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I see people bleating yet again that "elections are won from the centre". Let's examine this claim. 1. Not long ago, the current Labour government, with its grovelling to corporations and oligarchs, extreme deregulation, island of strangers rhetoric etc, would have been classed as radical right. 🧵
Heard yer da shouts at hotels
"If you celebrated justice for Hillsborough, you have to support the European Convention on Human Rights Without article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights the gross negligence behind the deaths at Hillsborough would never have been uncovered"
Aye, classic projection.
Unexpected right enough, was in the phone, only just got the app on
Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
A resounding rejection of liberal, timid, transphobe-accommodating green politics, in favour of a radical, transformational, socialist vision of society. Take note, Corbyn et al.
The Home Office needs to remember that human rights apply to everyone, including refugees, and that seeking asylum is not illegal. We can’t risk the loss of human rights for the sake of pandering to Farage. 2/3
Jimmy Bone (1949-2025) R. I. P. 💔💛 Our deepest condolences to Jimmy's family and friends. Forever and ever, the man who walked the ball into the Celtic net...
Right, well, reinforcing the norm now means "vaporising the Labour Party" that the Sensible Moderates all spent a decade furiously destroying the parliamentary *actually anti-racist left* to shitefest into power. Let me know when that starts to happen
Once again watching England with an archly raised brow from Scotland; we've had 15 years of scorn heaped on Independence supporters up here for being narrow, flag-obsessed nationalists, and now the whole UK Cabinet is lying about having loads of flags they shag all the time, mortifying behaviour
Venn diagram, perfect circle.
"The landlord says the rent increase reflects the market rate for the area." Translation: "Every other landlord round here is hiking the rent, so I reckon I can get away with it too." This is exploitation, plain and simple. We need robust rent controls now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spotted a miniature version of Stonehenge at North Manchester General Hospital while taking some books to the post room! #Library #librarysky #booksky
September is Monkey month, just so everyone’s aware.
This is how you do it, Jeremy. #GreenParty
Uncanny really.
This is what solidarity looks like: Italian dockworkers threaten Israel cargo ban if Gaza flotilla blocked 🇵🇸
Live footage of Starmer taking on Farage. #UselessRedToryCunts
He's the ChatGPT of prime ministers, he'll just weakly agree with anything you say and spout potentially dangerous nonsense at huge cost to society in general.
This is the man Keir Starmer has been desperately trying to appeal to. Think about that. Keir Starmer would rather appeal to a man who would dress up in a Union Jack gimp suit than he would the rest of us.
Lol. Losing the dressing room is bad enough, losing the kitchen is game over.
1/9/25 - nocturn
Handy website in case anyone's ever unsure:
Sack the Board! Unless they invest in ramekins 💰💰💰
The beans just don't have the winning mentality you need at this level.
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
The thing is when people say "biologically male/female" in contexts like this, they don't really mean in the sense of observable, empirical biological features (b/c that would inevitably produce some results they don't want), they mean what you "should" be, what you're divinely "designed" to be.
Hey you know when I pointed out that there are a lot of toxic online spaces where vulnerable people mix with evil people and some of those vulnerable people are largely being groomed and exploited by the evil people, but everyone outside those online spaces assumes they're the same group?
Let's be blunt. Corbyn and Sultana had the chance to form a left wing party that was inclusive in its very foundations. Instead they've given a prominent, vocal position to a transphobe who is anti-abortion. That's the foundation of their project, now.
Nothing makes me happier than this kid playing to his ability 💓
THIS is why fossil fuel interests are pouring money into Reform.
Good luck to @zackpolanski.bsky.social I hope when he wins, and I do think he will win, he makes his position so clear that those in the Green Party, who believe there is any debate to be had about trans people, leave. If they don't leave, I hope he shows them the door. No messing around.
Their Party.
The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide. The German state is a disgrace. It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide. It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
Your Party has got a transphobic MP before they’ve even gotten a name!
Some people on the (token) left are willing to sacrifice vulnerable communities for their own self-advancement.
I'm pleased and a little nervous to share the opening of my new book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland. I hope that you enjoy this. It will be published by @headlinebooks.bsky.social on September 11 and is available for pre-order. smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...
That seems right to me. In the past it often looked like he didn't really know what he was meant to be doing, which in fairness probably means his instructions were too vague; something that has now been rectified.
Have your say in person today, Tuesday and Thursday and online about the future of Calderglen Country Park by 8th September. It's on the doorstep of thousands of my constituents so it is important that local people have their say. @eastkilbride.bsky.social
Brutal end that for the Hibs, but pretty impressive performance all the same.
Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right
Aye it's a bit edgy. Commentator trying politely not to wonder aloud why Legia haven't scored again.
It's on the radio, no idea what station, listening through the FotMob app.
I like to take a theme and run with it. Preferably beyond the bounds of everyone else's patience.
Things newly read: 'Loss' by David Harsent #Books #BookSky 💙📚
Amen.
Lol
El agua hirviendo afecta de manera opuesta a papa y huevo: en la papa, el calor rompe almidones y la ablanda; en el huevo, las proteínas se desnaturalizan y coagulan, formando una red sólida que lo vuelve firme y opaco.
It's actually sort of spectacular how we have now discovered that the bulk of Scottish unionism isnt even Scottish in any discernible, distinct way; it's just a provincial element of the imperial doctrine, like a Scottish version of Novorossiya.
If you get married in England this is where you have to consummate it otherwise it doesn’t count and you’re killed for treason
#nerdjokes
I don't think morally defecting to Reform is a workable concept.
Graham Simpson, Conservative MSP for Central Scotland since 2016, has just defected to Reform UK. This is the second time they've had an MSP via defection, following Michelle Ballantyne ahead of 2021. She led the Scottish arm to 0.2% of the vote; times have certainly changed since then.
