Allan Faulds
@afaulds.bsky.social
Hello I used to Tweet but now I only tweet
Extremely Gay, extremely Scottish, mostly angry queerposting, no Yanks in the replies (Nice Americans welcome)
Extremely Gay, extremely Scottish, mostly angry queerposting, no Yanks in the replies (Nice Americans welcome)
DnD with work pals. First round of combat. @aligeorgebruce.bsky.social goes first. First attack of the session! 1.
"Muddle, please explain how you absolutely cunt it trying to swing this warhammer."
"Muddle, please explain how you absolutely cunt it trying to swing this warhammer."
January 10, 2026 at 7:41 PM
DnD with work pals. First round of combat. @aligeorgebruce.bsky.social goes first. First attack of the session! 1.
"Muddle, please explain how you absolutely cunt it trying to swing this warhammer."
"Muddle, please explain how you absolutely cunt it trying to swing this warhammer."
I know the hypocrisy is a key part of the whole agenda but gods it's so frustrating living in today's absurd mirror world. The Yanks needed guns so they could rise up against tyrants, now they have a tyrant and the gun fans are not only not rising but actively supportive of the tyrant.
January 10, 2026 at 1:21 PM
I know the hypocrisy is a key part of the whole agenda but gods it's so frustrating living in today's absurd mirror world. The Yanks needed guns so they could rise up against tyrants, now they have a tyrant and the gun fans are not only not rising but actively supportive of the tyrant.
BORED OF COLD AND ICE JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO WALK PLACES WITHOUT HAVING TO CAREFULLY AND DELICATELY PLACE MY STEPS
January 10, 2026 at 10:43 AM
BORED OF COLD AND ICE JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO WALK PLACES WITHOUT HAVING TO CAREFULLY AND DELICATELY PLACE MY STEPS
Well it's about time something funny rather than horrific happened in 2026
Zarah Sultana’s Your Party membership launch may have been ‘serious criminal act’
Zarah Sultana’s Your Party membership launch may have been ‘serious criminal act’
Information watchdog says party’s data controller should refer unauthorised launch to police
Zarah Sultana’s unauthorised launch of a Your Party membership portal may have been a “serious criminal act” and should be referred to the police, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has advised.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project (PJP), which referred Your Party to the information watchdog last September over a potential data breach, has been advised by the ICO that it should consider “taking further action” regarding the matter, after deciding it was not a matter for them. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Well it's about time something funny rather than horrific happened in 2026
A point I keep finding myself making is that if you allow yourself, as a Pro-Union party, to start arguing that the Union and Devolution are best when you are in total control, people will reasonably wonder why bother sticking with a framework that only delivers that supposed best rarely.
Kind of extraordinary that the new Local Growth Fund is to be distributed by the Welsh Government in Wales, but directly by the UK Government in Scotland, and that the rationale for the difference seems to be no more than "we don't trust the Scottish Government".
January 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
A point I keep finding myself making is that if you allow yourself, as a Pro-Union party, to start arguing that the Union and Devolution are best when you are in total control, people will reasonably wonder why bother sticking with a framework that only delivers that supposed best rarely.
Rumour has it Mew is under the truck in Vermillion City
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Rumour has it Mew is under the truck in Vermillion City
The number of times I have already listened to this track, I have nipped out for lunch and it's all I can do not to be belting DAMNED IF YOU DO OR YOU DON'T NOW WE'VE GOT YOU IN OUR TENTACLES (TENTACLEEEEES)
Vow of Rivals Scylla!?! FEAT. CHARYBDIS?!?!?! 🤘🤘 Okay yes it was obvious they'd team them up given, y'know, but what a fuckin banger, and the staging, and the new fits?
Critics are calling Scylla one of the most iconic video game bosses of all time.
Critics are calling Scylla one of the most iconic video game bosses of all time.
January 9, 2026 at 12:03 PM
The number of times I have already listened to this track, I have nipped out for lunch and it's all I can do not to be belting DAMNED IF YOU DO OR YOU DON'T NOW WE'VE GOT YOU IN OUR TENTACLES (TENTACLEEEEES)
Making a nearly £1000 gamble at work today that, having forgot a bike lock, the controlled entry bike shed will nonetheless be safe as almost nobody else has access, or is cycling in this ice, and even if they are, by definition they already have a bike and will find it hard to abscond with a second
January 9, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Making a nearly £1000 gamble at work today that, having forgot a bike lock, the controlled entry bike shed will nonetheless be safe as almost nobody else has access, or is cycling in this ice, and even if they are, by definition they already have a bike and will find it hard to abscond with a second
"Hey so we didn't think it was insulting enough to suggest that we can buy your country from you, but we also think it's possible to do so for the princely sum of ten thousand US Dollars per person" - just completely evil bastards
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources famil...
www.reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:34 PM
"Hey so we didn't think it was insulting enough to suggest that we can buy your country from you, but we also think it's possible to do so for the princely sum of ten thousand US Dollars per person" - just completely evil bastards
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Vow of Rivals Scylla!?! FEAT. CHARYBDIS?!?!?! 🤘🤘 Okay yes it was obvious they'd team them up given, y'know, but what a fuckin banger, and the staging, and the new fits?
