Holyrood 2026: Scottish Basic Income for Artists | Equity Ahead of May’s Scottish Parliament elections, Equity is calling for Holyrood to back a pilot scheme of a Scottish Basic Income for Artists (BIA).

Equity has released a template to write to all Holyrood candidates in your area to push for a Basic Income for Artists.

Everyone can use it!

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“Don’t you worry, we haven’t forgotten about the foreign government officials we were meant to murder, we just got distracted killing 170 school kids!”

The casual way they just tweeted that they are continuing to bomb and murder people is sociopathic. “And yes, we’re still murdering government officials”

The ugly history behind the Olympics’ new gender test How Nazi-era fears about gender gave rise to sex testing—and why the policy is resurfacing now.

"These tests that the IOC and a lot of sports federations are now presenting as new technology.

They have literally used these before and found that they were, on one hand, inaccurate in creating these false positives, and on the other hand, just in violation of people’s human rights.”

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian

Twat

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Shirley Manson calls ban on trans girls from Guides 'cruel and nonsensical' Garbage singer Shirley Manson has described a ban on transgender girls in the Guides as 'weird, cruel and nonsensical'

I’ve always thought Shirley was just absolutely fucking splendid: an amazing talent and a good and decent human being

Sign the petition: Tell Rachel Reeves: Act NOW to stop energy price chaos I just signed the petition calling on Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer to protect everyone who needs it from another energy bills crisis. We need a plan now, not when the crisis gets worse. Join me?

We’re already in a cost of living crisis. Sigh this to stop energy prices rising. Also end this fucking war you twats. 38d.gs/iran_energy_df

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Don’t Move the Goalposts for people who have built their lives in the UK 🚨 The Government just confirmed it's retrospectively changing the rules on who can settle permanently in the UK, affecting thousands of people already living here lawfully. This petition is being del...

🚨 The Government just confirmed it's retrospectively changing the rules on who can settle permanently in the UK, affecting thousands of people already living here lawfully.

This petition is being delivered to Parliament on 18th March. Please sign and share: the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

On International Women’s Day a reminder that my Alice had a mother and a sister and grannies, aunts, girl friends and girl cousins.

They all loved her as a woman.

When the transphobes say they speak for all women and are protecting women and girls, they are wrong.

How I arrived on Bluesky

Outer voice: SIR, ARE YOU ILL?

Inner voice:

A mortal being would have died on the spot at the sound. Incredible. Stealing it for whenever I encounter The Audacity.

The best line in the whole movie is in response to Count Dracula saying something incredibly racist (the mask was definitely off for The Count) when William Marshall booms in his incredible bass, “SIR, ARE YOU ILL?”

a cartoon of a vampire and a skeleton walking in a room Alt: Blacula Vs Black Dracula, a Simpsons throwaway gag

Gawd I wish this movie existed

I don’t feel empty. Yet, I don’t feel full. There’s room for Scream Blacula Scream

I did indeed deserve this

a close up of a man 's face with makeup on ALT: a close up of a man 's face with makeup on

William Marshall just oozes charisma and menace and yearning and longing. And THAT VOICE

RIP Count Dracula you would have loved The Board of Peace

Screen grab of Troy from Community saying “Oh my God, Joshua was racist, that came out of nowhere” with the name Joshua scrubbed out and Count Dracula added

Me, watching Blacula

Finally watching Blacula to distract myself from the horrors

"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"

CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏

(Same goes for sport btw)

#Speirgorm

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

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IT'S ME
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Red Dwarf had a huge impact on me, which is amazing since my parents wouldn’t let me watch Red Dwarf for years. I have fond memories of watching it at other people’s houses.

Smeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

What a guy

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Gisèle Pelicot on rape, courage and her ex-husband: ‘He was loved by everyone. That’s what is so terrifying’ The case against her former husband shocked the world, while her response inspired awe. As she publishes a memoir, she discusses chemical submission, the abuse hidden within her apparently perfect marriage – and why she decided to go public At Gisèle Pelicot’s new home on Île de Ré off France’s Atlantic coast, she likes to take bracing walks along the beach in all weathers, play classical music loud, eat nice chocolate and, as a gift to each new morning, always set the table for breakfast the night before. “It’s my way of putting myself in a good mood when I wake up: the cups are out already, I just need to put the kettle on,” she says. But one of her most treasured possessions is a box of letters she keeps on her desk. The envelopes from across the world – some sent on a prayer, addressed only with her name and the village in Provence where she once lived – piled up at the courthouse in Avignon in southern France in late 2024, when she became famous worldwide as a symbol of courage for waiving her right to anonymity in the trial of her ex-husband and dozens of men he had invited to rape her while she was drugged unconscious. Continue reading...

Gisèle Pelicot on rape, courage and her ex-husband: ‘He was loved by everyone. That’s what is so terrifying’