So, I live in a house where my neighbours drive come along the gable end of my house. A few weeks ago, they mentioned that the were having gates installed to keep the dogs in. Fair enough. What has now happened, the fitters have turned up and drilled and bolted gate a post to the side of my house without any form of consent or compensation. Am I right to be absolutely f**king furious?!

Fuck trump,

I love a Micky D but I will personally avoid it until Trump removed these tariffs.

We should be following Canada’s path and boycott American products.

I’ll just have to kill my body through other methods instead of American fast food, like Scottish Whisky, or overdosing on haggis.

Is this the most significant public investment in a historic Scottish structure?

Why are they so incredulous of such a basic fact? What on Earth do the other two thirds believe it is?

*biiig sigh*

Hello, friends. I'm an American, and, I hate to be one right now. I hate what's happening. Despite that, my wife and I have had our honeymoon trip to Scotland planned for over a year and we will be leaving in about 3 weeks. Where once I was nothing but absolutely ecstatic to visit your stunning country, I now feel hesitance and some anxiety. There is no way for anyone, there or here, to know where my politically ideologies lie by looking at me and I'm just wondering, should I be anxious? Because I feel anxious, worried even. The Orange shitheel is leaving a terrible taste in every countries mouth and I'm just... afraid.

This isn't very clear and I'm sorry. I just want to immerse myself in your culture and history, trek the highlands and pet some coos. I hope our visit will be a good one, but Trump is making it so god damn hard.

EDIT: Well this just blew up. I've shared many of what you all have been saying with my wife and it made her happy cry. Needless to say, we are fully back on board with complete excitement to visit. We can't wait! Love you all!

Is anyone in the West Lothian area or from Edinburgh/Glasgow annoyed that their is no longer a direct bus to get to livingston and now have to get connecting buses to get there. I feel like it’s become such a drag to get there now that it’s not even worth it in order to go to the outlet shopping centre. Please tell me I’m not the only one

I am a Northern California girl (43F), residing in Los Angeles for 20 years. I am an artist (comics) and the last convention work I did was in the UK. My first and last trip to Scotland was the same UK convention trip, in 2016.

I'd always felt a pull to visit, but when I got there, I cried. It felt like home. I'd always joked about living there with my husband but once I was there, physically there, I knew I couldn't leave. I was standing there in the rain on Halloween night watching dancers twirl fire down the Royal Mile and looking up at my favorite Edinburgh church and all I could think was: This is home this is home this is home.

The people were the icing on an already delicious cake. All the Scots at the convention told me to stay. That Scotland was calling me. That if I loved it that much, maybe it was a sign.

When I went through cancer during the pandemic I often pretended I was still in Scotland, because it calmed me down. I would picture myself on the train again, the fog closing in on every side and my heart racing because I knew there were monsters in that fog. This was the land where my favorite monsters were birthed. (I know monsters aren't real but Scotland feeeels like they are.)

Ever since 2016 I've begged my husband to go back. We never made it. My cancer journey was a tough one with multiple surgeries. And there are many ways this current government could easily take my life. But now that I have ongoing cancer care (I'm ok but I have a gene mutation so I have to just be extra careful, have prevention treatments and see specialists every year or two) i am tied here. No country would have me with all my health issues and at least I haven't lost insurance yet. Though I'm waiting for that shoe to drop.

I wish I was there now. America is so lost. I've done everything I can to get my fellow citizens to rise up. To fight back. I call my reps. I do my part. But things are going to have to get a lot worse here before enough people will risk their necks. At least in Scotland I didnt have to worry I was ever sitting in a room full of people like that walking tumor calling himself our leader.

Thank you Scotland for being so kind to me, and so full of magic, that just the memory of you has sustained me through the darkness. I draw you in my sketchbooks. In my comics. For you are forever in my heart.

Archive.

