@katharine89.bsky.social
Reposted
CARTOON OF THE DAY
January 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
Reposted
I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 AM
I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
Reposted
ICE agents ate at El Tapatio in Willmar, MN, then came back hours later and detained the workers who served them. Turning a meal into surveillance isn’t public safety it’s intimidation. Remember private businesses can refuse service to ICE agents!
ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then detain workers
“Would your mama be proud of you right now?” a bystander said as agents returned at closing time to nab the workers.
www.startribune.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
ICE agents ate at El Tapatio in Willmar, MN, then came back hours later and detained the workers who served them. Turning a meal into surveillance isn’t public safety it’s intimidation. Remember private businesses can refuse service to ICE agents!
Reposted
It’s been one month since 100% of the Epstein files were due by Act of Congress. Thus far they’ve only released .6% of them and are using murder and war to distract you from this fact.
January 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM
It’s been one month since 100% of the Epstein files were due by Act of Congress. Thus far they’ve only released .6% of them and are using murder and war to distract you from this fact.
Reposted
Westminster Labour promised that they would create 1.000s of GB Energy jobs in Aberdeen, so far only 13 people have been employed in our city.
Labour lied!
Labour lied!
January 10, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Westminster Labour promised that they would create 1.000s of GB Energy jobs in Aberdeen, so far only 13 people have been employed in our city.
Labour lied!
Labour lied!
Reposted
💪 Huge thanks to all our #ActiveSNP teams out campaigning across Scotland today, making the case for lower energy bills.
It’s Scotland’s energy - and it should work for the people of Scotland.
If you agree, join the SNP and be part of the change: https://www.snp.org/join
It’s Scotland’s energy - and it should work for the people of Scotland.
If you agree, join the SNP and be part of the change: https://www.snp.org/join
January 10, 2026 at 8:27 PM
💪 Huge thanks to all our #ActiveSNP teams out campaigning across Scotland today, making the case for lower energy bills.
It’s Scotland’s energy - and it should work for the people of Scotland.
If you agree, join the SNP and be part of the change: https://www.snp.org/join
It’s Scotland’s energy - and it should work for the people of Scotland.
If you agree, join the SNP and be part of the change: https://www.snp.org/join
Reposted
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
Celebrate the legacy, the people and the passion that continue to shape the TMSA today, featuring an array of Scotland’s foremost tradition bearers. Held in the City Halls on Saturday 17 January, tickets are on sale here ➡️ bit.ly/3KsiERx #TMSA60
TMSA: 60th Anniversary Celebration
bit.ly
January 7, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Celebrate the legacy, the people and the passion that continue to shape the TMSA today, featuring an array of Scotland’s foremost tradition bearers. Held in the City Halls on Saturday 17 January, tickets are on sale here ➡️ bit.ly/3KsiERx #TMSA60
“I’m delighted to be taking part in the TMSA: 60th Anniversary Celebration concert at Celtic Connections. The evening will be a journey through the decades, honouring the singers, musicians and behind the scenes champions who have inspired, taught and uplifted.
1/2
1/2
January 7, 2026 at 1:28 AM
“I’m delighted to be taking part in the TMSA: 60th Anniversary Celebration concert at Celtic Connections. The evening will be a journey through the decades, honouring the singers, musicians and behind the scenes champions who have inspired, taught and uplifted.
1/2
1/2
Reposted
Anas Sarwar asked questions on housing at FMQs today.
Never forget that in Labour’s last term in office in Scotland, they only managed to build a grand total of SIX council houses in four years.
Labour cannot be trusted to deliver on housing.
Never forget that in Labour’s last term in office in Scotland, they only managed to build a grand total of SIX council houses in four years.
Labour cannot be trusted to deliver on housing.
December 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Anas Sarwar asked questions on housing at FMQs today.
Never forget that in Labour’s last term in office in Scotland, they only managed to build a grand total of SIX council houses in four years.
Labour cannot be trusted to deliver on housing.
Never forget that in Labour’s last term in office in Scotland, they only managed to build a grand total of SIX council houses in four years.
Labour cannot be trusted to deliver on housing.
Reposted
I think Brexit was garbage. But if in 2025 you're still pedalling "all we need to do is reverse Brexit!" you're ignorant. Everything before Brexit was fine, obviously. It was definitely ALL Brexit and not the six years of austerity before that and the 31 years of untempered Thatcherism before that.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I think Brexit was garbage. But if in 2025 you're still pedalling "all we need to do is reverse Brexit!" you're ignorant. Everything before Brexit was fine, obviously. It was definitely ALL Brexit and not the six years of austerity before that and the 31 years of untempered Thatcherism before that.
Reposted
Yesterday at a gig I sang I Will Always Love You and told the crowd about the time fifteen years ago I was asked to sing it as a first dance for a wedding. Baffling. Then afterwards a man who had worked as a funeral director told me it is a COMMON CHOICE FOR FUNERALS!!!! Wow, fuck you, the deceased.
