Chris Scott (he/him)
@chrisdonia.bsky.social
I'm mostly around Edinburgh, often lurking in corners with a camera at cultural events.
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I'd love more countries to adopt mandatory voting.
i constantly hate the lament that maga people dont care. i dont care that they dont care. theyre fucking garbage people who support corruption and ethnic cleansing. but normal, good people outnumber them and id really like those people to be given constant prodding to get out and vote.
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'd love more countries to adopt mandatory voting.
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I FOI'd English councils whether they use legal land purchase powers to create traffic-free paths. Just 1% said they have successfully.
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I FOI'd English councils whether they use legal land purchase powers to create traffic-free paths. Just 1% said they have successfully.
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
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A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
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Well… At least we know why they were so passionate about having secure email servers now.
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Well… At least we know why they were so passionate about having secure email servers now.
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As I have long since given up on good things happening, I will settle for very, very funny things.
Just imagine the Krakatoa of enraged, flailing bullshit we would get, if it looked like Ed was going to thrash Streeting in a leadership election.
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
As I have long since given up on good things happening, I will settle for very, very funny things.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
The TERFs waving their virtual placards, saying it's nonsense and nobody would have only happened in recent years. Ignoring the long long history of transgender and intersex people who would be treated as male but still mentruate. They love to scream DARVO but no one gaslights better than a bigot.
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The TERFs waving their virtual placards, saying it's nonsense and nobody would have only happened in recent years. Ignoring the long long history of transgender and intersex people who would be treated as male but still mentruate. They love to scream DARVO but no one gaslights better than a bigot.
To be fair, the Democrats don't seem to understand what their voters actually want.
99% of Republicans understand nothing about intraleft politics. they’re still saying shit like “you won’t be so happy when BILL CLINTON is implicated will you?”
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
To be fair, the Democrats don't seem to understand what their voters actually want.
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Can you imagine a similar headline in #Edinburgh?
It would be “controversial bike lanes disliked in consultation by locals”
It would be “controversial bike lanes disliked in consultation by locals”
Mind Blowingly Good Cycle Lanes planned
That’s a bold statement. I like it
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
That’s a bold statement. I like it
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Inside ‘mind-blowingly good’ plans for new cycle lanes in central London
The West End’s traffic-congested streets could get a radical redesign.
www.timeout.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Can you imagine a similar headline in #Edinburgh?
It would be “controversial bike lanes disliked in consultation by locals”
It would be “controversial bike lanes disliked in consultation by locals”
I pass this regularly and not only are the Voi bikes blocking the bike racks, they often spread far across the pavement. Yesterday I saw pedestrians struggling to pass, anyone with a buggy or mobility problems would have been screwed.
🔒 Keeping Edinburgh's cycle parking free of hire bikes
- 📸 Three new parking images added to our campaign
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Send your photos to hello+voiracks@edi.bike or @ us on Bluesky with them
- 📸 Three new parking images added to our campaign
edi.bike/projects/202...
Send your photos to hello+voiracks@edi.bike or @ us on Bluesky with them
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I pass this regularly and not only are the Voi bikes blocking the bike racks, they often spread far across the pavement. Yesterday I saw pedestrians struggling to pass, anyone with a buggy or mobility problems would have been screwed.
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Presumably this means they asked him for evidence that he'd been hacked and he couldn't provide any because he hadn't been hacked
NEW: Presenter Mike Graham has been dismissed from Rupert Murdoch’s digital channel TalkTV.
Company says he failed to cooperate with an investigation into a racist post that appeared on one of his social media accounts.
He said he has been hacked:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Company says he failed to cooperate with an investigation into a racist post that appeared on one of his social media accounts.
He said he has been hacked:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Mike Graham sacked from TalkTV after ‘failure’ to assist inquiry into racist post
Broadcaster suspended presenter last month over Facebook post he said happened after account was hacked
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Presumably this means they asked him for evidence that he'd been hacked and he couldn't provide any because he hadn't been hacked
Seeing this caption made me feel angry and insulted.
Then I realised, for many people (ie home owners) moving house IS fun. And deliberate.
Turns out when ten of the twelve moves you've made since turning 18 are forced on you, it's not fun and more like trauma.
Housing badly needs a reboot.
Then I realised, for many people (ie home owners) moving house IS fun. And deliberate.
Turns out when ten of the twelve moves you've made since turning 18 are forced on you, it's not fun and more like trauma.
Housing badly needs a reboot.
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Seeing this caption made me feel angry and insulted.
Then I realised, for many people (ie home owners) moving house IS fun. And deliberate.
Turns out when ten of the twelve moves you've made since turning 18 are forced on you, it's not fun and more like trauma.
Housing badly needs a reboot.
Then I realised, for many people (ie home owners) moving house IS fun. And deliberate.
Turns out when ten of the twelve moves you've made since turning 18 are forced on you, it's not fun and more like trauma.
