I live in Glasgow and my hobbies include arranging my CDs in alphabetical order, discovering new and exotic whiskies, sheep-spotting and flying my kite.
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19 Dec 2014
The only thing won by the Unionists on September 18th was time. #IndyRef
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Jun 11
Clean energy projects in Scotland are set to pay £1 billion to use the UK’s electricity network while projects south of the border will be paid to connect.
First they fuck us over then they charge us a billion quid for the privilege.
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Jun 11
Jon Snow: “What was it father used to say? Everything before the word ‘but’ is horseshit.”
ALT KATE HOEY: Of course it's wrong to start a riot. But the political class ignore justified fears over mass immigration at their peril
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Jun 10
Clearly, Scotland is being fucked. I mean that word in the vulgar sense of "misused to give satisfaction or advantage to another."
The area covered by this development will be 51 times the size of Iona. A mock-up of the view from Iona should it go ahead:
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Jun 10
“Island communities will not receive cheaper electricity, community benefits won’t be confirmed until after approval is given, livelihoods may be destroyed and the long-term visual impact will remain long after the profits have gone into the pockets of Iberdola’s shareholders.”
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Jun 10
Scale of the proposed wind turbines - twice as high as London's Gherkin and six times that of the Scott monument.
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Jun 8
"Scottish" Labour campaign: "We need independence from London. They're making disastrous decisions, don't pay any attention to our requirements and their values don't align with those of the Scottish electorate."
Scotland: "You fucking what?"
thenational.scot/news/261744…
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May 28
What was the case in South Africa is also the case in today's Scotland: there can be no reconciliation without truth.
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May 24
It is both appalling and disgraceful how quickly this neo-fascist rhetoric has been normalised by the Brit media. Shame on them.
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May 24
Reform is proposing the deportation of 2 million people - including people legally here.
"Politically it feels quite clever doesn't it," says Trevor Phillips, and leads a discussion that revolves entirely around whether it is affordable and practical.
These are people who sweep our streets, look after disabled people, keep the care sector functioning. People who work incredibly hard and are invariably very badly paid. People who have families, lives, hopes, dreams. Without whom the economy simply wouldn't function.
This country has arrived at an appalling place.
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Alan Ferrier retweeted
The marvellous Ocean Chambers at 190 West George Street in Glasgow. This gorgeous building was designed in a Free Classical style by Robert Bryden and was built in 1899.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #westgeorgestreet
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Alan Ferrier retweeted
FYI, DuckDuckGo not only allows you to totally disable AI summaries but also allows you to filter out AI images.
May 20
Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles
• Search will be centered around a reimagined ‘intelligent search box’
• Starts next Tuesday
(via @TechCrunch)
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May 17
Scotland's greatest scientist and Einstein's hero. When Einstein was asked if he stood on the shoulders on Newton, he replied: "No, I stand on the shoulders of James Clerk Maxwell."
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May 17
On this day 165 years ago, on May 17, 1861, James Clerk Maxwell exhibited the first color photograph before the Royal Institution in London.
The image was a three-color process of a tartan ribbon, created by taking three separate black-and-white photographs through red, green, and blue filters, then projecting them together using corresponding colored lights to reconstruct the full color image.
This demonstration illustrated the principles of additive color mixing and established the foundation for all modern color photography and RGB-based imaging technology.
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May 17
The likelihood is that none of my exceptionally sensible followers here needs me to tell them not to do this but for Jesus bastarding Christ on a shitting tricycle's sake do not do this.
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May 13
#OTD five years ago, when the good folk of Glasgow refused to be part of an "island of strangers." #KenmureStreet x.com/CatrionaStewart/status…
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Anti-deportation protest on Kenmure Street in Pollokshields. Immigration van is ringed by police and protesters. “These are our neighbours. Let them go.”
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May 13
People are living in cardboard boxes, but at least the King's hat has its own coach, escorted by six household cavalry officers, like something out of a second-rate children's fantasy novel.
This is supposed to be the 21st century. The UK is beyond parody.
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May 11
...and if your auntie had baws she'd be your uncle.
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May 11
If the 2026 election was indyref 2 the results were:
No Thanks - 59% (1,335,850)
Yes - 41% (929,605)
Based on constituency votes
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Alan Ferrier retweeted
I voted No in the independence referendum because I thought it was a dumb distraction from the urgent need to drastically reform and improve Westminster, in everyone’s best interest. I then got an incredibly brutal 12-year demonstration of how stupid I was to have believed that.
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May 9
One of the reasons it *felt* as though the Holyrood campaign was stale is because there was no in-depth policy coverage from the BBC. GB Energy was missing. Also missing was Labour's 'Nuclear Power' policy. It was supposed to be an election dividing line yet it never featured.
The BBC did all it could to deflect from actual campaign events by running diversion stories. Counting vape shops in Greenock two days out from the vote and making it the biggest issue that day meant party campaigning was sidelined.
The worse things appeared to get for Labour the more disinterested BBC Scotland became. It ceased scrutinising policy and informing the electorate. Instead the station projected its own disinterest onto the public.
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May 9
I see they've brought Gordon Brown out of retirement to dance on a ball like an old, abused circus bear. Again.
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