Alistair Davidson

Scotland has provisionally had its strongest August wind gust on record, reaching 82mph at Wick Airport, according to the Met Office.

You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.

A 2 minute wait reduces your 15 minute neighbourhood by a quarter

1 minute wait at lights
=> 7% reduction in the diameter of your 15 minute neighbourhood
=> 13% (1/8) reduction in the area of your 15 minute neighbourhood

2 minutes:
=> 13% reduction in diameter
=> 25% (1/4) reduction in area

YMCA, builder's outfit, sorted.

This year I am doing mine as a tiktok dance

Even if defending trans people's rights wasn't a vital cause in itself, any socialist should be able to see that transphobia is the leading edge of the anti-feminist backlash against advances in the 2010s. If you don't call that out clearly you lack the strategic nous to lead the left.

And as if it needs to be said, you can find news reports from 1920s and '30s Germany of businesses and establishments apologising for 'forcing' patrons to fraternise with Jews, or similar reports from '50s and '60s America about Black people ruining white families' days by existing in public.

An image of newspaper article titled "'Queer joy' stickers aimed at children, says feminist group" reports on backlash from Trina Budge, director of For Women Scotland, who accused a Scottish LGBT charity of "grooming" children through cartoon stickers promoting messages of "Queer Joy." The stickers, which feature transgender flags, hearts, and affirming imagery, are sold to support the Equality Network’s campaign work for LGBTI+ rights. Budge’s inflammatory language, including labeling the stickers as "propaganda" and equating LGBT+ inclusion with grooming, echoes a harmful and widely discredited trope historically used to vilify queer communities.

Trina Budge, director of the group ‘For Women Scotland’ - no they don't represent the views of most Scottish women - has publicly accused LGBT+ people of “grooming” children simply for supporting and affirming young LGBT+ people

A deliberate dangerous smear and toxic tactic rooted in bigotry

Best to assume they are not so much making predictions as stating preferences.

Like Akala says, when people are enslaved one of the first things they do is stop them reading / because it's well understood that intelligent people will take their freedom

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

People also downplay the effect of traditional media too - newspapers are online, the BBC is online, Sky News is online. When old/uninformed people go online, they look for the traditional media and consume the exact same things they're seeing on TV and in print. Multiple avenues of reinforcement.

Copying the US playbook, the audience is rural/suburban voters who don't know what cities are actually like

Storm Floris kicking off something fierce with current wind gusts 100/102 mph near Inverness according to my Windy app. #StormFloris

These are not separate phenomena. Twitter creates a powerful impression that you are seeing public opinion. Politicians and journos are all there. They used to be restrained a bit by lefties shouting at them, now they see an all-fascist fake public.

John Swinney sat immobile, His body slowly crumbling, within the Golden Throne of Terra for over 10,000 standard years.

🦀🦀🦀

The Will Hayward article that dives deep into the data around the 20mph default in Wales.

It busts the myths and celebrates the success for Welsh communities.

bit.ly/3U7r5mv

Did not know Thai invented "(derogatory)"

Ok, ok, you may have discovered the SRY gene and researched it for 35 years. But do you have One Billion Pounds and a personality disorder? No? Opinion disregarded.

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

“World Athletics asserts the SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex. But biological sex is much more complex, with chromosomal, gonadal (testis/ovary), hormonal and secondary sex characteristics all playing a role.”

Sex testing is not only invasive, it’s also inaccurate.

conspiracy theory that isn't a conspiracy theory: this is specifically to screw over meds and eds rust belt revivals because they threaten existing landed gentry power centers.

Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:

Not for nothing I think this is precisely why @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s encouragement to find people who are DOING something rather than telling you to BELIEVE something is pretty right on. Tenant, rank and file worker, pro-Palestine, etc organizers are on the move & seeing real opportunity.

Silver for Best Streaming Content goes to Seth Skorkowsky (YouTube Channel)

The new Google AI mode that runs searches and gives you the links is quite useful *ducks*

A photo taken through the window of a train. The name of the station "Newton for Hyde" can be seen on a sign. Inside the train a piece of paper is held up to the window with a sketch of a bewigged gentleman holding up a sign saying "Leibnitz for Jekyll"

Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.

St Mungo's Church, Cumbernauld. Modern construction. Church is square, roof is pyramidal. The peak is glass, and an abstract spire rises above it.

RIP

Oh fuck no I loved this weird modernist church

Hou it stertit vs hou it's gaun