Gavin Greig

Should probably do an "introductory" thread: I work as a software developer, now for a company in London, but I live in a village in Fife, Scotland. Technically I've been on BlueSky for a bit over a year already but have only fully committed to the move since the US elected Trump for a second time.

pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

We’ve never learned this lesson in the UK. We still have to listen to the ‘legitimate concerns’ of a bunch of racists and fascists.

“THE PUBLIC ARE THE BOSSES” according to Burnham….unless it’s the Scottish public 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Uber-unionist Andy Burnham is all for the public deciding on whether or not the uk rejoins the EU, yet Scottish independence is “OFF LIMITS”, no matter that a majority in Scotland support independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

Hate when someone figures out my password and I have to rename my cat

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

I simply cannot support a politician that has not issued a policy paper with seven Pledges and eight Commitments called something like 'Sensible Growth for a Prosperous Forward'.

Lula’s victory in Brasil and the Student List’s win in Serbia show that the slide into rightwing authoritarianism isn’t inevitable. Whether over two years or three weeks, progressive majorities have been roused to defeat the far right through the hard work of organising.

I have not seen any reporting about this from Australian media. It is hard to overstate the extent to which this is a weird (and obsessive and hateful) British media thing.

Eurypterid sketches

Claude, why do I like my kid?

NEW: A former Conservative candidate who was suspended over allegations he discussed hiring contract killers in an undercover sting reportedly worked in Kemi Badenoch’s office 👇

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

Still Loving Andy ? #areyouyesyet #indy #indyref #independence #snp #endlindonrule

But where does the gas go?

Look at the comparisons in the graphics here, between Scotland and England, and the rest of Europe, and remember that Westminster has most of energy policy reserved - so it’s their responsibility. And they’re not prepared to let us manage it ourselves.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Guardian reports Police Scotland will get round to watching the documentary at some point ... No rush lads.

A rich bloke apparently just begging to be treated unfairly…

When they turn out to be just like you suspected... "I will not put up with that same kind of abusive, misogynistic behaviour that I have been subjected to from the leadership clique here in Scotland" www.thenational.scot/news/2666844...

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The same issue that lots of political ideals run into. Zionism needn’t inherently be racist; Zionism *as it is currently practiced* is. The Greens should have been more careful about that distinction.

Chancellor regrets that he wasn't quick enough to steal Scotland's resources.(paraphrasing...) youtube.com/shorts/A876X...

The public were robbed by Thatcher and distracted when they told you by buying your council house could make you money 40+yrs later we can all see that was a lie We're no better off and our infrastructure and services are in tatters Neoliberalism is the problem PS - Don't forget to tell Sid! 😉

"We need to return to a time when Americans were decent *to each other*" does seem to deliberately sidestep a fair bit of historic foreign policy

Rowling *never* writes about women’s rights, workplace discrimination or the threats to women from predatory men. I tracked her posts for five months: Well over 200 hateful transphobic smears. Not a single post about women’s actual concerns or needs None

Me in The Independent just now. Link to article —> www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I used to think that people who advocated this kind of thing were just honestly mistaken. The older I get, and the more I see of them, the more I think they just have no redeeming qualities.

semi-regular reminder that the bots on X aren't just there for politics, but are intended to normalize hate and cruelty in all areas of life

The BBC trying very hard to be fair to both sides, but at the cost of taking overt racism at face value here by not reporting what the group was chanting, or what its banners said, but instead reporting content from its own website in what is supposed to be a news report about the protest

BBC report sanitises the overt racism: It notes that organisers warned marchers not to talk to journalists, then gives the "anti-immigration group"'s own sanitised description of itself. It does not report they chanted "England for the white man" in the streets. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

people like to cite the poem about the nazis eventually coming for you after other marginalized groups are left. and while thats true, it shouldnt even take you being affected to take action. you should just do it because its the right thing to do. you shouldnt need another reason.

i think the real thing that makes someone a leftist is when you start to actually give a shit about movements and issues that don't affect you. anyone can stand up for things that affect them. but it takes actual principles to stand up for groups you're not a part of. most people dont do this.

Saw an old sketch of mine floatjnng around on tumblr that I did of the largest pterosaur with the smallest Queztocoatlus and Nemicolopterus #paleoart

Which would be great, but doesn't change that he currently presides over a government pushing the most racist and hostile anti-immigration policies in decades. This will play well with some, but does not change that this government is fundamentally anti-immigration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was genuinely gobsmacked by the framing of the article. The headline is "man says he gets stick for supporting trans people", two-thirds of the piece is "but what about the poor terves?"

This is what the English establishment fears will happen to Scotland.

Can’t help but think that a ‘distinctly British approach to AI’ would be both half-arsed and convinced of its inherent superiority. And that’s just AI