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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 9h

would thi prisoner in thi bar please stand fur thi aforesaid crime uv writn anuthir poem awarded the certificate of safety by thi scottish education department … —Tom Leonard from GHOSTIE MEN, in INTIMATE VOICES: Selected Work 1965–1983 (Etruscan Books, 2003) #poem #poetry #NationalPoetryDay

Tom Leonard
From GHOSTIE MEN

would thi prisoner
in thi bar
please stand

fur thi aforesaid crime
uv writn anuthir poem
awarded the certificate of safety
by thi scottish education department

fit tay be used in schools
huvn no bad language
sex subversion or antireligion

I hereby sentence you
tay six munths hard labour
doon thi poetry section
uv yir local library
coontn thi fuckin metaphors

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I read "we're going to set up a Players Non-Profit that can call a General Assembly at any time and owns 5% of the development company" and I come over all tired and exhausted all of a sudden, especially when the rest of it what it involves is stuff like "access to dev diaries and a discord channel"

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Long John Dipshit 💀🎃 @wokeoaf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You can’t just keep calling it the Burgerreich 😭 The US:

Donald Trump stood in front of American flags, a McDonald’s arch. Text reads THE GOLDEN AGE
LOCALLY OWNED * NATIONALLY LOVED
MCDONALD'S IMPACT SUMMIT 2025

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Having a great time with the Lords of the End Times update for Total War Warhammer. This stupid rodent megalomaniac is my favourite. Yeah Thanquol, that's right! Blow up the moon!

A rat wizard stands atop a monstrous rat ogre with cybernetic arms, firing green lighting everywhere. "BEHOLD GREY SEER THANQUOL!" he says

A gigantic rickety claw-cannon points at a sickly-looking green moon. "Gaze-gawk upon the warp-moon, you dismal rat-filth, for it leers at its demise!" says Thanquol, off-screen.

Thanquol, the rat wizard, stands in front of the machinery, ranting with green lightning arcing from his horns. "The very Council will grovel before MY genius! For I was the one to see their weapon-engine finished atop a corpse-mound of rivals and pawns!" he raves.

Another view of the huge cannon-engine pointing skywards. Thanquol, off-screen, says: "Come-come, fool-meat! Flock closer together - make an easier target the HAIL OF FIERY DOOM!"

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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I saw this screenshot going around, found this detail charming, looked more into the game (I've never played a Silent Hill) & decided to buy it. Btw these are the "unimportant" background assets AI idiots think AI should be used for

Screenshot of a Twitter post by Val / @shegoingtogloat - it's a Silent Hill screenshot showing a close up of a cork board. On it, a paper says "Welcome to Shorefront Family Clinic" in a classic wiggly 3D font style. The tweet text is: Is this a Silent Hill asset made using PowerPoint lol"

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 24/09/2026

It's really refreshing seeing shitey normal working class life depicted like this in a game, and a Silent Hill game no less. Pebble-dashed council flats, three-bar fires, Post Office counters, concrete shopping precincts. This must be how posh people felt playing Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

A Post Office (well, 'Post Service') counter.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 23/09/2026

object lesson in the dangers of lolcow posting this cannot possibly be the order of importance of these events

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 23/09/2026

Seeing a five quid powercard in a Silent Hill game is mangling my mind more than any of the faceless shambling horrors.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*horrific racist fascist blackshirt actions* UK gov official: first of all, they are correct in their beliefs, however they should trust us to enact the violence and racism, can’t they see how good we are at it Burnham on tiktok : hey kids check out this barm! What am i like eyy up

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

2 games that played in '96/97 - The Settlers 2, which tickled a part of my brain that loved making wee towns and chains of logistics, and Little Big Adventure 2, which showed me that games could be constantly inventive and creative and be a kind of playful shared joke between developer and player

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Edinburgh University adds another entry to the imaginative lexicon universities use to say, “We’re cutting” "We are refreshing our programme to consolidate our offering for future students and make their degree pathways easier to navigate" www.heraldscotland.com/news/2656140...

heraldscotland.com

University defends closure of 48 language and literature courses, including Celtic

Forty-eight programmes in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) are among the casualties.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ah, to look back on a bygone age... to get an insight into the ways of long-dead people... to learn that they were exactly the same as today

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Piddington getting a "we're listening and you have valid concerns" from Nandy is yet another reminder Labour are a far right party. Grannies and vicars holding anti-genocide signs? Terrorism. A village doing far right sedition? Support and indulgence.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is also a genocide btw