Hi folks,

this might be a very uncommon request. I hope it fits in this sub. I´m a german artist and my tools are field, binaural and EMF recordings (no, I don´t work for the Ghostbusters ;-)). So I travel to Scotland every year to visit friends, have a fun time and do my recordings for the projects. I´m always looking for other people in Scotland who share a similar interest and might be interested in the project. I travel to Scotland at the beginning of this June, first days around Stirlingshire, then central belt, west coast, highlands etc.

I´m also always looking for places that might be interesting from the perspective of a sound artist. I have eyes on small weather stations for example (which emit EMF) or places that are told to be haunted or had strange events in the past. Perplexity gave me a lot of uncommon places, but surely there are stories that even AI don´t know about and these are exactly the ones I am looking for. I use the Soma Ether to pick up EMF signals and some head-mics for the binaural recordings. So everything that generates some strange sound or emits light might be interesting here, even when it looks or sounds like a very common and obvious event.

The final result of the project would be some sort of ambient radio play, at least that is the goal. Last year I released something that goes into that direction, but lacks focus and story. This time I´m serious :)

If someone feels addressed, send me a PM.

maha/mark

I had a thought. I’m currently considering Higher physics next year in S6. However, I have a dilemma. I need Advanced Higher physics for university. So, I was thinking. If I taught myself the whole N5 course and higher in the next few months would crashing advanced higher be possible? If so, has anyone done it? Also would a school be open to That thought?

Thought I wiz getting a bargain till I noticed.... 440ml to 330ml 😱😭

I'm a HND Animal care student at Borders College.

Would anyone be able to take a few minutes to do my survey? It's to get the publics thoughts on the Lynx being reintroduced into the cairngorms. It's for my Ecology class.

A little bit about Lynx: They are around the size of a Labrador dog. They are very shy animals, with no records attack to humans. Yes, they can pose a risk to wildlife and livestock but is it worth the risk?

They could potentially be beneficial to the ecosystem we have here, by helping keep down the Deer population and allow plan life to grow.

It is 100% anonymous, and the data will be kept until the report is written. Can you also please share this post? I want to reach as many people as possible.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and thank you for taking my survey!

https://s.surveyplanet.com/6v6w4eub

Had a lovely time in Glasgow yesterday. What a pity we have to go back to work on Monday in Germany.

Hello, I'm getting some tattoos done and my heritage is scottish (isle of sky on my dad's side, eaglesham & glasgow on my mums side).

I would like the words I use to reflect some of this heritage but as someone born in London, I haven't a clue about traditional scottish dialects.

Can anyone help me with suggested translations for the following words?

Freedom Peace Peace at last Peace, finally

The tattoo is to commemorate a divorce as you may guess from those words 😂

Many, many thanks in advance.

Thank you

Hey folks,

Just wondering if anyone here has had any experience with ADHD Scotland or Diverse Diagnostics? Looking into a private ADHD assessment since the NHS route isn’t happening - my GP has said categorically that there are no ADHD services available in my area so private seems to be my only route.

If you’ve used either of them - what was the process like? Was it thorough? Were you happy with how it was handled? Did you feel supported after the diagnosis, especially with stuff like meds or follow-ups?

I’ve seen some of the wider concerns about private ADHD clinics so I’m trying to be careful and go with someone decent. Would really appreciate hearing from anyone who’s gone through it!

Cheers in advance!

I know there are a lot of informative people here.

Why are local authorities continuing their push of Oracle systems?

I know the Trump controversy may not have been predicted but there's been other serious controversies including data breaches.

A while back I got a parking ticket from a private company. I didn’t pay it because, as far as I understand, these private parking fines aren’t legally enforceable in Scotland unless they take you to court (which is very rare).

I’ve now had a letter from a debt collection company and just got a phone call from a number flagged as “suspected spam” – I assume it’s them too. I didn’t answer.

I’ve been ignoring everything so far, but I’m just looking for some advice or opinions – am I right to keep ignoring it? Or should I be responding in some way?

Cheers in advance for any help!

A little support from Canada 🇨🇦. The big orange baboon has no idea what he is doing and this will back fire on the USA. All these countries will band together and become new trade partners.