The amount of Americans that claim to be Scottish because their great great grandparent once farted in Edinburgh is pretty damned high to be fair.

The difference between the amount of Americans with genuine Scottish ancestry and the amount who arbitrarily claim Scottish ancestry is absurd. I dunno if they all saw Braveheart and decided “Freedom! Fuck yeah, I want some of that!” or what but it’s ridiculous.

Well that headline is ambiguous. I thought at first it meant customers which sex workers deem dangerous will be criminalised. I.e. if you hit a sex worker then it’s a specific crime outside of standard assault, like assaulting a police officer is a separate crime from standard assault.

But no, we can’t have safer working conditions for sex workers, it’s just a standard pearl clutching “think of the children” bigoted conservative proposal.

Fuck Alba, they don’t even know how to pronounce their own party’s name let alone govern. They’re a poison on the independence movement and bring nothing but intolerance

Turkey knows how to respond to Russian aggression.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown

In addition to what the introduction says about giving multiple warnings to the pilot, the Background section covers that they had also given multiple warnings about previous similar incidents and told Russia that if they kept doing this there would be consequences. This was therefore those consequences, and guess what? Russia backed off and stopped entering Turkish airspace.

That’s how English aristocrats (and aristocrat wannabes) say rugby. Whether that’s what they mean I dunno though

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

It’s not going to stop the genocide, obviously, but would you rather they just shut up and put up with it? Would you rather they supported Israel?

This is a show of solidarity.

The more there are, the more emboldened others are to do it too. The more people condemning genocide, the more likely politicians are to do something about it. Particularly if those people have public followings of their own.

Nice one, go kids!

Driving (hell, even cycling, I’ve been almost squashed more than once) anywhere near a primary school during the start or end of the school day is an absolute nightmare because of all the mum-mobiles fighting to get as close to the gates as they can. They’re so stressed about getting their little cherub into their BMW ChildSquasher9000 that they forget to look at the road or their surroundings.

Unless you’re in a small rural town or village, most the students at a primary school are within walking distance of school. So let them walk. Give them exercise, freedom, community, fresh air. Get P6s and P7s, brothers and sisters, to walk with P1s and P2s. Or if you’re that scared of kid-snatchers, park at home, walk to the school, and walk home with them, get some exercise and fresh air yourself. Or even better, cycle!

I see literally no downsides to this initiative.

Here’s a documentary on their purge of the left for anyone interested:

The Labour Files

Shares of the vote in general elections since 1832 received by Conservatives[note 1] (blue), Liberals/Liberal Democrats[note 2] (orange), Labour (red) and others (grey)[1][2][3]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_general_elections

The Conservatives forming from a split in the Liberal party doesn’t mean they’re the same thing.

Labour and Liberal Democrats are two very different parties. Or at least they used to be, until New Labour became a thing…

Our politics are bad, FPTP is bad, but we’re not a 2 party system entirely. The Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, and Reform all manage to have a say in politics and how things are done. They all influence Labour and the Conservatives.

Not to mention one person having multiple accounts for different purposes and business accounts. Instagram is big, no doubt, but not 2 billion users big

https://xkcd.com/2501/

Your brain really is in the bin…

I’m glad I read that article, thanks Olap! Very thought provoking and a good mix of perspectives. Strange to read journalism like that now-a-days.

I may be naive or uninformed here because it’s not a topic I have any real knowledge, but this is what I think:

As long as there’s sufficient protections in place to ensure this law can’t be abused by a future arsehole government, to prevent state murder in an attempt to “cull undesirables”. And sufficient protections to ensure patients truly want to die and aren’t just having a low moment (i.e. mental health support) then it’s their life and they should have the choice to live it or not.

The point about normalising assisted dying however is a good one and again there must be protections put in place to ensure people aren’t pushed into assisted dying through guilt or manipulation (from family and friends or doctors and nurses).

An able bodied person already has the right to end their life, because there’s nothing the government can do to stop them jumping off a bridge, overdosing, whatever. The terminally ill unable to do that deserve the right to choose as well.

Our current laws are based upon the Christian sin of suicide, but we’re not all Christian. The law and government must act secularly. If suicide is against your religion, take it up with your priest or God, the law should not be involved.

Hang on, wait wait wait, political news, in 2025, that’s actually good? Thank fuck!

Hey Russia, thoir Ifrinn ort! ‘S e plàigh a th’ annad.

This isn’t their first time getting involved in Scottish politics. Remember when Alex Salmond had his own show on Russia Today and then started a right wing party under the name Alba that he couldn’t even pronounce? He pronounced it as an English speaker would read it, Ahl-bah. That’s not how it’s pronounced in Gàidhlig and gave away entirely his lack of honesty to the cause. He just wanted power.

Having read the article it appears there’s loads of grammatical errors and things like mistranslations of “gym” instead of “grammar school” so I doubt any real Gaelic speakers will take this seriously. The problem is that as time goes by they’ll become more accurate and harder to discern as gibberish.

€180 for a fan? For a tiny motor and a plastic fan blade. Jesus Christ. They wouldn’t be in business if people didn’t buy this crap as well, what the hell?

A fan is like the most basic of electrical products out there, it doesn’t need to cost a fortune just to make some plastic spin round

“This is a Christian nation”

Now I’m not American so I’m willing to be corrected here, but I’m pretty damn certain it’s supposed to be a secular nation…

Nooooooooooooo! Dinna say that 😢

What’s that in Gaelic? Chaaaannn eeeeeiiiiiilllll?

Is e samhradh a th’ ann! Tha mi cho toillichte