Housing badly needs a reboot.
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The funniest part of this is, the politics we’ve had over the last 15 years has given rise to a hard right nationalist movement spanning the U.K- and the politics they support is “sell the NHS and stop anyone brown ever coming to the uk again” as if that’s some logical, sensible position.
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The funniest part of this is, the politics we’ve had over the last 15 years has given rise to a hard right nationalist movement spanning the U.K- and the politics they support is “sell the NHS and stop anyone brown ever coming to the uk again” as if that’s some logical, sensible position.
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I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
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If someone mentions trans women and then gets mad about using the term pregnant people, they either don’t know that some trans men get pregnant, or they know their audience doesn’t and want them to think that “pregnant people” is stupid woke nonsense to not offend trans women.
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
If someone mentions trans women and then gets mad about using the term pregnant people, they either don’t know that some trans men get pregnant, or they know their audience doesn’t and want them to think that “pregnant people” is stupid woke nonsense to not offend trans women.
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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library - great speech by @zadiesmith.bsky.social #lovelibraries www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library - great speech by @zadiesmith.bsky.social #lovelibraries www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I think Musk is like a LLM and doesn't really "know" anything. He just reproduces content.
Do you think Elon Musk knows that Tolkien and Hitler fought on opposing sides at the Battle of the Somme? That Tolkien much later called Hitler a “ruddy little ignoramus” in a refusal to a German publisher to provide proof of his non-Jewish ancestry in order to be published in Germany?
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I think Musk is like a LLM and doesn't really "know" anything. He just reproduces content.
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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It's so weird how antidepressants only cause the impulse to commit mass violence in the country where there is easy access to guns. What a coincidence!
First they came for reproductive rights.
Then they came for vaccines.
Now they’re coming for mental health.
There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence.
You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds.
#GunReformNow
Then they came for vaccines.
Now they’re coming for mental health.
There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence.
You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds.
#GunReformNow
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It's so weird how antidepressants only cause the impulse to commit mass violence in the country where there is easy access to guns. What a coincidence!
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Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
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Well if it could boost GDP 0.2% it’s worth a shot
![A financial times graph showing that I if it leads to a tech singularity will either end scarcity or destroy humanity and if [when] we don’t reach tech singularity it’ll boost GDP by 0.2%](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tiaodgr5mu3iyiqiwfunedxw/bafkreibt4orl6x22vff6xkufm44qf55xeejshihba26trpapvj6jj4j54y@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Well if it could boost GDP 0.2% it’s worth a shot
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Labour's permanent ban on puberty blockers for trans children is costing lives. It has nothing to do with "protecting children". They cannot claim to care about children's welfare while supporting a ban which has been shown, repeatedly, to cause them more harm.
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
MP fails to support suicidal constituent
A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Labour's permanent ban on puberty blockers for trans children is costing lives. It has nothing to do with "protecting children". They cannot claim to care about children's welfare while supporting a ban which has been shown, repeatedly, to cause them more harm.
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
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This feels like peak infantilisation of the elderly.
What exactly is ‘disgraceful’ about giving the elderly/infirm practical advice about how to be physically intimate in a safe way? They aren’t children. Their innocent eyes don’t need to be protected. Plus it’s medical guidance not a jazz mag
What exactly is ‘disgraceful’ about giving the elderly/infirm practical advice about how to be physically intimate in a safe way? They aren’t children. Their innocent eyes don’t need to be protected. Plus it’s medical guidance not a jazz mag
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This feels like peak infantilisation of the elderly.
What exactly is ‘disgraceful’ about giving the elderly/infirm practical advice about how to be physically intimate in a safe way? They aren’t children. Their innocent eyes don’t need to be protected. Plus it’s medical guidance not a jazz mag
What exactly is ‘disgraceful’ about giving the elderly/infirm practical advice about how to be physically intimate in a safe way? They aren’t children. Their innocent eyes don’t need to be protected. Plus it’s medical guidance not a jazz mag
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The lack of respect white men have for women, but specifically Black women, is next level bullshit!
Who raised these assholes?
There is no room in our future for the most educated demographic in our country to be treated this way!
#Pinks
#ReclaimOurTime
#BlackWomenAreTheFuture
#Shero
Who raised these assholes?
There is no room in our future for the most educated demographic in our country to be treated this way!
#Pinks
#ReclaimOurTime
#BlackWomenAreTheFuture
#Shero
November 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The lack of respect white men have for women, but specifically Black women, is next level bullshit!
Who raised these assholes?
There is no room in our future for the most educated demographic in our country to be treated this way!
#Pinks
#ReclaimOurTime
#BlackWomenAreTheFuture
#Shero
Who raised these assholes?
There is no room in our future for the most educated demographic in our country to be treated this way!
#Pinks
#ReclaimOurTime
#BlackWomenAreTheFuture
#Shero