Reposted by Iain NicolPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 19hThis is a photograph of the edge of one of Saturn's rings, looking down from above. Those spiky dark shapes are shadows. Shadows of giant towers of ice and dust grains clumped together that rise up to three *kilometres* above the 10-m thick rings. 16444124
Reposted by Iain NicolJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026🚨 We need to hear from YOU Have you had a problem accessing gendered services since April last year, outside of school and the workplace? Are you a service provider worried about remaining inclusive? PLEASE let us know through this form - and share widely goodlaw.social/mzb3goodlaw.socialMy branded typeformTurn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE. 0145109
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 29/09/2026We should significantly increase the state pension, and then (and only then) peg future changes to inflation. 120
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 28/09/2026actually good news! (unlike what The Professor normally delivers)static.klipy.comProfessor Farnsworth: Good News, Everyone!Alt: Professor Farnsworth from Futurama entering the room and exclaiming: Good news, everyone! 020
Reposted by Iain NicolMaggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The PSNI's assessment was also that it did not expect the parade itself to result in major public disorder. So why was such a huge deployment of Scottish officers considered necessary? 5/8 194
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 27/09/2026Thank god the Robert Del Naja incident, of holding up a sign, was yesterday. Can you imagine how thinly stretched the counterterrorism police would otherwise have been? 020
Reposted by Iain NicolDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There is a genuine incomprehension amongst many journalists and politicians that anyone might care sincerely about Palestinians or seriously object to their indiscriminate slaughter. The natural human response to this genocide is something they simply cannot understand. 24563183
Reposted by Iain NicolAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks 19809273
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 26/09/2026At least he didn't record himself on video apparently attempting to sink a boat with people on it, in an attempt to cause political change. 416054
Reposted by Iain NicolAl Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026popsci.comAsteroid named after ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic‘I just hope this isn’t the asteroid that winds up destroying the Earth.’ 1584408662
Reposted by Iain NicolAlbert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A'm urnae seein ony signs o @drmdempster.bsky.social on ony socials this wather, sae A'm urnae shair gin wur gettin yer tradeetional #Scotstober in 2026 ☹️ YON DAESNAE MEAN WE CANNAE DAE IT WURSELS BUT! Daesnae say muckle for us gin we'r dependent on yin chiel. (Awtho gin ye'r oot thare Doc... 242
Reposted by Iain Nicolsophieso @123snowpea.myatproto.social · 25/09/20262 years on top of the usual 8 or are they included? 0272
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 24/09/2026Anti discrimination campaigner Andy Burnham is going to lose it when he learns about other ongoing discrimination in this country. In fact, his own government... 140
Reposted by Iain Nicolsexy pride month lukedovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Some jobs are Real and Manly (fishing, oil, banking) . All other jobs are Woke and Gay (education, hospitality) 412512
Reposted by Iain NicolAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026Weirdest tech of my life man. One week it's going to kill us all and the next it's like oh yeah it's actually productivity-negative. 2113
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 22/09/2026lib dems like to simultaneously race bait whilst passing explicitly pro trans policy. I don't know to what to make of them and I don't think they know either. 030
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 21/09/2026they say fashion is cyclical but perhaps nothing is as cyclical as the rise and fall of Strathclyde 030
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 21/09/2026I would refuse to team up with David Blunkett and George Foulkes, but I am not Neil Kinnock. 110
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 21/09/2026issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the news org BBC. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them" 110
Reposted by Iain NicolStewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ed, ed! It's Jethro! Your cousin, Jethro Sheeran! 031
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 19/09/2026Tesco Finest salted crisps are labelled suitable for vegans But the salt and pepper ones are only labelled suitable for vegetarians. What is the unlabeled “flavouring”. 210
Reposted by Iain NicolThem Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You know what this means, friends? There are more trans people in Scotland than Scottish Labour members. 34513
