"The transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, has also faced a bumpy train journey, saying she sat on the floor of a packed service from London Paddington to her constituency in Swindon." Remeber when they all screamed at Corbyn for daring to say something similiar?
"Of the 44 homes to be built, 11 will be affordable and six will be designated as social homes available to rent. More than 30,000 households are registered as awaiting social housing in Tower Hamlets." *Affordable usually means up to 80% of 'market' price. So, £800k rather than £1M, say
Charlie Phillips@charliechar.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is a disgraceful decision. Stop the data centres! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Bad news for historians: dead people now off limits for criticism
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
If I wanted to protect the most prestigious and highly paid jobs for the social groups who usually hold them I'd probably design an education system that discouraged poorer children from studying the entry qualifications for these jobs as early as possible..
A complaint is not a cue for an argument - v helpful advice here for Glasgow goodweeplace.com/guidance#ven...
Good Wee Place
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Well they didn't learn much from that decolonial project they launched five years ago, did they?
National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims
Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees
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They're never fucking happy. That's why you should just tell them to fuck off.
Nikko@dyadiccalamity.bsky.social · 5d agoOh... lookit that
Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com
"there is something particularly gross and fetishistic about selling people a Game Boy knock-off that is made to be as durable as an attack drone." kotaku.com/modretro-and...
ModRetro Sells Handheld Made Of The Same Metal As Attack Drones
The Anduril Chromatic device is made for ‘performance and reliability’ in case you’re playing Tetris in a warzone, I guess?
kotaku.com
If it was obvious to Angela Rayner in 2021 that Sir Keir was a balloon on a stick with a face painted on it: is she incredibly perceptive, with powers far beyond the abilities of everybody else in politics? If she isn’t and everyone knew that, then what exactly was going on between 2021 and 2026?
Yesterday the Metropolitan police unlawfully arrested people at a Palestine Action protest who had not broken the law by showing or stating support for the proscribed group. They were simply in proximity to those who were novaramedia.com/2026/07/30/w...
Wrongful Arrests at Palestine Action Demo, Campaigners Say
The Metropolitan police have arrested people at a Palestine Action protest who did not break the law by showing or stating support for the proscribed group, campaigners say. Clare Hymer and Steven Met...
novaramedia.com
Residents from Dennistoun protested outside of a Commonwealth Games event on Wednesday to demand funding for their local pool
Protest held outside Commonwealth Games event amid outrage over pool closure
thenational.scot
NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org
If this gets instituted, we’re going to see a study in a few years that says, “Black children, and children of color, were pepper sprayed at nineteen times the rate of white children,” and mfers are going to act surprised, despite how clearly every data point says this will be the case.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d ago“The drones wouldn’t break up a schoolyard fight…But if one of the students pulled a knife, they could.”
Yet another key managerial role at the heritage London property I used to work at, full time, requiring extensive experience, salary: £30,927. You cannot live anywhere near the place on that therefore continue to need either a) well-salaried partner b) to live with 9 other people c) to be just, rich
There's a new Viz in the shops (issue 358). Sorry no refunds.
Lololololololololololololol Whomst among us could have foreseen that this would be a shitshow? Mandatory password reset not working, tickets in old app can't be scanned because the app now shows a "get the new app!" message that obscures the barcode
New ScotRail app delayed as travellers awake to 'utterly shambolic' rollout
The app was supposed to come into effect this morning, sunsetting the old one which had been used for years prior but users have found consistent…
glasgowtimes.co.uk
Baby octopus@mancalled.horse · last wk.The new app isn't even fucking available to download yet either despite them sending emails about it for weeks. Could at least let people install it in advance of the changeover even if they can't buy tickets through it yet. Why are TOCs so bad at digital anything?
Do the police generally warn people not to commit terrorism because they’ll be arrested if they do? And if they don’t, would we say this is different because it’s deeply idiotic, as well as insulting and insanely authoritarian
Nothing says Doing Things Differently more than pledging to fast-track a review by Louise Casey
The Red and the Green: A Socialist Stroll Through Govanhill is a tour developed by Living Rent members which traces the neighbourhood’s housing struggles and organising traditions, sure to be an absolute belter, 8th August 2pm
Glasgow pals, have you had a look at the @govanhillbaths.bsky.social Govanhill Festival and Carnival programme? So many brilliant looking events govanhillbaths.com/what-we-do/g...
All 2026 Programme - Govanhill Baths
Full 2026 programme for Govanhill International Festival & Carnival 2026.
govanhillbaths.com
Naming dinosaurs after mammals just doesn't seem quite right to me, obviously I include human mammals in this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffa...
Giraffatitan - Wikipedia
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Like there really does seem to be this rule in the Sensible set, that if the left makes a mistake they need to spend a week taking the worst cunts seriously and indulging their baseless horseshit, and I would just want to know: why does that only work one way?
Whilst in Glasgow this weekend, a Reform councillor gave a speech to a group of men wearing images of a noose and gallows with text implying they were going to start lynching parties. To zero concerns from the centre. Or anyone else, except us.
