Tom Hogg
@tomhogg.bsky.social
Edinburgh based Partick Thistle fan. Member of the anti-growth coalition. I like football, beer, books, & active travel. Do a bit of gardening too.
Only Facebook translating Ts'oanelo Lets'osa from Romanian(?) to English as he came on a substitute in tonight's game.
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Only Facebook translating Ts'oanelo Lets'osa from Romanian(?) to English as he came on a substitute in tonight's game.
Finishing off the stash of sweets that we buy just in case we get kids visiting at Halloween. We need to talk about how treat size Haribo are tarnishing the brand.
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Finishing off the stash of sweets that we buy just in case we get kids visiting at Halloween. We need to talk about how treat size Haribo are tarnishing the brand.
So far, the Epstein releases are confirming what we already knew, that Trump is a very bad man. We knew that from "grab em by the pussy", the mocking of a disabled reporter, and the 2020 election "steal", amongst many other things. And that's why all of this hoo-haa changes nothing.
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
So far, the Epstein releases are confirming what we already knew, that Trump is a very bad man. We knew that from "grab em by the pussy", the mocking of a disabled reporter, and the 2020 election "steal", amongst many other things. And that's why all of this hoo-haa changes nothing.
Watching PMQs on the news and lots of MPs are still wearing poppies. Don't they know it's now Baby Jesustide?
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Watching PMQs on the news and lots of MPs are still wearing poppies. Don't they know it's now Baby Jesustide?
I post this regularly on Armistice Day. This is the man who probably saved my father's life.
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I post this regularly on Armistice Day. This is the man who probably saved my father's life.
I've worked on various tenant projects in Argyle House, as well as often visiting it in the days of the Property Services Agency. A building of its time, loved by fans of brutalism, despised by most, but regardless, endlessly fascinating for architecture historians.
PAN submitted for demolition of Argyle House and mixed-use redevelopment of the site - hotel, residential & office use: bit.ly/4oTnsOV. Project architects are Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM).
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I've worked on various tenant projects in Argyle House, as well as often visiting it in the days of the Property Services Agency. A building of its time, loved by fans of brutalism, despised by most, but regardless, endlessly fascinating for architecture historians.
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We get the politics the few pay for.
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Billionaire Tory donor gives £200,000 to Reform UK
JCB chair Lord Bamford hands equal amount to Tories and Reform to support parties he says ‘believe in small business’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
We get the politics the few pay for.
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There's a ninth tier Scottish football ground near my house and the noise from it today has been incredible. My wife was out for a walk and reports that it is three lads, a megaphone, and a drum. Fill in your own punchline...
November 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There's a ninth tier Scottish football ground near my house and the noise from it today has been incredible. My wife was out for a walk and reports that it is three lads, a megaphone, and a drum. Fill in your own punchline...
Radio Scotland has invented time travel. Two guys from the 80s are doing a football chat show right now.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Radio Scotland has invented time travel. Two guys from the 80s are doing a football chat show right now.
This is good, worthy, and inspiring, particularly if, like me, you are #T1D
Reflections on accidentally becoming a Munro bagger, and also some thoughts on the extra issues that hillwalking with diabetes presents.
@diabetesuk.bsky.social
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
@diabetesuk.bsky.social
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
When Hillwalking became Munro Bagging
How I became a Munro bagger, and the extra challenges of hillwalking with diabetes
glasgowpunter.blogspot.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is good, worthy, and inspiring, particularly if, like me, you are #T1D
Yesterday, I made a long promised and much delayed trip to the Dundee V&A. A brilliant building. 21st century but with aspects of brutalism in its concrete shell. I hadn't realised that the fins are precast concrete and the exterior skin is cast insitu.
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Yesterday, I made a long promised and much delayed trip to the Dundee V&A. A brilliant building. 21st century but with aspects of brutalism in its concrete shell. I hadn't realised that the fins are precast concrete and the exterior skin is cast insitu.
