@PoliticsScot

Father. Husband. Singer. Songwriter, Actor, Writer. Malcontent. Tweets deleted after 2 weeks because Twitter is ephemeral.

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Joined December 2014
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Sad news indeed. They screwed him over cutting some of his work from VI but he had a great career. Not many actors who will pass knowing they will genuinely be loved forever. He did look frail in the last documentary but still, another light goes out.
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Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, dies aged 90 bbc.in/3Ul6D57

Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, dies aged 90

He played the eager Russian crewman in the original Star Trek series and later appeared in Babylon 5.

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Replying to @plex
@plex been trying to get my DV content to play on AppleTV 27.0 for days, kept spinning, no joy, tried all sorts of things. Nothing. Checked online and installed @infuse and not only does the same context play immediately off your server the picture looks better too.
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Remind me, what am I paying you for?
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This is the official map of Scottish territorial waters according to UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea). There is therefore no discussion or debate to be had, Jackdaw & Rosebank are very firmly in Scottish waters according to international law.
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J.K. Rowling
@jk_rowlingOct 21
I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇 jkrowling.com/opinions/an-up…

An Update to My Essay of June 2020 - J.K. Rowling

Warning: this article contains adult content and is not appropriate for children. It’s been six years since I wrote my essay explaining why I chose to speak up on the issue of trans activism and the...

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There was a time when Scottish Conservatives at least pretended to stand up for Scottish interests. The current cohort could be told the British were going to shit on their cornflakes every morning and they would proudly tell us all it was the right decision as they crunch down.
Stephen Kerr MSP
@RealStephenKerrOct 20
Today’s BBC Scotland announcements are difficult, especially for the staff affected. But these are the right decisions. The way people watch TV has changed. The BBC has to respond to that reality. It needs to spend licence fee payers’ money wisely, focus on quality journalism and programming, and stay relevant in Scotland. Keeping services going simply because they’ve always existed isn’t sensible. Difficult, yes, but necessary for a strong BBC.
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Young Scots for Independence@YSINationalOct 18
Young Scot’s for Independence will no longer be posting on X, for any future enquiries please find us on Instagram.
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The absolute clownshoe who designed and planned the road works at Livingston needs strung up by their short and curlies and flogged with their own intestines. What should have been a 15 minute trip to Screwfix became a 45 minute adventure round Livingston twice.
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For reference, this was 2018 SNP had such talent at their disposal with a membership of over 100k people. They squandered it all on virtue signalling and gender woo. People were enthused and looking to get involved but found branch structures incapable of coping with the influx
Chris Musson@ChrisMussonOct 17
SNP conference struggling to attract the crowds... cameras will doubtless focus on the audience later during John Swinney's speech, but there are only 15 rows of seats and there's a huge void at back of the main hall
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Fun fact, North Lanarkshire, described today by Andy Burnham as the "true North" is actually in the south of Scotland technically speaking. Just another patronising English Prime Minister coming to visit the colonies and throw out some scraps from the table.
Rev Ayatoly Ally🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@LenzieParOct 16
Replying to @PeterMcDade
There is still north of North Lanarkshire
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Iliza Shlesinger@ilizaOct 16
Since I got a "sassy" haircut recently this felt relevant 💇‍♀️ @NetflixIsAJoke
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Colin MacKay from STV asked a good question at Burnham's press conference. After Burnham's speech all about his vision for reindustrialisation in Scotland, Colin asked, what about now? What about offshore oil and the unused £200 million for Grangemouth? It gets a long waffle.
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Number of replies on what was a pretty innocuous post from seeing Visionquest and James Spader murdering the name of our capital city is quite hilarious. They really don't like being told they're wrong about anything
David Hooks@PoliticsScotOct 15
Why do Americans insist on saying Edinburrow instead of Edinburgh?
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Why are there so many barriers for women going back to work after raising a child? Hard enough to get an interview never mind a job offer, then they hound you for "evidence to support your employment gap". Why isn't "I had a baby" enough? And that's IF you get a job in your field
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Seems it's very difficult for women to get back into work in the same areas they worked in before giving up work to focus on raising the next generation of tax payers. Like all the skills you learn as a parent aren't transferable into the work place?
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If Andy Burnham wants to decide how devolution in Scotland works all he has to do is put it in a manifesto and win an election at Holyrood. I happen to agree there should be greater decentralisation of power, but not that it should be imposed by a PM who hasn't won an election.
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Why do Americans insist on saying Edinburrow instead of Edinburgh?
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I feel sorry for the parents of the young man who was mauled both by a tiger and by an uncaring and judgmental “society” of online commenters. They raised him, fed him, loved him and they had to watch his final moments be mocked and ridiculed. We seem to have lost our empathy.
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Of course it wasn’t the fault of the tiger, it’s an animal and it seemed confused as to what to do, there seemed to be a great many opportunities to stop it and no, shooting it was not one of them, but the online discourse must be heartbreaking for his parents and family.
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I can't believe some fucking idiot put a COMMUNITY NOTE on a post that was CLEARLY meant as sarcasm. This is all that's wrong with the world and especially this platform. It was a joke!!
Dr. Hank Desmond@HankDesmondPhDOct 10
Have we considered the possibility that Zelensky and Ukraine started the war with Russia specifically to sabotage President Trump and the GOP’s 2026 midterm hopes? I feel like we can’t rule this out.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Russia occupied Crimea in 2014 and launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Zelenskyy took office in 2019. The war predates 2026 midterms by years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukr… politifact.com/factchecks/202…
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It my first time watching #SNLUK so you'll have to forgive the question but...it is always this bad? Or is this just a one off?
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