Maria McMahon
@mariamcmahon.bsky.social
US-born, immigrated to Scotland
Pro #ScottishIndependence 🏴
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Words/opinions my own
Expect film, art, books, music, cooking, politics and general maundering
Pro #ScottishIndependence 🏴
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Words/opinions my own
Expect film, art, books, music, cooking, politics and general maundering
Definitely going to be making this soon. Looks yummy. 🍽️ #WhatsCooking
Million Dollar Soup Is The Best Soup Of The Season
For million dollar soup, beans, vegetables, and sausage are easily accessible and relatively inexpensive ingredients, but the final result is something that feels deeply special.
www.southernliving.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Definitely going to be making this soon. Looks yummy. 🍽️ #WhatsCooking
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Scotland is ready for independence.
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Scotland is ready for independence.
tfw you close out an email with "Kind regards," when you're actually holding a middle finger up to the screen
a cat wearing glasses and a bow tie is sitting on a laptop
Alt: a cat wearing glasses and a bow tie is sitting on a laptop
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
tfw you close out an email with "Kind regards," when you're actually holding a middle finger up to the screen
Had lots of fun doing linoleum block prints at art class tonight. First time I've worked in this medium since I was about 17 years old, but I guess it's like riding a bike 😄 #Art #ArtSky #LinoleumBlockPrint #Dragon
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Had lots of fun doing linoleum block prints at art class tonight. First time I've worked in this medium since I was about 17 years old, but I guess it's like riding a bike 😄 #Art #ArtSky #LinoleumBlockPrint #Dragon
Really good thread. 🧵⬇️ I don't feel ambivalent about the BBC at all, however; I think for the reasons listed in this thread, the BBC is just another right-wing propaganda outlet and shouldn't be allowed to feed at the public trough.
Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Really good thread. 🧵⬇️ I don't feel ambivalent about the BBC at all, however; I think for the reasons listed in this thread, the BBC is just another right-wing propaganda outlet and shouldn't be allowed to feed at the public trough.
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watching MTG gaslight the nation in real time makes me feel like my brain is melting and leaking out my ears
BITCH WE WERE THERE????????? if you were “impressed” by Nancy Pelosi, having your thugs storm the Capitol to try to kill her was a wild way of showing it
BITCH WE WERE THERE????????? if you were “impressed” by Nancy Pelosi, having your thugs storm the Capitol to try to kill her was a wild way of showing it
Greene: "I will praise Nancy Pelosi. She had an incredible career for her party. I served under her speakership in my first term in Congress and I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party."
November 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
watching MTG gaslight the nation in real time makes me feel like my brain is melting and leaking out my ears
BITCH WE WERE THERE????????? if you were “impressed” by Nancy Pelosi, having your thugs storm the Capitol to try to kill her was a wild way of showing it
BITCH WE WERE THERE????????? if you were “impressed” by Nancy Pelosi, having your thugs storm the Capitol to try to kill her was a wild way of showing it
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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So when do all those millionaires and billionaires start moving out of New York?
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
So when do all those millionaires and billionaires start moving out of New York?
Did you know? The scientific term for a group of TERFs is "a hatefulness."
November 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Did you know? The scientific term for a group of TERFs is "a hatefulness."
I have a laptop and a lap dog, but only one lap. This becomes a problem at times. #DogsOfBluesky #GuessWhoWinsTheBattleForTheLap
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I have a laptop and a lap dog, but only one lap. This becomes a problem at times. #DogsOfBluesky #GuessWhoWinsTheBattleForTheLap
So in Scotland, trick-or-treating kiddies have to "do a turn" (e.g., tell a joke, sing a song, whatever. Also they call it "guising" here.) Some of the best jokes of this year: 🧵1/
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
So in Scotland, trick-or-treating kiddies have to "do a turn" (e.g., tell a joke, sing a song, whatever. Also they call it "guising" here.) Some of the best jokes of this year: 🧵1/
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A single paragraph that is likely to make you angry.
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A single paragraph that is likely to make you angry.
