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The most interesting thing about this 3 day supply thing is how many Soft Tories are being brought to light. People are more than happy to share their individual situation so they can browbeat others with no appreciation of individual circumstances. You can 100% spot the swing voters out there.

Seeing a lot of "be prepard stuff" just now. Consider it fair warning that if Westminster drags Scotland into war, I am exactly 8 dark chocolate Tim Tams from changing my name to Warcrime starting a cannibal apocalypse. Ok 7.

The world’s scientists breathed a sigh of relief this week as temperatures in the UK dropped below 35 degrees, meaning that everything is fine and we can go back to burning fossil fuels forever without any worries. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1682, August 2026.

Interesting fact about the Strait of Hormuz. With a width of 21miles, The Omani coast would be targetable by WW1 artillery. So in theory, with weapons technology a century old Iran could maintain its blockade without even needing a boat.

There can be no excuses for speaking at a fascist rally which brought racism, intimidation and even nazi salutes to our streets. We can not allow fascists any place in Scotland and they must be rejected by all parties.

The DWP are asking for people to contribute evidence for a forthcoming review of Carers Allowance and how it operates. Admittedly this is niche, but please spread the word so it reaches the right people. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Re: fair phone. All up a bit naff. Not only do they charge inflated prices but they overpack their product in cardboard and use AI for customer service. Good for the environment eh?

I'm 1000% certain this was a 2000ad story.

@thedicemechanic.bsky.social the origin of 2d20 is not that clearcut. The saga of Infinity is a 2 pint minimum...and that's just for the core book.

Awesome seeing Aeotearoa getting some love from dtrpg. If you're seeing this, put your hand in your wallet and support it! Why are you still here? Run!

Ok so Andy B is big on devolution AND Scotland is a net producer of energy WHILE England has significant demand issues AND Scotland wants to be Nuclear free. So does that mean the new reactor being talked about will be moved closer to where the demand is?

Andy Burnham provided 'error-filled' pitch for Wales, news site says - BBC News share.google/niiDHWfSSUUu... For someone so keen on devolution it'd have been good if he read up on it first. That's 2/3 countries he's gotten wrong. Cant wait to hear his plans for N.Ireland.

@philmoorhouse.bsky.social You've made some excellent vids about Labour Comms. Have you looked at their SocMedia stuff for Scotland? Its woeful.

Already passed funding too!

@coyoteandcrow.bsky.social Have you considered printing in the UK. We're baseline 10% tariff and GMS can provide a landing point so that the shipment is split for EU/us fufilments

It occurs to me that Maga is the ultimate success of Osama Bin Laden. He successfully stripped the vaneer off of the USA with the sept11 attack and with it created the preconditions for Trumpism. Sure Putin's involved but OBL scared the US into this state.

"Liberty dies in darkness" except it doesn't Liberty bleeds to death in front of centrists clutching their pearls about democratic mandates and institutions.

I wonder how many current and future intelligence community handshake deals Musk has just screwed up by killing USAID?

www.bbc.com/news/article... So that's the redundancy letters sent out for Scotland's only refinery. Anyone thinking about voting Labour in the next election should think about this. 90% of the UK pop is in England, so there is no electoral math, where the wants of England don't trump our needs.

“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion” From the new Private Eye, out now.

Reading a lot of Redhat comments about how the USA would win a war with anyone it chooses to fight. This is true, but like the quote goes irrelevant. Nobody ever wins against a bigger foe by fighting fair & the antivaxxers are a gaping hole waiting to be exploited.

My suspicion is that Mexico turned around and said "well if you crash our economy we won't be able to patrol the border or fight the Cartels. I mean it's not like they target politicians and their property. Your call."

And regardless, because businesses have already taken change actions and nobody trusts Trump to stick to a deal, prices will go up anyway.

Yeah, go get im champ. FFS.

Dear Reuters feel free to substitute any and all DT headlines with "Blithering continues: No end in sight."

"But I'm a libertarian!"

...and if you really must you can always add elves. Give this a look. Tanya does amazing work and is certainly pushing the boat out on the themes an RPG can cover. And now...as I have 5 mins im off to get my +5 cortado

Summing up Musk's AFD speech in 1 sentence. "Yes it was, no I'm not sorry."

It occurs to me that the USA needs to be sent a care package of Allo Allo. Has it dated? Oh hell yes, but laughing at Nazis is a good start and it's about due a remake.

I am now sufficiently old enough to remember when this would have been an unbelievable parody. Fully expecting a cannibalism/wicker man scandal in the next 6 months. Will be happy to be proved wrong.

www.cbr.com/february-1-g... Attn: James Cameron. It's only hard to write sci-fi if the technology is the focus. Focus on the people. Recognise Skynet is a unique intelligence and don't humanise it with sentiment.

Freya's home from school and rather than do a drawing she's decided to defy physics.

Good luck to all the Scots in the yellow, amber and redzones tomorrow. As for the rest of you...I hope your both well.

All hail

On a positive note, the idea of Nazism is still so bad that even Maga don't want their heroes to be called Nazis.

Good morning Bluesky. Today would have been Janey Godley's birthday. In tribute to her, let's make #TrumpIsACunt trend.

As a parent you always worry about your kids, particularly when they're non-verbal. But then your "wee" 9yr old bypasses the lock to her playgroup's garden rather than wait outside 5 mins and it becomes a different kind of worry. Worry seasoned with pride, but still worry.

Zuckerberg removes accuracy reqs and moderation at the same time as rolling out AI assistant. Supposition: meta-ai is inaccurate as all hell and Zuckerberg wants to hide it.