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Anas Sarwar asked questions on housing at FMQs today.
Never forget that in Labour’s last term in office in Scotland, they only managed to build a grand total of SIX council houses in four years.
Labour cannot be trusted to deliver on housing.
Never forget that in Labour’s last term in office in Scotland, they only managed to build a grand total of SIX council houses in four years.
Labour cannot be trusted to deliver on housing.
December 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Anas Sarwar asked questions on housing at FMQs today.
Never forget that in Labour’s last term in office in Scotland, they only managed to build a grand total of SIX council houses in four years.
Labour cannot be trusted to deliver on housing.
Never forget that in Labour’s last term in office in Scotland, they only managed to build a grand total of SIX council houses in four years.
Labour cannot be trusted to deliver on housing.
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I think Brexit was garbage. But if in 2025 you're still pedalling "all we need to do is reverse Brexit!" you're ignorant. Everything before Brexit was fine, obviously. It was definitely ALL Brexit and not the six years of austerity before that and the 31 years of untempered Thatcherism before that.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I think Brexit was garbage. But if in 2025 you're still pedalling "all we need to do is reverse Brexit!" you're ignorant. Everything before Brexit was fine, obviously. It was definitely ALL Brexit and not the six years of austerity before that and the 31 years of untempered Thatcherism before that.
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Yesterday at a gig I sang I Will Always Love You and told the crowd about the time fifteen years ago I was asked to sing it as a first dance for a wedding. Baffling. Then afterwards a man who had worked as a funeral director told me it is a COMMON CHOICE FOR FUNERALS!!!! Wow, fuck you, the deceased.
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Yesterday at a gig I sang I Will Always Love You and told the crowd about the time fifteen years ago I was asked to sing it as a first dance for a wedding. Baffling. Then afterwards a man who had worked as a funeral director told me it is a COMMON CHOICE FOR FUNERALS!!!! Wow, fuck you, the deceased.
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It's like people using 'Every Breath You Take' as 'our song". Either they haven't really listened to it, or there's red flags sprouting everywhere.
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It's like people using 'Every Breath You Take' as 'our song". Either they haven't really listened to it, or there's red flags sprouting everywhere.
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People not listening to lyrics and doing bizarre things with songs based entirely on the chorus is one of my favourite things.
See also all the people treating Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah like its a Christmas Song.
See also all the people treating Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah like its a Christmas Song.
Yesterday at a gig I sang I Will Always Love You and told the crowd about the time fifteen years ago I was asked to sing it as a first dance for a wedding. Baffling. Then afterwards a man who had worked as a funeral director told me it is a COMMON CHOICE FOR FUNERALS!!!! Wow, fuck you, the deceased.
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
People not listening to lyrics and doing bizarre things with songs based entirely on the chorus is one of my favourite things.
See also all the people treating Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah like its a Christmas Song.
See also all the people treating Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah like its a Christmas Song.
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It’s three not very wise men lost in the desert because they can’t get a signal for Google maps
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It’s three not very wise men lost in the desert because they can’t get a signal for Google maps
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CREEDENCE CLEAR-ROAD SURVIVAL
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
CREEDENCE CLEAR-ROAD SURVIVAL
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did… did the dog write this recipe
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
did… did the dog write this recipe
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Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
Why you require to pay Council Tax - Glasgow City Council
Information about why you are required to pay Council Tax.
glasgow.gov.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
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"Great first draft, Isla. Now if you could just take out every incidence of 'for fucksake' then I'll sign off on it and we'll put it up on the website."
October 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"Great first draft, Isla. Now if you could just take out every incidence of 'for fucksake' then I'll sign off on it and we'll put it up on the website."
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At the height of lockdown, my doorbell rang - which was shocking enough. When I answered, it was my next door neighbour. She handed me a cake, said, “I’m watching too much Bake Off,” and headed home again. 😂
I have always wanted to see a side-series to the Great British Bake Off focusing on the friends and families of the bakers as they practice baking endless stuff at home.
You *know* each baker is dumping absolute tons of free baked goods on everyone they know. Total strangers getting handed cakes.
You *know* each baker is dumping absolute tons of free baked goods on everyone they know. Total strangers getting handed cakes.
June 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
At the height of lockdown, my doorbell rang - which was shocking enough. When I answered, it was my next door neighbour. She handed me a cake, said, “I’m watching too much Bake Off,” and headed home again. 😂
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If you’re giving people the right to choose death, you also have to guarantee them the right to choose the best life they could have for as long as they could have it.
June 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you’re giving people the right to choose death, you also have to guarantee them the right to choose the best life they could have for as long as they could have it.
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Chaminda's work on the disability cuts has been invaluable.
This shows that contrary to many media assumptions that PIP cuts are primarily around mental health - they would affect lots of people with cancer, heart disease, and numerous other physical illnesses and disabilities.
This shows that contrary to many media assumptions that PIP cuts are primarily around mental health - they would affect lots of people with cancer, heart disease, and numerous other physical illnesses and disabilities.
NEW: Labour's planned disability benefit cuts could affect the majority of current working-age claimants with ischaemic heart disease, inflammatory arthritis, hip and knee disorders and Crohn’s disease, according to analysis of new DWP data
By me, for the Big Issue:
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
By me, for the Big Issue:
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Majority of PIP claimants with heart disease, arthritis and Crohn's at risk of cuts
DWP data obtained by Big Issue shows that the majority of people with heart failure, HIV and arthritis are at risk of losing their benefits.
www.bigissue.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Chaminda's work on the disability cuts has been invaluable.
