Being told that my dad is coming round in an hour and trying to make the place look exactly 8% cleaner so he doesn't think I live like a slob, but also doesn't think I cleaned before he arrived I literally walked around the flat hunched over like "what would a 5'5" man be pernickety abt?"

Tired of hearing about dead malls. We’re all about sleeping malls now, hanging out in the shopping centre before all the shops open. Just you, the cleaners, and the music on the tannoy

haven't re-upped this thing in a minute. Check it out. go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

Something we should have learned over the past years is that fair weather friends are as bad as no friends at all. Because they mislead people into thinking they won't need to fight as hard as they will when the going gets tough - and those claimed allies turn their backs instantly.

Once again I repeat my motto: "Don't comply in advance, but also, don't cry in advance."

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

Here I love my city, but it's fucking bollocks that we still have to just take it as given that we avoid town on certain days because fuckin clouds of football fans will descend and start hitting people and breaking shit

This is your periodic reminder that word of mouth moves more books than any formal advertising! I invite you to rec something you've recently enjoyed -- preference for the stuff that's *not* already extremely well-known and talked about everywhere.

Things in a room in your house aren't just things. Of course they are strictly speaking. But each was chosen somehow. Whether inherited, tolerated, picked in necessary haste, or chosen with slow, loving care. Each has a story beyond what's seen. It's why it can be hard to change.

Wes Streeting resigning, putting that feeling in your stomach when you kill a video game boss too fast and you're like "..... shit there's a phase 2 isn't there"

Sinn Féin are no one's leftist saviours. Their closest British analogue is George Galloway.

Pls listen to this with headphones. The John Williams-style orchestral scoring of the new game literally gives me convulsions of chills (Also I would be interested to know if it has the same response in people who aren't terminally Pokémon Disney Adult like I am) youtu.be/_NlP-08pVm4?...

a writer seeing the whole world’s brain turn to instrumentality slush and immediately asking the slush “did you like my book” is too real

Me: I'm a very reasonable, measured person whose politics is entirely driven by outcomes. I don't actually care abou-- Literally anyone: points out Wales, NI, and Scotland are now all led by pro-independence parties Me: [literally dancing in my chair] WA-HEy-HEyyyYyYYyY! IT'S gonNA HAppEnNNn

Zohran Mamdani inherited a $12 billion budget deficit and brought it down to zero in 6 months without cutting essential services by taxing billionaires. This is why they were in a panic about his candidacy.

Decided rather than going for a run, today was the day I start drafting my new project. Cycled six miles to my favourite bench and am typing the opening couple of scenes on my phone I love Sundays. I love the sun 😭

I use Instagram solely for DMs and I always think I'm being overdramatic when I try to immediately get off the fyp before engaging with anything, like I'm throwing salt over my shoulder averting my eyes But ONE TIME i stop for a story and BOOM. 20 minutes stolen. I blink and I've been ROBBED

Every Reform councillor who was elected this week is going to go into their first day of work thinking that 80% of their borough's budget goes on giving immigrants pronouns and they're all going to find that every single department is underfunded and slightly reducing the budget will kill people

I keep pulling out warmer clothes and finding lighters in the pockets and being like 😏 feeling all smug for no longer needing them As if I’m not the one who bought them all?

I hope we don't fall into "wha's like us" exceptionalism re: Reform's poor performance in Scotland.

🟢 @hollybruce.bsky.social elected to represent Glasgow Southside! Holly is the second Scottish Green MSP to be elected today, and the second Scottish Green constituency MSP to be elected ever!

I am legit gutted for Iris Duane but my GOD what a fuckin turnout for the Greens ❤️ If you had shown me this result in 2012 I would've thought you were lying to me

The trans people who Anas Sarwar threw under a bus in a bid to gain votes watching him shuffle out of Cathcart and Pollock having lost his seat.

I like to think the moment Anas Sarwar tried to stab Keir Starmer with a retractable knife, he got a That's-So-Raven-style vision of this exact moment lmao Rewinding it like "look, you can see the exact moment his soul dies"

Sad to report on this polling day (Go, vote, now, what are you waiting for, the polls seem quite varied, plenty to play for, go, now!) that I never got any other flyers. Quite lackluster from all concerned, I say. Just as well I don't vote based on them. Vote!

Since we delivered free bus travel for under 22s, over 250 million free journeys have been taken. It's opened up access to education, work and social opportunities that might otherwise have been out of reach. Now it's time to deliver free bus travel and its benefits to everyone.

We are at Bournemouth today reporting on Trans Liberation Bournemouth's protest against the transphobic KCSIE guidance. The protest is about to start shortly.

Getting on the train and had no signal on the app specifically so I had to read the massive board with all the departures Dear reader I’m sorry to say my brain did literally go “Wow! How novel! I haven’t done this in years!”

I hate that you can feel kind of meh, go for a run outside and immediately after feel in awe of nature. Why are we so blessed and cursed not to notice? (Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s dopamine ✨ )

That's the west coast mainline for you

The end of an era, as 404 Ink closes it's doors this Summer - this might be your last chance to get We Were Always Here and Fierce Salvage, two anthologies of queer Scottish writing edited by @ryanvance.bsky.social and I, for half price!

Be generous to your local vampires.

I just have such a weakness for writers who revel in the fact that words sound nice when put together in unusual ways, that make images that make you go “yes!!! I am there!!”

It’s Beltane babyyy 💃

The judgment last April was a defining, but not definitive, moment. We may come to remember April 2025 as the moment we galvanised our movement www.wearequeeraf.com/we-mustnt-ov...

embarrassing myself

if you’re not paying attention to minor news cycles in british politics fist of all congratulations second of all you’re missing the entire media and political class defend day drinking on the job right now

It's one of those days where I'm going to be listening to a bunch of old Adventure Zone music and feeling this weird gnawing On the bright side, I am feeling the good juice writing-wise

If you live in Glasgow Southside your Labour candidate is an explicit transphobe

I fear I have become so allergic to being observed that like, I will see things that have nothing to do with me, and my stomach will start doing backflips I have not felt this Anxious At Rest for over a decade and it's freaking me out. It feels like moving backwards

Every time Microsoft Teams chugs to a halt in the middle of a work meeting, I think back to how MSN Messenger used to run fucking instantly On a computer with a fucking toaster CPU, 512MB of RAM, and dial-up internet speeds

Honestly, once you start seeing the #Glasgow coat of arms you'll see it everywhere - only clocked this one yesterday. It forms part of the Trades House crest and is inside @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social, the location of our current show 🐦🌳🔔🐟

There is no bad Scottish food. Each of the many foodstuffs we are mocked for is actually class. Haggis. Deep fried pizza. Clootie dumpling if you get an ok one. [stirring Braveheart music rising] Square sausage. Rowies. Puddings black and white. Deep fried Mars bar. Fuck your jellied eels. Vote Yes.

My Novella The White Ribband will be out on the 4th of May, and is available for Preorder now! books2read.com/u/m297KR If you just can't wait, DM me for an eARC! (Some shops are taking longer to come online than others, if you preferred shop isn't there, check back again later!)

"Pay us twice to see the old movie before paying for the new movie. We are giving you homework and making you pay for the privilege. Say, 'Thank you, Box Office Jesus for saving cinema'." No.