Thom Dibdin

And so if you really *mean* "never again" -- if you're serious about it -- then the time to intervene, the time to speak up, the time to stop it, is *when it is still small*. When it's just a casual slur. When it's just sports. When it's just asking questions. When it's framed as anti-PC.

I Am Loud is 12 today!

Our directors, Kevin, Katie, and Mark, are excited for this new chapter and can't wait to see how our new team supports our ongoing work in bringing the best of spoken word and poetry to Scotland.

Read more: open.substack.com/pub/iamloudp...

Oh Signalman. Such a fine piece of writing.

Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It's on the way!!! President DJT

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good.

Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies.

So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

AI posters for theatre productions really put me off. Get your five year old to make a poster, I'll be there. Make it reflect the Art and Creativity and Love of the play. Don't just push that button

Brilliant work here from LondonCentric!

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Good morning folks and thanks for supporting Bylines Scotland! It's been another busy week so there's some great reading and listening here! 👇 Huv a gid weekend, yin an' aw! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Creative Scotland: Go See Share Fund - YTAS A small fund for individuals, organisations and creative businesses to undertake trips to explore new ways to expand their business activity and make them

Applications are open for Creative Scotland's Go See Share, a small fund for individuals, organisations and creative businesses to undertake trips to explore new ways to expand their business activity and make them more financially sustainable buff.ly/ptXI20R (deadline - 5 Feb 2026)

Yet Why Not Say What Happened Joel Sternfeld (born June 30, 1944) is an American artist using photography, as well as an educator and writer.

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It's a generous and thoughtful journey of a lifetime's quest to discover the world and who we are in it. Thank you, #JoelSternfeld

This is a really useful read...
It doesn't solve anything itself, but it helps provide understanding - and without that, we can't even start to solve the issue of GPs, appointments and best use of limited funds.

Announcing Gray Day 2026! New Lanark audiobook by @canongate.co.uk narrated by Alan Cumming + five commissioned animations. Celebrating 45 years of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. 25 Feb 2026, Òran Mór, Glasgow. Tickets via link in bio.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - Wikipedia

If ICE are this comfortable executing a white woman on a public street, just imagine what they're comfortable doing to minorities in private.

Last year, I read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. There are some deeply alarming similarities in what's happening in America right now.

A seaside promenade at night, with street lights on the left and houses on the right. Text over reads: The Edinburgh Minute - Thursday 8 January 2026: Masked gang's cash machine ram-raid, £7.5m revamp for Porty pool, Venezuela protest planned + rooftop pilates

🌤️  Good morning Edinburgh. Thursday’s headlines: Masked gang's cash machine ram-raid, £7.5m revamp for Porty pool, Venezuela protest planned + rooftop pilates

⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...

Photo by: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social

#edinburgh #scotland

💪 Big game, big result
🧱 Defensive depth
⭐ Devlin dominance
😮‍💨 Set-piece threat
👀 'Bring on the Hibees'

How Hearts made 65-year feat with another big game win over Rangers | @sked21.bsky.social & @craigcairns.bsky.social

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Beating the Old Firm is just a routine day’s work for Hearts at the moment. Long may it continue.

All very well beating Celtic, but Hearts proving they can take care of those niggly mid-table sides too

A famous afternoon!

The Mistletoe Dance, by Sweet Humanafi Rhythm Orchestra 11 track album

Happy winter solstice, one and all. To mark the occasion, Hugh Nankivell and I have released a Christmas album. Do take a listen. Dance vigorously... sweethumanafi.bandcamp.com/album/the-mi...

Thank you @alledintheatre.bsky.social for listing #Placeholder as a top tip across Edinburgh stages this week! 💜

Sat show nearly sold out, grab tickets while you can!

@summerhallarts.bsky.social

www.alledinburghtheatre.com/listings-mon...

Anti-trans 'activism' is a distraction from real women's rights issues, says Marissa The time, energy and money spent protecting the definition of “woman” would be better spent advocating for the vital and crumbling network of…

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...

@marissamacwhirter.bsky.social

"Fake Noozzzz....zzzzz....zzzzz...zzzzz."

Remembrance & White Poppies For more than ninety years, some people have chosen to wear white poppies during the run-up to Remembrance Day, for remembrance and as a commitment to peace. First produced by women who had lost fr…

Remembrance & White Poppies bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/08/r...

Obituary: Nabil Shaban – actor and Graeae co-founder Actor who co-founded disabled-led theatre company Graeae and performed at theatres including London's Royal Court and the National Theatre

Obituary: Nabil Shaban — Actor who co-founded disabled-led theatre company Graeae and performed at theatres including London’s Royal Court and the National Theatre 👇

Wikipedia has a mild conservative bias, as it insists on what it calls 'reliable sources' - which mostly means they have been published by capitalist gatekeeping institutions.

The only reason anybody imagines that it has a liberal or left-wing bias is because it's largely accurate. They hate that.

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results People

This is probably the funniest headline of the year.

Anyone seen any mega wooden pyramids ahead of Bonfire Night yet? Keen to see (and publish) photos from around the city if anyone spots any in the coming days. Have news in tomorrow's newsletter about the council's plans for these (and guess what: it's not to set them on fire).

This is a very positive step forward for the future of The Brunton theatre.

The question now is who might seen this as an opportunity... And then how the ELC winnows the sharks from the good guys!