Reposted by Alison RodgerTube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 4hPRINT OF THE DAY I do sometimes photograph things other than the London Underground! Today we’re heading up to Scotland & the brilliantly yellow West Street Station on the Glasgow Subway. I love the futuristic look of these trains in this composite photo. If you like this print see link attached 514915
Reposted by Alison RodgerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h“A.I. has to work for the warfighter, and enterprises.”🤔 Yikes— frantic, all over the place Palantir CEO Alex Karp lashes out at reporters over their “stupid” Q’s about A.I. + makes it clear war & enriching themselves are their prioroties (Our Q: “will you pee in this cup?”😬) 124472195
Reposted by Alison RodgerThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 5hBroadcaster and campaigner Esther Rantzen has died at the age of 86, her family said in a statement, as they paid tribute to the 'most wonderful mother' and 'cherished grandmother' thenational.scotCampaigner Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86 0136
Reposted by Alison Rodgerautumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ 1143443679
Reposted by Alison RodgerThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 8hEXCLUSIVE: An Edinburgh artist has warned that more than 100 creatives have been left 'with nowhere to go' after tenants at one of the capital's largest arts hubs were given just four months' notice to vacate the building 175
Reposted by Alison RodgerAndy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 11hYoutube trying to subtitle an episode of Speaking our Language (a Gaelic language learning show from the 1990s for listeners outwith Scotland) has inevitably spectacularly wrong but also amusing results. 44414
Reposted by Alison RodgerSupertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 11hComing over here… enduring the same sexual violence from British men that “native” women do… www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.com 26214
Reposted by Alison RodgerAndy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 10hAn (inter)nationally important archive and library being moved to an industrial estate in Bonnyrigg so the existing site in central Edinburgh can be turned over to student housing is so very on trend. 82817
Reposted by Alison RodgerAndy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 13hFor those asking, the seats were based on the 1969 "Carousel" by American industrial designer Elsie Crawford and used the very a la mode new material of fibreglass. They pop up online for sale occasionally but we're talking multiple thousands of pounds 43811
Reposted by Alison RodgerReform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13hMark Butcher is Reform UK's candidate in Claremont, Blackpool, standing tomorrow. He's seen here with a group intimidating a council worker taking flags down. A worker, just doing his job. That's him climbing the ladder. Just think how a he would treat council staff if he was a councillor. 50409208
Reposted by Alison RodgerChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21hThis is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.” 806187965932
Reposted by Alison RodgerAndrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 29/09/2026Walker's Shortbread HQ is in Aberlour-on-Spey 🏴 Scotland. I think they got this one a little wrong. www.trbusiness.com/product-news...trbusiness.comWalker’s Shortbread rolls out Union Jack branded products exclusively with AvoltaWalker’s Shortbread has expanded its global travel retail offering with three Union Jack-branded products, available exclusively in Avolta’s World Duty Free stores. 334924
Reposted by Alison RodgerCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15hHere’s the moment @labourlewis.bsky.social read out the letter at a fringe event at Labour conference hosted by @the-citizens.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/the-... 9311115
Reposted by Alison RodgerCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16hNEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...thenerve.newsThey’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising PalantirIn a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla... 36643430
Reposted by Alison RodgerLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 29/09/2026Morocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansourilemonde.frMorocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El MansouriNearly a week after her party, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), won the parliamentary elections, the mayor of Marrakech was named Morocco's prime minister on September 29. 502328598
Reposted by Alison RodgerKirsty Hughes @kirstyshughes.bsky.social · 15hScottish Labour's new leader doesn't think now is the time to rejoin EU just as Burnham opens the door a bit to that possibility. You have to wonder which voters Marra thinks he's appealing to when polls show 75% support rejoin in Scotland. www.politico.eu/article/scot...politico.euScottish Labour leader says UK rejoining EU ‘not a realistic prospect’Michael Marra said that current political conditions in Europe mean the bloc is not in a position to consider a British return. 295
Reposted by Alison RodgerPete Morgan @mobymooby.bsky.social · 14hWriter’s Room: so, we thought in this episode the crime family that’s taken over the country and is milking it for all it’s worth decides to leave the European Group of States against Corruption Head of Writers Room (pulling a face): That’s a bit obvious isn’t it? 0199
Reposted by Alison RodgerRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🐳📖🌊 Ep 9 is up! Chapters 54-58: “The Town-Ho’s Story” to “Brit.” Endless gratitude to everyone reading & listening along. exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick @hesterblum.bsky.social 4648
