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Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️‍🌈 ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
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The canticles at evensong this evening were Mathias' Jesus College Service and they were just lovely 😊

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Also, 4 in 5 did not. The AfD underperformed polling, meaning the fear of "shy" AfD voters in DKs did not materialise. Maybe most important: despite terror attacks, Musk & JD Vance's support, and a river of dark money and AI disinformation, the AfD *lost* a couple of %pts in 2025. I'll take it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 24 comments

Found the UK indoor athletics championship on iPlayer and they have the shittiest podium 😆

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Important update for anyone who read and enjoyed Alexander and Gráinne's Blind Date review yesterday. Spoiler: rescue greyhound's name revealed! theguyliner.com/impeccable/g...

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

I need to try this 🤤

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

"who's Celia Sparrow?" "You know Celia? She just won't shut up" etc etc #TheArchers

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

New middle-aged, middle-class turbo session: The Desert Island Discs. Threshold pace during the talking; hill sprints during the music 🥵

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

the writing this season is getting… heavy handed

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Well episode 4 of Virdee was *interesting*. I ended up "involved" in the 2001 riots. I left work to cross the city centre. The police had blocked off Centenary Square, so I went round the back of city hall through Norfolk Gardens. As I walked past the end of Broadway a wall of rioters ran at me...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Another cracking Guardian Blind Date this week, and another brilliant DVD commentary from @theguyliner.bsky.social theguyliner.com/impeccable/g...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I've seen a take on here, which comes from a good activist place, but is also so incredibly hurtful and unthinking that I'm just a bit staggered by it. Sigh.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

What's the middle aged version of a disco nap, where you have a nap in the afternoon because you stayed up too late the night before? Whatever it is, I'm having one

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

A couple of years back, there was an episode of The Long View on radio 4 that made a comparison between Chinese tech in our telecommunications now and Siemens' similar role in the late 1930s. Kinda feels like the Siemens equivalent now is US tech companies 😬

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A new trend in our local continental delicatessen, Liddell's of Granton, is middle class dads patiently trying to reason with their toddlers. It really is quite touching watching their futile efforts as tiny fingers shoot towards doughnuts 😊

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Cracking drying day in Edinburgh today 😁👍🏻

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We're so sorry. We tried everything, but the motion to call off the ballot on pay got voted down. If you haven't voted in the elections, take this as your signal to go and do it NOW.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This apse appears in a set of late 1890s glass plates newly donated to the Signet Library. We're stumped as to the church, but it may be Lothians/Borders, somewhere between Innerleithan and Penicuik. Does anyone recognise it, please?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

That latest Tory post that's doing the rounds right now - I never thought I'd be sat here hoping for THE TORIES to sort themselves out and be a normal centre-right party again...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Making up for yesterday's quinoa related lunch disaster

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