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pickwick
@pickwick.bsky.social
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just another angry glaswegian leftie
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I cannot imagine being this much of a spineless worm.
Anas Sarwar was at Scottish Labour's policy conference in Edinburgh Scotland cannot rely on migrants to fill social care jobs, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has said. His comments come after a social care body said the UK government's immigration proposals would have a "profoundly negative impact" on Scotland's care sector
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Ha ha ha yessss
Duke of Wellington statue - the pigeon is still on its head but mostly hidden by the traffic cone plunked on top. There's also one on the tail for some reason
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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On the tube in my £1 yarn fingerless gloves making eye contact with the woman in the beanie hat made from last year's ultra colourful yarn
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Waterstones have got the new Steven Pinker book in their window which is not necessarily a choice I'd have made right now
Photo from Sunday:s Observer of Pinker hanging out with Epstein
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I don't know who thought "Yeah, this 1993 book about literary and cultural theory will go down well on the free station bookshelf" but I thank them
Book - beginning theory, an introduction to literary and cultural theory Part of table of contents - includes bits about feminist criticism, "lesbian/gay" criticism and Marxist criticism
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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This guy's been defending the "new asylum policies" all day so it makes sense that he thinks someone taking the piss out his name is literally as bad as anything on the Nazi hellsite
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Always enjoy a contrail saltire, mind
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Such a weird thing to say when you literally made an account here to defend Muriel
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Capitalism brain is when doing the work you're paid to do is "entitled" but expecting your young employees to do unpaid work and be enthusiastic about socialising with you in their free time is not "entitled", somehow
“In general, Gen Z don’t want to work overtime or do anything outside work hours. It’s a very different attitude to just a few years ago. Everyone these days seems to be entitled
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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They have anatomy and animal prints that are fun too
Print of two bats with fake(?) anatomical breakdown
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Loved this print I saw in Scottish Design Exchange today - sorry for the terrible pic but it's a nice shelf of beautifully bound old books, but all their names are modern romantasy/fanfic tropes
Bad photo of a good art print of old bound books but with titles like Enemies To Lovers and One Room At The Inn
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Exhibit 2185 in "our media is a complete disaster"
Public satisfaction with NHS Scotland plummets under SNP
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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he's gone full City Watch oath
I comma square bracket recruit's name square bracket comma do solemnly swear by square bracket recruit's deity of choice square bracket to uphold the Laws and Ordinances of the City of Ankh-Morpork comma serve the public truƒt comma and defend the ƒubjects of his ƒtroke her bracket delete whichever is inappropriate bracket Majeƒty bracket name of reigning monarch bracket without fear comma favour comma or thought of perƒonal ƒafety semi-colon to purƒue evildoers and protect the innocent comma comma laying down my life if neceƒsary in the cauƒe of said duty comma so help me bracket aforeƒaid deity bracket full stop Gods Save the King stroke Queen bracket delete whichever is inappropriate bracket full stop. Terry Pratchett, Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I have inside information that this is the Your Party venue
Photo of the Glasgow Wonka Experience and its Oompa Loompa
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Would you be surprised if I told you this "Aston Villa fan" wrote a column for the Jewish Chronicle where he said he's looking to emigrate because the UK is so anti-Israel
Bbc News screenshot of "Elliot Ludvig" captioned "Aston Villa fan"
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Astonishing! People can have rural working class accents and also be highly literate? Surely not 😲
The voice reproduced on the page is a weird mixture of Homeric and hayseed, dropping terminal “g” on participles, using double negatives, now and again rendering for as fer, yet conversant with arcane words such as cynegetic, rupestral, epicrisis, noctilucent and teichoskopia. The result is prolix and wandering and makes a long book feel much longer.
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Lol I had it turned on anyway but I'm excited about the threaded replies option!
November 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I like this one - taken about 15 seconds before the heavens opened
Geometric pic of a dark sky with a fancy red sandstone building looming on the left and a golden stone one one the right lit up by the sun
November 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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If I knew how to get my phone to take better pics of rainbows this would be a great photo
Photo near a closed George Square, Glasgow - photo taken from the south, capturing the bug GLASGOW on the hoarding, some autumn leaves, the column, the council chambers, and a rainbow above it all
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Flagship news programme

#SlowDeathOfProofreading
October 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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I can't decide whether publishing AI work under big authors' names will be more or less damaging to the world than having unleashed Rowling on it

Impressive work from this guy, making everything worse for everyone twice
Newton, who founded Bloomsbury in 1986 and signed JK Rowling in the 1990s, said there could be a “problem” if AI is used to write entire books. However, he said that readers ultimately look for books written by famous authors. “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, and that applies more than ever to the names of big writers,” he said.
October 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Replies and quote posts disabled to stop people pointing out that Brianna was killed by violent transphobes, not because she had online friends
Paula Barker MP It was an honour to join campaigners from Phone Free Education, a campaign by the Brianna Ghey Legacy Project – founded by Esther Ghey in memory of her daughter Brianna.
October 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Hope the Green to Your Party transfers are happy with their new "people protesting against Nazis are as much of a problem as Nazis" party
The average brit: black, white, or brown, just wants to live peacefully. Co-exist with their neighbours and live a decent life with dignity The vast majority of brits do not want nazis crusading through our streets, nor equally absurd "counter-demonstraters." Calm down Some of us are terrified for the vulnerable members of our own families. We want and need real solutions, we don't want to add to the flames we want to find the solutions that will help put them out. If a counter-demo adds to the anger, then we must stop and question why We can't afford to experiment, this is a question of our very lives in this country. We must get it right. And protection of our most vulnerable must be at the forefront of any decision we make and action we take
October 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Neep Gallery
October 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I'm thinking about getting into them...
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM