Finlay Geddes

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[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.

From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.

To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.

Happy Pride, New York City.

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

"This is what diversity looks like in power"

Dr Q Manivannan is one of two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in first for Scottish parliament

[Kayleigh K O’Neill @KayleighFONeill]

Hi Joanna. That's me in the top right. I'm a lesbian.

I'm also not scared of trans people. I am scared of bigots wanting to roll back our community's rights.

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

An Italian map of Ireland from c. 1560

[Niall Murphy @MurphyNiallGLA]

Dear @ScotRail all I want for Christmas this year is for you to please do something about improving the state of Glasgow artist Willie Rodger’s mural at Exhibition Centre Station.

We exchanged tweets about the condition of the artwork in March 2024 but since then it’s only gotten progressively worse.

Given that last year 1.773 million people used the station to get to places like the SEC, it’s not a good look for Glasgow and nor is it for you as the mural was commissioned by you, Scotrail, in 1988 for the Glasgow Garden Festival.

Considering this year is the 850th anniversary of Glasgow securing Burgh status, and the mural’s 29 panels depict over one hundred years of Finnieston's history, perhaps it might be a nice gesture to Glaswegians to do something about it especially as no one else can gain access across a live railway line?

[Niall Murphy @MurphyNiallGLA]

So, just three weeks after my original post, on a quiet Saturday morning a digger was put through the gatehouse to the Victoria Infirmary at Glasgow’s Queen’s Park and within a few hours - by the time I got there - it was reduced to rubble.

I appreciate @WeAreSanctuary were within their rights here as, frustratingly, the gatehouse was neither listed or in a conservation area therefore this is permitted development; however, given that it was a building designed by one of the best mid-Victorian architectural practices in Glasgow - Campbell Douglas and Sellars, who designed the 1888 International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry at the Kelvingrove and what was the St Andrews Hall later the west extension to the Mitchell Library which is one of the finest neoclassical buildings in Europe - perhaps it should have been?

Regardless, when we are in a housing emergency demolishing a house which should have been brought back into use at least a decade ago is not a good look.

Part of what gives ‘The Victoria’ its kerb appeal is the contrast between the new buildings and the surviving historic buildings and the authenticity that lends it.

Sadly, yet again another historic building has been dispatched. It all feels at bit snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and leaves me concerned for the neighbouring Administration building which is at least ‘B’ listed and meant to be retained but is in increasingly poor condition and will no longer have the benefit of rates relief…

[Finlay Geddes @FinlayGeddes]

@MyGlasgowCC Please respond to above, thanks

[Finlay Geddes @FinlayGeddes]

@GlasgowCC Please can bollard here to cycle lane be replaced as a priority - it has been driven over. Witnessed van entered cycle lane this morning - very dangerous. Replacement with more substantial than plastic bollards is essential - given repeated occurrences. @MhairiHunter

[Past Glasgow @PastGlasgow]

The University of Glasgow looking terrifying in this spooky, moonlit postcard view of around 1904 🎃

#Glasgow #Halloween

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

If a general election happened tomorrow and only people under 50 were allowed to vote, Zack Polanski would become the UK’s next prime minister, according to new polling from YouGov.

The Green party is currently winning an astounding 25% of the vote among under-50s, and is even further ahead - at 39% - among 18 to 24-year-olds.

Labour, meanwhile, is polling worse than ever before, with 50% of voters defecting since 2024. 18% of those who supported Keir Starmer just last year now say they would vote Green, 13% Lib Dem, 11% Reform and 5% Tory.

Reform is still polling on top among the general population, with 27% of the overall vote. Nigel Farage’s party remains particularly popular with older people, especially 50 to 64-year-olds who gave it 36% of their vote.

But Reform does seem to have plateaued for the time being, polling just under its May and September high of 29%.

The Green party, meanwhile, has seen a startling rise in vote share in recent months, gaining six points in the polls since Polanski became leader at the beginning of September. In 2024, the party won just 6.7% of the overall vote - it’s now polling at 16%.

On Monday, the party said it had exceeded 150,000 members, more than double the number it had under its former co-leaders Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns.

YouGov has Labour and the Tories neck and neck on 17%, with the Lib Dems on 15%.

The new polling comes shortly after Labour suffered a humiliating defeat in Caerphilly last week, finishing third behind Plaid Cymru and Reform. Many have speculated that this could be a portent of things to come, with Keir Starmer potentially on course for a devastating defeat in next May’s election. The poll today will no doubt add to the party’s fears.

[Dr. Neighborhood Publicist @nhoodpublicist]

Lmaoo I did not expect her to go this hard

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

"Wrong" "inexcusable" "inhumane"

All words the UK Government has used recently to describe what Israel is doing.

Yet no meaningful action. Worse, the UK continues to sell weapons to Israel even though they are engaged in a genocide.

This is not only hypocrisy, it's complicity.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

This is the best ever true news BBC ever made about Israel, 4 minutes but every minute is extremely important

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

You continue to provide direct military support to Israel –– a foreign power –– that has created the world's highest number of child amputees.

[LBC @LBC]

‘What disturbs you the most about the Glastonbury chants?’
‘They get more attention than the genocide of Gazans.’

Journalist @rachshabi, who is Jewish, weighs in on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance.

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

Great work from Zoe Gardner cutting through the barrage of nonsense from Berger over PA

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Rima Hassan delivered her speech today at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, saying that the silence of the European Parliament undermines the credibility of this institution, as she denounced the EU’s inaction over Israel’s interception of the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla.

[First Minister @ScotGovFM]

First Minister @JohnSwinney has commented on the unfolding situation in the Middle East.

[PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧 @prideukorg]

We see you 👀

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Great work @sinnfein ...Fantastic.