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Helps people make software for people. Scottish. Loves music of various volume and intensity. Fitba. Got married to No. 2 in The Village. He/Him. Opinions = personal and all that jazz.

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I’m a Celtic ST holder and after the trouble at the end + the wreckage in the Broomloan I’d say I’m Ok with us going back to no away fans for the foreseeable.

Sad, but this is why we can’t have nice things, and all that 😔

09.03.2026 14:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Counterpoint: I don’t think folk tarring all Rangers and Celtic fans with the same brush is going to do much to help either.

In this specific instance it looks like what Gerry says is pretty accurate (and he’s clearly talking about the fans that strode 100m looking to cause trouble).

09.03.2026 12:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Sign the Petition Save Trongate103 from closure

Oh do me a favour and sign this. People getting screwed over again

www.change.org/p/save-trong...

08.03.2026 19:34 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Sinisalo sounds like an actor in a film that can’t quite get the accent right.

08.03.2026 16:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨PM’s plan to strip back right to trial by jury will place us on a path toward authoritarian justice
🚨PM’s plan to strip back right to trial by jury will place us on a path toward authoritarian justice YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

🚨Keir Starmer’s plan to strip the right to jury trials from offences carrying up to three years imprisonment will place the country on a path toward authoritarian justice. Is that what people voted for?

CONTACT YOUR MP NOW before it’s too late!
youtu.be/mXTpGebSSB8?...

07.03.2026 11:22 👍 153 🔁 82 💬 27 📌 9

They’re the absolute best ❤️

06.03.2026 15:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Online headline from The Times: Britons in Dubai keep calm with Bridgestone and Cocktails alongside a thumbnail pic of what looks a child sitting on a beach feeding some kind of seabirds.

Online headline from The Times: Britons in Dubai keep calm with Bridgestone and Cocktails alongside a thumbnail pic of what looks a child sitting on a beach feeding some kind of seabirds.

Och well. That’s the main thing, eh?

02.03.2026 20:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

can’t even imagine how scared trans people in the states must be. over here we have to learn from this and give absolutely no quarter, ever, to transphobia, from anyone. treat transphobes with total contempt.

26.02.2026 12:42 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Amazon is insisting on telling me daily “we thought you’d like new outfits from Hugo Boss”.

Should I be worried?

25.02.2026 10:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can’t be sure, but I’m starting to think fluorescent bouncy balls weren’t the problem.

22.02.2026 17:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sure it’ll all be sorted when we get that stadium extension built to create new capacity…

20.02.2026 17:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I commented on this recently. Standing in north stand concourse watching the rangers game on the screens I looked around and it struck me how heavily skewed everyone was to 55+. Not suggesting us longtime fans don’t have our place, but we need to work out a way to bring in new blood.

20.02.2026 17:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🤮

19.02.2026 22:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
7” vinyl label Meatloaf “Two out of Three Ain’t Bad”

7” vinyl label Meatloaf “Two out of Three Ain’t Bad”

19.02.2026 22:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Decent day so far… all-clear from hospital… they’ve started arresting members of the royal family…

Supposedly good things come in threes, so let’s make it a hat-trick Celtic 🍀

19.02.2026 17:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What a city. I love it.

13.02.2026 17:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It was even less when the 4 on the bottom-left got lifted 🤣 no idea what was going on there.

11.02.2026 23:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Worth a look. Take a chance on something. I managed to grab tickets for a couple of shows…

(and thanks to @carriem.co.uk or I wouldn’t have known about this!)

10.02.2026 20:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Totally underrated album.

06.02.2026 19:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mosob in Glasgow is definitely worth a try. Introduced to me by a couple of Sudanese and Eritrean mates.

31.01.2026 19:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

10 lines of code can be worth millions of pounds, and 10,000 can be worth nothing.

Just a little reminder for folks who wrongheadedly equate coding with productivity.

30.01.2026 07:33 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 1

This is quite the thread

29.01.2026 07:13 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Was a metalhead at the time. Friend put that track on a mixtape for me and it blew my 16-year old mind.

25.01.2026 11:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cool, my first question is already “How do I turn it off?”.

21.01.2026 20:15 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It would have taken someone in or around government 60 secs to check this before patting X on the back for doing as they asked. It was *so* obvious.

Speak volumes about the tech literacy of our government. But that’s a whole other conversation…

16.01.2026 09:39 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

Definitely changed my mind on this after O’Neill revealing the absolute mess he’s been left to deal with on transfers. Nicholson must have known how bad the scouting function was, and did nothing. Or he didn’t know - which might be worse.

Enough evidence either way to confirm he does have to go.

15.01.2026 13:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Could start by making them half the bloody length!

15.01.2026 13:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow. If PA are a designated ‘terrorist organisation’ then what the hell is this!?

13.01.2026 09:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New data shows only four complaints about trans women in single‑sex spaces A major Freedom of Information investigation by advocacy group TransLucent has revealed that concerns about trans women in single‑sex spaces are vastly overstated. Over a three‑year period, across 382...

“Over a three‑year period, across 382 public authorities in England - including local councils, NHS trusts and domestic abuse refuges - only four formal complaints were recorded regarding trans women using facilities such as toilets, hospital wards or shelters.”

Transphobic panics are manufactured.

10.01.2026 12:00 👍 568 🔁 244 💬 6 📌 6

Probably in a minority here, but I’d hang fire on that one to see how he gets on with Lawell and Tisdale out the picture.

Ange was vocal about their working relationship and how they were aligned on strategic direction for the club - and big Ange doesn’t suffer fools gladly.

05.01.2026 18:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1