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s so awesome that every billionaire is insanely stupid

Mark Cuban: Hey @grok, which is more likely to create a human extinction event or series of events in the next 25 years, Al or Climate Change ?
Assign a probability to each
If the answer to either is yes, do your best to put a timeline for when you think it happens
If the answer is no. Explain why

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can't wait for this "Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish meeting to plan the break up of the union" to actually happen and turn out to be nothing of the sort. at least we're getting a lot of Posts out of it I suppose

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Japanese team have observed directly, for the first time, noctule bats hunting birds The images they provide astonishingly resemble that painted by Brueghel over 400 years ago... maybe he had actually seen the hunt!! Paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ebdonana.bsky.social

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 11/09/2026

It’s been 53 years since the US backed military coup of Allende’s government in Chile. A democratically elected socialist was attacked. the fascist Pinochet took power and then tortured, arrested and killed socialists and teachers and labor leaders around the country. youtu.be/IZVWOWA2Hpk?...

youtu.be

Allende's Last Words: The First 9/11

YouTube video by PlasticPills

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Extremely funny article, Lammy probably doesn't even realise how revealing statements like this are about the taken-for-granted born-to-rule attitude of the Labour Party towards their constituents www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026

Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

as bad as it is that people get permanently banned on here for mild criticism of the Bluesky devs' friends or whatever, I'm glad that we're firmly in the adversarial stage of user-moderator relations rather than the 2023 era undignified parade of people queuing up to be sycophants to Paul Frazee

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Guys I think we’re on a cult website

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do not doubt that there are people working on AI who sincerely believe it is dangerous. Those people are also, frankly speaking, illiterate.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you haven't played Roadwarden yet, buddy, this is *the* time of year to play it. Technically mid August is best but September will still do you. What a good game. store.steampowered.com/app/1155970/...

store.steampowered.com

Roadwarden on Steam

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 08/09/2026

"That gets you cancelled" looks to me like it gets you elected actually

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

‼️Statement RE my suspension from the Greens. I was suspended for the 'crime' of being a trans woman who ran for a women's place. The "media interest" in my gender was cited as the sole reason for my suspension.

I can confirm that I have indeed been suspended from the Green Party. The only reason given for my immediate suspension is that I allegedly ‘brought the party into disrepute’ by choosing to run for a reserved female space on Green Party Council as a trans woman. In the Greens, suspensions are not a guilty verdict. I was not found guilty of breaking any rules whatsoever. The only actual disciplinary allegations against me are that I allegedly was rude to people on the internet, and that I ‘gossiped’. I was not suspended for any of this.

The only reason given for my IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION was: "EF’s recent election to GPC and the accompanying media interest”. I was suspended just 8 days after being elected, in a secret group chat discussion which included just 13 of the 36 members of GPC. My critics submitted 100 pages of transphobic articles as ‘evidence’, while I was banned from submitting anything in my defence and was not allowed to see the charges. There was no investigation.

Because I have not been found guilty of any disciplinary offences whatsoever, the only ‘appeal’ process for suspension involves asking Green Party Council to reverse their decision. This is something I have to do, so please do not email or harass any Council members. That is not going to help anybody, and I strongly discourage anyone from contacting GPC members individually. I do not want you to do that.

Suspension decisions can be reversed if GPC considers that there are ‘mitigating’ circumstances. This can include representations from other party members, submitted as part of the official process.

I have therefore set up an online form where fellow Green members can submit statements expressing support for me and defending me. Please put your name and local party so it is accepted by GPC.

It is my hope that with enough attention and support, GPC will hold a full meeting with a large turnout of all GPC members (rather than a small minority) that will overturn my suspension swiftly.

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Cllr Anthony Carroll @anthonycarroll.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Beyond disgusting that planned social housing was set alight in Possilpark all because of a hateful lie - sparked by lying, hateful bigots online who couldn't point to Possil on a map. www.thenational.scot/news/2652667...

thenational.scot

Far right cheer 'wilful' Glasgow tenement fire amid false 'migrant housing' claims

FAR-RIGHT groups have been celebrating a fire at a Glasgow tenement amid false claims that it was being renovated to house migrants ...

