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Some guy from Embra. No longer does a media thing for money. Proud Scottish Green and lefty Scotpol pipedog gang (sadly depleted) member.
Damaging new guidance from the EHRC will shut out Trans people from daily life simply for existing, and anyone who doesn't conform to narrow ideas of how people should look could face suspicion and confrontation. We are taking a stand against this attack on human rights.
Congrats to everyone who got a shoutout in the Telegraph today, although I don't know where they got the idea that Bluesky is a place where people are kind to each other. This is site is not kind. This is a PvP server where you get randomly matched with an American who has misunderstood your joke.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 11h agoI was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
I do wonder if The Media Class of this country have been on the mercury cocaine. Their brains must be as hard and crumbly as Edinburgh rock. Imagine writing that paragraph and thinking *Séamas* is the bad guy.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 11h agoNow, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.
So Luciana Berger was abused by a fascist who is now a Tory candidate despite his criminal conviction over it, but at the time she allowed everyone to think that the whole thing was about "the antisemitic Labour left"?
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h agoThis is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.
If you go onto Bluesky and trash Vimes’ Boots you are quite plainly looking for a fight. The quality of your argument is beside the point, you are here to push buttons.
A huge Scottish estate with its own private island is set to be purchased by the local community after a £1 million grant was secured
Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign
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Because I am TERRIBLE at timing, I'm selling my boxed #Transformers Predaking mere DAYS after everyone is all knackered from #TFN! Boxed, complete (haven't even applied stickers!). Selling Due To Broke. Also, enjoy the description. I am once again Back On My Bullshit www.ebay.co.uk/itm/11734011...
The other day I was looking up that quote about "the government would love to do to you what they can to migrants" and found out it was actually Neal Ascherson not Tony Benn. Now there's a journalist we should miss when he's gone. Still working at 93. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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As a British wartime child living near secret things and sites, I can remember easily respecting the instruction: ‘...
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🔴 NEW: The Scottish Government says the move was needed to tackle the "administrative burden" caused by the growth in AI-assisted objections to energy projects. Critics say it is a way to mute public opposition. Our latest: http://theferret.scot/ai-ban-emailed-objections-energy-projects
I inquired about the cat at Craigmillar Castle in Edinburgh and was told her name is Amber and it is her castle. She accepted four strokes and then had other business to attend to.
Oh, FFS, Battle.net is requiring UK people to verify their age. Just look at how long I've been playing and paying for your damn games, lads.
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I don't know if we'll ever have a reckoning about how the newsprint/westminster bubble is absolutely packed with predators and abusers and everyone knows about it but it's deemed horribly rude to ever fucking draw attention to it
I dunno, feels like eight speeding offences in three years means there's a good chance you're such a shit driver in general that you shouldn't have been on the roads anyway. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Author Lynda La Plante banned from driving for six months
The best-selling crime author is disqualified from driving despite saying a ban would end her career.
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To paraphrase Jim Henson, he has left the world a Liddle better by no longer being in it.
Content warning: comics nerdery. I loved Harvey's work. He gave a leg-up to Sacco, Haspiel, Woodring, Chet Brown, Bechdel and many more. He was a difficult, grumpy bastard and most of this is probably triplicate complaints about co-workers… but it's worth saving. www.kickstarter.com/projects/735...
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Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever
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Did my first Wikipedia edit in 11 years, lads. One is not enough, two would be far too many.
My view on the COVID pandemic is: if you think that was bad, wait til you try 3C of warming
It’s pointless to argue with these journalists about covid and lockdowns etc. because they’re not doing any of it in good faith. They just like debating. Nobody normal and good likes debating.
I assume that subscribing to The National means that the money isn't ringfenced for that paper and just sloshes around with that for The Herald and Newsquest in general, right?
The (very nice) 69th issue of our newsletter is out now ft. 20th century superbeings, All the good men and the gods, Christopher Nolan: war accountant, dream calculations, longing with Sam Gellaitry, Stalker, Summer Fun and more!
The first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup
I faxed my answer to El Segundo. Jacob's Room/The Odyssey. The Pilman Radiant 6: Life. Planks Constant. Summer Fun: Chaos. This thing called love real hard for me. Best Spider-Man film.
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Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
I see the induced traffic caused by yet reopening North Bridge is now a queue all the way back to South Bridge. Great work everyone.
Yes lockdown was really tough for kids. Lots of those kids are teenagers now so maybe as a thank you our establishments could stop deliberately making even more things worse for them due to a weird systemic hatred of our own youth
The past couple of days are a great lesson in why the Spectator Garden Party list is essential for muting at the very least.
Apart from everything else, Linus should always have his blanket in his left hand.
Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social · 4d agoANYONE REMEMBER WHEN DINNER MEANT EVERYONE AT THE TABLE… NO PHONE ALLOWED, NO DISTRACTIONS, JUST TALKING ABOUT YOUR DAY WHILE SLOWLY, IMPERCEPTIBLY AT FIRST, MORPHING INTO WINNIE THE POOH CHARACTERS? ANYONE REMEMBER THAT??