Critics are calling Scylla one of the most iconic video game bosses of all time.
Critics are calling Scylla one of the most iconic video game bosses of all time.
January 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Vow of Rivals Scylla!?! FEAT. CHARYBDIS?!?!?! 🤘🤘 Okay yes it was obvious they'd team them up given, y'know, but what a fuckin banger, and the staging, and the new fits?
Critics are calling Scylla one of the most iconic video game bosses of all time.
Critics are calling Scylla one of the most iconic video game bosses of all time.
If there aren't mass Anti-ICE protests in every major US city tonight I think we can take it as read that country is indeed completely and utterly irredeemable by this point
January 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
If there aren't mass Anti-ICE protests in every major US city tonight I think we can take it as read that country is indeed completely and utterly irredeemable by this point
It has been not even one week since large sections of the Anglosphere commentariat pretended to be stunned and bemused by Mamdani's "those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty" line and yet we've had at least once incident a day demonstrating it
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
It has been not even one week since large sections of the Anglosphere commentariat pretended to be stunned and bemused by Mamdani's "those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty" line and yet we've had at least once incident a day demonstrating it
There really is just something so grotesquely on the nose that the political project and people behind it who have been peddling the hateful lies that trans people are out to groom children and assault women are now just fine and dandy with a child and nonconsensual porn image generating website
January 7, 2026 at 11:24 PM
There really is just something so grotesquely on the nose that the political project and people behind it who have been peddling the hateful lies that trans people are out to groom children and assault women are now just fine and dandy with a child and nonconsensual porn image generating website
Absolute shout-out to my work pals who are giving DnD a go this weekend, "Muddle Klump", "Griselda Grunch" and "Twiggy Spellbranch", these are people who understood that the assignment is to be as silly as possible
January 7, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Absolute shout-out to my work pals who are giving DnD a go this weekend, "Muddle Klump", "Griselda Grunch" and "Twiggy Spellbranch", these are people who understood that the assignment is to be as silly as possible
Reposted by Allan Faulds
Now at just about 90% of the way on the Holyrood crowdfunder! I appreciate bank accounts will be rather depleted after the festive season, but so close to the goal and I have to keep telling myself that the thing with social media is you should be sharing regularly, so..!
gofund.me/fc7aaca52
gofund.me/fc7aaca52
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gofund.me
January 7, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Now at just about 90% of the way on the Holyrood crowdfunder! I appreciate bank accounts will be rather depleted after the festive season, but so close to the goal and I have to keep telling myself that the thing with social media is you should be sharing regularly, so..!
gofund.me/fc7aaca52
gofund.me/fc7aaca52
As ever, absolutely terminal case of England Brain as well in the screenshot. Scotland literally mentioned, we have this policy here, please point to any supposed terrible ill effects of that here before suggesting England following suit is somehow unthinkable nanny statery.
Boosting britain's prosperity by encouraging drink driving
January 7, 2026 at 8:28 PM
As ever, absolutely terminal case of England Brain as well in the screenshot. Scotland literally mentioned, we have this policy here, please point to any supposed terrible ill effects of that here before suggesting England following suit is somehow unthinkable nanny statery.
