Artist Smug (Sam Bates) stunning mural of St. Mungo, High Street, Glasgow shows the patron saint of the city holding a robin, depicting one of his miracles, where as a child he brought a pet bird back to life.

25 June 1926 | Austrian Jewish boy, Berthold Werner, was born in Vienna. He emigrated to Belgium. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 4 August 1942. He did not survive. --- Children at Auschwitz 📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/4ryCOJe 🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/3O8yeDh

This summer's Scotties In The City Art Trail is now on, and consists of 40 giant scottie dogs all across Glasgow, each of which has been individually decorated to raise money for Maggie's. Cont./ #glasgow #streetart #scottiesinthecity #kelvingroveartgallery #maggiescancercentres

Vance just admitted we are paying Iran $300 BILLION in reparations. After losing the First World War, Germany paid US$5 billion (22 billion gold marks) in contemporary currency. Adjusted for inflation, that was still only around $90-95 billion in today's dollars.

Not just that, but they don't get fair contracts and fair wages. They are asked to work insecurely, and for a pittance. How can anyone even safely rent a place to live under those conditions?

And many of the 'opportunities' that are out there aren't even real. Something like 1/3 of job postings are ghost jobs that the posting company has no intention of filling. Then there's the AI driven systems screening out 95%+ of applications before a recruiter even looks at it. 1/2

Grantley Hall, near Ripon https://www.wikiart.org/en/l-s-lowry/grantley-hall-near-ripon-1952

Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse, 27 December 1964. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing.). #Berlin

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The White House is now home to a fascist criminal tyrant, a disgusting UFC arena, tacky gold plated decor, a cement plot where the Rose Garden used to be and a bulldozed demolition site. Makes me sick to my stomach.

Trump is also about to destroy the worlds premiere weather data gathering system. His war on knowledge and science may be his most crippling and lasting impact, tho there are lots of contenders for the worst….

This is genuinely funny. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌍 ⚽🏆 (Apologies if it doesn't display in your country.) #girders uk.news.yahoo.com/irn-bru-laun...

We had some great help from the boys at Craigroyston High School, who helped cut back the overgrown vegetation at the side gate, and through the woodland at West Pilton Park. They pulled out rubbish and then sowed some woodland wildflowers to diversify the plant life. #volunteersweek

Excellent evening at Scottish Opera’s first rate production of The Marriage of Figaro. Music so familiar. #Opera

5 June 1933 | Dutch Jewish girl, Hilde Münz, was born in Heerlen. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- ▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

NEW: Ballroom donors have won more than $50B in government contracts according to watchdog group @publiccitizen.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

After 2021 scandal Lex Greensill banned from UK company directorships for 9 yrs. Left £1.6bn debts. Greensill can control offshore companies, trade with UK. Penalty? Former PM David Cameron was adviser, secretly lobbied to get public money for Greensill. Consequences?

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofgalway.bsky.social This was founded in 1845 as part of the Queen's University of Ireland along with its sisters in Cork and Belfast If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

1850s blonde sandstone Classical style tenements on Kelvingrove Street in the West End of Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #tenements #kelvingrove #architecture #architecturephotography

Foreign money funding Reform UK. Another 7m from two overseas British crypto billionaires - £4m from Hong Kong-based billionaire, £3m from Thailand. Tax exiles shaping UK politics. Modern equivalent of representation without taxation. What have they been promised? Must ban political donations.

Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, 23 June 1964. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing.). #Berlin

In 1942, Zdeněk Tmej was conscripted to work on railways in Breslau Germany. Transported from his native Prague, he took clandestine photos of the everyday lives of his group of 100 Czech labourers. Tmej was one of 20 million people exploited as workers by the Nazi regime.

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This unassuming building in the Children's Wood and North Kelvinside Meadow in Glasgow, started life as a World War II communal air raid shelter, and is probably the only surviving example of such a shelter in the city. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #architecture #northkelvinmeadow

4 June 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Simone Sommer, was born in Strasbourg. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 12 February 1944 in a transport of 1,500 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 1,229 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

These tools were used by Joseph Lister for cleft palate operations. They had originally been owned by J. Smith but were modified by Lister to meet his needs.

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

Absolutely 💯 Agree….

Remember, if someone asserts that your weekend plans of reading a good book, drinking multiple cups of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of emotional support cinnamon rolls “doesn’t sound exciting”, then they simply may not be the friend you thought they were.

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Now be fair. This elderly gentleman forgot to pay £3.5 million in capital gains tax. It was an easy mistake which anyone could make. You can’t take his driving licence away or look at his bank account.

There will be a council planning meeting on the 16th June 2026 to decide whether Thomas Lennox Watson's 1883 Greek Revival Hillhead Baptist Church in the West End of Glasgow can be demolished to make way for flats. Cont./ #glasgow #hillhead #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #church

Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, 28 August 1962. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing.). #Berlin

The Pond http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lowry-the-pond-n06032

Or is the truth a bit more unsettling, that there was another, until now unidentified serial killer prowling the East End? And if so, why did they stop killing? Read for free via the link. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-green-murders-serial-killer-ian-brady/

Some not-very-good photos from yesterday's concert in Govanhill by Lalkhori, an ensemble from Georgia who perform traditional Svan music and dance. Highly recommended if you ever get a chance to see them or anything like them.

Yeah well, the mobile phone footage of soldiers murdering civilians, destroying entire towns with hand-placed explosives and playing with the toys and underwear of displaced women and children came out quickly and kept coming in an endless torrent, so what does that tell us about “the rules”.

On this day in 1923, a Jewish woman was born in Leipzig. Living in Prague, on the 30 Nov 1941 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her parents and sister (17) and on the 12 Jun 1942 to Trawniki concentration camp, where they all perished. Her name was Ellen Eisnerová

#ScienceOnThisDay Cosmonaut and chemist Helen Sharman celebrates her birthday today - Happy Birthday Helen! In 1991, she became the first British person to travel into space.

On this day May 30, 2024 Donald John Trump was found guilty by a jury of his peers of 34 Felonies. At that point, he should have been ineligible to hold any political position in the entire country. And yet….here we are!

I had an aunt (my great-grandfather’s sister) who lived to 109. She was born in 1892 and died in 2002. Up until her final weeks, she remained pretty with it and aware. The older that I get, the more it blows my mind. I just think about everything she lived through and saw. #skystorians #history

Gene Kelly filmed the title track in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN with a 103-degree fever. He was producing and starring, so taking time off wasn't an option. It took two days of shooting in his wool suit, which shrank as filming went on. It's one of the most iconic musical scenes to come out of Hollywood.

Born on this day in 1849, businesswoman and entrepreneur Catherine "Kate" Cranston. #Glasgow #otd

Been enjoying Kevin McCloud's 'Listed' on More4 - well, because it's my kind of heritage shit - but, delighted tonight that there is good news about 'Mavisbank House', outside Loanhead, in Midlothian.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Nearly 2 billion people live in the red area. It is becoming completely uninhabitable. What do the climate deniers, who also hate immigration, think is going to happen?

Progressive, Brad Lander, favored over Zionist, Dan Goldman, for House of Representatives. Why? Gaza. $70 billion needed to rebuild Gaza. This should be paid by Israel and the U.S. who destroyed almost every building in Gaza and killed tens of thousands of Palestinians there.