I took my first trip on an Ember electric intercity bus yesterday from Edinburgh to Dundee. I liked it. Fast-ish, comfortable seating, great WiFi, and very quiet.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I took my first trip on an Ember electric intercity bus yesterday from Edinburgh to Dundee. I liked it. Fast-ish, comfortable seating, great WiFi, and very quiet.
An observation. Every time @partickthistle.bsky.social have a chance to draw level at the top of the table, the pundits say "this is a chance to draw level". If there is a next time please just say nothing.
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
An observation. Every time @partickthistle.bsky.social have a chance to draw level at the top of the table, the pundits say "this is a chance to draw level". If there is a next time please just say nothing.
BBC bad language apology incoming...
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
BBC bad language apology incoming...
Not nice, but objectively quite funny
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Not nice, but objectively quite funny
Reposted by Tom Hogg
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
The aftermath of last night's fireworks on the local football pitch. Tyre tracks and abandoned sandbags along with various other debris. It could have been worse I guess. I now have two bags of sand for the community garden.
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The aftermath of last night's fireworks on the local football pitch. Tyre tracks and abandoned sandbags along with various other debris. It could have been worse I guess. I now have two bags of sand for the community garden.
I can't stop thinking about this from yesterday. The Scottish Police Federation wilfully smashing apart a public enquiry, with a media conference in front of Police Scotland's logo, and an interview of a witness by their own solicitor. We will never know the truth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex-police officer Nicole Short says Sheku Bayoh attack turned world 'upside down'
Former PC Nicole Short was speaking as the first minister was criticised for agreeing to speak to Sheku Bayoh's family.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I can't stop thinking about this from yesterday. The Scottish Police Federation wilfully smashing apart a public enquiry, with a media conference in front of Police Scotland's logo, and an interview of a witness by their own solicitor. We will never know the truth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Some local people just set off an industrial quantity of fireworks on the football pitches behind my house. Possibly the same people that would complain about the lack of decent quality football pitches.
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Some local people just set off an industrial quantity of fireworks on the football pitches behind my house. Possibly the same people that would complain about the lack of decent quality football pitches.
I like this. Some may not, being reminded that they are perhaps not the greatest of pub patrons. But taking back the empty glasses is essential IMO, as is saying thanks to whoever clears glasses from your table when one of your group is not a woke glass take-backer.
The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
www.pelliclemag.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I like this. Some may not, being reminded that they are perhaps not the greatest of pub patrons. But taking back the empty glasses is essential IMO, as is saying thanks to whoever clears glasses from your table when one of your group is not a woke glass take-backer.
Reposted by Tom Hogg
A lot of fathers and suns get involved for #Movember every year, Kingsley was looking good back in November 2016.
£983 of £1800 target raised by the PTFC boys so far:
uk.movember.com/team/2487808
£983 of £1800 target raised by the PTFC boys so far:
uk.movember.com/team/2487808
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A lot of fathers and suns get involved for #Movember every year, Kingsley was looking good back in November 2016.
£983 of £1800 target raised by the PTFC boys so far:
uk.movember.com/team/2487808
£983 of £1800 target raised by the PTFC boys so far:
uk.movember.com/team/2487808
I see that #BBC Question Time is so shit and so little watched that the BBC have had to make trailers for it and show them between more popular shows.
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I see that #BBC Question Time is so shit and so little watched that the BBC have had to make trailers for it and show them between more popular shows.
You always get a free mini vampire slayer kit with a tub of rollmop herrings.
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
You always get a free mini vampire slayer kit with a tub of rollmop herrings.
I've just made some chilli jam with some homegrown chillis. It's always a lottery how hot it will be, but six chillis go a long way. This year's is a little bit on the hot side, but far from overpowering.
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I've just made some chilli jam with some homegrown chillis. It's always a lottery how hot it will be, but six chillis go a long way. This year's is a little bit on the hot side, but far from overpowering.
Reposted by Tom Hogg
The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...