Very happy new year to December Allan who decided to accept an external meeting, during his usual lunch hour, on his first day in the office of 2026, truly, a fantastic play, because there's no way January Allan would want to treat himself on such a day, what a bastard
January 7, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Very happy new year to December Allan who decided to accept an external meeting, during his usual lunch hour, on his first day in the office of 2026, truly, a fantastic play, because there's no way January Allan would want to treat himself on such a day, what a bastard
Look obviously this is just part of the Times' forever war on queer people, the shower of bastards, but it's also just so *English* to be like "ah yes, the Union Flag is the National Flag" - no, the National Flag of Scotland, which you would expect the Scottish Government to fly, is the Saltire
The Progress Pride standard will appear on government buildings at least four times, but the national flag will be raised only on Remembrance Sunday
SNP will fly Pride flag more often than Union Jack this year
The Progress Pride standard will appear on government buildings at least four times, but the national flag will be raised only on Remembrance Sunday
www.thetimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Look obviously this is just part of the Times' forever war on queer people, the shower of bastards, but it's also just so *English* to be like "ah yes, the Union Flag is the National Flag" - no, the National Flag of Scotland, which you would expect the Scottish Government to fly, is the Saltire
Nazi President, Nazi country, utterly, utterly grim times to be living through, and what's worse, the absolute morons across the pond voted for this, you already had one spin with this buffoon and you thought yep, we'll have another, an irredeemable political culture
January 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Nazi President, Nazi country, utterly, utterly grim times to be living through, and what's worse, the absolute morons across the pond voted for this, you already had one spin with this buffoon and you thought yep, we'll have another, an irredeemable political culture
By this stage, seeing Keir Starmer defenders popping up on this website feels very the "not falling for that bit, that's clearly someone with a fetish for being yelled at" post
January 6, 2026 at 7:26 PM
By this stage, seeing Keir Starmer defenders popping up on this website feels very the "not falling for that bit, that's clearly someone with a fetish for being yelled at" post
Ms Regan said "There is no basis for this assertion. If you even think for one second, I cannot possibly be suspended from Holyrood. If I was suspended from Holyrood, using a complex system of guylines and pulleys, how would that be in line with workplace safety laws?"
news.stv.tv/politics/msp...
news.stv.tv/politics/msp...
MSP Ash Regan suspended from Holyrood for two days
Regan was found to have breached the MSP code of conduct.
news.stv.tv
January 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Ms Regan said "There is no basis for this assertion. If you even think for one second, I cannot possibly be suspended from Holyrood. If I was suspended from Holyrood, using a complex system of guylines and pulleys, how would that be in line with workplace safety laws?"
news.stv.tv/politics/msp...
news.stv.tv/politics/msp...
Portugal potentially about to give us a France 2002-esque masterclass in why two-round systems are potentially much worse than transferrable vote systems
Portugal, Pitagórica poll:
Presidential election
Seguro (PS-S&D): 19% (-1)
Gouveia e Melo (*): 19% (+4)
Ventura (CH-PfE): 19%
Cotrim (IL-RE): 18% (+3)
M. Mendes (*-EPP): 15% (-6)
...
+/- vs. 11-19 December 2025
Fieldwork: 02-04 January 2026
Sample size: 608
➤ europeelects.eu/portugal
Presidential election
Seguro (PS-S&D): 19% (-1)
Gouveia e Melo (*): 19% (+4)
Ventura (CH-PfE): 19%
Cotrim (IL-RE): 18% (+3)
M. Mendes (*-EPP): 15% (-6)
...
+/- vs. 11-19 December 2025
Fieldwork: 02-04 January 2026
Sample size: 608
➤ europeelects.eu/portugal
January 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Portugal potentially about to give us a France 2002-esque masterclass in why two-round systems are potentially much worse than transferrable vote systems
Come on just go into single digit approval, stop edging the nation
Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 3-5 January 2026
Approve: 11% (-1 from 27-29 Dec 2025)
Disapprove: 70% (+2)
Net: -59 (-3)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Approve: 11% (-1 from 27-29 Dec 2025)
Disapprove: 70% (+2)
Net: -59 (-3)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
January 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Come on just go into single digit approval, stop edging the nation
Absolutely wild that the most hardline Pro-Independence party in Greenland (most parties back Independence, only 2 of 31 seats in the Inatsisartut are held by outright Unionists) is also the most chill about Trump wanting to steal their entire country from them www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
January 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Absolutely wild that the most hardline Pro-Independence party in Greenland (most parties back Independence, only 2 of 31 seats in the Inatsisartut are held by outright Unionists) is also the most chill about Trump wanting to steal their entire country from them www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
There's no excuse for Wales but I still very firmly hold to my theory that the near complete absence of Scottish Labour MPs for almost a decade means the Starmer operation cannot actually grasp Scotland as anything other than an odd, unserious, not particularly important appendage
We are four months away from elections that will determine the Governments of two of the devolved nations and dozens of English councils.
More from Starmer’s political cabinet today, where he told ministers to ignore Labour’s dire poll ratings
“I do not underestimate the scale of the task. But I have no doubt about this team. Governments do not lose because polls go down. They lose when they lose belief or nerve. We will do neither.”
“I do not underestimate the scale of the task. But I have no doubt about this team. Governments do not lose because polls go down. They lose when they lose belief or nerve. We will do neither.”
January 6, 2026 at 1:24 PM
There's no excuse for Wales but I still very firmly hold to my theory that the near complete absence of Scottish Labour MPs for almost a decade means the Starmer operation cannot actually grasp Scotland as anything other than an odd, unserious, not particularly important appendage