I was struggling to understand my autistic son - until we watched an episode of Doctor Who A combination of autism and ADHD caused outbursts, confusion and stress that my son couldn’t understand – until he saw David Tennant behaving the same way

Great example of an analogy giving a useful understanding of something in a difficult situation 👍🤨😃

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Science Festival Opening Gala: First Women of Science A promo image showing three smiling women in circles (Catherine, Janey Jones and Nicola Sturgeon) on a star-studded background with a person standing on the moon. I am a little worried about the person on the moon as there is no space suit on her....

Upcoming fancy gig: opening gala of the Edinburgh Science Festival 😮 Super excited to meet Oor Nicola and talk "First Women" with Janey Jones (Edinburgh-Seven). If you're in the area, should be a fun night.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎟️ April 2nd: www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/openin...

🚝 Your SNP Scottish Government is putting money back in your pocket by freezing rail fares from April. In addition to scrapping peak rail fares for good. @snp.org on Scotland’s side

WASPI women deserve dignity, respect, and a fair outcome ✊💜 The fight for justice must go on.

#WASPI #WASPIWomen #PensionJustice #Fairness #WomenAgainstStatePensionInequality #JusticeForWomen

Referee Hollie Davidson: ‘The stuff shouted from the sidelines was ridiculous – all the classics’ The 33-year-old Scot has overcome misogyny and abuse and, she tells Donald McRae, is proud of becoming the first woman to take charge of a men’s Six Nations match

A terrific role model. Haters and abusers, you are wrong, the world needs people like Hollie, not you.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

‘A great wee place’: the small Scottish factory crafting Olympic curling stones All stones in Cortina are made from granite found on tiny island in Firth of Clyde and crafted in East Ayrshire

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out
#SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL

"I was 14"
"I was 16"
"I was 16"
"17"
"14"

"There are about a thousand of us"

"It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows"

"It's time to shine a light into the darkness"

"Release all of the Epstein files"

Mhairi Black: Peter Mandelson is just tip of an iceberg in UK politics As we pore through the millions of documents that have been released so far from the Epstein Files, all I can think is how much worse the stuff they…

"... the systematic abuse and trafficking of women and children, and that there is a network of billionaires manipulating society with the goal of further enriching themselves and increasing their power to the detriment of everyone else. And it’s working"

www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

I wish I lived in a country that made giant biscuits.

You would not regret it.

Whenever we go to the highlands, we ensure we go into Inverness and visit the Harry Gow bakery (spoiler - they won)
and fill up with their sandwiches, cakes, pies and biscuits - literally.

Sadly, we can't get the giant one, but the normal Empire Biscuits etc are awesome 😋

Mhairi Black: The world should be listening to Canada's prime minister IT seems the theme of this week has been rising tensions and the erosion of trust. No, I’m not talking about the Beckhams but rather the Annual…

Definately this:

"We can spend our energy trying to understand the motivations of this maniacal overgrown toddler but given the unpredictability of his actions, maybe it is time to spend our energy elsewhere"

www.thenational.scot/politics/257...

New wood-burning stoves to carry health warnings in UK plan Pollution from wood burners kills thousands but proposed emissions limit would cut toxic particles by 10%

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Wood-burning stoves and fires in homes are linked to 2,500 early deaths a year in the UK, according to a recent study, as well as 3,700 cases of diabetes and 1,500 cases of asthma."

It's simple, stop burning stuff. 🤔😮‍💨

What a busy day that was. 2 washes done and hung up, 2 folk helped, hoose hoovered, birds fed, bloody black cat chased away from killing another bird, 200 cards packed. Wan dinner made, wan dinner ate, some telly watched, wan kitchen tidied, loads of admin done and wan Christmas present setup 😀

I keep saying folks need a hobby that involves their hands. I don't care if it's knitting, painting, drawing, scrubbing behind the toilet until it's cleaner than an operating room, getting free puzzles from your local Buy Nothing group....you need to do something with your damn hands!

Generated a password and then instantly forgot it? Don't worry, password history is now available on Android v1.36.0

View them in Profile > Generated passwords. Passwords are stored for 2 weeks, and can be cleared from the stacked triple-dot menu.

Win one of 12 magical animal encounters! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/win-a-magi...

Two amazing wins tonight with #Wales scoring 7 and home advantage for a play off.

Then we have #Scotland getting a very dramatic late win to top their group to go straight to the #WorldCup next summer.

Its wonderful having 2 teams to support - #Welsh by birth #Scot by 30 years living here.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙂

Johnny Cash giving a one finger salute

Me

I’m back.
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️

ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

The free press fights back... Introducing the Nerve. From the wreckage of my old newspaper, comes a new all-women, journalist-owned, independent publication. Join us!

Right. A bit more about what we’re up to.

Would love feedback, do stick a comment at the end. And do please consider signing up to find out more www.thenerve.news

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.

Coming soon…

pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

My name now added - is yours? 👍😊

This. All of this. If you listen to one thing today 👏👏👏

@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
@newsagents.bsky.social @maitlis.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @thetimes.com @scotnational.bsky.social

Before, BBC journalists prided ourselves on people being unable to guess our private personal politics by programmes or content we made.

We grilled politicians equally and fairly. We spent hours assessing running orders for relevance and news value.

That has changed Democracy is the worse for it.

Every single person that voted FOR Brexit, whether left wing, right wing or just downright braindead, are responsible for the rise of Reform, their capture of the thick and stupid with help from corrupt media & it will be the utter demise of the UK & its economy.

Be careful for what you wish for!

“If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact.” —HIS HOLINESS THE XIV DALAI LAMA

#RIP #DJ #LFC 😔

This is an illustration of why I worked so hard as a front bench MP - on two separate occasions - to save @Channel4 from privatisation. As a journalist I know it will go places the highly political BBC fears. Q.E.D. ‘Gaza: Doctors under Attack.’