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 19/09/2026I dislike that Greens for Palestine are advocating a niche position—a one state solution—but titling the proposal with something mainstream and hard to disagree with. AIUI a two state solution with a return to pre-1967 borders is a common, albeit not universal, position. 340
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 19/09/2026incredible commitment from scottish labour to the bit (being terrible) 040
Reposted by Iain NicolJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Find the use of South Africa as an example here exceptionally distasteful. Who are you to say Mandela sold us out? Do you know the first thing about the struggle? Show some respect. 3599
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 19/09/2026lol, we know our cat hunts mice, not birds, because he brings the mice inside and yowls because he's very proud of himself. (I wish he would eat them instead of leaving us dead mice as an offering.) 120
Reposted by Iain NicolKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2026You'll never guess what this is in reply to. 361159127
Reposted by Iain NicolRoss Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hundreds of people have been arrested and accused of terrorism offences for holding signs saying they support Palestine Action. But apparently this organised campaign to literally terrorise lifeboat crews and endanger lives isn't terrorism? 312652
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 18/09/2026if the doctor who tender criteria was 100% knowing the universe, i know two people extremely qualified to take on production 140
Reposted by Iain NicolAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/09/2026Happy #NationalFoxDay to all who celebrate! 🦊 #fox #poem #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen 18652
Reposted by Iain NicolTristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 17/09/2026This is devastating news. Just look at the list of Scottish literature courses facing the axe www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655944...heraldscotland.comFull list of the 90 programmes earmarked for closure at leading Scottish universityManagers say the cuts are necessary “to protect our world-leading reputation and resilience in research and teaching” but staff members have hit… 0109
Reposted by Iain NicolDC @tanngrisnir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Diagnoses — any diagnoses — should be determined solely by the clinical facts of the case, not some political agenda. 093
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 17/09/2026hate it when I use [shitty app] and it logs you out. if I wanted to be logged out, I'd just use their website 010
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 17/09/2026england doing a crap job is not reason to deprive healthcare from trans people in wales, wtf 051
Reposted by Iain NicolScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 16/09/2026Scotland must stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. 312245
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 17/09/2026The computer is not sentient. LLM proponents want to use 150% of all electricity, but these are human decisions. 210
Reposted by Iain NicolM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Bonnie Greer famously sat with her back to the BNP’s Nick Griffin when he appeared on Question Time in 2009. There was much criticism of the BBC platforming the far right, Now every episode of Question Time is wall to wall far right talking points with open arms and a seat kept warmfor Reform 11581166
Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 16/09/2026why is Lisa Nandy not looking to how the police in Spain handled the situation in Catalonia, for how to deal with Piddington? 031
Reposted by Iain NicolScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 16/09/2026Today we're bringing a vote to deliver a moratorium on hyperscale data centres in Scotland. The Scottish Parliament will have a simple choice. MSPs can stand with the communities they represent, protect our environment and our resources. Or they can fail to act. 513747
Reposted by Iain NicolPunished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The prison break reboot has the protagonist trying to escape a children's day care centre 1243
![[Slightly altered quote from Marge Simpson from the episode A Tale of Two Springfields]
Jeez, you just have to remember five extra numbers. [In the original it was three extra numbers]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xocacrgumnuaexci73dxdtrk/bafkreic4qslylr5y4lh35yluixmzge7excxyyoggkh45ep3vbvx5iswzs4)
![[The mascot Phony McRing-Ring from The Simpsons episode a Tale of Two Springfields. He is surrounded by a pile of numbers.]
Scientists have discovered that even monkeys can memorize ten numbers.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xocacrgumnuaexci73dxdtrk/bafkreifeomog2faaoix4qikxdl2mpkrnlng6upyjyi4neixgehkorsnwca)
![[The same as the quoted image, but “unknown” has been scrawled over the author name (was: Perthshire Magnets).]
Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xocacrgumnuaexci73dxdtrk/bafkreicaxdf4ourocmxyon6x4yxofbrnz5lwjftdi6znt4iuy7ltzugrqm)
