P. S. Gingerella
@macaroni-riot.bsky.social
Providence to Glasgow. Artist, youth worker, education researcher & PhD candidate. I like community, causeways & tomatoes.
Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel! "There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."
When MacLean meets wi’s freens in Springburn A’ the roses and geans will turn tae bloom And a black boy frae yont Nyanga Dings the fell gallows o’ the burghers doon —There’s a direct reference to Mandela in Hamish Henderson’s “The Freedom Come-All-Ye”: the only place “yont Nyanga” is Robben Island
Kenny Stewart@kennystew.art · 3w agoNelson Mandela was born 108 years ago today. Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow is called that because Glasgow is hugely anti-racist and at the time the apartheid-era South African consulate in Scotland was on that street. All their mail arrived bearing the name of their most famous political prisoner.
Morning all. An ice cream van stands on a foggy beach in Whitby, North Yorkshire. Saturday July 7th 2012. Photographer Darren Staples.
I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off
The only good thing about Kier Stamer was the little “bub-bub” noise George Foreacres makes when playing him on snl uk.
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
Pope Leo: "Every boat that arrives does not bring only migrants; it brings with it a question: what world have we built, if so many brothers must risk death to seek life?"
Breaking: I have decided to violently take against the phrase “picky bits”. Join me!
You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.
Maypole fans are so absurd, they will look you dead in the face and say woods > tree > fine tree> tree > limb > branch > nest > egg > bird > feather > bed > girl > man > seed > boy > man > grave > tree > limb > branch > nest > egg > bird > feather > bed > girl > man > seed > boy > man > grave > tree
Scotland is a rare country because we don’t deny any aspect of the political franchise to anyone who lives here and that’s genuinely something to be proud of
Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️@gemmaclark.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf you’re more interested in Dr Q Manivannan’s visa status than 17 fascist MSPs in Parliament, that tells me a lot about you.
What a day - the best ever Green result, & the 2nd largest party in Glasgow 💚
🟢 @irisduane.bsky.social elected to represent Glasgow region! Iris is one of three Scottish Green MSPs elected in Glasgow today, taking our total across Scotland so far to 10!
Glasgow Southside (Glasgow) Constituency Vote (vs 2021 notional): GRN: 14048 (36.5%, +36.2) SNP: 10947 (28.4%, -31.5) LAB: 7300 (19%, -10.9) RUK: 3019 (7.8%, New) CON: 1383 (3.6%, -3.5) LD: 1143 (3%, +1.2) OTHx2: 659 (1.7%) Valid Turnout: 59.1% Green GAIN from SNP ^AF
Sometimes I think of singles, like two-sided 45s, that ought to exist. SIDE A: "Waiting for My Man" by The Velvet Underground SIDE B: "Here Comes Your Man" by Pixies SIDE A: "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tenille SIDE B: "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division
🚨 New poll - with the Scottish Greens in second place! On May 7th Scotland can reject the far right and demand better. Together we can build a fairer, greener Scotland. 💚
I know a lot of people are using AI to replace therapy, but all I’m talking about to my real life therapist is my anxiety over AI
Delighted by this episode of Star Trek TNG where the away team is trapped in an alien hotel but it just looks like they don’t know how to use revolving doors
Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.
Lis Power@lispower.bsky.social · 4mo agoFox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"
🚨 Today's Ipsos poll for STV has the @scottishgreens.org in second, more than doubling our number of MSPs! We can extend free bus travel to everyone 🚌 We can fix childcare for under-5s 👨🍼 We can tackle the climate crisis 🌍 Join our movement today and help make it happen: members.greens.scot/join
![Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in a CORRIDOR! A room door is open, and we see two crewmen spilling out into the hallway in red and blue uniforms. They are otherwise indecipherable tho because they are entirely enveloped in a big cloud of smoke. It's pouring out all around them and into the hallway area, like there's a Phish concert in there. Closed caption reads, "[COUGHING]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i6ocendj65mmddfndihajsky/bafkreid4y3gbxwc5dg4mbzycsbij2lkhte22722ei7rupowkzm7juimqvy)
