Count Melancholia
Working for a fascism-free, habitable Earth and for Scottish independence. #MECFS #BasicIncome WGBer
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- Very moving recitation of a Shakespearean text by Ian McKellan - and very relevant to what's going on today in the USA and other places re xenophobia: youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...
- You can't post a video longer than 3 minutes on this worthless app? Even twitter allowed 8 mins. And no edit function. Sure is better over in the Fediverse...
- These goons who shoot women and kick dogs should be receiving medical attention for their mental health problems. A straight jacket and some electroshock would probably help this guy a lot.
- MEMPHIS: “Memphis Safe Task Force” (U.S. marshal) caught KICKING A PUPPY 😳 as they arrested a guy for on a drug warrant “He was harmless. There’s no reason he should’ve done that.” @GovBillLee this is what we’re paying $1 Million a day for?🤔 Full: wreg.com/news/video-u...
- I think it's time to put an end to "think" tanks - they have not been centres for academic research for a very long time, they are just propaganda/manipulation factories.
- Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to European cities in December and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying grants to spread ‘American values’. ft.trib.al/Kx8ta8a
- The Water of Leith is a river that runs through parts of Scotland's busy capital city, but even so manages to harbour a much greater variety of birds and other wildlife than I see in rural Scotland, where commercial agriculture destroys natural habitats. See some here! youtu.be/k44WMhKPE-k?...
- A long time ago I had a job analysing and digitalising medical records, and by far the worst traumas were from #1 snowboarding and #2 rugby - but the biggest surprise was the huge number of people who get injured by cars in large retail parking lots.
- Updated Injured Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris drops out of Olympic big air event #Canada halifax.citynews.ca/2026/02/05/m...
- I think people who are walking to or from their cars to the shops think of themselves as being in a pedestrian space, and are therefore not sufficiently watchful, whereas as soon as they get in their cars, sometimes tired or angry about their shopping experience, they think they are on the road.
- Seven years ago, and nothing was done www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018...
