In non absurdly-pointless war news, saw the Tracey Emin exhibition @ Tate Modern today. It was GLORIOUS. Meaningful, deeply feminist, interwoven strands of the effects of racism, classism and sexism, life and death and meaning. Stunning.
04.03.2026 21:10 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Frame from helmet camera footage showing driver of a blue Hyundai Ionic registration 251D39415 overtaking a cyclist while holding a bowl with a spoon sticking out in her left hand.
No time for breakfast in the mornings? No problem - you can catch up and eat your cereal from a bowl with a spoon while overtaking cyclists in traffic.
04.03.2026 19:48 — 👍 78 🔁 31 💬 12 📌 2
A rarely seen ladybird has been discovered for the first time in Glasgow while a new bee species has also been spotted 👀
04.03.2026 21:30 — 👍 36 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
How do you preserve a spark that usually fades? ⚡️
The WORLD PREMIERE of Inexperience by one of Scotland’s most powerful and performed playwrights, Douglas Maxwell - a new witty, heartfelt new romantic comedy coming to our Studio.
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REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--
RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?
REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question
Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
Mexico's President Sheinbaum opposes US and Israel illegal war; "The UN has stopped fulfilling its role ... Countries with greater military power prevail, that cannot be." "It's not about who opposes or supports a regime; it's about civilians who pay for it, the bombing of a school full of girls."
04.03.2026 12:19 — 👍 1984 🔁 616 💬 36 📌 47
No pasaran! 🇪🇸
God bless the Spanish for standing hard against this soulless, brutality. This is leadership:
Israel struck a hotel in Hazmieh, where most of my family lives (everyone’s okay)
No idea about casualties yet.
They also killed at least 6 ppl in Aramoun and Saadiyat.
None of these 3 are ‘Hezbollah strongholds’ as media outlets like to call them
After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.
But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?
165 coffins of schoolgirls murdered #Iran by USA 🕊️
03.03.2026 18:52 — 👍 14 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1In The Loop (2009) dir. Armando Iannucci
03.03.2026 23:52 — 👍 376 🔁 69 💬 17 📌 3story about $8bn enormo indie TV producer here as.ft.com/r/0657e096-e... awful commentary voluntarily withdrawn by OP
04.03.2026 07:33 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Trump has no plan. Welcome to World War III, the improv show from Hell.
03.03.2026 12:03 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Posted with no comment except a point of fact not mentioned in this article that this is the current funder of the Booker Prize (Anglophone). Book people, do with that information what you will.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"
03.03.2026 08:16 — 👍 6534 🔁 1556 💬 90 📌 43
Daily Mail headline: IRAN WAR: DAY FOUR U.S. lambasts 'hand-wringing, pearl-clutching' Starmer as Kemi says he's 'scared' of his own voters
The Sun: INACTION THIS DAY PM wont hit Iran back Rift grows with US Prez
Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.
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shortsighted decision to cut classical languages at UIowa Petition here c.org/ZVhdNSckD8
02.03.2026 07:30 — 👍 71 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 0
H/t @wmarybeard.bsky.social
c.org/FJQVmq6Fqr
Text on an academic article about "Moving Things: Moving Cartloads of Treasures from Venice to Ethiopia, ca. 1400" pasted into Grammarly in a Browser. It offers to invoke the digital ghosts of David Abulafia, Barry Flood and Chris Wickham to give me "expert feedback".
Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT?
As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc.
It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece???
What?
I just can't get over what a bullshit thievery based scam all this is and there are still actual academics doing tra la la think pieces about how we need to embrace it or be left behind, I mean, look at the state of it. Look at it. It is bad, wrong, offensive, stupid and scuzzy.
02.03.2026 15:50 — 👍 175 🔁 64 💬 3 📌 2
Watching Trump joke around in his usual narcissistic way, it's clear he has absolutely no appreciation for the graveness of what he's just unleashed on the world.
And joking about giving himself the Medal of Honor when he's put thousands of US service members in harm's way is especially abhorrent.
Thank you for this blog.
02.03.2026 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks so much for highlighting the stark gender inequity across politics and culture in Scotland - we've just blogged our reflections on this: bit.ly/4l4mE8p
02.03.2026 15:30 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’ primary school A girls’…
02.03.2026 15:46 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I was once on a panel about cyborgs in film with the frankly amazing Professor Noel Sharkey, who has been arguing against battlefield and policing applications (weaponisations) of autonomous/AI robots and programmes for decades. This is from 5 years ago, but holds even more.
02.03.2026 15:47 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Auto-nomos: making one's own laws
The term "autonomy" also insidiously notes that such weapons are designedly outside international law (fwiw): totalitarian, unilateral & unaccountable.
In the US, corporations are people (but people aren't) & bombs have autonomy (but marginalised people don't).
