Katherine Mackinnon

Can taste the 80p vodka and dash just looking at that photo

What comes before & after this qu:

"Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art...

We who live by writing & publishing want & should demand our fair share of the proceeds; but the name of our beautiful reward isn’t profit. Its name is freedom."

Truly heartwarming!

Immense respect to the firefighters who kept this from reaching the station and who kept everyone safe; truly astonishing that no one was killed or injured. How bleak to see yet another bit of Glasgow history disappear

There are views around this city that you just presume will always be there.

#Glasgow

Obviously it's entirely the wrong corner, but for me it's a toss up between the people still waiting for a train on the inside of a police cordon and the Heilanman's Umbrella with a big sign designating it "the Heilanman's Umbrella" that truly elevates this to Art

View from the top, with pale yellow grassland in the foreground and the city of Glasgow just visible in the distance. The annoying clump of pine trees block the view a bit when you're up there but actually look quite scenic in this photo.

Row of lovely old pines silhouetted against the horizon with the sun blazing through their twisted branches

View out over a couple of wee lochs and some green rolling East Ren countryside

Neilston Pad, a great wee hill. Close to a train station, can walk it with wee kids, lots of paths so you can do a circular route. What a sense of relief to finally feel the sun on your face

Call for expressions of interest — Trans Cosmologies 2: Art, Ritual & Memory - 30 Apr–1 May 2026
Artists, researchers & activists from across Scotland are invited to contribute to this two-day multimedia gathering exploring memory, ritual, cosmology and resistance.
Contact Safet safet.hm@stir.ac.uk

What a smashing object! Love its wee feet. Will you make any more?

Thanks for this article which I have added to my collection of shit, annoying, bad writing which I consult when I feel impostory. A valuable contribution.

Aw this is amazing work!

What a brilliant resource!

Legend, what an achievement! Well done you!! ✨

An absolute joy to see in the cinema, it was showing here last year. Charisma of Chow Yun Fat on the big screen is almost incomprehensible!

We are so so close to 7am sunrise and 6pm sunset comrades

For a tiny bit more context, there are approximately 4,000 public libraries across the UK. “Up to” £150,000 in funding equates to “up to” £37.50 per library, or “up to” a couple of hardback books apiece.

Happy #NationalYearofReading, everyone.
www.librariesconnected.org.uk/facts-and-fi...

People expected to live forever in limbo, forever as outsiders, and they will still be asked: “Why won’t you just integrate?”

The changes announced by the Home Secretary forcing people seeking asylum to resubmit applications every 2.5 years leave people in limbo, unable to rebuild their lives, left to face yet more stress and fear. We spoke to our members about how they felt, you can hear their responses here👇

Amazing! Congratulations, really looking forwards to reading this!

I've got a journal article out! '"The Order of the Elephant": Symbols and Power in the Policing of Land Agitation in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland' - exploring medals awarded to police who arrested land agitators in the 1880s, one of which is on display @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social

Absolutely horrendous to hear this, I thought that building was properly council owned not at the mercy of thieving scumbags City Property

street level, print studio, sharmanka, project ability -- an incredible loss if these institutions aren't found appropriate new locations

Nova a cracker!

Yes I think so

Every single thing was absolutely delicious - the rice was the nicest I’ve had in recent memory! It’s opposite the Griffin, very highly recommended if needing food in town

Big screen at the GFT showing the Glasgow Film Festival logo advertising their Truth to Power strand

Table full of the most delicious food including kibbeh, maqluba, hummus. delectable

Pale pink clouds in a purple blue sky. The river below looks like liquid silver

Friday of champions. The Battle of Algiers on the big screen, maqluba from Palestinian House, this sunset over the Clyde. 10/10

Loved that book, a great yarn!

It was so good, there were various people getting the word out about upcoming actions agains the far right as well. Also so amazing that the film itself is teaching you a lot of valuable stuff about how to resist a raid and it'll be (I hope) widely seen and get that info out to 1000s of people

The night the Glasgow contingent of the International Brigade arrived back, following its disbandment, was an unforgettable night at the City Halls. There on the platform, were these almost mythical heroes with their Sam Brown belts and berets (a then unknown military style headgear and they were received with deservedly reverberating applause. It was announced that each local contingent would march to their respective districts and an appeal was made for locals of these districts to march behind them. Need they have asked! The Springburn contingent headed north led by a flute band. I never noticed a step of the way. As we neared Northcroft Road, the dispersal point, the band struck up the "International" as we swept into the street. It was a night to remember! A short while afterwards I joined the Young Communist League. Spain was a turning point in my life.

@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social great wee anecdote on the return of the International Brigades volunteers to Glasgow (from One Great Vision: Memoirs of a Glasgow Worker by Kenny McLachlan)

Brilliant!!