Darkly comic to see British conspiracists breathless reports about Kagame’s supposed connection to Southport when the reality (one of the most dangerous men alive, personally responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths) is so much more terrible than they can imagine.

It seems increasingly plausible that Creative Scotland simply forgot that Cumbernauld existed when rolling out their latest round of funding. The Lanternhouse is a great venue that makes life in North Lanarkshire better. That is worth celebrating and supporting.

Bigotry against bad drivers is the last acceptable prejudice.

everyone I know personally and also online is a worse version of themselves online. I suspect it's true of me too. it's funny, because you would think the medium would allow us to curate ourselves to be more appealing. but we don't and we can't.

May he rest in peace and rise in glory. A very human pope. Deeply fallible but capable of astonishing acts of love and mercy.

This is the best obituary of Pope Francis you will read. Inevitably it was written by Madoc Cairns.

Pope Francis made his last call to the Catholic parish in Gaza this Saturday evening. He had been calling almost every night since the bombing began, eighteen months ago.

What do you call an army that repeatedly attacks places of refuge and kills civilians? What’s the word for an army like that?

More evidence for the Twinverclyde conspiracy files.

Thinking of this piece the neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote before he died, on how he perceived smartphone use as essentially a neurological catastrophe. He’s advocating for something like the opposite of mindfulness — instead, the problem is that we’re too stuck in the moment.

Would you think less of a colleague, in their mid-thirties, who showed up at a work event with a Star Wars backpack?

I was on a Polish train on Saturday, and had the top option. Absolutely delicious and cost just £9. Ate in the dining car, and then had a beer in the bar car. 10/10 experience. 500km journey, ticket cost £35. Much better than the British equivalent on every conceivable metric.

Think a crucial detail in understanding contemporary discourse is that whatever Facebook did to the brains of a section of baby boomers, some combination of AI, groupchats/discords and shortform video is now doing to the brains of millennials and gen z

Almost all of most popular culture experienced by British people is American newstatesman.com/business/econo…

The ubiquitous use of Chat GPT is going to make people write in dialect more and more. Being harder for the machines to imitate, dialect will become a sign of authenticity.

A new brain health centre at New College Lanarkshire has launched to teach people how to reduce their risk of dementia. glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/25579460.…