Reposted by Alison RodgerDr. Uncle Beard 🦊 🌈 @unclebeard1978.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is an interesting site. Lost villages catalogued and seen from the air. The idea of lost villages fascinates me, that a community who all know each other should just disperse and abandon their village… experience.arcgis.com/experience/2...experience.arcgis.comExperience 1112
Reposted by Alison RodgerAlan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This eldritch-ass tree. My gardener wife tells me it's a condition called fasciation caused by any number of various cellular trauma. I think it's elder gods breathing on the thing when it was a sapling. 7405
Reposted by Alison RodgerJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 24039881036
Reposted by Alison RodgerNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s fascinating that English progressives seem so keen to celebrate Burnham as a leftwing hope whereas in Scotland the view is ‘nope, it’s just words - prove it or beat it’. Independence provides a completely different prism. I feel genuine sympathy that English progressives seem to feel so trapped 98725
Reposted by Alison RodgerChris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 29/09/2026As a non-fan, this is a fantastic bit of explanation. Hoo-boy. This is one spicy meatball right here. 02515
Reposted by Alison RodgerGail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk 39583
Reposted by Alison RodgerMicah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “They were men who felt that The Time Had Come. Regimes can survive barbarian hordes, crazed terrorists and hooded secret societies, but they're in real trouble when prosperous and anonymous men sit around a big table and think thoughts like that.” 350096
Reposted by Alison Rodgerderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape. 997235686
Reposted by Alison RodgerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020 19466511831
Reposted by Alison Rodgersouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026okay guys, we need to brainstorm a way to look on top of closets and bunk beds. 2829651
Reposted by Alison RodgerThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Plans have been submitted for an immense data centre campus in Dumfries and Galloway which, if built, would be the largest in the worldthenational.scotPlans submitted for 'largest data centre campus in the world' 335
Reposted by Alison RodgerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 339122884545
Reposted by Alison RodgerAndy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 29/09/2026If you do one thing today, check out this glorious hall carpet! 15235
Reposted by Alison RodgerMicah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026I think the entire right wing media ecosystem was primed to make this a huge deal, they all had their talking points ready to go and this was going to be THE big gotcha that brought down Jack Smith and they are just scrambling because it turns out the whole thing was an embarrassing mistake 2268691
Reposted by Alison RodgerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The funniest part is @ericschmittmo not wanting to leave the Jack Smith “Hawks” game texts up long enough for anyone to read them because he knows he’s full of shit 🤡 😂 @aaron.rupar @ronaldfilipkowski 38634152
Reposted by Alison RodgerMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture] 201273129
Reposted by Alison RodgerThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026BREAKING: Reform UK breached Scottish Parliament rules during Nigel Farage’s visit to Holyrood 👇 42412
Reposted by Alison RodgerColin Dunn 🏴 @indyposterboy.scot · 29/09/2026The leader of a UK government elected on 32% is telling a Scottish government elected on 36% that a 56% pro-Indy Scottish parliament can't hold a referendum that 68% of Scots want. UK democracy, ladies and gentlemen. 7169124
Reposted by Alison Rodgerascottsview.bsky.social @ascottsview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Guaranteed that the six billion quid announced for submarine cradles for Faslane will be added to Scotlands GERS figures but not one penny of the six billion build will be spent in Scotland. Clue is in Healey’s statement that they’ll be built in the UK by UK workers. By private firms. 22214
Reposted by Alison RodgerGail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026My 2026 Christmas Card Collection is here! Available now on my website. Matching wrapping paper coming soon… www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas 24218
Reposted by Alison RodgerMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One of the best behind the scenes Documentaries on Pop music you’ll ever see. This group of L.A. session musicians were literally the sound of the 60’s & 70’s. They were known in the industry as… THE WRECKING CREW (2015) 801268261
Reposted by Alison RodgerDonaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dump, Pump and Two Stolen Barrels 0152
Reposted by Alison RodgerAndy Wightman @andywightman.scot · 28/09/2026Castle Tioram is an ancient ruined castle in Loch Moidart one of the seats of Macdonald of Clanranald. It hit the headlines over 20 years ago when the person who claimed to own it (Lex Brown) proposed to renovate the property and convert it to residential use 1/4 1189
Reposted by Alison Rodger@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'Have you got a copy of Fly Tipping by RAF Fairford? You do? Oh that's wonderful. My name? Fairford. RAF Fairford.' 13690115
Reposted by Alison RodgerPascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California | California | The Guardian share.google/IVE2SftiW4vn...share.googleConcern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for CaliforniaThe ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast 063
Reposted by Alison RodgerDr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ten years ago today, the first episode of Britain's Lost Masterpieces* was on BBC4. Here's a thread of all the pictures we featured, with the new attributions and before & after photos. (*internationally, Amazon Prime etc, as 'The Art Detectives') 1515427
