Looks like I'll have to add two grand to my pre-election poll crowdfunder because I certainly won't be working with this rag again. Absolutely disgraceful, awarding a hate campaign that is out to destroy my community and kill my best friend like this. Shame on you.

man you gotta go black and white pfp

my bad

Imaginal Disk album movie… we will be seated

THEY FINALLY ADDED IT

need the diecast asap

New Scottish Parliament poll, Ipsos 12-18 Jun (changes vs 25-31 Jan 24(!)):

List:
SNP ~ 26% (-7)
Lab ~ 22% (-9)
RUK ~ 16% (+14)
Grn ~ 15% (+4)
Con ~ 10% (-3)
LD ~ 8% (+1)
Alba ~ 2% (+1)

Const:
SNP ~ 34% (-5)
Lab ~ 23% (-7)
RUK ~ 14% (+13)
Con ~ 10% (-4)
Grn ~ 9% (+3)
LD ~ 9% (+2)
Alba ~ 1% (nc)

right like. has she ever actually called herself scottish lol

if you'd returned to the other website you'd have seen me relentlessly shitting on her

huh, only one here I'm truly into is greep

Whatever else is the case, I am afraid I do think it's gutting that Labour, a party of evil transphobic bastards, won a by-election that followed the death of a staunch trans ally. I myself am aware this isn't a salient issue, just personally, what an insult to Christina's memory.

Labour will certainly be pleased to win this one, but that's a pretty close result; if you run these as uniform swings versus 2021, it only secures a total of 8 Labour constituency MSPs versus 51 for the SNP.

As I've said before, this was must-win for Labour, but margin matters, and it's not huge!

definitely a real thing but not nearly enough of them to power this swing. there's a lot of three way churn with nat>lab and lab>ref, and then most of all differential turnout

Comment, not a prediction: turnout of 44.2% is relatively high for a by-election, and you'd *typically* expect that to be a positive sign for the SNP. They do best amongst younger and less affluent voters, who are least likely to turn out, so higher turnout generally means more of their voters.

should be on track for a 2am-3am declaration then, right?

it is funny how John Swinney returned as SNP leader to gracefully take the fall for them losing power in 2026, and instead he’s going to have to just keep being First Minister

@afaulds.bsky.social do you know if hamilton is getting counted tonight or tomorrow?

the fact that rural areas trended right and urban areas *relatively* trended """"left"""" is such a bummer. not for any holistic reason just that nowhere on earth is safe from the tyranny of realignmentcels 💔

Babe wake up! We exported the NYT election needle ❤️

I suppose at that margin any number of things could be held responsible but FWIW poland is one of the most ameriphilic countries in the world and (as far as I can tell) one of the few in the west whose favourability towards the US wasn't really impacted by trump entering office

the liberals blew a massive lead, it was never expected to be this close

do they do the "if you're in line, stay in line" thing in poland

in any case, if you want a long street in the west end where there are literally *no* big chains and only mom and pop cafes and restaurants? dumbarton road is right there. I suppose the beginning of Great Western too, but I've never really gotten the appeal of that stretch (outside of Kelvinbridge)

I'm sorry but this is such a fake problem. Blank Street had long lines for its first week of opening but now it has the same crowd as all the other places. That specific area around Hillhead station has already been quite chain-dominated for a while, the bottom third of Byres Rd is more mom-and-pop.

it was definitely much bigger prior to 1997. in any case desis only make up 6% of britain's population and around 10% of singapore's and still had a much larger culinary impact in both

the fact that HK cuisine doesn't have more desi influence (even if it could never be as much as singapore's) really bothers me. both were part of the british empire for almost the same time and it's had a pretty sizeable indian community for most of its modern history

feel like this is something you could make work in a chachaanteng (hong kong's iconic canto-western diners)

Polling continuing to emphasise the points I made in my "one year to go" piece a few weeks ago: the SNP are not experiencing some "how John Swinney got his groove back" surge in support, they are simply benefitting from Labour support collapsing as well ballotbox.scot/sp26-one-yea...

you may have noticed that I almost never have imaginal disk on my airbuds spotify feed anymore and that's because I exclusively listen to it on vinyl now, and I use something called codescrobble to log my LP playthroughs on lastfm

oh my god