This shows that contrary to many media assumptions that PIP cuts are primarily around mental health - they would affect lots of people with cancer, heart disease, and numerous other physical illnesses and disabilities.
This shows that contrary to many media assumptions that PIP cuts are primarily around mental health - they would affect lots of people with cancer, heart disease, and numerous other physical illnesses and disabilities.
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Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.
June 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
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Wonderful Thread.
Because of [waves hands at the state of the world] there's been a bit of discussion about how difficult it is to sink oil tankers.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.
June 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Wonderful Thread.
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Because of [waves hands at the state of the world] there's been a bit of discussion about how difficult it is to sink oil tankers.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.
June 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Because of [waves hands at the state of the world] there's been a bit of discussion about how difficult it is to sink oil tankers.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.
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This magnificent thread about a forgotten Welsh marquess – yes – is frankly REQUIRED READING.
Newspapers in March 1905 declared his death a "wasted life". Nonsense. Anyone who yearly spent £3,000 (£314,000)
In today’s terms on bejewelled underwear strikes me as a man having a remarkably good time.
Newspapers in March 1905 declared his death a "wasted life". Nonsense. Anyone who yearly spent £3,000 (£314,000)
In today’s terms on bejewelled underwear strikes me as a man having a remarkably good time.
You’ve probably seen this picture before, but did you know it’s the 150th anniversary of the birth of the man in it – Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, who bankrupted his vastly wealthy family estate in under six years?
June 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This magnificent thread about a forgotten Welsh marquess – yes – is frankly REQUIRED READING.
Newspapers in March 1905 declared his death a "wasted life". Nonsense. Anyone who yearly spent £3,000 (£314,000)
In today’s terms on bejewelled underwear strikes me as a man having a remarkably good time.
Newspapers in March 1905 declared his death a "wasted life". Nonsense. Anyone who yearly spent £3,000 (£314,000)
In today’s terms on bejewelled underwear strikes me as a man having a remarkably good time.
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The “welfare reform bill” is out and let’s be clear: this is not reform - it is devastating cuts. Disabled people will be made poorer, sicker, and more isolated as a result. That it is a Labour government causing this misery will be a mark of shame on the party for years to come.
June 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The “welfare reform bill” is out and let’s be clear: this is not reform - it is devastating cuts. Disabled people will be made poorer, sicker, and more isolated as a result. That it is a Labour government causing this misery will be a mark of shame on the party for years to come.
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I need y'all to stop and read the blurb for the Goodnight Sweetheart reboot novel.
UK people absolutely DO NOT try and explain this and the original show to the Americans. You can't. I've tried.
UK people absolutely DO NOT try and explain this and the original show to the Americans. You can't. I've tried.
June 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I need y'all to stop and read the blurb for the Goodnight Sweetheart reboot novel.
UK people absolutely DO NOT try and explain this and the original show to the Americans. You can't. I've tried.
UK people absolutely DO NOT try and explain this and the original show to the Americans. You can't. I've tried.
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Ironically, and off the top of my head, she is immediately ‘cancelling’ Ophelia, Desdemona, Portia, Othello & Shylock. Also, why does she think so many female characters dressed up as men to enjoy agency or, while we’re here, they were *all* literally played by actual males for years?
If Katharine Birbalsingh cannot work out how to teach the themes of sexism and racism when studying Shakespeare, isn't that down to her own lack of intelligence?
June 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ironically, and off the top of my head, she is immediately ‘cancelling’ Ophelia, Desdemona, Portia, Othello & Shylock. Also, why does she think so many female characters dressed up as men to enjoy agency or, while we’re here, they were *all* literally played by actual males for years?
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Nearly half a million people in disabled households will be forced into severe hardship if the disability benefit cuts go ahead, new research by @trusselluk.bsky.social shows.
No MP who votes for this can pretend they don’t know. www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...
No MP who votes for this can pretend they don’t know. www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...
Nearly half a million people in disabled households will be forced into severe hardship if UK government goes ahead with cuts to social security | Trussell
Hundreds of thousands of people will be pushed into severe hardship if government goes ahead with ‘cruel’ cuts to disability payments.
www.trussell.org.uk
June 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Nearly half a million people in disabled households will be forced into severe hardship if the disability benefit cuts go ahead, new research by @trusselluk.bsky.social shows.
No MP who votes for this can pretend they don’t know. www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...
No MP who votes for this can pretend they don’t know. www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...
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a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
June 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
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And PIP is what enables a lot of people to work. The Labour position on this is stupid, evil, and counter productive.
June 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
And PIP is what enables a lot of people to work. The Labour position on this is stupid, evil, and counter productive.
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And employers don't want to employ disabled people either. It's ludicrous to think that taking away disability benefit support is a good thing. No it's not, people will die.
June 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
And employers don't want to employ disabled people either. It's ludicrous to think that taking away disability benefit support is a good thing. No it's not, people will die.
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He doesn't want them to work, he just doesn't want to pay them to survive
June 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
He doesn't want them to work, he just doesn't want to pay them to survive