Sara Shaarawi from Welcome To The Fringe speaks out against the Home Office’s denial of visas to international artists #edfringe including part of the team behind And Here I Am. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/playwri... @artsprofessional.co.uk
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Sara Shaarawi from Welcome To The Fringe speaks out against the Home Office’s denial of visas to international artists #edfringe including part of the team behind And Here I Am. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/playwri... @artsprofessional.co.uk
Yes dude! So good to see actors like Hugh using their platform for good.
Oh man, bad news about Spotlight. Can't believe they immediately emailed us as a sort of tone deaf victory lap. Read the room guys.
Yeah!
Why are we throwing money away on fossil fuels when endless (and obvious) renewable energy is here for the taking? Let's stop letting the oil barons rob us.
Haha nah save the solar for roof space! Every non-listed building as standard plz! So inefficient to have them on the ground. 100% reclaim the golf courses though, a win-win solution.
Scottish Councils demanding that trans children out themselves to their classmates is obviously institutional transphobic abuse, and schools should absolutely refuse to comply. The obsession with policing children's bodies is disturbing.
Hell yeah. Honestly, if you don't want this, you are just in favour of children being killed in traffic, and you need to own that.
Hello beautiful friend!
Having so many feelings as an American emigrant listening to the @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social Project 1933 series. podcastaddict.com/in-bed-with-.... Wow. Highly recommend.
This is so true. We also MUST reduce the size of cars. Huge, heavy cars cause more death and harm when they crash. The benefit to society far, far outweighs the temporary comfort for the richest.
Lol I laughed because I am in Glasgow. Any other Scottish listeners do a sorta double take there?
Always, always, always.
It's so infuriatingly unfair. I read that article this morning and thought it was really shoddy, really not enough. The whole thing would have needed to be basically what you just wrote in order to fact check the dudes quoted. And they just didn't bother. What is the function of this coverage??
Exactly. It's 100% about trying to avoid pissing off any possible rich person. Which like, why? What's the point of you?
Yes! I couldn't sleep one night early in high school and found my parents watching Monty Python, and then spent the rest of high school trying to get my classmates to watch it, with mixed success.
'That annoying Beep Beep Beep is the ire of many city dwellers' I'll tell you what is annoying: the 7,500 hit-and-runs by cars recorded annually in London. This trumps my concerns about the sounds made by bikes used by kids who lack access to bikes.
There was a babysitter incident when we were kids where she had great taste and very little common sense and showed us The Princess Bride early enough that we were apparently terrified of the six fingered man. TPB is one of my top five films now so this is hilarious to me.
I'm sure most of you have seen this, but yeah, it's a bfd that it's coming from an Israeli, an IDF vet, a scholar of the Holocaust. I hope it (and Haaretz' stellar work) begin to move parts of my community that haven't been willing to hear up until now.
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
Values of fairness!
This is so lovely!
OK phew!
Maybe it's a joke and I just missed the sarcasm, that's also possible?
Peter, I love your work, why would you say this about artists, this is such a weird ahistorical take. Artists are workers, some art is abstract and loads of it isn't. Is contrapoints an artist? Even if she is, there's just no need to tar us all with the same brush like that.
😆 Yessss
Oh man I sat on a wasp and it (understandably) stung me and it is so sore, this is an outrage
Totally unsurprising, and I am delighted to see it. Reducing KSIs by a third? If you don't want that, you gotta be prepared to argue *in favour of people being killed on roads*. There should be no looking back.
Oh my brother saw them in Arizona and sent us a video of the gronking! What a lovely lovely sound.
It is not for you to finish the work, neither are you free to desist from it! Love this, Shiv, thanks.
Is anyone developing the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir? An absolute no-brainer for screen adaptation, cinematic as hell, lesbian necromancers in space, need I go on
Exactly. Such an easy fix. People don't understand how miserable it is to live on the pittance allocated to people on asylum support.
Dìreach air VILLANELLE a sgrìobhadh ann an Gàidhlig, tha mi a' dannsadh mun cuairt sa chidsin, thoir dhomh rudeigin trom ri thogail, BRING ME THE FINEST MUFFINS IN THE LAND
Ah that's so good to hear! I mean also of course the name doesn't come from English but it was a funny coincidence.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social Did you guys know that there's a neighbourhood in Scotland called Carbrain (even a Carbrain Primary School). In, appropriately, a 'new town' designed around cars, Cumbernauld.
yesssss magic of theatrrrrre
Omfg! Can't wait to hear about it when I see you!
Oh man, Theatre comrades, have you listened to the new #The98% podcast? Can't find them on here but it's a doozy: 'Lucy Harrison Casting': A Cautionary Tale 🅴 #the98 podcastaddict.com/the-98/episo... via @PodcastAddict
Just voted in the @equityuk.bsky.social committee elections and I wanted to say how excellent the candidates were. I was so impressed with the statements from people standing for Women's Committee. 💪
If you're in Scotland and have experience of ADHD or Autism diagnosis, treatment or like 42,530 children are waiting for a neurodevelopmental assessment, please please will you contribute to this inquiry? We need things to change. www.parliament.scot/about/news/n...
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@ifbookspod.bsky.social Hey guys! If books could literally kill! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scotrail needs to do the right thing and hire Gayanne Potter properly to do the train announcements. AI steals jobs that people can do better and that people want to do. Not useful, not progress. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We use our cargo bike for everything but we're only able to have one because our flat came with a garage and we can store it safely overnight. This is THE big obstacle where we live in Glasgow. It's a chicken and egg problem where we need alternative cycle hoops put in before people can switch.
Watching #Andor and I kind of can't believe they are getting away with this? This last ep used the word genocide and everything. I think it's really brave telly.
