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Unions, renters, campaigners, we worked together to make a fairer housing sector.

We've claimed power back from the landlord lobby, and we're not giving it back!

Google preview of Times and Telegraph articles reporting that proposals by Scottish Greens to increase Council tax on second and empty homes will likely be passed by Parliament.

No. of second homes in Scotland: 21,606

No. of long term empty homes: 46,000

No. of homeless children: 10,360

This is a problem we can solve, if Parliament agrees to my proposals this week.

Spain votes to boycott Eurovision if Israel competes Broadcaster RTVE is now the fifth to threaten withdrawal from Eurovision over Israel, following the Netherlands, Ireland, Slovenia and Iceland.

The BBC should now do the same.

Israel must not be allowed to use Eurovision to whitewash genocide.

Oh the transphobe allowing party is a boy's club that won't accept women to have a say? Colour me shocked.

It's almost as if all these issues are linked and you can't ignore one just because you think it's worth sacrificing some people's rights to accomplish a larger 'socialist' goal.

Oh, and PSA for #LabourDay: sex work is work and sex workers are workers. Sex work is a form of labour, and sex workers deserve the same working and safety rights as everyone else ☂️

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon Opinion: Are tech giants getting nervous? They should be

I've been saying for ages UK govt needs to wake up to the fact the US has inflicted multiple recessions on Europe and the rest of the world for the past 100+ years.

They have also inflicted multiple investment bubbles on us and left us with the losses.

www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/o...

Internet, I need your help please.

In reply to a Q from @kate-c.bsky.social at Edinburgh council on Thursday, the council leader said "Cllr Day has made an apology through the media" [for incidents catalogued in the Dunion report].

I can't find this apology. Can anyone else?

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The problem with “strategic silence” or whatever you want to call it from pro-trans people is that anti-trans people are definitely not being silent. So now we have our first proper position on trans rights from Your Party and it’s this. Well done!

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Leadership is about listening and empowering people.

By working together, our movement can be a force for good. 💚

the Brexit discourse wouldn’t lead here. There was a British form of exceptionalism in the idea that Brexit itself wasn’t an extreme position given what it meant practically and in terms of signalling. /END

obviously racist views being made publicly. And now we’ve got to a stage where it is now a mainstream view that ‘protesting’ outside asylum seeker hotels is a mainstream political activity and the ECHR is bad. It’s all connected. It’s a form of gaslighting to suggest it wasn’t foreseeable that… /3

right through it. Indeed, it was a sort of gateway drug to racism because xenophobia against Eastern Europeans was viewed as a more legitimate and less problematic form of prejudice. Once it became acceptable to be ‘concerned’ about Eastern Europeans, it then opened the door for more and more… /2

My view back even in the early 2010s was that mainstream British political thinking had been radicalised, because I always saw Brexit as an extremist position given the inevitable upset it was going to cause and the cans of worms it was going to open. It also had a strong xenophobic strain going… /1

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

Suspended Labour MSP Colin Smyth charged over secret camera in toilets allegation New charge relates to device allegedly placed in Scottish parliament and follows charges relating to possession of indecent images

Cishet white men make up the majority of sexual predators, and are the biggest threat, and the failure to focus on that is the problem.

Holyrood banning trans people from toileting while this was going on shows what a farce transphobia is.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Good to hear the scapegoating of migrants and trans people being called out by both new Co-Leaders of the @scottishgreens.org

It is in fact wild that the actual experts on migration, i.e. service providers, caseworkers, advisors and migrants themselves, are the only people who Downing St is ignoring on migration. Everyone else has a Legitimate Concern, except those Legitimately Concerned.

Text of the letter Maggie has sent to Angela Constance MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs. The full text of the letter can by found here: https://greens.scot/news/snp-must-provide-clarity-on-palestine-action-proscription

Peaceful protest is fundamental to our democracy.

Standing up against genocide and famine is fundamental to our humanity.

I've written to the Scottish Government seeking clarification on how they expect Police Scotland to secure our rights to protest & condemn genocide.

Jobcentre sent me a message about a delivery job. 1. I have no license. 2. I have limited capacity for work and work related tasks. 3. Despite this, I already have a full time job.

It has no impact on me, but it's still mildly annoying. Leave me alone, I am doing the best a disabled person can do.

Screenshot of a reddit post: ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what's going on inside my pregnant belly. A screenshot of ChatGPT's response. It is a side view of a foetus gestating in the uterus. The foetus is head-up with no umbilical cord or placenta. Behind the uterus is the rectum, which is unlabelled. Trailing down from between the rectum and spine, extending beneath the buttocks to the inner thigh is a yellow line labelled "pudendal nerve. At the front is an oval-shaped part labelled "cervix". And then we really struggle to image describe this bit. The uterus and the bladder are both attached to a single part which is long inside, then extends downwards into a penis with a single exist. This penis is labelled "rectum".

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

So that's how generative AI works... and how it can tell you you'll give birth out of your penis-rectum.

Not only that he won't be called out, but that he'll have live broadcast coverage for his every utterance.

In the face of a growing far right threat, the bulk of the UK media are disgracing themselves.

transphobia is sexism

if you have a penis you must have these characteristics
if you have a vagina you must have these characteristics

the more transphobic a person is the more sexist they are

the more sexist a society is the more transphobic it is

this should be obvious but apparently it isn't🙄

The Shepherds Crown came out five months after Terry Pratchett passed, and I got to the point Granny Weatherwax died and absolutely broke down in tears and couldn't continue.

Not been able to pick it up since, one day maybe 💕🐝

The amazing thing is that while Europeans are slapping themselves on the back for their dealings with Trump, what he has done is take sanctions on Russia off the table and put giving Ukrainian territory to Russia very much on the table.

Rylan Clark calls for more stories about transgender people amid ‘wave of hate’ The BBC Radio 2 presenter spoke about the adversities faced by LGBT+ people.

I was at this panel between Rylan and Russell Tovey at the TV festival, and it was a genuinely excellent discussion.

Not just on trans rights, but on class and growing up gay too.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

They didn't say anything about queer people. They didn't touch on it when the facilitator mentioned it. But that was too much for this woman. How dare he say that. It's not the same at all.

It is though. A slow, silent genocide is still a genocide.

I went to the Ken Loach talk at the EIFF. The facilitator mentioned trans people once. That was too much for this woman. She said he shouldn't have mentioned it. They talked about Palestine, they talked about benefit sanctions, they talked about the CIA in Central America.

TransActual's new report on people's experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling is crucial reading to understand the impact of the Judgment ⬇️🏳️‍⚧️