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There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I knew no one worth my envying him. Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot. To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me. In my body I felt no pain. - GIFT by Czeslaw Milosz #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Fiona Benson
“To dwell in such a place is to learn the art of attention.” The 8th instalment in my inspired writing & photography series; honouring the spirit and togetherness of community: www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/8/... #SlowLooking #HighlandCraft #TheLatchesOfArdnamurchan #SpioradAirdNamMurchan
When Labour in the future say you have to vote for them to stop Reform – remember there are countless reasons that argument is equal parts absurd and offensive. But 26th August 2025 should stand out for their complete capitulation to the right. Absolutely shameful.
Used to terrify me as a child. Still cautious around sepia.
Feel certain that the compulsion to contaminate innocent foodstuffs with low-grade ketchup is incompatible with acceptance into polite society.
This was my gateway into horror.
Unless the beans are in a ramekin...
Things newly read: 'Normal People' by Sally Rooney #Books #BookSky 💙📚
Things newly read: 'The Story of Egypt' by Joann Fletcher #Books #BookSky 💙📚
The Cornish rising of 1549 to protect their mother tongue: "During the Prayer Book Conflict, the English army killed several hundred unarmed Cornish prisoners at Clyst Heath in Devon. This became known as the Clyst Heath Massacre" www.cornwallforever.co.uk/history/bish...
The podcast of Revue Ecossaise is back with a new episode on Scotland’s European identity and the state of Scottish culture, politics and tourism after Brexit. 🏴🇪🇺 Here’s the link: on.soundcloud.com/Agth7z991bhQ...
Thread! 👇
BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action' Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning
I never got round to listening to The The properly at all. The name always annoyed me a bit.
Think I heard them at the same time really. But yes, I did the same for the others; initial impact rather than long-term preference.
Name 5 albums that had the biggest influence on your life: Joy Division: Closer The Fall: Hip Priest & Kamerads Echo & The Bunnymen: Heaven Up Here The Jam: All Mod Cons The Smiths: Hatful of Hollow
A statistic NO ONE can ignore by the admission of the genocidal bastards themselves. The full weight of international law should be applied to all responsible for this indisputable genocide. Sanction Israel NOW. #FreePalestine🇵🇸
‘But here, none too soon, are the second-hand bookshops. Here we find anchorage in these thwarting currents of being; here we balance ourselves after the splendours and miseries of the streets.’ — Virginia Woolf writingforwellbeing.co.uk #books #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #reading
Used to do that all the time in primary. Had a picture of said baby on the front & squares to tick off on the back when you brought in 2p or something, bit like a Greggs loyalty card. My gran referred to it as something worse than Black Babies, which was indeed the standard term 🫣
‘… but we’re happy to maintain our pretendy outrage, whilst having a large presence on a platform singularly owned and controlled by a Sieg-Heiling white supremascist, with no moderation, and filled with racism, bigotry and far-right vitriol.’ #LOFC #london #EastEnd #StoppedMosleyHereFFS #OiOi
A little introspection from Otto English regarding how the government he acted as a noisy cheerleader for has contributed to normalising and legitimating this would be welcome. Instead, later in the thread, he starts dribbling about 'the far left' doing the same...
Have your say on the ticket allocation for @partickthistle.bsky.social quarter final tie against @celticfc.bsky.social. TJF members and other fan owners (including season ticket holders) have been emailed a survey link. More ⤵️ thejagsfoundation.co.uk/stadium-allo... 🔴🟡🔴 #OurClub #OurVoice
It's my biggest achievement for a while lol 🏆
NEW ALBUM PRE-ORDER NOW - includes one song to stream / download. Official release date 5th September. stevewhiteandtheprotestfamily.bandcamp.com/album/eviden...
Well I've got about another 50 Cellar Club films recorded so plenty options available 😆
Finally worked my way through all 54 episodes of Maigret with Bruno Cremer. Nice of @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social to acknowledge the achievement.
Basically 🚀
Straight on the list.
Police smashing a woman in the face with a shield, Poll Tax protest, central London, March 1990 by Paul Mattsson.
Decent result all the same.
John Buchan Fact of the Day (231/365) To celebrate selling the serial rights to his novel John Burnet of Barns (published in 1898), Buchan bought his sister Anna (the author O. Douglas) a bicycle 🚲 #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
Young Labour Sally Rooney book burning event at conference.
Remember that dude with the Plasticine Action tshirt, with the pic of Morph on it, who got arrested for wearing it in London? He has set up a site selling the tshirts with all proceeds going to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). You know what to do! ⬇️ plasticineaction.com
Is it the Lord Walney paid for by arms companies who supply Israel? That Lord Walney?
THIS VILE little scumbag resigned as a Labour MP rather than face action over sexual harassment allegations, got sacked from his non-job as a government advisor, and is a paid lobbyist for arms & fossil fuel companies. Why does the fucking BBC not cut ties with him
Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
There are few things as accidentally dystopian as the seaside in winter; a reminder that society, also, is at the mercy of the seasons, always with the brooding fear of a what-might-be should the people not return. #filmphotography #monochrome #Landscape #Seascape #seaside
I am genuinely impressed at the government's capacity to undermine the normative power of invoking terrorism and national security. They have done more in 30 days to problematise the concepts than 30 years of leftist scholarship.
A mille lieues de l'hypocrisie de l’UEFA, critiquée par Mo Salah, les joueurs du Bohemian FC 🇨🇮 ont honoré la mémoire de Suleiman al-Obeid, star du football palestinien, abattue le 6 août dernier par l’armée israélienne. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 👉 dialectik-football.info/linitiative-...
Shameful. This is a Labour Party post on Facebook from today. Anas Sarwar's position is untenable. Noone voted for the brown shirts.
