THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.
A huge fire is currently blazing in Glasgow city centre
Emergency services have been tackling the blaze on Union Street since around 4pm on Sunday
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My Letterboxd review of Where is the Friend’s House? Four stars and a heart, with the comment, ‘May we all have a friend like Ahmad, and may we all be a friend like Ahmad.’
Watched Where is the Friend’s House (1987) last night. Amazing Iranian film about a young boy desperately trying to find his friend and give him his notebook from school so the teacher doesn’t expel him. So good ❤️ (It’s on Kanopy.)
On International Women’s Day a reminder that my Alice had a mother and a sister and grannies, aunts, girl friends and girl cousins.
They all loved her as a woman.
When the transphobes say they speak for all women and are protecting women and girls, they are wrong.
A magazine titled ‘Embrace your hobbies with ChatGPT’ on a rack with other magazines
oh ffs (magazine rack in M&S) 🙄
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
In the 1997 dystopian scifi film Gattaca, rapid DNA testing is used to determine social class and job eligibility. In 2026 UK, women wanting to participate in athletics must pay a £185 gender tax to take part in a genetic lottery where some will be ineligble due to previously unknown chromosones.
This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.
And 165 non-artificial schoolchildren were blown up by all this advanced and precise targeting. Congrats to everyone involved on achieving this brave new world.
Delighted to see this! 👏😃
Beyond delighted by these election results. Huge congratulations to @markpendleton.bsky.social and @suzitoole.bsky.social : I cannot imagine a better VP duo. And some incredible UCU members will be joining the NEC in June! #ucu
i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need
This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future
Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock.
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Proud to meet four heroes in Parliament today. Sandie Peggie, the Darlington Nurses and Jennifer Melle. They have shown tremendous courage and bravery in challenging a warped ideology and a culture of virtue signalling that rewards institutional cowardice. Thankfully, the tide is
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Our Home Affairs Select Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban has been published. An extraordinary and unjustified decision that exposed serious failures within West Midlands Police.
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid My column in the Herald on Sunday: the Scottish grooming gangs inquiry is welcome. We must also confront how our third sector has become institutionally corrupted to the point where it sides with SNP ministers instead of standing with women and girls
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Follow The SNP are taking the biscuit. They chose to turn Glasgow into sanctuary for asylum seekers through their own virtue-signalling policies, and now they want the Home Office to bail them out.
for anyone wondering why there’s so much unbridled joy on ScotPol Bluesky about the arrest of a Scottish Labour MP’s husband for spying for China, take your pick
New in #EPER: ‘It's already set in my mind’: Investigating the acculturation of secondary school pupils aspiring to teach PE (Sprake et al., 2026) doi.org/10.1177/1356... #OpenAccess
New in #EPER: Seeking a balance between ideal teaching & ‘what works’* in a PE teacher education service learning programme (Salvador-Garcia et al., 2026) doi.org/10.1177/1356...
New in #EPER: Significativo na Educação Física: How meaningful physical education is represented in curriculum & interpreted by teacher educators in Portuguese-speaking countries (Godoi et al., 2026) doi.org/10.1177/1356... #OpenAccess
New in #EPER: Gross motor coordination, motivation & attitudes towards traffic rules in primary school children: A quasi-experimental pre–post cycling intervention study (Moreno-Rosa et al., 2026) doi.org/10.1177/1356...
It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
He’s a good egg that Cillian ❤️ 🏳️⚧️
We are really going to regret the technology we have built.
BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed and his body has been found, reports Reuters, citing Israeli media reports.
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The shamelessness of Zack Polanski NICK COHEN
Observer publisher apologises to women who made Nick Cohen complaints Editor Katharine Viner and CEO Anna Bateson wrote to the women with an apology. By Charlotte Tobitt
