated over that wimbledon Landrover school crash. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lovely ride (with headwind) from Perth to Arbroath today. Many bits of new cycle infrastructure to use. Great quality. Well done @anguscouncil.bsky.social 👏

bugs bunny would wipe the floor with Q from star trek

Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚

Pity Anselmo doesn’t get turbo cancelled like this goof.

youth mobility = adult relaxing I'm in this fight to do less more often.