Chris Scott (he/him)
@chrisdonia.bsky.social
I'm mostly around Edinburgh, often lurking in corners with a camera at cultural events.
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Bob, it's called a pantomime, happens every year for at least 2 centuries
"Richmond Theatre has been criticised for running a 'perverted' Christmas drag show for children."
"Richmond Theatre has been criticised for running a 'perverted' Christmas drag show for children."
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Bob, it's called a pantomime, happens every year for at least 2 centuries
"Richmond Theatre has been criticised for running a 'perverted' Christmas drag show for children."
"Richmond Theatre has been criticised for running a 'perverted' Christmas drag show for children."
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Just a quiet, sad little PSA.
If someone is estranged from their parents, please please don’t give them the ‘but they’re your mum/ dad’
They were their mum / dad when they did the worst imaginable things to their own kids.
It’s not up to the children to make it ok. It’s up to them to live well.
If someone is estranged from their parents, please please don’t give them the ‘but they’re your mum/ dad’
They were their mum / dad when they did the worst imaginable things to their own kids.
It’s not up to the children to make it ok. It’s up to them to live well.
November 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Just a quiet, sad little PSA.
If someone is estranged from their parents, please please don’t give them the ‘but they’re your mum/ dad’
They were their mum / dad when they did the worst imaginable things to their own kids.
It’s not up to the children to make it ok. It’s up to them to live well.
If someone is estranged from their parents, please please don’t give them the ‘but they’re your mum/ dad’
They were their mum / dad when they did the worst imaginable things to their own kids.
It’s not up to the children to make it ok. It’s up to them to live well.
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
You'd think they might have learned from our swear-based force-uninstall behaviours when Siri or Cortana did this shit but no.
I've died in Witcher 3 about 5 times now, because a specific key combo keeps triggering a copilot popup and then I die offscreen
I tried to login to Microsoft online to check something in my settings and it just plopped me into a copilot webpage. It took me like 30 seconds to figure out how to get out of it. Pathetic and useless.
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
You'd think they might have learned from our swear-based force-uninstall behaviours when Siri or Cortana did this shit but no.
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Among the many many other pluses of diversity (moral, cultural, economic), one is that it’s *interesting*. Not the same old shit over and over and over again. A lack of diversity is BORING. And that’s why boring people are against it.
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Among the many many other pluses of diversity (moral, cultural, economic), one is that it’s *interesting*. Not the same old shit over and over and over again. A lack of diversity is BORING. And that’s why boring people are against it.
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The fact that Your Party felt that they should vote on if they support trans people having rights, and no other group, isn’t “democracy” it’s transphobia.
Are you complaining about the fact that transphobes exisf?
The way a democratic organization exists is that motions have to be voted on. If someone wants to make trans liberation a key part of the platform, it has to be voted on and debated. That means that inevitably there will be someone opposed
The way a democratic organization exists is that motions have to be voted on. If someone wants to make trans liberation a key part of the platform, it has to be voted on and debated. That means that inevitably there will be someone opposed
November 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The fact that Your Party felt that they should vote on if they support trans people having rights, and no other group, isn’t “democracy” it’s transphobia.
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"Controversial groups like LGBT Youth Scotland" is real mask off stuff, genuinely nobody in the Ruth Davidson era of the Scottish Conservatives would have been... brave, or stupid, enough to just openly say that. That is where Ross/Findlay have taken the party, and where the culture wars have went.
There's few MSPs I will celebrate losing their seats next year more than Pam Gosal - a ghoul who is so open about her hatred that she would have looked extreme even in the heights of the anti-gay hate in the 1980s.
"Supporting queer youth" is a "harmful ideology" to her and she doesn't even pretend
"Supporting queer youth" is a "harmful ideology" to her and she doesn't even pretend
November 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Controversial groups like LGBT Youth Scotland" is real mask off stuff, genuinely nobody in the Ruth Davidson era of the Scottish Conservatives would have been... brave, or stupid, enough to just openly say that. That is where Ross/Findlay have taken the party, and where the culture wars have went.
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A second speaker has been told off today for calling a transphobe a transphobe.
This time the speaker argued back and then carried on.
The chair is weak so she ultimately sat unsure what to do as the speaker finished.
This time the speaker argued back and then carried on.
The chair is weak so she ultimately sat unsure what to do as the speaker finished.
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A second speaker has been told off today for calling a transphobe a transphobe.
This time the speaker argued back and then carried on.
The chair is weak so she ultimately sat unsure what to do as the speaker finished.
This time the speaker argued back and then carried on.
The chair is weak so she ultimately sat unsure what to do as the speaker finished.
That's not a car she's driving, it's a tank.
Watch carefully and you can see right through her eyes into the headrest.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
That's not a car she's driving, it's a tank.
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Christmas at the BBC
![Title panel:
CHRISTMAS… AT THE BBC.
The Traitors Christmas Special:
Who in the BBC Boardroom is trying to bring down the gaff from within?
[Image: The Traitors scene with Claudia Winkleman looking like “ooh-er” while the BBC board sit at a table looking suspiciously at each other]
Apologising To The People Who Want To Destroy Us At Christmas:
A festive extravaganza of self-flagellation before our enemies
[Image: A cozy fireside scene with Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch standing, while at their feet lots of BBC employees are kneeling before them and begging for forgiveness].
