Born and raised in Scotland, currently living in New Hampshire. Author of several books, mostly on meditation and Buddhist practice. Fan of Scots language. Learning #dansk and #svenska. Dabbler in #Pali.
Someone who has "anti-fascist" in his profile just boosted a post calling for conservative supreme court justices to be immediately removed and replaced. No impeachment. No due process. Just kick them out.
Driving to pick my son up from school, I saw a bearded guy standing by the side of the road, holding the stars and stripes upside down. He was still there when I drove back home again.
I bet you dollars to donuts this same guy has used the phrases "Snowflake," "Fuck your feelings," and "You lost, get over it" in the past.
This building at 35 Whitefield Road in the Ibrox area of Glasgow has always struck me as being potentially interesting, but rather frustratingly, I've never been able to work out its original purpose.
You too can buy a Tesla, and support the main share holder Elon Musk, who abuses his social media platform to convince his 185 million followers, that the US justice system is corrupt, because his favorite criminal is brought to justice.
@randahl When a US businessman says that falsifying business records is no big deal it’s probably a good idea to look very closely at his business records.
Unfortunately I was enjoying a lovely break on the beach, logged into Mastodon and saw some ugly.
I have been promising myself to start moving away from commenting on what is happening in the moment and talk about more general legal issues. It invites less anger and hate.
Like everyone else, I'm relieved that it wasn't a hung jury or acquittal.
I have no doubt there will be an appeal because there are appealable issues.
@Teri_Kanefield@jwz Unfortunately for some people nuance equals betrayal. If you're not 100% on their side, they consider you a traitor. I think it's best to just block them and move on. You're a lawyer, not a cult-deprogrammer!
@wolfsbruder@cstross The Rosenbergs were found guilty of espionage, not treason. It’s conceivable that Trump has committed espionage, but if so he hasn’t been charged with it. If charged and found guilty he could face the death penalty (although that’s unlikely) but it wouldn’t be the electric chair. That’s no longer a method of execution in any state, and Federal executions are carried out in the state where the crime was committed.
@Wen@JackTheCat If Hastings had been writing about any other ethnic minority there, his editor would have been, "Max, we can't print that. It's racist!"
"56% of Americans believe incorrectly that the U.S. is in a recession. ...Almost half of those polled—49%—think unemployment is at a 50-year high. Seventy-two percent think inflation is increasing. Fifty-eight percent of those polled blame Biden for mismanaging an economy that is in fact the strongest in the world."
The news media are failing to do their job, which is to inform.
Allegorical figures of Night and Day created by J.P. MacGillivary in 1888 for James Sellars' Anderson College of Medicine on Dumbarton Road in the West End of Glasgow.
@rebeccawatson I inherited a lawn with my house. I'm in NH, so there's no need to water it. I have an electric (battery) lawnmower which of course doesn't spew out fumes and is much quieter than a gas mower. That'll have to do until I figure sort out how to reduce the area of grassy monoculture around the house.
Marvel is rebranding its TV shows to show fans that they don't necessarily have to watch everything in order to understand what's going on. “The hope is that, like the comics, you can just pop in anywhere and have a satisfying experience. We’re trying to dispel the idea that you need to do any kind of setup work to watch anything else,” says Brad Winderbaum, Marvel's head of streaming, TV and animation. Here's more detail from Variety. What's your take on the MCU these days?
By far my favourite bit of architectural ironwork in Glasgow, and possibly anywhere in the world! It can be found on D.B. Dobson's 1902 Art Nouveau commercial building at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow.
Not to tread on too much @thisismyglasgow's territory, but yesterday as I strolled with my 92-year-old dad along Great Western Road in Glasgow's west end, I took a photograph of this lovely Art Deco building, which I've seen a million times and often wondered about. It turns out it was originally Walter Hubbard's bakery and tearoom. As you'd expect it was built around 1930. The new signage doesn't do the building any favours, and the side has been much messed-with. Still, it's magnificent.
Is this the best gushet building in Glasgow? A gushet building is one constructed on a narrow strip of land at a junction between two roads (in this case Paisley Road West and Govan Road). Designed in a Renaissance style by Bruce and Hay, it was built in the 1880s as the Ogg Brothers Drapery Warehouse and Department Store.
Another rather unique Glasgow tenement, this time on the corner of Langside Road and Queen's Drive on the city's Southside. Designed by W.M Whyte in a French Renaissance style, but with a statue of Liberty on the top, it was built in 1885.
You'll often hear it said there are five statues of Liberty in Glasgow. However, in reality, this is the only one as all the others are different allegorical female figures.
One of the best things about living in Glasgow is turning a corner and finding yourself looking up at a roof like this!
The former Ogg Brothers Department Store at Paisley Road Toll was designed by Bruce and Hay, and was built in the 1880s. It's topped by the Spirit of Commerce and Industry, who is perhaps better known as the Kinning Park Angel, the Angel of the South, or simply Mrs. Ogg.
