"Poor deluded freaks" I have a wee list of those for whom I'll raise a glass (derogatory) when the headline drops... Trump's at the top, obviously, but goddamn, Richard Dawkins isn't far behind. Fuck that guy.

My first film was The Care Bears Movie at Glasgow's Odeon on Renfield Street in 1985. When we left the theatre, there were folk in the lobby handing out Care Bears goodie bags to the kids. I was gutted to discover, later in my young life, that not all screenings ended with goodie bags.

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social · 2d ago

First film you saw at the cinema. The real first one, not the pretend one you tell people! Mine: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Wigan. We were near the front and I can still remember how massive the AT-ATs looked, looming over us out of the snow :) Film, year, where, and whatever stuck with you.

A reminder that the “trans lobby” is just trans people going about their lives, and the “fight” being referred to is JK Rowling using her money, power and influence to endorse policy that is killing trans people. I’m amazed she could move to type a new essay with the layers of blood on her hands.

Catfood is always marketed as “your refined gentleman Mr Whiskers has only the most discerning of tastes, treat him to the luxury of salmon” and catnip is always marketed as “Mr Whiskers will do ANYTHING for a fix…ANYTHING”

📷 We Watch Clouds. Warsaw, Poland. 2024 See more on The Tinnitus Diaries https://neilmilton.scot/2026/07/ttd06-potence/ #photography #musicphotography #livemusic #leica

You cannot claim national self-determination at the expense of another group. And yes, that is racist.

📷 Warsaw, Poland. 2026 See more: https://neilmilton.scot/ #streetphotography #photography #leica

The rivers are full of shit, there's black-clad gangs of nazis smashing up HMOs, and you need to take out a mortgage to buy a Tescos meal, but sure, ASBOs for TikTok teens or whatever.

Andy Burnham launches campaign against ‘headphone dodgers’ on public transport

Passengers urged to ‘share the carriage, not the noise’ as guidance sets out £100 penalties for nuisance behaviour

theguardian.com

The Scottish Greens have left Twitter/X after their party council voted to ditch the platform. First major party in the UK to drop Musk's white supremacism factory. www.thenational.scot/news/2664005...

Scottish Greens quit X over spreading of 'misinformation and hate'

The Scottish Greens have quit Twitter/X, accusing the platform of spreading 'misinformation and hate'

thenational.scot

Tell that to Henry Cavill

videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · last wk.

indiana jones and the emperor's tomb, print ad, imagery (2003) www.mobygames.com/game/8521/in...

Ah yes, the French. Those bastions of political serenity, and a people not at all known for protests against the government of the day erupting into violence, reaching back many centuries. Must be the immigrants, eh?

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 7d ago

Fairly open racism and far right talking points from someone who is, last time I checked, a Conservative peer.

I briefly considered creating a more accurate "nobody has all 20" parody, with such items as "dropped laudanum on a sugar cube", "gave a doorman a carte de visite", or "carried a lock of hair in a pendant", but who has the time for that?

Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · last wk.

How many of these do you remember? #BookSky

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

The owner of X is almost single-handedly funding the Republican midterm election campaigns. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

I left the day Musk walked in with a sink. Fuck him.

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · last wk.

If you are still on Musk's X, you are enabling his treachery.

Speedrunning the Mooch.

Katie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Fired After 5 Days (Gift Article)

The ouster came as Ms. Zacharia was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.

nytimes.com

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia For Tax Purposes

Grant@syncingsinking.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the spirit of the phrase "resident alien for tax purposes" and me thinking Resident Alien sounds like a movie, add "for tax purposes" to the end of a movie title The Spy Who Loved Me For Tax Purposes

Prob one of the best pieces I've read about C86 and indiepop in general, and how it all sits in the indie/DIY landscape. “It’s the recurring collision of melody, noise and DIY independence—not perfect stylistic sameness—that makes the label useful.” modernunrest.com/2026/10/12/c...

C86 at 40: The Indie Sound That Never Went Away

Forty years after the NME cassette, C86 lives on through 53rd & 3rd, Subway, Sarah, K, Slumberland and a new generation of noisy, melodic indie-pop bands.

modernunrest.com

From the archive 📷 Students in Warsaw protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza with an occupation of their university campus Warsaw, Poland. 2024 See more: https://neilmilton.scot/2026/09/occupy-warsaw-university-part-two/ #photojournalism #documentaryphotography #photography

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

this has lived in my head for a week and I gotta let it out

A new book out of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson's work in Glasgow and the Gorbals for the Citizens' Theatre in the late 1970s. Peter, a former member of the Hipgnosis design agency, was later a co-founder of the bands Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Coil. www.timeless-shop.com/product/gorb...

📷 Valley. Warsaw, Poland. 2025 See more on The Tinnitus Diaries https://neilmilton.scot/2026/08/ttd28-valley/ #photography #musicphotography #livemusic #leica

Metallica, the Band that put the don’t tread on me snake on their album cover, along with a song called “Don’t Tread on Me”, would like you to know they avoid politics

Maj@lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 2w ago

"You should come to a show to avoid politics & not push political agendas!" Usually when this gets said? The person turns out to be an undercover red hat...you'd kinda have to be to make St Anger. share.google/m43xIJqrPPw5...

I was stopped by plain-clothes police today as they were looking for someone fitting my description. Mate, I'm a wee, greying-ginger Scottish guy with a left eye that does what it likes, and I'm carrying a Leica... I suspect there's no many of us wandering about Bielany. Gie's peace.

Demented

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w ago

To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Inevitable

Kenny Stewart@kennystew.art · 2w ago

That didn’t take long.

Ruin a book by adding a word New Lanark

Rev Peter W Nimmo@peternimmo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ruin a book by adding a word Neil Oliver Twist