pickwick

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just another angry glaswegian leftie

Closeup of the cover of Jokes and the Linguistic Mind - the illustration is a version of Escher's Relativity done in lego
Pile of books - Russian Laquer, Legends and Fairy Tales, MC Escher Kaleidocycles, Jokes And The Linguistic Mind, Clouds That Looks Like Things, The 99% Invisible City, Death By Design - the true story of the Glasgow Necropolis
Waterstones department sign that says OOKERY
Bag of black beads with neon letters on
Weather app screenshot - 27°C, Glasgow, Sunny
Photo of the Egyptian Halls in Glasgow, with scaffolding being put up again - most of the vertical poles are up but you can see the columns at the top
Handshake meme - Keir Starmer and the England football team shaking hands, "going out in a super embarrassing way"
A discussion between Haidt and Odgers hosted by the University of Virginia in October 2024 is well worth watching. “I guess my question to you, Jon, is: why do you think the majority of social scientists actually working in this field disagree with you on this?” says Odgers. Haidt hits back later: “You’d be crazy to let your daughter engage in something that doubles or triples her risk for depression.” “It’s not what that [research] tells you, Jon. You need to stop telling people it doubles or triples your risk,” Odgers replies, but Haidt continues: “Candice, I would just ask you, how old is your daughter and would you have let her on Instagram and Snapchat at the age of 10 or 11?”
Brown and black goat with no horns resting it's chin on a fence and looking at the camera. It has very large, floppy brown and white ears.
Count Binface represents the Silly Sausage Britain I know and love Sofie Jenkinson
Count Binface represents the Silly Sausage Britain I know and love Sofie Jenkinson
Very small snail with its body and antennae fully extended looking down off a high ledge (an inch tall bit of plant pot)
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp suggested that sanctions could be imposed on Pakistan in the event that it refused to accept Ahmed. "If they don't take him back, we can say: well, we're simply going to stop or restrict issuing visas to people from Pakistan to come here," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
THE CASE AGAINST SUPERINTELLIGENT AI Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares 'A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster' STEPHEN FRY
Fancy looking ready meal bowls for dogs - "Sir Woofchester's" roast dinner dog bowl and fish & chips dog bowl
Photo of a beach, the sea and sky - mostly horizontal lines of sand, seaweed, waves, sea, clouds. Ailsa Craig is also visible!
Photo, taken from behind, of a statue on a plinth at the beach. It's a figure in a robe brandiahing something towards the sea
Newspaper photo of a grinning soldier in uniform showing off a massive gun to a nine or ten year old kid
Three years ago this summer, Christine and her family were at the forefront of everyone’s mind. The entire planet was rooting for them. Billions of human beings hoped for their safety.
Three brightly clothed actors on a stage. Two of them are acting crossgender - one diagetically, one non diagetically.
Jack and Rusty from Bluey in soldier uniforms
Sensible limits or censorship? The trend of shutting down debate is not limited to the online world; it has also become more prevalent in academia. High-profile controversies, such as the clash between J. K. Rowling and members of the transgender community, or the heated debates over migration, have intensified polarisation in public discourse. This growing sensitivity has led to the erosion of freedom in what is traditionally a space where diverse opinions can be challenged in a safe environment. As a university lecturer, I have seen how the polarisation of certain topics has led to self-censorship and the silencing of controversial opinions. The framing of alternative views as hateful has gradually eroded the safety once found in academic discourse.
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A mannequin in a Scotland hat and scarf wearing a version of the Anonymous Guy Fawkes mask that's white down the middle with blue stripes at each side
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity launched a fundraising page for the princess's walk, which it said would "support more people with cancer to benefit from holistic care".
Headline from The National - King Charles calls on Tartan Army to support England in World Cup
A kite that is a large purple 3D bear wearing a yellow t-shirt
Post from @/theferocity I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow. Quoting their own previous post: I’m coming to understand that maintaining hope is radical.
Mostly dark sky, but some orange, yellow and blue remnants of sunset intercut by clouds. A waxing crescent moon is visible towards the left of the pic.
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Five injured in suspected Islamophobic attacks as bare-chested man roams Edinburgh
A playpark with swing frame and climbing frame with slide. You may eventually notice that the swing frame has no swings in it.
Passage of text that includes the phrase "margins of area"
And that was a very common freezing that was used, that you know, it’s just the job, it’s just politics.
Greying, tired-looking middle-aged man with a hairstyle not quite concealing his receding hairline
Photo of a small group of mostly men wearing black, with masks and balaclavas, surrounded by a Police Scotland cordon in the bottom of the photo, in the foreground. In the background, a very large colourful crowd of people with saltires, trade union banners, and hand-made signs in support of migrants and against racism have turned up to gather to show solidarity, and the far right guys were hoping to thwart that. They didn't.
J.K. Rowling O @jk_rowling #Scotland XX #worldcup2026 X.com Urlofcork @urlofcork • 1d Waiting to board our flight in Washington and there are 3 Scotland fans in kilts walking past. An American lady says" I love your skirts" "They're nae skirts lassie they're kilts, We're Scots not Trannies" I genuinely Lol
Nick Wallis bsky bio, which ends "Gender is performative"
HERALD headline - Demonstration in Glasgow in response to Belfast 'knife attack
Non-symmetrical tessellation print with a bunch of black and white Little Guys - a mix of fish, insects, birds, mammals, humans, but all Little Guys
Six men in a variety of tank tops
A cut-out drawing of the memeified Bernie Sanders pic where he's wearing mittens and a face mask, but tessellated to fill a larger page without leaving spaces
Grubby puddle with some leaves round the edges, reflection of a telephone pole and wires, and my boot
Escher - Puddle Art of a puddle, with footprints in the mid beside it, and reflections of trees
Sign that reads "Residents' cycle hanger" - with apostrophe!
Clip from the Wimsey TV show of Peter putting in his monocle
Subtitle settings menu on a TV where the "subtitle mode" options are "normal" and "hearing impaired"
A low wall with "Free Palestine" graffiti, with a sliver of the Clyde and some trees on the other side also visible
Picture of Giles from Buffy captioned "Oh good lord"
Black background. Picture of a fighter with a helmet, shoulder spikes, big boots and carrying a giant bloodied axe, with a pile of skulls in front of them. Banner across the top - EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH. Bottom banner - YOU'RE KILLING IT
Screenshot from the Herald. Kevin McKenna: In Haiti, the dictatorship was not the fault of the public. But in Scotland, well...
Three strand bracelet with a bunch of candy coloured beads. It reads "EAT THE RICH".
Tubs of mixed beads, elastic cord, letter beads arranged to spell out EAT THE RICH three times
Glasgow City Council bin labelled "Residents Use Only"
Sign on the side of one of the big sets of street bins for residents in glasgow: 'Residents Use Only"
WhatsApp exchange: "Are you some kind of Buffy encyclopedia?" "I mean. Kind of yes."
They're just really good clouds guys
Herald headline - Peter Murrell facing celeb protection in Scotland's safest jail after SNP fraud
During the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray was confronted by protestors from "Citizens United Against Public Sector Cuts" lead by Clerkin at a Labour campaign event in Glasgow Central station. The event was cut short, and the Labour activists took shelter in a Subway sandwich shop across the street, being followed by the protestors.[5]
In January 2016, Clerkin and two other "Scottish Resistance" activists held a protest outside the Tunnock's factory in Uddingston. They were protesting against Tunnock's managing director Boyd Tunnock, saying "people like him, who are multi-millionaires, and supporting the Tories as they do, are helping to keep Scots in poverty".[11