🙋♀️ 20% car-km reduction 🤔 Did you think it impossible? 🤔 Will @scottishgovernment.bsky.social heed its own research? HERE-> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/01/20-t... @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @sw20ed.bsky.social @sccscot.bsky.social @peterwalker99.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social
“We are Jewish academics who have devoted our lives to teaching and research on college campuses. If there were a pervasive culture of antisemitism on campuses, we would know about it, and we would fight it. But we have observed no such thing.” No lies detected. academeblog.org/2025/04/25/i...
If you haven't watched #Reunion yet, it's so, so good. Bloody hell. Loved it. The actors hit it out of the park. Every character had an arc, an incredible team effort. Bravo.
Spot on
Just want to do a big shout out to all the actors who help each other out and work in community. I had a tricky self-tape to do today and an actor friend stepped up to help me figure it out, and it's so much easier that way! I love Glasgow and our hardworking, generous community.
I'm on the Live Literature directory now! So cool. www.scottishbooktrust.com/authors/beth...
This makes perfect sense to me. When can we get this done in Scotland?
Yeah I am sure it's super old fashioned. I read Anne of Green Gables to my daughter recently (she is 6) and it went surprisingly well, so I am hoping to get her used to enjoying a variety of registers. Some of the older children's novels hold up better than others though!
Yes I read it when I was little! Haven't revisited it yet. I loved it when I was a kid.
Whoa Glasgow, look at this!
Showing my daughter The Secret Garden (Maggie Smith version) for the first time. I remember it as being really problematic but also having some very deep feelings in it. It's exciting to be able to share things from my own childhood with my daughter as she gets older.
Oh my goodness, an incredibly welcome piece of good news.
That's what it was like when I met you in the Free Hetherington!
ahh baby Tanya with the long blonde hair!
Yes! And also people have forgotten that if measles doesn't kill you, it will still wipe your immune system like a dry erase board. Children who survive measles are more likely to die from ALL infections diseases for the two years after.
Oh my goodness me, did Ali Shaw write The Trees just for me? I just finished the second chapter and am crying because it is so powerful. What a FLEX.
I got to see 'Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh!' today @playpiepint.bsky.social and I loved it. @lanapheutan.bsky.social got a tricky balance right, and grounded all three characters enough to anchor the politics. Lots of funny turns handled well by the actors. Go and see it!
What wad the result the first time? Do you know why they're going again? Very irritating.
Feumaidh Bile nan Cànanan Albannach a bhith nas treasa agus nas soilleire a thaobh planadh cànain aig ìre choimhearsnachdan. Bu chòir don Bhile a bhith a' mìneachadh mar a bhios Sgìrean Sònraichte Cànain ag obrachadh. Cuir taic ri athchuinge Misneachd: www.change.org/p/strengthen...
I was thinking, listening to the latest ep, that actually the easily demonstrable success of congestion pricing is one of the reasons anti-society rightwingers want to get rid of it ASAP. It is a demonstration of reasonable authority and democracy working, and they don't want that.
Research: Protected bike lanes result in approximate doubling of number of users in a network link. Roughly twice as many women as men become new users of a link when protected infrastructure is installed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Tha seo fìor, ach tha suidheachaidhean ann far a bheil an riaghaltas a' solarachadh do chloinn fo aois 3 - mar eisimpleir ma tha am pàrantan air a bhith ann an cùram. Is thathar a' cleachdadh sgoiltean-àraich prìobhaideach airson sin cuideachd, le com-pàirteachadh. Gabhaidh e a dhèanamh.
Agreed.
100% this, never thought I would live to see this shame
Yeah they're not really selling it yet are they
Lol
I would like people to think about what an extremist position it is, to insist on barrenness, on zero, like this.
The article quoting the costs of beavers, like, OK, what is the cost of having killed all the animals who lived here? Come ON. I grew up in a forest, with animals, and it's so, so abnormal to just have no animals.
"After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%."
Honestly I can't believe people in Scotland think it is OK to live without any apex predator mammals. The absolute impoverishment of nature here has confused people. It's so pathetic and unnecessary.
Mum Chums, my slice of life #ttRPG about the people who care for kids, is now live on Kickstarter. If you like your gaming with a strong emotional core, back it today!
Hey, this will be because of 'no recourse to public funds' as a condition of visas. Social housing is public funds. It's horrible. Highly recommend finding your nearest migrant solidarity organisation.
Also, please, just read my CV, don't make me turn it into a naff-sounding narrative 😅
Omg way too broad arghhh
The latter is confirmed by Frozen 2. Incredibly weird.
i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
Yeah definitely.
Your post was the first time I ever heard that term, so maybe it's not as widely recognised as you thought it was? I dunno. Maybe everyone who grew up here knows that term. I literally never heard it before.
Miami's school buses were outfitted with cameras that automatically identify and ticket car drivers who blow past a bus when it stopped (illegal and a major safety risk). The cameras caught 1,500 violations *per day* -- just in Miami-Dade County. Automatic enforcement FTW
So happy to see this!
Parents of children in school in councils other than Glasgow! If your child has any food allergy at all which the school knows about, are they given no choice about what they eat at lunch?
Yep I deleted mine. X
It's really hard to have all these men we grew up reading and watching turn out to be bastards. It makes me so angry. There is no good reason for them to have done this, they didn't need to spoil things, and they still did, and do. Thieves.
Hmm. This is a case for the techies I guess.
Wait isn't it just that one is a film and one is for telly?
Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
God this is so, so weird. What kind of definition of safe is this person using? Honestly not a take I have ever seen before and I live in Glasgow.
Me please! Hi Jen!