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🗒️ Public affairs and comms in mental health 👍 Keen on sport, rights, and DIY punk rock ⬅️ Previously EHRC, Open University, Glasgow 2014 and more 🐶 Mostly pictures of my dog 🚹 He/him 📍 Glasgow, Scotland 📑 Ts and Cs apply.
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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Of course a couple of weeks of nice weather in Glasgow concludes with [checks out window] hailstones.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Goddamnit.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I hope the San Francisco 49ers make Barry Ferguson’s contract permanent at half time.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

NAMED AND SHAMED The Scottish Premiership sides who haven’t gone 2-0 up against Barry Ferguson’s Rangers

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Who needs Declan Rice when you’ve got Leighton Clarkson.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

The richest nations in the world are turning their backs on the poorest.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

It's very easy to not use AI image generators. Less than zero effort required. There's no reason to help normalise it at all.

submitted 23 hours ago • 8 comments

This cat simply loves to be combed.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

In-between reading about all the tariff chicanery and the deportations, please briefly enjoy puppy Taco.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

now *this* is the anecdote of the day

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

May I just say that studying international relations at this particular moment in time presents some challenges.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If you’re wanting to use tariffs to rebuild your manufacturing base then why wouldn’t you focus on [checks notes] textiles and toys and not [checks notes] electronics.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Taco.

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Delighted that the Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill includes a provision that Jonathan Reynolds doesn’t have to break into Scunthorpe steelworks all by himself.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries. This is just ChatGPT, not even all Gen AI. Using more electricity than >60% of the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

I think it’s time Jimmy Eat World were held to account for their claims that everything was gonna be alright, alright.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

We were going to come back and win this had it not been for Matt Fagerson’s injury.

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RG Snyman is like if Leone Nakarawa was built like Robocop.

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Turns out that a Warriors team missing half a dozen starters is maybe not a match for Ireland+.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Definite yellow but the penalty try felt a bit harsh. Looked like there was cover behind.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

That is one of the greatest rugby hits of all time.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The rugby pundit uniform - chinos, white trainers, tshirt or jumper - is enforced so strictly at Premier Sports.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

One of the things I don’t get is if one of Musk’s primary desires is to be liked and popular, why not use his vast wealth for good? By some estimates he has enough wealth to literally eliminate poverty in the USA and still be left with almost half of what he had.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This is surely very obviously an absolutely terrible idea for a range of privacy and human rights-based reasons.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

At what point do we admit that acutally this is not suprising at all because it's happened every time they've done a UBI trial? "Oh look, it's the same result as all the other trials. That's surprising." "Yes, isn't it? I think we should do another trial somewhere else, you know, just to see."

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The leader of Glasgow City Council's Labour party is to step away from the top job 🗣️ 'This is not a decision I’ve taken lightly'

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