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Yes, I’ve been indicted. But I don’t want people to lose sight of what got us here.
Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.
Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.
November 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes, I’ve been indicted. But I don’t want people to lose sight of what got us here.
Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.
Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.
I think a lot of people are going to regret not getting covid boosters this year. There seems to be a really horrible strain going around and previous infection doesn't seem to mitigate. Keep masking and keep boosting, folks. I know I am not trying to get any long #covid.
October 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I think a lot of people are going to regret not getting covid boosters this year. There seems to be a really horrible strain going around and previous infection doesn't seem to mitigate. Keep masking and keep boosting, folks. I know I am not trying to get any long #covid.
Heck, I come from German-American stock on my Dad's side and we called my paternal Grandma's best buddy "Aunt Faye." No blood relation whatsoever, but she was my auntie for all intents and purposes.
Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Heck, I come from German-American stock on my Dad's side and we called my paternal Grandma's best buddy "Aunt Faye." No blood relation whatsoever, but she was my auntie for all intents and purposes.
More therapeutic baking underway: this just went into the oven. I hope it turns out, I haven't had good cornbread since I moved to the UK! 🍽️
#WhatsCooking #Baking
#WhatsCooking #Baking
My Favorite Cornbread Recipe - Sally's Baking
This favorite cornbread recipe makes a pan of soft, moist, buttery sweet cornbread with crisp edges and just the right amount of crumbliness.
sallysbakingaddiction.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
More therapeutic baking underway: this just went into the oven. I hope it turns out, I haven't had good cornbread since I moved to the UK! 🍽️
#WhatsCooking #Baking
#WhatsCooking #Baking
Happy to report the Therapeutic Baking and Eating of Blueberry Muffins was a resounding success! 🍽️ #WhatsCooking #Baking
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Happy to report the Therapeutic Baking and Eating of Blueberry Muffins was a resounding success! 🍽️ #WhatsCooking #Baking
October 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today I will be doing Therapeutic Baking. Then I will be doing Therapeutic Eating of Blueberry Muffins. 🍽️
Will report back with results later. #Baking #Cooking #WhatsCooking
Will report back with results later. #Baking #Cooking #WhatsCooking
October 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Today I will be doing Therapeutic Baking. Then I will be doing Therapeutic Eating of Blueberry Muffins. 🍽️
Will report back with results later. #Baking #Cooking #WhatsCooking
Will report back with results later. #Baking #Cooking #WhatsCooking
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On Monday, I will officially file my petitions to get on the ballot. But I want to take a second to highlight the work we’ve been doing to get here.
This is what a people-powered, community-focused campaign looks like: youtu.be/HUWZl22Pp3k
This is what a people-powered, community-focused campaign looks like: youtu.be/HUWZl22Pp3k
Summer Wins for the Campaign | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois
YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
On Monday, I will officially file my petitions to get on the ballot. But I want to take a second to highlight the work we’ve been doing to get here.
This is what a people-powered, community-focused campaign looks like: youtu.be/HUWZl22Pp3k
This is what a people-powered, community-focused campaign looks like: youtu.be/HUWZl22Pp3k
A colleague was looking for a network cable. I said, "Sure, we've got a box of cables over here." The cables were in a hopeless tangle. I was helping him untangle a cable & said, "Ha, these are a real Gordian knot. Let's hope they don't need the Alexandrian solution!"
Me: 😃
Him: 🤔❓❓
Me: 🙁
Me: 😃
Him: 🤔❓❓
Me: 🙁
October 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A colleague was looking for a network cable. I said, "Sure, we've got a box of cables over here." The cables were in a hopeless tangle. I was helping him untangle a cable & said, "Ha, these are a real Gordian knot. Let's hope they don't need the Alexandrian solution!"
Me: 😃
Him: 🤔❓❓
Me: 🙁
Me: 😃
Him: 🤔❓❓
Me: 🙁
Christ on a crutch
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Christ on a crutch
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Trump succeeds where Al-Qaida failed
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Trump succeeds where Al-Qaida failed