Writer, filmmaker, nationalist. 🏴
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined April 2011
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Tomorrow is my Dad’s birthday and I’ve been thinking about how strange it has been to deal with grief and depression during this pandemic. I’ve done some writing about my Dad and my experience of losing him in unprecedented times.
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Right wing freaks are telling us they just got destroyed partly because of their support for AI and tech oligarchs, yet the Scottish Government remains committed to this folly. If the government fails to reverse course soon the SNP will suffer electoral oblivion. Catch up.
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I think the whole “ai is bad for the environment” and “ai is stupid and enabling our children” arguments have kinda made people forget the biggest reason to be anti-ai.
It’s plagiarism. It’s theft. That’s how it works. It works by stealing.
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Putting anyone in jail and registering them as a sex offender for consensual acts between adults should scare a lot more people.
🇬🇧 UK porn ban starts tomorrow (6 Nov 2026)
From Friday, possessing or publishing certain types of pornography becomes a criminal offence in England and Wales under the Crime and Policing Act 2026.
Banned content includes:
• Strangulation or suffocation
• Penetrative sex between people who appear related (or are pretending to be related, including some step/foster scenarios)
• Adults role-playing as children under 16
Penalties:
• Up to 2 years for possession of strangulation or “relative” content
• Up to 3 years for the under-16 role-play material
• Up to 5 years for publishing any of it
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Genuinley just blows my fucking mind that these cunts consider themselves Left Wing.
The Democrats' win in the US midterms could be part of a global "turning away from right-wing populism, from outrage and from promoting division", Dame Emily Thornberry tells @CathyNewman.
Watch the full show on YouTube (link in comments)
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Last night saw some of the greatest progressive victories in modern American history. All across the country, in rural and urban areas, Americans said NO to oligarchy, and YES to an agenda that fights for the working class.
Congratulations to the following candidates:
U.S. SENATE
Abdul El-Sayed (MI)
Peggy Flanagan (MN)
Troy Jackson (ME)
U.S. HOUSE
Bob Brooks (PA-7)
Rebecca Cooke (WI-3)
Sam Forstag (MT-1)
Adam Hamawy (NJ-12)
Melat Kiros (CO-1)
Brad Lander (NY-10)
Will Lawrence (MI-7)
Donavan McKinney (MI-13)
Brian Poindexter (OH-7)
Analilia Mejía (NJ-11)
Claire Valdez (NY-07)
Randy Villegas (CA-22)
Aisha Wahab (CA-14)
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Maddening to see Labour MPs celebrating El-Sayed win. He would have been unceremoniously dumped out their party on his ass and none of them would have said a word to defend him.
I'm fed up of people like Jess forcing us to live in an increasingly poor and puritanical state. If we're going to be skint can we at least have a Latin American sensibility? Because I don't want to be Mormon without the Yank money.
That is exactly what should be left to courts and experts to prove. All legislation requires interpretation alongside the facts of the case and the intention of the law. This is designed to ensure that harmful practices are discouraged.
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It is the responsibility of elected MPs to make clear, precise laws, not pass vague legislation and leave judges to fill in the gaps while people's lives, liberty and futures hang in the balance.
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"Alyn Smith proves himself to be dangerously out of touch with public opinion, and on the side not just of elites but of the world’s super-rich – a bunch of anti-democratic billionaires who want to become the planet’s new aristocracy.
"Like the super-rich, Smith seems uneasy with dissent. He called critics of AI 'problematic'. Are those voices problematic because they disagree with Smith? Because they challenge the billionaires he’s so assiduously helping in Scotland?
"The issue with AI that we need to be concerned about isn’t that it will rise up like some robot god and kill us all, but that it will destroy millions of jobs and steal dignity from millions of people; that it will enrich the already rich and impoverish the rest of us; that it will be used to further undermine democracies already brutalised by technology; and that it will take the best of humanity – art, literature and music – and reduce it to trash.
"Politicians like Smith should be demanding a complete rebalancing of AI. Rather than these slop-machines which poison culture and politics, the technology should be focused entirely on improving medicine and science."
Shame on them: the SNP have become craven bootlickers of American tech oligarchs || Neil Mackay 👇
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There will now be a temptation in many parts of Europe, including the UK, to think that things will eventually go back to normal with the US and that Europe can stop its reluctant shift towards strategic autonomy. That would be a serious mistake.
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Brilliant, have serving - ostensibly progressive - MPs using health scares (which we vaccinate for, btw) to push for American Evangelical style anti-sodomy laws
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I've watched the Tony Watt/chickens video about 50 times since Saturday to the point I keep catching myself singing it, and I swear I've only *just* noticed one of the Morton fans is dressed as batman 😅
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Normalise saying “this is really fucking weird, but I don’t think it should be banned”. True liberalism needs to make a comeback.
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The Soviets did not work so hard to extend the lifetime of 19th C bourgeois French culture (making your children learn violin & chess, social realism in painting & literature) just for all this be recast as stupid Cocoa and Marshmellows Winter Wonderland Christmas Market kitsch.
I’m enjoying the modern reclamation of Halloween, bringing it closer to its roots, but this Irish thing of claiming 100% ownership of practices like Samhain really bothers me. And Hallowe’en is a Scots word!!!
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Because of AI, nothing works as well as it used to. It destroys value, rather than creating it.
History will consider us letting tech folks' wet dreams about magic robots to devalue every interaction with our fellow humans as the gravest error of the 21st century.
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This is why it’s so important to challenge the notion that the government “borrows” from the private sector. It paralyses everything, dresses itself up in “mundane common sense” but its one of the most damaging misunderstanding a politician can have.
“What I find very difficult… is the assumption you have to cut your way to be being fiscally responsible”
“There’s not a hope in hell that [Labour] are going to oversee any cuts to public spending”
Economics professor Mariana Mazzucato and Conservative MP Julia Lopez debate Chancellor John Healey’s spending plans.
#Newsnight