Paul Connell
@paulconnell.bsky.social
Stirling based writer/guitar owner. Here for culture, politics, history, daftness. MD ANT (3rd class)
I foresee a mass piss-in on the floor of any company that implements this. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I foresee a mass piss-in on the floor of any company that implements this. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
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‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Two Tribes is a much better record than Relax. And I'm one of those fools who quite liked Frankie's second album.
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Two Tribes is a much better record than Relax. And I'm one of those fools who quite liked Frankie's second album.
They don't make it easy, do they?
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
They don't make it easy, do they?
Steve keeps his job.
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Steve keeps his job.
15 minutes of agony ahead.
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
15 minutes of agony ahead.
'How deep is your lair?'
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
'How deep is your lair?'
Reckon it helps to have interests and experience outside politics.
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Reckon it helps to have interests and experience outside politics.
Fuck 'em. Well done.
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Fuck 'em. Well done.
He and Sunak were both parachuted into safe seats, hothoused into front bench positions and anointed as leaders without requiring to develop any real political skills.
We need politicians with hinterland sure, but also good at yer actual politics.
We need politicians with hinterland sure, but also good at yer actual politics.
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
He and Sunak were both parachuted into safe seats, hothoused into front bench positions and anointed as leaders without requiring to develop any real political skills.
We need politicians with hinterland sure, but also good at yer actual politics.
We need politicians with hinterland sure, but also good at yer actual politics.
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The guy's genuine anxiety makes this very relatable.
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The guy's genuine anxiety makes this very relatable.
I reckon Kurt was really Scottish. Born in Aberdeen, of course.
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I reckon Kurt was really Scottish. Born in Aberdeen, of course.
18th October at Strathclyde Union. I was there.
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
18th October at Strathclyde Union. I was there.
Think I've met or heard of at least half a dozen bassists who boast that theirs 'used to belong to Entwistle.'
Yeh, pal, half the basses on the planet did.
Yeh, pal, half the basses on the planet did.
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Think I've met or heard of at least half a dozen bassists who boast that theirs 'used to belong to Entwistle.'
Yeh, pal, half the basses on the planet did.
Yeh, pal, half the basses on the planet did.
Probably already seen it but 'The Gallows Pole' is on BBC iPlayer and is well worth a watch. About the Cragg Vale coiners, early 18th century forgers.
November 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Probably already seen it but 'The Gallows Pole' is on BBC iPlayer and is well worth a watch. About the Cragg Vale coiners, early 18th century forgers.
Pitlochry as Scotland's answer to Sitges?
November 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Pitlochry as Scotland's answer to Sitges?