Jim Monaghan
@jimmonaghan.bsky.social
Poet, community activist, Govanhill resident, MDANT, Cultural Attache @ Greater Shawlands Republic, Director @ Romano Lav, not boyfriend material.
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“Fairs are an accretion of centuries’ of collective memory, their identities bound up - historically, aesthetically, emotionally - with the land on which they stand." I loved writing this @heraldscotland.bsky.social piece on fairs & the fight to save them. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2509695...
The show must go on: The fight to save the last of the Scottish fairs
Fairs are more than a mish mash of rides and stalls plonked on any old spot that keeps them out of the way, writes Dani Garavelli, they are an…
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April 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
“Fairs are an accretion of centuries’ of collective memory, their identities bound up - historically, aesthetically, emotionally - with the land on which they stand." I loved writing this @heraldscotland.bsky.social piece on fairs & the fight to save them. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2509695...
Delighted to announce Episode 1 of my podcast Beyond The Cringe is out now. I caht about Scottish culture with guests @grantmcphee.bsky.social @kirstininnes.bsky.social and @kevinpgilday.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Delighted to announce Episode 1 of my podcast Beyond The Cringe is out now. I caht about Scottish culture with guests @grantmcphee.bsky.social @kirstininnes.bsky.social and @kevinpgilday.bsky.social
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Twitter isn't the world's town square, it's a pub. Great when we all met up for a drink and a catch-up every week. Then a new landlord arrived, put a big England flag and his golliwog collection behind the bar and it was a magnet for his horrible EDL mates. Fuck that. We've found a better pub.
So I just posted this on Twitter & asked for views on it & the BlueSky exodus? Isn’t it just ceding ground to Musk? Zelensky didn’t pack his bags & decamp to Poland. Tell me why I’m wrong.
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Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts
Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian
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November 14, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Twitter isn't the world's town square, it's a pub. Great when we all met up for a drink and a catch-up every week. Then a new landlord arrived, put a big England flag and his golliwog collection behind the bar and it was a magnet for his horrible EDL mates. Fuck that. We've found a better pub.