Donald's Big Distraction:
Heartwarming Julia Donaldson animation in which a dragon sues the BBC to draw his friends' attention onto something else
[Image: Julia Donaldson’s ‘Zog’ with a Donald Trump wig, holding up a lawyer’s letter to show his dragon friends while trying to block their view of a pile of box files and computer drives some with ‘Epstein’ written on them].
The King's Speech:
We let Nigel Farage tell you the BBC is left wing as if that's some kind of fact
[Image: Nigel Farage as the King delivering his Christmas speech to camera].
A Ghost Story for Christmas:
A venerable British institution is haunted by Boris Johnson's appointees
[Image: A BBC studio with a window, outside in the dark snowy night a spectral apparition in the form of Robbie Gibb taps at the window and wails “I want to destroooy you”]
Christmas Labour Inertia-Time:
Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy present four hours of total silence from under their desks
[Image: Show them both under their desks holding up glasses of sherry]
Rightward Drift Christmas Special:
A bonanza of trust-corrosion with confected immigration panic and Reform coverage
[Image: A computer and a smartphone in a cute snowy scene, both displaying the BBC News website with multiple headlines and LIVE feeds and and BREAKING NEWS stories headlined: “IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS!”]
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November 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Christmas at the BBC
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Celebrating the failure of businesses that support women to own the trans
I guess when you're rich you can't comprehend people having no money, much feminism from Maya as usual. They are willing to see organisations that actually help people shut down if they don't follow their weird little ideology, but yeah, she's a "women's rights campaigner"
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Celebrating the failure of businesses that support women to own the trans
Ah yes, energy guzzling pollution generating death machines chugging around cities with no monitoring. And there's so much evidence so far that they're totally safe and reliable.
We'd do much better to impose massive congestion charges and remove almost all parking spaces in every city centre.
We'd do much better to impose massive congestion charges and remove almost all parking spaces in every city centre.
I also always see this idea of "not needing parking" with self driving cars and I'm not sure people really understand the implications of this: every journey to a city centre now includes an empty car driving around in circles, or driving to an out-of-town car park. At minimum doubling congestion.
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Ah yes, energy guzzling pollution generating death machines chugging around cities with no monitoring. And there's so much evidence so far that they're totally safe and reliable.
We'd do much better to impose massive congestion charges and remove almost all parking spaces in every city centre.
We'd do much better to impose massive congestion charges and remove almost all parking spaces in every city centre.
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Tolkien’s opinion of where his Lord Of The Rings falls short made me laugh out-loud. (I fully take his point. It’s just not a criticism the majority of his critics would agree with.)
November 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Tolkien’s opinion of where his Lord Of The Rings falls short made me laugh out-loud. (I fully take his point. It’s just not a criticism the majority of his critics would agree with.)
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Can you imagine a world without landlords?
November 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Can you imagine a world without landlords?
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Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!
"Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses" — Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Steam should ditch its AI generated content disclosure. https://bit.ly/4a193vt
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!
Nick Wallis, I've thought about this carefully and I want to express this in the most polite way possible, and with all due respect. I read your article here
www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
And you are an absolute fucking cunt.
www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
And you are an absolute fucking cunt.
I watched as Graham Linehan changed the way we police free speech
The writer’s failed prosecution for harassment exposed trans activist tactics. Nick Wallis, who was in court, hopes it is a pivotal moment
www.thetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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TAPPING
THE
SIGN
(The sign is Charlotte’s post which I will always endorse because please get off substack)
THE
SIGN
(The sign is Charlotte’s post which I will always endorse because please get off substack)
I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
TAPPING
THE
SIGN
(The sign is Charlotte’s post which I will always endorse because please get off substack)
THE
SIGN
(The sign is Charlotte’s post which I will always endorse because please get off substack)
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rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
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When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
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This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration.
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration.
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
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There was an article in The Guardian a few weeks back about how Gen Z find bookshops preferable to online shopping, and a key factor was that an algorithm will offer you 6000 books identical to the one you just finished whereas a bookseller will offer you three that are different but meet the vibe.
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
There was an article in The Guardian a few weeks back about how Gen Z find bookshops preferable to online shopping, and a key factor was that an algorithm will offer you 6000 books identical to the one you just finished whereas a bookseller will offer you three that are different but meet the vibe.
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Don't tell me that Louis CK was never funny.
Louis CK was absolutely funny before his controversy and it's remarkable that after being backed into a corner, he went all in on unfunny racist and transphobic jokes.
It's FASCINATING how he stopped being funny overnight.
Louis CK was absolutely funny before his controversy and it's remarkable that after being backed into a corner, he went all in on unfunny racist and transphobic jokes.
It's FASCINATING how he stopped being funny overnight.
November 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Don't tell me that Louis CK was never funny.
Louis CK was absolutely funny before his controversy and it's remarkable that after being backed into a corner, he went all in on unfunny racist and transphobic jokes.
It's FASCINATING how he stopped being funny overnight.
Louis CK was absolutely funny before his controversy and it's remarkable that after being backed into a corner, he went all in on unfunny racist and transphobic jokes.
It's FASCINATING how he stopped being funny overnight.
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I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.
All while being worse and worse for sellers.
etsy really went from dropship hell where you could still find some nice stuff if you put in a little work to unusable AI dumpster hole in the span of like two years
November 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
All while being worse and worse for sellers.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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