@raisethegame.bsky.social
I like drawing and painting - mainly small animals and birds, Scots language, traditional music. Lifelong supporter of Independence for Scotland.
Labour were willing to save the Scunthorpe steel works, but not Grangemouth or Mossmorran & their Energy Profits Levy is destroying investment, livelihoods & jobs in Aberdeen & the north east.
Scotland will always be an afterthought for Westminster, it’s time for independence 🏴
Photo of Chris Whitty
A quote from Professor Sir Chris Whitty CMO for England: "Just to acknowledge the really great work done in Scotland. Scotland has actually blazed a trail in many areas of Public Health." Listening to WM's broadcasters you'd be surprised to hear it . @BBCNews @SkyNews @itvnews
21.11.2025 09:44 — 👍 85 🔁 58 💬 1 📌 0
New York’s new Mayor Zohran Mamdani praises Scotland’s Baby Box scheme - introduced by the SNP Scottish Government, & says he wasnts to do the same in New York City.
x.com/scotland/sta...
Probably until he gets his seat in the House of Lords…and not much after that.
08.11.2025 05:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MoD refuses to say why 'Trump's troops' are stationed in Scotland
www.thenational.scot/news/2560592...
Last day of #Scotstober. Sending a last plea to anyone who hasn’t done something to have a wee go.
Today’s is #Tumshie #Neep #Baigie
There’s 3 words as they all mean the same: a swede / yellow turnip
They were carved to make spooky lanterns in Scotland in the 1950/80s
Pumpkins ripped them off!
@drmdempster.bsky.social Mony thanks fir yer haurd wirk ilka year in keepin the Scots leid tae the fore. As ay, #Scotstober haes been rare fun
31.10.2025 11:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0#Scotstober 2025
Neep: Whits gaein oan wi the neeps? The anly yins ah cuid fin wir sae tottie ye cuid stick thim in yer ee! Lang syne we cuid ay get the muckle yins fir making oor flegsome lantrins. The wee yins jist cannae gie oot the necessar ‘glower’!
That's the month gey naur ower. Hae mind but that Scots is for life an no juist for #Scotstober
30.10.2025 19:40 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0#Scotstober 2025
Hing: whan its a guid dryin day, ah lik tae pit up the rope an hing ma washin oot in the green tae gie it a guid blaw.
#Scotstober 2025
Ingle: Nooadays its nae sae mony fowk that haes an ingle wi its glowin coals tae sit roon o a cauld nicht. Whan ah wi wee, the inglenook wis the hert o the hoose. A walcomin place tae dry oor shin or warm oor nippin taes. A radiator jist disnae dae it!
#Scotstober 2025
Rammie: Sic gaens oan ower a gemm o fitba! Fechtin an cairryin oan in the street! Growen men fae baith sides, wi ithers jinin in gettin thirsels aa het up an haein a rammie. Numpties!
#Scotstober: Ȝammer
Fae Moby-Dick, Ch.93
It wis a puckle days efter encoonterin the Frenchman, that a maist signeeficant event befell the maist inseegnificant o the Pequod’s crew; an event tae gar ye Ȝammer; 1/2
#Scotstober
#Haiku
#3ammer
#Yammer
Fit an affa 3ammer
Ah wis fair birlin wi rage
Fan ih yogh wis lost
What an awful yelling
I was fairly spinning with rage
When the yogh was lost
#Yogh is a lost letter used in Scots.The reason names like Menzies are mispronounced nowadays.
dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/z
#Scotstober 2025
Yammer: Whan oor anely supermercat wis haein an ‘upgrade’, aathing wis tapsilteerie. Ilka day, the wirkers haed thir lugs deavit wi the yammer o folk greetin thae cuidnae fin onythin, an hoo cuid it no be as it yaised to be?
Mony thanks Albert!
25.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Scotstober 2025
Brock: Ah pentit this wee picter o a brock a whilie back. A wheen o the fermers roon thae pairts are no ower fond o thim. Sic a peety!
#Scotstober 2025
Yeuk: The manky mingin waff gaein richt intae yer neb whan ye crack a rotten egg! Yeuk! Its bowfin an fair gies ye the boak.
I’m so happy to see this.
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social is one of our own. Like @thenerve.news he’s an old Observer hand. Later at BBC he did everything, but in 2018, he found himself blocked from one particular subject…Russia & Brexit.
Please give him a hand…Sweeney’s coming home 👏👏👏
#Scotstober 2025
Puggle: Fowk nooadays think oan ‘puggilt’ as bein bone tired fae haurd wirk. In ma mithers time, bein cried ‘puggilt’ wis aboot bein drunk!
This week's YouGov Westminster poll.
🏴 SNP jump 5% at the cost of Labour/Lib Dems.
🏴 Plaid fall back against Reform.
🏴 Little change.
www.datawrapper.de/_/OJSlB/
What happened
Exactly nothing
Con man
Both votes SNP
Liberté ⛓️💥
Evening all 🏴
20.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 207 🔁 69 💬 10 📌 5#Scotstober 2025
Vrack: Doon at the shore, whan the tide gaes oot, the broon wrack, happit ower the stanes maks grand hidey holes fir sea beasties, buckies an thir ilk. Theyre rare places tae fir bairns wi a pail tae fin tottie wee partans.
#Scotstober 2025
Shooder. Ah still cannae lift ma airm abuin ma heid sin a brak ma shooder three year past.
#Scotstober 2025
Traipse: whan yev bin wirkin haurd aa day an still need tae gang fir yer messages, the thocht o traipsin roon a muckle supermerket maks ye feel fair wabbit!
#Scotstober 2025
Warp: Whiles ‘warp’ is a wird tae dae wi threids an weavin, betimes, ‘warpt’ is aboot bein thrawn. Its aboot a bodie haein or speikin unco thochts that dinnae sit weel wi maist ither fowk.
A wee nyaff cried Sandy gets a skelf... read mair in the Eejit Street comic: www.scotshooseyaldi.com/primary/comi... #Scotstober
16.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
