A multi-millionaire attacking working-class families isn't patriotism. It's cowardice. www.thenational.scot/news/2548477...

Nigel Farage blasted over 'grotesque' plan to axe indefinite leave to remain

NIGEL Farage’s plan to axe indefinite leave to remain (ILR) has been slammed as “grotesque” ...

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🎠The SHOW GOES ON!🎡 Come down to the ‘Sands to celebrate the OPENING of the amazing DUMFRIES ROOD FAIR! The first Official Opening in living memory - & You're invited!! 📆Thurs 25 Sept ⏰5:30pm for 6pm. 📍Whitesands, Dumfries (gather at the Waltzer) 🎟FREE to attend, no need to book - ALL WELCOME

This week I sent the Cumbernauld Dialectogram to its new home. Can't say exactly where yet, other than I'm excited... Also, myself, @alisonirvine.bsky.social & @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social will bring Concrete Dreams to @natlibscot.bsky.social in Sept. Tickets are free! www.nls.uk/whats-on/con...

Free tickets to our event on Cumbernauld Town Centre with National Library of Scotland, including presentations & film screenings are available here: 3rd Sept @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social @dialectographer.bsky.social @emilymunro.bsky.social www.concretedreams.org.uk www.nls.uk/whats-on/con...

Today our Trustee and Jnr Vice President of the Showman's Guild Alex James Colquhoun will give evidence to the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry on the impact of lockdown on our community & the fairground industry. It starts in about 10 mins & you can follow it live here: www.youtube.com/@covidinquir...

Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry

The official channel of the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry. The Inquiry is investigating the devolved strategic response to the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2022....

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There has been talk of a national memorial for Jane Haining for years now, but it doesn't seem to have come to much yet. There's a small plaque for her on a stone that's part of the cairn marking the Scottish Parliment in a lovely spot up on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, but I hope we do more.

Auschwitz Memorial@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · last yr.

6 June 1897 | A Scottish woman, Jane Haining, was born in Dunscore. A Church of Scotland missionary in #Budapest. In #Auschwitz from 14 May 1944 No. 79467 She perished in the camp on 17 July 1944. Haining was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.

Wrote about an effort to make social media companies pay for the hate that spreads on their platforms badfaithtimes.com/theres-a-way...

There's A Way To Stop The Algorithmic Spread Of Hate

It's well past time social media companies are forced to face the horrors they've created

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Not reliable reference but Social Changes had a poll were they modelled turnout scenarios. Big assumptions

Am I right in thinking that a neuroscientist doesn’t know that all science is theoretical and thus, has the same understanding of what theory means as a flat-rather?

Vinny Costa@vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · last yr.

Philosophy has jumped the shark. If anyone in the philosophy community wonders why their neuroscientist colleagues don’t pay them any mind, read this paper. bsky.app/profile/zoed...

In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

I loved our talk at the @riasbookshop.bsky.social on #Cumbernauld. Chaired excellently by architect Malcolm Fraser and full of heated discussion from the audience, it was a great night. @nlheritage.bsky.social @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social @dialectographer.bsky.social Thanks for having us, RIAS!

Thanks so much @riasbookshop.bsky.social !

RIAS Bookshop@riasbookshop.bsky.social · last yr.

⭐️ BOOK OF THE WEEK ⭐️ ‘Concrete Dreams’ by Alison Irvine, Chris Leslie and Mitch Miller Explore the complex legacy of Cumbernauld’s iconic, but divisive, brutalist town centre through the stories of its residents in this lavishly illustrated volume.

Giving this another wee punt in case anyone interested might have missed it yesterday. Fairs are a vital part of our heritage - it would be a great cultural loss if we were to allow them to fade away.

Dani Garavelli@danigaravelli.bsky.social · last yr.

“Fairs are an accretion of centuries’ of collective memory, their identities bound up - historically, aesthetically, emotionally - with the land on which they stand." I loved writing this @heraldscotland.bsky.social piece on fairs & the fight to save them. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2509695...

“Fairs are an accretion of centuries’ of collective memory, their identities bound up - historically, aesthetically, emotionally - with the land on which they stand." I loved writing this @heraldscotland.bsky.social piece on fairs & the fight to save them. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2509695...

