Robin Johnson

I'm almost certain they didn't

Seriously? Text in an image isn't text, data-wise. Not everyone can read it. Everyone (with the right software) can read text that exists as text data. It takes a few extra seconds and it doesn't alienate a chunk of your potential audience.

As to borders.... gaaah. If we'd voted Yes in 2014 we'd almost certainly have ended up equal with rUK as states in the EU. Then Brexit (which have I mentioned Scots voted strongly against?) made a big bloody mess. But if potentially taking down 25 borders means putting one up, I'll take it.

I've also observed that most English liberals seem to support the 1st type of nationalism for autonomous regions abroad by default (Taiwan, Catalonia, Tibet) but suddenly get all Better Together when it comes to the UK.

There's two senses of nationalism at play here: 1) "I want my somewhat-autonomous region to have full nationhood" and 2) "my nation is the best". Maybe 1 can lead to 2 but they're not the same thing, and I see far more 2-types shagging the union flag than the saltire, even up here.

I agree with that. I've no problem calling JK Scottish if she calls herself that (which I'm not aware she's ever done, but I don't exactly hang on her every word)

If you care about inclusivity, please don't post screenshots of text in images without alt text

And please excuse me - when "Isn't that the same as Yorkshire?" comes up in this context, it's often a bit of disingenuous anti-indy whataboutism, so I bristled

My guess is it's similar, and if a London billionaire were donating to campaigns to e.g. scrap social mobility programs in the North of England it'd be likewise bad optics

and independence looks like the best, & increasingly the only, path towards meaningful democracy.

I don't think much of that applies to Yorkshire, but if you make the case I'll listen

But apart from "I live here", the reason I support Scottish independence is we're 90% of the way there already (our own govt with different policies on most issues, parliament with different [unarguably better] electoral system, our own laws, football teams etc etc)

Ask them. If Yorkshire people want to go for non-isolationist independence, they have my support

It tells you *everything* you need to know about these people that they perceive machines as people and women as things.

There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.

Then became one again when it crawled out of the pit into a slightly shallower pit, I guess

In other words she's reached the level of obscene wealth where gaining or losing money numbers is entirely unrelated to anything she does

I think she was a billionaire in dollars, then stopped being one when the pound crashed after brexit (which wouldn't have happened if it weren't for those meddling billionaires)

Krusty the Klown saying "I heartily endorse this article or video"

If you don't wear a hat and you get hit on the head with a brick, how can you complain

She made Robbie Coltrane put on a Cornish accent!!

My mum (an English born white Scot) calls other English people in Scotland "white settlers" and GONNAE NO DAE THAT

Maybe she shouldn't have donated a million quid to stop us becoming an independent country, then

I agree except for "in any way". It's still effectively an English govt/electorate that sets foreign and immigration policy for us, in rightwing ways that Scots vote strongly against *cough that sounds like 'brexit*.

I agree it's gross to call it 'colonialism' though.

Oh my god please stop associating bigotry with health

Do you want to be better than her or not

tweet from childish branzino @absflora: timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

I think her ego got terminally large with fame & money as well. It was no longer a possibility that she could be wrong about something, *especially* when lots of people were telling her she was

(oh it's rita skeeter, why can't I remember anything that matters)

I didn't spot it on first reading but the skeevy reporter character in HP whose name I can't be arsed to remember is described using transphobic dogwhistles - "large, mannish hands" (direct quote I think), heavy jaw, overdone femininity - & secretly transforms herself to spy on kids, so there's that

Scotty (James Doohan) from Star Trek lookin well radge

you know I love you BK but "doona"??

'cause she gets the kilt

I've got good (and trans) friends with TBIs. It can make life difficult but it doesn't make you an asshole.