I am also shocked by the lack of coverage of this fire. It’s so far only affecting the Union Street buildings, but one of those has partially collapsed, from what I can tell backwards into the station. And it’s not yet contained. This is major and more than halfway down BBC’s homepage.
ABLA doesn't matter
I love how crofting gets romanticised... Come back to me when you've faceplanted into cold wet mud while trying to get confused cows to go through a gate (to lovely tasty food) because both your wellies got stuck. This was after work too. I cried.
My brain immediately goes to this Limmy sketch whenever I see the video for Residue (lots of Charli XCX clones in a dark room).
A visual representation of all the people moaning about a weather warning for 80mph+ winds on the Hebrides News Facebook page:
Abair thusa an cumhachd a th'aig Ms. Rachel.
I haven't been raptured. Delighted.
i hope RFK redacted redacted redacted. redacted
See if I get raptured tomorrow I'll be so annoyed.
LONELY WATER (1973): Legendary child-frightener, and one of the most influential and effective PIFs ever made. Donald Pleasence's voice helped lower the number of child deaths by drowning and opened the door to the scary, deadly PIFs of the 70s & 80s. A folk horror film condensed into 90 seconds.
I briefly went back to Twitter on Thursday (I think) and within 2 hours I deactivated again. It's kind of desolate over there - lots of posts, but it reeks of mothballs. Idk how else to put it.
A sheep in a bus shelter in the Highlands of Scotland. It looks a lot like the sheep in Alien: Earth which is the host of the T. Ocellus parasite.
Alien: Earth (N. Hawley and others, 2025)
Lots of work to do? Deadline looming? It's the perfect time to go down a rabbit hole reading about lifting stones in Gaelic Scotland...
David Lammy's letter to Sarah Champion, 1 Sep 2025
David Lammy: Yes, it walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, but the UK government has not concluded that it is acting with the special intention of being a duck.
is it safe to assume the reason Mandelson was made ambassador to the US was out of a hope he could bond with Trump over their shared interests (both having claimed to be best friends with Jeffrey Epstein)
Yes, Peter Mandelson did write in the Epstein book, a multi-page letter with photos. Screenshots in thread.
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This week Scottish Labour abstained on a motion to recognise Palestine and use boycotts divestment and sanctions against a state they admit is perpetrating genocide.
And now this. It's shameful.
Oh brother...
Anyway, I think it's a really weird argument to make. Especially in the year 2025.
PS. I'd love to learn Pictish. If only there was a way of doing it...
Something I've noticed becoming more prevalent in anti-gaelic comments is the "oh but the Gaels were colonisers and wiped out the Picts. Thus Gaelic bad" argument. As if they wouldn't be saying that promoting the Pictish language is a sinister SNP plot, if it still existed today.
#OtD 11 Aug 1964 18-year-old Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie was arrested in Madrid, Spain with explosives to assassinate dictator Franco. He was wearing a kilt, which confused the Argentinian press, who described him as "a Scottish transvestite" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8273...
normal country acting normally
It sounds so impressively shit. I might pirate it.
I don't think limiting my time on social media has actually benefited my mental health.
Aw man, I'm just not made for anything hotter than 20 degrees.
Running at around 7:30am on a Sunday on a hilly track to get ahead of the heat is worth it (well, if you ignore the clegs - there are clouds of them)
Aww congratulations!
🔴BBC Scraps Pledge to Show Gaza Medics Documentary ‘As Soon as Possible’
The BBC has shelved plans to broadcast the harrowing ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’ documentary pending an “ongoing review” into its coverage of the conflict, @iainoverton.bsky.social reports
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Actually drifting off to sleep at my desk at 11am because of my antihistamines. Still had the sneezes.