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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 04/09/2026

my computer when i accidentally click "edit in notepad" on a video file

static.klipy.com

Spirit Bomb hits Vegeta

ALT: Spirit Bomb hits Vegeta

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

To confirm - they don't have evidence that even 1 person was referred inappropriately - they don't have evidence that even 1 person underwent surgery inappropriately - they don't have any evidence of safety concerns - healthcare for trans people has been completely banned until further notice

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Been playing the Ace Attorney trilogy with my partner and I'm fascinated by the English localisation of these games. Beyond the very clumsy relocation of everything from Japan to America, it's also full of really dated references (just got a full Harlem Shake mention when playing last night)

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm really not used to seeing even vaguely positive news first thing in the morning

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The New Statesman interview where Simon Sebag Montefiore denies there's genocide in Gaza that was endorsed by Lord Walney is back up.

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

getting so many youtube ads for the Mormons at the moment. averaging one every five ads

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

combining this with a Discourse Event from the last week, an addendum here is I think it's pretty bad for someone who sees himself as a progressive (however erroneously) to be a chummy guest on a history podcast hosted by two extremely reactionary racists

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Crushed @silenttakedown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

yeah sure whatever, let lara croft cook potato stew on her phone for 2m0s of damage resistance who gives a shit anymore

a screenshot from the upcoming remake of Tomb Raider 1. lara croft is looking at her phone in the middle of an ancient ruin, and it's showing her a generic crafting menu, and a png of saucepan of stew that apparently her phone lets her cook for "Damage resistance" if she has 6 potatoes

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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 02/09/2026

Wrote about the Israeli leftist plan for a socialist kibbutz in the West Bank to promote "coexistence" with Palestinians, how the kibbutz has always been a tool for expelling Arabs, and about the proposals to build kibbutzim inside Gaza itself. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/your-west-...

seamus-malekafzali.com

Your West Bank Settlement Is Not Leftist

The Israeli kibbutz is an instrument of Palestinian dispossession, not coexistence.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

2020 btw www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/a...

Extract from the Guardian: "Lipman’s hardline stance on Israel, she suggests, means that she won’t work with certain actors who support the Palestinian cause. “I won’t be going on tour with The Killing of Sister George with Maxine Peake and Miriam Margolyes, put it that way.”

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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I heard a democrat quoted on democracy now as challenging trumps effective annexation of Venezuela and its resources On what grounds? Endangering the USian troops

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

my partner's family live near Barcelona and the summer has been so hot for so long that if you turn on the 'cold' tap the water comes out hot. not just lukewarm even, hot, because the pipes in the ground have retained so much heat this is not how it was even a couple years ago

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

curious that the New Statesman has deleted all sign of this interview with ghoulish zionist Simon Sebag Montefiore in the two hours since they published it

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Americans will say things like "We must starve Cuba to death with our embargo. Do not let China rescue them with food and energy" and still think people around the world hate them for their freedoms.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Alternative headline: “Sainsbury’s to get free labour after David Sainsbury gave Andy Burnham £165,000 for his leadership campaign”

UK politics: Burnham announces plan for 10,000 work experience placements for young people - as it happened
Prime minister spoke to press while on visit to a Sainsbury's supermarket in London this morning
Taz Ali (now) and Martin Belam (earlier)

picture: Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham in sainsbury’s uniforms in a supermarket handling goods

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Obviously he knows better, but he's writing for people who haven't been to Glasgow for decades, and he knows they don't know

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Dan @flashinthedan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do, unbribed, there's no occasion to.

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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

britain and japan remain two of the countries most caught out by these because their entire foreign policy is that the americans are always right. so british response to trump 2 is a confused muddle of bleating noises, japanese is to manufacture a chud of their own to stay onside

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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

american hegemony currently preserved not through the efforts of the americans themselves but by everyone else hoping it all goes back to normal. trump 2 so far defined by gradual erosion of this: fewer countries responding with "i know this is not in your heart" to yank antics

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Been following this story about a rich American woman being a vexatious litigant and trying to bring a community organisation in Bernera to bankruptcy and what a piece of work she is. I was at the Bernera Community Centre the other week and it's a fantastic place, doesn't deserve this at all

stornowaygazette.co.uk

Bernera groups face financial ruin from legal costs

A second Bernera community organisation is facing financial ruin due to the activities of Claire Kellerman, an American woman who has been involved in multiple altercations with businesses on Lewis, ...

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Finding, on a Friday night, that a rat got into our cupboards and has destroyed a good portion of our dry goods (rice, pasta, noodles etc) and then hearing it scrabbling about heavily when we can't really do anything about it right now. Not a recommended experience

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