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Yesterday at a gig I sang I Will Always Love You and told the crowd about the time fifteen years ago I was asked to sing it as a first dance for a wedding. Baffling. Then afterwards a man who had worked as a funeral director told me it is a COMMON CHOICE FOR FUNERALS!!!! Wow, fuck you, the deceased.
Reposted
It's like people using 'Every Breath You Take' as 'our song". Either they haven't really listened to it, or there's red flags sprouting everywhere.
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It's like people using 'Every Breath You Take' as 'our song". Either they haven't really listened to it, or there's red flags sprouting everywhere.
Reposted
People not listening to lyrics and doing bizarre things with songs based entirely on the chorus is one of my favourite things.
See also all the people treating Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah like its a Christmas Song.
See also all the people treating Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah like its a Christmas Song.
Yesterday at a gig I sang I Will Always Love You and told the crowd about the time fifteen years ago I was asked to sing it as a first dance for a wedding. Baffling. Then afterwards a man who had worked as a funeral director told me it is a COMMON CHOICE FOR FUNERALS!!!! Wow, fuck you, the deceased.
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
People not listening to lyrics and doing bizarre things with songs based entirely on the chorus is one of my favourite things.
See also all the people treating Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah like its a Christmas Song.
See also all the people treating Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah like its a Christmas Song.
Reposted
It’s three not very wise men lost in the desert because they can’t get a signal for Google maps
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It’s three not very wise men lost in the desert because they can’t get a signal for Google maps
Reposted
CREEDENCE CLEAR-ROAD SURVIVAL
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
CREEDENCE CLEAR-ROAD SURVIVAL
Reposted
did… did the dog write this recipe
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
did… did the dog write this recipe
Reposted
Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
Why you require to pay Council Tax - Glasgow City Council
Information about why you are required to pay Council Tax.
glasgow.gov.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
whoever wrote this was so very tired
glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...
Reposted
"Great first draft, Isla. Now if you could just take out every incidence of 'for fucksake' then I'll sign off on it and we'll put it up on the website."
October 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"Great first draft, Isla. Now if you could just take out every incidence of 'for fucksake' then I'll sign off on it and we'll put it up on the website."
Reposted
At the height of lockdown, my doorbell rang - which was shocking enough. When I answered, it was my next door neighbour. She handed me a cake, said, “I’m watching too much Bake Off,” and headed home again. 😂
I have always wanted to see a side-series to the Great British Bake Off focusing on the friends and families of the bakers as they practice baking endless stuff at home.
You *know* each baker is dumping absolute tons of free baked goods on everyone they know. Total strangers getting handed cakes.
You *know* each baker is dumping absolute tons of free baked goods on everyone they know. Total strangers getting handed cakes.
June 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
At the height of lockdown, my doorbell rang - which was shocking enough. When I answered, it was my next door neighbour. She handed me a cake, said, “I’m watching too much Bake Off,” and headed home again. 😂
Reposted
If you’re giving people the right to choose death, you also have to guarantee them the right to choose the best life they could have for as long as they could have it.
June 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you’re giving people the right to choose death, you also have to guarantee them the right to choose the best life they could have for as long as they could have it.
Reposted
Chaminda's work on the disability cuts has been invaluable.
This shows that contrary to many media assumptions that PIP cuts are primarily around mental health - they would affect lots of people with cancer, heart disease, and numerous other physical illnesses and disabilities.
This shows that contrary to many media assumptions that PIP cuts are primarily around mental health - they would affect lots of people with cancer, heart disease, and numerous other physical illnesses and disabilities.
NEW: Labour's planned disability benefit cuts could affect the majority of current working-age claimants with ischaemic heart disease, inflammatory arthritis, hip and knee disorders and Crohn’s disease, according to analysis of new DWP data
By me, for the Big Issue:
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
By me, for the Big Issue:
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Majority of PIP claimants with heart disease, arthritis and Crohn's at risk of cuts
DWP data obtained by Big Issue shows that the majority of people with heart failure, HIV and arthritis are at risk of losing their benefits.
www.bigissue.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Chaminda's work on the disability cuts has been invaluable.
This shows that contrary to many media assumptions that PIP cuts are primarily around mental health - they would affect lots of people with cancer, heart disease, and numerous other physical illnesses and disabilities.
This shows that contrary to many media assumptions that PIP cuts are primarily around mental health - they would affect lots of people with cancer, heart disease, and numerous other physical illnesses and disabilities.
Reposted
Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.
June 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
Reposted
Wonderful Thread.
Because of [waves hands at the state of the world] there's been a bit of discussion about how difficult it is to sink oil tankers.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.
June 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Wonderful Thread.
Reposted
Because of [waves hands at the state of the world] there's been a bit of discussion about how difficult it is to sink oil tankers.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.
June 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Because of [waves hands at the state of the world] there's been a bit of discussion about how difficult it is to sink oil tankers.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.
As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example.
Meet Torrey Canyon.