That BBC Scotland documentary in Glasgow is a fucking disgrace on a number of levels btw. There’s a clear truth between it being Utopia and some sort of Mad Max hellscape. A one sided hatchet job. If you go looking for bother in any city, you’ll find it.

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Wikimedia UK@wikimediauk.bsky.social · 2h ago

One of the driest summers on record, and almost none of it is in the free, permanent public record. If you're in an affected part of England or Wales, upload your photos to Wikimedia Commons and help us complete the record 👇

soooo is the glasgow city council birth certificate order form down for anyone else or

it'd be a stretch to spend $5.6 billion on this, but imo the margaret atwood that deserved the big budget prestige tv treatment was the maddaddam trilogy

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 3d ago

youve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd

peep show on in the background while i do inconsequential housework and just got a visceral sense of nostalgia from the conveyer belt sushi place with the sparkling water taps at the table

think i might have broken my tears of the kingdom save file

naming a shitty startup "valar" feels like actual blasphemy to me we need a holy war against all the tolkien-appropriating start-ups this has gone too far

Janne M. Korhonen@jmkorhonen.fi · 4d ago

Excuse me, but what in tarnation did I just read: A startup that wants to build #nuclear power "100x faster" also "offers raw milk" and "holds bible studies" RAW. MILK. BUILDS NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. Do they know those things aren't powered by god damn magic crystals?

I think what's most damning is that this media frenzy happened because it is august, and there is no news, and the journos were bored and this looked exciting. And now a man is dead and they'll all go "yes, very sad" then blame the universities as a concept before fucking off to party conferences

I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.

It's so blazingly obvious that this is true. A university lecturer being fired for plagiarism would not be national news >99% of the time. It was inflated into one this time purely because it fit into racist "culture war" narratives about "DEI".

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d ago

No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places

oh gosh this brought a wee tear to my eye retvrn

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 4d ago

Took me a while but finally fixed mine the other day. www.jimwaterson.com

the state of the new scotrail app has finally pushed me on to the trainline :(

feels like a mockery of our once in decades eclipse that it is so clear and sunny now

this is maybe the worst place to ask since obviously we are all happily using this platform but like is there anything that can make it easier? i've walked to professionals who work in open government and disinformation still using X because they find bsky's interface being 1% different too much

in actual fact i would say that if i had to express to the SNP what i want from the Scottish Government as a member of the SNP and as a resident of the country alike i would probably say "just keep doing what nicola was doing circa 2017 completely unchanged"

Michael@michaeljsc.bsky.social · 5d ago

think it’s fascinating how badly Sturgeon’s criticism of the SNP campaign has gone down, given that she was right! it was a rubbish campaign, flirting with being pro-oil and gas without committing and peddling nonsense about food price caps. they lost loads of votes and won via split opposition

well, til you can sunburn your eyes just from looking in the general direction of thick cloud to work out where the sun is

fund specifically for people to sue their factors when they overcharge/create work for themselves/neglect something to create a bigger job they can make more off of

Alistair Davidson@moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 6d ago

If you had infinite money, what deluge of lawsuits would you fund? I think I would have a defence fund for pedestrians and cyclists who key antisocially-parked vehicles.

why did this never occur to me when even as a *child* i was catching shit from my piano teacher for having too-small hands

Juliette Wade@juliettewade.com · 6d ago

Really like this article: What if the problem wasn't the musician's hand size, but a piano designed by men with big hands for men with big hands? What if you could play all the pieces and not get injured? news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...

a cooking milestone: the last two days i have used my cast iron pan to make perfect fried eggs that have slid right off of it with no sticking, using only a little butter i kinda thought the whole "nonstick is unnecessary" thing was hype but i was wrong and the cast iron enthusiasts were right

if burnham wants to pivot the entire government towards dealing with tax-dodging vape shops and scam subscriptions and away from culture wars, persecuting people seeing asylum, and proscribing protest groups that would be fabulous i just don't trust him to actually do that second part

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · last wk.

Andy Burnham is bringing forward by several months to January plans to make subscriptions easier to cancel. Trade groups said this would leave publishers "scrambling to adapt to an entirely arbitrary new deadline - diverting valuable resources that would otherwise go into building better products"

wait is it still heatwaving in england

bute update: the helmi's lemon meringue macaron might be one of the finest baked goods i've ever consumed

dr. pseudonymity enjoyer@ulycia.bsky.social · last wk.

bute pride is so good you guys, it's so so so good honestly get out to the smaller prides more they are such a vibe

Honestly the utterly horrific way that Scottish Labour has conducted itself wrt Q Mannivannan MSP pretty much delegitimises their very existence as a party.

the good news is this is exactly the demographic of person who is on bluesky (but maybe mastodon)

tanadrin@tanadrin.bsky.social · last wk.

If you or anyone you know edited the Wikipedia page for Alpha Centauri on 19 November 2006 while not logged in and signed your edit with "--mmori" please get in touch with me! I have a question that only you can answer that's been bugging me for literally 20 years.

my hair was mostly thick and straight with a very slight wave as a child but went fine and curly as a teenager and stayed that way!

@all-a-mort.bsky.social · last wk.

Fascinating number of people reporting "My hair used to be straight but testosterone made it curly". Like lots of people saying that. Wonder why?

Like sorry can we be clear that what’s happened here is that a Green MSP did an interview a year ago where they made the point that lots of different acts constitute rape, and now a bunch of Scottish Labour MSPs are sharing a doctored clip of this claiming it’s rape apologism.

The reaction to these Q Manivannan comments (clipped by someone calling for them to be deported btw) from MSPs is extremely troubling.

Absolutely fuck Scottish Labour for once again using rape purely as ammunition against queer/trans/brown people

bute pride is so good you guys, it's so so so good honestly get out to the smaller prides more they are such a vibe

finally listening to the new madonna album while trying to catch up on several weeks worth of emails and can confirm you were all right, this is her best album in decades/possibly album of the year