Best to take your time with it, I find. Take lots of time.

"When you see homelessness in a world of empty houses, hunger in a world of wasted food, or people working three jobs while Billionaires contemplate buying a 3rd yacht, something inside you recoils. . You are not reacting to a technical problem of policy failure; you are reacting to a moral obscenity. Your body knows what the media refuse to say: nobody has the right to create scarcity in a world of abundance. The hoarding of resources by a tiny few is not natural, inevitable, or efficient; it is enforced with violence, deception, and political manipulation. Anarchism is simply the refusal to accept that arrangement." . - David Graeber

On Anarchism.

So sorry to hear of the death of the poet JH Prynne. I’ve spent many, many hours swimming through the powerful tides of his language, often having to come ashore to take a breather before plunging back in.

Prynne is pretty scary. Need to give it another go.

Ahahahahaha what do you mean the TECHNICAL ADVISOR to Bluesky just blocked over 300k users by following an ANTI-AI, AI HATERS blocklist.

Embarassing.

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

A new Survation poll has shown a “miserable” level of support for nuclear power in Scotland. The polling makes grim reading for Scottish Labour and the LibDems who are both promoting new nuclear bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/20/n...

It's time for change. Legalise cannabis.

It's time to end the failed and deeply damaging ‘war on drugs’.

Scotland needs an evidence-based approach to drugs that prioritises public health and public safety, not more criminalisation.

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

So I am reflecting on AI as one does and I have come to realize that “learn to use AI” and “embrace AI” and “develop AI literacy” won’t fucking protect ua from existential and stochastic harms of AI, and my overlooking this as a vector for criticism is really something.

How the Strokes ended their second Coachella set!
#TheStrokes #Coachella

Marie-Louise Eta, Union Berlin’s ‘Football Goddess’, breaks new ground in Bundesliga Union’s interim head coach has been given a hospital pass and, despite a vastly improved performance, her team went down to Wolfsburg

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Monochrome photograph of a rolling Highland hillside, its surface textured with peat hags and tussock grass. The hill rises to a broad, rounded summit against a flat grey sky. No human presence, the landscape fills the entire frame.

THREAD 1/

Most of you here know me as a writer, but first (and maybe foremost) I am a photographer. So on that note, I have an announcement.

#Art #Photography #Scotland

Released on this day in 1987: April Skies #JesusAndMaryChain
youtu.be/OPPP3BXurHk?si…

For a couple of years under Laura Webster's editorialship The National moved from a cybernat appeasement machine to a pretty good paper.

This year it has hired no-name cybernats as "polling experts", brought in red-brown collectives as columnists, and now has transphobic ads on its front page.

As people get postal votes for the Scot Parl election please be careful of the spoiler operation which is 'Independent Green Voice'. They are listed second on the regional ballot paper in South of Scotland with the real Green Party further down. IGV is a right-wing spoiler operation.

The Old Man of Storr, Skye

Pic: Steven Murphy

Wicklow mountains, Co Wicklow

Wonky all day, sometimes completely unavailable 🤷‍♂️

Tomorrow's reading will be from the Book of Armaments.

'Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy."'

man walking through a square entrance in a wall, next to him is a tree visible through an arch way, the street cobbles are lit by a low sun

Mario Di Girolamo, Entering the Eternal City, Rome, 1958

Book cover of 'The First Kingdom' by Max Adams.

Things newly read:

'The First Kingdom' by Max Adams.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚

I've sent it to a few people.

Scottish Parliament elections (Constituencies) candidates in G74 2EW On May 7, 2026, registered voters in G74 2EW can vote in the Scottish Parliament elections (Constituencies). Find out more about the candidates.

If it's of any interest, this is where I found you : whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/G7...

Former priest jailed for 'devastating' sex attacks on boys Vincent Cassidy was found guilty of historic attacks on two boys in Greenock and Paisley in the 1970s.

Cunt. Former priest jailed for 'devastating' sex attacks on boys www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ha ha. Only just noticed tbh

Turns out there might actually be a constituency candidate worth voting for in EK 🤔

Love that we did several rounds of "is the plumber too posh?" meanwhile her opponent gets £10k/month from the Hungarian Government just for being a fascist

Pamela Widmerpool (née Flitton).

Reform, in theory, could have been a gift to Labour: they divided the Right-wing vote. All Labour had to do was govern in a way that held their Center-Left coalition together

Instead, they chose to act foolishly and blow up their own coalition in pursuit of a voting base with no interest in them