@jamesagillies.bsky.social
Audiobook Narrator & Producer. At times I am just all talk.
I'm definitely trying to disrupt the status quo in the UK.
05.11.2025 23:09 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0I suppose they thought they would be safe because the taxpayers were paying the bill and not Trump personally.
How little they understood him.
We are looking with lawyers at the propensity of AI to produce dishonest and defamatory statements.
04.11.2025 21:58 β π 254 π 62 π¬ 11 π 0
I've just been called a "rape enabler" by the X AI tool Grok. This is a shocking allegation which has totally taken me aback & beyond anything I've ever encountered in normal political discourse. These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts. Disturbing.
04.11.2025 21:22 β π 115 π 29 π¬ 53 π 34Oddly, the Health Spokeswoman for the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament just went on the BBC to tell us - again - how bad NHS Scotland is compared to the other three.
In 2024/25 there is not a single sector where NHS Scotland is not at the top.
You would think sheβd be more upbeat.
βTackyβ hardly does the over window scroll justice.
And as for the sign!
Bylines Scotland Radio -An exclusive interview with Guy Verhofstadt.
05.11.2025 13:04 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Radio 4 discussing the mistaken release of a dangerous criminal who is now on the run.
The host asked repeatedly, βwas he an asylum seekerβ?
No-one challenged her. Next it will be, βwas he Black or Irish or Jewish or Gayβ?
Unapologetic racism from the BBC.
What is important is he is dangerous.
Shetland has the lowest recorded crime rate in all of Scotland. Most years it has exactly 0 murders.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Is anyone surprised?
For years the BBCβs coverage of the EU has been too negative.
Between 2001 and 2016, the BBCβs coverage of the EU veered between disinterest and EU-bashing.
Reports about the EU were so negative that Brussels came off worse than Putin.
#Brexit
www.politico.eu/blogs/on-med...
It's going to be a difficult few days for racists. No sooner do we discover the attacker was a British man called Anthony Williams, we then discover the rail worker hero who almost gave his life to save others is called Samir Zitouni.
We can't wait to hear the hot takes on whether he is British...
New Yorkers really know how to craft an online campaign pitch.
Simple, powerful and clear.
Our own Scottish campaigners could learn from this.
1 week ago I was on a ventilator & hooked up to various gubbins & now catheter is out, & I have one less chest drain. Lung not fully inflated yet & big decisions have to be made about my feeding as it is currently going through my nose & possibly permanently so. Hate being on the ward.
03.11.2025 12:21 β π 100 π 4 π¬ 26 π 0This is worth watching.
Note that none of the criticisms of the PIP process voiced here apply to Scotlandβs ADP process.
ADP was designed specifically to avoid PIPβs flaws, to support people with disabilities and support their integration in the community.
Canada was also the first Commonwealth/Empire country to declare war on Nazi Germany in support of Britain, several hours before the British themselves.
03.11.2025 15:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Another reason to resist the rise of billionaires is the clear damage it wreaks on their mental health. Somewhere during the process of accumulating all that money their brains lose all links with reality.
Iβm not convinced thatβs a price worth paying for just a bit more cash.
An MP needs to read out this quote in the House of Commons and ask the government why they are still on twitter
cc @columeastwood.ie
Scotland is expected to generate nearly three quarters of Britainβs onshore wind power with in five years β sparking fears the country is facing North Sea oil-style exploitation as a green energy supplier for England.
A single paragraph that is likely to make you angry.
02.11.2025 09:18 β π 84 π 39 π¬ 6 π 6He succinctly reminds us that the challenge is not just dealing with the increasingly unlikely survival of the UK but the also the survival of an unequal England where one part of that country feeds on the rest, leaving them criminally under resourced and vulnerable.
03.11.2025 10:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Imagine if the people who run England got to run Holyrood too.
Support Scottish parties like π§π΅π² π¦π‘π£ and Scottish Greens, and our Government will continue to deliver on Scotland's priorities.
Better still, join one...
www.snp.org/join/member/
* The asylum hotel scandal Pecksniff canβt print
* Immigration panic shown to be a media myth
* Tory HQ admits itβs lost 131 constituency parties
* Reformβs βreal peopleβ turn out to be AI inventions
This and more in Pecksniff's Diary ‡οΈ
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
But none of the tax revenue will come to Scotland.
Like oil and gas from Scotland from the 70s onwards it will all end up in London to shore up UK governments that Scotland doesnβt usually vote for.
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/02/g...
And he admitted this?
Willingly?
I had high hopes for him.
It turns out they were misplaced.
He wants to abolish our membership because it keeps him and his ilk accountable and thus he fears it.
Nigel Farage's assault on human rights should reassure us. Here's why
www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
People are noticing.
01.11.2025 09:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I am now off ICU and on a ward. Still a way to go yet. May have to have a permanent feed to prevent this happening again. Extremely challenging situation and tough days ahead.
31.10.2025 17:50 β π 138 π 5 π¬ 32 π 1Owned by the people of Scotland. Serving the people of Scotland.
Not a shareholder nor a Fat Cat CEO enjoying ridiculous bonuses in sight.
Scottish Waterβs CEO earns a fifth of what Thames Waterβs CEO receives annually.
Thatβs not what Scottish Water spends money on.
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
31.10.2025 08:19 β π 17314 π 7018 π¬ 719 π 1228
