James Elsmie @Elsmie

🇬🇧The irony is absolutely glorious. The same far-right crowd who never stop reminding us that “Britain is a CHRISTIAN country” are now furious because a vicar rang the bells of his church to drown out a speech he believed was spreading hate. They’re having a meltdown 😂🫵🏽

Here's the video of Michael Marra and Joe Fagan tying themselves in knots as Bernard Ponsonby asks them to explain the route to a second Indyref. A pair of absolute duds who come across as just that. The BBC couldn't sell Sarwar. It has *no* chance with these two. It'll try.

Why are they doing this?

Dr. Simon @goddek

5 months ago

This is how “God’s chosen people” treat Christians in Israel.

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Living up to its support for Netanyahu's regime @BBCNews mentions the death of 1 israeli but nothing on Israel's killing of over 140 little schoolgirls. In the same breath the BBC repeats Israel's claim of targeted bombings. #Iran

The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It's beautifully made, but it's still telling the wrong story. A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies. I wanted to know: has it ever actually happened? Have kids ever been shipwrecked on a deserted island? It took me a year of research, but I found it. In 1965, six boys from a boarding school in Tonga stole a boat, got caught in a storm, and drifted for eight days without food or water. They washed up on 'Ata, a remote, uninhabited island in the Pacific. They stayed there for 15 months, and what happened on that island was the exact opposite of William Golding's novel. These boys set up a small commune. They built a food garden, stored rainwater in hollowed-out tree trunks, created a gym with improvised weights, and built a badminton court. One of them, Stephen (who would later become an engineer) managed to start a fire using two sticks. They kept it burning the entire time. Of course they fought too. But then they argued, they had a rule: go to opposite ends of the island, cool down, then come back and apologize. As one of them told me: ‘That's how we stayed friends.’ Back home, everyone assumed that the boys – Luke, Stephen, Sione, David, Kolo and Mano — were dead. When they were finally discovered by an Australian captain named Peter Warner, he radioed their names to Tonga. After twenty minutes, a tearful response came back: ‘You found them! These boys have been given up for dead. Funerals have been held. If it's them, this is a miracle!’ Peter commissioned a new ship, hired all six boys as his crew, and named the boat the Ata, after the island where he found them. They remained friends for the rest of their lives – Peter and Mano even became soulmates. I tracked them down, and it became one of the central chapters of my book Humankind. Here's what struck me most: William Golding (the author of Lord of the Flies) was a troubled man, an alcoholic who once said ‘I have always understood the Nazis, because I am of that sort by nature.’ I think he was projecting his own darkness onto children. And we turned it into a lesson about human nature that we teach to millions of kids around the world. I think the real lesson is the opposite. When real children found themselves alone on a real island, they didn't descend into savagery. They cooperated, they took care of each other, they survived. I'm not saying that the Tongan castaways were representative of all kids everywhere. But I am saying that every kid who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies also deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life. Stories are never just stories. We become the stories that we tell ourselves.

On February 18, 1930, after nearly a year of searching and examining millions of stars, Clyde Tombaugh noticed a tiny object that had moved between photographic plates taken in January of the same year. Further analysis and additional photographs confirmed the movement was consistent with an object orbiting beyond Neptune. This new celestial body was eventually named Pluto, a name suggested by an 11-year-old English schoolgirl, Venetia Burney, which aptly reflected the dark and distant nature of this newfound world. Tombaugh's approach to the search involved using a device known as a blink comparator. He would take pairs of photographs of the night sky several days apart, using a telescope specifically designed for the task. Each pair of photos would cover the same area of the sky. He would then use the blink comparator to rapidly switch back and forth between viewing the two photographs. By doing so, he could easily spot objects that had shifted position against the backdrop of fixed stars. This was a painstaking process, as each shift had to be checked to ensure it was not a star, asteroid, or comet. Tombaugh's discovery was a significant achievement, given the limitations of the technology at the time and the vast area of sky he had to cover. Pluto remained classified as the ninth planet in our solar system until 2006, when it was reclassified as a "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union.

Doesn’t get much clearer than this

Ernst Röhm, leader of Hitler's Brownshirts, showed how to build an authoritarian paramilitary: recruit men selected for their propensity for violence and absolute loyalty to a leader, then grant them legal immunity, a free hand to terrorize opponents, and pay far better than they could earn elsewhere. This formula helped propel the Nazis to power. This is ICE.

Wee Aberdeenshire moosie eating a plum

'The Blizzard.' (1910) This is an archetypal work by Joseph Farquharson whose depictions of the Deeside landscape in various weathers are central to the tradition of Scottish Art. He painted snow-scapes, forests, stretches of water, sometimes with a figure or two, sometimes more.

@Lena12452 @d_anderson878 Waste a guid pastry

Einstein said to Chaplin: “What I most admire about your art, is your universality. You don’t say a word, yet the world understands you!”. "It’s true”, replied Chaplin. “But your fame is even greater: the world admires you, when nobody understands what you say." - Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin, 1931

Just awful.

Stand Up to Racism - Scotland @SUTRScotland

9 months ago

The real face of the Scottish far-right, exposed in Aberdeen today. At least 12 bussed-in Save Our Future & Our Kids Futures members at the front of the aggressive scenes. Fascist Richard McFarlane also at the racist protest. #RefugeesWelcome

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aww.....@HannahKBardell is upset that these poor souls can't share a tent with little girls.....😪 Are we the baddies?

Women Won't Wheesht 👩‍🦰 @TheParty1sOver

10 months ago

It is our solemn duty to inform you we’ve received another legal threat, readers. @WingsScotland wingsoverscotland.com/aint-got-time-… He was there? 🤦‍♀️

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"No matter who you vote for , the rich stay rich , the poor stay poor and the bombs never stop ". Free Palestine 🇵🇸

🚨 Terrible scenes coming out of West Sumatra in Indonesia today due to flooding 🙏🇮🇩 📍 Saniangbaka, Solok Regency

This little Palestinian child has to walk 5 km every day to feed his sisters and wounded father.

What's going on here? Why? What are the soldiers doing?

The Resonance @Partisan_12

10 months ago

Israelis pour cement into water springs to block them and prevent Palestinians from using them for agriculture. Those same people call themselves moral people.

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A gem of a painting from 1955 by Joan Eardley of a brother and sister outside a Glasgow tenement. I like the way she has managed to define the sitters; she knew a truly successful painting had to go deeper than a mere visual record.

Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian school in Jerusalem while students were still inside.