Scott Macdonald (he/him) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇨🇺

Introduction: By day, I'm a grumpy webdev nerd for a digital agency. I like to support good things. Tenants rights. Trade unions. Queer friends and comrades. Socialism. Climate politics. Dogs. Free and open software. Fuck the Tories, no matter the colour of their rosette.

Incredible scenes from Brazil after Brazilians saved their democracy.

Lothian region MSP, Kate Nevens, prevented from entering Palestine by illegal occupation forces. www.thenational.scot/news/2667202...

Hi @groq.com - your pricing page groq.com/pricing/ redirects to the homepage.

That's quite a lot. :) Still, they're paying £135,000. Which is kind of comedy money.

Just rejected a recruiter's pitch. Working for a property management system for landlords. "No thank you. Landlords are a cancer, and I would be quite unsuited to working for any." Some things just aren't worth selling your soul for.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

This article completely exposes the cruel and shortsighted cuts that are being made to creative courses at Edinburgh University and elsewhere. UCU are fighting for every working class student to have the right to create and inspire. Make a stand. news.stv.tv/east-central...

New analysis by thinktank E3G suggests that the £15bn warm homes plan - currently under threat - would slash £1bn a year from UK household energy bills, concentrated on those on low incomes, provide a £1.6bn yearly boost to the economy, and create 50,000 new jobs, vs Rosebank's projected 1,100 jobs.

Living Rent are running a campaign on student housing in Edinburgh pop along to their website and have your say. @edinburghgreens.bsky.social www.livingrent.org/goawaypbsa

Hmm. Someone's vibecoding the Adobe suite. Which is kind of cool. getartcraft.com/apps

There once was a transphobe called Dowling Who on seeing equal rights started howling. Her case was well funded With several hundred Thousand quid from an anonymous donor who we cannot name for fear of legal action.

Mid-market tenancies cannot be made exempt from rent controls. End of. www.thenational.scot/news/2657320...

The world’s best and smartest people spent a dodecajillion dollars on magic beans that don’t grow beanstalks and now they are going to destroy the world economy, again, and you - who did nothing wrong, again - are going to pay for it, again.

Even the SNP leader of Glasgow City Council says Flynn's decision is a disgrace. He's out of touch with his own councillors and detached from #climate reality. * Stephen Flynn’s congestion charge ban is a disgrace, says Glasgow SNP leader

🌤️  Good morning Edinburgh. It’s the 1,000th edition! The headlines: Uni staff plan 5-week walkout, culture groups win 25% funding boost, Leith Walk has more bikes than cars + 135 artists open their homes ⏰ Read more in Edinburgh’s ad-free local newsletter: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...

Been giving CrossFit a go. My pal does half price lessons for the unemployed. These people are beasts. 🫠

That's not it. He was on the Apple Silicon team and kept that information from the Asahi team... that's a big legal no no, WINE has similarly strict policies iirc, anything that isn't strictly clean room destroys their legal standing. (Separately, Asahi folks dislike AI. Their choice.)

The TUC, congress of all the UK's trade unions, have voted to condemn the EHRC guidance and backed self-ID. Good luck finding reporting on it, you'll struggle to find it, even as the papers report on plenty of other things the TUC has voted on, and speeches. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/tuc-...

I voted no in the independence referendum myself, on the grounds that Westminster could be improved in everyone’s interest, and that trying to leave was a silly distraction. And then the next 12 years was Westminster proving beyond doubt that anyone who believed this is a dupe and a fucking idiot.

We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

My legitimate concern is that this world leading success story of multicultural integration is being usurped by racist hoodlums and thugs who want to tear it all down, and many in power think that's just dandy.

I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.

Bus fares across Strathclyde are now capped at £2! Greens secured a £2 cap starting in Highlands and Islands to put money back into people's pockets. We now need to see the fare cap extended to every corner of Scotland, so bus travel becomes an affordable option for all.

We need to come to terms with the fact the government isn't on our side. Look elsewhere for strength.

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

🗳️ Today is polling day in Portobello/Craigmillar! 🗳️ Polling stations are open until 10pm tonight. We need @snp.org voices on our city council to hold the Labour-led administration to account and stand up for local people. @silasmcg.bsky.social is a local champion who will do just that.

Seriously cis women, I can hook you up with DIY t gel providers. You don't need to take this crap imposed on you by the UK Government and the Gender Critical. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The internet was absolutely a mistake but this is one of like five admissible pieces of evidence that it’s good actually

If rumours of facilitating local government mergers in Scotland are true, every time someone in the SNP wangs on about how "Independence is Normal" from now on I am going to grab them by the lapels and shake them whilst screaming AYE AND SO IS MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT BUT YOU FUCKIN ABOLISHED THAT

🚌 Where is the £2 bus fare cap? John Swinney promised to deliver a full rollout of the £2 bus fare cap in his first 100 days as First Minister - that deadline has now passed. Greens are pushing the Scottish Government to make bus travel cheaper for all.

I don't know much about Parton's music career, but what a wonderful human being.

Having a play with a 3D printer. Cheapy Temu trash. But it's kind of cool, all the same.

If we don't stop, they may target us with cyberattacks and seek to subvert our democracy!!!

There is something truly surreal about back to back items on the news today where residents return to homes in Stourbridge destroyed by the heatwave wildfires, then some empty suit comes on to explain why we absolutely must open another oil field in the North Sea.

Over 3000 people died this summer due to excess heat.

Apple making AirPods socially unacceptable is a bold gambit

Ocarina of Time is mostly about the differences between childhood and manhood, which mainly that boils down to having three pairs of shoes that you have to cycle through regularly instead of one.

Do you know how many books you can buy for £250k? How much holiday childcare you could fund? This by-election should be seen as a scandal

I tried on my friend's glasses, and it just made my eyesight *worse*.