Jack Boag (he/him)

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t care what politicians get up to in their private lives if it’s involving consenting adults

Ngl would love to see Scotland host a women’s RWC in the future

It was on UKTV but noticed they’re flogging a documentary that’s essentially “Stacey Dooley interviews Lily Philips” and to me that’s muscling in on the Channel 4/BBC Three venn diagram

Btw if we’re gonna have a Netflix series about the Guinness family just a little reminder that they didn’t employ Catholics in management positions until (I think?) the 1960s in their brewery. Also their family seat is somewhere in the Home Counties xo

There are a whole host of questions that need to be answered in terms of this stuff, mainly around the decision by ScotRail to procure trains constructed in the 1970s, because so many more people would have died had Aberdeen not been under lockdown at the time

Really the only underpinning idea that seems to be motivating government policy at the moment is one where the state is here to punish you before it is here to help you

Found an advert for the dream job and as much as the market had ground me down for the last 2 years
I just need to hope against hope I’ll at least get the chance to interview for it

It’s only now that I found out that The Bernard Shaw and Pygmalion (both Dublin bars) aren’t owned by the same people

Furthest I’ve been

N: Brae, Shetland
S: Montevideo, Uruguay
E: Burgas, Bulgaria
W: Montevideo, Uruguay

Novelist Nicola Dinan has withdrawn as a Polari Prize judge, after self-described 'terf' John Boyne was longlisted for the LGBTQ+ book award

www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article... (£)

The man who ran Ruth Davidson’s comms naturally isn’t particularly invested in the success of the SNP as an entity either

Thomas Partey is due in court on his rape and sexual asault charges the same day Villarreal play Arsenal so I doubt we will see him at the Emirates.

Not sure Arsenal, assholes as they've been over this whole thing, would want the reaction he would get from the home fans.

Tell me again how men's lives are ruined by accusations...

A doctor has broken down under cross-examination in the Sandie Peggie tribunal because she is so terrified about a colleague's name being revealed. That's how toxic the coverage of this story has become.

Because of the proximity of the tribunal building to Dundee train station, I’ve had to walk past a couple of the media scrums re the NHS Fife tribunal and even as someone who has willingly put myself into hostile environments as an activist, my blood is up knowing what they are about to write

I have no horse in the hurling final but my god Cork fans are arrogant for a side that hasn’t won an All Ireland in 20 years

The Trump administration is actively trying to kill LGBTQ+ youth.

The UK is just one step behind following like a cowed dog.

We can't let our elected representatives drag us towards this.

I do love posting a tweet in the binfire place about Kneecap and the sexual assault allegations and the reaction seeming to be “it’s a CIA/Mossad conspiracy”

Is there any form of regional breakdown?

You won, Villa. Enjoy the last 16, I hope it makes you very happy. Dear Lord, what a sad little life, Villa. You ruined my night completely so you can have the money. Use it on lessons in grace and decorum, for you have all the grace and decorum of a reversing dump truck without any tyres on.

The thing that sent me over the edge in relation to Twitter is that I’m being fed content from Elon that’s entirely UK based and calling for the return of capital punishment in relation to the Southport murders.

Oh I’m hyper competitive with pub quizzes (blame my stint in competitive debating) so I’ve always wanted to take that a step further

Without wanting to sound vain, my brain is a bit of a knowledge sink

Unironically one of the (albeit minor) pros of doing a PhD is that I can finally go on University Challenge

I’m quite surprised just how quickly Elon became a full on white ethnonationalist

No worries, sorry

Idk how DMs on this platform work and I don’t think I have you on anywhere else anymore but yeh I refuse to say anything publicly that would potentially prejudice an ongoing police investigation

The Mallaig version of that is the Steam Inn - closed last year due to the a mother-daughter fallout (and things involving the son-in-law that I would mention on a public forum but I’d rather not contempt of court myself)

I finally completed something on the bucket list - I got a bus to Yoker

The Irish version of “how often do you think about the Roman Empire” is the Easter Rising

Like ask a random Irish person how often they think about 1916 and they’ll probably be able to give you an answer