The show must go on: The fight to save the last of the Scottish fairs

Fairs are more than a mish mash of rides and stalls plonked on any old spot that keeps them out of the way, writes Dani Garavelli, they are an…

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Come and see Recollective (myself, @alisonirvine.bsky.social and @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social) at @riasbookshop.bsky.social this Wednesday (23rd April) at 6.30pm talking about Concrete Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Cumbernauld Town Centre. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bookshopla...

BookshopLATES... Concrete Dreams

Join the award-winning artists of Recollective to discover Cumbernauld Town Centre through the eyes of its residents, past and present.

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If you're interested in Cumbernauld, architecture, social history, stories, photography and illustration, & if you can get to Edinburgh on 23rd April, this is the event for you! @dialectographer.bsky.social @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social @riasbookshop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bookshopla...

BookshopLATES... Concrete Dreams

Join the award-winning artists of Recollective to discover Cumbernauld Town Centre through the eyes of its residents, past and present.

eventbrite.co.uk

For the @economist.com, I wrote about the Le Pen verdict. In liberal democracies, the law needs to be applied even if that strengthens the far right. But here, we should not just assume that this will help the RN. On the contrary. It's a good moment for democracy. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

The Le Pen ruling is good for liberal democracy, writes Tarik Abou-Chadi

The Oxford professor says it shouldn’t matter whether the verdict emboldens the hard right or not

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I returned to my own substack this week with musings of fascism on film. Do you remember the first Nazi you saw on screen? How did films of the past bring us warnings for the future? I take a look at a film that shook me to my childhood core; Au Revoir Les Enfants. open.substack.com/pub/emmalenn...

Au Revoir Les Enfants

Trigger warning: Nazis

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Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:

I note this was written by three policy interns, a tech-bro and an academic who should frankly be ashamed of himself. We need immediate pushback on this garbage, although 'taxing the people so that billionaires don't have to pay a dime' has got to be a hard one to sell...

Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · last yr.

The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today. Some very brief highlights: 🧵 1/8

This should really be all the evidence anyone needs to ensure that official accounts on X/Twitter for every level of government, every political party concerned for decency, and every pubic service should be closed down. It is no longer a social network, it is a Musk-Trump propaganda site.

Will Hayward - Wales Journo@willhaycardiff.bsky.social · last yr.

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

I'm looking forward to this event on our latest Recollective project. Concrete Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Cumbernauld Town Centre. 23rd April @dialectographer.bsky.social Chris Leslie

RIAS Bookshop@riasbookshop.bsky.social · last yr.

Wed 23rd Apr - Concrete Dreams The award-winning artists of Recollective present their new book Concrete Dreams: The Rise & Fall of Cumbernauld Town Centre. Ticket link bit.ly/4kgqRFw

Hello Bluesky! We are Fair Scotland, a Registered Charity that advocates for Scottish Showpeople & the rich Fairground culture they sustain. Follow us for updates on events, new research and resources on the Scottish Show Community & informed comment on all things Fairground! @tsbeall.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce our programme of special FREE events, screenings & walks that celebrate the history of the Dumfries Fairs and highlight their precarious future (22nd-29th March 2025) Further details and booking information here: bit.ly/DumfriesFair_Events We'll see you on the 'Sands!

Also good to see Alison Irvine, Chris Leslie and @dialectographer.bsky.social’s Cincrete Dreams. A very thoughtful representation of Cumbernauld.

"Yesterday I wrote a piece for the Guardian about my decision to step down as an Associate Editor at the Royal Society’s journal Open Science. The response has been overwhelming." My latest substack. open.substack.com/pu...

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates

It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

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Thoughts, Bluesky? If so, please add them below; or if of interest, please share. This is very important work, I think; if Germany’s domestic politics continues on its current course, the next four years are a worrying period. And the AfD will play a key role in that.

Yan Matusevich@ymatusik.bsky.social · last yr.

I understand that the world is on fire, but I was commissioned to do a story about life in an East German town under AfD rule, which unfortunately got axed. It's based on over a month of in-depth reporting on the ground and I'm still hoping to salvage it. Any suggestions? @okwonga.bsky.social maybe?

@liverpoolecho.co.uk @exploreliverpool.bsky.social and everyone else in the area. You may enjoy some of the events we have put on for #WorldBookDay. Join us.

I’m not normally a BBC basher but it’s *still* referring to what happened in the White House yesterday as a “shouting match”, a “ spat” and a “row”. We all watched it. That’s not an accurate depiction of events.